A Lar by any other name

I just finished watching Dollhouse (except for the 13th episode which Hulu won't be showing) and it was AWESOME! If you didn't watch it... well, you're out of luck because Hulu only goes 5 episode back so you can't start it from the beginning but be looking for the DVDs! Get them from Netflix if you don't believe me how cool the show is. HELLO! JOSS WHEDOM IS MADE OF AWESOME! Incidently, Whedon is on Twitter. @drhorrible don't you know!

This was my first day back at work after 10 days of vacation (although 5 of those were days off but still...) and it was HARD! My body had to get used to not being able to just lounge around. Even when I was packing my sister's apartment up, I could still stop from time to time and do something fun and relaxing. Work is HARD! *grins*

We're in for a week's worth of rain, from what I can tell from the little I've looked at the weather. Today we're already at Flash Flood warnings! We do need the water so we aren't complaining too loudly. I did miss seeing the sun today, though. Not that my shoulders want to see too much more of the sun anytime soon.

I'm hoping to get to stop at Burger King when we're in Boise next weekend (still things at Mandie's place to move to the new house) so I can get at least ONE of the Star Trek glasses. I love fast food chain glasses. It's a weakness of mine. I still have some of the original Disney glasses (although they are plastic) from McDonalds. They're some of my most prized possessions!

My hair has begun to do odd things. I shouldn't complain because it's been two months and I have quite a bit of hair. Everyone says so! Of course, they have the same amount of hair but my growth is just more noticeable - it sticks straight up! I like that it's mostly up so I don't do anything to make it lay down. Some parts have started to lean to the side but I almost look "contemporary bedroom chic" these days! In other words, like I just got out of bed. Yep. I PLANNED it that way. *grins*

I've poked around and no one seems to have read the Charlie Bone books so I thought I'd give my recommendation for them. As someone wrote on a comment (I think on Walmart.com where I was looking for book ideas the other day), don't go into this book thinking it's another Harry Potter. Even though I found this book initially in a listing of "Books you'd like if you liked Harry Potter", it's nothing really like Harry Potter. The only problem is that it IS like Harry Potter. And that isn't a good thing. You get so caught up trying to see the similarities that you miss the parts of the book that are just fun and nothing like JKR's take on magic.

I've only got about 5 more pages of the first book but I'm going to read the second and I'd recommend the books. This first one reads pretty young, maybe even younger than the first HP book. Maybe around an 8 or 9 year old? He's ten in this first book... and it can get intense (on the scale of those are bad people... not oh no that snake is coming after that poor boy)... but it reads really fast. The idea is still very unique and shows that there is still a lot of room in the world of fantasy for magic... and boys with red hair (there is a notable sentence that mentions a boy with "weasley red hair" which made me grimace).

So, anyway... I don't find the whole thing fanfiction worthy but I like it all the same.