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Dec. 11th, 2005 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nishatalithaIt occurs to me that I haven't actually updated for a while. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing - really, it just means I'm either lazy or busy, and it's more likely the former than the latter, although I have done things this week that I really can't be bothered noting.
Work has been work. We had the Black Caps staying with us (see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
house_monkey, I do occasionally put things of interest to you in), and I cleaned most of their rooms. Some of them were rather messy. I was on different floors the day they all checked out though, which was good. Actually, Thursday was a busy day. Dad was in Wellington that day, and I completely forgot about it! So, around five, my phone buzzes in my pocket, and it's him, and I asked why he was calling me! So we sat and talked in the foyer for a while, and then he went to the airport, and I went home.
Went to see the fourth HP movie at the Embassy on Friday evening withlaputain, jessikast, anschee, and darthsappho. It was better than I expected (not hard - I've given up having any sort of high expectations of the HP movies whatsoever), and the guy who played Cedric was really cute! They missed out a lot, like they had to, so I'm not sure how well the details transfer over to someone who hasn't read the books. Thanks to that, and a fic maudlinrose linked me to, I actually feel like rereading OotP and HBP, both of which I've read once. I may regret this impulse.
I also went to see The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe this afternoon with C., and it was quite good. A fairly accurate adaptation, all told, and while there are a couple of things from the book that I missed, there were also gryphons! Decent gryphons! There was one shot that I want a screencap of, and will earnestly work towards finding.
anschee and I put up our Christmas tree this afternoon. It wasn't dusty this year, because I had very carefully wrapped it up in plastic last year. Still got dust from the year before on it, but it didn't need vaccuming, which was nice. Now, if only someone in the flat would do the dishes! I did the last two lots, and I am resisting the idea of doing this lot as well. I may yet surrender, since it seems to be bugging me more than the others. On the other hand, I could distract myself with fic and/or Rurouni Kenshin...
Finished Blade of Tyshalle the other day. It's the first book where I've flipped to the end before I've finished it to check if people survived for quite a while. Normally I try to avoid doing that, since it's a reprehensible habit, but I needed to know. *shakes head* And it's really about the insane LARPers that your parents always warned you about, whose characters and world are more real to them than the world they actually come from. Fortunately, the world they play in is an actual place.
The next new Bujold book comes out in October next year: The Sharing Knife: Beguilement. Irresistable Forces has Winterfair Gifts in it, and will be out mass market paperback in Febuary, or so they say. They said that at the beginning of this year, too.
The most amusing incident for today was actually at church. You might remember me mentioning a certain incident that occured at the Good Friday service earlier this year, involving candles, smoke alarms, and fire engines. Well, at the children's service today, we had a repeat. There were only three candles involved this time, but they must have been positioned directly under the sensor, because shortly after the three advent candles had been lit, most of the way through Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, the smoke alarm went off. Everyone got up, filed out in an orderly fashion, and five minutes later the fire brigade turns up. Seems we don't have much luck with having candles at our services. I'm now vaguely surprised that the alarm didn't go off at the carol service last week, since there were many more candles. They probably weren't right under the sensor, though!
Work has been work. We had the Black Caps staying with us (see
house_monkey, I do occasionally put things of interest to you in), and I cleaned most of their rooms. Some of them were rather messy. I was on different floors the day they all checked out though, which was good. Actually, Thursday was a busy day. Dad was in Wellington that day, and I completely forgot about it! So, around five, my phone buzzes in my pocket, and it's him, and I asked why he was calling me! So we sat and talked in the foyer for a while, and then he went to the airport, and I went home. Went to see the fourth HP movie at the Embassy on Friday evening with
laputain, jessikast, anschee, and darthsappho. It was better than I expected (not hard - I've given up having any sort of high expectations of the HP movies whatsoever), and the guy who played Cedric was really cute! They missed out a lot, like they had to, so I'm not sure how well the details transfer over to someone who hasn't read the books. Thanks to that, and a fic maudlinrose linked me to, I actually feel like rereading OotP and HBP, both of which I've read once. I may regret this impulse. I also went to see The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe this afternoon with C., and it was quite good. A fairly accurate adaptation, all told, and while there are a couple of things from the book that I missed, there were also gryphons! Decent gryphons! There was one shot that I want a screencap of, and will earnestly work towards finding.
anschee and I put up our Christmas tree this afternoon. It wasn't dusty this year, because I had very carefully wrapped it up in plastic last year. Still got dust from the year before on it, but it didn't need vaccuming, which was nice. Now, if only someone in the flat would do the dishes! I did the last two lots, and I am resisting the idea of doing this lot as well. I may yet surrender, since it seems to be bugging me more than the others. On the other hand, I could distract myself with fic and/or Rurouni Kenshin... Finished Blade of Tyshalle the other day. It's the first book where I've flipped to the end before I've finished it to check if people survived for quite a while. Normally I try to avoid doing that, since it's a reprehensible habit, but I needed to know. *shakes head* And it's really about the insane LARPers that your parents always warned you about, whose characters and world are more real to them than the world they actually come from. Fortunately, the world they play in is an actual place.
The next new Bujold book comes out in October next year: The Sharing Knife: Beguilement. Irresistable Forces has Winterfair Gifts in it, and will be out mass market paperback in Febuary, or so they say. They said that at the beginning of this year, too.
The most amusing incident for today was actually at church. You might remember me mentioning a certain incident that occured at the Good Friday service earlier this year, involving candles, smoke alarms, and fire engines. Well, at the children's service today, we had a repeat. There were only three candles involved this time, but they must have been positioned directly under the sensor, because shortly after the three advent candles had been lit, most of the way through Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, the smoke alarm went off. Everyone got up, filed out in an orderly fashion, and five minutes later the fire brigade turns up. Seems we don't have much luck with having candles at our services. I'm now vaguely surprised that the alarm didn't go off at the carol service last week, since there were many more candles. They probably weren't right under the sensor, though!