Vampire Diaries

You guys, why didn’t you tell me how awesome Vampire Diaries is???

Okay, I know that some of you tried. Buy why didn’t you try harder????

This show is hilarious, well-written, and well-acted, and the cast is gorgeous (the 16-year-old in me swoons over Baby Boreanaz, aka Paul Wesley). I’m sure that some people may assume that my like for this show is based on how much I love (the first 5.5 seasons of) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but no. This is just another good show that happens to deal with vampires. And witches. And I’m thinking possibly werewolves, too. And Bianca Lawson also appeared on this show for a couple of episodes. Hmmm. Well, they never claimed to have reinvented the wheel, right?

Perhaps my favorite thing is the lack of ridiculous footwear on these supposed high school students. Yay for realism!

Not enough facepalm in the world

Sometimes working with teenagers makes me want to weep for humanity, and then drown almost every highschooler in the river of my tears. How does one reach senior year of high school without knowing how to look for something in the index of a book? Is this a generational thing? Because Gruber would not have allowed these sorts of shenanigans to take place. At all.

Antidote to a down kind of day

Even my beer thinks it’s turtleneck weather

The fabulous Carrie made me this gorgeous beer cozy. Well, she didn’t make it specifically for me, but I did have the good fortune to claim it in the gift exchange. Yay.

She also made the star ornament that was tied on the outside of the bag in which she had placed the beer (also known as a cleverly folded page from Sunday’s Times, a little worse for wear after being toted from NYC to my house.).

How awesome. One gift, many gift ideas!

What’s currently cracking me up

I’m a sucker for a good meme, and right now Anti-Joke Chicken is kind of ruling my world.

The best kind of aging Porkchop

So my niece is 10 months old today. Happy arbitrary milestone, Porkchop! She is, of course, the most adorable child on the planet, and I have the photographic evidence to back this up.

Yesterday at church, she and her brother, the also adorable Satanski, were dedicated. It’s similar to a christening, but with some Baptist weirdness thrown in for good measure. Most of the pictures below were taken at their church, with the exception of the first one, which is my favorite picture of her and was taken at my house.