soft, fuzzy, warm, and plaid

Veronica Mars has been renewed for a third season.

Can I get a WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????

that would be the sound of real life and fandom colliding.

(the actress that plays) lily kane went to my high school.

i knew this, but just saw it again, and it's strange. a (dead) character from the high school drama i'm obsessed with graduated to my high school.

bah.

Firefly: TNG

ETA: oh, and The Plan of eSalvation.

after making the icon of me with my new glasses earlier, I hit my 15-icon limit. and i still didn't have a veronica mars icon. so i spent $10 of my allowance on a year's worth of userpics. i'ma dork. a dweeb, even. but, thanks to fly_meaway, i have several lovely new VM icons. I also have a kick-ass jayne icon courtesy of qtmjbcs. *bounce*

i'm too tired (again) to talk about Serenity, especailly since we just finished putting up 22 quarts of cordials/liqueurs (chocolate, chocolate mint, coffee, grand marnier, cardamom vanilla, currant, apricot, blackberry sage, herbal tea, vanilla, maraschino cherry, anise, chipotle, amaretto, and cranberry spice) for yule gifts.

however, i just checked out last night's box office figures. flightplan was #1 at $4.4 mil, and serenity was #2 at $4.2 mil. we didn't get out to see it again tonight, but we are going tomorrow.

Here's hoping for Alliance Strikes Back... er, I mean Serenity II in theaters soon.

thanks to trinapink, juergen, arcadian72, hhholiday, and darkest_mind for all the tea and soap advice. I figred it'd be easier just to respond to you all here.

--> if I do end up making soaps, I'll definitely go the hand-milled route. I've got little time to devote to this as it is, and I don't want to be playing with lye if I'm hurried. Plus, too many Fight Club flashbacks. ;)
--> trinapink, I'll definitely send you an email with more questions about soaps, etc.
--> hhholiday - any ideas on where I can find small quantities of things like jasmine flowers, etc. to mix into green tea? I've seen some vendors online, but I just don't need a pound of each ingredient.
--> trinapink, I generally do a mailing of some kind to everyone we know - last year was cards and/or cookies - so you *are* on our list :)
--> darkest_mind - as far as the cost component, I'm not worried about molds (I'm thinking sliced loaves), and I'd only do three different kinds at most, so I'm not too worried about scents/colors, either. If I can find the soap base at a good enough price, do you think it would be fairly cost-effective?

I'm trying to gauge what would be best-received, when deciding between teas and soaps. It also depends on ingredients - for example, if I end up having to buy a pound of every single tea ingredient because I can't find them in smaller quantities, then that's probably out.

Ok, time to assemble my brown boots, brown coat, and "Joss Whedon is my Master Now" t-shirt, and head out to meet Mer at the theater for the 7:20 show. Time to take back the sky.

*Serenity fan squee!!!*

Mer's on a date, so I have the house to myself. It's Friday, so there's four or five hours of CSI on Spike. (And they're episodes I haven't seen before!) I just had a 2-liter of Sprite and a pizza with bacon, ricotta, mushrooms, and olives delivered. I'm wearing sweats and a henley. (queentushy's former henley, in fact.) oh, and as a before-dinner snack, I polished off a container of Ben & Jerry's Uncanny Cashew. Veronica Mars premieres in less than two weeks, and two weeks from exactly now, I'll be in a theater watching Serenity. A week after that, my baby sister is due. Of course, Paige will probably decide to come into the world either right before or during one of the two premieres I'm so looking forward to. But I'm okay with that. I've forgiven my lil' brother for plenty of things over the years - I just might have to start early with her. :) Hmmm....I think I'll set the VCR for that Wednesday just in case.

I'm tired, and in a lot of pain, but life is good.

On the brown rice front: after talking to my dad, we decided to make the rice saturday morning. while shopping for the rice, we found brown basmati rice, which not only will add a little flair to this otherwise dull bland mild menu, will cook faster, or so the goddess of rice, aka fuzzybutchkins says.

On the baby presents front: i strayed a little from my original idea, going with 2 books (Click Clack Moo and Fox in Socks), 2 CDs of non-irritating children's music (Kenny Loggins' "Return to Pooh Corner" and the album from Tom Chapin with "Family Tree" and "This Pretty Planet" on it), and a hand-sewn sample of the fabrics for the baby quilt: tiny pink checks, tiny purple checks, and a pale yellow fabric with pink-and-purple flowers on it for the squares; white fabric with purple, green, yellow, and pink stripes for the backing; and pink baby blanket edging for the edging. Not exactly a color scheme I'd have chosen, but it matches the baby's room almost exactly. The shower itself was interesting. the Malibu (mer's car) died on the way there, so i got a nice long walk in the 95-degree humid heat home for the jetta while mer waited for the tow truck. i'll let her regale you with that story on her own lj if she so chooses. so we were an hour late to the party, where i got asked quite a few questions about where i was going to school...at the time i couldn't figure out why (was i looking particularly young that day or something?) but then i realized i was there with my "roommate", and apparently these people only had roommates in college. ah, well. we cut out early, citing the drama of the car troubles and the "long drive" and headed home, but not before getting "pocket angels" that had been blessed by some holy catholic guy as our shower favors. the irony was not lost on me that the outfit i was wearing did not have any pockets.

on work: the lease exchange (just one of the many projects this year) is coming to a close. by 5:00 tomorrow, it will be done. well, my part in it will be. to celebrate, i'm actually *taking vacation time* next week. i realized there was going to be a lull, and i'm taking advantage of it. monday and tuesday. and since mer will presumably still be temping for her mom, it will be alone time! yay! there has definitely not been enough of that in my life lately. of course, now that mer's dating someone in the same state, my alone time might increase. much happiness on that front, for a lot of reasons.

on fandom: i get my firefly dvds back tonight. i believe there will be a marathon next week when i'm off. also, i am feeling like a total squee-ish fangirl after having seen veronica and logan kiss for the first time last night. how did i miss out on all the original veronica mars goodness? why did nobody beat me with a tv guide and tell me to watch this damn show from the get-go? most importantly, why are the first season dvds coming out *after* season two starts? not fair. at all. of course, the fact that vm s2 premieres on the 28th and the serenity premiere is on the 30th make that a very good week indeed. statistically speaking, it also makes it a very good week for work to explode and for paige to be born. just sayin'.