back in the saddle again, or at least getting it down off the wall

[gornishka]

Instead of just putzing around watching tv and noodling through spoiler forums, going to try to be productive and finally (finally!) catch up in some respect with LJ. The withdrawal/hermitation has been pretty bad these past 2.5ish months (although I have gotten so much read, wow! I mean, seriously. Or reread anyway). My inner twelve year old is flailing around and capslocking about how much we've missed it.

That is a terrible, terrible, terrible post-haitus opening, but on five hours of sleep and a cup of crack, yeah.

Let's see. I don't even know where to begin.

a list

Oh, I have missed lists.

The house is pretty much unpacked, but my room is a disorganized pile of clothes and books, although that seems to be a universal constant.

frozenemerald and I went and bothered spiritedartist & co yesterday, had lunch out, fulfilled our consumer duties, and doted on Baby P until we could commandeer their tv (it's true, we're only using you for your BBC America) and catch up on the new Dr Who episodes (redacted: a great deal of suspender-snapping-related lechery hi, narfzz, sassette82 have you seen them yet?).

L and I finally got out to a movie post-HP/pre-Spring Break and saw Red Riding Hood. Yes, we paid real cash money for it. Yes, it is exactly as terrible as you think it is. We cracked up through the whole thing. Oh, jesus, it was so bad.

I've had Game of Thrones lying around for a while, but I kept putting it off because (1) I didn't want to start an unfinished series, (2) the whole "grim! dark! = edgy!" impression was less than, er, impressing, (3) etc etc, but then I flip-flopped, started reading it last Thursday, went and got #2 and #3 Monday, and am about halfway through #3 now. Funny how cliffhangering chapters/books gets people to tear through them.

On the nanny-front, the kids spend a lot of time outside or doing other things, but since the only time I'd really seen any tv/etc for the past few months was when they watched it, I have od'd so hard on Disney tweener shows and was desperate for just about anything where the actors' median age wasn't 15.

I listen to NPR pretty much all the time.

You have NO IDEA how good it is to see non-tweener tv. So far current on just Game of Thrones, DW, and the last two Communitys. But then, one Community like 2x21 has a minimum worth equivalent to eighteen months of 3 24/7 Disney channels.

Late night mid-tv snack run last night, L and I had a hilarious/slightly frightening drunken redneck banjo music encounter. Lurlene and Betty Sue's advice for this kind of thing: "roll up th' windows, drive fast, don' stop for nuthin', not babies or ole people in the road, not nuthin'. You jest keep drivin'." (It is for the love we bear you, naeelah, that we did not bring them along to the hoedown at Otto's, jsyk.)

This is a horribly pop culture obsessed list.

Yeah, vacation write-up will have to be next post.