I demand cake, and the finest rums available to humanity!
So, busy weekend.
Well, when I say busy... there was much sleeping done, largely thanks to Chad's cattish lethargy being contagious. He curled up in bed with me and suddenly I had no desire to be awake or remotely active, so we had a nice lie in.
On friday night we watched a bit of PotC, followed by PotC2, but food, wine and warmth meant that we fell asleep to a man, and not even the pretty pirates could rouse us.
Saturday night saw the watching of a very very good new episode of Doctor Who - I will have to read the novel if I can borrow it from someone, because I love the premise. Also, romantic!Doctor is adorable.
On sunday morning I braved the horrible weather to walk to the supermarket for baking supplies, and then soggily made a million tiny fairy cakes (which I have dubbed pixie cakes).
In the afternoon and onwards we finally had our first Transhuman Space RP session, having spent a good two months in the planning phase. The game was fun, with a deck of cards (I think they were 'Zen Tarot' or something) adding a nice randomizing factor - at important moments, rather than just rolling dice, we would draw cards and have to interpret their meaning to fit the current situation.
Oh, and right at the outset I managed to fail a stealth roll and get locked in a storage cupboard with the lock on the outside. Who builds a walk in cupboard which you can't open from the inside? That's just asking for trouble. Also, I wasn't alone. My trusty hound failed a 'bladder control' roll and peed in the corner. So the GM decided to leave us in there for a while. Nice.
We played for about four hours (in which time the million cakes and four plates of nachos were demolished), until we got to a good point to stop - with three of us ending on pleasingly cinematic cliffhangars, I might add. We rounded off the evening by teaching the boys the Buffy board game. I was the Mayor (go Team Evil!) and ended the game by siring Buffy herself (having already sired Willow and dispatched the geek and the puppy).
Fun night, and I look forward to the next, in roughly a fortnight.
Oh, and we finished watching the second half of PotC2 before retiring.
Monday was mostly all about seeing PotC3 - well, it's so long it takes the better part of a day to watch, though us Tolkienites laugh in the face of running times of under three hours.
I shall post more fully on that subject when I have the time, but for now I will simply say that I love love loved it. Much better than the second and wonderfully dark with lots of unexpected twists.
And pretty pirates.
Did I mention that Johnny and Orlando make very pretty pirates? In case I forgot, please note that they do.
Well, when I say busy... there was much sleeping done, largely thanks to Chad's cattish lethargy being contagious. He curled up in bed with me and suddenly I had no desire to be awake or remotely active, so we had a nice lie in.
On friday night we watched a bit of PotC, followed by PotC2, but food, wine and warmth meant that we fell asleep to a man, and not even the pretty pirates could rouse us.
Saturday night saw the watching of a very very good new episode of Doctor Who - I will have to read the novel if I can borrow it from someone, because I love the premise. Also, romantic!Doctor is adorable.
On sunday morning I braved the horrible weather to walk to the supermarket for baking supplies, and then soggily made a million tiny fairy cakes (which I have dubbed pixie cakes).
In the afternoon and onwards we finally had our first Transhuman Space RP session, having spent a good two months in the planning phase. The game was fun, with a deck of cards (I think they were 'Zen Tarot' or something) adding a nice randomizing factor - at important moments, rather than just rolling dice, we would draw cards and have to interpret their meaning to fit the current situation.
Oh, and right at the outset I managed to fail a stealth roll and get locked in a storage cupboard with the lock on the outside. Who builds a walk in cupboard which you can't open from the inside? That's just asking for trouble. Also, I wasn't alone. My trusty hound failed a 'bladder control' roll and peed in the corner. So the GM decided to leave us in there for a while. Nice.
We played for about four hours (in which time the million cakes and four plates of nachos were demolished), until we got to a good point to stop - with three of us ending on pleasingly cinematic cliffhangars, I might add. We rounded off the evening by teaching the boys the Buffy board game. I was the Mayor (go Team Evil!) and ended the game by siring Buffy herself (having already sired Willow and dispatched the geek and the puppy).
Fun night, and I look forward to the next, in roughly a fortnight.
Oh, and we finished watching the second half of PotC2 before retiring.
Monday was mostly all about seeing PotC3 - well, it's so long it takes the better part of a day to watch, though us Tolkienites laugh in the face of running times of under three hours.
I shall post more fully on that subject when I have the time, but for now I will simply say that I love love loved it. Much better than the second and wonderfully dark with lots of unexpected twists.
And pretty pirates.
Did I mention that Johnny and Orlando make very pretty pirates? In case I forgot, please note that they do.