It was a good mail day. Not only did we get our Joss Whedon is my master now t-shirts, but around 6pm a box full of books arrived! I now have copies of WINTER MOON! It is Pretty Damned Cool to see my name on a cover with Mercedes Lackey and Tanith Lee, lemme tell you. :) :) :)
Down to the last 2 episodes of Dark Angel. Really enjoying it now, and wishing there’d be more. Can’t wait to see how/if it wraps up. And I’m wondering why Jessica Alba has managed to make the coveted leap from tv to movies where so many haven’t, though I’m not objecting to it, as I like her. (Ted said, “Great abs,” when I put that question to him. :))
I have made a turtle cheesecake for tomorrow night’s dessert. It looks lovely. I’m pretty sure it’ll taste good, too. :) The chocolate part was, IMHO, too thick to properly swirl, so next time I make one of these I’ll futz with the concentration some, but I think it’s going to turn out very nicely. It’s pure, unmitigated doom for my diet (untrue! I used low-fat cream cheese! It’s pure, *slightly mitigated* doom for my diet!), but damn, it’s going to be good. :)
Making fudge in the morning for the comic shop boys, who have put in a request. More doom. :) Although, you know, much as I love eating sweets, most of my emotional satisfaction seems to come from /making/ them. I mean, I want some of that cheesecake, but if I could get it out of my house without ever cutting into it, and let other people eat the whole thing, that’d be fine. I’m just not brave enough to resist it when it’s been cut into and slices are being handed out. :) And fudge is just pure delicious hell, although I’m going to adulterate it with walnuts so it won’t be as tempting to me.
Perhaps I should stop talking about food now, and go to bed. :)
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When Honey came out a couple years ago (for some reason, I think that was Jessica Alba’s first major movie role? I could be wrong), the local movie critic totally panned it. But he also said, “However, try to take your eyes off Jessica Alba.” And then he said, “Better luck next, Jessica.” I suspect that has something to do with it.
I think it was her first major movie. I haven’t seen it, although I’d like to. I assume it’s bad, but again, I like JA, so I’ll watch a bad movie with her in it. :) But I bet you’re right. There’s Something About Her. :)
Yay book boxes! *is jealous* There are three hardbacks I’m putting off buying (Thud!, Wizard of London, and Anansi Boys). If one of them is really lucky, it will get to join my Winter Moon Amazon order… but I’ll read Winter Moon first.
And mitigated doom is the best kind. Saves some doom for later!