Sunday update of DOOM

[lar_laughs]

I will start with the sad things.

Sad Thing 1: it appears that I should not eat nuts any more than I have to. In fact, I'm thinking of calling up the doc and seeing if they'll renew my epi pen script. Blerg! It was a handfull of nuts! That was all! My throat feels all not good!

Sad Thing 2: My poor nephews are a pile of bumps and bruises and bandaids! It's a sad, sad sight. Num discovered that bandaids feel most excellent along gums that are starting to produce teeth once again. And Nic discovered that those flying yellow and black things AREN'T nice and WILL bite you if they land on you. Twice.

Sad Thing 3: Tif and the boys are going home tomorrow. It's been three weeks of getting to see them every day and getting my fill of rocking Num to sleep. I know Mom and Dad are going to feel the emptiness of the house. Guess I should try to be louder tomorrow. Maybe bang on the fridge when I'm filling my glass with tea.

And now the happy things.

Happy Thing 1: I'm caught up with Camp NaNo! I didn't write the first two days and was sort of despairing but I caught right up this weekend with a 3k day and then a 4k day! If it wasn't this absurd need for sleep my body has, I could go for another few hours with the momentum I've got going!

Happy Thing 2: I'm really liking Dracula. I don't know if you've ever read it or not but I would advice you all to read it. I'm only 24% of the way through (my, I love how my Kindle tells me my progress!) but I'm really enjoying it. I sort of know the idea of where this is going but I'm not sure how much of it is modern stuff that has been added to my head cannon and how much is supposed to be there so I'm still pretty much unspoiled!

Happy Thing 3: Have I ever told you about my unhealthy obsession with Felicia Day? Well, I has one! Not stalkerish or anything. I don't know where she lives and I wouldn't dream of going through her garbage. But I'm a fan. Let's leave it at that. But I commented on one of her GoodReads reccs (yeah, we've been friends there for a couple of years now) tonight and she (gasp) responded back. It's like we're BEST! FRIENDS!

Happy Thing 4: I actually got to see some of the Olympics today! After church and before lunch, I sat on the couch and watched the US women's volleyball team take on Turkey. The bit that I saw was really good! I couldn't afford to do much more than that (see Happy Thing 1) but it was vastly entertaining.

Happy Thing 5: My At-A-Glance calendar is updated! Whoo-hoo!

Comments

[krycek-chick.livejournal.com]

One of the days that I was at Comic Con, I volunteered to help out the convention folks. Well, my job was working behind the pro booth and at first folding the giant bags, and secondly, connecting the empty badge holders to lanyards. I did the second job for the vast majority of my three hour sentence, and connected well over 1000 lanyards to badge holders. WELL. The relevant part of this conversation is that I was standing behind the proreg booths the whole time, working diligently, when I looked up at one point and your beastie Felicia Day was there picking up the badges for her group. She stood in line just like everyone else, and when they couldn't find her data in the system she had to step aside and wait and make calls, etc etc. she was really patient and nice about it, though, and seemed super cool. :-)

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

First, I love stuff like connecting badges to lanyards! Strange of me, I know.

Second, one of the reasons that I love Felicia is that she's never gotten a big head from any of her time in front of the camera. She's still just A PERSON. She knows that everything she's gotten has been because of the people she's been polite to and honest with. I know this because of interviews and vlogs which I'm sure were personal messages to me. *grins* We're tight, I tell you. TIGHT!

[meridian_rose]

Felicia is all kinds of awesome :D

I've read Dracula but won't spoil you at all. I've also been to Whitby - the Abbey ruins are lovely and atmospheric :D

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I don't care about being spoiled... seeing as it's nearly a hundred years old and I've put it off this long! I've wanted to read it for awhile and am finally doing it because of the literature class. I guess some things are just better with time and age.