Mood: *squee!*

The newest edition to the household, the fabulous Claudia Jean Cregg, my new betta fish~! I brought her (him) home yesterday and I have to say she (he) seems to be getting quite comfortable at home with the wrestlers in her (his) new tank. (It's actually a male betta because the females aren't as bright and colorful as the males, but I'm referring to him as a she. It causes for a wee bit of a sexual identity crisis for Claudia Jean but she's adapting nicely. Besides for there to eventually be a Danny fish to sit on my desk at work, there has to first be a C.J. It's this whole big thing.)

She's so pretty, I love her coloring. And look at her flaunt those fine fins, that's one elegant dame. *hearts* On the bus to work this morning I was listening to my iPod and for every song I imagined fish singing them. Coldplay fish, Linkin Park fish, Sarah McLachlan fish. It was sweet.

In other non-fishie related news, founded by Coleen we've all amassed together and started a book club. A good old traditional read-a-book-then-discuss-it-at-a-meeting type of book club, only slightly less old lady I like to think because we'll obviously be reading much better books and we'll have treats at the meetings~ I'm looking forward to all the new books I'll be exposed to. Our first random pick is The Crying of Lot 49 which Amanda says is kind of strange, but I'm excited anyway. That is...if I can track down a copy to read... *Looks imploringly at Coleen who said she'd pick it up for her from the UofA library*

I saw both Enchanted and The Golden Compass this last week and they were both entertaining -- Enchanted with all of it's froofy over-emphasized character dialogue and flouncing about and singing and general Disney mocking; and Golden Compass in more of a cool Ian McKellen warrior polar bears ripping jaws clean off sort of way. GP seemed really rushed though. I haven't read the books before but I'm going to try and get my hands on them.

Update on my Christmas status!

-- Presents bought: 6ish of 8! Almost done!
-- Baking finished: Um...none yet. Hopefully tomorrow! ¬_¬
-- Christmas cards sent: Erm. Well I have 3 written...of 20... More tomorrow! D:
-- Christmas tree set up: Done!
-- Tree decorations lost: All of them! Where did they GO?! D:
-- Tree decorations bought to replace lost ones: *Grumble* Done.
-- Celine Dion holiday CD downloaded: Done. (Shut up, her Christmas album is my only Christmas album. I love it.)
-- Advant calendar chocolates left: 14

Okay so I have to ask -- when you eat your advant calendar chocolates, do you start from the 1st or do you start from the 25th for your countdown? Everyone's been ribbing me for starting at the 25th and eating my way backwards. But it's a COUNTDOWN, people! A countdown of days until Christmas! You don't start at 1, you start at the end! "16 days...15 days...14 days..." Tell me I'm not the only one who eats the calendar the right way.

Mood: COLD! >_<

OMFG. Winter is here, fellow Albertans, and like always it ain't pretty sunshine and lollipops. *mumble grumble grumble* It doesn't help that 1) my car starter has gone on the fritz this year and refuses to work, so that means cold driving for me; and 2) I think the heat in our apartment is busted too... It's freezing in here and pumping up the thermostat doesn't seem to change it any. Thankfully Mason hooked up his smarmy electric blanket this evening so by the time I tuck in for the night it should be all warm and toasty~ XD YAY electric blankets! (Sans potential fiery death obviously...the nagging little paranoia in the back of head will nag me to check that it's turned off every morning.)

Beowulf was awesome! I'm not actually sure if I'd say that the 3D-ness made it better or not, I mean after the first twenty minutes of being all "WOW HOLY SHIT IT'S COMING OUT AT MY FACE!" you kind of forget it's there and it's like you're just watching a regular movie again. It was entertaining though, full of bloody fighting and slinky Angelina Jolie demons and naked Beowulf~ I also got done almost half of my Christmas shopping! Look at me, I'm totally on schedule!

In the spirit of the consumer-filled holidays, here's some shameless promotional plugging of things that you should really be interested if you're not already:

1) Gargoyles season 3 comics! Chelle received the first five available issues in the mail and like the greedy moocher I am I read them all in one night. Being a long time die-hard fan I feel the need to lend my hand in the loyal promotion of Greg Weisman's baby in hopes that Disney will some day pick it back up or at the very least sell the rest of the series on DVD. So buy season one and the first part of season two on DVD at Amazon! Buy the comics! Help Gargoyles live again! (Past nerdy now, I am aware.)

2) IconBuffet! Dammit, Sarah got me all hooked on this site again. *shakes fist* It's like trading and collecting stamps, only they're cute icons that you can use on websites and anything you make. I sent out invites to all the designer type people I know who may be interested and only two signed up. Come on, people. I get 50 points for every person I refer! It's fun! It's addicting! (And remember, I get POINTS.)

I was all excited this past weekend to go on a special outing and now I have to wait for another whole week because our silly tank isn't warm enough and the silly water isn't finished doing all it's chemical balancing hoo ha. In any event this upcoming weekend if all goes according to previous plans there will be pictures posted -- I won't tell you of what but I'll give you the subtle hint that it may or may not be fish shaped. *glee*

(Chelle, I'm very very tempted to steal Gale's absolutely perfect name, for lack of anything as so absolutely perfect and fitting. I'm afraid what ever I choose just wouldn't compare. Other ideas? Suggestions?)