Oh my sweet angry JESUS is that series epic. EP. IC.

EPIC.

The Torchwood series is I think the first spin-off to ever come from the Doctor Who franchise. The first season takes place during Doctor Who Seasons 2 and 3 (newer series). So if you know of the newer Doctor Who series, you'll know some of the references in Torchwood. Torchwood is basically like X-Files, but set in Cardiff, Wales, UK and is a bit sexier and darker and just effing EPIC. Torchwood is an agency that deals with alien beings and things that slip through a time rift that is in Cardiff, and they protect the world from all those creepy crawlies. Even though the agency is based in England they don't report to any one government because they are above the government. The leader of Torchwood is Captain Jack Harkness, who made a few cameos in Doctor Who (which was why we got a spin-off because the fans love themselves Cap'n Jack!), and this series is amazing because we get to see a whole new side of Cap'n Jack and see all his mysterious facets.

This show is... wow. .... wow. I can't find words for it. It leaves me speechless. And those of you who know me, that is a feat in and of itself. I think in the 13 episodes of the first season... about 4 of them made me cry. Let me say that again. Made. Me. Cry. I can watch a sad movie or an emotional movie/tv show and I'll get a little teary, a little sniffly. But there are only two three movies that make me cry: A.I, Artificial Intelligence, Dumbo, Hope Floats. TV shows? The season finale of Doctor Who Season 2 and the final battle scene of 10th Kingdom. So yeah. Of all the movies and TV I've watched (which is a lot if you've seen my DVD collection) you'd think I would have cried more. Nope. I'm strangely not that emotional. Well... not that emotional when it comes to movies. But oh... the last 3 episodes of the first season of Torchwood made me cry. Just heart wrenching scenes. And the second to last episode? Forget about it. I was almost sobbing. Love this show.

My new top pick of the month. On my 1-10 scale... 10. No doubt, no second guessing. A flat out 10. And I think tomorrow I'm going to head over to BN and order season 2. Cuz damn. Damn.

Epic.

Now I will watch Doctor Who Season 4 next...

So... being stuck in doors due head cold related dizziness, I can really only sit here and watch DVDs or putz on the internet. I did a little of both. And made some new icons. I'm not sure how they turned out, since the resolution on this screen seems to be a little off. Kinda blurry. Let me know how the icons come out (especially the words).


Because I'm a sucker for owls.


Mmmm... Doctor Who


Not sure how this one came out... words look fuzzy to me... may have to play around with that one later


Owls and Doctor Who. Awesome.

Originally written Monday, December 15th @ 145am
For the second week in a row, we have started off the week with a blizzard. Last Monday we got smacked with 2-4 inches of snow (during which James [my car] felt the need to fry a fuse to the rear defrost, blinkers, and windshield wipers during said blizzard so I had to scramble to find a place to get him fixed and go to work), and right now we're in the middle of a snow/sleet/ice/windy-as-all-hell blizzard. It's awesome! I got sent home early from work tonight (about 2.5 hours early), but I didn't go home right away because I had some last minute Employee Appreciation Week shopping to do (books for me!) and I wanted to catch up with my friend Sunny for a bit as we walked the shelves. But then I decided to get home before the weather really took a turn for the worse. Got home and somehow got into a crazy cleaning mode. This is what I did:

• Threw away three garbage bags full of crap from my living room and kitchen


• Swept the bathroom and kitchen


• Vacuumed (with Kiera locked away in the bathroom)


• Did a few dishes


• Threw away my large pile of strip books from work that I'll never get around to reading


• Organized my good-enough-to-sell books


• Put some strips under my damned couch to support the broken support beam (the damned thing broke again in a different spot!) until my BIL and sister come back from their New York vacation (he's going to fix it for me and add a front foot)

Yeah. It was crazy. Kiera didn't quite know what to think of it all, so she hid for most of the time in the bathroom while I organized, threw out crap, and just did a quick clean run-through. Tomorrow I'm on-call at Lane Bryant, so if I'm not needed to come in, I'll do a little more cleaning. Maybe some laundry and straighten up my bedroom.

Decided to take a break from cleaning and ordered a pizza (too tired and not enough clean dishes around to make something), and watched the first episode of Doctor Who Season 3. w00t! I've seen the first 3-4 episodes of this season before I moved away from readily available source of cable. But I'm still stupidly excited for it. The 10th Doctor is hot. And, as an interesting aside, did you know that David Tennant is Scottish? He is. In the extra DVD stuff, when he's not in "Doctor Mode", he has a Scottish accent... and it's delicious. Mmm. *le swoon* Too bad Doctor Who can't suddenly become Scottish. And I've decided I need the Doctor Who scarf, made iconic by Tom Baker during his run as The Doctor in the 60's and 70's. And I also want the TARDIS money bank. Earlier this year I was talking with a former coworker (I think lokein and akoumi should remember Lee), who is a big Doctor Who fan, and we were talking all things Doctor, when she mentioned that her husband has a TARDIS piggy bank. Hmm? And when you put money in the bank, it makes the fun whirrrring noise the TARDIS makes when it's taking off. WHAT?! I want. Yes. I want.

I just got done, a few minutes ago actually, reading Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry. A delicious read for all those who like zombies, top-secret government agencies, thrilling action, and a kick-ass hero with a smartass-wise-cracking mouth. I sped through the last few chapters (which are like 2 pages long... if that!) with lightning speed because it was so good! I startled Kiera a few times because I would cry out with excitement or anger or surprise or just plain awesomeness at what I had read, and she'd jerk awake and stare around the room in sleepy bewilderment. My favorite part in the book is when the main character, Joe Ledger, is going through an office building looking for the rogue Secret Service agents and the First Lady, and he has to pop open closed doors...

From page 371, Chapter 109: "I moved forward through several rooms, encountering one locked door after another. It would be suicide to kick each door, but these were interior locks and I could trip most of them with a stiff piece of plastic. I used my Barnes and Noble member card."

I laughed so hard I scared my cat, and probably pissed off one or more of my neighbors... since it was probably 1230-something when I was at that part. Really? Barnes and Noble's member program was mentioned in a book! HILARIOUS! Heheheee. Maybe it's because it's freaking late, or that I'm a dork, but having the place that I work at---or anything that I've been somehow associated with---being called out in a book I'm reading is amazingly awesome to me. Yeah. I'm a major dork. And I'm even more of a dork because I have the advanced reader's copy of the book (noticed some spelling errors/typos) and it's not going to be available to the public until early 2009. Hehehe. And it's going to be a series with the same character[s], so there will be more Joe Ledger coming up! w00t! Yeah. draygnfaerie = dork.

And my furnace has just kicked in for the 4th or 5th time... maybe 6th?... since I've been home. Hmmmph. Stupid poorly installed windows. So freakin' drafty. My German and Irish flags in my dead potted plant and in the hand of my lawn gnome Artemis (respectively) are softly fluttering in the arctic breeze as I sit here. Dammit. I need to put up that shrinky dink stuff on my windows tomorrow. I'm not going to pay through the nose to Xcel Energy this winter. I tried to put up that shrinky dink stuff the other day, but I found out the hard way that it's not something you can put up by yourself... especially when you have oddly shaped windows. My windows are skinny, but tall, so the plastic stuff isn't long enough. But I figured out that if I put the pre-taped edge along the longer side of the window, then the plastic will cover the whole area. I just had to have a little tantrum and rip the ruined plastic off the window and swear at it a lot as I threw it away in a rage before I came to that conclusion. Yeah. I'm smart. :P

So I've decided that I should start to do some planning for my future. If I want to open my own used book store... I should have some used books to sell. And since I really don't want to spend a lot of money buying used books at Half Price Books or even library sales, I decided tonight that maybe I should save the books that I don't want to read that have been clogging my shelves for far too long. Start building up my stock myself for now, and maybe when I have a little extra cash I can hit up used book stores and all that. So I have a crate with a few books in it right now in my living room. And hopefully when that gets too full, I'll take it to my dad's and put it (and hopefully future boxes) in my old room for free storage until that lovely day when I'm ready to open my bookstore. I need to talk some more about starting my own business with my BIL, since he has started his own landscaping/maintenance business. I know there are some "start your own business" books at B&N that I could look at. And I do have some inheritance moneys squirreled away that I could use to help start it... so... yeah. I dunno. That whole idea/dream of mine has come under a lot of second-thoughts lately. I've been doing a lot of thinking, mostly spawned by my disastrous stint as Head Cashier... if I couldn't handle that, couldn't be "professional enough" in that environment, how can I handle running my own store? And, frankly, I'll be the first person to tell you that deep down, I'm still like 8 years old. But, of course, I'd be my own boss and if something went wrong, it'd be all on me, no underlings to blame or anything. And I could run it the way I wanted (very relaxed and low key... it's a frickin' bookstore for crissakes). So... I dunno. Maybe I'll make a goal... by the time I get my 5 year pin at B&N, I'll be ready to launch my bookstore and be ready to open Cracked Spine Books somewhere (most likely Chaska, since there's a lot of empty strip-mall type places popping up around here lately). So that means... in about 3.5 weeks I'll be 27. Next October will be my 4th year with B&N, the following January I'll be 28... the following October after that will mark my Fifth Year, and then 4 months after that I'll be 29. So let's aim for when I'm 30 I'll be financially and legistically and practically set for opening my own bookstore. Sounds like a good plan, no? I think so. Gives me roughly 3 years to plan (give or take). Yeah. So, if you have any old books, or DVDs, that you don't want, I'll gladly take them off your hands... *le wink*

Okie dokie... time to cocoon myself in my quilts and listen to the wind howl outside...

This will be a multi-dated post. Since I can't get to the internet all that much (damn you, Chaska.net!) Yeah. Have fun.

( Monday, 11-17-08 )

( Tuesday, 11-18-08 )

I've been watching the first season of Doctor Who this whole weekend... and oh my God! This is the best series evar! I'm so sad I waited this long to watch this box set. Why did I wait almost a year!? Just the greatest one liners and it's just funny! Love it. Now I'm getting close to the end of the first season... oh! And I've seen the last episode when it aired on the Sci-Fi channel. It was so sad! But then that brought in David Tennett (spelling?) as the 10th Doctor [he's the dude in my LJ icon]. Christopher Eccelston (spelling?) was the 9th Doctor in the first season of the new series. David is the 10th Doctor in the second and third seasons. And I think season four is starting soon... or hopefully it'll be starting soon. The only sucky deal is that I need the 2nd season! Oh! The 2nd season ended... oh! It makes me cry just thinking about it! I saw this on a LJ icon somewhere: "Love is burning up a sun to say goodbye." If you've seen the episode, you'd understand.

Oh wow... I just stared in silence at the TV for a long time because something just o.0 happened on the screen! Oohh... the Doctor is going to kick some ass!! ^_^ I need season two! I need it I need it I need it!! *jumps and down like a bratty little five year old*

"Okay, now with that sentence, you have lost your right to speak to me." Love it.

I am getting way too giddy when it comes to this show. Although I still think Daleks look like really big salt and pepper shakers. And their voices piss me right the f*ck out. Okay... enough ranting about Doctor Who. Must watch finale....

So... got home from work and I was in a bit of a mood (a good one, mind you) because it was a pretty good night at work. Was feeling a little bit goofy because of the prank war. Had a pretty good joke played on me by lokein. I had established the fact that I'm "trusting to a fault" instead of gullible with fellow coworker Rick... and lokein had horribly proved that to be true. We were at the mall register together, and we started flicking rubber bands at each other. Then I came back from my lunch break, and startled lokein by sneaking up behind him. Hehehe. But then after a while, he looked off towards the magazine second and kinda pointed and goes... "What is that weird thing..?!" I turn and look and try to spot something odd... when all of the sudden I get smacked by a rubber band to the side. I ended up yelping (yes, yelping) in surprise. Then we busted out in fits of laughter, and lokein goes running off to customer service. And comes back with a tale that my yelp startled a customer (priceless!) So it was a goofy sort of day at work, which is always fun.

But then... I get home and realize I had to get some bills paid (namely my rent that's due Monday). And nothing really makes people in the mood for a drink than paying bills. I snagged from munchies from Holiday since I had to get gas on the way home, anyhoo, I ate my munchies with dippies and cracked open a Strawberry Bacardi and updated my check book as well as paying my rent. And what else to do while eating chippies and getting slightly buzzed? Watch season one of Doctor Who! I bought this boxed set last year when I was in Portland, OR visiting psychologizer last June... and I hadn't watched it!? Amazing!! [And speaking of Portland and June, June 1, 2008 will be my tattoo's one year anniversary!] I mean really. Considering how much I was freaking myself out over the finale of the second season (such a sad sad ending!!), you'd think I'd had watched the beginning sooner! I guess I wasn't really in a Doctor Who mode for a long while. Now I just need to buy the second season... I'll probably buy it sometime in June or July when we have our Employee Appreciation Days again... and DVDs will be 30% off instead of just 20%. And I can save up some moneys for the 2nd season... sadly they run about $99.99 +tax. *le sigh* Oh well.

I have some other plans for moneys right now. After I get my tax refund (~$400 baby!) I'll be buying a couch. ..... ........ Wow.... right now there are some people farting in this episode...... o.O .... wow...... but their farting is a sign that something's not right with them.... but still... hehe... farting. Heheheee. I think the Bacardi s kicking in... and the fact that it's almost 3am. Hehehe. And I wanted to get to bed early tonight because we're going out for Sunny's birthday tomorrow. We're hitting Game Works in Block E to go have fun and then to hit Spin to get our drink and dance on. However, I have to open Sunday morning... so I can't really stay out all that late. Grrr. I wish they would schedule these things for a Friday night! =P I can still get some fun in before I have to leave.

So... the coolest thing ever. In this episode of Doctor Who, one of the characters is played by Shaun's mom from Shaun of the Dead! How cool is that!? Hehehee. I thought she looked familiar. Yay! Heheehehee. Good times, good times!

The Doctor: "I'm sorry, but would you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?"

Greatest. Quote. Evar.

Okay... no one told me Episode 4 was going to be a 2 parter! Now I have to stay up and see how this ends! Dammit! So much for getting to bed at a decent hour...

And I'm being invaided by boxelder bugs.

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