do you hear that ominous music?

[ontology]

i. Well, drat. Xanga is eating my entries. So I am posting here instead. Said entries mostly consisted of 'AGH THERE ARE ADOLESCENT BOYS INVADING THE PEACE AND SANCTITY OF MY HOME'. Which is to say that my brother is having a birthday party. Mostly they have been quiet, because they were watching a James Bond film (not, unfortunately, the one with JOHN CLEESE IN IT AHAHAHAHA) and are now watching Astro Boy cartoons, but they have had a good deal of sugar and I am just waiting for the storm to break.

The cake is quite good, though. (And I've got batter and icing smeared all down my cape. Oh, dear.)

And the pizza, which is Dad's doing, and he made me a bit with sesame seed crust, which is really very marvellous.

ii. You know what someone ought to make? TONKS BARBIES. I mean, come on, there are Lord of the Rings dolls. I want a Tonks one. With hair that changes colour when you put it in hot water. And lots of outfits to play with. (And lady_moriel tells me that there are Tenth Doctor action figures. !!!!! Yes, one of those, too, please. He can sit on my bookshelf next to Gollum.)

iii. There are some ramblings up on Ink & Chocolate concerning Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Paradise Lost, and Dubliners. And my musical coming of age.

iv. Edited to record this gem of a conversation:
Mum: Well, guys have issues we don't understand.
I: Yes, but we've got more issues--pregnancy, periods, mood-swings--
Brother's friend: EEW, PERIODS.
Brother: What's so bad about punctuation marks?
Mum & I: [nearly choke to death]

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[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Also, I envy you the fact that your dad can cook. Mine just makes things blow up, most times.
My father is a trained pastry chef, and he still makes things blow up. You'd think he'd have the sense to take the twist-tie off a bag of hot dog buns before defrosting them in the microwave. He still insists that the bag was never on fire; very selective memory, I think, because he's always going on about 'those times you nearly set the house on fire', when I only set the cupboards on fire ONCE, and that was YEARS ago. :p

HEEE. A friend of mine has a whole collection of LotR action figures, including a truly magnificant Black Rider + Fell Beast. There's another Black Rider, too, whose name is Quincy. He wants to be a chef. No, do not ask me to explain the reasoning behind this. o.O