I'm going back to work tomorrow and it's making me sadface. Apart from the pain and discomfort, I have thoroughly enjoyed the last few days. On Sunday and Monday, I watched roughly a million episodes of House. On Tuesday, I read in the bath for an epic amount of time before baking all of the things (well, three things). Wednesday featured a trip outside (*gasp*) before internet shenanigans (check out my new fanlisting for the Dead Space series of games - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star). Today has been spent attempting to fix my wonky iTunes (only partly successfully), playing Silent Hill: Homecoming and general dithering.

Now, let's chat about the wonderful things I have been watching on the telly.

( House )

( America's Next Top Model )

( The Finder )

And, finally, I really fucking hate that they've made themes compulsory in the new season of Come Dine With Me. Dressing up always pisses me off, but when it's relentless it induces rage. Do you know what else is rage inducing? BBC iPlayer not letting me watch last night's The Apprentice: You're Fired, that's what.

A fly-by John Sheppard & Rodney McKay rec list ♥

( 26 Fics Under the Cut )

Do you know what would be an incredibly productive use of my time on my day off? Doing a really out of date meme, that's what! (I bookmarked this from caffeinatedlife's book blog months ago *whistles*)

The Best of 2011 In Books
( Who says these things need to be done in January? )

Despite the rather disappointing result to last night's match (rugby! yay!), I had a spiffing evening. The sad result of such alcohol-laden times was that I woke up at 7.15 this morning. I went to Tesco at 8 which is just wrong. No one should go to Tesco at 8 on a Sunday morning. 8 on a Sunday morning is for sleeping. To fill the long hours between now and Ireland v. Wales (!!!!!!!!!!), I'm catching up on Game of Thrones and am finally, finally, finally going to update my list of books read in 2011 since I last updated it in August. Ooops!

164. Enchanted - Janine Ashbless, Olivia Knight & Leonie Martel
165. Supernatural: Heart of the Dragon - Keith DeCandido
166. Form Two of Rock House - Mary Gervaise
167. Hunter's Moon - David Devereux
168. An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
169. Soulless - Gail Carriger
170. The Truth About the Tycoon - Allison Leigh
171. First Term at Trebizon - Anne Digby
172. The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
173. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
174. Forever Free - Joe Haldeman
175. Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman
176. Summer's Ending - Helen McClelland
177. The Testing of Tansy - Winifred Darch
178. The Crow Road - Iain Banks
179. DC/Top Cow Crossovers - Various
180. MySpace Dark Horse Presents, Volume 2 - Various
181. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea - Guy Delisle
182. 300 - Frank Miller & Lynn Varley
183. Ballet Shoes for Anna - Noel Streatfeild
184. PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary People - Frank Warren
185. Notes from a Defeatist - Joe Sacco
186. The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr Punch - Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
187. Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada
188. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life - Bryan Lee O'Malley
189. Cornelia of the Chalet School - Jackie Roberts
190. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Bryan Lee O'Malley
191. Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness - Bryan Lee O'Malley
192. Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together - Bryan Lee O'Malley
193. Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe - Bryan Lee O'Malley
194. Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour - Bryan Lee O'Malley
195. Celebrating Antonia Forest - Laura Hicks (ed.)
196. Schopenhauer's Telescope - Gerard Donovan
197. The Bad News Bible - Anna Blundy
198. Biografi - Lloyd Jones
199. Dear Enemy - Jean Webster
200. A Popular Schoolgirl - Angela Brazil
201. Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky

( I'm honestly surprised to have passed the 200 mark this year. )

01. The weather has been delightful for the last week or so. Bright, clear and crisp - my favourite (although it could have done with a bit more snow).

02. I've been annoyingly lethargic for a while now and I'm getting a bit pissed off with the whole thing. I would like to not wake up tired, if that's okay with you universe!

03. The lethargy has resulted in me lying blankly on my couch, rewatching Firefly and Serenity. Good times. It's Whedon, so I have issues but I can mostly overlook them. What I want now is for you lovely people to give me fic recs. Lots and lots and lots of fic recs - ones with capers and high jinks and emotional drama and SCI-MOTHERFUCKING-FI.

04. THE SIX NATIONS STARS THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm lolling about on the couch after work, idly surfing the net after triumphantly finishing my TFL checks over the last few days, despite a spectacular hangover and an extreme lack of time, when I am distracted by an ad on television.

It's for a game. It's dark and creepy and the main guy looks fairly hot. Then there are monsters and guns and zombies and... wait. This second guy looks a bit like Leon Kennedy but I'd have heard if there was a new Resident Evil game, right? Only, there's more darkness and zombies and guns and then it flashes up RESIDENT EVIL 6, to which I made an untypeable flailing kind of a sound. And then the text changes to 20/11/2012, to which I made an untypeable appalled sound. And then a different advert came on.

What the fuck? There's a new RE game and I've somehow not heard anything about it? How has this happened? I went from !!! to ??? to >.< in a matter of seconds. Having been wildly disappointed by 4, and not overly excited about 5, I really, really hope this one isn't shit.

Also, SQUEE!!!!

Today, my day off, was supposed to start with a trip to the gym. Instead, I lay in bed and watched the first episode of Project Runway, season 8 (I just finished watching all three seasons of Project Runway: Australia which was fab although I found the first host a bit awkward and then was slightly disappointed to see Henry (who was crazy with all of his handshaking) replaced with Alex Perry who surely gets enough exposure on Australia's Next Top Model, BUT I DIGRESS). I've just caught up on some e-mails/TFL stuff and am planning on heading to the kitchen to bake some scones and cookies before meeting a couple of friends for an afternoon pint. It is a good day.

Speaking of the gym - what? We totally were! - I got a Kindle for Christmas and though it was primarily earmarked for reading whilst travelling for longish distances, it has been a godsend at the gym. I had been bringing actual books but they were a bit awkward to deal with and then, ew, sweat, so the kindle is much easier. I have to say, while I like the Kindle, I find it pretty glitchy and I laugh at the idea that you don't get any glare on the screen. Lies! Still, I've been making my way through a bunch of GO stuff so it's happy times at the gym for me. When I can be bothered to go, that is... ;)

Cause everyone's doing it and this is the laziest way I can think of to start posting again:

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

Book nearby: Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

Sentence: She got into a hysteria of rage at Bert, for taking the car, since if she had that, she would not only be saved walking, but could slip into a filling station and inquire in a self-respecting way, having the attendant produce maps. (Holy multiple commas, Batman!)

I'm going to have angry sex which possibly requires a map? Yay!

Yesterday (aka Hurricane Bawbag day), I celebrated my early release from work by making candles and tablet. The candles look pretty good but I'm not sure about the tablet. The top half is fine, but I'm not sure that the bottom half has set properly. Plus, it's kind of grainy... Still, I did things!

Today, I met goonight for the first time which was obviously awesome :D We had a really, really good lunch in a cafe with terrible service (goonight ordered tea and they only brought her the cup) and nattered until I had to run off to work (where a child threatened to punch me in the face and his mother just stared at me).

Tomorrow, I have work, then two work Christmas nights out and then I'm going to the cinema to see all four Die Hard movies in a row. BEST. NIGHT. EVER.

(Christmas card requests are still being taken over here.)

Scotland's 'Hurricane Bawbag' raises Twitter storm.

AHAHAHAHAHA! Thanks to Hurricane Bawbag, I got sent home from work early today *dances*

EDIT: Cause some of these are making me laugh out loud:

• News just in: NHS chiefs warning people under 8 stone not to walk outside. Most of Scotland safe. #hurricanebawbag
  
• Only Scottish people would get #hurricanebawbag trending. You may take our garden furniture, but you'll never take our banter!
  
• #hurricanebawbag update: A plant pot has fallen over in Airdrie. An eyewitness retold the horror "It pure went sideways."
  
• @BBCNews what is #scotstorm I only know of #hurricanebawbag in Scotland at the moment