Vacation

So, today we leave for a weeks vacation at the beach. Hester says beach like "bitch" which is endless fun for my addled brain.

A funny note, our scooba, Mr. Belvedere, stopped working. He was still under warenty so we sent him back to be replaced. Hester was disturbed that he was not here and asks about him all the time. So we started saying he was on vacation visiting his "family."

I will try to post while we are away but do not know the avaliability of internet.

The Funniest Webpage Ever!!!

I mean it. You gotta go to http://www.failblog.org/
I laugh so much looking at it. My office mates love it and laugh til they cry. Clementine laughs to crying too. Dude, you gotta go. Stop what you are doing and go right now. You will thank me later.

Also, this video on FailBlog was priceless today. OMG! Ken Leeeeeee

New Glasses

As promised, Clara is debuting my new glasses. Do you like them?

Haircut

I finally got one today. Before Hester, it was every 4 weeks. Now I go 2-3 months without a hair cut. She cut A LOT of hair off of me today and my head feels about 80 pounds lighter. But dude, where did all that silver come from?

More Sci-Fi Fun

I knew JPP was a big fan of the new Battlestar Galactica so about a month ago, I started watching it. Thank you Netflix. Yesterday, I sent back the first disc for season 2. It just keeps getting better. Unlike Torchwood, they have great special effects and the cylons are wicked cool. I cannot quite figure out all the characters motivations yet and that keeps me enthralled with it. I cannot wait to watch the next DVD!

Halso, I love that Starbuck is a lady! She kicks serious ASS. I also like how they brought characteristics and behaviours of the original Starbuck to the new one, while giving her depth the original never had.

Halso, humaniod cylons are wicked cool too. I don't remember them in the origional. Were they there too?

It has been years since I watched the original but as much as I remember, it was not nearly so dark and desperate as this one is. Yeah, they were running from the cylons and were searching for Earth, but it was much happier, as were all most shows back then. I like how this remake has lost the innocence and shows humans running, in fear of extinction, and turning on each other. It is a much more honest appraisal of humanity.

I think that is one thing I really like about sci-fi books and movies. It often takes one far flung condition and then runs with it, exploring the very edges of humanity and human behavior, exposing the benevolent and the evil in each of us.

Honestly, I like aliens too.

Torchwood

I have started watching Torchwood, a sci-fi show from the BBC. It is awesome as it has aliens, interesting plots, compelling characters, and everyone is a bit gay. Oh, they all seem to be kissing or having sex too.

Some of the aliens are well done with special effects like this gaseous alien that has lots of sex. Funny, when I am gaseous, sex is the last thing I want to do.

This one was pretty cool too. Great special effects. When in human form, she was wicked gay!

This one, well, it was just silly. As she chased the Torchwood cast around their secret lair, she made these big booming steps, being she is part metal, I guess. It was nothing but cheese.

This one was the worst. It was a cool premise but when it was awakened and moving around, it looked like a big sock puppet being moved around by a talented toddler with the characters superimposed in front of it looking scared they were going to be smashed.

Oh well, crazy aliens have never stopped me before. I was a faithful Dr. Who fan and once they had a monster that was pretty much a man under a blanket flailing about. But I kept watching. I also loved and could recite many of the old Star Trek episodes with my brother. They had some doozies of aliens too. Remember the positive and negative sides of the same man who would fight and the camera would go all black and white and reverse black and white? Good times.

My Latest Library Run

I got this. Finished it today. It was fabulously crappy but fun.

And this. Love the series. Awesome culmination of the previous books. Also fabulously crappy!

And this. Gonna start it tonight. Yet more fabulous crap.

And this.

What?

Meet My Daughter

Don King!

Gifts

Canada started this. Then Clementine was next. Now I am doing my part.
So the first five readers who email me will get a present. Send me your address, if I don't know it already.

Check out the Price Tag

This coffee was a gift from a missionary who brought a child to the hospital for care. She was very impressed with music therapy and it's effects upon this child. She gave me the MOST EXPENSIVE COFFEE EVER! Check out the price tag!

$ 93 coffee! Clearly, she is a very generous person.

Meme from JPP

5 good, 5 bad

5 things I am bad at.
1. Letting things roll off my back.
2. Keeping up with my blog.
3. Spelling and grammar!!!
4. Confronting.
5. Keeping my work desk tidy.

5 things I am good at.
1. My job.
2. Knitting.
3. Thinking critically.
4. Carving Pumpkins.
5. House painting.

It's True

I do admit under no duress that I did this. I changed the lyrics to West Side Story songs to accompany Hester's bedtime tasks (putting on lotion, putting on PJs, getting into her crib, etc). Hester sang with me and we had a wonderful time.

Clementine tagged me

OK, Clementine, here is the meme you tagged me with.
Choose a word for each letter of your middle name (then you must tag other bloggers, one for each letter).

M is for motherhood which I am finding I enjoy much more than I ever expected. Certainly, like on nights like tonight where the tasks of washing bottles, getting things ready for Hester for tomorrow, setting up Mr. Belvedere, I miss nights before Hester when I could just go to bed. But in the grand scheme of things, the happiness I feel every day since she came into our lives is worth all the nights washing bottles and so much more. The happiness motherhood has brought me is invaluable.
I tag Squasha at Running into the Unknown. I know she has nothing to do with the letter M but then neither does anyone else except JPP who has already been tagged. But I thought Squasha would do because she is a MT like Me!

A is for is for All Things Considered. I LOVE NPR! (Sorry, sort of lame but I could not think of anything else that I could write).
I tag Abigail at The Abigailia.

R is for Radiohead. Hester has a CD of Radiohead songs that are turned into lullabies. It is playing right now in her room and I am sitting outside her room, reassuring her, waiting for her to drift off to sleep. I also have been listening to the real Radiohead (OK Computer and The Bends) on my MP3 player. Oh, I could have used that for my M. Oh well.
I tag Frog at Frogblog.

I is for illness which I hope to avoid. I just got my first flu shot ever yesterday. I have refused it all these years but decided to get it to protect Hester. Also, Hester had to get it so I thought it was only fair to get it too.
I tag Canada at Just Jump In.

E is for equality. The battle here is over for marriage but continues on for equality in marriage benefits. Me and my hat of justice march on to the battle front.
I tag Psycho Kitty at SBFH cause Kitty ends with an e sound.

Clearly my blogisphere of friends is limited and I must stretch to meet the challenges of my middle name letters.

Guilty Pleasure

I got an email from the library today that a book I ordered came in. I was so excited all day, waiting for it to come it. Was it a great novel, a literary wonder, maybe a book about neurological functioning or music therapy, you ask?


Nope.



It was this. So fabulously bad and yet so fun to read. I cannot wait to jump in bed and start it!