I'm a slayer, ask me how.

OMG INDY TOYS!!!!

*dies of the cute*

I want to go to Comic Con next year. jimithingy said he does not wish to go. So who wants to go with me?

I want to dress up too. Probably something simple, like Starbuck, or Buffy...I'll set these goals now, then I have a whole year to actually make them happen (or forget about them)!

EDIT: More cuteness - Lego Indiana Jones Video Game!

I made Indy icons! Just a handful made from 2 of the wallpapers at IndianaJones.com

( the man with the hat is back! )

Okay, remember how I posted that little voting entry a few weeks back asking everyone which fandom I should icon? Well, Buffy got the most votes along with 100 icons. So I was sitting here at the desk, clicking through the 100 icon communities, seeing what themes they all had, and I stumbled into whedon100...and...well...I just made a claim to do 100 icons from the 'Earshot' episode of BtVS! Eep! But I figured if I did it, I would have made a commitment and that would make me follow thru a bit more.

So, my job has been officially announced now, the fax came thru to all the branches this morning. Everyone has had only nice things to say to me. I'm really excited and looking forward to this new adventure in librarian land (OMG! I get to open my Giles figures now!!!) but I'm sorta bummed about not being at Crofton or West County or my other favorite branches with my buddies. I just figure I get to crash everyone's holiday parties, right?

In other news, we're actually going to be in town for New Years so simontrueheart and I are in the plotting stages of a mega-shindig of some sorts. Perhaps even on the level of hootenany, though it's too soon to tell. I'm thinking of some sort of trivia showdown, maybe with SceneIt or one of the trivial pursuit games and prizes! Then, I would show offcase all of our christmas presents, which will probably be mostly DVDs and video games. Ooooh, if I get one of the giant star wars lego sets, maybe we can all work together to make one!

Or, I could finally dig out my plans for a Buffy party and follow thru with that. Or maybe even a Jossverse party, allowing showings of Angel and Firefly. I had very elaborate plans, with special games and themed drinks (like, instead of a "Bloody Mary" we'd drink "William the Bloodys" and I'd carve the celery stalks into spikes/stakes, get it?) and such. And Buffy bingo! It wouldn't require any actual knowledge of the shows, I'd just make some bingo boards and we'd go from there.

OR, this one would be a bit rougher, OR we could do a best of 2005 party, and watch some of the movies that came out this year that were really good. Or even TV shows. Except the TV shows would be harder to get on DVD. Maybe we could do an "in memoriam" of TV shows and watch 'Arrested Development'...and then we could watch 'Serenity' cuz that's definately one of the best films of 2005...okay, never mind, that party would be far too out of control....I need to stick to tv shows so that we have time to mingle.

the only food we had left in the fridge was the making for lemon chicken....i love me some lemon chicken so 9pm could not come sooner. jimithingy has to tape 'House' for me so keep those spoilers under a cut as I'll probably just watch a Veronica Mars with dinner instead of waiting for 10pm to happen....mmmmmm lemon chicken...

Well today was just all over the place. I went to do my last official babysitting gig this morning. Actually left there at 4 for once. It was a good thing I had already committed to that being my last day though, as I probably would have backed down after hearing all the chatter over there today. Too many cooks in that kitchen, if you get my meaning.

As as I was picking up Skylor, I missed a call from destertale. Turns out the theater we thought was donig a midnight showing seems to have the showing on Friday night, not Thursday (tonight). So we were trying to figure out what to do there. Of course, when I called her back it was crazy!busy at CRO so she had to call me back once she got off of work. So I drove to my parents because I had set up a date with my mom to go shopping. jimithingy said he bought ribs for dinner so I needed to be back around 9ish.

Anyway, so I get to my folks, and I'm chatting with them, and my cell rings and it's destertale and she says "You know you're supposed to be here now?" and I'm like wtf!!! Apparently, somehow I forgot to transfer my calendar dates so I never actually marked down that I was working 5-9! I had stopped taking Tues/Thurs evening because I was so wiped from sitting...but I must have agreed to this beforehand. But I had never written it on my main calendar and I hadn't checked my datebook for this week at all. I talked with the manager at the branch and apologized all over myself (and I'm going to write a letter to slip into her mailbox on Saturday). But since I was at my parents house, wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, it would probably have been another hour until I was there, and since I was already a half hour late...she said nevermind. She said that they still loved me, but I was so embarassed. Ugh. Hopefully, now that I'm done babysitting, this won't happen again. One job will be so much easier.

So then we finally get zaubervz and go to Kohls. We shop for a bit and I'm carrying around a pile of clothes and my cell phone rings and I figure it's more Serenity info, and I answer and it's BECKY! She's looking for quote from movies for a linguistics thing she's doing tomorrow. So we end up talking movies and firefly and serenity for oooh, at least 20 minutes, all the while I'm wandering Kohls. It was so random and fun cuz I was rattling off movie quotes. I roxor that much. Of course, after we got done, I felt crazy rushed cuz it was almost 8pm! So I tried on a few things, grabbed some new shoes (daisy fuentes stuff is pretty cool!) and we checked out. Well, I left my stuff with mom to buy and ran to the customer service area in the hopes of getting a price adjustment on the skirt I bought last week. BUT unbeknownst to me, it was employee sale day, so the service counter was insane. And all I got back was a $7! I was supposed to be more than that but i didn't feel like arguing, I just wanted to go home. (see, the skirt was marked as $18, but they charged me $25, and then I went in today at the skirt was %50, which would have made it $12! but whatever, she just dropped it to the $18 which was all I really needed anyway)

So I rushed home for some yummy ribs and corn on the cob, and Serenity #3 (2 outta 3 covers) came in for me too, so now I can read that before the movie tomorrow. I have a crap load of new clothes (mostly pants, I focused on the bottom half of my body today). And I need to get my lazy butt up tomorrow and do the last of my Core Ref before we meet up for Serenity. Madness will ensue, I do no doubt it.

Oi! What a day! I'm gonna eat some candy and most likely, play some WoWz.

Well, I kept myself busy this weekend, and feel like I need a vacation from my days off. Currently, nothing is on the schedule for tomorrow, so that's what I plan on doing - nothing. haha. Hopefully the library won't call with any emergency spots.

RenFest was great. blu_harvest hitched a ride with us, so I chatted his ear off in the car on the way there (it's only about 30 mins max from home). Got there around noonish and met up with my parents and zaubervz. My parents were kind enough to hook us up with tickets (they can get a discount with their military IDs) so that was super cool. They went off to do their own thing, so zaubervz hung out with us. He had his pirate garb on as well. We wandered down to the tavern in the center of town and bumped into toothlesshag and her crew. She was really dressed up purdy, with a big green hat (and we all know from Pirates of the Carribean that it's ALL about that hat). verdatum joined us shortly thereafter, also very pirately. He had just rode over on an elephant! Okay, not really, he had just been riding an elephant, but it was mostly in a circle. We grabbed some hard apple cider and listend to the Pirates Royale play for a bit. Then we set off in search of our turkey legs! Yummy, delicous turkey legs. There's no way they are good for you, they pretty much taste like salt, but I love them so. While were munching, destertale called us and alerted us to her arrival, so we went towards the entrance to meet up with her and Dave. Then we headed off to The Bloody Drama : A Comedy Show which is always a giggle. They did a hilarious version of 3 Little Pigs, with some audience participation. We met up with dstntp1lgr1m at the human chess match, had some yummy black rasberry ice cream while we watched that. Then we did a bit of shopping. zaubervz found a cool little skull carved out of opalite (hopefully he'll post pictures). I grabbed a extremely cute, hand sewn dragon that I've been eyeing up for a couple years now. Plus another earring/necklace set. from Sozra because I always do. So pretty. And dstntp1lgr1m picked up one of the freaky!cool vulture statues made from shells and claws...well, hopefully he'll post a photo too because you gotta see them to understand them. Our feet were filthy when we got home, but we had a great time! ANd as a bonus, we gave blu_harvest some time on WoW, so he'll probably be hooked on that soon...

Today was the DC Star Wars Collector's Club meeting in Woodbridge VA. I hitched a ride with a few other members. Bob drove, Indy navigated, and I sat in the back with Pat and Pat. Bob has a DVD player in his van, so we chatted a bit, then I convinced them to pop in the Eddie Izzard DVD, so we watched a good chunk of that on the hour ride down. The meeting was a lot of fun as always. Lots of socializing. I came home with lots of goodies. Galen gave a presentation on custom Legos and figures and now I'm temped to try, if only to have an excuse to buy sharpies. One of the other members brought photos of his recent trip to Vegas, with pics of the Star Wars slot machine and the huge selection of Star Wars/M&M products at the big M&M store over there. Another member was super lucky and actually got to visit Rancho Obi-Wan! He told us all about the experience and showed up some pics. SO very lucky. Mostly, I chatted with everyone. I wore my new Joss Whedon is my Master Now t-shirt, which was fun because I had an excuse to talk about Serenity and Buffy with people. hehe. I got my Final Battle Mal figure too! Then we drove back home, chatting the whole hour ride.

Here are some photos of this weekend!! They talked about this photosite on Attack of the Show, so I'm using it to see if it's any good. Let me know if it give you any trouble.

Yes, so it's Sunday night now and I'm getting ready for a round of WoWz with my peeps. Hopefully tomorrow will be a day of relaxing at home, cleaning clothes and arranging figures.

*shakes fist at Wikipedia*

I had this brilliant idea to start compiling a list of all the references to Star Wars in television and film. Decided I'd do a google to make sure noone else had a site already up. And who should I find but Wikipedia, the all knowing (worshipped by verdatum) already has a page started. True, it's far from complete, but it sorta took the wind outta my sails. Either way, I have decided that will be the purpose of the Darth Vader notebook I purchased last month. It shall be my Star Wars in Pop Culture notebook. I shall attempt to list all of them, new and old. Eventually maybe turning it into a website. Whatcha think?

We watched 'Shallow Grave' last night. I liked it. Definately was tense. Don't think I could watch it again, but it was fun in a suspense/thriller kinda way the first time around. And not to sound like "such a girl" but DAMN Ewan had a beautiful head of hair in that movie! So much body! I wish my hair was that pretty! Ah well.

the makers of whedonosity just started a new icon community called iconschool which looks like it will be more about posting tutorials and less about asking questions (which can really bog down icon_tutorial some days).

speaking of icons - for those of you that are graphically inclined, I posted a new challenge over at sw_challenge, this one is for concept art. So come over and check it out and enter!

verdatum alerted me to the fact that 'Pirate Weekend' at RenFest is the end of next month! Woo-hoo! We're going to attempt to get a gang together and walk around says "YAR!" all day. Should be fun.

I'm working 9-5 at Crofton tomorrow...so post to your LJs some amusing stories or quizzes so I can fill the time on the desk (every time I say this, it becomes crazy busy, which is good cuz the time goes even faster!)