In which I watch more teevees
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selenayToday it is not raining. It's not supposed to rain tomorrow, either. Saturday is going to be utterly miserable and rather akin to the second flood, but two days without rain sounds fabulous to me. I've never been so happy to see a dry, grey, cloudy day.
Last night, I decided that I'd got wet too many times already so I did not venture out to get soaked going to yoga. I did a good yoga practice at home and then made myself supper and spend the evening lounging on the sofa with cats, House of Cards and Holby City.
House of Cards is rather brilliant.
Holby also wasn't too shabby this week. I'm liking the new AAU senior sister, Eddi, a lot although they need to get slightly more subtle about her 'complicated personal life' issues. Still, she's a good character and I can tell that she's going to be fun to watch. Nurse Deeply Dippy screwed up again, but thankfully her screw-up brought Hanssen to a patient in time to diagnose a ruptured appendix so it all worked out.
I may be warming to Nurse Deeply Dippy slightly, but she's incredibly irritating.
Jac got to be awesome, scheming and brilliant again. I less-than-3 Jac so much.
Also, Hanssen might have got the best lines of the night. Particularly the one about rumours of him being undead being fallacious. It's the combination of brilliant lines, dry delivery and subtle facial expressions that do it. I've gone from loathing to loving him. Please keep him for a long time because he's awesome.
The Malick/Hamilton story-line was back, with about as much subtlety as Holby ever manages. In other words, none. I declare myself shocked that they ended up working together on a gay patient. Shocked, I tell you. No parallels or life-lessons there at all.
It's nice to see Malick being humble about his looks and appeal ;-) And I am glad that nobody has decided to make him a love-lorn puppy because that would be hideously out of character. In fact, his confrontations with Hamilton were definitely in character and I rather think that he's working out that Dan is so deeply in DeNile that he needs a headlamp and scuba gear.
Polly, our lovely gay patient, has also worked that out that Dan is a man deep in denial. Dan's tale of two broken engagements and the smouldering looks Dan and Malick were giving each other did rather give the game away to anyone with two eyes and a brain. Poor old Chrissy is totally doing the love is blind thing, despite Polly pretty much telling her that Dan is gayer than...I have no good simile/metaphor/what in heck is the right word?
It's all going to end in tragedy. I'm a sick person for looking forward to that.
The only down side to this episode was the distinct lack of Frieda. I want her back because I think she's going to be fabulous with Eddi. They'll either hate each other on sight or become Team Awesome. I'm still sad about the Penny thing (I know the Penny/Frieda thing was all in my head, but really...) but Eddi could become the missing side-kick that Frieda has needed to complete her fabulousness.
Next week, apparently we get an Ollie-centric episode with a side-order of Elizabeth. I'm suspecting that this means no Malick/Dan and potentially very little Jac. As I thoroughly loathe Ollie, I'd love to think that this is the episode where he finally gets hit by a bus but his actor apparently signed on for at least another year so I think we're stuck with him. Damn.
I am trying to work out a menu for next week that will be mother-inclusive and not overly taxing. Also, trying to think of a meal to do on Sunday when we get home from the airport. She would prefer something light and tasty, I'm thinking that it needs to be something quick, easy and not dependent on what time we get home. Theoretically her flight gets in a little after three, but apparently flights are being badly delayed due to the Air Canada strike. Right now, I'm thinking along the lines of something that I can have the ingredients around for but where the ingredients won't go bad after a day if I decide to pick up sushi instead.
Oh, the complications of meal planning!
Last night, I decided that I'd got wet too many times already so I did not venture out to get soaked going to yoga. I did a good yoga practice at home and then made myself supper and spend the evening lounging on the sofa with cats, House of Cards and Holby City.
House of Cards is rather brilliant.
Holby also wasn't too shabby this week. I'm liking the new AAU senior sister, Eddi, a lot although they need to get slightly more subtle about her 'complicated personal life' issues. Still, she's a good character and I can tell that she's going to be fun to watch. Nurse Deeply Dippy screwed up again, but thankfully her screw-up brought Hanssen to a patient in time to diagnose a ruptured appendix so it all worked out.
I may be warming to Nurse Deeply Dippy slightly, but she's incredibly irritating.
Jac got to be awesome, scheming and brilliant again. I less-than-3 Jac so much.
Also, Hanssen might have got the best lines of the night. Particularly the one about rumours of him being undead being fallacious. It's the combination of brilliant lines, dry delivery and subtle facial expressions that do it. I've gone from loathing to loving him. Please keep him for a long time because he's awesome.
The Malick/Hamilton story-line was back, with about as much subtlety as Holby ever manages. In other words, none. I declare myself shocked that they ended up working together on a gay patient. Shocked, I tell you. No parallels or life-lessons there at all.
It's nice to see Malick being humble about his looks and appeal ;-) And I am glad that nobody has decided to make him a love-lorn puppy because that would be hideously out of character. In fact, his confrontations with Hamilton were definitely in character and I rather think that he's working out that Dan is so deeply in DeNile that he needs a headlamp and scuba gear.
Polly, our lovely gay patient, has also worked that out that Dan is a man deep in denial. Dan's tale of two broken engagements and the smouldering looks Dan and Malick were giving each other did rather give the game away to anyone with two eyes and a brain. Poor old Chrissy is totally doing the love is blind thing, despite Polly pretty much telling her that Dan is gayer than...I have no good simile/metaphor/what in heck is the right word?
It's all going to end in tragedy. I'm a sick person for looking forward to that.
The only down side to this episode was the distinct lack of Frieda. I want her back because I think she's going to be fabulous with Eddi. They'll either hate each other on sight or become Team Awesome. I'm still sad about the Penny thing (I know the Penny/Frieda thing was all in my head, but really...) but Eddi could become the missing side-kick that Frieda has needed to complete her fabulousness.
Next week, apparently we get an Ollie-centric episode with a side-order of Elizabeth. I'm suspecting that this means no Malick/Dan and potentially very little Jac. As I thoroughly loathe Ollie, I'd love to think that this is the episode where he finally gets hit by a bus but his actor apparently signed on for at least another year so I think we're stuck with him. Damn.
I am trying to work out a menu for next week that will be mother-inclusive and not overly taxing. Also, trying to think of a meal to do on Sunday when we get home from the airport. She would prefer something light and tasty, I'm thinking that it needs to be something quick, easy and not dependent on what time we get home. Theoretically her flight gets in a little after three, but apparently flights are being badly delayed due to the Air Canada strike. Right now, I'm thinking along the lines of something that I can have the ingredients around for but where the ingredients won't go bad after a day if I decide to pick up sushi instead.
Oh, the complications of meal planning!
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Date: 2011-06-16 10:13 pm (UTC)You might say that. We couldn't possibly comment.
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Date: 2011-06-17 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-17 11:14 am (UTC)Advantages - it's 100% idiot proof and fast and has limited ingredients.
Disadvantages - limited nutritional value.
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Date: 2011-06-17 09:28 pm (UTC)I'm going for a fish thing (frozen) that I know she really likes and some veg. If we don't eat it that night, then it's in the freezer and life carries on. If we do eat it that night, it takes half an hour to prepare with minimal attention from either of us.
Why did Air Canada staff have to strike this week?