I Like Shiny Things. (or what I got for Christmas).

[dodger_sister]

So, I realize I haven't posted since Christmas Eve. No, I have not been busy with holiday gatherings and such.

It's just that...my sister got us a Wii for Christmas.

And I seem unable to stop playing it.

It came with Mario Brothers - (I had to keep calling my brother all day on Christmas to ask him 'how to beat this level' and 'how to jump on this thing') - and then my sister also got us the basic Sports package - (I am quite good at the bowling and the golf, but I blow monkey butt at the baseball) - and Batman & Robin Lego game - (of which The Nephew tells me I am no good).

We made "Mii" characters, which are basically Sims for your game and the Dodger Mii looks like a total little blonde whore - it's so cool. Then I told my sister to go crazy and make a bunch of Miis - all I specifically requested were Jayne Cobb, Spike the Vampire and Special Agent Danny Taylor. After those she also made Dean, Sam, Castiel and Angel, Buffy, Faith and Mulder, Scully and Kirk, Spock, Uhura.

Angel's hair is totally doofy - it's so cute. Castiel is the best because his eyes are huge and his hair is all sticky-up. Faith is my second favorite, her hair looks really good and so do her eyes. Then you can use them to play the Sports package. So I have taken Castiel golfing, Jayne and Spike bowling, Mulder to play tennis, etc. And the cool thing on baseball is that I can play myself and then the computer randomly selects the other Miis to be on my team. So like I am team captain and Kirk and Dean and Mulder were all on my team.

Like I said...it's awesome.

But it's also kept me from my computer and LJ posting. I have lots to post about once the new obsession wears off.

Health wise - I have been feeling really good the last ten days or so - a new streak of wellness. Still not up to par, but pretty good. And then today I just started feeling crappy for some reason. There seems to be no telling what brings on a bad day, but hopefully it's just one bad day, as I have lunch plans tomorrow with Cherie.

I also have a very nice therapy story for you, but I'll save that for next week. In the meantime, just know that yesterday I had to explain to Kevin what a "twink" is. Yeah, that was surreal. His "amused" face is adorable.

I'm off to bed now.

Comments

[shirebound]

I hope we all enjoy many 'streaks of wellness' in the coming year. :)

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

2011 was not a good year health-wise for me or my cats, so absolutely here's hoping for more 'streaks of wellness' - for you and Pip too!!

[vikingprincess]

I'm so glad you've been having fun and feeling better!

Also, do you realize that when you listed characters for the Mii, you paired some people up in ways that you should totally write? Specifically, look at this punctuation, here:

Faith and Mulder, Scully and Kirk

And I think it should be written as missing scenes for X-files. Where Faith is a badass trainee shoved off on Mulder, and Kirk is the alien who probed Scully.

Look at that set-up again. Yeah, I said probed. Now you want to write it EVEN MORE. Uh huh. That's right.

Also, Happy New Year!

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

I can't stop playing the Wii - it's addictive as all hell!

Faith and Mulder, Scully and Kirk - This Is Awesome.

I haven't stopped thinking about it since you pointed it out. Faith would be such a badass FBI agent. But oh, I thought of one better for Scully and Kirk - what if Bones went on temporary leave and Scully was the doctor filling in on the ship?

PROBED!!

Maybe all that time Mulder was missing after being abducted, he was just chilling on the Enterprise?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[vikingprincess]

Oh, jeez - now I want a triple crossover where Faith and Mulder are investigating the disppearance of Scully, who's been grabbed to temporarily replace Bones and ends up investigating HIS disappearance with Kirk. And there could totally be Spock/Uhura and Dawn/Xander cameos, too. :D

Get off of the Wii and write this with meeeeeeee!

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

Hey, if I could write on demand, my whole damn Flist would have me writing until my fingers fell off!

But just to tease you...

Summary: Scully had a perfectly good gig teaching at The StarFleet Academy, so she's unsure why she ever agreed to take this newest gig, as the ship doctor's for The USS Enterprise. The captain both seems pissed that she's there and yet somehow highly infatuated with her. Throw in the two Feds looking for the ship's previous doctor (missing on assignment and Scully doesn't even want to guess what happened to him) constantly asking her to help with the investigation and Scully thinks maybe this was all a terribly bad idea.

I will never get off the Wii! It calls to me at night.

[vikingprincess]

*sad face* but it's such a good summary....

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

Actually the summary is so good, I put it on The List. Because now I want it too.

Sadly for me, I come up with three story ideas a day and I write like one a month.

PS: Just read the summary to my sister and you should have heard the noise she made. I shouldn't have gotten her so riled up before bed.

[vikingprincess]

LOL It's in my ideas folder. And so is a brand new one with teen!Chesters and Rogue in the icy wilds of midwinter Minnesota, thanks to the Xmas fanthing which xenokattz drew for me. You should go and look at it. :D

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

I am already intrigued just by this - teen!Chesters and Rogue in the icy wilds of midwinter Minnesota.

Def going to check out the art!

[vikingprincess]

I think you'll enjoy her work - a couple X-men, some DC comics, some Smallville - oh, I can't even remember all of them. But they're great!

[lizibabes.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better and that the new year brings you some good health!

I didn't even think to do that with Mii's.......Why didn't I?
Why do I have a mental image of Spike bowling? And why does it make me giggle?

Happy new year?

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better and that the new year brings you some good health!

Good health for everybody!

My sister likes to make neighborhoods on her Sims - like a Whedon neighborhood with all Joss Whedon characters and a supernatural neighborhood with like vampires and werewolves from different shows and a Lord of the Rings neighborhood, etc.

So of course when we got the Wii, I immediately thought about her making all those characters for our games. When I was little we had baseball on the nintendo and I would always pretend that my team was made up of people from the TV show The A-Team and I guess I still do that after all.

Someone on my Flist was like, "Here are some good Spike fics to read" and I was all, "I don't have time. I am busy taking Spike bowling with Jayne Cobb. That's kind of like reading Spike fic, right?" lol

Happy New Year!

[lizibabes.livejournal.com]

Seems like your sister has a creative brain like you. Not sure what my mii says about me, it doesn't even look like me. My friend made a mii of me, it always seems to join her on her jog on the Wii fit.......it also always falls over if you go too fast....so more like me in RL lol

But now I'm thinking she should have a little Mii Spike, so it'll be like he's chaseing her when she runs lol

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

But now I'm thinking she should have a little Mii Spike, so it'll be like he's chaseing her when she runs lol

This image had me cracking up!! She should totally do that. 8)

[lizibabes.livejournal.com]

Motive to run faster as well lol

:D

[ranua.livejournal.com]

I totally agree, Wii bowling is insanely addictive! And a wee!Mii!Spike et al bowling and doing sport along side you is the cutest damn image! lol

Yay streaks of wellness, boo bouts of crappy. It's like your body is bipolar or something. I hope the new year brings long streaks of wellness between very short bouts of crappy.

You know, all you did by explaining 'twink' to Kevin is give him more ammunition for those weird talks he's been having with you. I mean, what the hell is he gonna come up with next!?

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

Bowling is the best of all the sports game, though I am getting pretty good at the golf. Having our "fandom" Miis just makes playing the game like some big crack crossover fic. It's awesome.

/knocking on virtual wood/ I have been having more good days in health than bad, so yes, lets hope that continues. For you too, babe - all good health in 2012.

You know, all you did by explaining 'twink' to Kevin is give him more ammunition for those weird talks he's been having with you. I mean, what the hell is he gonna come up with next!?

LMAO Yeah, probably true. Yesterday Kevin and I talked about vampires and which show had the hottest vampires on it. I explained I like half-crazy serial killer vampires the best, like Angelus. He gave me the "concerned father" face, like maybe he is worried about me.

[ranua.livejournal.com]

He gave me the "concerned father" face, like maybe he is worried about me. Honestly, that's adorable, you'd think after all these years he's known you he wouldn't be surprised by those kinds of things.

Anyway, I agree crazed serial killer vampires are good for the evil creature of the week, but I have to confess a big soft spot for the flat out crazy ones. (I know it's not on tv, but I love Anne Rice's Louis, such a soft gentle angst-monkey *sighs*)

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

Honestly, that's adorable, you'd think after all these years he's known you he wouldn't be surprised by those kinds of things.

Lol True. He probably wasn't surprised so much as concerned that my parents didn't get me proper counseling as a teenager. 8)

I never read any Anne Rice, if you can believe that, what with how into vampires I have always been. "Angst-monkey" is an awesome phrase.

I was just so bored by Angel when he was on "Buffy" and then when he turned into Angelus, I was like, "Oh my god, soooo hot. I hope he eats everyone's face off!" Yeah...okay, Kevin is right to be worried about me.

[ranua.livejournal.com]

See, I was bored by Angel when he was on Buffy too. Which is why I never watched his show. I had no desire to watch the most boring angsty vampire ever. I read the comic now tho and you've got me convinced to give the show a try if I ever find some free time.

I quiet like Anne Rice's books but I'm not sure how I feel about her or her hardcore fans. For shear entertainment value the first ones (Interview, Vampire Lestat and I think there's one more) are good imo. But she does seem to get that 'Oh look, I'm a famous writer now let's churn out a book a year regardless of quality' problem as the series goes along.

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Angel gets a lot more interesting on "Angel". They let a little more of David Boreanaz show through. Hell, Cordelia is more interesting on Angel and she was pretty damn awesome to start with. Plus Gunn is hot and Wesley gets hot (scruffy-beard!) and Christian Kane (need I say more?). I really should type up some of the behind-the-scenes commentary on the two episodes that Christian and David do commentary together - it was hysterical.

Isn't Anne Rice the one who put the smack down on anyone writing her characters into fanfic? Cuz that turns me off of her right there. Doesn't she realize fanfic is promoting her works?

[ranua.livejournal.com]

Her and Mercedes Lackey (a fantasy writer I really like) both really put their foot down against fanfic. Well, Lackey has some sort of authorized fanfic page (or used to anyway). I agree that fanfic promotes a work (why else would I have Stargate, Supernatural, Mag 7. . . )

Anyway, as the person portrayed in interviews I don't like Anne Rice, but I do like her books (the first ones).

[wolfrider89.livejournal.com]

You got a Wii? Jealous! I want one too, and not JUST to make Castiel and Dean Mii's... :P

[dodger-sister.livejournal.com]

Babe, if I ever find a way to get my Miis from my Wii to my computer, I promise to upload the pics here, because you have to see them. The other day my sister and I took Sam and Dean Miis and did the whole sports package with them playing against each other, but next time I think we'll take Dean and Cas on a date. 8)

[wolfrider89.livejournal.com]

Yes! I want to see them! :D

Haha, you should do that! Dean and Cas date night. :D