I really shouldn't make plans. Because my head is seriously the worse and suddenly it's like 'oooh let's write 8000 words and watch Downton Abbey from the beginning'... again. 'Oh and by the way those others plans lets just forget all of those.'
See the worse.
Which pretty much explains why September's plans went out the window and why I didn't even bother making any for October.
Sometimes you just have to know when to quit.
Still I'm not giving up and plans are back on the board... even if my stupid brain is probably just going to ignore them once again.
Crafting
Can we just not even talk about this.
I pulled it out. I tidied it up. I even downloaded some patterns. And that has pretty much been it.
I'm never going to finish this cross stitch thing am I?
Gardening
OMG this one is actually going well. Which just goes to show that I have been doing something other than writing and staring at a computer screen.
The greenhouse is totally rockin' what with all the tomatoe plants. Plus there's peppers and lettuces and strawberries. And none of them have died... yet.
Outside it isn't looking too shabby either with flowers popping up everywhere and the new bit of lawn slowly taking off.
Green Goddess for the win.
Get Fit and Healthy
And another one that is still going well. Even with this totally weird up and down weather I've managed to fit in quite a bit of walking and my eating has improved heaps. Mostly because I've got this weird swallowing/throat problem thing going on which means that I'm pretty much living on smoothies, mashed veg, yoghurt and scrambled eggs. And even more on the plus side I've lost some more weight so yay me.
I'm just sussing out new recipes of things I can eat and I'm good to go.
Being Frugal
I've finally got the cuttings thing figured out and now have a small tray of plants slowly growing so I'm super pleased about that.
I am just need to get organised and sell some things before Christmas.
Kondoing My Way
So never happened so naturally it's still on the list.
My wardrobe is starting to look like World War 3 has been declared and that the clothes have gone on mutiny. I really do need to get in there and have a major clean out.
Reading
Amazingly I've managed to read the odd book or two. On the downside I downloaded a ton of new ebooks so once again that TBR pile has gotten out of control and threatening to explode. In my defense the books were all lovely Christmas reads so really they were totally justified and can I truly be blamed for getting them when they lured me with all their pretty covers and enticing blurbs.
Writing
I actually don't need to plan for this at the moment because the brain and the fingers are on fire at the moment. 8000 words and counting.
Can I just be all smug now
It's still happening albeit a little slowly what with all the writing and Downton Abbey watching. Priorities you know.
Season 3 Episode 11: Gingerbread
Buffy and her mom's mother and daughter bonding takes a bit of a dive when Joyce discovers the bodies of 2 children while being on patrol with her daughter. Sadden and disturbed by their deaths Joyce becomes a little too involved in Buffy's life when she takes it upon herself to form a mother's group to combat the evil in Sunnydale. Only thing is she and the other mothers now think that Buffy and the gang are now part of the problem and even worse perhaps evil too...
So not the kind of mother/daughter bonding that Buffy had in mind.
Fav Quote: Buffy: Mom, dead people are talking to you. Do the math.
Fashion: Cardigan look... again. This time in pale pink so you just know I am so there.
Body Count: 0
Season 3 Episode 12: Helpless
When Buffy finds suddenly finds herself without her special Slayer abilities she begins to doubt her role as The Slayer.
Meanwhile The Watcher's Council are setting up a special test for Buffy to see if she is worthy, there's a crazed vampire on the lose and Giles is hiding a really big secret that could change his relationship with Buffy forever.
Fav Quote: Buffy: I'm way off my game. My game's left the country. It's in Cuernavaca!
Fashion: The dungarees are back so you just know that Buffy is feeling kind of down.
Body Count: 2
Season 3 Episode 13: The Zeppo
Feeling that he has nothing to contribute to the Scooby Group Xander decides to find his 'thing' and ends up with helping the school bully raise his gang back from the dead. The new gang though aren't quite what they seem and soon Xander is having to fed for himself and stop a bomb from blowing up the school.
Yep it's just another day being a Sunnydale High Student.
Fav Quote: Willow: Yeah, I'm fine. The-The shaking is-is a side-effect of the fear.
Fashion: Buffy's hair has got the whole crinkle look going on and yeah I so do not like. On the other hand Xander is back in black and looking kind of hot.
Body Count: 4
Season 3 Episode 14: Bad Girls
With Giles fired from the Watcher's Council Buffy and Faith gain a new Watcher in the form of one Wesley Wyndham-Pryce, a stuffy by-the-book man who the girls quickly decide to mostly ignore.
Feeling rebellious the girls play up slaying and partying night after night until it all goes horribly wrong.
Fav Quote: Wesley: Why don't you tell me everything about last night's patrol.
Buffy: Vampires.
Wesley: Yes?
Buffy: Killed 'em.
Fashion: The pastel colours are back - this time in mauve - as is the cardigan and hair clip. In man world both Giles and Wesley are rockin' the suit and tie look.
Body Count: 10
Season 3 Episode 15: Consequences
Following on from the previous episode Buffy and the gang try to get through to Faith and make her realise what she done and the path she is headed down. Faith has other plans though, ones that don't involve the Scoobies or Buffy at all.
Fav Quote: Angel: I'm sorry about the chains. It's not that I don't trust you... Actually, it is that I don't trust you
Fashion: Willow's the dungaree girl this time round plus I love her hair this episode. Faith also has the whole dark glossy lipstick thing going on.
Body Count: 0
Season 3 Episode 15: Doppelgangland
Anya, the vengeance demon from The Wish, tries to get her necklace back with the aid of Willow and a little spell.
Unfortunately it all goes wrong and now there are 2 Willows and the other Willow isn't nearly as nice or friendly what with being a vampire and all.
Fav Quote: Anya: Vampires. Always thinking with your teeth.
Fashion: Willow the red head in red totally works especially when they are dungarees. Buffy is sporting the pigtail look again which we haven't seen since 'Anne' and it's really cute.
Body Count: 1
Hi it's me, the person who is still playing catch up. In some ways it's a good thing that my reading has slowed down just a little because it might just give me some time to finally get on top of things... mmm somehow we just all know that that is probably never going to happen.
Writing is still taking up a big chunk of my time along with fitting in my daily walk and some gardening (despite the very up and down weather) plus of course all the watching. Which of course just all means that doing blog posts and some actually reading of books instead of fanfic - because yeah that's going on to too - is being squeezed into what gap in time I can find. Multitasking has never looked so good.
Chick lit and romance are first up though The Songs of Us become a lot more serious as it went on which is kind of not what you expect from a chick lit novel. It was still good just unexpected in the direction it went.
With crime novels I generally have some idea of where they are headed though I love reading ones that completely surprise me. This time round I finished off a another series that I've been working through... or at least I thought I had. I've now found out there are another 2 books following on. Which is at least another thing to look forward to.
After that it was two very similar books (totally untended) surrounding the mysterious death of the main character's boyfriend and then finally a book that I had been wanting to read for ages - The Quiet at the End of the World - a sci-fi YA which was did not disappoint.
Trying to find a sci-fi that I like is always a challenge. So many of them end up being disappointing so it was nice to read one that didn't for a change. Unlike Slayer by Kiersten White which just didn't do anything for me and which I ended up skimming through just to see how it ended. I'll probably just stick to watching Buffy instead in the future rather than read a book that tries to copy it and fails - at least for me.
I'm still watching...
Season 3 Episode 6: Band Candy
Giles unleashes his bad boy Ripper persona when he and all the other 'adult's suddenly start acting like their teenage self.
It's up to Buffy to figure out what's going on and also try and keep her mom and Ripper apart. Because Joyce like so many of us loves a bad boy.
Personally I would have left them as they were because Ripper Giles is totally hot.
Fav Quote: Buffy: "Something's weird." Oz: "Something's not?"
Fashion: Buffy's hair is still got the sunkiss blonde highlights thing going on. Meanwhile Giles manages to make smoking look all kinds of hot.
Body Count: 1
Season 3 Episode 7: Revelations
Faith gets a new watcher, a very sooty and snarky Miss Post who quickly tries to put everyone in their place.
Meanwhile Buffy is secretly helping Angel heal, Willow and Xander are indulging in their own secret make-out sessions and there's a dangerous glove that imbues the wearer with special powers.
You just know it's all going to crap.
Someone should seriously put warnings on all these supernatural objects that are just laying around.
Fav Quote: Giles: That was bracing.
Buffy: Interesting lady. Can we kill her?
Giles: I think the Council might frown upon that.
Fashion: The blonde highlights are I think growing on me. I love Buffy's black camouflage look especially the beanie. Very stealthy and blending in the dark vibe going on there.
Body Count: 1
Season 3 Episode 8: Lovers Walk
Spike is back in town, depressed and out for revenge, blaming Buffy and Angel for his breakup with Druscilla.
Love sucks and Spike's re-appearance is about to make everyone realise this.
Fav Quote: Spike: I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
Fashion: The cardigan look is back.
Body Count: 1
Season 3 Episode 9: The Wish
Angry and hurt by Xander's betrayal Cordelia gains the attention of a vengeance demon who grants her one wish. Suddenly Cordelia is in a Sunnydale where vampires rule and everyone else just tries to stay alive. Where on Earth is a Slayer when you need one?
Fav Quote: Buffy: I don't play well with others. Now, I'm gonna ask you this once, and then I'm gonna get testy.
Fashion: The whole leather look of Vamp Willow and Vamp Xander is seriously on point.
Body Count: Pretty much everyone in the alternate universe but hey Giles was still alive so I'm happy
Season 3 Episode 10: Amends
It's Christmas time and everyone is preparing for the holiday season. Meanwhile Angel is being haunted by all the people he has killed. Is he going insane or is there something else going on?
Can you just tear out my heart and stomp on why don't you. Because yeah this episode so totally angsty.
Note: This is one of those Christmas that I watch every year (along with the Supernatural Christmas episode and Frasier Christmas episodes).
Fav Quote: Xander: Angel? Weird? What are the odds?
Fashion: OMG someone butchered Buffy's hair and made her fringe so short that it looks weird. Even weirder it changes back to its old look half way through the episode. Huh???
Blue shirt Giles is back. And I'm just a swoony puddle on the floor.
Body Count: 0
Watching all the things is still getting in the way of all my posting. Only this time I'm not just watching Buffy but Angel too and I've started Downton Abbey right from the very beginning. So in case you were wondering what I was doing well there was that. There was or should say is some serious writing going on as well. Suddenly the brain is on fire and in the space of just 2 weeks I've written over 5000 words.
I know right? I'm not sure how that happened either. Well just have to see if it keeps up at this pace.
All of this means that my reading has seriously slowed down. Which might not necessarily be a bad thing, though I'm pretty sure my To Be Read pile doesn't think so and will no doubt go on mutiny and barricade me in my room or something.
In the meantime I can at least catch up with some blog posts...
I just loved these first two reads which were so totally me in every way. The covers are pretty also which always helps I find.
After swooning over beachy reads it was time for the crime.
Sorry bad pun very much not intended.
Two by Robert Bryndza who I haven't read before and which I very much liked which of course gives me yet another series and author to follow. That To Be Read pile really isn't going to go down anytime soon is it?
Then another book by an author I have read before and once again enjoyed.
With all the chick lit and crime I broke completely away and dived into the world of graphic novels. I enjoyed my previous one so much that I hunted some more out. Quite a few were duds. So much so that I didn't even bother going beyond the first few pages but these three were ones that I did like.
I'm not a big superhero fan but I liked the art work and the grittier story line in these.
Two seasons down, only five more to go. Overall what did we learn from season 2, well...
- Dunagrees for the win
- Miss Calendar and Giles were totally cute as a couple
- Spike and Giles make the best bad boys. And very swoon worthy with it.
- Oz is the coolest, most laid back guy on the planet.
- Birthdays suck
- Dating really is the worse
- Xander is a bit of a jealous jerk and not just about Cordelia.
- Buffy's mom is probably the most clueless parent on the planet
Writing wise this season had a lot more going for it though there was still the odd dud (Some Assembly Required and Go Fish). On the plus side though we had Halloween, The Dark Age, Surprise and Innocence, Passion and Becoming 1 and 2 which were my favourites from this season.
On a side note the fight scenes are really good but amazingly you can tell that it's a stunt double doing the fighting which is jarring at times. Something I had never noticed before but definitely did this time round.
It's going to be interesting to see how things go in season 3.
Season 3 Episode 1: Anne
Trying to put the events of season 2 behind her Buffy is now in LA working as a waitress and doing her best to lay low. Naturally of course the supernatural world isn't going to just go away and soon Buffy finds herself in another dimension and fighting off demons.
Being a teen with fighting powers really does suck.
Fav Quote: Willow: Well, we try not to get killed. That's part of our whole mission statement. 'Don't get killed.'
Fashion: There's not much going on in the fashion stakes but Buffy's pigtails are seriously cute. She's also changed her hair colour to a more sunkiss kind of blond. I'm not sure if I like it or not.
Body Count: 2 (neither are from Sunnydale though)
Season 3 Episode 2: Dead Man's Party
Buffy is back in Sunnydale and trying once more to move on with her life. Unfortunately her friends and her mom aren't all that forgiving of her running away and leaving them behind to cope.
Solution? Let's throw a party and pretend it never happened.
And that's another idea to go down in the worse idea ever book, especially when said party turns into the night of the undead and everyone is left fighting for their lives.
Fav Quote: Giles: Unbelievable. 'Do you like my mask? Isn't it pretty? It raises the dead!' Americans.
Fashion: Buffy's pink and red party dress is super girly and feminine and very me.
Body Count: 6 at least and possibly more. It's pretty much a massacre.
Season 3 Episode 3: Faith, Hope & Trick
Faith, the new slayer in town, arrives with a bad attitude and an even trashier wardrobe and is out to cause mayhem.
Meanwhile Buffy might actually have a date with a normal boy. Wonders will never cease.
Fav Quote: Buffy: Date and shop and hang out and go to school and save the world from
unspeakable demons. You know, I wanna do girlie stuff!
Fashion: Buffy's feminine look continues with 3 very pretty floral dresses. Has the short short skirt/dress look finally gone? *cross fingers*. Her lipstick/lipgloss is also very on point.
Body Count: 3
Season 3 Episode 4: Beauty and the Beasts
A brutal death occurs - Shock! Horror! (really you would think that everyone is use to it by now considering how many there are in this town) and it's up to Buffy and the gang to figure out who or what is the killer.
Not unsurprisingly the list of suspects is long... and weird. Could it be Oz the werewolf boy whose escaped from his cage? Or is Angel who is back from the dead while still being dead (I know, it's confusing) and really not himself? Or could it possibly be someone else?
Buffy Girl Detective is on the case.
Fav Quote: Oz: “I may be a cold-blooded jelly donut, but my timing’s impeccable.”
Fashion: More femininity with pretty pastel colours and hair clips. I'm totally loving this whole new look for Buffy. Giles also rocks the shirt, tie and waistcoat look. Very dapper and rather sexy.
Body Count: 4
Season 3 Episode 5: Homecoming
Sometimes you just want to be a normal girl. Date, have friends, kill vampires and be the homecoming queen. Is it really too much to ask?
Probably considering this is Sunnydale after all.
Fav Quote: Giles: I suspect the, uh, finger food contains... actual fingers.
Fashion: Girly looks galore, and there are now even cardigans. Can I just have Buffy's entire wardrobe from this season. Please and thank you.
Body Count: 0
And we're at the end of season 2. Excuse me while I'll go off sobbing into a corner.
Season 2 Episode 19: I Only Have Eyes For You
As if going to Sunnydale High isn't all ready bad enough now the school is being haunted by a pissed off ghost.
Giles, still mourning the death of the woman he loved, begins to think that it might be her, trying to communicate from the after life. Buffy and the gang though think that it's something a lot more serious and soon Buffy and Angelus find themselves compelled to reenact a ghostly tragedy of desperate love.
Fav Quote: Xander: "'Something weird is going on.' Isn't
that our school motto?"
Fashion: Nothing really memorable so can we just talk about how awesome Spike's look has been the entire season. Long black leather coat, red shirt and the slicked back blonde hair. Totally works in every way.
Body Count: 1 teacher
Season 2 Episode 20: Go Fish
It's the fish episode.
Or the one where Xander goes undercover and joins the swim team in an effort to help Buffy find out who... or what is eating the team members, leaving behind just their skins.
Unfortunately Xander might have more to worry about than whether something is going to eat him...
Fav Quote: Buffy: "So something ripped him open and ate out
his insides?"
Willow: "Like an Oreo cookie.
Well, except for, you know... without the chocolatey cookie goodness."
Fashion: Blue again seems to be the theme. A sort of royal blue this time with Giles's shirt and Buffy's simple v neck top. Gorgeous colour.
Body Count: 2 Sunnydale High staff
Season 2 Episode 21: Becoming Part 1
Flashbacks reveal how Angelus/Angel come into being just as Willow and Buffy find the spell that will restore his soul.
Angelus though has other plans...
Fav Quote: Cordelia: How about because you're a tiny, impotent Nazi with a bug up his butt the size of an emu?
Buffy: Sums it up.
Fashion: Buffy wears her hair up for a lot of this episode. It's sort of chignon thingy held up with what look like pencils and some loose side bangs that just soften the whole thing.
Body Count: 3
Season 2 Episode 22: Becoming Part 2
Carrying on from where the previous episode left off Angelus's path of death and destruction has left Willow in hospital, Giles his prisoner and Buffy on the run from the police. Just when it looks like things can't get worse Spike shows with info about Angelus's real plan and a proposition for The Slayer.
In the end Buffy is left facing the choice of making the ultimate sacrifice.
Fav Quote: Spike: The truth is, I like this world.
You've got... dog racing, Manchester United. And you've got people.
Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs. It's all
right here.
Fashion: With everything that is happening in these last two episodes it's kind of hard to concentrate of the fashion aspect. Buffy though rocks the black beanie in her undercover incognito look so there is that.
Body Count: 1
