July the 29th, 30th, and 31st as well as August 1st: I blame a lot of things this time around
Hmmm, what to blame this time around. XD Well, normally I can't sit through an entire movie without getting antsy so I planned on watching the Firefly movie in two parts but ended up watching it in almost one go on Thursday. Add that to the fact that I was working at the library on Thursday as well (and man, there was an AWFUL smell in the shop, I suspect the overweight, middle aged guy on crutches who wasn't there when I was first there but was there the other times I went back into the shop and it still smelled) and I was busy enough. Think it was also the first time in a few weeks that I was at the library yet didn't have any new books to pick up (one reading, six more to go!).
Friday I actually got a chore or two done, mainly scrubbing the birdbath and finding that the grime was a lot more caked on that I had thought (makes sense, the birdbath is at least ten years old). I did end up making it cleaner but really wish we'd had a pressure washer. Saw the first episode of the new Project Runway season (with my mom of course, looks like each episode may be 1:30 long now instead of just an hour) and we had mixed thoughts on it. The challenge was pretty evil, not only wast this still part of the audition (ew, at least tell the people that they're not on the show yet, that's just underhanded) but they had to take something out of their suitcases and then pass it to the person next to them to incorporate into the outfit so plenty of designers lost something special that they were willing to redesign but didn't want to part with. Ewwww, Project Runway, for the most part I love you, but then you do really crazy mean stuff that's uncomfortable to watch, stop trying to use cheap emotion for higher ratings! And, do to juggling things around for friend visits, I was over at my dad's house and quite happy to find that the latest Doctor Who episode was on demand (since Time Warner was unhooking someone else's cable and they unhooked my dad's as well, yeeaaahhhh). Very glad for that and since that wrapped up the fifth (Nu Who) season I'll get a review of that up soon-ish. Noticed that my dad was watching for most, if not the whole time as well, although for someone who calls it cheesy and over dramatic he doesn't always seem to be able to get whats going on. Not my favorite ending to a season (so, was that a ret-con or a memory wipe?) but since some of the stuff is going to play a big role in the next season I'm still excited.
And then Saturday shader was finally able to get over since I haven't seen her since around Christmas I believe. It was nice to have her over, we looked at things on the internet, I showed her the Hetalia American VAs, showed her some of the AMVs from AZ (so THAT'S why I liked the Steamboy AMV so much, it's by the same person who did the Code Geass one the year before!), and that got her interested in Baccano so I showed her a few episodes of that between Saturday and Sunday. She's a bit confused after the first episode ("I'm afraid I'm going to forget everything," "Oh don't worry, I went back and re-watched it after I saw the series and went 'Holy crap, they survived?!? I was sure they were dead!'") but she liked Pulp Fiction so it seems to be going over well with her. And we went out to the Idiot Box (the whole reason we did it Saturday instead of Friday, the Sat show is at 8 but the Friday show is only at 10 and my mom gets sleepy early and sleepy=bad driving) and managed to find parking not too far off from the building (and sadly it had been raining earlier so I didn't want to risk going early and getting my camera soaked, guess I'll have to photobug the downtown later). The show was okay, they only had three people up there compared to the five my mom saw last time and she said the show wasn't as good. I agreed, it's hard to do improve skits when you only have three people since everyone has to play so many roles and more people give it more of a spark. So it was okay overall but I'm sad it wasn't as good when my mom saw it before since it sounds like that was an amazingling good show.
So, Sunday was quiet, we got shader back home (and she's getting her license in August, lucky, and she's either getting her Grandmother's PT Cruiser or a scooter, she's actually leaning more towards the scooter and modifying it so it has a motorcycle engine, I told her straight up that I will be laughing my ass off if she actually does that) and she said that she's finally convinced her boyfriend to come with her to AZ next year! She wants to go all three days and is pretty sure she'll be able to pay for it so I told her to keep me in the loop and I should be able to get her in my room. Plus her boyfriend wants to cosplay and I know she kinda wants to cosplay, the only thing is that her boyfriend wants to do something like Yu-gi-oh and my friend is quite sure she can't pull off Mai Valentine (I agreed that the wig would be tricky and expensive, she was more talking about there is no way she can do an e-cup). After all that my mom and I hit up the Farmer's Market for the first time in a long while and spent the rest of the day quietly. I got in a nice walk since it was only 68 today and a bit foggy too, more like Cleveland (and apparently a Cleveland summer is like a British summer) than the American South but I'm not complaining, hopefully it'll still be cool enough tomorrow to get more chores done.
Annnnddd that's it, it's been a REALLY quiet day and I hope tomorrow's more exciting. Sure I could sit around all day watching streaming but I'm starting to really hate D. Gray Man with all it's fillers now. Finished reading Alcestis while I was avoiding the fillers so I'll start in on the next Naomi Novik dragon book tomorrow, only six more books to go this summer!
Friday I actually got a chore or two done, mainly scrubbing the birdbath and finding that the grime was a lot more caked on that I had thought (makes sense, the birdbath is at least ten years old). I did end up making it cleaner but really wish we'd had a pressure washer. Saw the first episode of the new Project Runway season (with my mom of course, looks like each episode may be 1:30 long now instead of just an hour) and we had mixed thoughts on it. The challenge was pretty evil, not only wast this still part of the audition (ew, at least tell the people that they're not on the show yet, that's just underhanded) but they had to take something out of their suitcases and then pass it to the person next to them to incorporate into the outfit so plenty of designers lost something special that they were willing to redesign but didn't want to part with. Ewwww, Project Runway, for the most part I love you, but then you do really crazy mean stuff that's uncomfortable to watch, stop trying to use cheap emotion for higher ratings! And, do to juggling things around for friend visits, I was over at my dad's house and quite happy to find that the latest Doctor Who episode was on demand (since Time Warner was unhooking someone else's cable and they unhooked my dad's as well, yeeaaahhhh). Very glad for that and since that wrapped up the fifth (Nu Who) season I'll get a review of that up soon-ish. Noticed that my dad was watching for most, if not the whole time as well, although for someone who calls it cheesy and over dramatic he doesn't always seem to be able to get whats going on. Not my favorite ending to a season (so, was that a ret-con or a memory wipe?) but since some of the stuff is going to play a big role in the next season I'm still excited.
And then Saturday shader was finally able to get over since I haven't seen her since around Christmas I believe. It was nice to have her over, we looked at things on the internet, I showed her the Hetalia American VAs, showed her some of the AMVs from AZ (so THAT'S why I liked the Steamboy AMV so much, it's by the same person who did the Code Geass one the year before!), and that got her interested in Baccano so I showed her a few episodes of that between Saturday and Sunday. She's a bit confused after the first episode ("I'm afraid I'm going to forget everything," "Oh don't worry, I went back and re-watched it after I saw the series and went 'Holy crap, they survived?!? I was sure they were dead!'") but she liked Pulp Fiction so it seems to be going over well with her. And we went out to the Idiot Box (the whole reason we did it Saturday instead of Friday, the Sat show is at 8 but the Friday show is only at 10 and my mom gets sleepy early and sleepy=bad driving) and managed to find parking not too far off from the building (and sadly it had been raining earlier so I didn't want to risk going early and getting my camera soaked, guess I'll have to photobug the downtown later). The show was okay, they only had three people up there compared to the five my mom saw last time and she said the show wasn't as good. I agreed, it's hard to do improve skits when you only have three people since everyone has to play so many roles and more people give it more of a spark. So it was okay overall but I'm sad it wasn't as good when my mom saw it before since it sounds like that was an amazingling good show.
So, Sunday was quiet, we got shader back home (and she's getting her license in August, lucky, and she's either getting her Grandmother's PT Cruiser or a scooter, she's actually leaning more towards the scooter and modifying it so it has a motorcycle engine, I told her straight up that I will be laughing my ass off if she actually does that) and she said that she's finally convinced her boyfriend to come with her to AZ next year! She wants to go all three days and is pretty sure she'll be able to pay for it so I told her to keep me in the loop and I should be able to get her in my room. Plus her boyfriend wants to cosplay and I know she kinda wants to cosplay, the only thing is that her boyfriend wants to do something like Yu-gi-oh and my friend is quite sure she can't pull off Mai Valentine (I agreed that the wig would be tricky and expensive, she was more talking about there is no way she can do an e-cup). After all that my mom and I hit up the Farmer's Market for the first time in a long while and spent the rest of the day quietly. I got in a nice walk since it was only 68 today and a bit foggy too, more like Cleveland (and apparently a Cleveland summer is like a British summer) than the American South but I'm not complaining, hopefully it'll still be cool enough tomorrow to get more chores done.
Annnnddd that's it, it's been a REALLY quiet day and I hope tomorrow's more exciting. Sure I could sit around all day watching streaming but I'm starting to really hate D. Gray Man with all it's fillers now. Finished reading Alcestis while I was avoiding the fillers so I'll start in on the next Naomi Novik dragon book tomorrow, only six more books to go this summer!