everything but the girl

Long day driving up and back to West Palm to see my BFF from college, her husband and kids, and her parents, and her brother. Lovely afternoon - we saw a mama manatee and her baby! - although one kid tried to do a Pollyanna on the edge of the lawn where it drops off to rocks and water, one kid got both a fishhook in his hand and a splinter in his foot, and one kid said, "Rock Band sucks!" in front of friend's mom and 3 year old son. OOPS!

Finishing my spn_j2_xmas giftie tonight and tomorrow, and generally pleased with it. Finished a slew of document reviews for a client who wanted to close on something today - and they did! Finished my last two trademark apps for the year for a fun client. Finished making a massive batch of ginger cookies, which I usually try to do before Christmas, but at least I can give them around as a New Year's treat; I think I need to see what happens if I put dark chocolate chips into the mix.

Sent flowers with my co-panlists from 2008 and 2009 - as well as one of the expected 2010 panelists - to the memorial service for Eric Bowling that will be held in San Diego on Sunday. Anyone who wants the address, let me know.

And then I came home and read this morning's NY Times and they had an article about Good Riddance Day. Tonic.com wrote this:

Times Square Alliance — the same group that plans the big New Year's Eve bash — helped people officially shed what sucked about this past year.

On Monday, the group sponsored Good Riddance Day, which allowed people to literally shed their bitter memories and failures from the past 365 days or so. The way it worked was simple: folks lined up near the discount theater ticket booth and tossed their bad memories into an industrial-sized shredder. A big Dumpster and a sledgehammer were available for items that couldn't be easily shredded.

I'm going to suggest this locally for next year, but this year, I want to do it virtually - so I'm hosting this poll about the best of 2009, and I also want to know what you'd put into the Good Riddance shredder, or take a sledgehammer to. I'm the only one who'll see the text responses, but if it's ok for me to share what you write, just indicate that somehow - a * can mean it's ok for me to share it without your name, for example. Poll is public so anyone with an LJ account can answer - or OpenID, I think? - so feel free to share the URL around.

[Poll #1505341]

This, btw, is what I put onto the Wishing Wall:
Safe travels and joyous days for my family, friends, and all the friends I haven't met yet.

Give up Kring?

Ah, probably not but I do think I will remove him from my Interests list... And I don't need to find a new Wicked in 2010! I have my Chris Colffer version of Defying Gravity on my iPod! Huh, yeah. Need to remove Kring from my Interests (although I will leave Petrellis and Gabriel Grey on it) and replace it with moar GLEE.

Oh, Glee! I don't know what I loved most about this episode ( because there were so many moments and songs! )

Don't the previews for next week look adorable! But I'll be in LA and probably won't see it until I fly home the next day as we're going out with friends from college on Wednesday night. But even so, I am so, so, so glad to have GLEE back!

And not just because a full season run for GLEE means that Fox has cut back its order to Past Lives from 14ish episodes to SIX, which is fantastic because that show is truly one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life. I ranted about it a bit when I saw the pilot at comic con, and I wish it were better because the cast members were all lovely but ( spoilers for the pilot ) I'm sorry, after an hour of focus on the details of what happened, and her really tragic and nightmare-inducing murder, I am glad that the show is not going to make it beyond six episodes.

Sorry, I'm in month five of having occasional nightmares based on that episode so it makes me a bit ranty. If you have any Kids In Peril triggers, do not watch the show or even read summaries of the first episode. Spare yourself what I put myself through. And yes, I know I put this bit outside a cut tag, because I think it's important that people know before any of the PR for the show begins.

Hell, Fox, why are you even going to air those six episodes instead of more, oh I dunno, Dollhouse. Which, yes, has its issues but they don't involve murdered kids.

wendy has a great friending meme right now, but with the new Fall 2007 tv season about to start in the US, it's probably a good time for a general-interest tv-inspired friending meme, too.

Last night, I was thinking about how a year or so ago, some people on my flist were looking forward to the first season of Studio 60 and others were squeeing about the Heroes pilot, and some were wondering what would happen on House, or SPN, or any one of a dozen other shows - and now a new fall season is just around the corner and dvds of last season are hitting stores with regularity, so please participate and pimp, regardless of where you live, or even if you own a tv set! If you're interested in any currently-airing shows, this meme is for you!

Here's the template:
Hi! My name is: (LJ username)
You can also find me at: (usernames on IJ, GJ. MySpace, JF, other websites, etc)
This season, I'm looking forward to these new shows:
This season, I'm planning on continuing to watch:
My favorite episode(s) from last season on those shows is/are:
My favorite character(s)/pairing(s) from last season on those shows is/are:
If I had to recommend two shows from last season that are coming back this year, they'd be:
If I had to recommend two shows that aren't airing anymore but which can be obtained via DVD or (ideally legal) download, they'd be:
I will absolutely never watch... (Either something that's already on, or something that's starting this fall)
I'd like to pimp the community/communities at:
I also... (read fic, write fic, rec fic, create fanart, enjoy fanart, rec fanart, create fan crafts, create vids, create fanfilms, watch vids, watch fanfilms, read meta, create meta, etc)
In my LJ, I also talk about...
My journal is: (work-safe, work-safe outside of cuts, not work-safe)
You also should know that I.... (anything else you want to say)
ETA: What's your favorite TV show theme song of all time?

This meme has been crossposted on my InsaneJournal.