Dare to be different and learn to be lonely

WoOt, wo0t! Had a long weekend and when I got to work this morning a parcel had arrived with THREE NEW BOOKS \o/ I updated my readinglist:)

I've been disappointed to find out the spn_cinema challenge will be postponed until the autumn. Not the first time one of my favorite events changes plans and I'm very bad at accepting change. Plus I was READY; had a film and medium picked out and everything. First thought was to stop joining challenges alltogether, but maybe I should take this opportunity to sing up for spnspringfling? I don't know... making something anonymously (in both directions) is just so nervewracking, but I do like working on my own and I love the short turnaround.
I still have until Friday to consider, right? I'm still a little too sad to care. Opinions are appreciated.

So, about that long weekend! I had a sillie82 from Friday until Sunday. There was lots of CSI (3 golden oldies and 13 episodes of Season 15 with a final that has a major impact on our OTP) and a film (Scott Pilgrim vs The World, which S. hadn't seen, so I picked it knowing she's a fan of Chris Evans *grins*) plus of course Supernatural (an episode from S1 with John for meeeeee and five episodes of Season 10, oh wow).
Before we sat down to watch all this on the big screen up in my attic I took S. along on an official touristy city walk through my town. Want to walk with us? We only did half the tour, which already took us four hours, because we are slow thorough.
Of course I made a lot of photos, here's a selection of 24 with minimum text (hahahahaha).

( We start behind that bookstore-in-a-church I told you about last time... )
If you want the full history walk and talk, you are welcome to come over;)

J.

I had a marvelous marathon weekend with sillie82 and am now all caught up on CSI and Supernatural (even though we had to skip a few episodes of both series to make it;).
The downside of these splendid fangirl days is that I missed all the fic and art that was posted while I was squeeing in real life. Recs and links are appreciated!
On top of my reading-list so far are the anniversary time stamps of Doors of Time by felisblanco and the collection of stories posted for the smpc.
I also hope to finish the final stories from the spn_reversebang (I have three left on my e-reader!). After that I will visit all those marvelous authors to comment. I think I also missed a couple of last minute artposts in that challenge, so I'll check up on that as well.

In between the fandomrelated fun, we watched a film (which I will not mention, because it's going to be my claim for the spn_cinema challenge in March...) and Sillie was kind enough to endure a slideshow of my Australia photos, bless. We had also put some old school Supernatural on our program, because this marvelous animation that dephigravity made for me, made me in desperate need for a double dose of John Winchester/Azazel;)

OOoh, I see there was also a Winter Olympics fic-meme that inspired stories.

Well, better get to work *rolls up sleeves and dives into Livejournal*

What did you do this weekend?

Had wanted to post this earlier, before the final of my favorite TV show (Heel Holland Bakt - the Dutch version of The Great British Bake Off;) but LJ was being a butt. The best (and cutest) home baker won with marvelous cookies and cake, yay!

After two days of lots of CSI, Supernatural and Being Human, this morning sillie82 and I ended our fangirl marathon with the 3 hour miniseries about Marilyn Monroe called "Blonde", purely for the three (four?) scenes that feature young Jensen Ackles (2001!). He plays Eddie G. who *apparently* was in a threesome relationship with Marilyn together with Cass Chaplin (son of Charlie), played by a young Patrick Dempsey (fanfiction in motion, people; never happened in real life, but oh so much fun to watch;) Marilyn's character is all over the place and very annoying, the dialogues are cringe-worthy, but oh my, there is Jensen dancing in a kimono and diving enthusiastically between Marilyn's legs, so five stars for that \o/

Someone was wondering why we were watching all these hot series in an almost unbearably hot attic and I realized not everyone knows about my upstairs cinema *grins* So for those of you who are new here or who missed previous accounts on fangirl marathons, here are some photos.

( Dance dance )
Fangirling really can't get any better than that:)



To see more photos (and a bigger audience) up in my attic, check out these old posts. Whenever a new Potter film was released, I would invite my Potterposse and we would watch all the films over one weekend before going to the latest edition in the cinema.
2009: 5 films, 6 people
2010: 6 films, 5 people
2011: 7 films, 7 people

Got up at 6 this morning to make that call to Australia to order my trainpass and make a reservation for the first journey. Talked to a very nice lady on the phone (whose accent make me smile because that made it official;) who told me she had been to my hometown and thought it was pretty and quaint:) I had already sent a mail with personal information, so all that was needed was my creditcard information. I gave her my number AND THEN MY PAYMENT WAS DECLINED... EEEp! The lovely lady stayed calm and said it wasn't a problem. Apparently this sometimes happens with international transactions and I should call my bank to explain. I was worried the cc-office would be closed this early, but gave it a try anyway and low and behold, I got someone on the phone! As it turns out they had put my card on a watch-list due to a recent possibly unsafe payment over the internet and I was adviced to get a new card as soon as possible. They offered to block my card right after I finished the Australian transaction. So I immediately called the railway back and we managed to get everything sorted right away. I received my confirmation two minutes later, woohoo! (Should get a new creditcard within a week at no costs)

Right now I just finished doing the dishes (yay, finally!) and cleaning up a bit in preparation for sillie82's visit. She should be arriving in about thirty minutes for a three day marathon of Supernatural, CSI and Being Human. I hope we survive the heat in the attic. (Summer- and actors;)

Had an awesome marathonweekend with tanisafan, here's a summary of squee:)
( Face it. You're a neo maxi zoom dweebie, what would you be doing if you weren't out making yourself a better citizen? )
It was once again a pleasure to have T. around: it was a marvelous weekend\o/

Had a marvelous weekend with Jelle. We spent a lot of time talking about life, movies and books, as you do. Of course we also did some sort of marathon on the big screen. He brought the Season 2 DVD of Beautiful People (UK); we watched all 6 episodes in one go, it was brilliant.

For some reason we came to talk about JDM and Jelle told me how he had loved this banter between Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Craig Ferguson. So I made him watch The Accidental Husband with JDM, Uma Thurman and Colin Firth, which he of course loved.
I also forced him to sit down for Tim Minchin's So Fucking Rock show. Jelle was enthralled from the opening act on, so that was another win \o/

Before finally stumbling to bed around 02.00 we watched vids on YouTube; amongst other things loads of music from Morrissey. I had to finish our night with that SPN S5 gag reel and Jensen's cheeky -ehm- wink *grins* (see 4:50 - 5:01).

I waved Jelle goodbye around noon (for his benefit I admired his fancy new car, even though I have no knowledge or interest beyond its colour;).

This afternoon I continued my effort of catching up with the wonderful artwork in the spn_reversebang. I spent two hours and found loads of stuff I recommend you take a look at:
(  Reverse Bang Artwork Reclist, the third )

P.S. Of course Jelle and I also exchanged a couple of books; I updated my readinglist:)

And now I will sit down and read for a bit before starting on my finances. (I plan to move all my accounts to a bank that doesn't make me throw up in my mouth)

Fifteen minutes before the Potter Posse arives for lunch. I'm a little nervous, but mostly excited:) When everybody is here and fed, we will go upstairs and settle in front of the big screen up in my attic for our weekend long Harry Potter Marathon. \o/ Three films today, three tomorrow and on Monday the few of us who are still standing will go to the cinema in Amsterdam for Deathly Hallows.

I will report with pics when we're done ;-)

*puts witch's hat on and nibbles on chocolate frogs*

So much fangirling this weekend: I did not even have time to blog. So I'm slacking making some time at work to report:-)

Had a double fandommarathon this weekend with artistic_sillie. She brought SuperNatural to get me up to date, I had saved CSI to watch together. We also put two films on the program and I added Gilmore Girls episodes with Baby!Jared and Badboy!Chad.
First film on Fridaynight was Overboard which I picked so Sillie could finally read the excellent J2 fanfic The Second Man from tru_faith_lost and captcrashsc (that I recced here.)

On Saturday we watched CSI Season 10 episodes 6 through 13 with exception of CrossOver Ep7, and episode 12 because those sucked. Hey, that's only 2 out of 8; if you are still ignoring CSI based on last season's lameness, you are missing out! So far it's mostly an awesome continuation of the Nick/Greg goodness \o/. The casefiles are pretty interesting too *grins*.

In between marathoning Sillie helped me with the CupCake Experiment; as it turns out the massive fail on my last try was caused because I added sugar on top of the honey, thus making the mixture too overwhelming for the amount of flour. Lesson learned :-)

After the last CSIs we made a short break for dinner (spaghetti) and after the aforementioned Gilmore Girls we watched Ten Inch Hero. So I finally got to see Jensen and his mohawk. I especially approved of the kilt and the sideburns. The beard? Not so much. But even that couldn't hide the cute;). Too bad the film had to resort to the Breakfast Club method so make that point. I also finally got a good look at Danneel, who is indeed adorable, although I desperately wanted to feed her and her eyebrows worry me.

Speaking of eyebrows: Happy Birthday George Eads! And speaking of birthdays: Happy Birthday cinderlily! And Jensen Ackles! And Roger Daltrey. And Mark-Paul Gosselaar. And Tim Daly. Wow. Lot of pretty people are celebrating their birthday today! I feel tempted to do a celebratory picspam tonight! Congratulations to all:)

Where was I? Oh, right: Supernatural. We watched a couple of episodes before bed and continued on Sunday morning. I think I admitted before that I wouldn't watch the show on my own; it feels like Buffy-light for boys. But it's no punishment to sit down and fangirl, so even if the stories don't always rock my socks, I still had a very good time and judging by the squee next to me, Sillie didn't mind watching the episodes again :-p Before I get kicked out of fandom; I do think Jensen, Misha and Jared do an awesome job; I'm especially impressed by Jared's ability to be evil. (Even more so after being reminded of his dimpleness in Gilmore Girls;)
We finished our marathon with some fanvids Like this one:)

So, yes. Fun was had. At 14.22 I brought Sillie to the busstop and waved goodbye.

I spent the afternoon getting fandom out of my system and Sunday evening I snuggled in my readingchair to finish the Green Carnation Trilogy by Floortje Zwigtmans.

What an awesome weekend.

For the next two days I will be up in my attic with some of my crazy friends. Here is our schedule:


\o/

Le sigh. Once again I failed to lure tanisafan into my lair for more than a long weekend. Today I had to go back to work in the real world. Blah.

I've been in a bit of a zone these past two weeks, so I still owe you a summary of my Xmas vacation.

I spent the weekend after my birthday hanging out with artistic_sillie; we caught up with CSI (zOMGUGUISE, still slash-worthy, Episode 5 Leave Out All the Rest caused some good ol' fashion fangirling) and watched a lot of SuperNatural. I'm more of a J2 than a Winchester girl, so I particularly enjoyed the behind the scenes clips:) But the series itself was very good compared to made-for-tv-movie Christmas Cottage with Jared Padalecki *g*. My favorite film of the weekend was Being Human.

After saying goodbye to Sillie I tried for two days to work on my to-do list (make icons, pimp lj, finish bookreviews, continue hair-project) but failed.

On New Year's Eve I had dinner at my mom's and we lighted sparkles at midnight while watching other people shoot loads of money fireworks to oblivion. I started the new year enjoying my mom's magic shower. Mmmmm.

To celebrate my final free days of Xmas vacation Tanni came over with the boys. There was much squee. We watched concerts of Panic At The Disco, Saturday Night Live with Christopher Walken (and Panic At The Disco;) and the Gavin & Stacey ChristmasSpecial (without Panic At The Disco) We also enjoyed John Barrowman (The Story Of Me), Doctor Who and Jonathan Creek. A special recommendation for new series Beautiful People. I also loved Across The Universe (note to self: find more albums of The Beatles) but I think my favorite scene of this fangirl weekend was this one: ( Fanboy Zack is epic. But still beaten by Brendon's waggling eyebrows )

Yes. Good times.

After waving goodbye to Tanni I traveled to Arnhem with my mom to hug brotherdearest and his gf goodbye; they are going on a six month trip through the Middle East. Yesterday-evening they got on a train to Florence for the first leg of their journey (it's Greece, Istanbul, Dubai, Iran, Nepal and India next...) Oh, how I wish I could have joined them.

Have some random pictures of events mentioned above

ETA: cinderlily: I got your card today, thank you!