They got the mustard out (they got the mustard ouuuuuut)

[gogmagog]

Welp, another quick-and-dirty update. D:

I've had no chance to play the Wii since I brought it home, since my mom said that I have to have at least the floor of my room clear before she'll let me hook it up. (Which is eminently fair, but still I WANNA PLAY WII NOWWWWW.) Fortunately, with the A/C from rathershady and courters28, finishing up my room should be a lot easier, since it is now no longer 100+ degrees at 10 in the morning in there. Also in Wii-related news, I spent the Best Buy giftcards I got from my siblings for my birthday on Super Paper Mario (and on Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the '80s for PS2 *throws up the horns*).

Let's see, other stuff that's new? Well, I watched the Dixie Chicks documentary, Shut Up and Sing, with my parents, and it was quite good. I also discovered while watching it that the Dixie Chick who caused all the brouhaha - Natalie Maines - happens to be married to Adrian Pasdar (aka Nathan Petrelli from Heroes). Damn you, Dixie Chick, now neither jokersama nor I can marry Smarmy Petrelli ourselves! (At least since he's married to her now I'm 99.9% certain that he's super-liberal, which makes me happy.)

In less fun news, after spending quite a bit of time and money on fixing up my old laptop for my mom so that she could work outside the house in this stifling heat (like at a coffeeshop with good A/C), its monitor suddenly died a couple of days ago, rendering it essentially an expensive paperweight; it's still usable if you hook it up to a monitor, but that sort of defeats the point of having a laptop (most people aren't willing to carry a large cathode-ray tube monitor around with them, I can't imagine why). D:

Also, I made my famous chocolate cake with chocolate ganache (which is actually originally eikitty's chocolate cake with chocolate ganache) for my mom's Latino Writers Collective meeting, and everyone loved it. I also seem to be in charge of their website...how did that happen?

Also, this may quite possibly be the most awesomest awesomeness in the history of awesome. I was going to try to drag my Mom, who is a Buffy fan (though not as much of a Whedonfreak as I am), but she was turned off because of the Rocky Horror-ness of it all. Me, there is NO WAY I am missing the Buffy musical on the big screen...I've seen it probably close to 50 times (sadly, that's not a joke or hyperbole), but still the thought of seeing it again on a big screen makes me slaver at the mouth like Angelus confronted with a nun. But I guess I'll have to go it alone, since I don't know any other Buffy fans (at least here in KC) crazy enough to do such a thing. ;_;

But, but, there's going to be "Buffy-oke!" And Buffy trivia! How can anyone turn that down? ;_;

For the few KC Whedon fans I do know, in addition to this the Screenland is also showing Serenity on the big screen next month. Goddammit, why does all the good stuff start happening after I leave KC? ;_;

Also, I command all of you to do these psychokinesis experiments. Sadly, despite a genealogical lineage that means I should be as psychic as Shiloh Jolie-Pitt will be freakishly gorgeous*, I think I may have the psychic abilities of a jelly donut (that is, not much at all). D:

Anyway, time for me to sign off...I'm going to lunch with rathershady and courters28 tomorrow, and hopefully I'll also manage to get my room clean enough to bust out the Wii. :D

* = Seriously, on the maternal and paternal side, respectively, of my dad's family I have a curandera grandmother and a curandero great-grandfather; my mom's paternal grandmother and great-aunt (twins) were conjure women of some sort, from what I hear; and my mom is a complete whiz with Tarot cards. Yet I've never shown the slightest bit of paranormal abilities, weo.

Edit: Holy shit, from jokersama: Fox News takes on /b/ tards. Lulz indeed. (I especially love the voice filter...they're taking what is clearly an innocuous-sounding twenty-something nerd and giving him a voice somewhere between Voldemort and Vader. XD)

Comments

[bobthetrout.livejournal.com]

Jelly donuts are tasty! and when you bite them the filling often smooshes out the other end for red goo everywhere! :D

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Red goo? So my gifts lie in making people's heads explode? :D :D :D

[bobthetrout.livejournal.com]

I think your gifts lie in being eaten by vicious cannibals.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Two standard deviations below the mean on the first psychokinesis test, two standard deviations above on the second. Evens out? XD

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the one time I got a statistically significant result (my first time through the first one, I got a 1 in 23 result, which I think was over the standard deviation?) it was the opposite of what I was trying for...I was trying to make it go to the RIGHT and it seemed like as hard as I tried it kept going over to the left, so I went "fuck it" and started trying to make it go over to the left, at which point it promptly stopped moving. XD

I need an "I can kill you with my brain" icon D: