Think it's because we're so awesome?

Swap assignments went out yesterday, and I am quite pleased with mine.

In other news, Obama only needs four delegates to put a lock on the nomination. Yayness! I turned to CNN hoping to see Obama, but instead they're showing John McCain addressing supporters in Louisiana. Sorry if he's your guy, but McClain seriously creeps me out. ::eeeeeeeeeeee!::

I missed JC on the red carpet! I missed Christian Siriano gushing over how gorgeous the Chasez is! Dammit.

Yay, they're leaving McCain...to announce that Obama now has enough delegates to clinch the nomination. Wow, history in the making, and I'm watching it. I HELPED MAKE HISTORY! I wish Mom and Dad had lived to see this. :-)

Ahhh, cruising along on my laptop again, for the first time in a little over year (!). I downloaded a nice little bit of spyware (SpyVampire, the BASTARD), that hosed my machine up *big* time. The thing wiped out all of my system restore points and resisted my efforts to repair the operating system. I'd meant to take it to professional fix-it guys, but never did; I finally bit the bullet yesterday and decided to try a complete system reinstall. I figured that I could always take it to professionals if I bungled things, but...YAY! IT WORKED! I'm inordinately pleased with myself.

ANYWAY. I'm currently watching cheesy movies courtesy of the SciFi Channel. I'm trying to decide what I want to do of a fannish nature today. Get my writing journal up to date? Cruise my friends page and see what's going on? Try to find the disks for the desk computer and get that squared away as well? HAHAHAHA, that sounds like too much work. I think I'll just veg here on the bed with my laptop and the cats and watch awful movies...

OY! Yes, still alive (again). Wonky computer issues have kept me away; I'm currently hooked up to the computer my husband bought the new computer to replace. Fun times! Somehow or other one of the drivers in the newer computer stopped functioning and then I may have deleted the program and now I have to find the CDs so that I can repair that mistake. ::headdesk:: I'm a doof. ANYWAY!

YAY! Supernatural season finale rocked like a rockin' thing. The writers are so on point with this show that it isn't funny. I think the only thing I would love to have seen that we didn't, was a hug or some small form of touch between the brothers before going they're VERY separate ways. Still, the emotion! Nothing I've ever seen tops this show for manly emotion.

YAY! Friggin' braying ass Russell T. Davies has left Doctor Who! Oddly enough, one of my favorite Martha communities doesn't have a reaction post about this. Is that verboten now??? Color me confused. :-( Still, YAY!

YAY! I signed up for the JuC Swap. I shall now wander away to gather more information about...stuff.

Supernatural is clearly the best show on television -- and this may just go down as one of my favorite episodes of the best show on television. (I've already watched it twice!) My thoughts after the cut, but first: it's ridiculous how much squee I get out of the Impala sporting Ohio license plates. ::rocker face and devil horns hands:: ( DEAN! )

Whee! feenie you were right; my fluttery eyeballs are probably the result of stress and/or too little sleep. YAY!!! My eyes look fine. :-) Other than a stronger prescription (HAHAHAHA, aging, not funny), everything's great. :-D Surfing the internet with dilated pupils is completely NOT recommended, so I shall wrap this up and go watch TV. Or something.

LJ as message board: DONNA! SUPERNATURAL DVDS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED! YAY! [insert "Wind Beneath My Wings" here] Hmmm, watching Jensen Ackles do his thing sounds like a mighty fine way to soothe my eyes. ;-)

YAY! NOT BLIND! YAY! SOOPERNATCHUL!!!

Haven't posted much lately because my eyes are being really weird. I'm WAY overdue for an exam, and I'm definitely feeling the effects of eyestrain. Not so much the grittiness, which is the usual when my eyes are tired, but the flutteriness as is usual when they're *really, really* tired. You know it must have been bad if I finally broke down and scheduled an appointment! Originally scheduled for this past Monday but work hilarity (HAHAHAHA, hear me laughing?) caused me to postpone, so I'll be going this coming Monday instead. YAY, muchly overdue! Hopefully I haven't eyestrained myself into premature blindness or some such.

Newsflash: Favorite boycat is tearing around like a wild thing. What the hell, kid? For half a second there I thought he was chasing a mouse, but he's just being hyper and strange.

For real newsflash...FRIGGIN' YAYNESS, the funds purloined by asshole VISA cardnumber thief were refunded by the SierraTradingPost.com people today! Whee! :-D Had a minor heart attack at first when I saw the statement, thinking it was yet another purchase! Strange though, that they didn't refund the tax (or the shipping, perhaps a combination?). YAY, YAY, YAY!!! I am extremely pleased about this, and feel the need to purchase some small leather goods to celebrate. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

If today weren't Friday I'd have a freakin' meltdown.

Ugly surprise number one: Logged into my bank account this morning and thought the balance looked waaaaaay low. A quick scan of the recent transactions showed an 816.00 charge to SierraTradingPost.com. WEH!?

I was shaking and livid and wanted to disembowel someone when I saw that charge. EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN FRIGGIN' DOLLARS. Absolute sons-o'-bitchin' bastards! Called the bank right away and blocked the card. Went to the branch this afternoon to fill out an affidavit, and the bank will take it from there. I was *so* friggin' pissed off, you wouldn't believe it.

Ugly surprise number two: Probate lawyer called this afternoon (just as I was calming down about Ugly surprise number one) to tell me that Bro!monkey has apparently sold his half of our inheritance (read: the house we grew up in) to one of those lump sum companies.

OH MY GOD, the anger. I was more pissed off about that than the fraudulent charge on my credit card! He never said a word, and he's talked to my lawyer a couple of times and never mentioned it to him, either. Luckily, the deed's still in estate and hasn't been changed to our names yet, so I still have a little control, according to my tax lawyer/probate guy.

I've moved from feelings of deep, profound anger and betrayal to feelings of deep, profound disappointment. I'm pissed that no one knew about this til the lawyer got the papers in the mail today. I'm disappointed that he didn't just man up and tell me about it beforehand. I'm deeply disappointed because this is the latest in a string of incidents that makes me wonder what happened to the little boy who was my best friend when we were growing up. It's like...the portion of what I think of as my brother is just a thin shell surrounding some bizarre core of weirdness that I don't even know anymore. I'm pretty sure I'm done with him.

Just to restate: I friggin' love Google. I want to marry it and have its babies and...yes. I love Google.

Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes

I love Google.

In other news, I'm cycling through Supernatural seasons one and two again. For maybe the third time. ::looks shifty:: I can't believe I have to wait until April 24th to see new episodes, and I *really* can't believe that I have to wait until GOD KNOWS WHEN to get the season three DVDs!!! Why aren't these people showing reruns??? I'd clear out my entire DVR qeue to make room, seriously. Bastards. ;-p Man, I love this show.

As it aired, I did my usual note-taking thing... ( LJ cut for freshness... )

I realized the other day that I'd neglected to post my thoughts on the 'Adam' episode of Torchwood. Not that anyone cares or anything, but as a half-assed completist, I felt driven to note my thoughts for posterity. And here's an LJ-cut because, like Dean Winchester and Martha Jones (and *there's* a freakishly gorgeous crossover pairing I'd love to see), I AM MADE OF AWESOME. ( I'm humble too. )

Okay, I disappear for a few days and stuff happens, Chasez-wise? Weh? So he's...not gay? He was on Tyra yesterday/today? Again, weh?

Chasez, I don't care who the hell you sleep with, just make me some damn music.

Also, how cute was he on America's Best Dance Judge last week? The whole Bye, Bye, Bye thing? So cute! I have no rants about Lil Mama because I've begun muting the sound when her idiot ass appears on my screen.

To recap:

1) Chasez, still adorable.
2) Chasez, straight. I suppose.
3) Lil Mama, still an idiot.

Yep, I think that covers everything.

ROFLMAO! This is one of my favorite episodes, hands down.

Dean on the vibrating bed, totally blissed out, bummed when the vibrating ends. Asks Sam if he has any quarters. LOL!

Dean, waiting for Sam, glances rather dolefully at the non-vibrating bed. When Sam comes in, Dean looks at the non-vibrating bed and asks Sam if he got quarters while he was out. *Love* that totally jonesin' look that flickers over his face for a second while he's looking at the bed. ROFLMAO!

This has got to be the funniest thing ever. Please, please tell me the Magic Fingers fetish comes up again, because that's waaaaay too good to be a one-shot deal.

Oh Dean, you beautiful, freaky boy, I love you so.

Thoughts on last week's Torchwood (Martha's first guest ep!), nabbed from email I sent scot_ty:

Okay, now why haven't the rest of the episodes been like this? Good team interaction, and DAMMIT, THEY'RE MAKING ME LIKE FORMERLY-CREEPY, NOW-HUMAN OWEN. Bastiges. ;-p The flirting and teasing were waaaay cute, and I think it had just the right touch. Jack was back to himself, YAY!, and the episode was very nicely paced. A couple of things niggled, of course.

Gwen. I'm so tired of this Jack-fascination that I could scream. Martha's been in the Hub for twenty hot seconds before Gwen's asking questions about Jack. Is this woman engaged or not? At this point I wish they'd just cut her ties to Rhys and be done with it; it was annoying before but it's starting to give me a really creepy vibe. I want to make my peace with Gwen. They've given me a Gwen that I like, but this stalkerish obsession with Jack keeps setting her back a couple of paces. Why do they do this?

Tosh. Wide-eyed Tosh practically begging Owen for a date. It was sad before, now it's just creepy. Well, creepy and sad. And really, really creepy.

Waaaaay off the cuteness scale: Eve Myles in the actor interviews saying that it was lovely having Freema there, that it was nice having another girlie on set. OH MY GOD I NEARLY EXPLODED WITH THE CUTE. The look on her face was just adorable. :-)

/email

Martha was completely awesome and I love her like mad. Your mileage may vary. ;-) ( And now my as-it-aired notes... )

I'm pretty sure I've witnessed at least two "Oh, DEAN" episodes. More manly tears! More manly shmoop! Brotherly devotion and fatherly devotion and stuff! Making deals with demons and MANLY TEARS!!! I'm buying season three as soon as it's available.

Can't say I'm that I'm in love with the Harvelles; if I never saw them again I wouldn't be too broken up about it. The Ash character is interesting in theory, but somehow, I'm just not buying it. All in all, if the boys never go to the Roadhouse again, I won't miss it.

Most of the episodes have been enjoyable, there's only been one that felt like a bit of a throwaway. One ep out of 30+ isn't bad at all!

Also, Jensen Ackles is just insanely, ridiculously beautiful -- much like Jason Momoa. Also, like Jason Momoa, I *love* watching him work. Supernatural! YAY!!!

Halfway through the season one episodes, and OH MY GOD, MASSIVE, MASSIVE LOVE FOR THIS SHOW.

For a scary minute there I thought I'd just purchased 88.00 worth of "Pretty Girl of the Week" DVDs, but things picked up. YAYNESS!

My favorite non-Winchester character so far is Missouri Mosely, who kicks serious, major ass. Missouri Mosely is awesome. If I found myself transported into the show, I wouldn't want to be Random Hook-up Girl of the Episode (even if mackin' on Dean would be sweet, sweet, sweet), I'd want to be Missouri Mosely. LOVE HER. Fingers crossed that she makes at least one more appearance between now and the last of my season two DVDs. ::hopes::

DEAN WAS IN LOVE! Holy frijoles, big brother fell hard! I loved Megalyn Echikunwoke as Isabelle in The 4400, so you can imagine my pleased surprise when she appeared onscreen, and even more pleased and surprised when she turned out to be the love (so far, at least that I've seen) of Dean's life. Yay! Isabelle Cassie gets the hot boy! Being pulled into Supernatural-world as Cassie wouldn't be so bad either. YAYNESS!

Absolute genius casting Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the dad. He's good-looking but not too pretty, just rough enough without looking fakely rugged (ugh), and best of all, it's not a stretch to imagine Dean and Sam Winchester as his progeny; the actors fit together physically, and that's nice to see. Big time yayness!!! Love Dad and I can't wait to see more of him.

Supernatural! YAY! \o/

Edited to add: Also, gotta love a show that features family bonding, big time brotherly love and devotion, father and son devotion, manly hugs, manly shmoop, and MANLY TEARS! Friggin' awesome!

Seriously, the manly hugs and manly tears are gonna be the death of me.

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!! I'm incredibly cranky because I'm in the throes of PMS (except for the P part; perhaps a bit TMI but tough titties) and I had to work for three hours today. To alleviate my pain I decided that I would treat myself to something fun and fabulous. I went to Target. As I was very innocently strolling by the entertainment section, the Supernatural DVDs jumped in my cart and refused to leave. Yes! I was as shocked as you are!

Kind thank yous to everyone who offered to hook me up. Again, YAYNESS!!!

Non-spoilery comment: So, I watched the latest America's Best Dance Judge Crew and honestly, what the hell is Lil Mama's deal? It'd be nice if she concentrated on giving her own damn crit (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...yeah) instead of constantly reassuring the contestants that JC is wrong and everything they're doing is just fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.

( Spoilery comment )

In conclusion: In fanfic terms, Shane clearly hangs out at fanfiction.net and leaves squeeful comments no matter HOW awful the story is. Every now and then he'll admit a bit of confusion over a mangled sentence, but mostly he thinks all the stories are fabulous, and everyone deserves cake and cookies and hugs just for posting! No punctuation? Horrific grammar? Stop harshing his squee!

In fanfic terms, Lil Mama is the person who repeats (and sometimes blenderizes) comments of people who've left comments ahead of her. Every now and then she'll mix it up by saying, "Great story, but it could be better," without actually offering any advice on how this could be achieved. If she sees concrit in the comment above hers, she'll add an additional comment saying that [fill in the blank] totally worked for her, and the story was the best thing EVAR.

In fanfic terms, JC is the BNF that everyone wants to have beta their stuff, but they're terrified to approach. He'll tell you honestly what works and what doesn't -- if you're just there for fluffy hand-holding, you're wasting his time. If he's left a positive comment for your fic, you get all trembly and weak-kneed and squeeful because OMG, JC LOVED MY STORY! and then you have to email your friends to tell them about it because clearly, JC is completely awesome and knows his shit.

Apparently I'm completely on crack. I thought Martha's Torchwood premiere (in the US!) was last week. HAHAHAHA, color me befuddled. This week, so YAY!

I hadn't watched Last of the Timelords, the last episode of season three and her exit as full-time companion, and yeah, that still burns me. Not wanting to let her go just yet, I DVRd the episode and saved it to watch just before her first Torchwood episode, so yeah, go me! The episode was easier to watch since I've known what to expect for MONTHS now.

( Cut so other hold outs won't be spoiled. )