Mundane Misadventures

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Saw Angels and Demons on Friday with Marv.  It was OK.  Some of the more ridiculous elements were left out, specifically Langdon jumping out of the helicopter using only a piece of plastic window as a parachute.  Marv was bummed about that.  One of the previews was for a Katherine Heigl/Gerard Butler rom-com crapfest.  The opening shot I swear was of the Tower Bridge in Sacramento.  Kind of random.

Saturday was so busy.  I documented the day for a future A Day In My Life post.  I'll be sure and crosspost it here.

The only thing I did on Sunday was bake a cake for my mom.  All.  Day.  Seriously, I started about noon and finally put the finished cake in the fridge around 8pm.  I made the whole thing from scratch - cake, meringue, buttercream, sugar syrup, ganache, chocolate letters.  I tasted little bits throughout the day.  I can't wait to taste the whole thing!  I'll probably go straight into a diabetic coma.

( Cake-In-Progress )


I bought the audiobook of Star Trek on Saturday...just because it was read by my current obsession, Zachary Quinto.  I'm only partway through Disc 3 (of 7), but he's doing a really good job with the reading.  I listened to it while starting the cake.

I know that no one will read these.  Hell, I don't even know why I do them.  It's an addiction, I tells ya!  An addiction!

*ahem*  Anyway.  Two more surveys, straight from Myspace.  Enjoy.
( Moar Surveys )

I am a sucker for those inane surveys that float around MySpace all the time.  I'm bored at work and thought, what better way to reflect on the year that is hours from ending by posting a few on lj?  Be warned, this is very much a teal deer post.  Enjoy.

My Christmas went well.  My union long ago traded Veteran's Day for Christmas Eve.  So I had Wednesday off.  And since the vast majority of the university would not show up on Friday, they just decided to close that day, too.  (Of course, they are forcing us to take vacation that day.  Apparently if you do not, you are then not eligible to get holiday pay for Christmas and this is just boring.  Moving on.)

( This did seem like the wino Christmas. )

( Nylon granny panty bloomer thingies. )

Well, well.  What a weekend.  Five days off and it flew by as fast as those damn honking geese that keep flying over my head that I am sure will crap on me someday in a spectacular rain of grey and white droppings. 

( Five Days of Leftovers. )

ETA:  All weekend, TNT and Spike have been showing LOTR and Star Wars movies, respectively.  Between football games yesterday I flipped between the two, mostly gravitating towards LOTR.  I started explaining the plot to MidBro in the hopes that he would get interested and actually watch the movies.  He did ask some questions and didn't make fun of me as much as I thought he would.  I was really getting in to how Frodo and Sam had to go to Mount Doom to destroy the ring and how Aragorn and the rest were distracting Sauron with a battle at the Black Gate.  Then he said something that summed up LOTR in the best, most absurd way possible. 

"So, basically the whole story is about some evil genius who gets fooled by midgets."

I have failed as a sister.