dodger_sister: (hurt!winchesters)
Quick update for you all on last week...2 ambulance rides, a couple days in the hospital, severe dizziness, nausea, fatigue, 6 different tests, 5 different doctors, 4 different possible diagnoses, 2 new medicines and now I'm home. Best guess is that I had a UTI that slammed into me on Saturday and caused me to pass out while I was peeing and then kicked in two days later with The Tilting Virus (tm). Some of you may remember when I had this virus a few years ago. I've learned the official name now but damned if I can spell it, but apparently it is a virus that causes inflammation in the inner ears and messes up the signals to the brain. If it is this virus and it is anything like last time, this is going to stick around for a few more weeks. My mom's been coming over every day to help me to the bathroom and get anything I need, because even though the dizziness is getting less, my balance is still really off when I try to walk. The nausea has been pretty bad too and the anti-dizziness meds make me all jittery. I'll be happy when I get to the point where I can at least sit up on the couch and type on my IPad for a little bit each day, instead of finger-typing on the screenboard from bed like I'm doing now. The only thing any of the doctors can agree on is that whatever this is isn't neurological. I passed all those tests and my brain scan looks good. I follow up with my GP next week, as well as trying to go back to physical therapy. I really need the PT after two weeks of being bedridden, but I don't look forward to trying to get myself together to go.

ION...I've been trying out The 100. Anybody else? I'm still making up my mind on it. Also, I am behind on Arrow, but Agents of Shield has been blowing me away! And I just saw last week's Hawaii Five-O and even though I am a Steve/Danny shipper, I am also a huge Catherine-girl, so I am having some feelings. Oh, and the new season of Orphan Black has been fabulous. Alison and Felix's friendship is my favorite thing on that show!

Recently I've also watched some movies - Tropic Thunder, which was pretty funny and had surprise!Jay Baruchel in it, which I didn't expect. It was funny! No 'This Is The End', but nothing is. I recommend it if you like Ben Stiller type movies and Robert Downey JR being awesome. I also watched Monsters and I really liked both the main characters, but I was very upset about the ending...I had dreams where it had a different ending, because I was upset even in my sleep. It was more a character driven movie and though I enjoyed it and really loved the world building, I still maintain that for a movie titled 'Monsters', it didn't have nearly enough monsters in it and didn't move as fast as I would have liked.

So. That is all.
dodger_sister: (omg)
So I have been re-watching Undeclared, which I watched when it originally aired, and it was extra fun this time because now I know so many of the guest stars; Mary Kay Place, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler (playing himself and surrounded by his actual entourage), Ben Stiller, Busy Philipps, Jason Segel, David Krumholtz, Kyle Glass (which is extra funny because one of the boys has a Tenacious D poster on his wall), Samm Levine, Martin Starr, Felicia Day & Jenna Fischer. Plus, the leads, Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen and Charlie Hunnam.

Then my mind suddenly demanded a Teen Wolf College AU where Derek Hale is the grumpy dorm floor R.A. and Scott, Stiles, Jackson, Danny, Ethan, Aidan, Boyd, Isaac, Lydia, Allison, Erica & Cora all live on the floor - (and Greenberg lives in the janitor closet like Perry did on Undeclared). And Scott's mom and Stiles' dad meet at Parents' Weekend and have a flirtation. And I want a whole episode where Lydia realizes that Danny likes Ethan and tries to help him catch Ethan's attention with a cute friendship bonding moment between them. And I want Stiles and Cora to have a sweet friendship but whenever they are in Stiles' room with the door shut, Derek busts the door open and yells "No closed doors in this dorm!" like a protective big brother and then storms out, and also, in general, I need lots of Derek dragging Stiles around by the scruff of his shirt. I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE, YOU GUYS.

This one goes under a cut for NSFW thoughts. )

Also, the other day my sister and I caught a bit of Unstoppable - (aka Chris Pine On A Runaway Train) - and we had this conversation regarding Unstoppable vs Speed:
Sis: I like the premise of this being more man-made disaster rather than a terrorist plot.
Me: Though to be fair, if you have to get a crazy terrorist for your movie, you can't do much better than Dennis Hopper.
Sis: Unless you get Gary Oldman.
Me: John Malkovich.
Sis: Snape. I mean, Alan Rickman.
Me: Yeah, any of those guys.
What do you all think - who else plays a good 'crazy plot to blow things up' kind of guy?

In final news, yesterday my sister had such a bad day. Like, the garage door opener broke, the shower knob came completely off, her work laptop and phone broke, we found out the second garage needs new siding and there wasn't enough charcoal to grill the chicken. She finally gave up and just went to pick up our dinner and just wanted this day to be over and that's when C called to say that the kittens they had found in their yard the day before weren't doing well - (2 of them had passed away) - and she needed help. I told her to send us a picture so we could guess how old they were and then could advise her on what to pick up at the pet store. When I called my sister to tell her all this, she said, "I'm right down the street from the pet store. Tell her I'll just come down there and help her pick out what she needs." Here my sister was having the worst day and she drops everything to help a friend of mine take care of some stray kittens. My sister is awesome, is all I'm saying.

That is all.
dodger_sister: (independence day)
So, the one other thing we did over the Birthday Weekend was Sunday evening, The Sister and I went to see "This Is The End." I have never laughed so much during a movie in my life. Not even kidding. It's funny-stupid in the way that Zoolander is funny-stupid and also in the way that Seth Rogen movies are funny...but more-so because they were ripping on themselves the whole movie. I mean, the premise is what would Seth Rogen and his friends do in an apocalypse? And clearly they realize that the correct answer would be...Freak Out and Flail Everywhere! There's this scene in Knocked Up where Paul Rudd & Seth Rogen's characters go to Vegas and do ‘shrooms and Paul won't stop freaking out about the height of the chairs in the hotel. That scene made me laugh until I cried tears...and This Is The End was like the Vegas Chair scene for 90% of the movie. Also, Jay Baruchel was the lead in it and I have had a crush on him for years, so that was a lovely treat. And the cameos! Omg, the cameos! I don't want to ruin it but you guys, they seriously got every person they have ever known in their life to be in this movie! Which is half of what made it so damn funny. It did have that crude humor that Rogen movies often have, so it is not for the easily offended (or those squicked by projectile vomiting), but it was so fucking funny!

The movie was based off a fake trailer that Seth & Jay made for youtube for funsies called 'Jay and Seth Versus The Apocalypse', that is basically them trapped in a room in their underwear at the end of days. But then apparently Seth was like, "Hey, that would be kind of funny. We could just make a whole movie on that shit. And get Franco to be in it." (Franco was the best riff because he played himself as this pretentious douchehole hipster). I read this interview with Seth that said about a month before shooting started, the studio got nervous and said they didn't think it would work with the guys all playing themselves. So Seth tells them, 'It's cool, we'll just shoot two versions and one will be where we aren't playing ourselves.' Only they didn't. And Seth was like, ‘This has to work!’ through the whole shoot because they had nothing else to take to the studio.

Jay & Seth VS The Apocalypse and This Is The End trailer under the cut. )

Seriously, I laughed so hard that I was flushed and overheated and exhausted by the time the movie was over. I had to come home and lay down in bed with the fan on me for like ten minutes just to recuperate. Hysterical, you guys.

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