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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2007-11-09 08:50 pm
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So far this evening...

Have watched (and cringed in fascinated horror at) two episodes of How Clean Is Your House?.

Have watched - or at least, read while they played in the background - two episodes of Ghost Hunters.*

Have read vol 2 of Parasyte and ... it didn't grab me as much as the first volume did. I'll probably give volume 3 a whirl and if I'm not interested in it, drop the series.

Have also read volume 1 of Togari and ... I an in love. Whee! It's about a 16-year-old swordsman who was in hell for his sins for 300 years, and who is given a chance to get out of hell by coming to the world and destroying 108 demons (called 'sins') in 108 days. Only if he does any sinning himself, such as harming the humans who the sins inhabit, it gets revisited on him. I'll point you towards [livejournal.com profile] meganbmoore's Togari tag where she reviews the first 2 volumes. (The main character is one of my Cool Bits, the hard-ass, hardbitten character who finds, much to his surprise, that he does have a wee little bit of heart there.)

And while all this was happening, there was a terrific noise from the bathroom and the cat shot out, limping horribly. She'd tried to jump on top of a tall cabinet and fell off, along with the travel bag stored up there. I was scared for a short while, but she's not limping now and repeated pokes of her rear end and hind legs produce nothing more than purrs and licks, so I think the limping was more shock than pain. She did attempt to make me feel guilty for moving her kitty bed from the Good Spot on the couch and sitting there myself, but has given up on that and is now sleeping next to the kitty bed, using it as a pillow.



* See, I don't get why skeptics are attacking the show based on the methods they use to investigate and how they could have faked the stuff they catch on film and such when it's damn obvious that the whole thing is a loosely scripted soap opera.

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
YAY! I knew you'd like Togari. (well, hoped...)

(and following up the Togari paragraph with a cat paragraph is funny in the context of vol 2 of Togari)

*hopes Waldenbooks has it when she goes armed with a 30% off coupon tomorrow*

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmmm..... XD

I hope Barnes & Noble has SDK 25 when I go in tomorrow - I've got a coupon, so I'll visit it on my lunch break. XD Borders didn't have it :P

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
yes. I want Waldenbooks to have Togari, SDK, Bride of the Water God and Basara. If it has all those, I shall be pleased. If not, I shall be sad.

[identity profile] fmanalyst.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
How Clean is your house? is a horror story of its own. Some of the people just don't give a damn, but there've been others I thought needed to be treated for depression.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Very much so. You don't let your surroundings get that bad unless there's something seriously wrong. I know I'm a slob and messy, but I'm not that bad. OTOH, also once it gets past a certain point, there's a sense of hopelessness, because the job is so big.

I expect the ones who've managed to keep the place spotless by the two-week visit were ones who'd managed to get over whatever problems they had that made them get that way, but were currently overwhelmed by the huge job and didn't know where to start or how to keep going.

(I do admit that watching teh show spurs me to get up and clean, which is part of the reason I watch it. I managed to attack some serious spiderwebs that needed to be gotten rid of - and nobody better start that "Spiders kill the bad insects!" crap because there is such a thing as Too Damn Many Spiders - on Monday after watching an episode.)

[identity profile] loligo.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
HCIYH is a total guilty pleasure of mine. You do get some people who are or have been obviously depressed or otherwise mentally ill (hoarding tendencies), but a fair number are just people who didn't make cleaning a priority until they got so far behind they just couldnt' catch up. It always makes me feel a bit better about my limited housekeeping skills, plus I get to feel happy for the people who have sparkly newly-clean houses. *g*