Catching Ducks

A few days ago I visited relatives in central Washington. There was snow! Lots and lots of snow! See?






There were icicles, too!




Scenes from my Dad's childhood:






This is the hill my cousin and step-niece-to-be sledded down:




[My brother Sotosoroto took the last two pictures -- but he used my camera!]

Labels: weather

From Red vs. Blue:


Sarge: What happened here?

Simmons: Sir! You got shot in the head, so we gave you CPR and saved you, sir!

Sarge: I always believed in you, Simmons.

Simmons: Uh... Actually, it's Grif you should thank, sir. He did all the work.

Sarge: Grif?

Simmons: Yes, sir.

Sarge: Grif, why in hell would you give somebody CPR for a bullet wound in the head? That doesn't make a lick of sense!

Grif: [sigh] You're welcome, sir.

Sarge: I mean, it's all so damned inconsistent! What would you do if they stabbed me in the toe -- rub my neck with aloe vera?

Labels: Red vs. Blue

Today I received a package from my friend Jack. It had the last of my birthday presents and the last of my Christmas presents.

Yay -- presents!

Boo -- no more presents!

I won't get anything else until December 2007. Oh well. I got some good loot. It should last me eleven months!

Thanks, everyone! I hope you all had a fun Christmas. :)

Labels: holidays

Ack!

Unbeknownst to me, my mom didn't bake any Christmas cookies. This means that my cookies are the only cookies we'll have this Christmas!

This makes me very nervous. What if they don't like my cookies? And what if they're disappointed because I didn't bake the ones my mom usually does?

Ack!

Labels: food, holidays

I'm done! Yay!

Labels: food, holidays

This week's quote comes from TWoP forum-dweller Shakespeare Jay. It was posted in the My Motivation Is This... forum. It's in reference to the awesome-ness of the post-Marissa O.C..

"Killing off Marissa: See? We weren't just bitchy fangirls. It *WAS* the answer all along."

Labels: The O.C.

I saw a wonderful movie the other day: Little Miss Sunshine. It was hysterically funny, but it was also sad and beautiful and dark and joyous. At the end of the movie, the audience applauded. I can't remember the last time I went a movie and that happened!

It's in the discount theaters now, and I think it will be out on DVD soon. I highly recommend it.

Labels: movies

"You have to love a show that makes its Christmas episode the most depressing one of the year."

- TWoP's Sara M, about House

Labels: holidays, TV

Yesterday my boss and I were talking about clothes. I offhandedly mentioned something about buying clothes in the "fat lady section". My boss said, "You're not fat; you're Rubenesque!"

Her comment got me thinking about the book that made me comfortable calling myself "fat": Camryn Manheim's Wake Up, I'm Fat! In the book she tells this story about auditioning for a role:


I don't know when fat became synonymous with pathetic, sickly, lazy, homely, weak, and stupid, but by the time I hit the audition circuit, these stereotypes were firmly in place. Sometimes I was fat enough to land the role, just not pathetic, sickly, lazy, homely, weak, and stupid enough. And sometimes I wasn't even fat enough. Once I went in on an audition for the part of Susan -- "a grossly overweight woman of 200 pounds." They seemed to be impressed with my audition but in the end said that I was just too thin for the part. I told them that they needed to rethink their description of the character because I weighed well over 200 pounds. They looked at each other incredulously as if they were shocked that I was able to get around without a walker.

Labels: books, work

It's amazing the things you can find on YouTube!

The original pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Maybe someone's posted the American Red Dwarf....

Labels: Buffy the Vampire Slayer