elisi's humble abode

First of all many thanks to zanthinegirl and green_maia (I loved your little ps! <3) for the lovely Christmas cards, which I have been forgetting to mention! It always get ridiculously excited about post from abroad.

And then luckweaver got me a truly amazing present - a Clara moodtheme!!! It took a good few days to find all the caps - not to mention getting it to work (photobucket has been blacklisted forever!), but now it is here, and amazing, and I get to look at Clara's FACE every day!!! Also changed my banner/colors etc.)

So right now I feel like this (although I don't think luckweaver is as grumpy as Mitchell *g*):







And with this I will wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! ♥ Thank you all for 2014 and hope you all have a wonderful 2015!

So, in... March, I think, we went to see Frozen. (We waited until it was on on a Saturday morning & cheap!) Afterwards Darcy said how he liked it very much, although it could have done to be a little longer & for Elsa to be fleshed out some more.

The Student Academy Awards (which took place last night) were presented by the writer, director & producer of Frozen. At the after party Darcy had a nice long chat with the producer (and director) about the difficulties of juggling a complex narrative & several main characters.

So yeah, life is crazy. (They won bronze in their category.)

(He also got them to sign a DVD for the girls, so they will probably collapse in flaily squee even more than they already have once they see it. In case I never mentioned it, they ADORE Frozen... It's Impish Girl's birthday a week on Thursday and one of her wishes is an Anna cosplay outfit. (She's not getting it, those things cost a FORTUNE! /o\) But she taught herself how to play 'Let It Go' on the piano from youtube tutorials - that song has been a constant in our house for months and months.)

He also spoke to Damian London (one of the founders of the Student Academy Awards), who played Virini on Babylon 5. Not sure if he got his signature also, but they had a lovely chat.

Overall, he said it was very glitzy & Hollywood and exactly how it is in the movies. Although underneath all the madness are just people who make movies. Which provides some sort of bridge I suppose, since our life is neither glitzy, nor Hollywood... (Nor would I want it to be.)

And that's all for now, my parents are visiting and I need to go be a good daughter, rather than anti-social LJ-er. :)

ETA: So - follow your dreams, reach for the stars or whatever other metaphor you like. Sometimes it works out! (Although it doesn't make you rich. *g*)

A Richard II vid to Coldplay's Viva la Vida. I just. *hands*



(I've yet to see any of the other Hollow Crown stories, but I'll get there. Dear God I love it when the BBC throws money at stuff and everything turns out too gorgeous for words.)

So, about this time yesterday I was feeling all 'Woe is me, clearly I am unemployable' (job hunting is SO BORING), and now I'm starting work Monday morning.

*blinks and tries to get head around this development*

It's not the job I really really wanted (it was a long shot in any case), but it pays better and is perfectly nice, so that's OK. ETA: It's a admin/customer services thing, which suits me well. :)

So, yeah... all change.

ETA2: Specifically, it's dealing with, and responding to, e-mails. Darcy marvelled: "Well if there's something you're good at, that's it! Really, the last few years have been excellent training, rather than a waste of time!"

*is chuffed to bits, and not a little smug*

Via tw_gleeclub, who pointed out this bit of dialogue from TW 2.6, Reset:

MARTHA: Oh, I'm a camera!

JACK: As Chris Isherwood once said to me when we were cruising the Kurfurstendamm.

!!!!!!!!!!!!eleventy!!!!!!!!!!

It is a WONDERFUL Christmas! Look under the cut to see what kerkevik got for me and Miss M...

( ZOMG! )

I HAVE JUST READ ONE OF THE GREATEST FICS EVER!!!!

Evilness vs. the Doctor by promethia_tenk: The forces of evilness have a little chat with the Doctor about where his storyline is going. River/Eleven, the Master (a new incarnation) Spoilers for all of S5.

This is a meta-fic. No really. No really. I can't really describe it, except to say that it is SHEER AWESOME and made me laugh out loud at the same time as being utterly enchanted and going 'OMG that's so clever!' *flails some more* I want to elope with this story and never come back.

New Torchwood!!!!!!

I'm not going to say anything about s8, except that THIS is the greatest thing EVER!

Well, maybe except for this. Watch, and be amazed!