Weekend in a nutshell
Mar. 5th, 2018 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I just spent eight straight days on a work project, and as of five o'clock it's turned in and now it's time to remember how to do things for fun.
Of late, I:
(+) Did not lose power in Friday's nor'easter.
(-) Dropped a gift pot of chrysanthemums on their heads in the wind, then spilled a vase of tulips all over my coffee table. By "vase" I mean "water bottle," because the bouquet flopped everywhere when I put it in a wider drinking glass, but of course plastic makes for a crappy anchor. Now the flowers are in a glass like they should have been, with a cut-up water bottle tube keeping them in shape. tl;dr yellow tulips make me happy.
(+) Watched season one of Killjoys. I'd only seen two episodes before. Overall enjoyable. Had a nice time with the main team being supportive of one another instead of fighting over developments that too often cause stupid rifts on other shows. Was, unfortunately, way less into the abusive mentor and conspiracy tropes. Laughed to myself at how everyone has to strike Sexy(TM) poses/make sexy faces/wear sexy clothes every so often, as if this were a CW series. Ditto the conspicuous use of pop songs. Then watched maybe half of season two but petered out.
(+) Went to a dinner party. Good food, good conversation, new set of friends willing to play Star Trek Settlers of Catan. Pictionary may be in our future, although that would be easier if I weren't a perennial third/fifth/seventh wheel who makes it hard to form even-numbered teams.
(+) Made for the first time a set of rice bowls for this week's lunches featuring frozen tuna that I seared in a frying pan, scallions, cucumber, roasted asparagus and eggplant, and a resurrected 1/4 bag of arborio rice -- I definitely bought it before I moved to Boston -- stirred into the leftover marinade of rice vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce and brown sugar. Yum.
(+) Submitted a Google form to![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
wiscon_vidparty declaring my intention to finish this long-term multifandom auction vid in May. And if I miss that deadline, will shoot for Vividcon premieres in June. *determined face* Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time stoked the fire again.
Of late, I:
(+) Did not lose power in Friday's nor'easter.
(-) Dropped a gift pot of chrysanthemums on their heads in the wind, then spilled a vase of tulips all over my coffee table. By "vase" I mean "water bottle," because the bouquet flopped everywhere when I put it in a wider drinking glass, but of course plastic makes for a crappy anchor. Now the flowers are in a glass like they should have been, with a cut-up water bottle tube keeping them in shape. tl;dr yellow tulips make me happy.
(+) Watched season one of Killjoys. I'd only seen two episodes before. Overall enjoyable. Had a nice time with the main team being supportive of one another instead of fighting over developments that too often cause stupid rifts on other shows. Was, unfortunately, way less into the abusive mentor and conspiracy tropes. Laughed to myself at how everyone has to strike Sexy(TM) poses/make sexy faces/wear sexy clothes every so often, as if this were a CW series. Ditto the conspicuous use of pop songs. Then watched maybe half of season two but petered out.
(+) Went to a dinner party. Good food, good conversation, new set of friends willing to play Star Trek Settlers of Catan. Pictionary may be in our future, although that would be easier if I weren't a perennial third/fifth/seventh wheel who makes it hard to form even-numbered teams.
(+) Made for the first time a set of rice bowls for this week's lunches featuring frozen tuna that I seared in a frying pan, scallions, cucumber, roasted asparagus and eggplant, and a resurrected 1/4 bag of arborio rice -- I definitely bought it before I moved to Boston -- stirred into the leftover marinade of rice vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce and brown sugar. Yum.
(+) Submitted a Google form to
wiscon_vidparty declaring my intention to finish this long-term multifandom auction vid in May. And if I miss that deadline, will shoot for Vividcon premieres in June. *determined face* Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time stoked the fire again.
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Date: Mar. 6th, 2018 02:48 am (UTC)And ooh, your rice bowls sound awesome.
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Date: Mar. 7th, 2018 01:46 am (UTC)>>did you see the one with the actualfax fembots?
Wait, what? *checks Google* Apparently I was only an episode or two away from that one. Guess I'll be going back!
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Date: Mar. 6th, 2018 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Mar. 7th, 2018 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Mar. 7th, 2018 12:24 am (UTC)(For the record, A vastly preferred to be on a team with me than to play on her own. Seriously.)
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Date: Mar. 7th, 2018 01:28 am (UTC)Or at least a few Wrinkle in Time shots in this big multi vid, anyway!
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Date: Mar. 11th, 2018 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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