Catch up time

[kapuahi]

Well....

I'm home, I'm pretty much caught up I think. Responded to everyone I owe I think, so if you haven't heard from me and you were expecting can you give me a heads up? Only 203 days until I can go back.

Several things and it could get long winded (I can hear your shocked gasps from here. Behave!!) so have some cuts to save your flists.

Looking back I last posted a proper post on January 2. That's way too much distance between postings. I must change that. A lot of stuff has gone down in the last couple of months. In December I went to Middle Earth and Hawaii. For most of December and January I had abyssmal technology issues, if it wasn't the ISP it was the hardware, if it wasn't the hardware it was the software, or my PC components going on a revolt because I'm slowly turning to Apple. Most of which meant that I was seriously restricted in my internet capabilities, which means that I am still catching up. I've just spent a week in Hawaii with my mother and sister and now I'm back to buckle down and get things sorted here so that life runs a little smoother on the home front. Also met up with stellarmeadow, shared some longboards, food and fun times, which we must do again.

Things are good at the moment, but not without rocky roads here and there. I made a decision while I was in Honolulu in December. I did have what the world at large would mostly call a fiance. A US Soldier. A man that shared my interests and professed to love me. The only problem with said paragon of proposed marriage? He was still married (and had been deployed since March 2011). He's spent two years promising me he was leaving his wife, but he had to do it carefully because he didn't want to lose his dubious parental rights to his step daughter. He has barely emailed me in months, which I put down to his difficult job and the crappy situation. However in December he had two weeks R & R, where he went home, posted couple-ish things he was doing with the wife he was supposedly estranged from and barely spoken to in 2 years on Facebook and bought a new car. Did I get an email? Not a one. In fact the last personal message he deemed to send me was a heartfelt happy birthday message on facebook in July. July? Clearly I had been too trusting and too blinded by affection to see what was really going on. To cut the rest of the long story short, I am now single. Single and pissed at the romantically inclined world in general. Roll on Valentines Day....Not!

I made a decision whilst sitting on the HHV beach last week. But to announce the significance of that decision I need to explain something. My favourite place in the whole Universe is Hawaii, more specifically Kialua. I live in a street that is three blocks from a beautiful beach and a couple of hours drive from one of the best surfing beaches in the world. I haven't been in the ocean since July 1978. Why? I have an insane fear of sharks. That was thanks to a viewing of Jaws during my twelth year. From there it grew to not just sharks, but eels, big fish, jellyfish, stonefish, octopus and basically anything that may ever have had a movie extolling it's danger. Thanks to Stephen King I'm also afeared of St Bernard's and 1958 Plymouth Furies too, but I won't find either of them underwater. I have decided to learn to swim and further to that Surf and Scuba Dive. I have my first swim class next Tuesday. Im also refreshing my japanese, finishing my last three subjects for my degree and taking a secondary creative writing class. Lets see if they can beat some grammar into my thick skull.

Did I mention only 203 days until I can go back to Paradise?

2012 is my year to finish off all my WIP's. which if calculations are even close will put me close to 500k words this year. We'll see.

So here's the thing. I love my show. I really do. But this season they've done nothing but disappoint me. There have been bright shining moments of absolute brilliance, that fade into hideousness with the interaction of certain cast members and writing choices. I'm sick of TPTB setting us up for what we want and then pulling the rug out from under our excited little feet. I'm tired of them screwing the characters we loved into the ground. Our core four are brilliant actors to be able to work with some of the crap they've been handed this year (hello DDK and the 'You're a lot like Steve scene," anyone?) and be able to carry it off with any sort of believeability.

I'm not saying it's all been crap, but the show that I watched 24 episodes of last year and couldn't pick a favourite or even a least favourite, this year my only must have eps are 201, 210 and 215. How wrong is that?

Somedays fandom pisses me off too. I love all of our main cast, even the regular recurring characters. There are two in particular that I'm not so fond of, but you've all heard me expound on them before. Moving on. Specifically, I love Scott Caan but people he's not the only one that does wonderful amazing things on that screen. And just because someone is pretty does not mean that aren't talented. It does not mean that the work that they do isn't equal to their cast mate 'who deserves an '. And now I'll get off my soapbox.

Anyway, the reason for thisrant that wasn't meant to be a rant? They've set us all up for 2.16 to be something that makes the 95% of fandom insanely, gleefully, ready to can-can on her grave happy, and the closer Monday gets, the more I think they're going to pull the rug out from under our feet and things will just be left as unsatifying as they have been for 12 of the 15 already screened episodes this season.

Also, I've convinced myself that Hettie is Shelburne.

Wow, that turned out way longer than I intended.