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My nerdiness astounds even me at timesI have two words for you all: LEGO GRIEVOUS.
Thank you, Brock and Nickie! :B How could I have spent so much time scouring the interwebs for everything and anything General Grievous related and never have known about this?! *Twinge of fangirly shame* Look at him! He's AWESOME. XD
I have to admit though... the picture is a bit deceiving. I sort of just glossed over the whole "10,186 pieces" thing in my fangirly glee -- the box is freaking ginormous! 10,186 pieces! He's going to be 18 inches high! It came with TWO INSTRUCTIONS BOOKS. They could not fit all of his assembly instructions into one manual! D: I played with Lego when I was a kid, I built my share of you know... houses. And... walls... Something tells me Grievous is going to be a bit more a challenge. But I'm determined to get him done! *DETERMINED* The online reviews say the figure isn't very sturdy because he's so tall when put together, so I figure I'll put him together and then maybe glue everything except the pivot joints -- I'd love to be able to really move him around and pose him~ So far I've finished... the platform. It's a work in progress.
I'm reading Outlander, the first in a series by Diana Gabaldon. It's a bit of a romancy, historical, time-traveling fruit salad and was recommended to me by a couple different people. Basically the story so far is a married, English post-WWII nurse is suddenly transported back to 1700 Scotland. The first 170ish pages weren't bad at all, they were thought out and well-paced with the whole "hey we just traveled back in time!" thing -- but then in the span of the next mere 20 pages, the heroine suddenly seems to completely forget all about her beloved husband in the present time that she's told us she loves so dearly and is determined to get back to, marries a burly kilt-clad Scotsman she's only known for a month, and proceeds to have piles of guilt-free sex with her new Highlander beau.
*Blink blink* What? What just happened? *Flips back through the book to double check she didn't miss a few cleverly hidden chapters* How can you completely change the emotional mindset of a character in 20 pages? That's like being in a loving marriage and then going out to the store for 20 minutes to pick up milk and shagging the grocery clerk in the frozen food isle instead. I don't know. It's gotten a little dicey at this point, at times I just want to throw my hands up in frustration trying to get a grip on this protagonist's fickle thought process. =_=;
The Diana Gabaldon books are not that bad, from my non-romancy guy perspective. Occasionally they suffer from pigheaded-man syndrome, but overall it's quite well-researched, in a good way, with engaging plots.
Yeah it's not really the plot I'm having the trouble with, it's Claire herself. I can't decide if I actually like her character or if she just annoys the hell out of me. She's a little all over the place at times.
awww, now I want to buy lego : (
I dropped Outlander because I thought it kept doing the same plot patterns throughout the books. Let me know if you like it and maybe I'll give it another chance.
Roger that, Swoo. I have no doubt I'll finish this first one. I'll let you what I think at the end.
On a positive note, I do love how the book is dripping with amusing Scottish brogue. I read one chapter on the bus and go around for the rest of the day with all my thoughts heavily accented in my head. "Dinnae worry, ye wee lass!" Ho ho ho.
Oh fuck. This is the other Sarah, isn't it? You're not Swoo! You guys need to sign your names differently or something.
*Headdesk*
There is only one Sarah >:(
:Waves at Brennski:
Hahaha, thanks for the W but the two of you both have the same last initial too. We need to give one of you some sort of rad gangsta nickname. SarahG from the Block, yo?
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I'm so gangster, can you tell?
attempt 3.
also, gangster rating: -325 due to St Albert appreciation.
Hahaha, it's sad because it's so true.
I don't remember fickle Claire in the first book particularly. Perhaps it was a little bit too much characters giving way to what the author had decreed was inevitable. Maybe she figured that whatever happened in historical Scotland stayed in historical Scotland. Though...in many ways it really doesn't. Maybe she was having a Thomas Covenant moment and was convinced this was all not really real. Don't recall.
(I recall being somewhat annoyed, perhaps more in later books, that Claire gets first person narration to herself while other viewpoint characters get third person. That tends to bother me.)
someone was impersonating me. that's messed up.
this is the REAL sarah woo. the one who never writes in capitals.
thumbs down to whoever is up there ^^
oh wait, i just reread the posts and was massively confused.
*Falls out of chair in LULz*
just too much sarah!!!!
/facepalm
/slinks away in embarrassment
Hey, I heard there was a Sarah W party here?
Lance! Stop messing with people's minds more than they already have been!
You don't read Outlander for Claire...you read it for Jamie! Oh, and Lord John!
John Randall~? Yeah, there hasn't even been a lot of him so far and I can already tell I'm going to like him. *Such a sucker for the villains* He's all smarmy and posh in his military regalia! :3