girlofprey

So, today was the day when my sister decided to show up at the house. She suddenly shouted from the bottom of the stairs that she was here, and thought she'd tell me so I wasn't terrified when I realised someone was in the house. I said she could have called before she came, and she looked away and said "Well I don't have to do I?", and I said no she didn't. She said she'd run out of washing powder so she'd come down to get some 'and things'. I went back to playing on the Playstation rather than hover over her shoulder, as far as I could tell she and one of my nephews were downstairs for about twenty minutes. When I came down, from what I could see, she'd taken the last of the washing powder tablets, she'd raided the cupboards for snacks, and she taken an envelope mum had left with money in it for a man who'd done some work on our tree, taken the money out, and left the envelope on the table. Good times.

Anyway. My week without my parents is almost over, and it's been pretty nice really. The only fiasco I had was on Tuesday, when I had to get up and go out to a jewellery course I do. It starts at 1 in Leeds, so I have to be up and out so I can be in Leeds for around 12-ish. But I remembered that I had to feed the dog and take him out and stuff, so I set my alarm for half an hour before I usually set it for. On Tuesday morning, I woke up early, couldn't get back to sleep, then couldn't work out why my alarm had gone off. I got up and started getting ready, and realised I'd gotten up at the time I set my alarm for, when I usually set the alarm, give myself half an hour to wake up in bed, and then get up. But no matter, I continued to get ready. I went downstairs, and it turned out to be the only day of the week (so far, fingers crossed) that the dog had made a mess in the kitchen. Even though it was around the time he usually barked to go out, so if anything I'd had a better chance of getting him out in time. But I didn't. I fed him, took him out, and cleaned it up, which I almost never do in the kitchen. I washed my hands, had a breakfast bar, and managed to get out in time for the bus to the bus station. However, they'd changed the bus times slightly from last year, so the connection I easily made when I went on this course last year, I missed, and had to wait half an hour for the next bus. I went into town, bought a few books on clearance, came back to the bus station and sat down to wait for the bus. And it wasn't until 12:33, when I was looking at a bus station clock, that I thought "Wait - 12:33?". And then I realised that instead of setting my alarm for half an hour before I usually did, I'd gotten confused and set it half an hour later. But then got up half an hour early anyway. But then either spent so much time cleaning up after the dog, or thought I had loads of time since I was 'early', that I completely missed the actual bus I wanted to get. And then missed the bus after that anyway. So I missed an hour of my jewellery course. But it's all pretty laidback, so it was alright really. But it was a confusing few hours.

In other news, I'm kind of freaking out about Dragon Age. ( Spoilers )

In other other news, I am watching Hannibal. It is extremely gory! But very good. I kind of wasn't holding out a lot of hope for Hugh Dancy, I think because he is pretty and reminds me of Jack Whitehall. But he's actually amazing. It is really good. But very gory.

I also watched the end of The Following. ( The end of The Following )

( The Following 1.11 )

Tl;dr: Lol.

I actually enjoyed The Following tonight, in the end. It sort of picked up, and seems to be getting back to it's original concept, if not the one I thought they'd be doing when I heard about the show. And it's always nice when Ryan gets things done, and when the writers keep things zipping along. ( Mild spoilers )

Anyway. Other bad things that happened today or recently:

• The fair we went to today wasn't great. You had to pay a cover charge to get in rather than just paying to go on rides, they didn't have any waltzers, and the hook-a-duck didn't have any water in it.



• I saw someone today prompting a fic on Tumblr via comments, and they said "established relationship, obviously!" at the end. Have we lived and fought in vain?



• No-one has written any Welcome To The Punch slash. I think just because it's a little British film, it's only been out a few days and no-one has really seen it. It's like there's no justice in the world.

( Spoilers for The Following 1.08 )

Mostly I am still playing Mass Effect 2, and loving Mass Effect 2. I'm pretty sure I'm either getting close to the end, or close to the part where characters (characters I LOVE) are going to start dying soon. And I/Shepard will probably have to be the one who chooses who dies. Ugh.

I went to Redemption. And then came back from Redemption. It was v lovely, though also freezing a lot of the time. We saw Virginia Hey, and I saw Man Of Iron for the second time in my life, and we planned for TrainCon, and I got an inflatable air guitar. The hotel did seem to be falling apart slightly, but hopefully they can patch it together with sellotape and glue and it will still be there in 2015.

In more recent days I found out about all the shitty things that had happened at the Oscars this year. Well done, world.

But I digress. I watched a bit of Coronation Street tonight. What I mostly like is that everyone is telling Gail she shouldn't tell David about Nick and Kylie because he has a chance to be happy. Rather than explaining to her that "Gail, you can't do that. He'll kill us. He'll kill all of us". Which is the only thing that makes sense. Rather like ( Spoilers for The Following the other week )

( And yet more spoilers, for The Following 1.06 )

I also wish:

• Eastenders was just the adventures of Michael Moon. And not at all about zombie Phil. I would watch it all then.



• Carl in Emmerdale comes back at some point as a MURDEROUS GHOST, protecting his son and niece the only terrible way he knows how. Emmerdale doesn't have enough ghosts. Or any.

At Redemption I also managed to avoid getting spoilered for Mass Effect, even though there was CONSTANT DANGER OF IT. I have finished the first game now, and started the second. I'm not going to spoiler anyone - I know how terrible that is - but I have to say it is kind of ridiculous the lengths games with specific storylines but lots of character generation options, have to go to to make sure you have ALL THE OPTIONS at the beginning of each game. KIND OF RIDICULOUS.

Hello. I've not been on Livejournal for a while. Essentially, I fell into Mass Effect (finally), and I have been playing that until it's basically too late to make posts. Also I got kind of fannish about Les Miserables, and started watching The Following. And whatever scraps of attention I had left basically went on Wreck-It Ralph and The Cave. The Cave is a little computer game I've been playing, which is kind of amazing. It was an online exclusive - possibly a Playstation Network exclusive - but it was only £10 and it's this great little puzzle game with beautiful graphics. You get a choice of 7 characters, and they've made exactly half of them female (3 women, 3 men, and a twin sister and brother). And two of those characters are POC, which is two more than some games manage. And all of the characters are dicks. And the game is about how dickish they all are. It's wicked. I am on my third playthrough now with the last of the characters.

Then there's Mass Effect obviously. I am enjoying Mass Effect. Well, except that ( Spoilers )

And then there's The Following. Oh, The Following. ( Big spoilers up to episode 4 )

Wreck-It Ralph is also very good. I was a little underwhelmed by it, but that might well be because I'd been looking forward to it for 4 months, since it came out in the US and had to start avoiding spoilers on Tumblr. And possibly because I was expecting a little more wrecking. But it was lovely all the same, and well worth seeing if you like animated films.

I meant to go to Wakefield today and book train tickets for Redemption. But then there was snow so I couldn't. I'll have to go tomorrow. REDEMPTION IS SO SOON. I kept thinking it was at the end of February, and then remembering it was actually a week before the end of February. And that February is very short. It will probably be my last convention for a year or so though, now that Connotations has finished ::sob::

Also, are we sure the Pope is quitting being Pope? Maybe he's just giving it up for Lent. Haha.