This has been an incredibly loooooong week. Physically, I'm feeling much better. Mentally, not so much. Oh well.

I'm going shopping tomorrow with a co-worker, looking for a long warm coat. I have a couple of warm coats, but they all end at the waist, and apparently when it's cold outside, ALL of you gets cold. Not just the stuff above your waist.

Why is there no Dollhouse tonight? Sadface.

I really need a new computer. Given the fact that the weather here can, on occasion, be a bit treacherous and we are allowed to work from home on days such as those, I need a computer that works. I tried to do this on Wednesday, but my poor compy can't really handle it. The Commodore just runs too slow, and I couldn't even download the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader—the latest version is version 9, the latest I could get was 7.1, and the fonts wouldn't work correctly. I can probably wait until I go home at Christmas, which gives me time to figure out a budget and plan, but the timing kind of sucks. I've got to make a bigger dent my credit card debt that added up after the move. Sigh.

Today is my brother's birthday. I don't think he gets on Livejournal much any more, but if you see this, I hope you had a great day, little brother.

Dollhouse: I HAVEN'T SEEN LAST WEEK'S STILL. I procured it, I can watch it at some point, but tonight is knitting night and tomorrow I'm going out with beanpop and her hubs so I'll just have to watch it before I watch tomorrow night's episode... probably this weekend.

Glee: Really, the only reasons I think I keep watching this show are the musical numbers and Jane Lynch. The rest of the story lines are either a) not terribly well written; b) incredibly over the top; c) just plain boring; d) all of the above.

Castle: Freaking awesome as usual. I love this show. I love Nathan Fillion going all grammar nazi on suspects. And Stana's hair is gorgeous. DO WANT.

Criminal Minds: I love hobbly Reid (okay, no one's surprised about that). I'd bake him cookies. Bad Garcia, Bad! those of you who follow my twitter already saw my elation, but Sean Patrick Flanery (looking a bit older but still pretty darned cute and doing a fantastic job) was on last night's episode. YOUNG INDY.

...I watch other shows but I'm either behind or have nothing interesting to say about them, so, ( pictures from the past weekend. )

I have been trying and trying to catch up with you all, and being busy at work and having my parents in town is just making this impossible, so I give up. If, in the last few days, you've said anything mind-blowing, earth-shattering, or just really really funny that you think I'd get a kick out of, please let me know. Otherwise, I'm just going to hope that all of you are having fabulous lives, and start over at some point.

Anyway, what's new. My parents are still in town. On Saturday, we drove up to Poudre Canyon and the Great Stupa at Shambhala Mountain. I'm not sure I was liberated upon seeing but maybe I was and just didn't realize. We also went to dinner with myras_girls and her hubby, during which the aforementioned hilarity ensued. On Sunday, we drove up to Rocky Mountain National Park, and there was SNOW. It doesn't count as part of SnowWatch 2009 because it a) wasn't falling and b) was at 12,000 feet instead of right outside my door. We walked around Old Town Fort Collins on Monday and ate at the Silver Grill Cafe. Quite yummy. I took lots of pictures and am in the process of uploading them. I'll be sure to post some here when they're all up.

Yesterday, I went to work, but not before my mother did some slight rearranging in the kitchen EARLY in the morning, meaning I had two minutes of trying to figure out where my electric kettle had gone. They played golf and then she also rearranged my living room. She likes to do these things, what can I say? Oh, and last night, I also showed my dad the episode of Castle from Monday night (because they were watching football on Monday night), and he seemed to greatly enjoy it. Today, the plan was for them to hang around the house while I'm at work, and then we'll probably go to dinner, and then they're leaving tomorrow at the same time I leave for work. This will make them happy, as it's supposed to be rather chilly here tomorrow and they've been giving me grief for sleeping with the windows open. :D

Who wants to fly out here around the end of November to attend the Swell Season at the Ogden in Denver with me? You know you want to... I'm planning to see Vienna Teng on the 21st with Chrysta and Corey, and The Sounds with Sharon (co-worker) and her hubby on Halloween. I will go to the Sounds show by myself if I must, but I'm hoping I can find someone around here who would be willing to go with me (mostly so I wouldn't have to drive back and forth from Denver by myself).

Following up on my last "real" post, I have made a budget for the month of October and if I am able to stick to it, I will come out an eensy-weensy bit ahead. But not much, which is sad, because I would like to be able to put money back into savings. At least I have a plan. Plans are good, yes.

Woohoo! According to Felicia Day's twitter, Dr. Horrible won an Emmy! Yay for quality "film" making being recognized.

I'm really cranky with a particular group of people on Ravelry because they're bashing a designer's hat and that's just rude and distasteful. They think they can do better? Design something and submit it to various magazines, see how far they get. Rudeness just pisses me off, I shouldn't be surprised but apparently I am.

Anyway, happier things, the weather today has been rather fantastic! It's been rainy or overcast all day, which wasn't so lovely, but the temperature was super cool. Last I checked, it was about 49 degrees. I am a happy Panda. I've got socks and a sweatshirt on (because I've still got the windows open) and had some hot cocoa.

I'm watching the first disc of the Dollhouse dvds and all I can think is "OI, Fox." Ugh. The sooner I get done with disc one, the sooner I can send it back and get the third one, which has the "real" first episode and the 13th ep.

Vera has decided that if my lap is available she must be in it. Which would be fine, except that I like to be able to reach my laptop keyboard and not have to balance it on my knees to make room for the fuzzy.

Watched the first episode of the Vampire Diaries. Haven't read the books, but I don't really know what I think of the show so far. Good soundtrack: Silversun Pickups, Placebo, others. I don't get the broody guy appeal—I tend to prefer guys that laugh and make me laugh, so I don't get the serious and broody business. But apparently it works for other girls? I also watched Glee, and I really think they could have done a more contemporary song for the assembly, but whatever. I loved the "Golddigger" version. I didn't recognize the last song. And my DVR didn't record the first episode of So You Think You Can Dance—sadface.

Time for more knitting!

I didn't read the actual article from Facebook because I didn't want to get spoiled, but WHEE.

SUMMER GLAU MOVES INTO JOSS WHEDON’S “DOLLHOUSE”.

ALEXIS DENISOF, JAMIE BAMBER, MICHAEL HOGAN AND KEITH CARRADINE MAKE GUEST APPEARANCES DURING SEASON TWO

--source, potentially spoilery, i don't know

Also, promo shots for Season 2 (non spoilery!). I really need to get the Season 1 DVDs.

I am entirely caught up on True Blood. I have to say, as much as I enjoy the quick and easy readability of the books, I love what Alan Ball has done SO MUCH MORE with the TV show. Every character becomes three-dimensional, and the chemistry between characters is so much more palpable. Granted, it's one thing to be reading about chemistry and to watch it in action, but I know that Aragorn loves Arwen something fierce in the books and she's barely there! I love how that's my first example. I can think of more if I'm pressed!

OH, you all will be happy to know (I'm sure) that my OnDemand is showing the rest of Being Human, so now I can watch Episode 5 at some point. They ditched episode 1, but I watched it again before it was scheduled for deletion, so I think I'm okay with that. I talked about this a bit in my knitting blog, but I have decided that I want to knit a pair of booties like Annie's, to wear as slipper socks or feet warmers or whatever you want to call them when it gets cold here and I refuse to turn on the heater until it's really cold because that's how I am.

Non-TV news:

• I got new glasses! They're really just for reading, but I'll try to take a picture of me with them.
  
• Speaking of pictures, I finally took pictures of my apartment + furniture, I just need to upload them.
  
• Wandered into a most amazing store today that is literally not even 500 feet from the office. This is both great and terrible news.
  
• Knit night tonight, hopefully I can finish the project that I'm working on and block it over the weekend and mail it out on Monday. It's good to have goals.

So last night, after Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was finished, I flipped around the TV stations looking for something to have on in the background while I worked to a stopping point in a knitting project. Let me tell you all: Tuesday night TV in the summer is bleak.

Anyway, I ended up on Sci Fi, which was showing an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, which I never really watched but figured "well, why not."

AHA I haven't cracked myself up more in a long time. So the evil race of Aliens were called the Ossarians. Except every time a character said it, it sounded like Yossarian which is the name of the lead character in Catch-22. IT IS DIFFICULT TO TAKE AN ALIEN RACE SERIOUSLY WHEN YOU'RE IMAGINING THEM STUFFING CRABAPPLES IN THEIR MOUTHS.

AND THEN, as if that wasn't enough, the Enterprise were following the (y)Ossarian ship and went through a cloaking cloud-like thingy, and upon exiting the cloud-like thing, and, well, I'm going to let the Star Trek wiki explain it:

They then pass through a cloaking barrier and exit to see a huge sphere. It is nineteen kilometers in diameter and constructed of a single alloy. Archer orders them in closer.

So of course, if you're me, and you've lived with theemdash and jedimara77, you immediately think "IT'S NOT A MOON IT'S A SPACE STATION."



Tee hee!

Edit: This post in that blasted community compares Captain Kirk (2009 version) to John Crichton. ...I'll be in my bunk.

Watching the third to last ever episode of Pushing Daisies. It makes me super super happy, and yet, super super sad, because I know there will never be more PD eps made. Yes, I managed to not download the episodes when they were leaked, preferring to wait until I could see them on my TV screen. Damn you ABC. Damn. You. I may have to go see Land of the Lost just to support one of my celebrity BFFs, Anna Friel.

( Babbling about my beloved show )

I'm tempted to blow off my attempts to clean and watch Firefly instead. Probably shouldn't. Haven been gone for two weekends in a row means I need to clean.

I bought a giant slice of carrot cake yesterday at Downtown Produce, and it was the best decision I've made in a long time. Okay, maybe not.

For those of you who are Criminal Minds fans and/or Big Bang Theory fans, here's a picspam comparing Dr. Spencer Reid to Sheldon Cooper. I don't watch BBT (at the moment), but this picspam cracked me up.

This morning, the barista at Starbucks told me she loved my bag. This was made extra special by the fact that it's the bag I made myself.

I really need to sleep tonight and tomorrow night. It would be nice. I couldn't fall asleep last night--probably dozed off sometime after 1, and then I was up at 6:30 when the alarm went off. I'm thinking chamomile or sleepy tea in the evenings. Except I have to time it JUST RIGHT tomorrow because I can't go off to Colorado without knowing what's going to happen to Reid this time.

I've acquired a little nest egg in my PayPal account and I was really itching to buy some yarn yesterday. However, I managed to refrain, mostly by reminding myself that I have two skeins of sock yarn coming as part of the Vamp club, as well as some more sock yarn that is payment for other services rendered, and you know, souvenir yarn. (Oh lord.) So instead I bought this (hoping Etsy link works).

Thanks to FX, I have seen The Mummy Returns, X-Men 3: The Last Stand, and Underworld: Evolution numerous times over the last few days. They make for good background noise. OH! I should buy Rise of the Lycans.

Oh, and Castle and Dollhouse both really need to be renewed, because I need to know what happens after those finales.

This is pretty much exactly what I posted in deceitfulangel's discussion. ( flailing mostly for next week's Criminal Minds - spoilery for season 2 and maybe spoilery if you haven't seen the preview? )

I will not be a happy panda if something awful and irreversible happens next Wednesday!

OH GOD NATHAN FILLION COULD YOU BE ANY MORE HUMOROUS? I think not.



I can't wait for CBS to upload the whole episode, so I can watch a better version of it.

DOLLHOUSE. OH MY GOD. HOW HAS NO ONE ELSE ON MY FRIENDS LIST POSTED ANYTHING ABOUT IT (do you all have lives or something?) IT'S BEEN OVER FOR 23 MINUTES AND SO MUCH HAPPENED OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY -------



( spoilers ahoy! )