The Final Countdown

So it's not 10 days, but I love this image. Arrested Development has been doing some very funny and clever marketing for the new episodes launching on Netflix on May 26 - just in time for my vacation!

I was just trying to think of something favorite about the show - but I can't pick. There are so many great lines, gags, characters. If you haven't seen AD, you can watch the first three seasons on Netflix and laugh your ass off.

Where have I been???

Um, how did I not know about Scandal? I think some of you may recall my obsession early on with another show created by Ms. Shonda Rhimes, Grey's Anatomy. Those first two seasons were just sooooo good. Then Izzy went crazy and there was a deer and George died and the hospital merged with another one and it didn't get good again until some crazy dude came in and killed half the staff. And even though this last season has been a bit nuts - plane crash??? buying the hospital??? - I still enjoy Grey's.

Well, I read this article in Entertainment Weekly about Scandal and decided to check it out. Season 1 is on Netflix and Season 2 is on Hulu Plus. I watched all of it in about a week. It is so good and juicy and is filled with great dialogue and speeches that remind me of those early Grey's days. If you haven't seen it, the show is about Olivia Pope, a DC lawyer who heads up a team of fixers who call themselves Gladiators. And she also happens to be having an affair with the president. There's all these crazy conspiracies and cabals and it's highly addictive!

Doctor Who posters

One of the things I love about this season of Doctor Who is the movie poster treatments for each episode. While not all of the episodes may measure up, the posters kick ass! I am actually really enjoying this run with the Doctor's new companion Clara. Saturday's episode The Crimson Horror was very cool and creepy. I love when the Doctor assembles a team of sidekicks and in this one, he revisits his team from the Christmas episode. Next week, is the new Neil Gaiman episode with the return of Cybermen!

May the Fourth Be With You

Tomorrow is my sister's baby shower, but it's also Star Wars Day! May the Force be with you!

Scoundrels

I think you probably know that I love Star Wars. It's definitely up there on my list of expressions. But I've never before read any Expanded Universe stuff - I always thought that was too nerdy for me. Well, now I guess they are not!

After a horrible experience listening to 1Q84 (read the rant here), I wanted something light and fun to listen to and well, I was sucked in by the cover. Han, Chewy, Lando. Sounded good to me!

And well, it was probably one of my favorite audiobooks ever! It was super fun. The reader, Marc Thompson, does some great voices - his Harrison Ford impression was pretty good! And there are all kind of sound effects and background noises and bits of John Williams' score that really made it feel like I was listening to a movie. (Maybe they'll make this into one now that Disney plans to make more of them!)

The story was like Oceans 11 in a galaxy far, far away. Han assembles a crew to pull off a heist and there's lots of good action, twists, references to Star Warsy stuff to make it all awesome.

*** I also forgot to mention there's a scene that I thought was a bit of a nod to Indian Jones. It involves Han carrying a whip and running from something pretty big. 

April scrapping

I haven't been feeling too creative this month. I stepped down from a few of my creative teams recently and I didn't get to go to the crop last weekend. Lots of family stuff going on - birthday parties, baby shower planning - and busy stuff at work. But I did do some more random number scrapping and got some pages crossed off of my list!

Some Christmas pics of Penny from 2009. I am so behind on Christmases! But, I'm now all caught up on Easter! I scrapped my last few pages from the files and scrapped this year's celebration as well. 

I also did some Penny scrapping. I always find random pictures of her that I just love so much!

I helped my friend Emily out with a Flat Stanley project.

 Me and some of my beeyotches. I can't tell you what WH means!

These are most of my Little Pets! I mean my nieces' Little Pets.

Snowed in at work. Spent a night at the office watching Doctor Who!

Butterfly Garden at the Bronx Zoo. I'm still working on a Summer 2011 album.

Some pages from Tay's bday. Kim and Michelle both came out with kits last week that were so perfect for Taylor!

Our friend had a baby "sprinkle" - which was way fancier than most people's showers!

And another Christmas page. This card by Kylie cracked me up so much! 

10 years and counting

It's pretty hard to believe I've been an aunt now for 10 years! Tay is getting so grown up. She wanted a camera for her birthday, so of course I had to get one for her. She screamed when she opened it up!

And pretty soon there will be one more kid who will call me aunt. It's a pretty good gig.

Spirit Week

My job might make me crazy sometimes, but I gotta say that I work with some fun people!  We celebrated the design studio's second anniversary with Spirit Week. It was so much fun. 

We started out the week with Mustache Day. Check out my pink stash and sparkly necklace.

For Hat Day, I wore this hat I had gotten for St. Patrick's Day. And it even matched this sweater. 

I decorated Ryan to celebrate...

For Alma Mater Day, I was dressed up in some Rutgers gear and these funky glasses I got at Party City. Our logo is a guitar so these fit in pretty well. We also had a dinner and bake off. So much sugar!

Some of us went out to Ruby Tuesdays across the street to keep the party going.

Thursday was so awesome - Pajama Day. It was so comfy to walk around in my slippers!

I got this giant mustache magnet  at Party City and added some more decorations each day.

On Friday, we had Ice Cream Day. Pretty delicious way to wrap things up.

Why I'm having a good weekend

1. Doctor Who returns tonight.

2. Game of Thrones returns tomorrow.

3. There's a new Cloud City chapter of Angry Birds Star Wars.

4. The Nerdist TV show returns to BBC America.

Yeah, this is the stuff that makes me happy!  There are lots of great things to watch before Doctor Who. I caught up on the Doctor Who revisited specials from BBCA on the first and second doctors.

On YouTube there's a prequel episode, a special My Drunk Kitchen and a new episode of Doctor Puppet. All good stuff!

Nerdist also has a podcast featuring the delightful new companion, Jenna Louise Coleman.

Next weekend should be pretty great too because I'm going to see Mr. Nerdist, aka Chris Hardwick, at Carolines! And another one of my faves - Mad Men - comes back!

March Scrapping

I really caught up on my Easter scrapping in March, which is good because I will probably take a ton of  photos tomorrow at my aunt's house. One Story Down has also had it's grand re-opening so I've been back to scrapping for the ladies there.

I cropped last weekend and spent a good amount of time there organize and filling albums with pages! I think I wrote ages ago about how I wanted to reorganize my books by year in 8x8 three ring binders. I got really cute books from Doodlebug and lots of extra pages. I've been ordering pages from Persnickety prints when I can catch a sale. So no when I go back and scrap some of these older pages I can just add them in where they belong. I just got some more credits from Persnickety as well so I will be all caught up with my printing very soon! It's so awesome to see my pages in a book, away from the computer.

Here's what I've been working on this last month. Lots of catch up scrapping and lots of journaling...

 Easter scrapping. My aunt always tries to make the egg hunt more fun. This time, it was a big bingo game.

Some journaling about getting to meet my new niece. Pretty butterflies by Jennifer Barrette.

Lots more Easter fun from 2010 and 2011

Some Penny loving with the Lily Pad BOYC bits from March.

Some thoughts about turning 36... about 9 months into the game.

Penny makes the funniest faces!

She's also a hoarder

 NJ Beer - good stuff!

We just had another spirit week at work. Like my stache?

St Patrick's Day weekend. I am caught up on this holiday!

 A page about reading.

T's communion has been on the list for a long time too.