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I had the strangest sleeping experience for two nights in a row now.  I slept like 6 or so hours and then woke up feeling mostly okay.  The first night, I went to bed around 2am and then woke up somewhere around 8 or 8:30am and then last night, I went to bed a bit before midnight and woke up some time between 6:30am and 7am.  This is coming from me, who is notorious for sleeping in late and needing at least 8.5 to 9 hours so as not to be a grouch all day.  Odd, but I think I know what happened.

Saturday night when I went to have my shower and wash my hair, I decided that I needed to give my legs a thorough loofah-ing since they were getting some ingrown hairs.  I washed my hair and put the conditioner in and then got down to business with my legs.  I worked on them for probably 10 minutes and then gave the rest of my body a once over for good measure.  And while I was at it, I used some nicely scented body wash instead of the usual bar of soap.  I rinsed my hair and washed off all the soap and dried myself and went to go read some on the 'toobs.  After a while, I blow-dried my hair and by that time, QoH was fast asleep so I decided to take some selfies of my new shirts.  While doing that I was thinking 'What a waste. All dressed up, hair freshly done, I smell wonderful and no place to go and nobody to go with. Sigh.'  Then off to bed.

I couldn't believe how early I woke up and I didn't even feel like crap!  And my skin was feeling all soft and fabulous!  So I did a repeat performance last night minus the hair washing.  I think the loofah-ing worked like a massage and the body wash like aroma therapy because I was very relaxed and slept very deeply.  The only thing is, the first night I don't remember dreaming anything, but last night I distinctively remember playing scrabble with the Queen*. ( ! )

That was the weirdest thing.  I was sitting at a small table like the kind used for playing chess and being in the Queen's palace with her sitting across from me and getting trounced thoroughly(and I'm hardly an illiterate or the possessor a miniscule vocabulary).  I distinctly remember saying that I hadn't been beaten that badly since the last time I played my sister.  I guess thinking about my sister the other day was still stuck in my subconscious.  Seriously, my sister is like the only person who could thrash me at scrabble.  I mean, utterly destroy me, as in totally embarrassing.  She had a genius IQ and was almost savant-like when it came to word puzzles and games.  I could hold my own against her in Jeopardy but she was just ridiculous when it came to Wheel of Fortune.  She could solve the damn puzzles with only one letter revealed or even none as I recall one time.  Then she would laugh and laugh when someone would be shocked and take note.

I miss her as she was the only one who really understood how QoH is.  And QoH was being a real bitch last night.  I think she could sense that I was enjoying myself somehow so she had to keep interrupting me and barging into my room many times.  It was getting to be almost a game.  I even did something that shall go unnamed in between interruptions just for the "F-U" factor.  ;P  ;D

I swear, living with her is like living with the Stasi.  She can never give me any privacy or leave me the hell alone.  Even this morning when I was up so early, I thought I could see the light from her bedroom coming under my door so I cracked it ever so slightly and quietly to look and sure enough! she was up.  So I went back to my bed and looked at the 'toobs for a bit and then tried some 'relaxation techniques' to try to go back to sleep for maybe and hour or so.  Later, after I got my extra 1.5 hours and got up, QoH questioned me as to why I was up so early.  'Oh, you opened your door and went to the bathroom!'  I may have cracked my door open but I never went to the bloody bathroom.  I swear, it get's so damn old being questioned about every damn thing I do in this house.  I'd just love to have my own place where my every move is not scrutinized.

*Regina from OUAT

OUAT S3 Eps 9 & 10

So the last episode(S3 E9) I wasn't so sure if I was going to like it or not.  It started out with Regina being all antsy and dissatisfied and wanting a baby. I was like, *finally* we are going to find out how Regina got Henry!

Okay, it didn't go *exactly* like that.  It was more like Regina storming into Rump's shop and being all like, "I want a baby! And you're going to help me!"  And Rump was like, "Sorry, not interested."  And Regina replied with her best snark-castic tone, "Not like *that*!"  Which I found to be totally chortle-worthy.

Then the way they showed the adoption was just totally unrealistic and it didn't really show *how* Rumple was able to locate Henry.  It just provoked more questions than answers.  That was the weakest part of the episode IMO.  But then Regina turned all uber hero and was kicking ass big time and saving the day for everyone and that was just so awesome and I loved all of that.

And not to forget that one creepy-ass scene with Regina and the potion toward the end.  A commenter at the tv.com site had this to say:

"No Rolling Stones "Mother's Little Helper" jokes? I'm shocked."

Which totally cracked me up because I was in the car a couple days after that episode aired and that song came on the radio and that's the first thing that I thought of--Regina and that potion.  LOL

And one more quote from over there:

"Regina made this amazing transition from villain to like super hero, and all the characters were totally affirming it like “oh wait that’s right Regina has raised Henry for 11 years wow great job” and “whoa Regina is insanely powerful, almost all-powerful and her lipstick is perfect no matter WHAT” and I concur with all of that."

I concur with all of that, too. ;P  And:

"Lana Parrilla put so much undeniable, natural maternal affection into her scene with Jared Gilmore, just talking about video games and pizza, it was devastating. She was his mom. It was such a reversal from the weirdo Regina from Season 2 who kept creeping on Henry whenever the Charmings let him out of the house long enough to hang up a birdhouse, and the character of Regina made so much more sense as a smart, powerful, protective maternal figure and the other characters made so much more sense for embracing her and appreciating that about her (ESPECIALLY Henry)."

And all of that was just so awesome.  Lana totally needs an Emmy.  I was having feels like an unhinged, emotionally unbalanced person.  But could we just end it there on a happy note?  Oh hells no!  The writers just can't give anyone some breathing room. Which leads me to today after watching last night's episode...

(sorry if this sounds a bit disjointed, but I've been writing down my thoughts as they came to me, now I'm trying to organize them into a decent post)

Ooooooooh, I'm sooo PISSED right now!  At the end of last week's episode, just when you thought one issue was resolved, they have to go directly into *another* crisis.  I was really annoyed with that.  I was like, 'Why the fuck can't they just resolve something and then go on to have a couple eps where we work on relationships and character growth?'  And I was not the only one who thought that, as this quote from Lily Sparks reveals:

"Can we not?! Can we just have one episode centered on relationship-driven drama? A smattering of comedy of manners, a touch of character development via meaningful conversations? God knows there’s enough twisted family interactions in this world to craft a seriously juicy soap opera. Can't we see just one big family dinner? Do we really have to do all this running around/screaming/finding macguffins/he’s got the woozle but we’ve got the wazzle/somebody kiss/HENRY OMG HENRY...interspersed with people quoting each other verbatim as a stand-in for relationship growth?...So yeah, there was definitely a sense of “This again?” "

Now, we are back to some lazy ass hackneyed old plot.  I was like, 'Oh, for fuck's sake!  Not *this* shit again!'  They are really pissing me off with lazy writing.  Revisiting this old shit is a really lazy way to get the LBs, the Ds, and everyone else back home.

And they also killed off a sorta main character!  I totally didn't see that coming.  (I guess the actor got a sweeter deal on another show.)  But I wasn't too upset by it.  That character had it coming IMO.  Regina had been an advocate on another character's behalf and this particular character acted like a total ass concerning the situation.  Then the next thing ya know, BAM!  Karma was a bitch and she came a callin' like a mafia enforcer.  Also, the stupid flashbacks that don't serve to reveal any new information but are there just to be filler are getting to be be very annoying.  :(

Anyhoo, I can't write too much here or SPOILERS!!! But I will say that the writers better have something else in mind in the next episode 'cuz I don't want to go into winter break with some stupid-ass cliffhanger that we've already seen before.

Broken Promises/DGAF Friday

 After a week of writing promise-checks that cannot be cashed, the brooding Regal gals have determined that all our fucks have mysteriously disappeared, and therefore, we simply have no more to give.

Maybe the Great Wizard Arekino can work his magic and coax a decent post out of me in comments.  ;P