I think...

....it's ridiculous that its snowing again.

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...the sound of a cat regurgitating his food on to a jacket I'd left lying on my floor makes for a horrible, horrible alarm clock at 6:30 AM. Sitting up to see him pawing at other laundry trying to cover up the evidence is pretty bad too, though slightly funny.

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...that I'm the only one who takes deadlines so seriously.

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...that my dad is a hard person to shop for, but that it's harder to shop for my mom to shop for my dad. I was supposed to take her shopping on Saturday but, anticipating bad weather, she called me at work on Friday night and asked if I could pick some stuff up for his birthday since she's still recovering from a week in the hospital. It's bad enough when I have to get people gifts from me, but I guess it's only fair. In my childhood, they'd often buy gifts for each other that were supposedly from me.

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...I should have bought a Winter coat months ago, before stores started carrying warm weather wear instead.

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...having an attendant supervise the self-checkout aisles in the supermarket defeats the purpose when you try to ring up a gift card, only to have the machine ask you to bring it to her to scan. She had no better luck, called her supervisor, and was told with great gravity, “No, don't try to scan that here!! I did that and it messed up my machine! He needs to bring that to a regular register to buy that.” I told them to forget about it, and retreated back to my partially rung-up groceries where a line was forming.

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...SwanShadow was absolutely right when he described Justice League: The New Frontier as a “treat.” As good as modern animated series have been, it was fun to see a retro take on the characters, going back to the Silver Age of the 1950s, and earning a PG-13 rating in more than one instance. The voice-acting was spot-on, and David Boreanaz and Miguel Ferrer particularly shone as Hal Jordan and J'onn J'onnzz respectively. Most of the other characters in the vast cast were background to the origin tale of those two, but as a whole it was a story about America and heroes, super or otherwise. Jeremy Sisto was the only voice actor I had trouble with initially, but then Kevin Conroy set the bar ridiculously high on numerous shows for well over a decade. It's always weird when someone else's voice comes out of an animated Batman. I like Sisto as an actor, but I didn't think his voice matched what I was seeing. He was only a small part of a rich tapestry though, and with the delivery of the line, “I have a $70,000 sliver of radioactive meteor to stop the one from Metropolis...”, he began to convince me.

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...it's seriously ridiculous that there's snow outside. Have I mentioned that?

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...it was a good thing that I'd already seen Crank when a couple of teenage girls on line behind me in a department store began discussing the DVD on display. “I liked that movie, except for the very end where...” I won't finish the sentence she did, and I don't know what would have happened if it wasn't a movie I'd seen. Earlier this week I was less fortunate when my uncle visited my mom in the hospital, and told her about going to see The Bucket List. He described it to my folks, told them they'd enjoy it, and then for some reason my mom flat out asked him what happens at the end. He told her before I had a chance to flee the ICU, and when she noticed the sputtering noises I was making asked me if that was a movie I was going to see. I'm trying to see EVERY movie; don't people know that by now?

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...therefore I blog.