rodneyscat

This summer my daughter and I will attend a three day festival, Lowlands. We bought tickets when not much was known by way of a line up, but it's the most laid back, easy going, relaxed festivals I've ever been to that doesn't have a lot of Big Names, but focuses on wide variety (and not just music but also theater, dance, movies, literature and even political debate) so it's going to be awesome either way. Names are trickling in and yesterday I casually announced that Fall Out Boy is going to be there to which my daughter practically started doing back-flips.

Erm, I guess I'll have to check them out?

So far I'm most enthusiastic about Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian being there :D

Hi! Home for a bit, between camping at the seaside and staying in a holiday cottage. Doing laundry, cleaning and putting away the camping gear. Between takes I sneak in some fandom-time and here's what I've been enjoying:

Stargate Atlantis

cesperanza's "Five lies John told", now with added art by lim. These two keep on inspiring and complimenting each other in such a delightful way.

I watched the latest episode "The Daedalus variations". ( Cut for teeny tiny (spoilerish) review. )
There appears to be a two week break while the Olympic games are going on, so it'll take a while longer then expected to get to the episode I'm so looking forward to (link includes spoiler picture) *ngggggh*

jhava made a team focussed Atlantis wallpaper that made me go 'yes, yes, yessss!!' and it's now my desktop.

Stargate SG-1

paian has added more bits to her WIP comment fic "Come what may" (I'm now at comment no. 63 70) and I have to sit on my hands to stop myself from writing any more feedback *headdesk*. Soon people will wish I was still suffering from my feedback-block.

apple_pi pointed out a better version of the Michael/Ben Comic Con kiss and Scorpsik made it into Daniel/Cameron kiss art.

Music

When I got home a parcel had arrived of the Linkin Park cd I'd ordered; 'Minutes to midnight', the one with 'What I've done' on it. I've immediately put it on my ipod.

On that note:

Harry Potter

It was in fact this vid (spoilers for the Deathly Hallows chapter called "The Forest Again") that made me decide that I wanted the cd.

Avatar

Speaking of vids: I'm not in the Avatar fandom, but my daughter is, and right before going on holiday last week she posted her latest Avatar vid on YouTube and was pleasantly surprised with the enthusiastic reactions it had gotten.

Oh, and although I'm not in the fandom, I still have a favorite Avatar vid by Ravenhpltc24. Awesome timing and use of music and lyrics that one!

He'd turned 17 (omg, he's 17 already...) and had asked if he could throw a proper party this Saturday, and we'd agreed.

The party involved about 25 friends, 4 crates of beer, a crate of Breezer, lots of soda and energy drinks and a wide assortment of crisps and nibbles. We'd put a couple of pots with sand in the garden for the smokers (we don't allow smoking inside, luckily the weather was nice).

Mr. RC and I mostly sat upstairs reading and computering, and occasionally went downstairs to get a drink ourselves and try to ignore the necking and snogging that was going on here and there. The guys and girls were all very chipper and nice, most of them introducing themselves (to the point that I asked if we were going to be quizzed at the end of the evening). Every now and then we had to remind oldest that we do as a matter of fact have neighbours, with whom we'd like to continue to be on friendly terms, so could he keep the noise at a somewhat acceptable level (especially since the 'music' sounded something like this; we have different tastes, to say the least...).

Plenty people got drunk. Nobody got sick or agressive.

By 1.30 am the last guests had left, oldest, his girlfriend (who stayed over), Mr. RC and I sat down for a final beer and then we went to bed. The house looked a bit like a disaster area, but nothing a garbage-bag, broom and mop couldn't solve, so everything is back to normal now.

I'd call it a success :D

Yesterday evening, instead of catching up with lj like I promised, I spend the evening with Mr. D_E and the kids, watching season 2 episodes of SGA, drinking wine and eating my favorite crisps.

Today I'm going to Pinkpop with my daughter.

So yeah, the catching up will have to wait until Sunday. And Monday. And Tuesday. Because I've got all of these days off and nothing planned. *beams*

...but have I told you people that I'm also watching Band of Brothers with my oldest?

I'm so tired. Things are going great, but there are too many special occasions going on in too short a time. Birthdays of 2 nephews and 2 nieces, and both my sons, which we celebrated for family all in one long weekend, during which my parents-in-law stayed over with us because that was more convenient than traveling back and forth.

My oldest son graduated from secondary school (I think it's called?), for which a very nice evening was arranged at his school, with little performances by students and teachers and a big screen presentation of pictures of the past 4 years. To celebrate we took him and a couple of his friends an evening go-karting.

My daughter with her fellow pupils took part in two piano performances, to demonstrate what they had learned; an evening for friends and family, and an afternoon for a local geriatric center (which was a huge hit, because both the sickly elderly audience and the young performers had a genuinely lovely time).

My youngest is finishing his last year at primary school and I've been very busy helping out with the musical they do every year. Because I literally live across the street from the school, and I'm often at home during the day, since I usually work evenings, the teachers sure knew how to find me!

Also, for my youngest son's birthday I took him and his friends bowling, went to mcdonalds with them and they had a sleepover with dvd watching in our living room. The next day they felt like going to the movies, and since they were at my place anyway, plus I can get them free popcorn since I work at the cinema, it was only logical that I should take them.

It's busy at work, what with all the blockbuster movies coming out. The holiday has partially started here, which means extra viewings and less personnel, so I'm working some extra and/or longer shifts. We did have a private viewing for personel and their families for 'Transformers', and will have one for the latest Potter movie tomorrow (or rather, technically it's already today...) evening.

Oh, and next week there's the official farewell party for my son's class from school, and guess who's one of the volunteers to organize that?

Last weekend was my dad's birthday (which didn't require organizing, but did mean not sleeping in, because we had to be there early, and spending the day there, when I could have been doing laundry and cleaning and such, which my house is in desperate need of).

Next weekend will be my mother-in-law's birthday, and since she's turning 75 this did require some organizing, as we'd made my father-in-law 75th's birthday special too. All my in-laws are very good at splitting the load though, so it's mostly the not-sleeping in, traveling and spending a day sitting around while my house is not getting any cleaner that nagging me a bit.

It's all big fun. No doubt about that. But it's also a lot. And now I'm tired. Just one more week, and all the birthdays and special events will have passed, then another week, and I'm off from work, including the extra shifts. I'm really looking forward to that!

Now excuse me while I yet again skip replying to comments, and just go to bed.

Last week my oldest son told me he'd seen a series on the Comedy Channel he thought I might like too. Turns out they've started The Office US.

:D

I didn't even know we got the Comedy Channel, let alone that they'd started a series that I was curious about. I love that he pegged it as a series I'd like, hee, and I've only missed the first 4 episodes, so yay! I've now watched 2 episodes and yeah, it's definitely my kind of humor. Of course I've immediately fallen for cutie pie Jim.

And about my previous entry. Huh yeah, of course that question of mine begged a question right back at me. One which answer I should have put in the entry immediately. Anyway, my porn-crush is Johnny Hazzard *points at icon*. I'm still trying to find more material, but am bumping into lots of expired links or files that are uploaded to sharing sites that don't like me. I'm trying to find a file sharing service to upload the couple of files I've got, because they're a bit too big to put on my site.

In the meantime here's some links for the very curious among you:

Johnny dancing at YouTube. Fully clothed, completely work and kid safe. It leaves me with a big, big grin every time I watch it. Sexy in a goofy way :D

Johnny's blog. Because of course I fall for a porn star who has a blog... (no actual porn going on there either).

A little introduction:

In May my oldest will finish secondary school. After that he'll have to pick a specific education. He wants to join the army, but since he'll be 15 when he finishes school, he's too young to join. But for kids like him there's a special 'bridge' education to fill in the gap. Last year we've been to several information days for that specific education and then we heard he was supposed to apply in November 2006 if he wants to join the 2007/2008 class.

( Now we get to the part where I get very frustrated )

Obviously this was not 'required reading' for those who come across this entry. But I really needed to get this out of my system. I love my country, but the bureaucracy drives me up the wall sometimes.

Because I love watching it together with my daughter & youngest son, so we're waiting for moments where we can sit down all three together. Besides, I like taking my time: why rush? We're now nearing the end of season 4 and yesterday evening we watched 'The light'.

Now I'm all filled with Daniel/Jack loving *happy sigh*