An Idea Is Bulletproof

Another weekend is drawing to a close... they all seem too short these days! I didn't accomplish a lot but I kept busy and had fun so that's all that matters. My short overview of the weekend:

On Saturday I visited my family, had a nice dinner over there and picked up some mail that was waiting for me. Today I had a nice breakfast out with a friend and we stopped by Silver Snail and then I just had a nice relaxing afternoon/evening.

The next week is going to be really busy, I have tutoring, a Slean concert in Hamilton on Thursday and the Browncoat marathon on Saturday! Phew!

And there's life in 2 minutes or less ;)

Oh and before I forget, for new friends to this LJ I also have an icon journal which you can check out here rage_my_darling if you feel so inclined. My recent posts in there have been for Blood Ties and The Golden Compass. There's a lot of Whedonverse icons in there and other assorted goodies.

First allow me to point out the current tally for the Can't Stop The Serenity donation to Equality Now. We've just passed $90,000 and I think once the last 8 cities are in we'll be over the 100,000 goal!

In other news this week the Polaris schedule is up and now I'm getting really excited to be there :) I found quite a few interesting looking panels and have been voluntold that I'll be helping out. Sounds like a fun and busy weekend is coming up :)

I'm unpacking slowly but surely. I think it'll be another week and a half or so before I have my room ready for some pictures to share with you guys but there will be some eventually :) I love the commute to and from work now, even though I've moved farther away it's SO much faster to get to work and thus it's faster to get home. I had time after work to make a quick mall trip and got a pair of jeans and new shoes for the weekend and while wandering WalMart I found a Wizard of Oz shirt so I had to buy that... that store is dangerous I tells ya, but I can rarely pass up Oz things.

I am back in the land of the internet! I haven't caught up with LJ at all and probably won't tonight (I'm super exhausted) but I'll try to get caught up with everyone asap.

I had a fun week downtown, went swimming a lot with Jo and saw a really entertaining lesbian comedy act a which was hilarious and involved stripping gymnastics, a cirque du soleil routine and a trapeeze along with singing. It was not what I was expecting at all but it was a fantastic act!

I also caught up with a few old friends this week, so much easier to do when I'm not so far out of town. I'm excited to move somewhere closer to downtown than I am now :)

This weekend was absolute madness. I clocked about 3 hours on the TTC on Saturday between getting to the west end for groceries, east end for bday dinner (and presents of MANY Farscape DVDs!) with the family, and then back to my housesitting job.

Sunday was Mel's (annual?) tshirt making shindig and I'm going to cut that one because there are lots of pictures as well as stories.

( click the link to see the shiny tshirts )

I was in an odd mood yesterday and was lying on the couch in the opposite way from normal and ended up still feeling somewhat restless and so slept upside down in my bed... and then cricked my neck. Oy! I don't think I was sleeping in a funny position for long though because it's already becoming almost not sore at all :)

In other news, there are not enough Farscape screencaps floating around out there! It's frustrating. I'll have to make some of my own eventually but it was just baffling to find a cult show like this and not find huge screencap sites. I'm used to firefly having Still-Flying and Buffy/Angel having Screencap Paradise... boo urns.

OH and in most fantastic news. Stampy has arrived. Stampy is what my roommate christened my cheque from Warner music at the point they were ignoring me and it became a point of principal to get the thing rather than being just funny. Clearly this is my elephant :) (Simpsons reference) I now must get it framed and up on the wall next to the poster :) I am very amused with this :)

Clearly I confuse myself far too easily. When I left work today I was fully aware that it was Wednesday. Then as I was shopping for tiny travel things for Kingston (my attempt at packing light begins with packing small) somehow my brain decided that it was Grey's Anatomy night which would make it Thursday. Nomi had to correct me when I was all excited for the new episode.

In other news I have a myspace (I know, I caved!) but I'm not sure what to use it for yet...

Anyways, for those who are interested I am here: http://www.myspace.com/elizalavelle

I don't really want to blog about life in there because I have that option here already.... so I have no clue what to put there.

Oh and I've been making icons again :) Icon journal is here: rage_my_darling currently I'm in the midst of a BtVS centric project, but there should be a variety of subjects being posted soonish :)

And that's my self promotion ;)

In other news I feel I should give the show Farscape a go. So many people say how amazing it is, that can be something else to work on this year :) Oh that and I sat down this week and FINALLY watched my first full episode of How I Met Your Mother and it's one of the funnier things I've seen :) I may have to one day pick up the first season on DVD for fun :) Hello Vortex, make it happen ;)

The zoo is so fun! It was a looooooooooong day but great. I (of course) managed to get hurt... on a popsicle of all things. Not even a cool animal accident, no, a popsicle. It was soooooooo cold that my lip froze to it a bit and bled :( However the popsicle was very tasty so there are no hard feelings ;)

We all got a little bit burnt by the sun. I burnt through SPF 70 people, clearly I am too white for my own good. However my burn doesn't hurt this time, which is odd but I'm not going to complain :)

We saw soooooooo many adorable animals, we went everywhere! So much walking but so great. At least we're all excercised. And of course we hit up the gift shop on the way out and got some adorable stuff. I got a stuffed Golden Lion Tamarin. Those little guys were my favourite on this trip I think... well one of my favourites. The downside of the zoo is I come home wanting about 20 different exotic animals to live in my house. I also got a little plastic bowl with my name on it (cheesy but so cute!) and animals inside. And a plastic hippo (HOUSE HIPPO!!!!!) and a plastic llama (Llama = yes, bootleg = no. Icons coming soon ;) ) and some cute little soaps for our bathroom. Nomi got us some great fridge magnets too, our apartment has a little bit of zoo theme going on.... which shall soon be eclipsed by New York theme and Oz theme.

So yes, a Sarah Slean concert it was not, and I'd be lying if I said any of us would have chosen that day if we had the concert option. So there was some disappointment there. But we went out and had such a fun day anyways and just made the best of it and that worked out really well. And while I opted to stay home today (too tired!) we're heading out for dinner and a concert tonight so it is a good use of my vacation days. I sort of feel like I've had a mini summer vacation :D

Phew just finished making my bases for icons from the last episode.... not spoiling anything but if you're read my past few entries then you'll get this.

( cut just in case, total speculation, no spoilers! )

At any rate I shall be making icons this weekend. I made 62 bases... far to excessive, some will have to be scrapped. But I'm sick so I'm making myself stay in and get better. I also want to make some more book cover icons. While I think they amuse mostly just me I'm quite liking them.

And since I'm in a VMars mood: VD is for everybody it's one of those ads from 1969 that is informing the public about VD... with a cheery song, and dancing lol.

Anyways I'm sick so I should sleep. However, even with a cold, I feel all summery because I didn't have my moisturizer on hand so I put a little sunscreen on my face and now I smell like summertime :)