Just some quick thoughts on both shows as I'm exhausted and going to hit the hay soon...



Exhausted.... falling asleep... need to go to bed now. :P Have a good night everyone.

Last night I wrote up some thoughts about these episodes...  if they're not coherent or anything it's because I was falling asleep (the meds I'm taking right now make me very tired).

First, Dr. Who...



Now Atlantis...


And finally other stuff...  They fixed our internet connection yesterday thank goodness.  Everything seems to be working fine which I'm glad for.

I seriously cannot wait until the election season is over here.  I hope none of  the fellow Americans on my flist mind if I abstain from discussing politics because I am just tired of it. I know virtually every one of you has vastly different views than I do (from the political-themed posts I've seen from time to time), and I'm not interested in getting into any arguments.  Maybe I will make a quick post after our election is over but that's it.  I tend to take things way too personally and some things that may not be intended as an attack can come off as one to me and I sometimes get the idea that people who have different views from me and like to argue about them think I'm an enemy.  I'll just say that I respect everyone's views even if I don't agree with them, and I'd expect the same level of respect from my friends.  I don't think that's asking too much and I hope that it isn't.  That's all I'm going to say. 

I hope I haven't pissed any of you off.  *looks around nervously*

Not a very detailed post because I'm exhausted and have to get some shut eye. But here are some random thoughts on tonight's episodes of both shows on SciFi.

Crummy day today... very cloudy, had some thunder and then quite a bit of rain.  Rain stopped but it's still very overcast.

Watched Sarah Jane Adventures and Dr. Who last night...



In other news, it looks like the Supernatural con in Chicago is pretty much a go. :) Haven't ordered tickets yet but am going to look into booking a flight and all that.  *rubs hands together in anticipation*

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aminuleen  !!!  I hope you have a great day! :)

Um... in other news... saw Sarah Jane Adventures and Dr. Who on Friday...




Boring day here.  Day started off nice and sunny, now it's growing overcast and there is a chance of thunderstorms.  I will probably be doing multi-fandom stuff today.  As far as Stargate goes, I am working on a short one-shot for the Sam/Daniel-Thon.  My muse is finally back on track and it's such a great feeling.  I'm about halfway done with the story, maybe a little more.  Going to send back to my beta soon.  On the Supernatural side, I'll probably do more screen capping today as well... seems like the perfect day for it.  I'm almost halfway through season 2 with the caps so coming along pretty well.  I should actually have my mood theme done soon (*gasp*). And tomorrow will be another Puppy!Sam picspam.

Hope you all had a nice weekend. :)

Watched SJA and Dr. Who last night.



So as related to the above... Do you guys think it's silly to spend episodes of tv shows searching for hidden messages or anything like that? Or should you just try to suspend disbelief when watching something and have fun with it? I guess if I keep assuming that shows are trying to whack me over the head with a certain message, and then I try to find that message, it stops being fun.  I don't know...

Have a smallish tv-ad-related rant...

What is up with all those "dumb daddy" commercials? aka the ones that portray the men as stupid and if they weren't married they would be dead from their own stupidity?  I can't stand those ads.  There used to be one for H&R Block where the husband was stuck figuring out their taxes and the wife asks why doesn't he get some help.  She says "what did we do last year? Oh, that's right, we used the box." Then picks up a box of software (I think) and says in this very condescending voice, "Why don't you ask the box?"  If I was the guy, I'd tell the woman we're filing separate returns next year. 

Then there was one for a cereal, I think Multi-Grain Cheerios, where the husband notices his wife eating that cereal and asks if she's losing weight.  She gets all defensive and asks why. He backpedals and picks up the box, going "but it's got 7 whole grains, and that's good! Right?  It says so on the box." She says in this bitchy way, "What ELSE does the box say?" He answers: "The box says 'shut up, Steve.'" And she smirks at him. Ugh...

There's a new-ish ad for paint (Sure Coat, I think) where the wife is walking through the house with her (female) friend, looking for her husband as if he's a puppy.  He pops out of a box with a stupid look on his face and she shows him how to use a paint roller, like he's too stupid to know how to do such a thing.

And finally there's one for Johnsonville Brats.  The guy is groaning to himself over how it seems to be chicken for lunch (or whatever) every day , and he misses eating Johnsonville Brats because they're so good, etc. (while he's thinking of them, we see him having a vision of the brats cooking on a grill).  Suddenly he's roused awake by his wife going, "Honey? Honey?" She hands him a package of said brats and he looks like he's in heaven, going, "Ohhhh..." She says in this mock sympathetic tone, "I know..." like she's talking to a child.

Geez. Yeah, I know that women do make up a large percentage of consumers, but PLEASE. The male-bashing in commercials is getting old.  I may not be a feminist, but I am a woman and I don't see every guy out there being dumb as a box of rocks (and I've met a LOT of dumb guys).

*shakes head*

I won't be around tomorrow because we'll be taking my mom and grandmother out for Mother's Day dinner. I hope all the moms out there have a great Mother's Day. :)

Sorry I'm a little behind with responding to comments here.  Had a ton of things to do when I got home from work yesterday, errands, housework...then sat in front of the tv (I will catch up though!).

Speaking of which...



I'll most likely be MIA tomorrow.  Going with suzotchka and a few of her friends to see Patrick Stewart in Macbeth on Broadway.  I'm pretty excited about it.  Should be fun and will take my mind off a ton of crazy RL stuff. 

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the weekend.

First, meant to talk about this the other day, but better late than never I guess...

Friday night I watched both The Sarah Jane Adventures (Revenge of the Slitheen) and the S4 premiere of Doctor Who (Voyage of the Damned). 

I haven't seen SJA online at all beforehand, but I'm assuming what went on in Friday's episode will be concluded in the next one? 
As for Doctor Who,


Not a whole lot to say on either one, but I did enjoy them and looking forward to the next episodes.


Second, for anyone on my f-list who is considering giving Supernatural a try, here is a great reference you may want to look at... It's very thorough and may help you decide once and for all if you'd like to give it a go or forget it (hopefully the former).  Check it out here... Supernatural 101

In a week or two I'm going to be changing my header... I love the one I have up now but winter will be over soon (thank goodness). Plus I was thinking of having something up there to reflect all areas of my fangirlishness. I was playing around with Photoshop earlier and this was what I came up with:



(click on the thumbnail to enlarge... I think it's a bit large to just post normally here)

I don't think it's too bad but I'm still not 100% happy with it.    Maybe because I don't think everything is blended uniformly enough, or it's not as seemless as it could be.  I still have quite a bit to learn about making graphics. I make small leaps and bounds when it comes to icons and things like that (more of which I need to post soon), but still find things like this to be a challenge.

Is there any advice any of you more experienced artists could offer? I may try again with PSP and see if I can get better results, but I'm not really counting on it.  I'm basically too poor to afford PS CS, so I guess what I have to work with is pretty basic.

(and in case you were wondering, my fangirl areas in order of appearance are: 1. Cam and Vala/Ben Browder and Claudia Black (from Stargate SG-1 and Farscape); 2. Stargate Atlantis; 3. Stargate SG-1; 4. Sam and Daniel/Amanda Tapping and Michael Shanks (from Stargate SG-1); 5. Supernatural (Dean and Sam); and 6. Doctor Who)

Had a nice time out with a few friends last night.  We went to an old restaurant in Jericho (a town not too far away from here), the building itself has been around since the 1600s, was apparently popular during Colonial days, and is now a restaurant with a main building, carriage house (which is mainly used for different events), and a little village of shops that includes an ice cream parlor and bakery.  Went back to my house for some dessert and coffee (though we were all stuffed anyway).  Didn't do a whole lot except for chatting and watching the Twilight Zone marathon (just had to satisfy my inner geek. *grin*). 

And unlike last year I was actually able to make it to midnight.  Watched the ball drop in Times Square, we cheered and all that, wished each other a Happy New Year, watched a bit more TV and that was the extent of the celebration really.

Relaxed today for the most part.  Thought back on all the craziness - good and bad - that was part of 2007 for me.  Fandom-wise, we had SG-1 ending. I branched out into some other shows/fandoms as well, cooled my SG-1 fandom-ness just a tad (I don't think I'll ever let go of it completely - but I'm not as obsessed as I was 4 or 5 years ago... I don't think, anyway).

Real life-wise...  I had my laser eye surgery (which was successful, thank God), I'd met a few guys here and there, but none that I clicked with and the desire for a relationship was not there - either coming from my end or theirs.  There was my big accident in July that left me with a broken nose and arm/shoulder.  That was the toughest thing I had to go through, without a doubt.  Not just physically but emotionally/spiritually.  I don't think I would have gotten through it completely without the support and love from my family and friends.  Here it is more than 5 months later... I am for all intents and purposes pain free.  The only reminder I have that something happened was that I still can't lift my arm completely up as far as my left one.  I may never be able to get all my strength/mobility back. I'm trying to keep positive thoughts about it in the meantime. I visit the orthopedic surgeon again in a few weeks so we'll see what's what. 

So, looking ahead to this year, I am hoping that I will make a full recovery as far as the right arm goes.  I am hoping that I get a decent settlement as far as the accident goes (a woman from the kid's insurance company called last week and told me she was putting together a settlement package and wanted my medical records since the accident ... I referred her to my attorney). I am wishing both my parents success at their jobs (my dad has been slow to receive payments from clients), especially my mom who has been working two jobs lately, despite the fact that she will be retiring in several years.

And last but not least I am hoping I meet someone special.  I'm going to be 30 this year...next month actually... and finding that special someone has been a long, sometimes frustrating process.  Don't get me wrong - I love being single most of the time, getting to do what I want when I want, but I don't have a lot of friends who live nearby that I get to see often, and at times I just feel like my life is missing something.  And as childish or stupid as it sounds, I sometimes feel very bitter when my friends who are married/engaged or have boyfriends brag to me about it.

Here's hoping that something good comes out of this year.

In the meantime, here is a fandom related meme I snurched from suekay_87


and a not-so-fandom-related meme (also from suekay_87)

I got some pretty nice gifts for Christmas, but one in particular that arrived in the mail on Christmas Eve is hard to top:




Try to ignore the fact that I look drugged or something, LOL. Just focus on the gorgeous man next to me. :D
 
The funny thing is I had emailed Chris at Creation the day before asking about the photos.  Then I headed over to GW and one gal who had the same problem said she'd heard from him, and to tell everyone at GW that their photos will be arriving shortly (something about him doing three different shows at once and he got behind).  I'm just glad that it arrived.  But wow, what timing. *grins*

Anyway, I had a nice Christmas with my family.  On Christmas Eve we went to mass at 4pm, then got some dinner at a nice restaurant/pub called E.B Elliot's.  It's on a seaside strip called The Nautical Mile.  Nice views and the food was good.  The weather wasn't too bad either.  No snow, and not very cold.  Needless to say we didn't have a white Christmas.  It was quite bright out and around 45 F.

Among the gifts I received were a few sweaters, pairs of socks and a pair of gloves.  On DVD I got Doctor Who series 3 and Ghost Hunters season 3 part 1. Got a couple of jazz CD's, ghost hunting book by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson (from GH), the Supernatural novel "Witch's Canyon"...  um a couple of calendars as well - for my desk at work one with tropical seascapes and for home a Supernatural calendar.  Also got a pack of blank DVD-R discs and a 4GB pen drive for my computer.

Spent Christmas day with my parents, grandmother and uncle.  It was a nice, quiet day for the most part.  I do have some pics to share from Christmas morning... hope I am doing this right:


I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. :)