Zuben Visits!

zubeneschamali is crashing on my couch this weekend and yesterday evening we went out for baby-sized nachos and sangrias. Today we took in the White Sox winning! Played with Shep and Lucy. Then we went to see Pacific Rim; the first time for me, second for her.

Now, I didn't dislike it, but I didn't really love it - a few things REALLY bothered me about this movie (though not enough to hate it, obviously, just to kind of side eye it). But the most notable thing was getting in the car and shaking my head while proclaiming: "Of course now I wanna write a J2 about that." Back at my apartment, after five minutes of talking through plot ideas and back stories, I huffed, shook my head, laughed at myself and was all: "I cannot believe I'm considering this."

She said, "It's not like I wanted you to see this movie just to--"

And I yelled (playfully), "Oh, of course you did! I have no idea how that sentence was going to end, but I know it was badly."

Then she admitted that she had hoped other people would walk out of there wanting to write fic for it.

So now she's heading to bed and I'm in my room with my laptop to start writing Kaiju-fighting J2. Great.

P.S. I cannot believe they arleady have a wiki

31 Days: Twenty and Twenty-One

Difficult Time in /my Life
Ack, so hard and personal. There were a lot of family problems back in junior high surrounding my mom being sick and then again in my senior year of high school when my parents went weeks without talking to one another and my mom asked my dad for a divorce in the summer before I went to college. It did not happen, as they're still mostly-happily married (for 41 years now!). The past year has felt pretty rough personally, between issues with an ex, work, growing older and lonelyish, family issues, etc etc etc. So I don't know. It kind of ebbs and flows, I guess.

Ten Favorite Foods
1. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, but more specifically the shapes, like the trees and eggs and pumpkins - more peanut butter and softer chocolate
2. Pizza, especially the frozen kind for the oven, seriously.
3. Cheese ravioli or tortellini
4. Buffalo wings with bleu cheese
5. Peanut Butter Twix
6. Twizzler Nibs
7. Nachos
8. Chicken enchiliads w mole sauce
9. Mint M&Ms
10. Garlic bread

How sad is it that like half of this list is candy and/or chocolate oriented? LOL