I got a clean bill of health yesterday, and got a shot in each arm (flu, tetanus).

Ran by Spec's to get cookies and cheese and found a few other things to try. My food experiments have been kind of eh lately. Sometimes they work out, more often they leave me feeling gross for the rest of the day.

Also, been watching Avatar: the Last Airbender Book 2, which tends to make me very emotional. Between Appa and Aang I just cry at the drop of a hat in this book (In the next book, it's Zuko and Hiro that make me cry the most), but luckily Sokka is there to bring me back with a smile.

Time to go run some more errands, and hopefully reclaim my Firefly DVDs. By the time I get home, I should be able to find Merlin's latest episode, too.

So my Mom told me she followed the link from my LJ to sign the petition at racebending.com about the whitewashed casting of the Avatar: the Last Airbender movie.
Is that everybody now?  Go sign it!

Also, the TV and DVD player are both installed and working beautifully, and MY GOD Colin Morgan is adorable when his face is a foot tall in my living room.  ;)

Now all I have to do is actually build my IKEA furniture.
And finish my art before deadline.

Here I am at my lunch break, thinking that I have not been doing much blogging lately.
Things have been happening, thoughts have been thunk, writing has not really happened but a lot of art has gotten done...

I've been calling on my parents a lot for help with the apartment, arranging and unpacking and such. I have some stuff from IKEA that hasn't yet come out of the box - perhaps I should have that Flat Pack Party after all.
I think that this evening I shall go buy a television at last, and maybe put some books away.

Lately I've had lots of meetings and Meet-ups and a seemingly overwhelming amount of volunteer commitments, mostly online. How did I end up working on two back-to-back cons? Urgh.
I haven't got a costume for any of them, either. Although I may go shopping for something to wear to the dances, at least. 
I'm test-running some less-demanding-than-Adobe art software on my Mini, so that I won't have to lug Ginevra and all of her expensive software to San Francisco for the art demo I'm supposed to do. Does anybody out there use openCanvas regularly?  Got any good tips? Tutorials?

Other randomness:
Read The Graveyard Book, and it was excellent. Haven't yet managed to finish any of the other books I took from the library. Rereading the Enchanted Forest Chronicles omnibus instead.
Ran through the entirety of Avatar: The Last Airbender again. The finale chokes me up, man. Beautiful stuff. I may need to get DVDs.
Still re-watching Merlin, too. I'm easy.
Really, really wish I had Ghostbusters  on DVD.
I've made a lot of grilled cheese lately.  Also used almost every pan I own. Now I just need to make cookies (or pizza) and I think I will have used all possible kitchen tools at least once.
Have made minor progress on the current quilt, but won't really get far until the sewing table stops being the "put everything down here when you come inside" table. Working on it.
Been keeping a better food diary for the past few days, along with a general journal. I've stopped trying to separate everything and am just keeping everything in one book now. This combined with regular check-in with the Wellness Counselor at Rice should help me get a better handle on things. I hope.

And that's enough for now. Lunch break is well over, and I have things to do.

So, been doing art to try to meet deadlines, and sorting my stuff out. Have also been going to various estate sales and this weekend will hit some resale shops and possibly a Memorial Day sale at a major department store.

Also watching Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 1 again, because it's just that awesome, and I needed to cleanse my palate of the publicity photos released recently.  I've gotten through almost all of the first season today - how nice that I got out of work early.  This series is full of such great lines.  It's wonderful. 
OMG how much do I love Sokka?  SO MUCH. 

So, headed to the ancestral home for a combination of wallowing in the partial gene pool for a family event and doing chores.
My cousin's daughters had their First Communion, so Mom and Dad and I trekked out to Magnolia (over an hour's drive, whew) and hung out with them and some of their friends and my aunt.  It was actually kind of nice, and we had a good time.
Then when we came back I did laundry while watching more Avatar: The Last Airbender.  I just finished the series, and WOW I am so impressed.
Somebody point me to the commentary.  I feel like there's a lot going on there.  It was just excellent. I can't quite imagine it as a movie, but I can see why someone would think it would transfer well to a bigger screen.
So now I have clean laundry for my trip to NYC, and I still haven't found the box with my tarot cards in it. I should open some and dig around.

I just finished Season 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender and wow, what a finale.
I'm so excited.
But I can't watch all the rest of it fast enough!  Argh!  Must know what happens!
(Except, really, don't tell me.)

Still loving Sokka.  :D

Power's back on.  For now.  It usually starts messing up later in the evening, so if I can get through a whole night without losing it, we'll call it fixed.
Using the oven set off the smoke detector, though.  LOL.  If it's not one thing...
Now settling in for dinner and Avatar: The Last Airbender, continuing season one.  :)

I just watched the first five episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender and omg it's just so CUTE!
They have some mighty themes to deal with, though, in low-rated cartoon.  I'm looking forward to it - how many seasons are there total?