You're the turtle in my life.
Feb. 5th, 2013 02:12 pm
Hmm. I was doing okay with the updates for a little while there, and then... that stopped. Sigh. Okay, so what have I been doing since my last real post? Lots of things!
1) Stressing about work. What else is new, right? Yeah, so that's happening.
2) Over winter break I played the Portal 2 co-op game with my brother, and it was so fun. So I finally played the original Portal and the single-player campaign of Portal 2 and had a blast. It is amazing how much longer the second game is. It's like 3 games in one. But really I love it because Wheatley is so funny. And because puzzle games are my favorite kind.
3) Caught up on a few TV shows: Dexter... The Mindy Project... New Girl.![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jade_okelani and I also just finished the first season of Nikita. We've been trying to watch Revenge but it's slow going; we want to like it more than we actually do. ( Spoilery comments on all the mentioned shows. )
4) Finally finished The Twelve. I am so looking forward to the final book in the trilogy, City of Mirrors. Also, Ridley Scott better hurry up with the film adaptation of this series. ( Spoilery talk. )
5) My new bed has finally been delivered! It's soooooooooooo woooooooonderfuuuuuuulllllllll, I LOVE MY NEW BED. I had them move my old bed into the guest room, and it's now there taking up basically the entire room, but my guests are going to have a great night's sleep, lol. I mean, that's basically what a guest room is for, anyway! The Salvation Army is coming this weekend to take away the bed that was in there previously. It's practically brand new.
6) Bought these awesome drinking glasses. A couple of years ago, I realized that I really like drinking out of thin glasses. I'd never really thought about it before one way or another, and then I was at dinner somewhere, and they had super thin glasses, and I was enjoying drinking out of my glass so much! There's something about drinking out of thin glass that is very satisfying; it's like the perfect mouthful every time. LOL, I don't know how to explain it. Those of you who've had the same epiphany, you understand. Or maybe I'm just a messy drinker and thin glasses make it enjoyably foolproof, I don't know. In any case, Riedel makes super thin glasses -- it almost feels like you could cut yourself on the edge (though of course, you can't) -- and I'm loving them. They look spectacular, too. Of course, they also feel pretty fragile, so they're probably not recommended for households with young children. (Aside: Riedel also makes specific glasses for water/juice, but I got those too and they're basically just shorter versions of the whiskey glasses, and I prefer the taller ones.)
7) Saw a play! J. and I stuffed ourselves with delicious Italian food, then went to the Green Lake Bathhouse theater and saw "The Understudy." Synopsis: A slick comedy where High Concept meets the down-and-dirty of the entertainment business when Jake, a grossly overpaid Action Movie star, decides to turn an undiscovered Franz Kafka play into Broadway hit. Things begin to implode when Harry, an embittered and idealistic understudy, arrives for rehearsal and discovers the stage manager is his ex-fiancée. I enjoyed it a surprising amount. I normally don't like plays very much -- there's always this stilted play language that from the first moment a character speaks, it's like, "Oh God, play-speak." It starts out like that, but quickly fades into one of the most enjoyable plays I've ever seen. J. and I agreed that the actor who played Jake was particularly good.
1) Stressing about work. What else is new, right? Yeah, so that's happening.
2) Over winter break I played the Portal 2 co-op game with my brother, and it was so fun. So I finally played the original Portal and the single-player campaign of Portal 2 and had a blast. It is amazing how much longer the second game is. It's like 3 games in one. But really I love it because Wheatley is so funny. And because puzzle games are my favorite kind.
3) Caught up on a few TV shows: Dexter... The Mindy Project... New Girl.
jade_okelani and I also just finished the first season of Nikita. We've been trying to watch Revenge but it's slow going; we want to like it more than we actually do. ( Spoilery comments on all the mentioned shows. )4) Finally finished The Twelve. I am so looking forward to the final book in the trilogy, City of Mirrors. Also, Ridley Scott better hurry up with the film adaptation of this series. ( Spoilery talk. )
5) My new bed has finally been delivered! It's soooooooooooo woooooooonderfuuuuuuulllllllll, I LOVE MY NEW BED. I had them move my old bed into the guest room, and it's now there taking up basically the entire room, but my guests are going to have a great night's sleep, lol. I mean, that's basically what a guest room is for, anyway! The Salvation Army is coming this weekend to take away the bed that was in there previously. It's practically brand new.
6) Bought these awesome drinking glasses. A couple of years ago, I realized that I really like drinking out of thin glasses. I'd never really thought about it before one way or another, and then I was at dinner somewhere, and they had super thin glasses, and I was enjoying drinking out of my glass so much! There's something about drinking out of thin glass that is very satisfying; it's like the perfect mouthful every time. LOL, I don't know how to explain it. Those of you who've had the same epiphany, you understand. Or maybe I'm just a messy drinker and thin glasses make it enjoyably foolproof, I don't know. In any case, Riedel makes super thin glasses -- it almost feels like you could cut yourself on the edge (though of course, you can't) -- and I'm loving them. They look spectacular, too. Of course, they also feel pretty fragile, so they're probably not recommended for households with young children. (Aside: Riedel also makes specific glasses for water/juice, but I got those too and they're basically just shorter versions of the whiskey glasses, and I prefer the taller ones.)
7) Saw a play! J. and I stuffed ourselves with delicious Italian food, then went to the Green Lake Bathhouse theater and saw "The Understudy." Synopsis: A slick comedy where High Concept meets the down-and-dirty of the entertainment business when Jake, a grossly overpaid Action Movie star, decides to turn an undiscovered Franz Kafka play into Broadway hit. Things begin to implode when Harry, an embittered and idealistic understudy, arrives for rehearsal and discovers the stage manager is his ex-fiancée. I enjoyed it a surprising amount. I normally don't like plays very much -- there's always this stilted play language that from the first moment a character speaks, it's like, "Oh God, play-speak." It starts out like that, but quickly fades into one of the most enjoyable plays I've ever seen. J. and I agreed that the actor who played Jake was particularly good.
