The Bungalow

Today was the Second Annual Fancy Dress Croquet Day at the Lakefront. It was just as fun as it was last year! Even more so cos the husband and child came with this time.

So, what Fancy Dress Croquet Day is is, last year a friend of mine had this idea that we should all dress-up like Country Club douchebags and go down to the lakefront and have a picnic and play croquet! It was just as amazing as it sounds.

Here's something funny. Last year, there was a group of girls sunbathing who were totally amused by us and thought we were hilarious. Which, is kind of the point. They came over and chatted for bit and took some pictures. This year, a couple hours into our stay, a group of girls shows up and starts sunbathing (we were in the same place as last year). They look kind of familiar and I wonder if perhaps it's the same girls that were there last year. So, we're packing up to leave this year and one of them comes over and asks if we were there last year playing croquet and stuff. IT WAS THEM! It was sooooooooo funny!! Cos, what are the odds, really?

And then the day ended with Burger Fest! My friends who live in the city are lucky cos it's literally right outside their door! I wish we could have stayed later cos The Kongos were playing tonight!! But it was too late for Martouf and we just had to get home. So, yeah...

Anywho, there are some pics behind the cut if anyone is interested in our shenangians. :-)

( Fancy Dress Croquet! )

Anyone else obsessed with Orphan Black? The final season just started and I've been obsessed since Day 1. But, I just realized, have the ever answered the WHY? of it all? Why were the clones created? What does Dyad want with them? Just a general WTF is going on with it all? It's been so long between all the seasons and so much other TV happens in between I may have just forgotten if it was ever actually said in the show.

So, anyone have any answers?

Um, hello? Is anyone here?

I finally completely deleted my LJ after the ridiculous new TOS were posted. I think that means all the comments that imported here and at my fic comm were deleted. *shrug* Oh, well. Not much to do about that now. Anywho, I thought I might take up posting here again. Got some fun stuff coming up and no one seems to care on Tumblr? Like, no one has conversations over there anymore. So, yeah. Hi. I'm back? I think? LOL

Has it really been over 2 months since I last posted? Whoops...

( 50/50 shot )

Finished season 1 and I have a question - what's the deal with turning? Obviously, the full moon does play a part in it, but it seems like they can also turn whenever they want if they get mad enough or whatever. Like, in the final fight with the Alpha, Derek and Scott both turned. Then in the scene after that when Scott and Allison were on her roof, the moon wasn't full. So, what's up with that? I don't recall it ever really being explained on the show.

More complete episode thoughts and reactions. Pretty much positive to everything and everyone, so if there's someone you didn't like, just know that I probably did like them. At least today. ;-)

( You need somewhere to put your love, right? )

Last night, I was putting Martouf to bed, he was all tucked in, lights turned out and all that. I bent down to kiss him good night and he whipped his head up and bashed right into the bridge of my nose. There was a cracking/popping noise, a little bit of blood (though more like a little blood tinged mucus), and bruising and swelling almost immediately. It is now about 19 hours later and it still hurts. Not nearly as bad as it did when it first happened, but it still doesn't feel good.

However, good news - it's not crooked. Hence why I haven't gone to the ER yet. I did do some Googling and everything seemed to say the same thing. If it's not crooked, it doesn't need to be set, so no need to see a doctor. If it's still hurting a few days later, then you might want to get it checked out. So, if by Sunday I'm still in pain, then I might head to the ER and see what they say.

So, yeah. That's my day so far.... :-)

Ski trip was a success. Martouf LOVED it and was surprisingly very, very good at it like right away. He just instinctively knew what to do to turn and go faster. He's an amazing kid.

( Here's some video if you want to see )

So, my husband and I are currently sleeping in separate rooms. Don't worry, nothing's horribly wrong between us; it's just his snoring has gotten out of control and I can't sleep in the same room with him right now. I am not exaggerating when I say that if he is asleep, he is snoring. The whole night. No joke. It used to be that he would snore a little, I'd give him a little nudge, he'd stop, and that was that. Not so much anymore. It came to a head Thursday night when he was not only snoring the whole night, but LOUDLY. Apparently, I ended up kicking him so hard he got a huge charlie horse in his calf and he got out of bed at like 4:30 or something and went down to the couch. I did not get any sleep that night at all. Plus, I had a horrible cold, so Friday really sucked and I spent most of the day sleeping. Saturday was a little better, but I still spent most of the day napping as I was still horribly sick.

So, since Thursday we've been trading off who sleeps in our bed and who sleeps in the spare room or on the couch. He's apparently looking to find a new GP to go in for a general check-up and will bring up the snoring problem to see what they think they can do. So, yeah. That's been fun...

Here's hoping 2013 is better.

I got to go to a special advance screening of The Hobbit last night thanks to my mother-in-law. It was some sort of official thing put on by this company they contract with, so there was some pretty sweet swag we got.

Overall, LOVED IT. I haven't actually read the book (I know, I know), so I can't really compare it to that. But I thought it was great.

Some general things:
1) I don't know if you heard, but after the New Zealand premiere, some people were complaining about the 48 fps causing migraines and physical illness. I didn't notice any of that, but there were a couple scenes where the camera was moving very quickly and cutting sharply at time. That did cause me to have to glance away a couple times.
2) The running time is about 2:45, so make sure you pee before the movie starts. ;-)

And now, a couple movie specific things ( aka spoilers, unless you've read the book )