Confessions of a One-Track Mind

Yesterday, I ran around with Mb. Long day! Lunch, the ASPCA thrift store, Home Depot, followed by Target, WalMart (where Mb was looking for a new coffeepot---one of her cats killed her glass carafe) and Aldi. Then back to her place, and I hit my WalMart on my way home.

The ASPCA thrift is one I've been wanting to visit for quite a while. Being a Saturday, it was fairly busy, but I liked it and will go again. I got a great piece of fabric, 3 yards of a sturdy cotton with a classic red and white Hawaiian hibiscus print. Not sure what I'm gonna DO with it, but I'll think of something! Also got a couple bits of bling---two brooches and a bracelet. One pin was a leaping gazelle or impala, the other is an abstract thing that looks like Liberace's boomerang. The bracelet is plain chain and destined to be an extender for a necklace that's much too short. (I don't do choakers, but I got one with a pretty charm for Christmas.)

At Home Depot, I made my first investments from the card pwcorgigirl gifted me with for Xmas: I got a box of Mr Clean Magic Erasers, a tube of Super Glue, and a bag of concrete. Had a bear of a time with the bag---60 pounds of concrete is surprisingly dense and heavier that it seems.

I think what I'm going to end up doing is digging out the old mailbox, getting the hole to a size where it will accomodate the new one, putting it in there and shoveling the concrete powder into the hole a little at a time and wetting it down. Because frankly, I can't lift the damn thing out of my trunk, so that's the only way I can think of to do it.

It did get frosty last night, but I managed to stay comfy. Wore the ensemble I'd planned to church, and got some bad news: There's been a rash of thefts among area churches, and somebody pilfered our heating and a/c unit. We're insured, but it's still going to be a major pain, although as AI pointed out, "That's going to earn somebody some butt-ugly kharma."

Our guest speaker didn't show up---we figure he must've gotten his weeks mixed up---so a couple of the Buddhists pinch hit. Which was very nice of them...although one gal drove me to distraction---if I had ten cents for every time she said, "You know", I could've gone out for a steak dinner. It was a persistant verbal tic. Sometimes, she'd say it two or three times in a row. Arrrgh!

Movie night is next Friday. I'm really looking forward to it, partly because we haven't had movie night in a few months, partly because it's a Bogart classic, We're No Angels. Ah, Bogie!

Next month's discussion topic for CUUPs is suppossedly going to be "Dead Mothers", which wasn't what I expected when it was brought up. I *thought* they meant IRL, since most of the group is 50+ and is of an age to have lost a parent or two. They were talking about TV moms...okay, I can do that, too.

Now I'm home. And it's a funny thing; since I spent a few months having to make special trips to check my email/look things up/etcetera, I thought I'd be online contantly making up for lost time. Instead, I'm NOT checking my email every fifteen minutes. In fact, yesterday, I didn't turn my computer on at all! But it's so nice to have the option.

Glory be, I'm writing! I finally jumped in and started work on the idea I've had for Person of Interest fic. It's around the thousand-word mark and just getting started. Heaven knows how long it'll wind up---but I'm just happy that I have a plot taking root.

Have a good week, y'all! (I know I'm going to! Alcatraz debut Monday, Justified season premiere Tuesday, Royal Pains, White Collar and fresh PoI on Thursday. Yay!)

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I've gotten hooked on "Person of Interest", and I've been thinking. There's something about eccentric, secretive Mr. Finch that reminds me of Mozzie from "White Collar". I'd love to see fic where one of them contacts the other for intel. Or it turns out they have A Past. Slash, not so much, because they both strike me as very private people, and sex would be too intimate. Some kind of OCD ritual, on the other hand....

Just a thought.

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Made it to the food bank this morning for the first time in a few weeks. Got the usual canned goods, and a few happy surprises like some portobello mushrooms, chicken strips and a Boston creme pie. Woohoo! Pie!

Watched Leverage last night, first time in a while---I gave up on it midway through last season, being very dissatisfied with the quality of the writing. Last night was good, though. I LMAO at Nate's persona for the costume party (because I got the inside joke). Ditto how I guessed who dunnit...la la la...what? Lighten up, I'm not spoiling anything!

Church yesterday was interesting; AI introduced us to Bar Karma, which I'd never heard of, but it's a show on Current TV, and the really amazing thing about it is, it's fan-driven. Apparently, they post prompts on the show's website and take suggestions from cyber-fans.

I think a Bar Karma/Leverage crossover could be 57 varieties of awesome. And yes, that's William Sanderson behind the bar; I'm so happy he's still getting work! I've been fond of him ever since Blade Runner. And Repo Man. And I saw him in an ep of Trauma that J and I watched just the other day....

Brunch. It's definitely time for some solid food. I can't eat too early in the morning, but I've been up for several hours now, and I'm ready.

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I know it's only June. It's a long damn time til October, specifically, til the annual "Come as You're Not" party at karaokegal's LJ. But I happened to be watching "American Pickers" on DVR this sfternoon, and Frank mentioned cranking some AC-DC and a bunny bit me hard. I can safely say that a fic/RPF crossover will be a first for me.

I also have a coda for the "Justified" season finale. (My God, I love Boyd Crowder!) That's in addition to the slightly AU SPN/Jutified crossover I've been contemplating.

Plus, my spn_summergen story is about ready to be submitted. I'm on a roll!


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Oh God, that hurts...kicked squarely between the eyes by a crack-fueled plot bunny. There's such an air of mystery behind Sophie's origins in Leverage. Then, all of a sudden, as I was browsing yuletide's brainstorming post, something spontaneously popped up. What if Sophie was REALLY Casey Brown from Candleshoe, all grown up? (What? Just because there's no way in hell Jodie Foster would grow up to be Gina Bellman is no reason to ignore a perfectly glorious crossover.) I'm thinking in terms of the character, anyway, not the actresses. Because Casey has been a grifter since she was a toddler, practically, and what if that oh-so-posh British accent of Sophie's was acquired to cover up the flat Yankee accent Casey had when she was a kid? What if the crew wound up in England, and Nate said, "Let's go steal a castle!"---and they wind up at Candleshoe?

Arrrgh! I'm waiting for my multi-fandom crossover exchange assignment, I SO do not have time for this.

Show of hands, please, y'all---how many of you are into Leverage?

Grr, a Tuesday night without House? What's the world coming to?

I had an absolutely crack-smoking brilliant idea for a crossover today: What if the latest addition to the staff at PPTH was Psychiatrist Jonathan Crane? House vs. Scarecrow...OMG, the possibilities!

I don't have time to write it. Pity.