Watching So You Think You Can Dance, which is lots of fun. I've slowly found myself being sucked into watching CSI: New York, which has a lot less goofiness than Miami (sorry, the over dramatics of Horatio Caine have gotten old and their plot lines are so strange) and the same good cast (if not better) than Las Vegas. I've already talked about how ( Read more... )

Have survived the rest of this week, a holiday lunch with the crew at Forrest (which was lots of fun), gotten most of my Christmas presents bought, and now only need to pack the car and I can get this holiday started ( Read more... )

Mom's plane lands in a couple hours (she's here for a conference on making graphs, or something) and I'm still fighting off this weird almost cold that I've had for most of the week, but having now found another murderer thanks to Criminal Minds, I am off to clean and tidy the house. Oh, in more holiday news, I still have lots of Xmas cards if ( Read more... )

Sitting at the table after breakfast while most of the rest of the family works their way through a crossword puzzle (they really like those). Good times so far, more people on the way today (because that's how we roll here) for another Thanksgiving-type dinner. So far it's been hilarious with some downtime of laziness, which is pretty nice. ( Read more... )

I just finished watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (which I enjoy because Bourdain might he a hardass, but he's a well-meaning one who seems to genuinely appreciate people) where he was traveling between the US/Mexico border towns and meeting guys who are working in restaurants in the US and then their families (who the guys ( Read more... )

which is ungrammatical, but the best you'll get from me at this date and time. XD ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, everyone! Unless of course, that's not your hoiday, and then happy Tuesday! XD ( Read more... )

BBC America has decided to play both Dress to Kill and Glorious, which is awesome background noise as I do various householdy things tonight. I spent last week working in fifth grade, who are great and awesome and way more fun (and less snarky) than I was fearing, so that was awesome. The downside of actual work is that I am frequently so exhausted ( Read more... )

While I felt kind of sucky yesterday (too many potato chips), there's really nothing like a full family holiday. There will be 20 for dinner, and we made napkins and napkin rigns and Younger Sister and aunt were laughingly competing to make the best one (pillaging pine needles out of the yard). There will be pie and mashed potatoes and an jinormous ( Read more... )

Made it to the Grandparents house last night with my aunt and cousin. Uncle and rest of cousins, other aunt and uncle and cousins, sister, dad, grand-aunt and aunt/uncle ish people (my family tree is so confusing) are due to arrive sometime this afternoon. Why yes, we are having 20 for Thanksgiving dinner. And you ( Read more... )