The Ink-Pot and the Palette

Here's how it is. I got the painting all done, peeled off the masking, and started to arrange the furniture. I was gonna stick the TV back in its accustomed place and damn. It was just too heavy.

So I put an ad on Craigslist (have I mentioned lately how much I love living in the 21st century?) and within a minute I had a taker.

While they drove over from Vancouver I thought I'd better rig up something to show them that the TV still worked. I plugged in the DVD player and slid Firefly disc 1 in.

The buyers came, saw, and bought as Mal and Zoe lost the Battle of Serenity Valley.

Then someone was interested in the home theater, so I plugged in a few more wires and let the disc keep going, sound only. The music! The great lines! The way I can visualize every moment of every scene, and anticipate every word.

Fandoms come and go, but Serenity? She'll be with me the rest of my life.

Monsoon came back today from his long (but very comfortable) exile at my mother's house, and after a bit of a pout in the basement, seemed very glad to be home.

My Serenity DVD arrived this afternoon, and I'm going to make a new Christmas Eve tradition of watching it. With a shot of Laphroaig. And maybe some cake.

( I hope all my LJ friends are enjoying as pleasant a holiday as I am. )

Okay, I'm cracking my bottle of Laphroaig and cueing up the DVD.

Merry Christmas, everybody.

The Dark Emerald Bead-O-Meter

8,535 / 8,534 (100.0%)

( Ta-da! )

Next: throw together a red silk kimono-style coat, stick the beadwork on the back of the right shoulder, line it with red-and-gold, embellish it a bit more, carry it to Starfury Serenity2, and see if we can get Nathan to try it on.

Never let it be said that my ambitions are modest.

The Dark Emerald Bead-O-Meter

4832 / 8,534
(56.0%)

The Zokotou word meter seems to be broken, but Beading Serenity crept past the halfway point today as I listened to James Marsters read me the last bit of Storm Front by Jim Butcher. (It got better toward the end.)

Then I moved on to Dirt Music by Tim Winton (read, I'm pretty sure, by the author), a wonderfully-written contemporary Australian novel that wedjateye sent me.

( A picture behind the cut. )

In other news, I sort of enjoyed Sean Maher's guest stint as a ghost on The Ghost Whisperer last night. He does up-close and emotional quite well. Also? Sneering disdain. Looks good in bike gear. The funniest part is his reaction to seeing the oh-so-ordinary-looking guy who received his donated heart.

( He's very pretty, isn't he? )

It's an unoriginal, predictable show, but it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be--the acting was good and the dialog almost fresh, with some interesting direction. But seriously: dead guy, organ donor, grieving fiancee, heart recipient...what do you think is going to happen?

The Dark Emerald Bead-O-Meter

3,971 / 8,534 (46.0%)

After an extremely frustrating session of fumbling, mistakes, and general brainlessness, I finally made some progress on my massive fannish project today. I might have the beadwork done in time to baste this sucker onto the back of my denim jacket to wear to the opening next Friday.

( Progress )

The Serenity Coat, however, is going to take me till the London convention (mid-November) to finish. It has morphed in concept from Mal to Inara--from brown leather to silk and velvet.

( Oooh! Look at the pretties! ) So. What do you think so far?

The Dark Emerald Bead-O-Meter

3,241 / 8,534 (37.0%)

There seem to be some color problems.

( That's the trouble with beads...they aren't paints. )

The Dark Emerald Bead-O-Meter

950 / 8,534 (11.0%)

Turns out Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is almost as great for beadwork as for passing time on the elliptical.

( See? )

The Dark Emerald Bead-O-Meter

146 / 8,534 (1.0%)

The first four rows are done! ( Proof. )

Only 8388 beads to go.

Well, it's a start.

DarkEmerald's Bead-o-Meter 40 / 9,100 (0.0%)

It seems I'll be attending a Serenity-oriented convention in the fall. liquidize offered to make me a T-shirt for the event, and wedjateye actually sent me a lovely one that I wore to the last screening.

( But no. I have a bigger idea. )
Because not only am I big Serenity geek and a minion of Joss, but I'm insane. And I can prove it.