A Minor Variation

For the first time ever that I can remember, I was not able to go home for Christmas.

This is due mostly to my car once again refusing to start, this time on Christmas Eve, in a miracle of crappy timing. Ordinarily, even though I don't get much time off for Christmas, I'm able to drive down the night before, spend the night at Mom's, do Christmas Day with the family and drive back in the evening for work on the 26th.

Not this year.

But thanks to generous friends, I didn't spend the holiday alone, so I'm grateful for that. Mom will be coming up on Sunday, too. So it's all right.

Tomorrow I have to work, but after that, we're going to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie. Hot young Watson = yes please.

Also, whoever filled my Yuletide request is MADE OF WIN and wrote me a novelette all about Eve Genoard and the Gandor Family and unlikely partnership and Luck/Eve UST, and I love it so much I want to hug it: "While Recognizing the Importance of Luck in Certain Situations, Eve Genoard Continues to Disapprove of Gambling". (With suitably Baccano!-style subtitles for each scene, including "Inconveniently, Claire Stanfield Does Not Appear In This Story". Seriously, made of win and awesome.)

( Excerpt from the fourth novel, Drugs & Dominoes. )

Seriously, most adorable Mafia power trio ever. XD

Look who DC remembers the existence of!

It's only been seven years...

I ♥ Nathan and Hiro. Not in a slashy way, just in a ♥ way. Because they are made of ♥.

( Cut for embedded youtube dorkiness. )

I'm glad they didn't actually put it in the episode, 'cause they already went there with the "biran"/"villain" ad lib bit earlier in the series and there's no need to take a great joke and beat it into the ground, but they are still so cute together that it burns.

Finally made it in to see The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe! Happy fangirl squee!

...and now that I've had some time for the buzz to wear off, some thoughts in complete sentences.

( Behind the cut just in case! )