Yubsie's Yammerings

My little brother is confused by Firefly. I'm not sure HOW, but he is. I mean, my sister was confused the first time she saw it, but she watched it during its original airing. Y'know, the one that was all out of order? The twerp won't even elaborate what it is that confuses him, he just keeps saying the whole thing is confusing. :p

I went to Chapters and Gamezilla on Sunday. BJ kept whining that he didn't understand how women can spend forty five minutes in one store. If he'd been talking about a shoe store, that would have been one thing (hell, I don't understand how anyone can spend that long in a shoe store. I HATE shoe shopping), but he was referring to spending forty five minutes in CHAPTERS. That is NOT a long time to spend in a bookstore. Bookstores have back cover blurbs to read and books to flip through, especially if you're not looking for anything in particular. Which I wasn't. It's been a while since I've gone into a bookstore flying completely blind, no recs or anything. I picked up a novel by Timothy Zahn and something else that looked somewhat intriguing (can't remember the title). I saw the venom cock book, died laughing and did not pick it up. :p At Gamezilla I picked up the first volume of Full Moon wo Sagishite and Yu Yu Hakusho, because my mother had a two for one manga coupon. Bit of a "Death is fun!" theme to my manga choices, I suppose. :p Both were definitely a fun read. (And Tess, you're right, Botan IS a lot like Sandman!Death. Ding ding ding! :p)

On Monday we (my mother, sister and I) went hiking down in Fundy. Always a fun time. We did the Matthew's Head/Coastal loop, which is quite pretty. We ran into this family with seven kids on the trail, so my mother went into botany lesson mode. :p

Yesterday we had to put in a full day of work. For the first time in weeks. Today we're back to the usual slacking, with a coffee break in the morning and bowling in the afternoon. :p

Nuki is back in Sackville, which is muchly exciting. We went visiting yesterday. Which led to the fun of "Okay, here's the book I borrowed in June and the sweater I borrowed on Canada Day. ANd here's the next volume of Sandman for you to borrow. And here's Firefly, which you don't get to borrow, but we can watch." :p We wound up watching all of disc three of Firefly, which is my favorite disc of the set. Mostly because War STories, Ariel and Out of Gas are my favorite episodes and Trash is also great fun. Poor Nuki didn't do well having to watch the needle thing in Out of Gas. I didn't get much entertainment out of that though, since I was also cringin away. However, her reactions throughout Ariel were PRICELESS. She'd already seen War Stories, but there was no way I was going to skip over THAT episode. :p I also have her and Nico almost trained to MY lyrics to the Firefly theme. Which are mostly the same, but the second verse goes "Take me out Aww! to the black...". If I'm watching, there's an Aww! there, end of story. Laugh all you want, but this is one of like TWO fandoms where I have an OTP in the traditional sense, so I reserve the right to be just as pathetic about them as I want. :p

Hot. Bored. Restless. Summer has finally come to Sackville, and it's done so with a VENGEANCE.

I read volume 1 of Magic Knight Rayearth today. Quite liked it. I love Fuu! She's such a cute little gamer! I like the other girls too, but Fuu is my favorite so far. Being by CLAMP, it is of course TEH PRETTY.

I've been trying to call Kate all day. Hasn't worked particularly well.

I got to try the new soft serve at Sassy's. They have 24 flavours. Mmmmmmm, caramel.

Ryan got me to read the first volume of Yu-Gi-Oh last night. I'll admit, I wasn't really expecting to like it. I was wrong. :p The art is really not great, but Yugi's personality is so ADORABLE. The way he just wants friends so badly. And at the beginning, when he's sitting there with his box of games, talking about how he wishes someone wanted to play HIS kind of games instead of basketball. He's SO CUTE!

I must say though, that little "<< Read This Way" thing is going to drive me INSANE though.

I made dinner for Ryan. Baked chicken, no nasty batter. It was yummy. Lunch was a free BBQ, and then we had cupcakes. It was a blast.