retail therapy day

So, still no house yet. We've struck out 3 times.

First one we really liked but it was built in 1985 and was on septic and had never been updated. We decided this made us too nervous, that the odds of things breaking were too high for our budget to handle.

Second one we LOVED the house, the yard was huge but it was in the most random part of Glen Burnie on a little street in a development that I think was abandoned in 2002, with just a handful of houses and the next community over was sketchy. These people had dropped it $50,000 and no one had bought it yet and we wondered why...

Third one was GORGEOUS, good location but...way out of our price range. And it was too nice to even pretend to haggle because it was probably worth more than it was listed for.

So last night we drank a bottle of wine and ate an entire thing of Hagen Das ice cream and then today Tim bought himself a new phone (his was dying) and got suckered into the "free" tablet. I went ahead an ordered myself the set of Funko Fantastic Mr Fox Legacy figures that were on sale at Entertainment Earth.

We've got a few more houses on our "look at" list but this week has been too busy.

PSA: Children's Librarian position in Maryland

Just in case anyone was looking for a job or a new job, Prince George's County Public Library is looking for a Children's Librarian - no Master's required, just need a bachelor degree and an enthusiasm for children's programming!

Info here

The branch manager there was one of the first librarians I ever worked for and she is awesome so, just sayin.

What I'm Watchin' Wednesday

Another weekly post I'm trying to bring back! Here's what I've watched recently. Spoilers will be under cuts, you have been warned.

Every since Hulu added the Adult Swim shows to their line-up we have been binge watching Sealab 2021 with dinner. The guys who created that show went on to do Archer so we kind of had to. Plus, Tim had seen it way back when it first aired and so I needed to see it too. It's so wrong and so right.

We also watched a couple episodes of Robot Chicken which still cracks me up. OH and Hulu is getting Seinfeld which I had not seen in years and this week they have been putting up one episode a day in preparation for the big launch so we randomly watched that with dinner. Still funny.

We're almost done with Season 3.5 of Eureka. I really am enjoying this series, I'm so sad I missed it when it was on. Great characters, fun stories. This show was a bit ahead of its time, I bet a network now would pick it up to promote all the STEM aspects LOL. It's been a nice way to fill the void of Psych - I feel like the two shows are all about relationships and quirky characters with a little mystery of the week. Eureka is just more science-y.

Watched Hannibal on Sunday:
Um, yeah, this isn't my first rodeo Bryan Fuller, I saw the whole Abigail isn't real thing as soon as she walked in the room. I didn't mind though, while it is a frequently abused trope, I think it worked. I think Will knew the whole time that she wasn't really there. But without the stag, he needed something else in his subconscious to represent the part of him that still cares about Hannibal.

The scene with the "human heart" and it unfolding...eeeeeeeew! I did cover my eyes for much of that. A lot of that actually. I think I had my eyes covered more this episode than the premiere.

I feel like these first two episodes were slow but necessary. And now we have the story of Hannibal terrorizing Italy for awhile. Flashbacks? Or just a reason I need to read the other books in the series? I'm happy that Will made the detective leave.


Caught up on Game of Thrones as well
I haven't read the books so I didn't know about Jon Snow (though some asshole on Facebook posted the spoiler in the comments, but it was so over the top I assumed it was a lie). Anyway, didn't see that coming! We are rapidly running out of characters that were even IN the first season.

Cersei, you may have been a queen that rule with an iron fist while on an iron throne, but your crazy cannot compare to a crazy that is based out of religion. That entire sequences was disturbing to watch, and I know that was the point. But her wrath will be great.

So...is the Mountain a White Walker or a whole new kind of zombie?

I felt the finale was actually sort of...meh. Stuff happened, but I didn't feel like anyone really knew what the hell they were going to do next season! WRITE MARTIN WRITE!


I finally got a copy of Whiplash from the library so hopefully we will watch that this weekend since we don't have GoT. We also plan on watching JAWS on Saturday night because Carol and Sylvia have never seen it. Sylvia I can forgive, she's 13, but Carol...tsk tsk. Cannot wait to watch that movie, love it so much!

**Phew** got this post done before midnight so it's on the correct date LOL. TOODLES!