O HAI SMALLVILLE. I MISSED YOU SO MUCH.

Okay, so the Absolute Justice review will be coming later, when I've managed a sense of coherency about it and I don't have to type on a stupid laptop keyboard.

As for Disciple, which was on last week and I haven't reviewed yet-- I probably won't. Or I will way later. Because while it had its moments, it wasn't that great. and AJ has blown it out of the water in my head by now, so.

BUT OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG FLAIL.

This is your official Smallville reminder, flist. Two-hour extra special event.

The JSA. Amanda Waller. Martian Manhunter. Clark freaking Kent.

If ever you loved me, watch.

So. No srs update in a while and there probably won't be one for a while, either. This is because I am pretty much doing jack shit because I'm too fucking tired and insurance is being a pain in the ass still.

Oh. And Jarvis is probably dying.

Yay 20fucking10.

Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one reason why I like you. then re-post this and spread the love.

Work is interesting when you haven't been there for, like, a month.

And it's amazing how some things can change. Hopefully, this bodes well.

I should update and let you all know I'm alive, eh? Well, I am.

The holidays went well enough, although now that my sister has a Serious Boyfriend, we now have to try and shuffle things around to include him with us, and us with his family. It wasn't difficult, but it made for a long Christmas Day.

Anyway, nothing majorly upsetting happened, so I call it a success. Unfortunately, right after Christmas, I had a bad patch of several days where I just felt... down. It could have been related to my non-medicated week the week before Christmas, which was so not fun and we really, really won't be doing that again, thank you very much. But who knows. I've been feeling better this weekend, anyway.

If all goes well, I'll be back at work tomorrow, after four weeks of absence, and can fire off more claims to insurance.

Carry on.

Merry Winter and/or Summer Holiday of your choosing!

HINA!

You're not asupposed to send me gifts. *stern face* But it is adorable and I knew what it was as soon as I saw it. Thank you, love. <3

Right. Last week sucked, but it was my own damn fault. We won't be doing that again. Anyway. Things have been Fixed and I am relatively sane again, so that's nice. I am, however, saddened that for some reason, New York gets slammed by snow and Toronto is missed completely. I'm not asking for a storm, but a couple of centimetres would be nice just for the whole "white Christmas" affect and hell, this is Canada, after all. Let's get on it, Mother Nature.

Also, fuck, it's Christmas in like six days and I'm not done shopping yet. *sigh* I am not normally this disorganized, but thankfully I don't have much left to get and it shouldn't be difficult providing I can force myself to leave my apartment.

In closing, I give you one of my favourite contemporary Christmas songs. I may not be religious, but I love the unique perspective and the quiet grace of it:

Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) by Amy Grant

I haven't updated in a while.

I'm alive.

That is all.

Thank you, Steph and Miche, for the lovely wintery gifts on my userinfo.

♥

Oh, look. It's December. Can anyone tell me how the hell that happened?

Life continues. With very little happening. Still no word from work about my specialist's note, but I think HR is getting an overhaul. Haha. My brain still sucks. The new sleep meds work awesome, though, now that I can wake up again.

I've mostly been busy cross-stitching stuff for all my baby second-cousins. I would like to take pictures of them to show you all, but my camera has decided to not work. Again. And I need to get most of these out in the mail, like, yesterday.

My big plans for the weekend? Christmas shopping. At the mall. I can't wait.

My insomnia has returned. Joy. It came back about a month ago, despite the sleep meds I've been on for a significant amount of time now. I thought it was just stress etc. and it would go away, but a month is too long to deal with given everything else that's going on with my body, so I hauled my ass back to the doctor. More meds. Joy. At least these ones work?

So, one of the really annoying things about CFS is that you have to pick and choose what you can and can't do, based on your body's energy level. Do I vacuum or wash the dishes? Do I go to work and be able to do nothing else? Stuff like that. ( And now for the TMI portion of our post )

Anyway. Otherwise, I am actually feeling better now that I'm sleeping for more than four hours at a time and when I go to bed instead of finally passing out at 10am the next morning. Progress!

Last episode of the year. Let the withdrawal begin...

( Kneel before Kal-El. )

Next year: Is next year, dammit. But there's DC characters galore and a Big Movie Event! Is it February yet?

O hai. There was a new Smallville that I haven't reviewed yet. My bad.

( Powers activate! )

Next week: The future! Damn, it looks fun but I so need some plausible explanations, show. Pls to be giving them to me.

SV peeps, I need your help. MATTER MOST URGENT.


Is it too early to be looking for Tessod fic? And if not, where would one find such if they were so inclined?

KALI KALI KALI

Pam Grier has just been cast as Amanda Waller for multiple episodes of Smallville. I thought you might like to know.

Srsly, I gave like a pint of blood for tests today. 15 vials altogether. And I had to pay for one of the tests upfront. I felt all American. :/

Right now all I want is a nap, but there's this small detail of 6 1/2 hours of work to go.

Pretty damn good episode. I don't necessarily count it as "epic" as a lot of other people are, but a good one nonetheless.

( I see my crack security team is on the job. )

Next week: Looks like it could be fun. We shall see.

If you haven't already done so, please go HERE and let me know, if you are so inclined.

And now, the more detailed version:

( medical crap; my tag is oh so appropriate )

I have a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Which yay, but fuck, why the hell does it have to be so much goddamned work to get better?

I will try to make this as coherent as possible. I promise.

( You will respect me. )

Next Week: JULIAN SANDS. I still have serious reservations about how plot is going to be handled, but JULIAN SANDS. I'm there with bells on.

Sorry. Incoherent. God damn I love when canon is just that awesome.

ETA: OMG NEXT WEEK'S PROMO. WELCOME TO ALL CAPS STEPH.

I'm not a big fan of pretty men. I'm not. Tom Welling is an anomaly.

But now we can add another to that list, because my goodness Mr. Hot Middle Eastern Guest Star (but he plays Irish on TV!) on Supernatural is a pretty, pretty man I'd like to tie to a chair and just look at all day.

Filler. But entertaining filler, so I'm going to focus on the superficial aspects rather than actually attempt to look at it in depth, because it will only make me bitter and it's just filler. Bitter can be saved for important episodes.

( You know you look ridiculous in that, right? )

Next Week: TESSOD. TESSOD. Is it Friday yet?

I have no patience to comment on current fandom idiocy, aside to say it is just that. Real life work idiocy takes precedence.

( Cut because no one cares other than me and I just need to vent )

I was supposed to have my specialist appointment today. The one I've been waiting for since May. So I get there and am in the middle of my pre-interview with the nurse when the receptionist calls the nurse out. Apparently, the doctor is sick today and won't be coming in. New appointment is for November 4. Which is better than another six months, but still. Sigh.

I need to do a Big French Music Post. We'll see how I feel when I get home tonight.

I wanted to watch this a second time before I reviewed, but I'm in the headspace to get this done now so that isn't going to happen. Suffer.

( I thought the blood sugar might help you stop from punching people )

NEXT WEEK: Eh. I don't really care, to be honest. I'm just waiting for this one to be over so we can get to the good stuff.

I was partially right last week. This wasn't EPIC epic, but it was still pretty damn good. Yay!!

( Perhaps God has a sick sense of humor. Oh! I'm sorry! I shouldn't be taking your name in vain. )

NEXT WEEK: I... really don't know! I once again think we got a trailer for two episodes, not just next week's, so I'm not sure what coming and what's not. (Okay, I know what coming but that's besides the point). This one... is the ones that's kind of worrying me, so I'll just have to wait and see how it turns out.

I am at the point where chopping cabbage is an exhausting activity. The computer screen and my eyes are not getting along. Rabid review to come when I can stand to sit in front of a computer for more than twenty seconds. But it was awesome.

Happy Thanksgiving to those of use who actually celebrate it at the proper time of year!

Last week was my first week back at full time at work. I made it in for three days. Not too bad, but obviously, hoping to do better. Specialist clinic gave me an update and I'm still roughly three months away. But they did put me on a cancellation list, so there's that.

My cousin and his wife had their second baby last week. Another boy, which they knew, named Will. So cute. Big brother Jack - 18 months old - look just like my cousin now.

Mom and I went to the zoo yesterday to see the new polar bears. The girls were adorable and active, playing with each other and being bears. The male... not so smart this boy, but he's a nice looking bear. Also squeed over a baby grey kangaroo and got to pet numerous stingrays. SO SOFT. And total attention whores.

Holy crap am I tired today.

Up front: This episode didn't really grab me. I didn't hate it, and I suspect I'll like it more on subsequent viewings, but there's nothing making me really want to rewatch it anytime soon. And I don't really know why. But there it is.

( I guess this means you missed me. )

Next week: ZOMBIES! And Zod. This will probably either be epic, or an epic mess.

NAME A FANDOM AND I WILL TELL YOU MY:

+ OTP
+ Runner-up
+ Honorable mention(s)
+ Crack pairing(s)
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't

Here are my main fandoms:
Smallville, Heroes, LotR, Chuck, Buffy, Angel, Fairy Tales, Mythology (Greek and Norse, mostly), Underworld series, Gormenghast. If really, really necessary, Harry Potter, Vampire Chronicles and Farscape.

Not that I'm a shipper in general. But I can still tell you what romantic pairings I do or do not enjoy if I think about it. I lied. This pretty much indicates how much I enjoy (or would enjoy) watching these characters interact, not necessarily romantically.

Dudes. Farscape is being re-released on DVD at an actual reasonable price! IE, I can get the entirety of season four for what I previously paid for Starburst editions which contain four episodes each. And I bought two of those way back when.

Hey. At least I'll be able to finally see all of Sikozu's canon.

O hai, show! Welcome back! I miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissed you!!!

( After the last few days, being shot to death would be a blessing. )

Overall, I think it serviced very well as an opener and setting things up for the rest of the season. Not my favourite season premiere ever, but it still did a good job.

Next week: looks boring, based on the previews. But I'm holidng out hope given the excitement from advance reviews.

FINALLY my show is back tonight! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! For anyone who cares, we're trying like hell to get #kneelbeforezod to trend on Twitter, so if you can help us out, we'd appreciate it!!

Also, Pandorum opens. I really, really want to go see it this weekend, so fingers crossed that I'm feeling up to braving an actual theatre.

Oh, Supernatural. I don't know how I didn't see that coming, but I didn't. I'm supposed to be smarter than this, but yeah. You got me.

I watched Glee for the first time tonight. It wasn't horrible, but I admit I don't get the hype. I'll probably watch next week if only for Kristin Chenoweth.

While I'm on the subject of TV, I have mixed feelings about Heroes. Overall, it's still stupid and I'd love to be done with it, but yeah. Ray Park. Who was hot. I'm sure he won't live out the season, since both the resident Mary Sues were instantly able to defeat him when there's no way they should have been able to and he's clearly going to turn on his boss over tattoo girl, but Heroes has me until he croaks (HAH! pun not intended but amuses the hell out of me). So I guess I have to give them props for letting him grace my TV screen for at least a little while. Bastards.