Grass and Sky

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.

I did sewing! Well, a very tiny little bit of sewing, in truth. But some. And more importantly, I figured out how to approach the problem, which was what was holding me up, so now it's just a simple matter getting the stitches in. Which would go a lot quicker if I had a sewing machine, but that's a quest for another day.

Mal the Destructo Kitty gets very excited when I pull the sewing stuff out. He's pretty convinced that those pins would make a great toy if he could only get them out of that thing they're stuck in (whether it happens to be the pin cushion or the fabric makes no difference to him). I ended up locking him in the bathroom for at least an hour and a half, poor guy, for his own safety. He was better after that, barely sniffed at the pin cushion and kept right on going. (He was very cute, though. When I first pulled the skirt out to work on it, he came right over, stretched out half on my lap, half on the skirt and started purring. He almost never wants to snuggle so it was very sweet.)

So, it looks like Date Guy and I are gonna get a third date. Geez, it's been a good long while since I've managed date #3 with anyone (that would be the Salsa dancer two years ago, who wanted me to spend all my weekends at his place, after we'd known each other two weeks). I think I'm gonna push for Dave & Buster's or something like that - something that gives us something to do beyond sit and eat. Of course, when this date might happen is still anyone's guess, but I'm not gonna stress about that right now. Plenty of time for that later, right?

Today was blind date Sunday. This involved getting up at 6:45am in order to be ready to go by 8. I think it's safe to say I've never gone on such a very early date before.

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Now I'm exhausted. I took an advil before heading out so my legs didn't get sore and achey, although they might be tomorrow, but I feel like I need a nap, which I'm trying to resist. Maybe I'll go work on that fic I've been trying to work on for ages now.