Santa came very early today when lemonrocket bought me this....



...the complete series. It's packaged in a tin - somewhat different from the American packaging, but has all those lovely extra deleted and extended scenes not on DVD. Wow!...that'll keep me out of trouble for a while!

Some of you will probably already know this, but a while ago I discovered that one of my favourite couples had both been in a 1997 TV movie 'Twelve Angry Men' which is of course a remake of the classic made in 1957. Managed to get hold of a copy and took a few screencaps. Mary's appearance was only very brief at the beginning so I guess their paths would have barely crossed!





Hated Mary's hairdo...so severe, didn't suit her at all!

Celebrated yet another birthday yesterday and have had the pleasure of my daughter's company as she managed to get the whole weekend off. Yay! Took me to town shopping and showered me with gifts AND afternoon tea (mudcake with cream..... NAUGHTY!)I think I'm the luckiest mum in the universe to have such a sweet and lovely daughter - even if she insinuates that I may be somewhere near 150 years old!

This may or may not be a little early, but it is the 5th here ( has been for about 18 hours) so let me be (probably?) the first to wish you many happy returns and hope you have a great day! Made an A/R icon of one of their sweetest moments just for you. :)

Well, after the holiday comes the catching up on things that didn't get done while you're away having fun! Thought I'd go out and tidy up the rockery out front of the house, only I managed to spike myself with one of the few cacti that grow in our cooler climate. A few hours later my finger is twice it's normal size and throbbing like mad! Awkward too as it's the first finger on my right hand and I'm right-handed! Frak! The last time I did this I ended up with blood poisoning, so with this in mind thought I'd better get it looked at. Now I'm busy swallowing antibiotics and antihistamines so hope things improve soon.
On a brighter note - my CD of BSG season 4 arrived yesterday - yay! Have already put the tracks on my Ipod Touch. I still find myself getting emotional just listening to the music on the last few numbers, as my mind remembers the sometimes sad scenes that went with them.

At last I have been able to get hold of and download holiday pics before the flashdrive they were on disappeared again with my daughter!

( Auckland ahoy! )

If anyone has noticed my absence lately ( not that I post or comment very often) it's because I've been away with lemonrocket on a holiday to the other end of the country - Auckland our largest city. Because I haven't been there for 40 years and lemonrocket hasn't been there at all, we did all the usual touristy stuff. I would have some pics to bore you all with BUT,it seems they haven't been downloaded to any of the computers in the house and are still on a flashdrive which unfortunately lemonrocket has taken to work so she can show them to workmates and bore them all to death instead!
Secondly, happy belated birthday wishes to trexphile. Hope you had a great day. Unfortunately in this country access to the internet is expensive if you are on holiday. There are a few free access terminals in airports but there are always people at them, so we didn't bother.
Just picked up the DVD of season 4.5 BSG a few days ago and have been disappointed to find that the only deleted scenes were on an unrated episode of A Disquiet Follows My Soul. Now I know that other zones got more or different than that. Anyway, why do we have to all get different packaging and content. What's wrong with giving us all the same thing - or is that too simple?!
I see all my favourite A/R fanfiction writers have been busy posting story parts while I was away. Goodie - lots to read!!

Sitting at my PC last night at around 9.23pm when suddenly the desk started to shake...and everything else started to shake in a horrible rolling motion. I quickly braced myself in the doorway and reached a hand out to steady my LCD TV from tipping over.(It's not screwed down but should be - you know, one of those things that you're going to get around to doing someday...) At one point the timber in the house was creaking with the movement - scary!. I guess it lasted about a minute and a half but seemed much longer.There were no reports of damage around the city, but the quake measured around 7 on the Richter scale which means if it had gone on any longer there could have been considerable damage. We live on a fault line here in NZ. It runs right down the centre of the country, so we should be used to it, but earthquakes always freak me out and always will!
On a lighter note I've made some icons from an episode of Grey's Anatomy in which Mary McDonnell appeared.It was very funny in places and I couldn't resist capturing some of her delightful facial expressions.

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Many happy returns to Patrick Stewart - 69 today! One of the world's great thespians...

Many happy returns of the day! I've been a bit sidetracked by BSG of late so made a frantic search of google images and found this rather nice piccie of our favourite thespian. Hope you haven't already discovered it. Anyway have a great day a hope you are enjoying the northern summer!

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