So. Do you find your Doctor or does your Doctor find you?

I started watching Doctor Who, obvs, and while I have always been intrigued by Mr. Eccleston, after two eps (Rose is gorgeous, isn't she?), I found myself starting up the next series, with David Tennant.

If this was Tumblr, I'd totally be hitting it with that Misha "ME GUSTA" gif right now. Just sayin'.

Hi!

Still obsessed with Sherlock. Keep trying to watch other things, other shows and movies I have just begging to be watched. Once, I made it as far as 1/2 hour into a Richard Gere movie before I turned it off and went back to reading fic. And the Wisplet isn't any better - she texted me a pic of a Scentsy candle scent named "My Dear Watson", with about 12 :D:D:D's attached to it. Ha.

So that's me in a nutshell for like the last three weeks. Work, sleep, and Sherlock. Still no icons, though. Ah, well.

After a 7-day stretch, I'm off tomorrow. Someone come sit beside me and tell me what you've been up to!

♥

All the Wholock on tumblr has done me in.

If I were to start watching Doctor Who, where would I start? Which Doctor? (David Tennant is kind of cute.) And where does Torchwood fit in? Does it? They've always been linked in my mind, though I don't really know why.

Still obsessed with Sherlock. The boy said he spent the entirely of John and Sherlock's phone call in Reichenbach waiting for one of them to say I love you to the other. Snerk.

The kids are about to watch The Reichenbach Fall for the first time.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA.


(seriously, the boychild is as invested as the wisplet and I. it's awesome.)

I have no idea who decided it was "let's love ruby" day, but wow! Thanks for the vgifts, entrenous88, justhuman, flaming_muse, and brynspikess!

At some point today I developed a sore throat, sore ears, sore back-of-my-neck, all topped off with a lovely headache. So I'm glad y'all were inspired, because it was just the thing to bring a smile to my face.

♥

I am so fucking heartbroken about Whitney Houston. This must be how my parents' generation felt when Elvis died. Blah blah drugs, fuck you - Keith Richards is still alive, for Christ's sake. Seriously, don't come in here and talk to me about that shit unless you want to be banned.

I idolized her. Adored her. She was my first real entertainment idol, and even though her style of music wasn't exactly my thing, her voice was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard, and I listened to and practiced with everything she did for hours upon hours, admiring and learning to sing better and better, and it worked - I sang in church, at weddings, at funerals, at least until I tore a vocal cord (in a fight with my now-ex husband). Whitney Houston is the music of *my* kids' childhood, that's how much I loved and listened to her.

I met someone, back when I used to go to church, who had worked with Whitney and who was friends with her, who was convinced that Whitney's faith would help her overcome her demons and get clean and healthy some day, and because that lady's faith was so strong and so sure, I came to believe it too. And even though I stopped going to church years ago and I'm agnostic now, I was still waiting for the day when Whitney would be happy and healthy and back.

The last thing she sang in public was "Jesus Loves Me", Friday night at a pre-Grammy party. With all my heart, I hope she's at peace, and I hope her loved ones and her daughter find some measure of it as well.

Goodbye, Miss Whitney. I always have (and always will) love you.

Anybody know a good graphics comm for Sherlock-type stuffs? I think I'm going to renew my paid account, so I want icons, and I need a Martin Freeman wallpaper like I need to breathe.

1. I couldn't wait for Amazon, and so I went to Barnes and Noble and bought Sherlock S1 for $10 more than I would have. NOT SORRY, NO. It's prettier on my TV than it is on my laptop.

2. Washington approved same-sex marriage! Yay, Washington!

3. I read 26 Pieces by Lanning today at lunch. Lovely way to spend a lunch hour, that's for sure.


I have to say, I haven't felt this particular level of fannish obsession in quite a while. Like, finger-twitching, gorgeous ache in the pit of your stomach, don't want to do anything except soak up every ounce of anything you can find. Mmmf.

I do not understand my reaction to Martin Freeman. AT ALL. Seriously. (Relatively) tiny, neatly-built guys who seem to be a bit on the quiet side haven't ever done it for me.

But I swear to god, from the very first bit of A Study in Pink, where he wakes up and is just sitting on the bed, hands folded between his knees... first watch, I had to pause it and my heart just went thwoomp, aaaand...there ya go. Done. Gone. Dead.

His stupid FACE. ♥



Sigh.

Happy birthday, boniblithe! I hope you've had a wonderfully lovely day. *hugs*

Erp. I seem to have missed a couple of birthday this week. Happy {belated} birthday to two wonderful, talented ladies - essene and idyll! I hope you had the very best birthdays of your lives {so far}, and that your special day was filled with laughter and love and lots of presents! *hugs*

♥

I just watched all six eps of Sherlock. Holy smokes.

1. Martin Freeman is ADORABLE. Such a neatly-built, small man. Which is totally not normally my thing. AND YET. I loff him!

2. It's so GOOD. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that.

Fic recs, please? (Except you, knotted_rose - your email just right now showed up in my inbox! Yay, thank you, you mind-reader, you!)

What have you been up to, lovelies? My back went out a few days ago, so I've spent a week gritting my way through the workday and then sleeping the vicodin off at night. (We hates it, precious, yes we does. But it helps!)

I know I'm a bit late, even here in Arizona, but I haven't been home all that long, so it still totally counts (I hope):

Happy birthday, earthly_gnome! I hope you had the very best time and got everything your large, awesome heart desired!

*hugs*

♥

happy birthday, justhuman! I hope it is full of love & magic & everything you want it to be. ♥

january

1. despicable me
2. the hangover (zach g is fucking funny)
3. the town
4. the expendables (soooooooooooooooo boring)
5. the other guys
6. the marine ('this guy's like the terminator.' *side-eye*. HA.)
7. dinner for schmucks (did not expect to like this as much as i did)
8. the soloist
9. rock n rolla
10. stuart: a life backwards
11. layer cake
12. devil (i thought this would be scarier)
13. black swan
14. up in the air

tried to watch the code, aka thick as thieves. OMG, the suck. even morgan freeman, antonio banderas and the promise of young tom hardy with an american accent could not make me finish watching this shit.

february

15. coraline (love the animation)
16. due date
17. bronson
18. terminator salvation
19. sherlock holmes
20. where the wild things are

march

21. taken
22. the fighter
23. the switch (the relationship between jason bateman's character and the little boy in this movie is ADORABLE)
24. unstoppable (SO GOOD)
25. unknown
26. percy jackson and the olympians: the lightning thief (pierce brosnan as a centaur. wtf.)
27. red
28. skyline (ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha)
29. brooklyn's finest
30. manic ( i thought this and brooklyn's finest were really good)
31. uncertainty (good. jgl is always interesting to watch, and both storylines were varying levels of intriguing, but at the end, i didn't really feel like it was a story that required the device used to tell it.)
32. gigantic (didn't like the lead guy in this movie. he was very "eh", even though i loved zooey and i liked the plot)
33. brick.
34. the constant gardener
35. zombieland
36. paul (aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. so funny.)
37. the eagle
38. it's kind of a funny story
39. surrogates

april

40. battle: los angeles
41. source code
42. 2Fast 2Furious

may

43. thor (totally worth a rewatch!)
44. prince of persia: the sands of time
45. carriers
46. fast five
47. the man who fell to earth
48. star trek: nemesis (i've seen all the rest of them. i'd ask how in the HELL did i miss the one with tom hardy, but...that was the year the ex and i broke up and i became a single parent and moved to california and back. mystery solved!)

june

49. priest
50. x-men: first class
51. after the sunset
52. kung fu panda
53. hanna
54. oyster farmer

july

55. defiance
56. max payne
57. quantum of solace
58. casino royale
59. did you hear about the morgans?

august

60. rise of the planet of the apes
61. horrible bosses
62. friends with benefits
63. bad teacher
64. just go with it
65. firewall
66. archangel
67. gun shy
68. the spy next door
69. falling for grace
70. hesher
71. death race 2
72. transporter
73. transporter 2
74. transporter 3
75. mirrors (OMGWTFWAH)
76. crank
77. blitz
78. crank 2: high voltage (hahaha, the FUCK?)
79. revolver
80. chaos (LOVED)

september

81. warrior
82. the mechanic
83. death race
84. kung fu panda 2
85. columbiana
86. war
87. the adjustment bureau
88. green zone
89. 13
90. cowboys and aliens
91. knowing
92. contagion
93. the others
94. swordfish
95. the fountain (a.k.a. the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck?)
96. beneath the planet of the apes
97. escape from the planet of the apes

october

98. real steel
99. the change-up

*got distracted by the west wing. ♥

december

100. in time
101. drive
102. setup
103. the ides of march
104. transformers: dark of the moon
105. crazy, stupid love
106. captain america: the first avenger
107. ca$h
108. the green hornet
109. fighting
110. the hangover 2
111. arthur christmas
112. the debt
113. 50/50
114. dragonheart
115. the man from earth (started watching, went "what?!?!?! so slow!" was too tired to turn it off, and wow. glad i didn't. really interesting.)