Nothing else matters ...

Supernatural update: I'm up to episode 11 of season 4. I'm really, really enjoying season 4. It's incredibly neat going back and watching these episodes that I've only seen when they were first shown. It's even neater when you watch them in context with the previous seasons. So much stuff is thrown out in the earlier seasons that seems to relate to what's going on in season 4. And season 5, now that I think about it.

The point of all this is that I'm loving this marathon. I'm even getting a little sad that it's nearing it's end. I'm not ready to give up the boys yet. Boo. On the other hand, I could always just restart the marathon from the beginning once I finish season 4. Does that make me sound all fangirl-crazy? Shut up.

It also turns out that I have an outline going for the Supernatural fic that's brewing in my head. Notes and everything. I know where it's going to end, I'm just not sure about all the in-between stuff. Let me just say that I've known how this particular story is going to end for a long time. It's always been the in-between stuff that has pickled my brain. So raise your collective glasses and tell my muse to get off her ass and inspire the crap out of me. *raises glass*

In the world of non-fandom (aka: real life), Cole is on his way to Pennsylvania. And? Tomorrow I could potentially sleep in. That really depends on the dog. However, I don't have to get up early to take anyone to school or get them breakfast or anything like that. I kinda feel like I'm going to be playing hooky. It's an interesting feeling.

I'm going to go work on my outline now. The boys need some plot to get them where they need to go. Or something.
Later.

Journal #1800. Whew! That's a lot of babbling. A.Lot.

I swear to you that it's almost 20 degrees cooler today than it was yesterday. It's foggy and cold and beautifully crisp out. I love this weather. Hopefully it will continue and we'll be done with the hot. Blech.

I have 4 more episodes of Supernatural season 3. Season 4 should be delivered today so this is working out perfectly. As an awesome plus, Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost was just playing on Cartoon Network. Perfect! Witches and Demons and Ghoulies. Oh, my!

Randomly. Last week I washed all the bedding on Cole's bed. Today it's my turn. I've even pulled the dust ruffle off the bottom of the bed for a good wash. Everything just looked a little on the grimy side. I was also getting a little tired of the way all the bedding was beginning to list off one side of the bed. Not the bedding, really. More like the pillow top I have under the mattress pad. And the top mattress. Everything was just migrating to one side. Bizarre. And annoying. Washing everything gives me the chance to realign all the goodies and flip the mattress. You know, all the fun stuff that I never seem to actually do.

There you have it. I have no plans today other than finding out what type of clothes I have to pack Cole for his trip. And enjoying the fall weather. Of course.
Lazy Monday! Awesome!
I'm out!

I am home alone. My mom and grandma went out to the Taste of Morgan Hill street fair. Cole's heading to Carmel with his dad to visit his other grandparents. Hailey is *gasp* with her mom today. It's just me. And Bailey. But Bailey's somewhere under my bed sleeping. So, it's just me. I could totally dance around the house singing at the top of my lungs and no one except the neighbors would know. Awesome!

Yeah. I'm probably not going to do that. The point is that I could.

Anyway. Last night I caught up on this week's Supernatural and Fringe. I have a few more things I want to watch before Monday, but I'm feeling pretty good about myself right now. As a plus? I'm up to episode 4 of season 3 of Supernatural. I had to break down and buy season 4 last night so I could keep right on marathoning it. :) Yay! Winchester boys!

Oh, oh, oh! Hailey's team won their soccer game! I think this is the first game they've won. Hailey was a little bummed that she didn't get to play in goal at all, but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. So! A win for Team Hailey!

I have a book to finish and more episodes of Supernatural to watch. I had to break down and re-upload some of my favorite SPN icons because I was tired of not having any appropriate Winchester icons to express my SPN glee!

I'm done! Also, I'm hungry. I didn't eat breakfast this morning. Whoops.
Later.

In a shocking twist, it hasn't been nearly as hot the last few days as the weather forecasters would have led us to believe. It's also incredibly foggy this morning. Not the crazy fog that we had the other day where I couldn't see across the street, but still enough that my mountain is buried behind it. Please let this mean that Fall is coming in with a vengeance! Pleeeaaaaase!

Completely randomly ... oddmonster, I had a dream the other day that you were going to be visiting us here in the West. Yes? Wishful thinking? Seriously, it was a very vivid dream. And I choose to believe that I can see the future. *nods*

I still haven't read book #100.

My goal for the day is to vacuum. That's it. Just vacuum. And watch some more Supernatural. Which reminds me. What was with all the Jo hate in season 2? I liked her. I still like her. I watched No Exit last night (the one where the guys and Jo investigate the first serial killer and Jo and Dean pretend to be boyfriend/girlfriend) and I think it's one of the creepiest eps in the first part of the season. Plus? I kept hoping that Jo and Dean would hook up in a dirty, dirty way. Like, when they were in the walls of the building and pressed up against one another. Word! But, no. It didn't happen. So, I'm left with fanfic. *sigh*

Alright. I'm done now.
Later.

Holy smokes! I was sitting here at the computer being all intent and focused and stuff when all of a sudden I realized that my focus had completely failed me and I was floating in la-la land. When I stopped and thought about it, it hit me that I hadn't eaten yet today. Two cups of coffee aren't quite the same as really eating. Seriously, I was out of it. It came on in the blink of an eye. I was with it and doing my thing and then I totally wasn't. Crazy.

So, now I've eaten. I feel much more human and not at all like I'm about to fall over. Yay! Food!

So, the thing that totally captured my attention (until it didn't) was the monumental task of keeping my Squidoo pages up to date. No, it's not monumental, it's just something I really have to sit down and focus on. However, I've now updated nearly all of them. Super! I hope I'm not going to be annoying when I ask (very nicely) that any feedback on these would be much appreciated. Any. Whether it's telling me that the categories I chose for the movies are completely whack or to give me ideas on new things I can add. You can even tell em that I suck. I would prefer that you didn't, honestly, but I'll go with it if that's what you have to say.

Anyway. Anybody who cares to can either leave a comment here or on the page in particular. There's a comment option hidden away at the bottom of each page. I'm just kidding. It's not actually hidden. :)

The life of a(n almost-)writer

Ultimate Amazon Shopping - Blu-Ray
Action on Blu-Ray
Comedy on Blu-Ray
Crime and Thrillers on Blu-Ray
Drama on Blu-Ray
Fantasy on Blu-Ray
Horror on Blu-Ray
Kids and Family on Blu-Ray
Sci-Fi on Blu-Ray
TV on Blu-Ray

Zombies are taking over the WORLD!

Ultimate Amazon Shopping - Music
Homemade Laundry Detergent

Go green with reusable lunchboxes
Reusable snack and sandwich bags
Reusable shopping bags

Don't worry, I won't be offended if you have no desire to even look at the pages. I'm just looking for ways to beef them up a bit and want a different set of eyes with a different perspective.

Okay. I finished yesterday's book.
Book #93 - The Clue of the Dancing Puppet by Carolyn Keene - I was kind of stuck on how they were going to explain away the dancing puppet in this one. It worked out well, don't get me wrong, I just wasn't expecting it. So, Nancy helps an amateur acting group with the pesky problem of a puppet that dances without strings. She also steals the show as the lead in their play and makes an enemy of the girl who was previously the lead. Overall, an interesting book.

I'm exhausted right now. I feel like I've crammed a day's worth of stuff into a few hours. *sigh* I haven't watched Supernatural yet, but I hope to get to that today. Or at least before the weekend's over. That reminds me! I recorded a bunch of Warehouse 13 episodes a while back and just finished them off. I like that show. It started off so-so, but it's really picked up lately. It's just fun. I wasn't sure about it when I watched the pilot, but I like the bantering between Pete and Myka. They're just fun to watch. And the plot lines have really picked up, I think. They're fun and engaging.

Okay. I know it's early, but I might have to take a nap. Heck, my dog's already napping. Why can't I?
later!

Okay. I'm caught up on Supernatural. Well, except for the one that's on right now. But I'll watch that soon. I only have one episode of Dollhouse left to watch. This is down from the 4 I needed to watch yesterday. Yes, I watched a lot of TV today. I was really tired and didn't want to do anything. In fact, the only things I currently have on my DVR is 1 ep of Dollhouse, this week's Fringe and the shows that are on today. Considering what I had on there at the beginning of the week, that's freaking phenomenal!

By the by, Cole and I have been watching the Life After People series on the History channel and it's really, really good. It's kinda neat watching all our big cities fall and be swallowed up by nature. Anyway. If you have the chance, give it a try.

I posted a new wallpaper at bay12. Yay! I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do about my obsessive picture taking. *thinking, thinking* Yeah, I got nothing.

Well, pretty much I watched TV all day and cooked. Did I cook? No, I guess I didn't. Cutting a watermelon isn't cooking, is it?

On that note, I'm out.
Later.

I watched last night's Supernatural this evening. ( I have some thoughts )

OMG! Cole, Hailey and I watched Wall-E today and ... love. He's just so adorably cute. Plus, I'm always down with visions of a broken future.

I have a pretty full day tomorrow. Let's see. I'm getting my hair done at 8. I'm meeting malkovich03 for her birthday after that. We're going to the Exploratorium in San Francisco and then out for dinner and drinks in the evening.

There you have it. :)

Here are the icons that townbros chose for me when I was breaking out of my shell and commenting on his icon post. :) I'd go the whole nine yards and tell you to comment and I'll choose 6 of your icons to tell me about, but I know that I'll never follow through with that and everyone will be waiting for their icons and then we'll all be sad. So. Here are my icons.

1.
My default icon. I found it while browsing through icons made by windsong_icons and fell in love with that little smudge of red in the center. Somehow this icon works with any layout I pick.

2.
Ha! Ten saying "barbeque". Does this really need an explanation? Yes? Well, I use it whenever there's something so random that only the word "barbeque" can help explain it. Ten's my secret TV boyfriend and he's incredibly random himself so this somehow makes perfect sense. Made by itwontbecalm.

3.
Another one by windsong_icons, this one features Gwen from Torchwood. All I can say is that some days are so bad that you just have to whimper your way through them. You know what I mean. Gwen reminds me of Zooey Deschanel with her coloring and haircut. That doesn't have much to do with why I chose this icon, but it's information you can file away for later.

4.
Ooh! An icon by neversince! Sarah from The Sarah Connor Chronicles is tough, dedicated and beautiful. She holds the future of the human race in her hands. How can you not respect that? I love the coloring in this one.

5.
Another one by neversince! This one features the Metallicar and it totally captures the fandom obsession that can grab hold of me when I get involved with those Winchester boys. Supernatural! Woot!

6.
This icon was made by oxoniensis and it is just so fun! Feet! In the grass!

Word! Cole and I are watching National Treasure. Fun.
jenahville stopped by for a few hours today. We sat and talked and walked around the complex. I got to show off my pretty, pretty house which I still haven't taken pictures of.

You know what? I'm getting tired. How sad is that. It's not even 8 yet.

Book #117 - Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris - Book six in the Sookie Stackhouse series has Sookie traveling to New Orleans to clean out her dead cousin's house. Of course she runs into some trouble with the local vampires. And Werewolves. And various other shifters. She gets beaten up. More than once. And Quinn's still hanging around. When's he going to leave again?

I have four days off. I think I might be catching up on those shows I've missed (SPN, True Blood, and some random other ones) and some movies that I've been wanting to watch. FYI, the SPN episode Yellow Fever is making me laugh. Dean's being such a fraidy-cat. Ha! Good times.

Speaking of good times ... guess who's back from her honeymoon? malkovich03!! We're planning on going to dinner tomorrow night. Yay! Yayyayyay! Yay!

I still have no idea what Cole are going to do this weekend besides be lazy and sit around watching TV. Maybe I should get on that.

And now I'm going to finish this ep of SPN.

Holy crap! I hadn't finished a single book thus far this month. That's terrible. Terrible! However ...
Book #30 - Morgawr (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Book 3) by Terry Brooks - As a general rule I've enjoyed all the books in the Shannara series. This one was no different. I probably should have gone back and read the first 2 in this particular series before jumping in with both feet (especially considering I read them more than a year ago ... more like 2 years ago), but I liked it. Even though it took me a bit before I remembered who was who. Shannara! Woot!

I spent a whole lot of quality time today with my mom and grandma. We went shopping at Costco and Trader Joe's and had a nice lunch at Eric's Deli. Nice. Speaking of Costco. I scored Supernatural season 2 for a mere $18.99. Sweet. I also picked up Veronica Mars season 3 (also for $18.99), I Am Legend (2 disc collector edition!) and The Abyss (love that movie!). All in all, a pretty good shopping day.

Of course, all that movie buying means that I had to rearrange my dvds. Honestly, I look for any excuse to do that. I also had 3 books that were hanging out without a permanent home and I did some minor rearranging of the new bookcase to get them where they needed to be. I'm obsessed with that bookcase.

I'm done now. I'm going to read my 31st book tonight. Just kidding. It'll take me a day or two. :)