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I haven't been posting much on LJ these past few months, because life has been exceedingly normal. Like, boring-to-anyone-but-me normal. The biggest thing in my life continues to be my adventures in weight loss, and sometimes that seems like a selfish thing to talk about? IDK. *waves hands*
My middle sister got married on Sept 16th and she and her husband (!!) were so happy, all during the rehearsals and the ceremony and the reception and just. It was lovely. The word doesn't seem like enough, but it truly was. <333
The reception went by in a blur, talking to family and friends-of-the-family whom I hadn't seen in at least a year, if not many many years. People were so generous in their compliments re: my appearance, though I felt a bit of a fraud having consumed TWO cupcakes and about four glasses of wine, ha. But hey, it was a celebration!
SOTB was fun, and I met a kindred fangirl soul who will be in town for the next few months. We're going to see "Perks of Being a Wallflower" later tonight. It seems like every new tidbit out of the H50 writer's room (or tweet from Lenkov) is total Steve/Danny fangirl bait, but I am not complaining. The boys will be stranded on a dinghy this week and I cannot fucking WAIT.
Most of my television shows are back. I didn't realize how much I missed Once Upon A Time until it came back. <3 I'm loving Last Resort and will probably keep up with Elementary and a few new sitcoms. Haven't watched the new Homeland yet and am about two episodes behind on Downton Abbey, but MERLIN IS BACK TODAY YAY!! Work has been slow lately so I've been reading PaperLegends stories and wallowing in Merlin/Arthur feelings. We Are All Diamonds by Footloose is one of the best fics I've read in ages and ages.
"A Casual Vacancy" is sitting on my coffee table (along with the final Artemis Fowl) but I've yet to pick it up. Soon!
USC's football team continues to give me gray hairs. I'm so excited to fly over for Homecoming in about a month. We got tickets to see "Book of Mormon" while I'm in LA. :)
The Hawai'i International Film Festival starts in about 10 days and I snagged tickets for six films: "The Sessions", "Keep The Lights On", "Silver Linings Playbook", "Struck By Lightning", "Cloud Atlas", and "The Thieves".
My youngest sister is coming to visit for a week before Thanksgiving and we've made plans to run a half marathon while she's here. My trainer has therefore given me ever-increasing distance/time goals for my long runs this month. It turns out mapping running routes on Google Earth is surprisingly fun. This week's goals will be 7.5mi/72min. \o/ I never thought running would be fun, but I'm (almost) ready to say yes, yes it is. And trail running! I've started doing early Sunday runs up Diamond Head and I genuinely enjoy it. So strange. We think I have ~15lbs still to lose and my goal is to have it off by the end of the year.
See? Totally normal and boring. ;P But normal is good. Hope you're all well, my wonderful flist.
My middle sister got married on Sept 16th and she and her husband (!!) were so happy, all during the rehearsals and the ceremony and the reception and just. It was lovely. The word doesn't seem like enough, but it truly was. <333
The reception went by in a blur, talking to family and friends-of-the-family whom I hadn't seen in at least a year, if not many many years. People were so generous in their compliments re: my appearance, though I felt a bit of a fraud having consumed TWO cupcakes and about four glasses of wine, ha. But hey, it was a celebration!
SOTB was fun, and I met a kindred fangirl soul who will be in town for the next few months. We're going to see "Perks of Being a Wallflower" later tonight. It seems like every new tidbit out of the H50 writer's room (or tweet from Lenkov) is total Steve/Danny fangirl bait, but I am not complaining. The boys will be stranded on a dinghy this week and I cannot fucking WAIT.
Most of my television shows are back. I didn't realize how much I missed Once Upon A Time until it came back. <3 I'm loving Last Resort and will probably keep up with Elementary and a few new sitcoms. Haven't watched the new Homeland yet and am about two episodes behind on Downton Abbey, but MERLIN IS BACK TODAY YAY!! Work has been slow lately so I've been reading PaperLegends stories and wallowing in Merlin/Arthur feelings. We Are All Diamonds by Footloose is one of the best fics I've read in ages and ages.
"A Casual Vacancy" is sitting on my coffee table (along with the final Artemis Fowl) but I've yet to pick it up. Soon!
USC's football team continues to give me gray hairs. I'm so excited to fly over for Homecoming in about a month. We got tickets to see "Book of Mormon" while I'm in LA. :)
The Hawai'i International Film Festival starts in about 10 days and I snagged tickets for six films: "The Sessions", "Keep The Lights On", "Silver Linings Playbook", "Struck By Lightning", "Cloud Atlas", and "The Thieves".
My youngest sister is coming to visit for a week before Thanksgiving and we've made plans to run a half marathon while she's here. My trainer has therefore given me ever-increasing distance/time goals for my long runs this month. It turns out mapping running routes on Google Earth is surprisingly fun. This week's goals will be 7.5mi/72min. \o/ I never thought running would be fun, but I'm (almost) ready to say yes, yes it is. And trail running! I've started doing early Sunday runs up Diamond Head and I genuinely enjoy it. So strange. We think I have ~15lbs still to lose and my goal is to have it off by the end of the year.
See? Totally normal and boring. ;P But normal is good. Hope you're all well, my wonderful flist.