Yubsie's Yammerings

So, Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall finally came out in paperback so I could read it. It was great fun. Especially since the main comic has taken to referring to events contained therein. :p Let me tell you, one particular scene with Frau Totenkinder in The Good Prince suddenly makes a LOT more sense. By which I mean sense at ALL. :p Not to mention adding a layer of meaning to Lance's part of The Good Prince. And filling in Ambrose's background for... The Good Prince. Okay, this collection was really important for The Good Prince. :p

It was really nice art, which is always fun. Also, whoo for backstory! Everyone loves backstory!

Happy Canada Day, everyone! (Yes, that includes the non-Canadians. They can have a happy Canada Day too! :p)

And happy birthday guinastasia!

I've been playing Avernum, which is great fun. My characters need to stop dying though, because they keep losing items when they do so. Like my mage, who lost... his clothing. He got to keep his ring, his gloves and his staff. But not his robe, cloak or PANTS. :p So I had to trudge back through an old dungeon to make him not naked. :p Then my fighter got himself killed. His armor survived (which is good, because steel chainmail isn't cheap :p), as did his pants (yay), but not his boots. So I currently have a barefoot frontline fighter. Oddly, my two female characters haven't died yet, outside of full party destruction. :p

I also finished reading my new comics. Fables 9 and Books of Magic 4. :p I want more! Books of Magic can be done (though I don't think I saw volume 5 at Comic Hunter) Fables... I will have to be patient. I want Fables icons! Too bad I don't have Photoshop on Puck, and my desktop isn't useable since my brother stole the monitor. :p

( Fables spoilers )

So my feet? Totally killing me. We did the geek tour of Moncton today. :p It's a tradition to go to Moncton and geek out a couple weeks after the con. This year, with con being IN Moncton, we enjoyed being there with no SCHEDULES. In previous years, we all took the bus down, but this year Bill rented a van for us to drive down in. We started off at Champlain Place/Chapters and scattered from there. Vicki, Ryan and I hit Comic Hunter, Mad City Comics and Gamezilla. And a pet store to get a new collar for Elphaba. :p

I spent a LITTLE more than I meant to, but at least most of it was stuff I was planning to pick up in the near future. The haul/damage:

- Two new tops plus two tank tops to wear under low cut tops (not something I planned on buying, but a good price overall)
- Kingdom Hearts (One of the first games I wanted for my new PS2. I can borrow the Final Fantasy games from Ryan. :p)
- Lego Star Wars (I played it a little bit on my brother's Xbox and it was fun, so I picked it up for PS2. :p)
- Exile (New Star Wars book. Definitely a planned expense because it's an AARON ALLSTON book and if anyone can fix Legacy, it's him!)
- Fables: Arabian Nights (and days) (This is the infamous volume seven I ordered from Hobbyton in JULY. Yeah, they were never going to get it in. :p)
- Full Moon o Sagashite volume 2
- Skip Beat! volume 1 (the preview in Shojo Beat looked interesting
- Tsubasa volume 7
- Good Witch of the West volume 1 (Gamezilla had a buy three manga get one free sale on, and it looked like it might be cute. :p)
- yummy fudge

The sushi place we usually go to on this trip seems to be closed, so we went to a Chinese buffet instead. It was soooooooooo good. The ultimate sign of good food: Our group actually stopped talking because we were too busy EATING. :p

So far I've managed to read the Fables, which was SO SHINY. Frau Totenkinder remains SO awesome while KNITTING! And oh DEAR Beauty. There is going to be an EXPLOSION between her and Beast. And the story about the two wooden people was so CUTE and so WIBBLY and SAD too!

The hardest part will be holding out on buying volume eight. I might order it when the seventh Runaways digest comes out in May. And of course, I want more Lucifer.

I am addicted to North American comics and it's ALL NEIL GAIMAN'S FAULT!

ACK, OMG FABLES! You did NOT just end the volume there! AGAIN!

Volumes five and six are totally going to do this too, aren't they? And then I'll be caught up. Which will be good for me not buying a TPB a week... but bad for my ACK OMG SANITY.

Ahem.

We watched more Firefly today. War Stories and the one after that with Saffron. Wash has finally been confirmed as my favorite character. He's just so AWESOME.

River's a close second though. The pwning! "Jayne's a girl's name."! "I can kill you with my brain."!

Heart Firefly. Heart Fables. Fables evil. :p

Let's see if I can actually update, eh? :p

Let's see, Vicki and I watched What Dreams May Come on Saturday night, while having chocolate fondue. That movie... Tess ship. So Tess ship. Except it works out decently in the end, unlike most TEss ships. :p Vicki must be feeling brave. She gave me a big bag of chocolate kisses for my birthday. And a stuffed kiss, which is very cute. :p

Sunday I totally slept through church. Figured I would though. :p I played the Sims a bunch. Hajime and Mannen's rooms are redecorated now. Hajime has an ocean room, and Mannen gets castles and dragons. Shin gets some plants. :p

Ryan called, which is always fun. :D

Vicki and I watched Firefly. I read Fables, because I've seen the first two episodes twice before, but I was still in the room to appreciate the shiny. OMG HEART FABLES, incidently. :D It's SO COOL! It totallly had me going "DID THAT JUST HAPPEN?" at one point, which is always exciting.

Started work today. Steve's letting us pick our own projects this year, which is neat. The one I'm doing is based on the WTF product from a couple years back. It's the most bioactive compound the lab has ever made, and it was totally not what they were TRYING to make at the time.

And before my chemistry talk makes you all stop reading...

QotD!

melonriel: i kind of missed you doing vile and evil things :-P

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melonriel: life got a little boring for a while :-P