Ack! It's been a while!

And I've been busy! :)

The weekend before this past one, I took a needle felting class with Moxie. I have had a needle felting kit for a while, but was generally getting frustrated every time I tried to use it. But after this little class, I feel a lot more like I can make the fiber bend to my whim. Moxie also mentioned that yes, it is possible to felt natural fibers to unnatural ones, which means I can felt dreadlocks onto Decapitated Dollies! w00t! (This has also led to GREAT amusement in our apartment, when I mentioned to Jeremy that a) I can felt with cat hairs, and b) I can felt them to his T-shirt. Okay, so I was amused. :) )

I also spent part of that weekend trying to come up with what I wanted to make for my swag for the EtsyRain spring show. I was mostly not coming up with anything, but I figured it out over the past week, and got it all done on Friday and Saturday. No details yet--if you want to know what I made, you'll have to get in line early on Saturday and get a swag bag! :) (I'll be in some of the swag bags, but not all.)

Jeremy and I spent most of the weekend watching season 4 of LOST (yeah, we're way behind) because we both have/had colds. (I'm mostly better now, though still sniffly. He is still pretty cold-ridden.) This meant I could get a lot of eyeball cat toys mostly done--our cats freak out if I actually get the catnip out, so I save that part for when I'm NOT at home. Next project is to get some fish bodies ready to stuff, so I'll have all the pieces I need when those two items start selling at the show on Saturday! :)

Friday!

And since I'm traveling, I only have a partial weekend, but ah well. Get to see my sister Monday night, and the rest of her family, as well as my mom, on Friday. This makes it almost worthwhile that I will be spending 2 weeks in Kansas City. I will be missing Jeremy like crazy, though, which is the big reason I wish I didn't have to go. Hopefully, though, the two weeks will give him some much needed time for writing, which I tend to distract him from. :)

Another bummer is that I have to miss our vanilla Exalted game on Saturday, and the Dragon-Blooded Exalted game on Sunday. In honor of the latter, a quote from the last session is this week's End of the Work Week Wisdom:

"Watch us secretly be related to every NPC in the game."--Katie
"It's like Lost!"--Craig
--Yeah, it's pretty much like that. :)

Hmmm...

So yeah, Lost pretty much broke my brain, though at least the majority of it made sense. Finding out who Jeremy Bentham was, however, did hurt my brain. Though it also made me happy, because it was my first guess as to who was in the coffin... :) Seeing it, though, was something entirely different. :)

Looks like I've got a nice calm weekend planned, which is cool. Work has been super hectic this morning, and I'm hoping it will be calming down this afternoon. My luck, however, is that it won't even wait till I'm done with lunch to continue with the insanity. :) I have one thing that will take me maybe half an hour to do, but I know that as soon as I buckle down to do it, I'll get about 20 E-mails pulling my attention to 20 other things... oi!

Other than that, life is good. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that we've been in Seattle for just over a year now. Other times, I feel like I've lived here for longer. People on the streets downtown ask me for directions and information about the buses. I guess I just look like I know what's going on. :)

Lost season finale tonight!

Not sure how many of my readers are Lost fans, but I gotta blog about it today. I will probably also blog about it tomorrow. :)

I've discovered that what's worse than having to wait each week for the next episode is the knowledge that after the season finale tonight, I have to wait until like September or October or something for the new season to start. WAY more torture than waiting a whole week for new goodness. I am way too much into instant gratification, I think. :)

I am pretty pleased, however, that I have managed to avoid spoiler pages and no just find out what I had to wait for. Being on the West Coast, I know there are folks on the East Coast already blogging about Lost before it airs here. But no, I resist the urge to go find out what's going to happen. The suspense is good, if a bit maddening. :)

But man, I gotta find a show to watch on Thursdays for the summer... either that, or remember to send back our Netflix DVDs faster, so we have more movies to watch. :)

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In other news, someone in the office brought in fresh bread a few days ago, and it's still pretty good. Top it off with the blackberry preserves that another co-worker brought in a few weeks ago, and it's delicious. But to me it smells like tea... weird, I know...

Augh!

So as I may have mentioned before, we're one of those households living in the stone age, with no TIVO, and no immediate plans to get one. It's not anything against TIVO, it's mainly that I went for about 5 years of having no or limited TV channels, and not watching much TV. Now that we do have TV channels, it's mostly background noise for me.

With the exception of Lost. That's the show I can't bear to miss. I freaked out last week because I thought it was going to be on when I was out of town. But no, it resumes this week. Unfortunately, it resumes this week an hour later than it used to come on--10 p.m. our time.

And now you see the TIVO dilemma. If I had one, I could just TIVO Lost and watch it tomorrow after work. And I'd be okay with that--I can avoid the spoiler sites for a day, I think. :) But with no TIVO, the only solution is to stay up late to watch it. (Yes, there is also the option of waiting a week and watching it when it airs at 9 p.m. the following week, but I can't avoid spoilers for that long. :) )

I suppose when it comes down to it, there are many worse annoyances in life, and I should be glad that this is my main gripe at the moment. But dangit, why are they making my favorite show HARDER for me to watch?!

I hate television...

So I managed to go down for the count with the nasty cold that Jerome had over the weekend, though mostly I was just a total vegetable all day Saturday, and then much better.

However, in the process, we ended up watching the second half of season 3 of Lost. We've watched the entire series on DVD to date, but after the end of the season finale, we're both freaking out. The new season starts on January 31st, and we're seriously thinking about watching it as it happens this year.

Now, I haven't had most television channels since around 2002, and no channels at all since 2004, at least until we moved here. So I haven't had the problem of getting hooked on TV shows. I've watched everything on DVD, so it's basically ready for me whenever I want to watch it. I haven't had to deal with silly things like a week between shows. :)

This is gonna be a serious problem if we start watching Lost. On Friday and Saturday nights, we would get to the end of one episode, and both of us were scrambling for the remote to skip to the next one. If we can't deal with a few seconds of anticipation, how are we gonna wait a whole week?!

Also, we don't have Tivo or anything of the sort, and I'm not sure our TV is hooked up to our VCR correctly (we never use it). So this would also mean that for the foreseeable future, Thursday evenings would be completely useless. :)

We went through this with Supernatural not too long ago, and somehow Jerome managed to forget that it was on, and that we were missing it. I don't know if this plan will work with Lost or not. I'm also not sure I want to wait a whole year to find out what happens... :)

Well, it would seem I'm diverging from my usual preference of getting hooked on a TV show after it's already off the air. Grant and I watched the pilot and first episode of Lost yesterday, and now I want to watch all of it. :)

It's so much easier to just get hooked on non-current TV shows, because then you can either buy, rent, or borrow the DVDs, and watch them on your own time. If you're watching a current TV show, you either have to wait for a long period of time before it's available on DVD, or (*gasp*) actually catch it on actual TV.

Yeah, there's TIVO and such, but not all of us have those. Hell, not all of us even have the option of watching TV when it airs, because some of us (read: me) don't like TV much, and don't have cable. Yet another reason why it's easier to just get interested in non-current shows.

Well, at least we won't get to watch any more for a couple of weeks, and if we space them out cleverly enough, the 2nd season might be on DVD by the time we get done with the first... of course, I'm not really even sure about what season they're on... though a comment from Megan makes me think it's currently the 2nd season, and somehow that sounds about right to me... :)
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