Connie, you my my complete commiseration about the drama

But IKEA!

re: Ikea

Hubby discovered lots of stuff in the kitchen section that he wants, I had to keep saying, "But I don't have a reason to buy it" in the home organization area, and we did really look at furniture. Next time we'll try the meatballs.

Connie, it made me tired just to read that, much less live it. Gracious.

My sunburned legs have been upgraded to a 4 or 5, and I discovered when I got out of the shower that I have a large sunburn that looks rather like a butterfly on my upper back. The only thing I can figure is that where I put sunscreen and where my sister helped overlapped, and the burn is what I couldn't reach.

Erin, received and backflung!

Oh, ouch, lidocaine lotion?

I always keep some in the fridge.

Barring that, cool cider vinegar or, best, in my oft-burnt opinion, is cold brewed tea. (I always have cold brewed tea in the fridge, too.)

And backflung, smonster and SQUEE,I am getting thisclose to fully operational website, all open!

SO. EXCITED.

Also, kind of terrified.

And I am HITTING THE POOL this week. It is summer, dammit, and I will carve out three hours to listen to music and read back copies of Bust, and swim. My girlfriend's out for summer, too, and she is a big ol' water-slut; I know she'll come.

Good heavens, Connie-- talk about DRAHMA.

smonster, be careful! Lidocaine, yes. Good stuff.

I am back from X-Men: First Class and having deeply inappropriate thoughts now of Michael Fassbender.

Ooh, was it good? D and I are supposed to go to the movies, and since he won the bet on how late his ex-would be on the phone call (I guessed 25, he said 45. It was 52) he gets to pick the movie.

I would have picked Thor, but I am hearing fun things about XM:1C.

And I think Fassbender was in the UK series Hex, the first season of which I kinda loved, and the 2nd season being a disaster, but I watched anyway. He was hot, and evil.

It's wonderful! It's a bit of a hodgepodge, in terms of the characters used, but as a reboot and origin story, it works beautifully. The best thing (not really spoilery, but I'll whitefont anyhow) is how it takes our knowledge and assumptions of characters with which we're so familiar and turns it a bit on its ear. Especially the mutants that we presume to be good-- it makes them... human.

Eee, Erin! Glad you like. Enjoy the pool and the Busts and Bitches, and do better than me about not getting burned!

I do not have lidocaine, but I have aloe in the fridge and I will go take some ibuprofen. For once it's a good thing that I sleep on my stomach. I'll have to try the tea thing when I get home.

Man, we had some damn good food this trip. Brasserie du Soleil [link] and Boca Bay [link] same owner. At the first I had a seafood crepe, at the second paella. Both excellent. And their desserts are out of this world. The Brasserie serves mini-desserts in shot glasses (srsly, so frickin' brilliant), so I had two! Delicious chocolate mousse, and some of the best creme brulee I've ever had. And tonight we all had Key Lime pie which was fabulously tart with a very tasty, buttery graham crust. And they have LOCAL seafood, which is shockingly hard to find around here.

Yum.

I hope you sleep well and feel better tomorrow. Sunburns ouchy.

Fassbender was Azazeal??!? Dang. That show, though not always actually good, had a lot of people that keep popping up later in other shows of mine.

I'm pretty sure a Lifeline operator just flirted with me over a lift assist call. Noteworthy because he was the first Lifeline employee i've ever spoken to who seemed even vaguely competent so the call was already noteworthy.