update post of updatiness

Wow, I'm glad September is a thing of the past. Other than Dragon*Con, it was mostly just a very crappy month. But now, October is here, it is fall, and things are starting to look up again.

I've fallen out of the habit of paying attention to new tv shows in the fall, but I watched the first two eps of Hawaii Five-O over the weekend and I liked it. Third time's the charm, I guess, when it comes to Alex O'Loughlin. I tried really hard to like Moonlight, but I just couldn't buy his portrayal of the vampire. I gave Three Rivers one shot, and didn't even last a full episode because of him. But he felt a lot less bland and generic-pretty-boy in Hawaii Five-O so there's hope.

We're about a third of the way through Merlin season three, now, and I'm fighting boredom tooth and claw. It feels like every episode is a slightly reworked rehash of a previous episode. Plus, I'm not all that keen on the sullenly lurking Evil!Morgana storyline. I keep watching though, in the hope that it re-engages my interest soon.

In non-tv related news, eve11's halloween party is coming up in a couple weeks and I'm still trying to figure out how to do the costume I have in mind. I think there's going to be a thrift store shopping spree this weekend, however, so hopefully that will provide some answers.

And there's still OKCupid, to provide me with entertainment when all else fails. Started emailing with a new guy on Sunday. He seems a little bit more needy than I'm entirely comfortable with, and he's fifteen years older than me, but his profile looked interesting, so I'll continue to email him and see what happens. I also got a text from the guy that I went out with back in August. He'd gone away on a month long trip and just got back recently. I had, honestly, pretty much forgotten about him, but he wants to hang out sometime soon. So I may have a few not!dates coming up.

Oh, and I got my hair cut. Really, really cut. I wanted it to look like this:

and it pretty much does, actually, although my color isn't as deep as hers. I'll post a pic once I have one.

Let there be light

The light bulbs in my kitchen overhead fixture burnt out some months ago. Long enough ago that I don't actually remember how long ago. I didn't change them because I only have a rickety two-step stool and I wasn't sure it was high enough, I had to move furniture gain access, my shoulder hasn't been up to that sort of stretching strain, and the fixture cover was full of dead spiders that I wanted nothing to do with. Many, many reasons to pretend I don't need light in the kitchen.

Unfortunately, it really is kind of difficult to do things like cook or clean in the dark. So this evening after work I sucked it up, moved the kitchen table, pulled out my rickety little stool, dug out my screwdriver, and bearded the lion in its den. I didn't fall, drop the fixture cover, spill dead spiders all over myself, or break anything. I did realize that my kitchen light has been 'on' for a really long time, however. Oops. And I once again can see in my kitchen. Yay!

The downside to all that is, now I can see exactly how nasty my kitchen is. I'm going to have to do a sincere cleaning sooner rather than later. Not tonight though. Sincere cleanings do not happen on Tuesdays. That's more of weekend thing.