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1) Ninjas!

2) Hilarity!

3) Torontonians being hilarious ninjas!

4) I love Canada!

5) I love Toronto!

6) Once again, it's from the great Mary Sue dot com.

NINJAS ATTAAAAAAAAACK!



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(Gakked from the marvelous alyse.)

This meme is awesome:

Go look at your blog journal. Find the last Fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the Zombie Apocalypse. How fucked are you?

Well, it depends. If we're talking the actual fandom I'm part of, then it would be the Stargate: Atlantis fanfic I wrote for ariadnes_string's Fever Commentfic Meme. (There are more SGA prompts on the last two comment pages, btw--we need fills, my sister SGA fans!)

If I can count that one, then I'll have Team Sheppard behind me and we're going to kick undead ass, no problem. BRING IT ON, AGENTS OF THE APOCALYPSE!

However, if by 'fandom' it means, 'any media that either already is a fandom or could be one', then the last post I made would be the one I made about the stereotypes in the new Alphas show on SyFy, and while I suppose it'd be cool to have a bad ass sniper dude with great balance and super-fast reflexes at my disposal, he's apparently also insane which might be problematic. The super-strong FBI agent would most likely be a great help when it came to kicking down doors or heaving SUVs at the shambling throngs of undead, but zombies are really something you should deal with using distance weapons. And the technomancer guy with an Autism Spectrum Disorder would be pretty much useless after the power goes out. Unfortunately the two female team members would be even worse, since the one who can make people do her bidding requires her target to have a functioning brain, and the one who can have one super sense at a time would be standing still a lot, which is just an invitation to be lunch.

But they'd still be better than nothing. Hopefully.

On the other hand, my most recent post also mentioned the Hawaii 5-0 reboot. Hell, Steve and Kono could probably take on the entire zombie hoard by themselves.














Psst! I've filled my first prompt square for my hc_bingo card! \o/ Check it out!

It's also serendipity. But the serendipity comes before the irony. It's a saga, I tell you.

Around Christmas time last year one of my lovely FListers by the name of fish_echo sent me ( this epic graphic novel of love and sacrifice: )

Which, naturally, was so awesome that I made my darling husband take me to Hobby Lobby so I could get a frame for it. Because of the torn notepage edge, the surly Hobby Lobby Picture Framing person (as far as I can tell you're not allowed to work in the Framing Department unless you're permanently disgruntled) told me I should use a 'floating' frame, which meant basically to sandwich the artwork between two pieces of glass.

Or, in this case, one piece of glass and one piece of plastic. I was also required to do this myself in the comfort of my own home. Nor did the frame actually come with instructions. I guess it's the iPhone of the framing world--so intuitive you can figure it out by yourself. Or at least I'm certain that the majority of humanity could probably figure it out by themselves.

Anyway, I came home with my frame and put it on the kitchen counter, and then kind of ignored its existence for five months. Hey, I was lazy forgetful lazy busy.

But yesterday when I was tidying up the house, I decided that lo, today would be the day when I actually put fish_echo's gift up on the wall. So I took the frame and the picture to the living room, carefully unwrapped everything, exclaimed in pleased surprise over the fact that the frame included ways to hang it vertically and horizontally, and then spent the next hour trying to get the picture straight and centered in the frame.

Yeah, an hour. Which I'm going to blame on my dyslexia.

I'll get to the looming tragedy in a moment, but first the serendipity part. And not just because I like typing 'serendipity'. Naturally, because I was looking at her present after hiding it from myself for five months, I started thinking about fish_echo and what had become of her after all this time and how she was doing etcetera. And she left a comment in my most recent LJ post that very same evening! How awesome is that?

And hey, Fishy! Good to hear from you! I still love that picture!

But now we need to get back to the irony part.

Finally, finally, it was done. The picture was as even and centered as it was ever going to get. I carreeeeeefulllly placed the glass panel over it, slowly slid the metal frame edges on to hold the glass and plastic together to trap the paper in between, took a moment to admire my handiwork, then flipped the frame over to see how large a nail I'd need to hang it.

And realized I'd put the picture in upside down.

(That's not actually the ironic part. The ironic part is coming. That was just pathetically hilarious.)

There was no way in hell I was going to frame the picture again, so I luckily brilliantly figured out a way to hang the picture properly anyway. This involved glue, so I left the framed picture on the coffee table until this morning.

(Here comes the irony. Get ready.)

This morning I pick up the frame to show fish_echo's awesome present to my husband.

"That frame looks really fragile," my husband says.

"It's fine," I say. "It's a piece of glass over a piece of plastic." And I turn it over in my hands to adjust one of the metal frame pieces and promptly drop the whole thing on the living room floor.

Our living room is carpeted, but that made no difference. The glass frame shattered. Even the plastic back of the frame had a crack in it.

And I just burst out laughing. Because at that point, how couldn't I?

Stolen from desert_rose, though I'm sure it's been everywhere:

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In January I committed genocide... Sorry about that, debris_k (-5000 points). In June I got in line at the supermarket at the same time as someone else and I didn't yield (-8 points). Last Sunday I ruled Canada as a cruel and heartless dictator (-700 points). Last Friday I ruled Iran as a kind and benevolent dictator (700 points). In November I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points). Overall, I've been naughty (-4682 points). For Christmas I deserve a lump of coal! Sincerely, taste_is_sweet

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I love the advertisements I get from my GMail server. Because I mentioned somewhere that I'm interested in babies (well I was, for the obvious reason that I had one), I'm occasionally bombarded with adverts for special baby products.

Check this one out.

I swear I laughed out loud when I realized that they're pretty much selling big mixing bowls as special baby baths. You have to admit, it's brilliant--I probably could have used one when Jav was just a couple of weeks old and I was trying to figure out how to wash his back without accidentally drowning him (though I think with this tub the obstacle would be how to wash the kid's back without tipping the bowl over). There's also the question of having enough water to rinse, though maybe you're not meant to use soap.

Oh, while I'm on baby baths, since there's at least one person on my FList who's expecting a child and will probably want to wash them at some point, Burt's Bees Baby Bee Buttermilk Soap was fantastic. I used it for the first six months, until my son's skin wasn't too sensitive for Johnson's products. I also recommend Johnson's 'Moisturizing Bedtime Bath'.

You can get big mixing bowls at dollar stores, if you want to go that route, though getting a bath seat might be a better bet. I ended up just climbing into the tub with Jav until he was big enough to stand on his own. ;->

I wanted to thank everyone who so kindly left me well-wishes during my plague-ridden post of earlier in the week. I'm very, very happy to say that food is almost entirely my friend again. I did lose two pounds, which is kind of cool in an anorexicish way, but it's probably water weight.

To show my gratitude, I thought I'd invite you all to a short tour of my ridiculous thought processes! In other words, time for a poll!

[Poll #1317718]