another summer dream

We went to see Spiderman tonight and it was pretty good. Spiderman wasn't ever my favorite super hero (I liked Batman and the X-MEn) but this movie was worth the watch and had an awesome cast. And it washed away the hideous memory of the last trilogy (I still hope Kirsten Dunst fired whoever told her to do those movies).

The main level of the house is slowly coming together. Sort of. More or less. >.> As long as you ignore the mountain of packing paper slowly avalanching over the family room.

Today I discovered there are spiders in the basement. So now I'll have to do laundry in boots. Tuesday I discovered the dryer had decided to shuffle off its heating coil so I've been drying things out on the deck. Hey, it's a heatwave out there anyway so I might as well cut down the electricity bill anyway, right?

And I found a new brand of cleaners at the grocery store- the brand is IQ and it's made of sustainable, eco-friendly stuff and after you buy the bottle you just get refill packs. So far the glass cleaner and all-purpose cleaners work great and they smell awesome without causing me any asthmatic issues so I am happy.

The only really super annoying thing going on was me having to find new doctors, dentists, optometrists, all that stuff. Optometry was pretty easy, and I am getting new contacts ordered already! The dentists on the other hand... ARGH. I called THREE dentists today during their hours as posted on their websites and even one of them as spoken to me by the cheery little answering machine.... NOT ONE OF THEM WAS OPEN/ANSWERING PHONES. WTAF??! One, okay I get that, two sure bad luck, but three...? Was today some Dentist Holiday? I'm going to try three others tomorrow and if none of them answer either I am giving up and trying that stupid 1800Dentist thing.

Of course, one of the optometry places had a receptionist who couldn't be bothered to check which insurances they take... Because that's a great business practice.

Yeah, I'm super boring this week. You'd seriously not believe the angst-fit I had on Tuesday when the dryer wouldn't work. I'm kind of blaming the stress from the move because with Brynden being at drill and working longer hours with everything I am kind of unpacking and arranging and sorting by myself and tbh a lot of the stuff is not mine it's his and it just sort of feels weird still to paw through his stuff.
... Not weird enough that I won't do it, of course. I mean someone has to go throw out all his old socks or hide the ugly shirts in the depths of the giant closet.... pointedly dump any undesirable decorations in the man-cave... all that stuff.

Oh, and I started watching Dallas. DON'T JUDGE ME. It's actually... sort of fun. Soapy stupid ridiculous fun. But I'll be honest and admit to having watched the old one when TNT used to rerun it. OMG Lucy showed up! For five seconds. I liked Lucy and her stupid spoiled teenage antics on the old show. Also I hate Christopher. I get that he's supposedly the 'good one' but ugh he's so damn sanctimonious that I'd prefer Elena and what's-her-name just hook up and collectively walk out on him. Or strike up a ridiculous menagee trois with John Ross. He's more fun anyway. Srsly. He was getting kinda kinky in the sex tape thing. >.>

Speaking of ridiculous family dynasties...

POLITICAL ANIMALS. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS???! IT'S CAESAR!!! Um, well, Ciaran Hinds anyway, and he's un-married to Sigourney Weaver and seducing starlets and drinking. And Sigourney is being the better version of Hilary Clinton and wants to be president, and it's awesome. I really only turned it on out of idle curiosity but homg the first episode was amazing and I now have to watch the next one.

Snagged from sunnytyler001 and girloficenfire.
List fifteen of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, if they're so inclined

1. Jaime Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)
2. Sansa Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire)
3. Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
4. Rose Tyler (Dr Who)
5. Thor (Thor/Avengers movieverse)
6. Gemma Doyle (Gemma Doyle Trilogy / A Great and Terrible Beauty)
7. Gemma Teller (Sons of Anarchy)
8. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
9. Lucius Vorenus (Rome)
10. Atia of the Julii (Rome)
11. Nanny Ogg (Discworld)
12. Sam Vimes (Discworld)
13. Ava Crowder (Justified)
14. Al Swearengen (Deadwood)
15. Caroline Forbes (Vampire Diaries - TV)

This was way harder than I thought it would be. And yes, Rome, ASoIaF, and Discworld got two but... I just couldn't pick one from them.

Also: Justified has taken over my life. Thanks, fragrantwoods. Well okay Netflix too because they kept recommending it. I'm totally in love with this show and the characters and omg the girls all have guns and shoot people and I am totally good with this.

DANCE MOMS IS MY CRACK.
What is Dance Moms? It's this stupid reality tv show wherein a loudmouth dance teacher deals with her very talented pupils and teaching them to be 'employable, professional' dancers (no really, she's actually good at making dancers who can go get jobs dancing with their clothes on or get paid a lot to take them off as opposed to yknow strippercize)... but mostly it's about her and the pupils' horrific harpy mothers. Okay, so only a couple are horrific harpies, but damn do they take the cakes. All the cakes. Even your cake. Because they can.

And it's like watching a fucked up, amp'ed up version of my childhood for an hour a week, so of course I watch it. It's fun to watch the kids learn and perform and get better (or in a couple instances, worse). And there's a 'rival studio' and it's all pure ridiculous #firstworldproblems and I adore it.


Plus, the only scripted shows I like that are new at the moment are Being Human (US), and Once Upon a Time. I gave up on Alcatraz and Grimm just kept losing me even though I really, really wanted to like it. I <3 Once Upon a Time.


BRIDESMAIDS
I hated this movie. Despised, loathed and disdained will also describe my feelings. UGH. Melissa McCarthy was the only good or fun thing about it and the rest of it I just hated. I hate the main character, none of it was funny and the only good point was when Melissa's character came over with her 6 party favor puppies and bitched out the main girl for being an idiot. Other than that, all of it can just be burned in the nearest nuclear reaction accident and I'll be happy.


In other news...
Been super sick for a couple weeks but I'm finally able to sit up and not throw up every piece of solid food so huzzah for modern medicine? I don't even know. Anyway, that happened.


Here, go ride space-unicorns with JFK.

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO LOVE THIS SHOW OMG U GUYS OMG!

So, seriously, you just have to skip the first 4 episodes. Maybe 5, it's up to you. They're just useless pretty much anyway and nothing you won't get in the recaps. But like ep 5 to the end of S1 IS ACTUALLY GOOD.

Sam Witwer is freakishly damn gorgeous I love the neurotic werewolf and the lost girl ghosty and suddenly the whole thing makes soooo much more sense and is not boring people wandering around being boring while also being supernatural!

The Dutch still just annoy me though. I think because I just kept picturing them in those lameass Ashton Kutcher Von Dutch trucker hats ca 2001? IDEK.

So, done with SoA except s4 which I need to start watching. No GoT and no TB. There IS Vampire Diaries and Boardwalk Empire at least...

But I have been plumbing the depths of Netflix and oh the lulz. I watched a movie with a C'thulhu theme to it so it started recommending other 'things like that' as it does, which of course opened up this whole section of horrifically bad b-horror made on shoe-string budgets and OMFG I LOL'ED.

There is this movie called Lo. No, really, that's the name: Lo. L-o. Lo is the name of a demonthing, idek and this guy summons it to help him find his girlfriend who is kidnapped by demons, etc. OMFG.

That led to it recommending this masterpiece of awesome called DAGON. I have no idea what this movie was even doing most of the time. There's a guy and he finds some treasure in the sea and he has dreams and a girlfriend who obviously is starring in porn when she's not in this horrible movie and she's happy they're rich now but boy is upset by dreaaaaaaaaaaams of madnessssss an there's this mermaid thing that's swimming with him and he just cannot have sex when that's in his head, etc.

( cut in case you're sensitive about being spoiled on bad bad b-movie horrors )

In other news, allergies suck.

I just got Season of the Witch in the mail!Netflix so I will watch that tomorrow and let you know how bad that is.

I've never sat down and watched two seasons of a show then rewatched them immediately. Except for ROME. Heck, the only shows I have watched a season of more than once are ROME, Tudors, True Blood, Princess Tutu...

and now, Sons of Anarchy.

I can't help it! The power of Harley compels me. Or... something. lol.

And I know s4 just started but I have to finish Deadwood on my Netflix disks before I can get into s3 of SoA. >.> Yes, yes I do have this planned out. DUN JUDGE ME.

I am dearly starting to miss Maryann Forrester. Hate on her all you will, I will take a kick ass orgiastic maenad crazytalking me over SEX NARNIA. I mean seriously what else do you call that? Open the door of the shower and you are in a magical fairy woodland winter and there's a clearing and we are like one lamppost short of the Lantern Waste and I can only imagine what kind of awesome statuary Jadis could have made of naked Eric and Sookie... and btw, Jadis turning them to stone would totally have been more entertaining and lest god-awful goofy to watch than "WE ARE THE SUN!" ot what the fuck ever that was.

Alan Ball, I know you think that was entertaining but no it was not. Please to be knocking that shit off.

And that last episode? How stupid is the Witch War going to get, anyway? How was Sookie healed when five seconds ago Beeel is all "She is naht takin mah bloahd." ??

How did a Bill/Eric/Sookie v-dream tun into the lamest thing to ever lame itself across my screen? I mean, I know it's a handicap anytime Bill's there instead of Alcide's naked torso (which is at least a bonus to these last two wtf episodes)...

When I'm starting to like Debbie MAH COOTER Pelt over most of the cast... c'mon bebes, we gotsa problem.

Mavis does not interest me. Nor does glowing chakra Lafayette.

Marnitonia's (Antarney?) plan is sort of interesting .Also she is creepy. Necromancy is creepy. But she is still doing it BETTER THAN ANITA BLAKE. So I give her some credit right there.  I hate you, Anita Blake. Anyway, back to my original omfgwtafzombies rant...

Can we please have unlame wiccans now? Why are all these the lame wiccans?

OH, and I AM STARTING TO MISS STEVE NEWLIN. Btw, subtle of you writers to be periodically sticking in tv snippets of reporters talking about the missing Newlin. Oooh, foreshadowing! Of something far more interesting than this stupid witch thing which should be awesome but is not for reasons I cannot comprehend other than you are all getting so into WHERE ARE HOYT'S PANTS and JESSICA LIKES TAYLOR SWIFT AND TWILIGHT and .. and... OH I JUST CANNOT WITH THIS OKAY? I am not amused with Arlene's whacky hijinks. I like Lafayette better as Lafayette altho watching him play a woman in Lafayette's body was cool.

Good point: SAMMY IS CREEPY LIKE CREEPY THINGS. And you do knwo what I mean by Sammy right? Those weird times when Sam is actually Tommy and you can entirely tell he is Tommy and it's awesome acting but so weird.

Now, can Tommy skinwalk Alcide so we can have TWO NAKED/SEMINAKED ALCIDES AT ALL TIMES?
What? I'm shallow. I blame the show for always making Alcide naked or stripping to become naked at all times.

Also Debby can take Tomcide and Alcide can go be awesome somewhere where only Alcide's chest and Eric and Pam and Lafayette hang out. Nan will sometimes visit and be bitchy and Jessica will guest star.

Dear Marcus, I am sorry but your Alpha!skillz are nothing compared to Alcide's giantness. Like... just give up. He is the once and future packmaster. Just saying. Also I get it, wolves mate for life or some bullshit and all but you are lame and your ex-wife is a skinwalker and maybe that should weird you out more than it obviously does. Because dude do you get that she can TURN INTO YOU? She can kill you and then BE YOU so the cops don't think you are dead?


Also I have decided my perfectest TV crack would somehow combine Game of Thrones, True Blood, Sons of Anarchy and Deadwood.So it would sort of be like post-apocalyptic steampunk vampire and werewolf and wereperson bikers fighting evil Fellowship of the Sun Mayans while the fairies played games of high politics in their Kings Landing style court. Possibly while everyone dressed like it was 1923, and things would continually explode and people would die in horrifyingly interesting ways and/or be naked on an almost constant basis.

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OMG NATALIE DORMER IS MARGAERY.

I AM SO CONFLICTED.

I mean... she's HBIC and FIERCE AS FUCK, etc etc... but on the other hand... she is soooo not 16. And that is going to make her 2nd and 3rd marriages WEIRD CREEPY STRANGE. Like... c'mon HBO do you have to start the Dawson's Casting NOW?

still. she is epic...

CONFLICTED FANGIRL IS CONFLICTED. *flails*

I need more Game of Thrones in my life. Also Borgias.

Sunday tv, why so awesome?? 

I am pissed at NCIS right now. Like that was just not cool, writers.

HOLYOMG VAMPIRE DIARIES??! That wasn't even the season finale, y'all!! And... and... Jenna!  But, more importantly, DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON. *SOBS* 


I sort of hate Game of Thrones for making me like Robert Baratheon more. But I do. Except, yknow, that whole... Blackberry Jam thing... I don't even... that's just... THANKS FOR RUINING BREAKFAST, ROBERT.
Also, I think it's clear that Cersei has at some point said that same thing.

Ned Stark, I still hate you. Nope, not even close to over it.

Tyrion, I'd love you more if I wasn't already having visions of oh, idk, season 3 and all that jazz. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME, TYRION? 

Omg Robb Stark, please be less hot, ok? Cause I just.. I can't... ohmygodSeasonThree MAY KILL ME. :(((((( 

GENDRY. DID YOU SEE?? IT WAS GENDRY. OMGGENDRY.

If you hate Dany, you can stfu, cause her actress is FLAWLESS. I don't know if I want to be her or just do bad things with her... but probably both and that's both creepy and awesome, but not NEARLY as creepy as Littlefinger, so... idk. There's that.

Hey, Ned? I still hate you.

JAIME LANNISTER I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH FOR HUMAN COMPREHENSION. PLZ STOP BEING SO AWESOME I CANT DEAL.

And I'm sort of terrified because I love Jaime THIS MUCH, to capslock distraction, y'all, and someday... someday Oberyn Martell will walk onto the screen. And he may show up onscreen at the same time as Jaime and then I'm going to have some kind of fangirl brainsplosion and then I may not ever say anything that makes sense ever again. Like, I accept my fate, I will not survive Season 3 of Game of Thrones. Because you all know what happens then, and all the omg... yeah. My fangirl heart cannot take the idea of watching gorgeous flawless sweet perfection that is Robb be all... and then... and Jaime!! I'm going to be crying like a crazy every ep that season.

ALSO: BORGIAS. FUCKYEAH BORGIAS. Cesare be less unffff and Juan you are a troll and I love you for it and Lucretzia you are too adorable for humanity and Alexander/Rodrigo/Jeremy Irons I can't even handle your epicness and THERE IS A FEAST OF CORPSES IN NAPLES I LOVE YOU NAPLES. YOU INSANE BASTARDS. Also, Princess Sorsha is the mom omg.

Um. So, I'm bored and watching eps and I'm... a fangirl. But y'all know that already. Also: right after GoT they're going to give us True Blood. It's almost enough to make me forget HBO making me wait a fcking year between season... ALMOST.