"It's the Perfect Da-ay, and Nothing's Standing in My Way..."
I'm always fascinated by how very little it sometimes takes to make a day great for me.
I had been having a kind of lousy, depressing weekend, overall, but then Sunday turned out to be one of the most enjoyable days I've had in ages. I got up a little before 5 a.m., feeling very unwell. I thought I might getting the flu which scared the heck out of me. The flu is by far one of the most torturous things one has to experience in life. It feels like waking death. Every inch of the body hurts to a degree, food is totally lacking in appeal, your body is hot as a furnace but you feel like you're in the arctic, and it all adds up to make one feel imprisoned in a sort of illness state penitentiary on a lifetime sentence. The dreaded blight has been going around the community where I live, so my fears were well-founded. But thankfully, it turned out be dehydration or something because after drinking something I felt all better again. :D
And that's when my day started perking up! I sat down at the computer since it was free. In my home, if you snooze, you lose when it comes to computer usage time. I got a lovely grilled chicken sandwich and some barbecue chips to eat for "breakfast" along with another large glass of pepsi, and spent FIVE UNINTERRUPTED HOURS ON THE COMPUTER!!! My family didn't wake up until 10! Besides checking my usual things like my e-mail and my LJ, I spent about an hour and a half of that time browsing through IGN.com's 100 Best Animated Series Ever List. That list was the highlight of the day just about. I love lists, I love animation more than anyone I know, off or on the net, could imagine, and the rankings of series on the list were pretty accurate, I think, though there were a few major fallacies in the ranking, in my opinion. After my computer time was over, I went upstairs and FINALLY started getting my books back on the shelves and organized. This was a huge achievement since every book I own has been stacked all over my room since the end of November.
No, I'm not joking.
I had been doing a complete shake-down of my bedroom, throwing old stuff out, re-organizing, scrubbing and dusting from top to bottom. I had completed everything except re-placing my books on the shelves at the time, but I was frustrated by the organization. I wanted to concoct a new organizational plan for them before I expended all that time and energy putting them back. So, what ended up happening was that they all stayed strewn about my personal living quarters until early this week, LOL. Darn my Monica Geller-esque perfectionism. I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that I'm such a hopeless perfectionist or the fact that I don't REALLy mind being one all that much. :) But anyway, I passed away Sunday afternoon doing that. I then spent that evening having a Smallville mini-marathon.
I watched five episodes in all:"Instinct", "Committed", "Prey", "Identity", and "Abyss". They were almost all fantastic! I am so in love with Smallville's eighth season right now. ♥ We have Clark finally acting more like a Superman and less like Lana's lapdog. We have Lois being...well, her amazing self. We have Oliver as a regular (love Ollie!), two new awesome characters:David and Tess, and tons else.
Oh, and did I mention the best thing, Clois goodness at every turn? No? Well, there's Clois goodness at every turn! :D They OWN this season! That scene in "Committed" with the lie detector? *faints* I could not tell you how much I love that scene! ♥ It's perfect. And that bit of jealousy in "Instinct":
Lois: There is nothing romantic between Lois and Clark. Maxima: You have a deep connection to him; I felt it. Lois: Then your radar's on the fritz. ‘Cause even on a good day, we're barely friends. Maxima: He never would have been able to pull away from me if he wasn't drawn by his attraction to you. Lois: Look, he's about as attracted to me as a Red Sox fan to the Yankees. Maxima: Oh, you may not know it yet, but believe me there's a bond. And I could see it on your face when you caught us
together, you feel it, too.
*squees*
I so cannot wait for "Infamous" on Thursday! Clois FTW! !!!!
So, there you have it. Great, great day for me!
Quiet, Computer, Cleaning, and Smallville/Clois. It doesn't get much more perfect than that! :D
Today seems to be flowing away pretty happily so far, so I'm hoping to have another good one.
I'm planning on getting my room completely finished today, and I might pop out some Smallville or Bones DVDs later.
Or read a book.
I'll see where the mood takes me. :D