Gobble Gobble, Gabbity Gab
I ended up having to stay up until two in the frickin' morning to finally watch NCIS, and in the meantime I inadvertantly got spoiled as to the Big Twist Surprise Ending.
But then we had Abby talking about forensics in a preacher voice, and Tony slapping his own ass.
And suddenly everything was all worthwhile.
After my classes were finally over Wednesday, me and geministep rode home together with my parents...not that we got anywhere especially fast. It was about four when we left...we didn't get home until 9:30. For the record, that's about as twice as long as it's supposed to take. And why was this? Traffic sucked ass, that's why...I think every single person in Columbus decided that they wanted to leave the city for Thanksgiving at the exact same dern time.
We were all pretty slaphappy after a few hours. Mom, Susan and I were pretty much laughing hysterically at anything...Dad was just muttering darkly to himelf nonstop. We played the alphabet game twice, and played some of Susan's CDS...including the best of Korn. Boy, did Mom and Dad ever love that...
We finally got to drop Susan off, and me and my parents returned home for a late dinner and to watch the tape of Lost.
RE the episode of Lost...yeah, I totally saw that one coming. She's still not 100% redeemed though, writers. Keep trying. And...uh, good luck.
Thursday machi_neko came over in the morning and we hung out for a bit. Broke the plastic sealing on my Lost DVD set (shiiiiney) and watched the entire bonud features disc plus "Pilot part 1" with the commentary on. Then we watched "Chained" (NCIS 2x10) on my laptop.
Then I had to go to my Aunt Al's for Thanksgiving. Boring as always, but the food was good, Cousin Janny brought her adorable dog Smidge, and I got to retreat to the back room to watch TV, where I quickly discovered an Avatar: The Last Airbender marathon on Nickelodeon. Got to see four episodes I hadn't seen before.
After dinner, I came back home and Laur and Susan came over. Laur read part of my latest SoG chapter and gave me some NCIS fanart drawings that I'm totally scanning in once I get back (Shirtless!Vampire!Tony, Kate/Tony, and a page of Abby drawings). We hung out and watched the new episode of CSI (What's a good topic for an episode aired on Thanksgiving? Why, a guy EATING HIMSELF TO DEATH, of course!) on tape, then they had to go home.
Got up early Friday morning and went to the Lakeview cemetary with Dad tp take pictures of gravestones for my Anthropology extra credit. It was like, fifteen degrees, so the freezing-ness kind of detracted from the otherwise fun and interesting project. But still, I got a lot of good ones. Besides, Lakeview's a cool cemetary...we've got a lot of famous people. President Garfield's monument there, and so is John D. Rockefeller.
Afterwards I went over to Susan's to hang out with her and Laur, since Susan had to go back to school early, IE that night. Susan's family is fostering a new puppy named Bentley, who is soooo kyoooot (squee!). Only, he doesn't respond to the name Bentley yet, so me and Laur were irritating Susan by trying rename him something else ("Tony!" "Delko!" "DiNozzo!" "Eric!" "STOP IT!!").
Then me and Laur left Susan's and went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...first time for me, second for her. Much love and squee. Waaay better than the third one, despite being obviously off from the book.
I'm sure ya'll have seen it, but just in case, Here Be Spoilers:
Possibly the best part of all of this was that me and Laur had a running whispered commentary going on the entire time...mainly slashy jokes about, y'know, everyone (the Ron/Harry ones flew with some surprising frequency this movie). Like when Cedric was talking to Harry about the prefect's bathroom...
"You know the prefect's bathroom, right?"
*as Cedric* "You, uh, wanna go there sometime?"
Speaking of the prefect's bathroom, whoa DesperatelyInNeedOfSomeLovin'!Moaning Myrtle! I almost killed myself laughing.
I really love this new director...but he's not coming back for the fifth one, I heard. G-damn. He was fantastic...it was much more British this time around, and for once the little movie-only add-ins were entertaining instead of head-scratch-worthy. Like the "performances" of the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons groups...especially the latter. And the part where Ron was checking them out as they walked away. Nice to see everyone's starting to grow up, neh?
Speaking of grown up...holy upper body work-out, Batman! Ron and Harry (the first especially so) were rocking some hardcore arm muscles there, Oh Em Gee. And Neville suddenly became, like...a gajillion feet tall (he was awesome this movie, though. I <3 Neville). And, not that I'm complaining because thay all looked good, but what's up with virtually all of the boys suddenly having shoulderlength shaggy hair? I mean, it did look good on all of them...especially the twins. Who, by the way, were totally AWESOME in this movie (as was Snape, BTW, in the few moments we got to see him...especially the study hall sequence where he was showing his nonverbal displeasure with the boys' whisperings).
Madame Maxime/Hagrid was lurvely and adorable, as it should be. Karkaroff was...concernedly similar to how I picture Rasputin looking. And, ignoring that, still a very creepy looking six-foot-tall Russian man with horrible teeth. And pretty much every scene he was in except the pensieve one, his dialogue was kind of pointless. Every time his face was shown onscreen, I whispered at Laur "I'm angry and I'm Russian!" to basically, uh, sum him up. Yeah.
Barty Crouch Jr. was...okay, wow. That tongue-thing started to severely freak me out at the end, for starters. Also, I was joking about how he was helpfully easily identified as evil in the beginning by his dark trenchcoat.
But...well, actually, I don't think I'd kick that out of bed if it turned up. No, not bad at all...
"Let's put it this way; if it rains, you'll be the first to know!" Why do I love that line so damn much?? *considers who's saying it* Oh yeah, that's why. Mmm, Lucious Lucius...*faints in puddle of drool*
Love how he apparantly had the forethought to bring along his pimp cane to the cemetary, heh. Also, when his hat got yanked off, was I the only one thinking "OMG Sex Hair"? Seriously, I couldn't have been the only one. I refuse to believe it.
Speaking of the cemetary...good job making everything Death Eater related scary as fucking hell, you psychopaths. The Dark Mark in the sky (both times) pwned my soul, and the Riddle gravestone...Jesus H. Effin' Christ (although, really, as totally baby-eating awesome as that was...who designs THAT tombstone for their family plot?? I mean, besides Charles Manson or Salvador Dali or something).
Annnd...Voldemort. Uh, guh. I am ded from the scary, scary, scary evil. Who's that actor again?? (I know, I should know...I totally suck. Yell at me later) Listen carefully, movie peoples: Never...Ever...Ever...EVER...let that guy go. NEVER. Because he totally rocked that role all the way to, like, the outer reaches of the solar system and back.
Honestly, once all is said and done, I only have one major complaint about this movie...and it seems minor, but it just irks me ever so: the Death Eaters' hats. Okay guys, we know that they're supposed to be a paralell to dangerous bigots like, say, the KKK...we don't need you to underline, bold, italize, circle, star, and otherwise call blatant attention to the fact via the big honkin' party hats of DOOM. Hoods, guys, HOODS, not big pointy wizard hats. The masks were cool...but not the hats. WTF guys, seriously.
Oh, and while we were hanging out waiting for the movie to start, somehow Laur wound up saying this:
"We don't need yeast...we've got Jesus!"
And I proceeded to kill myself with laughter.
After the movie, Laur went back home, and I had dinner (mmm, steak). Then eliara came over, and we wound up renting some DVDs and watching 'em until, like, two in the morning, when she finally went home. Titan AE (cheesetastic and possibly ever sci-fi cliche in the history of ever, but still fun) and Millennium Actress (which, if I've never mentioned it before, is possibly my favorite anime movie of all time...beautiful, truly).
Today I had to get up early to go to the BMV with Dad (don't ask). Afterwars I came back and went to sleep for a bit. Then I got up and inivited Laur and persephone_blue over...would up bullying convincing them into going to the mall. Had a pretzel and an iced coffee beverage (mmm, peppermint mocha frappuchino).
As we were leaving the bookstore, I spotted a trashy cheesy paperback romance novel and grabbed it to look at for curiosity's sake. At which point the following conversation occured between me and Laur:
"Put that back."
"It's about vampires."
"Is it really??" *grabs to look at with interest*
And then I laughed at her :P
Gill and Laur came back home for a bit afterwards so I could lend Gill the Millennium Actress DVD (due back at Blockbuster in a week, Gill!) and copy Laur's My Chemical Romance CD. Then they had to go, because Gill needed to be home for dinner and besides I would have had to kick them out anyway...since we were having Thanksgiving again.
That's right; Mom loves Thanksgiving leftovers so much that she couldn't stand not having them as a result of eating dinner at Aunt Al's, so we had Thanksgiving again tonight at my house. Okaaaay.
In a bit, I'm-a prolly gonna call the girls again and invite them over for one last time, since I'm heading back to school fairly early tomorrow and probably won't get to see them again...well, for another two weeks until Christmas break as soon as finals are over, that is.
Also, I am pleased to report that my cats do indeed remember me. Kiiiitties...
But then we had Abby talking about forensics in a preacher voice, and Tony slapping his own ass.
And suddenly everything was all worthwhile.
After my classes were finally over Wednesday, me and geministep rode home together with my parents...not that we got anywhere especially fast. It was about four when we left...we didn't get home until 9:30. For the record, that's about as twice as long as it's supposed to take. And why was this? Traffic sucked ass, that's why...I think every single person in Columbus decided that they wanted to leave the city for Thanksgiving at the exact same dern time.
We were all pretty slaphappy after a few hours. Mom, Susan and I were pretty much laughing hysterically at anything...Dad was just muttering darkly to himelf nonstop. We played the alphabet game twice, and played some of Susan's CDS...including the best of Korn. Boy, did Mom and Dad ever love that...
We finally got to drop Susan off, and me and my parents returned home for a late dinner and to watch the tape of Lost.
RE the episode of Lost...yeah, I totally saw that one coming. She's still not 100% redeemed though, writers. Keep trying. And...uh, good luck.
Thursday machi_neko came over in the morning and we hung out for a bit. Broke the plastic sealing on my Lost DVD set (shiiiiney) and watched the entire bonud features disc plus "Pilot part 1" with the commentary on. Then we watched "Chained" (NCIS 2x10) on my laptop.
Then I had to go to my Aunt Al's for Thanksgiving. Boring as always, but the food was good, Cousin Janny brought her adorable dog Smidge, and I got to retreat to the back room to watch TV, where I quickly discovered an Avatar: The Last Airbender marathon on Nickelodeon. Got to see four episodes I hadn't seen before.
After dinner, I came back home and Laur and Susan came over. Laur read part of my latest SoG chapter and gave me some NCIS fanart drawings that I'm totally scanning in once I get back (Shirtless!Vampire!Tony, Kate/Tony, and a page of Abby drawings). We hung out and watched the new episode of CSI (What's a good topic for an episode aired on Thanksgiving? Why, a guy EATING HIMSELF TO DEATH, of course!) on tape, then they had to go home.
Got up early Friday morning and went to the Lakeview cemetary with Dad tp take pictures of gravestones for my Anthropology extra credit. It was like, fifteen degrees, so the freezing-ness kind of detracted from the otherwise fun and interesting project. But still, I got a lot of good ones. Besides, Lakeview's a cool cemetary...we've got a lot of famous people. President Garfield's monument there, and so is John D. Rockefeller.
Afterwards I went over to Susan's to hang out with her and Laur, since Susan had to go back to school early, IE that night. Susan's family is fostering a new puppy named Bentley, who is soooo kyoooot (squee!). Only, he doesn't respond to the name Bentley yet, so me and Laur were irritating Susan by trying rename him something else ("Tony!" "Delko!" "DiNozzo!" "Eric!" "STOP IT!!").
Then me and Laur left Susan's and went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...first time for me, second for her. Much love and squee. Waaay better than the third one, despite being obviously off from the book.
I'm sure ya'll have seen it, but just in case, Here Be Spoilers:
Possibly the best part of all of this was that me and Laur had a running whispered commentary going on the entire time...mainly slashy jokes about, y'know, everyone (the Ron/Harry ones flew with some surprising frequency this movie). Like when Cedric was talking to Harry about the prefect's bathroom...
"You know the prefect's bathroom, right?"
*as Cedric* "You, uh, wanna go there sometime?"
Speaking of the prefect's bathroom, whoa DesperatelyInNeedOfSomeLovin'!Moaning Myrtle! I almost killed myself laughing.
I really love this new director...but he's not coming back for the fifth one, I heard. G-damn. He was fantastic...it was much more British this time around, and for once the little movie-only add-ins were entertaining instead of head-scratch-worthy. Like the "performances" of the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons groups...especially the latter. And the part where Ron was checking them out as they walked away. Nice to see everyone's starting to grow up, neh?
Speaking of grown up...holy upper body work-out, Batman! Ron and Harry (the first especially so) were rocking some hardcore arm muscles there, Oh Em Gee. And Neville suddenly became, like...a gajillion feet tall (he was awesome this movie, though. I <3 Neville). And, not that I'm complaining because thay all looked good, but what's up with virtually all of the boys suddenly having shoulderlength shaggy hair? I mean, it did look good on all of them...especially the twins. Who, by the way, were totally AWESOME in this movie (as was Snape, BTW, in the few moments we got to see him...especially the study hall sequence where he was showing his nonverbal displeasure with the boys' whisperings).
Madame Maxime/Hagrid was lurvely and adorable, as it should be. Karkaroff was...concernedly similar to how I picture Rasputin looking. And, ignoring that, still a very creepy looking six-foot-tall Russian man with horrible teeth. And pretty much every scene he was in except the pensieve one, his dialogue was kind of pointless. Every time his face was shown onscreen, I whispered at Laur "I'm angry and I'm Russian!" to basically, uh, sum him up. Yeah.
Barty Crouch Jr. was...okay, wow. That tongue-thing started to severely freak me out at the end, for starters. Also, I was joking about how he was helpfully easily identified as evil in the beginning by his dark trenchcoat.
But...well, actually, I don't think I'd kick that out of bed if it turned up. No, not bad at all...
"Let's put it this way; if it rains, you'll be the first to know!" Why do I love that line so damn much?? *considers who's saying it* Oh yeah, that's why. Mmm, Lucious Lucius...*faints in puddle of drool*
Love how he apparantly had the forethought to bring along his pimp cane to the cemetary, heh. Also, when his hat got yanked off, was I the only one thinking "OMG Sex Hair"? Seriously, I couldn't have been the only one. I refuse to believe it.
Speaking of the cemetary...good job making everything Death Eater related scary as fucking hell, you psychopaths. The Dark Mark in the sky (both times) pwned my soul, and the Riddle gravestone...Jesus H. Effin' Christ (although, really, as totally baby-eating awesome as that was...who designs THAT tombstone for their family plot?? I mean, besides Charles Manson or Salvador Dali or something).
Annnd...Voldemort. Uh, guh. I am ded from the scary, scary, scary evil. Who's that actor again?? (I know, I should know...I totally suck. Yell at me later) Listen carefully, movie peoples: Never...Ever...Ever...EVER...let that guy go. NEVER. Because he totally rocked that role all the way to, like, the outer reaches of the solar system and back.
Honestly, once all is said and done, I only have one major complaint about this movie...and it seems minor, but it just irks me ever so: the Death Eaters' hats. Okay guys, we know that they're supposed to be a paralell to dangerous bigots like, say, the KKK...we don't need you to underline, bold, italize, circle, star, and otherwise call blatant attention to the fact via the big honkin' party hats of DOOM. Hoods, guys, HOODS, not big pointy wizard hats. The masks were cool...but not the hats. WTF guys, seriously.
Oh, and while we were hanging out waiting for the movie to start, somehow Laur wound up saying this:
"We don't need yeast...we've got Jesus!"
And I proceeded to kill myself with laughter.
After the movie, Laur went back home, and I had dinner (mmm, steak). Then eliara came over, and we wound up renting some DVDs and watching 'em until, like, two in the morning, when she finally went home. Titan AE (cheesetastic and possibly ever sci-fi cliche in the history of ever, but still fun) and Millennium Actress (which, if I've never mentioned it before, is possibly my favorite anime movie of all time...beautiful, truly).
Today I had to get up early to go to the BMV with Dad (don't ask). Afterwars I came back and went to sleep for a bit. Then I got up and inivited Laur and persephone_blue over...would up bullying convincing them into going to the mall. Had a pretzel and an iced coffee beverage (mmm, peppermint mocha frappuchino).
As we were leaving the bookstore, I spotted a trashy cheesy paperback romance novel and grabbed it to look at for curiosity's sake. At which point the following conversation occured between me and Laur:
"Put that back."
"It's about vampires."
"Is it really??" *grabs to look at with interest*
And then I laughed at her :P
Gill and Laur came back home for a bit afterwards so I could lend Gill the Millennium Actress DVD (due back at Blockbuster in a week, Gill!) and copy Laur's My Chemical Romance CD. Then they had to go, because Gill needed to be home for dinner and besides I would have had to kick them out anyway...since we were having Thanksgiving again.
That's right; Mom loves Thanksgiving leftovers so much that she couldn't stand not having them as a result of eating dinner at Aunt Al's, so we had Thanksgiving again tonight at my house. Okaaaay.
In a bit, I'm-a prolly gonna call the girls again and invite them over for one last time, since I'm heading back to school fairly early tomorrow and probably won't get to see them again...well, for another two weeks until Christmas break as soon as finals are over, that is.
Also, I am pleased to report that my cats do indeed remember me. Kiiiitties...