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I left work way early and am home today (which sucks because I really didn't want to miss work at all, but my brain is mush and I need my brain to NOT be mush to learn my job, so ... yeah home -- feverish, achy, fun). In order to not sleep non-stop (which I want to do), I did watch Monday night TV and I have some new friends via the going_my_way friending meme, so an intro ...

Me. I live in Georgia with 3 cats, my family leaves 15 minutes away and that's lovely. I just got a new job as a 9-1-1 dispatcher/call-taker and the training process is VERY LONG! I've been training for a month-and-a-half now and I still have a long way to go. Man, do those officers speak quickly, and all of the codes and signals. It's totally another language (thus the whole, needing my brain to work, and not be mush).

Fandom-wise, my main fandom right now is probably The Big Bang Theory featuring sheldon_penny (wonderful little fandom growing in leaps and bounds). Second is Doctor Who, second because while I do love the show, my main thrust is Doctor/Rose and Rose is, erm, gone. Plus, I despise Steven Moffat as a writer/producer, so once RTD's specials are over with, I'm, alas, done with Who. It's not Matt Smith, really. It's Moffat, plain and simple. Ah well. On the subject of Who, I know it's slow-going, but I'm doing extensive rewatch-reviews of almost all of the Rose-related episodes, plus my favorite episodes period. ( Where I'm at with those ... ) Oh, and check out header -- I adore Billie Piper, she's my current favorite actress. My favorite actor is Jason Dohring known best from Veronica Mars and Moonlight. He has a possible new show next fall -- Body Politic -- go Jason!!!

I rarely write about real life in my lj, it's mostly fandom-thoughts, movie and (MOSTLY) television reviews/thoughts. Welcome! :D

Now, mostly brief Monday night TV thoughts ...

( How I Met Your Mother )

( Dancing with the Stars )

( 24 )

This one is from isiscaughey and avoria:

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, write an entry with 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 16 people to be tagged.

( 16 Random Things about me )

I tag: 00mina, 16s16, acciochocolate, bastetseye, hotarus_sister, irishlullaby, madeelly, marcasite, mastermia, miss_prufrock, missmarch, pumpkinsoup, rachelbeann, roryappletarts, tsukihysteria, unfolded73

Heh, this looked like fun. Snagged from i_palimpsest.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo

( The other 90 behind the cut. )

Yes, I'm a posting fiend today. I know. Still, this is weird. My alarm clock is possessed. No, seriously, it's possessed. I'm just sitting here at my computer minding my business and twice now, the alarm clock has made this weird, whirring, buzzing noise that grows in volume and then stops. It's not on, it's not set to go off until tomorrow morning, but yet, it's making noises ... and not even its normal alarm noises. It's possessed.

HIMYM is just getting better and better. A few specifics for this episode ... ( behind the cut )

( Terminator gets some thoughts too ... )

Not getting to Prison Break tonight, and I still have Brothers & Sisters from last night, The Eleventh Hour from the night before, the last two episodes of Boston Legal AND I didn't get to the rewatch-review of "The Doctor Dances" (Doctor Who). Not to mention the three -- count 'em, THREE -- episodes of Dexter, Four -- count 'em, FOUR! -- episodes of Gossip Girl (okay, I'm going to zip through those as I actually won't watch every scene, but still ...) sitting on my computer. (Heck, I'm three episodes behind on Merlin and I'm almost thinking I should just give that one up. Sigh.)

The baptism ceremony of my two nephews and niece (my sister joined a new church, Episcopalian, they really like it, so thus the baptism ceremony) really ate so much of my weekend time up. It was worth it, though, I loved all of the family time, but man, is my tv-watching schedule hurting from it. Sigh.

I got home uber-late last night. I was visiting my dad in the hospital (he had a mild -- very mild, thank God!) heart attack the other night, so late night getting home so I wasn't able to just sit and watch/critique/post like usual. (Daddy is doing fine, by the way. He got out this morning.)

So thoughts on the show ( behind the cut )

My, my best friend, three cats and a car packed full of most of my worldly possessions (the rest already made their way via boxes). The car is very, very nice -- VERY nice -- however, it's got plenty lot of miles on it, but the miles were put on during long-distance trips which has a lot less wear and tear on it than does city-driving.

Wish me luck. I should be in Georgia by 8 pm tonight. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope everyone on my flist has a wonderful and safe New Year's. Me, I'm working, but that's cool, cuz I wouldn't do anything anyway, heh. The few times I've tried, well, it hasn't been a disaster, but it hasn't been fun, LOL!

My resolutions:

1. Save money.
2. Do more writing -- fanfic (cuz it's fun!) and work on my novel.

A friend put it best why I'm so bummed right now: When tv stuff is lousy and life stuff is lousy, it seems not fair. When bad things happen in tv, we should have life to compensate, and vice versa.

How true.

( Why life sucks. )

I had a fight with my sister who said that I needed to respect her decision about certain bs things that really don't matter much in the scheme of things and I just had to end the conversation because it's so the pot calling the kettle black. Hah! Like she ever respects my opinion about stupid bs things that don't matter! I know it sounds stupid and it is, but it's also frickin' frustrating!! Arrrgghhhh!!!