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Dina:
Hello everyone!
Yay for something nice to Cinder!
Re: Doctor Who. I agree with all what you said. I also thought hotel lady would be the next companion. I liked her a lot and i thought she had good chemistry with the Doctor, but in the season 2 teaser I saw it seems like there is another lady companion.
This week at work i had been pretty much alone but I think even when January is officially the month for the annual leaves there would be more people around next week. I have 2 weeks, then my leave!
Regenbogen:
@Dina:
I wish you and your hubby a great Día de los Reyes Magos today!
We are watching Arcane now with Mini. Her friends told her, it is good and I also had it on my watch list already. I must say, I like it.
I am reading the second book of "Ever After". I think I told you about it last year. That's the story about those descendents of fairy tale characters and a prophecy about a sleeping prince. The Prince has to be kissed by every female descendent on her 18th birthday. And when the right one kisses him, he will wake up and all will be sunshine and roses, so to speak.
I wouldn't have read it, but it is no romance despite the very romantic description. When the girl kissed the prince (she didn't want to and was forced to do it, because she is kind of a rebel), it was a very funny scene. She had to cough because the prince was a dusty skeleton. Of course he has been there for thousands of years. Then she accidentally cracked his skull and tried to cover it up. I had to laugh at the slapstick moment.
So, the prince is now awake, but the prophecy was bullshit, because he wants to destroy the world and build a new one. And she has to marry him to be his queen.
At first it read like some kind of teenage romance until their hometown was suddenly full of werewolves and other nasty creatures. Suddenly there was no more romance but more blood and entrails.
I only read it because a colleague told me it would get really exciting soon. She wanted to read some fantasy romance and was shocked at first but also could not stop reading.
So now there is a second book and next year there will be a third one.
Sometimes the main character is almost annoyingly stupid but hey, otherwise there would not be that much adventure, lol. Last chapter she gave up 5 memories to see an old friend. And before that she promised 80 (!!!) years of her life to a witch if she could reverse a curse on her cousin which transforms him into a bird in a cage each time he leaves his room. Couldn't she think of something else to trade? 80 years! Before that that witch talked about 3 or 5 years for some potions. I am sure she would have accepted less, lol.
Dina:
Thank you Regen!
The Reyes Magos still bring us presents, because they know we are children at heart. i've got a sweet Mickey sorcerer's apprentice (from Fantasia) figurine and he got a couple of Star Wars and a small Sandman one.
That book series sounds hilarious!
I've got to get ready for work, see you later :)
BugBear:
Spot, it sounds like life is turned up full blast for you. Yay Spotlette! No, Mocha :(. Cinder! :D. I imagine Mocha will always hold a special place in Spotlette's heart as the pet that was a well established fixture of the world when she got here, but bonding with a companion from the start is it's own special privilege (as you well know). Good call on cutting down to a full time job, that seems wise. Good luck sticking to it. I know it can be difficult when there's just that one more thing that needs doing.
In fact, we seem to be flooded with cats. Regen's are apparently leaking in from Outside. Nemesis may have found a powerful set of hosts now that it's gotten a taste of Cat-sith, so I suppose they're sending in their own versions too. To equip you with one of their weaknesses and maintain the balance, I say both nice and terrible things to all cats, but I do it in sweet tone of voice so they're always pleased about it. Assuming they deign to notice, of course. Cinder is the cutest little fluffy window licker, yes she is.
Regen, I'm sorry to hear about your own loss of a companion, and that your holiday wonder was mostly occupied by grievously wounded idiots. As an idiot who is occasionally wounded, I'm still glad you're there.
That story sounds very fun, but the spike in blood pressure at haggling upwards to 80 years may actually kill me sympathetically. I can see why you like it though, the way you describe it gives it a vaguely Dresden-ish ring. Snark in the face of hidebound institutions, followed shortly by intense violence and drama-perpetuating compromises made due to youthful, often moral, inflexibility. Arcane is also very good, I need to pick up season 2 soon.
Dr Who too eventually, when I'm ready to take on 800 episodes of backlog. Kidding, kidding, I know they make it accessible for new viewers about once a decade now. :P
Dina, those toys are suspiciously upholstery sized... You don't think the sofa is sapient pearwood, do you? Perhaps the Reyes Magos got a tip from a Wizzard. Either way, judging from the themes of their presents, I think you may be their favorite.
On my end, I continue to write and research the RPG project, and it's coming together surprisingly smoothly. I have the most basic functional skeleton of the main cast and setting at this point. It helps that Jim is a huge mythology/RPG nerd and worked so much source material into the Dresdenverse. If I get stuck on a piece of lore or how some niche thing should work, I can just do (internet) archeology about it. Mesopotamian and Egyptian mythology were some of my earliest bedtime stories, so it's been nostalgic to rediscover the old along with the new.
Otherwise life continues apace. Minor victories against the forces of bureaucracy, successfully shedding some recently gained weight, and the bills are still getting paid. It's been a nice, peaceful lull before things get interesting again.
Dina:
Hello everyone! Even when the heat, I have to say that I like working in January, there is very few people around, no students and the people who is there really wants to work in their own things, so everybody minds their own business and all is calm and nice. For many years I hated going to work on January due to the commuting (I live very far away, so my commute is always long and especially annoying in the Summer) but now most buses have AC and this Summer is quite mild so far. So it is not bad. And there are few passengers (no school, no university, many people on leave).
Anyways, I was still tired when I arrived here to the Weird space, so I sit to read a little in the sofa, petting it carefully. It seems to like it, because it produced the weirdest thing. A small package of peanuts, which are always a great companion for a book.
Bugbear. I have to tell you that I am planning to spend part of my vacations watching the old Doctor Who. Hubby and I watched together all what is called New Who (From the 9th Doctor era) and slowly we began watching the Classic one. I think hubby is on 5 or 6th Doctor. I am just beginning 4th, which was actually my first Doctor. I love him. I also loved some of the things the first Doctors did. For example, they had companions from different eras. The showrunnes abandoned that idea many decades ago, but it was so cool.
And congratulations for all your achievements! Especially the weight one, which is so difficult.
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