me wants it, the precioussssssss

[imwalde]

OMG, the ring is so beautiful.



I cannot resist blue and sparkly. I find myself absurdly chuffed about the whole engagement. I am not sure why I am charmed, but it makes me happy. (Also, it makes me think of two favorite modern Merlin AUs.)

I spent this Veterans Day and the whole weekend painting my bedroom (December Dawn* and Lazy Sunday*, the overall effect is surpringly purple on my walls with my lighting, but I like it), both bathrooms (Cloudless and Ocean Dream), and two dressers (Down Pour and Sorcerer*). Those colors marked with stars are one whose names influenced my choice; Who would choose black when you could go Sorcerer? When I told as much to the paint dude at Home Depot as he was mixing up my paint, I got a surprised laugh. Otherwise you can go crazy trying to pick the perfect shade, and there comes a point, you just gotta pick, you know? I am pleased with the results but OMG I was so sore yesterday morning. So much moving of furniture and stooping and kneeling and paintrolling and climbing on a stepstool! The dressers were hand-me-down ugly fake woodgrain that I decided to deuglify by painting. They do look better, except when I went to buy new hardware (the old pulls were brass, and not just brass but U-G-L-Y, they ain't got no alibi, they ugly!) I learned to my dismay that the old ones were nonstandard sizes so the holes in the drawer fronts fit...exactly nothing I can buy off the shelf. I do have a drill, but I've never used it on thick wood like this (it's one thing to start a baby hole for a screw in drywall...) and they are my real life actual in use dressers, so I don't want to fuck up by botching the drill holes, so I think I will recruit help (aka Dad).

I think it's the one year anniversary of being in this condo (Nov 1st) but I got a second wind about doing some projects and I am going to ride this until it runs out. Who knows, maybe I will be motivated to get a light for the kitchen? I've been using a desklamp in there since, dunno, spring? At least it's only the kitchen and not a room I use often. Plus, the fridge and the microwave have their own lights! (For those curious, my kitchen is half Blue Jewel half unpainted and the rest of my walls are either Gray Timberwolf* or Brilliant Sea which looks a little more primary and less turquoise on my walls. That leaves the guest room and two walls of the kitchen left to paint one day.)

What I have learned about myself is that I am not a very good painter. I just don't have the skill or patience or steady hand or something, because I've tried being painstaking and paint still gets on the ceiling or what have you, so this time around, I just said fuck it and went for Good Enough. I have really high ceilings in one room, so I figure when the time comes years from now if I am going to sell, I'll have the place professionally done anyhow.

Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss

Day 21 - Favorite ship John and Aeryn. Because they make each other grow and be better and they have smoking chemistry and are good for each other. And you root for them because you want them to be together and they make sense on paper, but are even better on screen, which is not always the case.


Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Comments

[biggieshorty.livejournal.com]

OH thank GOD I thought I was just really underslept! Total sombrero confusion here, as well.

Also, those paint colors are amazingly named and I bet the condo looks awesome.

[imwalde.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as long as no one looks too closely at the baseboards or ceiling lines, it does indeed look awesome. I'll take pictures at some point after I clean up a bit, for a Molly-value of a bit, read: lots.

[imwalde.livejournal.com]

HAHAHHA! Now that you've said that, I can totally see it! Hehehehehhe.

[shamoogity.livejournal.com]

I really have to get around to watching Farscape. Is it actually a legit good show apart from John/Aeryn? The puppets turn me off a little but I could probably get used to them.

[imwalde.livejournal.com]

Yes, it really is a legit good show. (Full disclosure: my cats are named after two Farscape characters.) First and foremost, it must be said that it's legit good sci-fi, so it's about flying around on a spaceship and encountering aliens, so you need to be on board with that, or I predict a major stumbling block.

But the characters are awesome and there is continuity and world building and humor and it's quotable and quite often bugnuts insane, but in a really entertaining way. John and Aeryn's awesomeness, both individually and together, are a large part of the awesomeness, but that's what you hope for for main characters.

Part of its awesomeness is due to how many conventions of a typical sci-fi space show it completely ignores, up-ends, or subverts. "Rules" of the genre set by Star Trek that were modeled by many, many subsequent shows. And I think perhaps this facet of its awesomeness may be lost on you, because I gather you aren't a big sci-fi person? But I think anyone can appreciate its creativity.

And the puppets grow on you, I swear. You like Doctor Who, and if you can roll with those special effects and aliens, you can roll with Farscape's.

Its growth as a show is analagous to Buffy's, because the premise is solid, but a lot of early episodes are a little rough around the edges, perhaps, and the budget was non-existant. But after the first batch of episodes, you see glimmers of what it could be and then it starts getting better and better, and it's not long until it's legitimately awesome.

[shamoogity.livejournal.com]

Ok, you've won me over. I've just started Fringe, but once I make my way through that, Farscape's next on the list.

[imwalde.livejournal.com]

yay!!!

Truly, if you can handle the cheese and bizarrity (bizarreness? gah, what's the noun form?) amid the awesome in Doctor Who, Farscape should be no trouble at all. And at last you will know what the rest of us were squeeing about!

(I do wish the first batch of episodes was stronger, though; the pilot is pretty strong, but the first batch is uneven. Not enough to turn me off watching, but I had seen 6 or 7 episodes and thought it was ok enough to keep going but still didn't quite understand the fuss, but trust me, keep going! It finds its feet.)