An Idea Is Bulletproof

Well the weekend was fantastic! Saturday was one of Mel's tshirt shindigs. Oh my goodness did the shirts ever turn out looking so good! I am so happy with how everything worked out. I can't wait to make more! ;)

After the shindig Tom, Jo and myself went to meet up with Sue downtown, I got happily buzzed on rasberry coolers :) All was well.

Sunday the snow storm was in full force. Everything looked so pretty. I totally skipped down my street to get to the subway. There was far less skipping when I had to walk to the grocery store and then to my parent's house, and by walk I mean trudge through knee deep snow. I've not done that since I was a kid! While the snow is not fun to shovel I think it looks great and I'm so excited that we might have a white Christmas this year.

Today I am oddly in a lot of pain and annoyance. Annoyance because I broke the cement off of the last wire that's on my teeth and so it's half coming off and I have to go to the orthodontist and get it reattached on Wednesday, 'til then it's going to drive me nuts. And suddenly today I find my stomach is killing me! No clue why. It feels like the stress stomach aches that I used to get (which the hospital kept thinking was appendicitus so that's about the level of pain) but I've not had one in years so I'm hoping it doesn't turn out to actually be something serious because I have so much else that I want to do this week.

Woah, weird dreams last night. First of all there was an underlying theme of making tshirts which is because my mind is clearly on the tshirt shindig that Mel's hosting today :) SO that was fun although as dreams are it was rushed and somehow we had no time and were yet only making something like a shirt an hour so we were really behind. But the designs were really cool. The shirts that did get made were constantly in danger of being ruined as random cats kept sleeping on them when the ink was wet... THEN on top of that we were half watching/half in some kind of horror movie where people were being killed and it would always look like it was the fault of their friend who was in the room only it wasn't, it was just all of these freak accidental deaths that people kept getting blamed for.

So my head is very random. Anyways, I'm off to make some spiffy tshirts for one and all. Should be fun :)

I've been having dreams full of Browncoats for the past few nights. Last night I think we were all in France. Why France? Who knows. There was some random dream drama of having to check in and out of hotels and having luggage not get lost and through it all we kept all randomly meeting up at this little restaurant which was no where near the airport or hotel which was causing us lots of trouble because we'd check out of the hotel and then go to the restaurant before the airport so we'd be trying to transport luggage... I dunno, my brain is weird.

Then the night before I was dreaming that Earth had been evacuated because it was going to blow up (you know, because that happens a lot) and was on the ship I was on and we all watched out a window to see the earth expload (my dreams clearly have neat special effects!) and then she suggested we start watching Firefly episodes which actully would be probably pretty appropriate for that sort of situation lol.

I guess my subconcious missed the last Shindig a lot lol. Either that or I'm just really looking forward to the marathon and tshirt shindigs which are both coming up very soon :)

Hey all, I have my few photos from Can't Stop the Serenity posted here: http://laurentian.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2015180&l=8dbd4&id=158901505 Facebook tells me that you should be able to see that even without a Facebook :) Sorry there are so few. My USB drives weren't working again so I didn't think I'd be able to upload but apparently my camera USB is still working even though nothing else is. Oh my computer, it has such character.

I moved a few boxes today, checked out my new room again, I'm trying to envision how I'm going to fit all of my stuff in there, it's going to be tight but I think I can do it :) Bedtime again soon, I'm still tired even after my mini coma last night!

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 know I promised a VM review for the latest episode... but then my computer ate it and I don't feel like re-typing. Ergo I sum it up in a spoiler free "SQUEE" and move on :)

Yesterday was busy busy busy but fun. I was up early, fought with my computer to burn a Bway CD for Jo and then was out the door to go to Viv's place :) I ended up waking her up but surprisingly she was cheerful about it :) The lucky girl is seeing Guster play tomorrow night! I so would go except it would wipe me out for work the next day and I just was sick on Friday and I don't want to have to ask if I can come in later so soon after that. Viv, I know you're lurking on here as of late but I'd love to read a review of the show :)

I also picked up my Firefly loaner set from her so Dell and Danny when you guys want to watch them I'll bring them by/you can pick them up :)

Viv and I also hit up Blockbuster as I was leaving and I got 4 really excellent looking films from Mongrel's Festival Collection:

The End of Silence, The Forest for the Trees, Things To Do, and Our Town. Much watching to do soon :)

Then I stopped off at the bank to order more cheques and then went to my parents place and chatted with my dad for a few hours before the Shindig :)

The Shindig downtown was fun (as they always are.) I met some new people and got so talk with lots of friends. I was still feeling a bit sore headed after the Friday migrane so I had to pass on the fabulous chocolatey brownie that was being shared (and cannot believe I missed an opportunity to slip in the Brownie song from Reefer Madness, darn!) but I did eat a fabulous bread pudding that tasted of rum and custard :) No complaints here. I also have borrowed the first season of Farscape from Tom which I hope to start tomorrow evening :) and a fabulous looking (and massive) graphic novel called Blankets which has come so highly recommended that I'm very excited about that one as well :) As ususal the evening was full of great conversations and Tom, Jo, Kevin and myself were the last to leave. That's somewhat the habit by now. Just as we were getting into the car to head home (thank you again Tom for the ride!) a homeless man came asking for help buying food so I gave him my leftovers from dinner. I hope he liked it :)

Today was much less busy, all I had to get done really was grocery shopping and cooking dinner. I worked on my Buffy icon set a bit, slept slept slept and watched the Grease "You're The One That I Want" Broadway auditions because even though it's reality it's also Broadway and so far it's pretty darn fun to watch :) Now it's time for Crossing Jordan and then bed so I can be somewhat coherent tomorrow for work... and hopefully have far less head pain :)

And now on to the Browncoat Shindig last night. First of all can I just say how much I adore Browncoats. I mean we're all a little bit geeky over our fandoms but everyone just are fascenating well read, well travelled, people. I had so many conversations last night which weren't relating to anything Joss Whedon related at all and got a lot of advice and stories and just had a ball!

We went to the Elephant and Castle on Yonge st. Made too much noise there calling out everyone's names, had to quiet down a little... and then I'm sure were still loud again after lol. I saw lots of people I remembered from SFX and then so many new people. Some actually new to the group, most just new to me. Food there was lovely. I had the castle stir fry (just veggies) and loved it! I had been starving all day so dinner was a fabulous idea. Conversation was, as mentioned above, wonderful. From Canadian TV shows, to teaching, to musicals....to dinosaurs having sex on Jason's head (pic spam coming soon) we covered a lot!

After dinner Tom and I took Rosie out to Tim Hortons as she's just come overseas to Canada from the UK and hadn't tried it yet. It took a while (and me getting mildly lost) to find one that was open late but we did and she's now discovered the double double and Timbits ;) Very Canadian :)

It was just a great night, I got in SO late and now I'm rushing like mad to get ready for the Slean concert but it's totally worth it!


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