Torchwood!

So, anyone watching this?  I could not wait until the 21st for this so I am downloading and watching.  The first two episodes so far have been amazing.  I won’t put any spoilers here just in case but the first episode was such an up and down ride and the second one is a good set up for the third.

Some highlights I loved…… explosions, Ianto and a forklift, you’re what? and my personal favorite……nekkid Jack. Nekkid, nekkid, nekkid Jack…… THUD……nekkid…….whew….  MUCH better nakedness than Nathon Fillon in Firefly, but that was pretty damn good too!!  (ok so that was a spoiler, get over it, or better yet, download it!!)

Nekkid……..thud…….I am SO doing a screen cap of that ass!!

Fireworks

As I sit here on the 4th of July watching the fireworks……….on the TV………. I think back on the times of my yesteryears when it was so much fun to gather friends and go down to Alki Beach and stake your claim early in the morning and play all day in the sun (well when it was sunny) just for that 45 minutes of fireworks that starts at 10:00 pm.  The fireworks were always the best and the music was contemporary (well being from Seattle how could it not be) and the company was always great, the food good and the ride home atrocious with all the traffic.  But I loved every minute of it.

Tonight, I watched the fireworks in New York, on TV, stunning and the music was fabulous.  I was of course just killing time until ours started here in Seattle of course.  Then I can hear the first crack of thunder that signals the start of the fireworks and I change the station, where I watched some really good fireworks set to some of the WORST music I have ever heard!!!!  How come we went from contemporary to crap………??  Or was it always crap and I was just a lot younger then.  I mean I loved going to the beach and hanging out.  Now, I still love the beach, but not the crowds, and what is with our fireworks literally shooting off a mushroom cloud??  Did they go nuclear?  So glad I am not there.  Jimmy Hendrix is playing now…….OK, I am changing the station now.  Enough of this, time to watch King of the Hill.

I will think about my youth later…………

Painting Lawn Furniture

I do love the sunny weather and we have been getting a lot more than usual for us this early in the summer.  They are even predicting sun for the 4th of July and that is a rarity among the slug dwellers of the Pacific Northwest.  So today, in this nice weather I decided to paint my lawn furniture.  I never thought much about it, I had this furniture at the house on the covered deck.  So it was a small table and chairs so I brought it to the condo, fits perfectly!!!  It is also metal, and during all the rain in the winter, I noticed some rust developing where none had been before since it had always been covered.  Well being the crafty person that I am…..ahem….. I bought some Rust-0leum in a matching color and have been outside painting the chairs and table.  Everything looks great.  Just one minor thing I forgot regarding paint.  It needs time to dry.  I am just not the sharpest knife in the drawer with all this household stuff.  I have always hated to do it, but when you are single you gotta do whatcha gotta do, and sometimes you have to sacrifice things for it to work.  Today I sacrificed a sundress.  I was so busy taping and painting, I forgot what I was actually doing and sat down in one of the chairs I had just finished painting!!  After I realized it, I just sat there and finished the other chair, I mean what am I going to do, so I now have these great tan stripes (of a sort) along the back of my dress.  Needless to say I had to redo the chair I sat in, but oh well.  At least I found all the spots I missed on the first go round. Now I have what looks like a brand new table and chairs out on the deck.  This time, I will get a cover for them since this new deck is uncovered.  My poor dress…..

San Diego Comic Con

Anyone going to the San Diego Comic Con in July??  Once again I am sure we will all enjoy the madness. This year they are once again having a Torchwood Panel with John Barrowman on Sunday in Ballroom 20.  And guess what, David Tennant will be in the house too!!  Also on Sundey, but I think they are crazy, they are only putting that panel in rooms 6BCF.  Check http://www.filmfetish.com/2009/06/17/torchwood-being-human-and-doctor-who-stars-to-appear-at-san-diego-comic-con/ for more info on the panels. 

This is going to be a rockin’ 40th anniversary!

My Family thinks I’m insane….

Ever since I moved to my condo, I am a lot closer to family now.  So I figure I should bug them a bit more than usual.  I mean, why not…right?  I am sick, I am really sick, like I am watching SpongeBob and enjoying it.  I’m on a tons of drugs and am loopy, I am stuffed up, coughed up a lung the other day, but the doctor showed me how to put it back so I can do that now on a daily basis.  But I ran out of kleenex.  I’m not asking much…… I just want my brother to go and get me some kleenex with the lotion in.  So I call my Mom, my brother answers…….Oh good, when you go out today house hunting, go get me some kleenex with the lotion in, I will pay you back……. uh huh… yeah……MOM!! Jean’s on the phone, she wants you to go to the store and get her some kleenex……….

Brothers…..a big help aren’t they?

Birthday parties and barbeques!

I was in San Diego once again for a nice long weekend.  Went of course to the zoo.

Look at this.  Is this the cutest EVER!!!  Daddy and son.  The baby is only 7 months old and a very independant.  He climbs anywhere he wants to go.  He is very socialized.  He was everywhere and so entertaining and doing things all kids seem to do…..sitting there eating dirt. LOL LOL  Well what can you do.  He is the cutest thing ever though.

 

 

Then on Friday night I went to see a preview of the new Elephant Odyssey at the zoo.  Wonderful!!!  The elephants have a great place to wade around and swim. Check it out http://www.sandiegozoo.org/

Dating

I always get asked, “why don’t you date?”  Well, let me recap for you my last date and maybe you will understand why I think the process is a complete waste of time.  I did the scary thing, joined an online dating service…..sigh……yes can we say desperate? I started chatting with someone and we chatted and exchanged photos for a couple months before deciding to meet for drinks and dinner.  We met at a restaurant and were in the bar having a couple drinks before our reservation was ready.  We were chatting, when he looks over at a girl who came in and he leans over and says to me, “Oh my God, isn’t she hot??” “She is so hot!!”   Yes, she’s hot, fine, she’s hot, whatever you say. Great, here we go.

“Holy shit!, look at that one! She has got to be a model. I’ve never seen tits so big!”  “Look at the size of HER TITS!”

Great, thanks, fine, big tits, yeah, got it…….  It goes on like this for about 10 minutes, when he turns to another girl at the bar and starts hitting on her.  The girl looks at him, then looks at me, I shrug my shoulders, she slaps him……  he calls her a bitch.  “What a bitch! Don’t you think she’s a bitch? What’d she hit me for??”   I don’t know, maybe because you are hitting on her while you are sitting here with me.  

By this time I was pretty much done.  This was no longer a date…….this was a night out with one of the boys.  Now the only problem was how to get away, for good.  I got lucky, the guy leaned back to finish off yet another drink and he tipped over backwards in his chair and passed out.  My God, just like in the movies. Sometimes wishes do come true.  I just looked at him, so did the other patrons.  One couple said they felt sorry for me, I said, “don’t, this was a first and LAST date”.   I asked the bartendar for the bill, I stuck it on his chest and walked out the door. 

I don’t date.  I CHOOSE not to.  It’s too humiliating………

Murphy’s Law really sucks….. LOL

I have this great condo.  I LOVE my condo!!!  I LOVE the really high ceilings best of all.  Well I did till last night.  Why is it, that no matter when you put the batteries in the smoke alarms, they ALWAYS and I do mean always, tell you the battery is low at 2:00 am??  Why is that?  2:00 freaking AM!!!  I crawl out of bed, get dressed because I have to go down to the garage and see if the ladder is available, bring the ladder back upstairs and disconnect the damn alarm.  I twist it off only to find it hardwired to the ceiling.  I finally figured out how to slide off a little panel and remove the battery.  OK, battery is out…..whew….. I climb down and just left the ladder and went to bed.  About 5 minutes later the alarm is going off again!!!  How?? There is no battery.  It seems these damn things beep when the battery is low, and because it is hard wired, beeps again to tell you there is NO BATTERY!!!  Son-of-a-BI***!!!  Back up the ladder because I can’t figure out how to shut it off.  Oh wait……figured it out……I ripped the SOB right off the ceiling!  It ain’t hard wired no more and it will never be again!

Being Sick…..

I hate being sick.  My head is stuffed up, I am coughing up a lung and have already been through about 4 boxes of kleenex.  The thing that makes is worse, is that all the over the counter medications don’t work anymore now that they have removed the one ingredient that actually made them work!!  Damn drug addicts, ruin it for everyone else.

Now I have to practically overdose myself in order to get anything to work………I know that if I can feel my hair growing, I am just at the right dosage.  Man, anything to clear my head!!!  I need sleep!!!!!   I will be glad when they figure out how to remove your head and set it on a shelf until you are over your cold.  I would get more things done.

I hate being sick.

Sensational!!

This is amazing!  Susan Boyle, a rather plain woman from Scotland has wowed the audience in England. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY 

Her voice is amazing.  Sigh….and I can’t carry a tune in a bucket.