weekend in points

[rivendellrose]

Watched The Return of the King extended edition for the umpteen-billionth time on Friday, starting at almost 10pm. Managed not to strangle Boy's friends as they talked and made jokes through the movie, or to bite anyeon's heads off due to being sleepy. Go me.

Have successfully convinced the Boy that cooking is fun and easy, and something we can do together. Again, go me. ♥

Accomplished a little bit of progress on writing while he played video games. Not much, but every little bit helps.

Tried to watch The Illusionist, but both agreed that we didn't give a damn and would have preferred two hours of Edward Norton performing CG magic tricks. Gave up and watched "Doctor Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog" instead, which the Boy quite enjoyed. This gives me hope for when we finally get through to the Buffy Musical, which, to be honest, I would be heartbroken if he didn't enjoy, because I love it entirely too much for my own sanity.

Over the course of the weekend, Boy was a) aware of me writing guy/guy smut behind his back while he played video games, and had no issues with this, b) completely nonplussed when I switched screens abruptly as he looked over my shoulder and I admitted that I'd been reading fanfiction, and c) upon seeing that I had a folder on my desktop titled "UtherMorgana," asked only if I was now crushing on Morgana, as well as Uther. This is love, folks. ;)

IT'S FREAKING SNOWING HERE, AGAIN. I know this is normal for some parts of the country, but... but... ack. That said, I got stupidly giddy when I noticed that for a while they were such tiny, neat little flakes that one could actually see that they were snowflake shaped, as in beautiful little stars. ♥ Even when I anticipate it making my life miserable, I can't help loving snow. It's so pretty!

Played "Pixel Junk" and... er... some other video game that was apparently coded in Liverpool, and which had stunningly gorgeous graphics. And I enjoyed them. I adored Pixel Junk, and will be forced to play it again until I get, well, at least competent. I don't normally get into video games, but this one is just too damned pretty and awesome. ♥

ALSO: Apparently, some kind person nominated my Harry/Sarah fic, "Best Served Hot," for the Classic Who crack-fic category at Children of Time. Much love, and many thanks if you're reading this. ♥

Comments

[beam-oflight.livejournal.com]

The Boy sounds awesome! And who doesn't loev Buffy the Musical - it's an impossibility!
Did you finish Merlin yet?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It's true! I can't imagine what sort of person wouldn't love the Buffy Musical. ♥

I did! I'm really intrigued to see what the writers are headed for with Morgana - it looks to me as though the Dragon is switching his attention from Merlin over to her and will be harrassing/calling to her like he did to Merlin at the beginning (that's how it started, isn't it? I've only seen the first episode once...). I rewatched episode six (or was it seven?) the other day, and I noticed that a conversation between Merlin and Gaius brings up the possibility that Morgana might be a sorceress as well as a seer... and I'm betting that the Dragon will be trying to bring that out in her, so that she has more reason than usual to push for the return of magic.

All of this makes me slightly sad, as from a "canonical" standpoint this looks like the beginning of Morgana getting pulled away from Merlin and Arthur and Gwen, but from a character standpoint it'd be really interesting.

[sigelphoenix.livejournal.com]

Hee. The Boy sounds pretty darn cool. :D

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

He's a good fella, yup! :D

[nolan-ash.livejournal.com]

Nice update! Way to keep your cool through the movie. It sucks when people are talking and joking through something you love. I usually just try to remember that if the movie was different, it would probably be me making the cracks. (Actually, people talking during the movie used to drive me crazy. I'd want to pause the movie, let people talk, then unpause, you know? Now I make cracks even at my own favorites, so you could say I've changed a lot in that category)

I agree the Illusionist sucked. >_o I thought the characters were foolish and deserved whatever trouble they got. The Prestige is a much better magic-related movie.

Sounds like your guy is a keeper in the similar interests and open-mindedness categories.

Way to teach him to like cooking, too!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Normally I'm cool with a little bit of chatter once I've seen a movie as many times I've seen these, but... yeah, I'm starting to realize how much I'm used to watching movies with my friends, as opposed to other people, and how used I am to people who love and know the Lord of the Rings as well as I do. :P When it's people I don't know making comments that, to me, seem weird... especially when I'm tired, I had a little trouble keeping my temper. Need to get better about that. ;)

The Prestige! Thank you, we'd been trying to remember the title of that one. We'll have to look that one up.

I'm definitely looking at him as a keeper, yeah. ;)

[nolan-ash.livejournal.com]

"The Prestige" kicks ass. Highly recommended!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Yay! Send the boy hugs from Mom. It sounds like you had a wonderful weekend. Hurray for not hurting people for talking and laughing during movies, I know how you hate that!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Sounds good! Yeah, I'm trying to get better about all that kind of thing. :)