Vacation is over :-( Well, mostly. Cowboy is at work tonight, and I go back tomorrow night.

But it was awesome while it lasted! We went back to our college town for a couple days and got to visit with most of our favorite professors and lots of friends. Also, Johnnycake and Dimples go to college there, and so does The Chameleon, so we got to see them. And some of Cowboy's other familial types too. And weirdly enough, this guy named Peter P. that I have known since I was like 2 years old was the desk attendant at our hotel! That made it extra fun :-D

And then on Monday when we were home again, we went to the country's largest indoor waterpark! It's at the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells, and it's amazing! I'd actually never been to a waterpark before, and Cowboy had never been to that one, so we had loads of fun. They have this one ride called the Master Blaster that is like a water slide roller coaster! And you know me and my addiction to roller coasters :-D Yeah, I think we went down that one four times. They have six major slides there, and then a really long cool Lazy River, a fortress thingie with water squirters everywhere that you can aim at other people, a wave pool, three or four hot tubs, and some pools for little kids too. Oh, and they had this thing where you could learn to surf, but you had to sign up for lessons a day in advance, so we just got to watch other people learning.

Anyway, I wish vacation wasn't over. How come you have to wait until you're old to be on permanent vacation?

DKoren and I have created our very own Combat! fansite! It's now up and running, and we just introduced it to our fellow C! fans yesterday. We call it Fruit Salad--you know what fruit salad is, right? That's the military slang for the different decorations and medals and ribbons on a soldier's dress uniform. And also, of course, it's a tasty mixture of sweet tidbits that you eat at picnics.

Anyway, all my fanfic is there now, even my Combat!/Angel crossover stories. And DKoren's fanfic is there too, of course. There are several of my stories there that weren't ever posted on Purple Hearts, little short things that are responses to challenges from the fanfic-writers online group. I've also been doing these snarky, goofy reviews of episodes for over a year, so we've got all of my comments on season one there, with season two in the works. Basically, it's a site full of hidden treasure for you to dig up.

Oh yeah, I'm White Queen over there, and DKoren is Thompson Girl. Those are our callsigns in the C! groups...

I love The Daily Show!!! They have put into very funny words all the reasons why I love and adore my 35mm cameras and really don't want to get a digital camera!

**Warning, mild expletives included**

(If you're wondering why I'm posting this at 1:22pm when all sane 3rd-shift people would be asleep, it's because we've started our vacation today, and Cowboy and I are converting to dayshifterism for the next week or so.)

Obscure movie meme: Search for one of your favourite obscure films on Google or Yahoo images and post the best picture for your friends to guess the film. No peeking on the image headers now!

Here's mine:

I love music videos, how about you? But since we don't have cable anymore, I hadn't been able to see any new ones for ages. Until Cowboy discovered this fantabulous site called Music-Codes, that is. They've got all kinds of music videos there that you can watch for free!!! As long as you have a fast enough connection, of course. Although they don't always work for me--Cowboy can get videos to play every time, but I seem to have some sort of adverse affect on the site and can only get them to work now and then.

Oh, if you double-click on the little screen where the video pops up, it goes full-screen for you.

You can browse through it alphabetically by artist, or else search for particular artists or videos. Or you can just go see MY favorite videos, following the links below :-D

Check out Bobby Darin singing "Beyond the Sea". The ending cracks me up every time. Starting with "I got a oldie you don't even remember," I go totally giggly. Crazy 'bout them low notes!

"It's My Life" and "Everyday" are my two fave Bon Jovi videos, at least so far. I adore the grin Jon does at the end of "Everyday"--if I could figure out a way to screencap that, I would.

I think "If You're Gone" and "Disease" are my favorite Matchbox Twenty videos. "If You're Gone" is also my fave song of theirs...and the video's from back when Rob Thomas had his really cute hair.

"Someday" by Nickelback--I love the song, and the concept behind the video rocks. Oh, and the way Chad Kroeger looks here is how I envision Sirius Black in the Harry Potter books, only Sirius has black hair instead. I really like the video for "Too Bad" too. I always figured that song was autobiographical, but the video really makes that connection clear...and gives me chills every time I watch it.

As for Creed, I've always been partial to "My Own Prison" and "Don't Stop Dancing". The former reminds me of season five of Angel, and I like the setting in the latter. Waaaaah, I just watched "My Own Prison" and got all sad again about them breaking up...no more Creed concerts ever :-(

And my favorite Shakira video is definitely "Objection (Tango)". Cowboy's right--I would totally call in superheroes to help me beat someone up like she does. I like "Underneath Your Clothes" too...and it's so cool that that's her Antonio she's all over in the video.

Then there's the odd video for Hoobastank's song "The Reason". I love the song. And the video is really cool...but it has absolutely nothing to do with the song. Hmm.

Okay, enough linking to music videos for one post. There are others that I really like, so maybe I'll post about them at a later time. Happy watching!

Oooh, I take it back. Matthew Macfadyen is a lovely Mr. Darcy. The scene where Elizabeth refuses Darcy's hand is always the deciding scene, and he passed through it with high-flying colors. Of course, it helped that he and Elizabeth were both drenched and taking shelter from a rain storm, very nicely set and filmed. It helps that he looks a great deal like Clive Owen, of course.

I wanted to watch Capote tonight. Can you believe all 3 video rental stores in Ruralsburg have rented all their copies? How absurd! There must be more intellectuals around here than I thought.

I got the new Pride and Prejudice instead. It's pretty good. Matthew Macfadyen is no Colin Firth, but he's not bad despite that. And Keira Knightley's not irritating me at all.

But the best news of today is that I've downloaded a free trial of a screencap program...and this is now my desktop image:Dunno what Cowboy'll think about that yet, but he's usually very good-natured about me putting random pics of Angel or Sgt. Saunders or Boromir up on the desktop. And he changes them to pictures of Shakira now and then, so it turns out relatively evenly in the long run...