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turpsHappy birthday pensnest. I hope you've had a fabulous day ♥
I've watched a ridiculous amount of TV this week. Finished the season of Castle, started watching Revenge, am making my way through season 2 of Parks and Recreation, season 5 of The Sopranos, a re-watch of season two Haven, some Leverage, two eps of The Big C, one of Nurse Jackie, kept watching more of The Wire, the last ep of Game of Thrones and have downloaded new Teen Wolf. My head is stuffed full of TV.
What I should do is get a start on wave 3 of BBB but I can't seem to do that before I finish wave 1. My stupid brain needs to realise it's possible to work on two things at once. However, I have been writing, a few words on a wip and a Gerard/Patrick ficlet for Turlough which is now here.
James' trip with the scouts doesn't seem to be going smoothly this year. The weather has been bad so the usual trip to the cable cars has been cancelled, a group of the youngest scouts had to walk to the mountain hut in rain that was coming down horizontally at one point and yesterday James was told he couldn't take part in the kyaking ( sp? ) because the instructors were scared of his disability. And I get where they're coming from, but it has to be frustrating for James when he's used to being so independent when he's at home. Today one of the buses had broken down so the scouts from that bus had to wait until the other bus took half the group back to the chalet and returned for them, a two hour round journey.
Nanna phoned earlier. It's aunty Margaret's funeral on Friday and I was reminded that I was part of the family and therefore expected to sit up front at the church and then go to the crematorium after. Thankfully my brother is going too so I'll catch a lift with him and then we've planned to come home after as neither of us want to go to the wake.
Corey is applying for part time jobs at the moment so we've just spent well over an hour looking for his national insurance number. After emptying every drawer in the living room I found it in the place he'd said he'd looked. Next time I'm going to double check myself first.
pensnest. I hope you've had a fabulous day ♥I've watched a ridiculous amount of TV this week. Finished the season of Castle, started watching Revenge, am making my way through season 2 of Parks and Recreation, season 5 of The Sopranos, a re-watch of season two Haven, some Leverage, two eps of The Big C, one of Nurse Jackie, kept watching more of The Wire, the last ep of Game of Thrones and have downloaded new Teen Wolf. My head is stuffed full of TV.
What I should do is get a start on wave 3 of BBB but I can't seem to do that before I finish wave 1. My stupid brain needs to realise it's possible to work on two things at once. However, I have been writing, a few words on a wip and a Gerard/Patrick ficlet for Turlough which is now here.
James' trip with the scouts doesn't seem to be going smoothly this year. The weather has been bad so the usual trip to the cable cars has been cancelled, a group of the youngest scouts had to walk to the mountain hut in rain that was coming down horizontally at one point and yesterday James was told he couldn't take part in the kyaking ( sp? ) because the instructors were scared of his disability. And I get where they're coming from, but it has to be frustrating for James when he's used to being so independent when he's at home. Today one of the buses had broken down so the scouts from that bus had to wait until the other bus took half the group back to the chalet and returned for them, a two hour round journey.
Nanna phoned earlier. It's aunty Margaret's funeral on Friday and I was reminded that I was part of the family and therefore expected to sit up front at the church and then go to the crematorium after. Thankfully my brother is going too so I'll catch a lift with him and then we've planned to come home after as neither of us want to go to the wake.
Corey is applying for part time jobs at the moment so we've just spent well over an hour looking for his national insurance number. After emptying every drawer in the living room I found it in the place he'd said he'd looked. Next time I'm going to double check myself first.
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Date: 2012-06-06 08:40 pm (UTC)<3 i hope the funeral goes well enough. they are (to me at least) always such a strange experience.
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Date: 2012-06-06 09:03 pm (UTC)The finale was so good. Dany's scenes have been leaving me cold recently, but like you I loved the scene with Drogo. It was such a powerful reminder of what she could have had, a family who loved her beyond measure and a place to call home. Then the dragons after *___*
What got me the most was Bran and Rickon when Luwin was dying, and Theon before that. Someone who'd made so many mistakes and knew it.
Funerals are strange. I'm going to this one mainly for nanna as while I knew Aunty Margaret she was a relative second removed and we weren't close at all. But I did like her, so will go and pay my respects.
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Date: 2012-06-06 09:17 pm (UTC);_______; seeing luwin dying hurt me so much more than i'd expected.
it feels like ages since i read these scenes. so much has happened since then. i'm now a little over 100 pages into a dance with dragons.
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Date: 2012-06-07 08:08 am (UTC)I've just recently ordered the last books from Amazon and am impatiently waiting for them to be delivered. For some reason I couldn't get my hands on book 4 anywhere locally.
As soon as they arrive I'll be plunging back into the world of death, angst and destruction.
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Date: 2012-06-06 11:56 pm (UTC)I'm thinking of giving Parks & Recreation a second chance. Started watching it on S1 and gave up after, like, two episodes. Of course, now I hear that things got much better in Season 2. *sits on fence and waits a while to feel the urge to add Parks & Rec to her Netflix queue*
Ugh, how awful that James' trip is turning out so wonky. :(
Funerals can be bizarre. I've attended a few that were filled with people crying left and right as well as some where the people behaved a bit more cold.
Good luck to Corey with his job search!
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Date: 2012-08-22 12:15 pm (UTC)As for The Wire. I'm just about to watch ep 1 of season 3. I like the show but I suspect it's one that would sink in better if you gave it 100% attention. There are so many plot threads, many of them tangled together and I like when something happens that's related to something else and you realise the connection. It's the opposite to Revenge in many ways, gritty and painful to watch always.
I've seen so many people give up on Parks and Rec and then fall in love with it in season 2. I did too, and I still can't put my finger on how the show changed so much in such a positive way. They just did.
Thank you!
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Date: 2012-08-27 01:37 am (UTC)Overall, it's a very sudsy show. Now that Season 2 is but a couple of months away from beginning, I'm getting a tad nervous about the show. Mostly because I'm afraid that the producers won't be able to keep the premise going without veering way off into OOCness. Time will tell, I guess.
Ah, yeah, The Wire is definitely complex. I marathoned the first three seasons on dvd and watched the last two live. One of the things I have always liked about it is that it doesn't wait for the viewer to catch up. There are (like you said) a lot of threads as well as one of the biggest casts I've ever seen on a long-running show.
My favourite season is no.4 (which reaches some very angsty heights). My least fave is no.2 because I don't think that the diverting into the story about the docks (including Ziggy--the one Wire character I hate with all of my strength) actually worked the way that the producers had planned. Pulling away from the cops and the street angle (or, better said, pushing that part of the show to the side) was a rare misfire in an otherwise brilliant series.
Interesting enough, The Wire is one of only 3 shows where I have no squicks at all (the other two being ROME and the new Battlestar Galactica.) I think it's because the canon is already so dark and raw that there isn't anything Fandom could create that would shock me.
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Date: 2012-06-07 06:34 pm (UTC)Even a little writing counts so go you!
That must be awful for James, to not be allowed to try something because other people are scared! I'm getting quite angry on his behalf. He's a grownup, how dare they tell him what he can and can't do! Grrr!
Funerals are strange things. I never really know how to behave at them. I hope this one won't be too weird and exhausting for you.
Good luck to Corey with the job hunting!
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Date: 2012-07-30 06:34 am (UTC)That must be awful for James, to not be allowed to try something because other people are scared! I'm getting quite angry on his behalf. He's a grownup, how dare they tell him what he can and can't do! Grrr!
It was so frustrating, especially so as they didn't make any attempt to ask if he could swim, just assumed he couldn't. Some poeple have no idea.