( Oh my, that was truly revolting. Not rewatching this one, ever. )
ETA:  Thanks to pennswoods for making me realize I should add that I can't say what made this guest spot so repulsive without spoiling the plot.  Click on the cut below if you have no objection to being spoiled.


( Spoilers, and one grossed-out Drinkingcocoa. )

It happens to me every single time.

Whenever I read or hear about "weeknights," I always get this art bunny.

It shows a floor-surface that is the face of a clock.  Two or three knights in armor, perhaps on horses or with javelins, have gathered around the 7 and are looking down at it.

On the horizon of the clock face, for perspective, is part of my looming visage -- maybe just the eyes and part of the nose -- gazing quizzically at the knights.

Good thing I can't draw, or I'd be hostage to this vision until I finished the art bunny.

As it is, I've been gripped by this quilt bunny since last night.  I might have to post about it as a sort of pledge to actualizing it.

Has anyone here (timestep?) ever used polar fleece as backing and batting for a quilt?  I have some polar fleece lying around and was wondering what to do with it.

As the mods suggested, this is my post rhapsodizing about my tastes in SSHG.


( Yum. )

If Lestrade were portrayed by an Asian woman, what bag would she carry?  I seem to be handbag-impaired.  My idea of bag seems to be either "diaper bag" (come on; it's been a year since they've been toilet-trained!) or "garish."

What shoes would she wear?

Changing styles, now...anyone have pointers to a short-sleeved white skirt suit like Irene Adler might wear?  If, you know, Irene Adler were a U.S. size 14?  *snrt*

(The sudden spike in materialism after a visit from my parents seems to be with me still, although waning.  At least I'm no longer deluded about "needing" an iPad.  And I wasn't ever serious about wanting to trade in the battered cheapo Mazda for the black Lexus that appears to be the vehicular uniform for a certain species of Korean American.  A species of which I am not.)

Rec/warning:  If you want to know why Benedict Cumberbatch has entered the bloodstreams of your friends like a delicious anti-coagulant that keeps them gushing and hurting...well, you might/might not want to listen to this interview.  Which is amazing not because it's a particularly well-conducted interview -- the interviewer barely had to do a thing here, which was the wisest move he could have made -- but because the actor's self just flowed forth using the medium of words.

He doesn't have barriers.  He's just exactly at the wavelength that passes through skin, through language, through cognition, right into heart and understanding and experience, from one living being to another.  His intensity level is exactly within my comfort zone, as is the facility of his verbal flow.

They say he's addictive.  Hmm.

Thanks to lilyevans_snape for the pointer.

ETA:  He defines Season 1 Sherlock, unequivocally, as "asexual."  And just as unequivocally says that Season 2 Sherlock was attracted to Irene Adler (said she awoke something in Sherlock).

ETA2:  Direct quote from interview regarding the Sherlock Holmes character.  "He turns the world into something rich with narrative.   And that’s why he works.  That’s why he still works.  That’s why story writers love to use him.  Because he’s a gift to story writers.  He carries around so many stories in what he sees."  Yes, that's extemporized.  It just flows from him like ribbons of gently warmed honey.

As a wonderful byproduct of my being able to declutter this week, the feeling of accomplishment has relaxed me enough to be more attentive to the tots.  The Maw is so much more joyous and lovable when she gets solo attention, away from her older sister's repressive putdowns.

Yesterday, she announced that she wanted to sew a quilt with me.  I thought it over and decided that I needed some time to prep this rather than improvise, so I distracted her by offering a mandoo-assembling project for dinner.  (Mandoo = Korean dumplings.  I had wrappers and filling in the freezer.)  I made an effort to be as engaged and gentle and affectionate as I could.  This is easy when she's in a good mood, which she was.  It made her happy to make dinner with me and then eat what she'd made.

This morning, she asked again if we could sew and I said I would prep today and we'd sew this evening.  Then she said she wanted a Beatles quilt to go with her Beatles dress.  She showed me the cut-out yellow submarine prop left over from her preschool's performance of "Yellow Submarine" at the spring concert and said she wanted that on the quilt with each Beatle's face peering out of a porthole.  I explained that applique would take longer, so we would do the quilt in several steps and the applique would be next week.  Tonight, we can do the patchwork section of the quilt.  I will just have her sew together big squares of Yellow Submarine fabric alternating with squares of plain red, green, blue, and purple.  I told her the American tradition, as recorded in my favorite quilt history book Hearts and Hands, of girls having to finish their first quilt before age 5.  She perked up.  :-)  :-)  :-)

I foresee much happy Maw-mommy bonding time ahead.  I love my little Maw.