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I made BSG icons for the first time in a long time today.  (Points to icon for this post.)  I forget sometimes how much I miss my show.

Some of our friends came in from South Carolina this morning.  While they're here, one of the things we plan on doing is having a geek fest where we'll bust out my Star Trek Scene It and Jessica's Star Wars Trivial Pursuit games.  So we say hi and talk for a minute when Ash tells me he has something he wants to show me and pulls out a bible for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine signed by Majel Barrett.  He told me he was at the convention where she was picked to present the new spinoff.  I, not surprisingly, geek out and immediately start reading everything (interesting tidbit: Julian's last name was originally Amoros, not Bashir).  As we were leaving he told me to take it with me saying he's read enough times and I could have it.  Oh, I'm in geek heaven.

 Do me a favor and go vote in voy_stillness 's latest tie-breaker, please and thank you.

I'm offering my icon and wallpaper services to help raise money with help_haiti .  You can bid for 25 icons or 10 icons and wallpaper over here.  Bidding starts at $3 if you're interested.

My show came back to me tonight.  Don't want to get into too much detail but, ( spoilers )

I've got a couple of ties going on over at voy_stillness .  If you have a second to spare, go over there and cast your votes.

Saw a lot of buzz about the show last night, but didn't get to watch it live.  Just finished seeing it on Hulu, and the buzz was well deserved.  Holy crap.  Why did it take canceling the show for Joss to make it freaking awesome?  

Would anyone reading this want to take over running the drabble challenge?  Or know someone who would?  I hardly spend anytime at all over at TF.N anymore, and really don't have the desire to do it.  There are plenty of themes that have been sent in to use for this round.  All you have to do is organize the order you want and update once a week.  Or you can do it however you want since you'll be the one running it.  Leave a comment or message me in some other manner if you're interested.

Arrested Development's second season was waiting in my Hulu queue when I got back home.  Yay for happy and hilarious distractions.  Even though I've seen all of these before, there are still moments where I have to control my laughter for fearing of disturbing others in the house.

 One of my roommates from Ohio State had a baby boy just a few hours after the ball dropped in Times Square.  I stopped by the hospital on my way to work.  While walking down the hall towards her room I almost had to stop walking when a realization hit me: the last time I was visiting her family in the hospital it was when her husband had just had a surgery during his battle with cancer a few years back.  To go from that to getting to meet the new baby?  Amazing.  I really hope it turns out to be foreshadowing for 2010, that all the crap we've all gone through lately will go away and the future will be full of (metaphorical) newborns.  

 I would love to be able to write you all a sweet or at least witty Christmas wish, but I've been in the car for eleven hours today.  We were supposed to be surprise Christmas/80th birthday presents for my grandparents, but as my Dad said, my Grandma (who can't remember what she had for breakfast) can apparently see into the future and figured out that we were coming.  Add to that a blizzard in Oklahoma (where they live) and you get all kinds of fun.  

Anyway, I'm brain dead from the trip.  Have a wonderful Christmas (East coast still has 40 minutes, so I made this post in time).  Sweet dreams, readers.  

 First, I posted winners for the Best of 2009 at voy_stillness .  Congrats to my fellow winners.  And, how great is this icon?  airlockhero  made my week with that one.

Speaking of Star Trek, Z got me Star Trek Scene It for Christmas (Kroger had it for $8, so why not?).  Since I'm leaving for Indiana (again) tomorrow night, we opened it up and played.  I kicked butt.  And by "I kicked butt" I mean, "I showed off just how big of a dork I am and how much useless knowledge is floating around in my brain."  It took me three tries before passing Biochem 511, but I can rattle of Veridian III in my sleep.  Go figure.

Honestly, it's been the most excited I've been about anything sci-fi in months.  I have no desire to write fanfic, even though I (in my opinion at least) nailed two holiday fics last year and would to dabble in that again.  And even with drabbles, I'm tempted to pass off running that challenge to someone else.  I know I go through phases when it comes to hobbies, but this one is a little hard to let go.  Maybe because I've put down so many words or created a universe that's all mine.  Two in fact.  I don't know.  As hard as it is to let it go for a while, it's even harder to get motivated enough to pick it back up.  I'll get little glimmers of idea, but they fade away just as quickly as they come.

I have the sudden urge to go off about Dollhouse right now, but I think I'll wait till the series finishes.  This past week didn't do too much for me (at least in anything where Echo is concerned.  I love Victor/Sierra.  Even Topher is growing on me.) Anyway, I have to pack.  The thought crossed my mind to do a graphic representation of things I've loved in 2009 since tonight will be my last night with Photoshop access until the new year, but why be creative like that when you can waste time playing Restaurant City on Facebook?

So, in case I don't post again: have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

EDIT: Anyone know why LJ is ignoring paragraph breaks when working with Safari or is it just me who is having this issue?

 We're having a big, end of the year, "best of" vote over at voy_stillness .  Please take a second and join in on the fun.

One of the many things I watched on Hulu today was the extended pilot for Caprica. I was just kind of meh about it. There were a few moments (can't tell you what they are now) that I felt a glimmer of the excitement I felt watching almost any BSG episode, but nothing all that spectacular. I liked The Plan better, but maybe that's because I knew the characters and the story so well. Have you seen it? What did you think? Meanwhile, I've sat here pretty much all day catching up on TV and playing stupid games. Therefore, I'm going to go out to my car and get my book (The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs--I highly recommend it), curl up in bed and read about this crazy guy reading through the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in one year.

Did you enter at least one icon in voy_stillness this year? Well go re-enter it. We're doing a best of the year contest this week. You can re-enter up to 10 icons you've made for the community's challenges this past year. Challenge details are here.

My sister put this on my Facebook this morning and I'd thought I'd share:


5 Star Wars Status Updates on CollegeHumor

If you're interested in custom holiday icons (like I mentioned in my last post), here's an example of what they look like:



Let me know what holiday you want on the icon and what you want your gift to be. You can request up to 10.

Ok, I might be crazy and may not get this done, but I'll do my best.

I'm taking suggestions for "All I want for (winter holiday of your choice) is..." icons. So tell me what you want for what holiday, and I'll see what I can do. We'll put a limit at ten.