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First: I am somehow the subject of

writertracy's Author Spotlight this week! Also, in lieu of publicity headshots (I have none), I let her choose any of the Secret Life pictures she wanted. Obviously, this involved ponies.

Second: Let's have some linkspam. ( Read more... )

I am completely confused as to what day of the week it is--I keep thinking it's Monday, because my mother took off work yesterday, and usually if she's home on a weekday, it's a Friday holiday of some kind. So when everyone went to work today--clearly, it's Monday, right?

Sadly, the reason she was home is because she hurt her knee two weeks ago--just stepping down off a curb in high heels, she said, nothing big--but it not only hurts two weeks later, the pain is getting worse. And she talked to a friend who's married to a something-or-other, I don't know, and this friend has suggested that she has torn her meniscus, which will not heal on its own. So FINALLY, after two weeks of me bugging her to no avail, she's going to try to get in to see the doctor, and if that's what it is, she'll have to have surgery. She took yesterday off just to give it time to rest; God knows when the doctor will be able to see her. Of course, the last time she had knee surgery, we caught her up and mopping the kitchen floor that afternoon, so.

Meanwhile, I'm still a little dizzy and chilly-flashy from the medication adjustment, but I already feel tons more alert. I'm also a little disorganized--like before I wasn't alert enough to concentrate, but now I'm too alert. Hm. I think it'll even out.

I say we have some linkspam. ( Read more... )

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Garbage - Tell Me Where It Hurts

Re: the SDCC exclusive Tonner Edward variant: I think my problem here isn't OMG IT'S A TWILIGHT DOLL I MUST HAVE IT; it's that I love incorporating stuff into the Secret Life stories. And "stuff" often gets expensive, although not always--some of the best bits have been small reader gifts (The Littlest Cowboy Hat, for example), or stuff I found around the house (the dessert fork for pitching the ponies' grass), or old toys from my closet (the ponies themselves). I mean, there are dolls I want for myself that I haven't bought because I couldn't justify the cost (even crazy-fantastic bargains) by thinking of a way to incorporate them--but I see something that makes me go HOLY SHIT I HAVE TO PUT THAT IN THE STORY and it's like my brain just shuts down. I mean, I saw Super Special Exclusive Legolas with Cloak on eBay and fought for that thing to the $40 death ~~AND STILL GOT IT FOR HALF WHAT IT USUALLY GOES FOR, SUCKAAAAAS~~. It's kind of my equivalent of "SQUIRREL!"

But I am trying to talk myself down off the Gratuitous Edward Variant ledge because: Alice. I have to have Alice. I can't not have Alice. I have to bring Alice's awesome to The Shelf. I can't blow this kind of money on a character I already have in a slightly different shirt and afford an Alice. So there's that. I... I'll have to see a picture of the variant Edward, I guess. *hangs head*

Oh, by the way, we have a reader question about dolls--where to find good sites for accessories for 4" figures?

Oh, and my mother has found someone who wants to buy the plates. Not the mugs yet, though.

( Linkspam )

Current Mood: a touch sunburnt
Current Music: Joan Jett - I Hate Myself For Loving You

Linkspam:

Remembering Natasha Richardson, 1963-2009; Natasha Richardson, 45, Stage and Film Star, Dies (New York Times); Natasha Richardson: A critical appreciation; Richardson Died of ‘Blunt Impact,’ Medical Examiner Says; U.S. Release Plans Uncertain for Natasha Richardson Film, 'Wild Child'; Natasha Richardson: 17 key roles; Lindsay Lohan and Alan Cumming Comment on Natasha Richardson's Death; Rivers recalls Richardson as 'amazing and darling'; Natasha Richardson: Stars and friends remember her. Among the many:

Ralph Fiennes (Richardson's costar in Maid in Manhattan and The White Countess)
"For everyone who knew and loved her, Natasha's death is a terrible, devastating loss. She was a star. A great actress, a beautiful woman, a fiercely loyal friend, a brilliant and generous companion. She was an adoring and loving wife and mother. She was unique. My thoughts and prayers go out to Liam and her beautiful sons, Micheál and Danny and to all her family. I cannot imagine a world without her wit, her love, her mischief, her great, great talent and her gift for living. I loved her very much. She was a supreme friend. I shall miss her deeply."

Helen Mirren (Richardson's costar in The Comfort of Strangers)
"Natasha was a great actress, a fantastic mother, a loving wife and a whirlwind of energy, with an infectious love of life expressed firstly by her wonderful deep laugh. Anyone who knew her will be in mourning today. I hope that Liam and her sons are helped in their pain by the great love and sympathy that is coming to them from people all over the world."

Meryl Streep (Richardson's costar in Evening)
"Tash was the warm sun in the center of a large constellation of family, friends, all of those lucky enough to know her. She is irreplaceable in our lives; she gave us so much, so generously. Her legacy is the love that connects us all."

( I think we all need a laughing puppy now )

Rather than spam your friendslist with a one-sentence entry, let's just set this aside for Lost discussion as well, okay?

ETA: I'll post it again, but here's the new Hanso-related website. (Sponsor: Jeep.) I can't get it to load yet, so I'm going to let the traffic cool down a bit before I go back.

I've got some linkspam I need to post, but once again, I've gotten behind on LJ stuff because I've been writing (zomg). I kind of talked my mother into seeing Mission: Impossible, since I needed to see it again to catch some things I wasn't clear on the first time (like the spelling of Keri Russell's character's name, which I found spelled four different ways on various websites and press materials. In the movie, you actually see it spelled Lindsey Farris, so I at least got that locked down), and I know her. I knew she would love it. What was really funny was that she did, but we're walking out of the theater and she says, "Darn it, that was a really good movie! I didn't want him to have a good movie!" Hee.

Also, she spent the whole "fulcrum in Shanghai" part clutching me and whispering, "Oh my God! Shit! Shit!" It's sad that Alias is going off the air, because I realize now that she would have loved that show. (She is absolutely addicted to Prison Break and the Jack Bauer Power Hour [™ spidey_88].) I'll have to get her into syndication reruns or something.

(It's a PENDULUM, Luther.)

Also, they showed the new POTC2 trailer again, and my mother was very happy.

[The team attempts to extract intelligence from Davian on the Impossible Plane.]

ETHAN: You’re dead. You’re on a plane that’s about to crash onto a mostly deserted island, which is actually purgatory, or maybe a psychiatric experiment, or possibly some autistic kid's snowglobe. You will be surrounded by improbably attractive people who will get killed off during various sweeps periods. Occasionally, my cousin will terrorize you. Also, there will be polar bears.

While we're talking about it, my plan is to keep MI3 for the potential book, but anything that's not franchise/series that I get to do, I'll put online. Specifically, The Da Vinci Code, which my mother really wants to see. Except that it's getting terrible reviews in Cannes from the American critics over there, where it's getting panned not as "cheesy" or "convoluted" or "ridiculous," but... dull. "Stodgy and grim," as one guy said. So... basically, I'll be taking that bullet for you.

Current Music: New Order, "Guilt is a useless emotion"

Wow, I am tired today. Like, a weird kind of tired--a hungover kind of tired, where I've gotten enough sleep so that I'm not actually tired, but my eyes are puffy and I feel like I'm dragging weights by my ankles. The weird part is that this is a caffeine hangover, as I had two Mountain Dews and a large, commemorative Coke at the movie last night. I think I may have actually still been on a caffeine high when I woke up, which is kind of scary.

So, I was saying: I had a very full day. Also, I have discovered that there's something about the Mission: Impossible theme that will make just about anything seem exciting. So download one below and continue.

( Downloads )

So. My mission, should I have chosen to accept it, and it's pretty obvious that I did, was to complete a media triathlon in nine hours: find and watch a DVD that my grandmother will actually enjoy (and given that 1) Pirates of the Caribbean didn't entirely cut the mustard and 2) we had run out of Jane Austen movies the family owns on DVD, you see what a difficult task this could be); get over to the Vestavia Rave for a 5 pm showing of Mission: Impossible III, or however they're punctuating it today; get to Panera and "ask for a Chris Bonney," in order to get a free dinner; and get back to the house by 7:58 for Lost, because the show tends to start a little early.

So, in order: ( Mild spoilers for two movies )

Also, Sister Girl brought home three bags of challah. It was a good day.

Current Music: "Schifrin and Variations"

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