This journal is now semi-locked.

I suppose it has been for awhile, but I guess this is just making it official. I'll still keep general posts, like fandom info, and memes and things, public, but my journal will be friends only.

At this time I'm not adding any more friends. Thanks for your understanding. :)

I finally did it! Two down, one to go. ;) I'm sorry this took a little while — after the last picspam, I wasn't feeling like making another too soon afterwards. I think I did most of this today, actually. It feels like I went crazy, but I don't think there's any more pictures than last time.

I'm glad that so many of you enjoyed the first part that I did. Hope you enjoy this second part!


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(three_nails, I hope it's okay that I'm using your "preview" idea! It's cause you're so smart and creative. ;D)

You can find part one of this picspam here.

Well, not really. :P Just because I want to keep track of these without bookmarking all of them.

The Trailer:

( BBC Breakfast Interviews with 'Cranford' cast members )

And Happy Mother's Day! Especially to all you moms, but even if you're not a mom yet, I hope you had a lovely day with your family and pampering your own mother. Apparently this was the first mother's day in years where we weren't out visiting family, so I think it was a nice restful day for my mom. We went to church, and then we had a nice take out lunch from a yummy restaurant, and after that was presents and cards. I got my mom a nice pansy china mug from Royal Dalton. (She loves pansies and has a collection of various things, especially teacups and the like.) My grandma (my mom's mom) ended up coming over as well, so that was nice. Later in the afternoon we watched home videos, which was rather fun. I love watching old videos — there's something special about seeing videos from yester-years, something you don't get with still photos. Although the last one we watched was at my grandpa's 70th birthday party in 1992, and everyone was making speeches, and I almost started crying at one point. I miss him so much! I can't imagine how my grandma misses him.

I saw a bunch of clips from the season four trailer, and OHMYGOSH-THERE-ARE-GIANT-WASPS!!!!!!!

EEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

Seriously, that's my biggest fear. I can't stand bees and wasps and things that fly and sting.

This is going to be the scariest ep ever, I tell you, not "Blink."

But it still looks good. Agatha Christie, 1920s, and Felicity Jones. But wasps? Really? *wimper*

According to IMDb.com, Felicity Jones — who was Catherine Morland in the latest Northanger Abbey — will be in the episode after this week's episode, so episode 407. Apparently it's called "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and it's about the Doctor and Donna meeting Agatha Christie. Felicity Jones' character is "Robina Redmond" ...

I know IMDb probably isn't the most reliable source, but there wasn't anything on the Doctor Who site, and this should be pretty grounded info... I hope it's true! :D

LOL! And look at that, my moodtheme is a pic of Catherine! How appropriate. She's excited to be on Doctor Who too.

P.S. Thanks for all of your sweet comments. I'm feeling better now, so that's nice. ;D It's also nice that this is a pretty light week with work, anyway.

P.P.S. three_nails, I'm totally watching more of Casualty 1907!!! Must — finish — now.

No squeeing or posting of any Twilight-related media whatsoever here. ;) You know I love you guys but I think my friends list has exploded, haha. *points to icon*

I'm curious, and interested to see the new movie, but I'm afraid I'm not squeeing quite as much as everyone else. But I completely understand those who are squeeing something-a million-times-more-than-that!

In other news, I think I'm coming down with something, which rather sucks. Sounds like there's a cold bug going around, but it feels worse. I didn't want to chance it so I called in sick for tomorrow — plus, I'd feel better knowing that I can just sleep in tomorrow. I mean, you know I'm not feeling great when I don't feel like going on the computer. :P

( WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? )

As far as this episode goes (405), do you know what the best part was? ( Not really a spoiler but just in case ;) )

I've been watching "Torchwood" as well, and I've just finished the three eps with Martha. Apparently she and Tom Milligan got engaged in between her appearances. :D I hope we get to see him again, but it's rather unlikely. He doesn't even know the Doctor, nevermind the whole end-pf-the-world thing.

Part of me wants to watch TV, part of me wants to organize my room (a nice theory but I don't know where to start — or what really needs purging organizing) and part of me wants to do pointless internet stuff, which also opens up a lot of options.

I feel slightly pathetic.

*looks for a "pathetic" mood icon, and settles for "lazy"* Haha, it's Mary Crawford. That doesn't exactly put me in a good light.

I was supposed to have the next couple of days off of work, but then my boss asked if I could come in for the two mornings instead. Meh. I was looking forward to sleeping in but really, I don't need encouragement on the whole lazy thing. ;) Plus, more money is good.

It will be nice when the warm weather comes to stay. That always helps! Right now it's switching between summer and winter weather.

And now I feel bad that I haven't really commented on my friends list entries. I will soon!

*sheepish grin* I'm sorry if I've been spamming your friends lists with videos and downloads lately. I'm afraid I've been rather bored and downloading all the things I would like to see, and I like uploading things when I can. Trying to spread the love and all that. ;)

I've been meaning to journal a bit more, so tonight I've finally stopped procrastinating and I'm doing it. Even if it ends up being a shortened unecessarily long version. ( &c. )

Um, okay, let me summarize for those of you who don't want to read all of my ramblings:

I have a very boring of life of staying at home on the computer and going to work at the daycare

My family and I have visited my grandma quite a bit

I think I'm addicted to Tim Horton's (a coffee/donut place here in Canada)

The only things worth watching on TV lately are Bones, One Tree Hill, and Moonlight — oh, and of course, Masterpiece Theatre (when I can figure out their stupid schedule! What happened to Cranford on Sunday night? :'( )

I feel like a lazy bum and the future seems scary

And with that I should probably get ready for bed.

Tags: journal

Ohmygoodness, this is hilarious! Someone has made a video featuring Marianne and Brandon (in the '95 version) to the song "True Love's Kiss" from Enchanted. It's perfect for Marianne, and it's funny seeing Alan Rickman singing like a Disney hero. LOL.




Another one that was eye-catching was a video of the 2008 miniseries to the songs "Doomsday" and "Madame Pompadour" from the "Doctor Who" soundtrack. ( &c. )

Oh, and here's an excellent music video someone made for Marianne and Brandon (S&S 2008). ( &c. )

I feel like I'm switching from a big Edward/Elinor fan to a bigger Marianne/Brandon fan, haha.

This has been like a mini-project for me. I've gone a little overboard with all the pictures, so I've decided to do one picspam per episode. It's image-heavy enough as it is! I hope you enjoy it. ;)

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The first episode feels a little slow, but I think it did well in setting everything up. In episode two, the real drama and tension starts!

Oh, and beforeI forget, I just opened the fanlisting for this Sense and Sensibility miniseries. So please check it out and join if you're a fan!

I can't say that I enjoyed it very much... ( &c. )

And I have a question: ( &c. )

That being said, it was all very pretty, as seen in these pictures.

There are so many movies, books, and TV shows that I want to catch up on that are on my mental list, that I though I'd write them out. And if you have any suggestions on things I should check out, let me know! ( The List )

I'll probably be adding to it. This is more for my benefit than anyone else's, but you might enjoy the list and helping me add to it!

I started watching the Sense & Sensibility commentary tonight when I was babysitting (after the kids were in bed, of course). When they got to the part about Barton Cottage — when the Dashwood family is moving in — they were talking about how they filmed the interior scenes on a stage, so essentially, the inside of the house was bigger than the outside. So the one guy (eek, can't remember who he is) says, "it's kind of TARDIS-like." My Doctor Who fangirl self squeed lots at that. I love unexpected, random Doctor Who references, and crossovers between two things that don't usually go together.

The DVD is pretty good! I haven't watched Miss Austen Regrets yet, but I'm looking forward to that. There's a nice slideshow of S&S pictures which included pictures I haven't seen before (set to the beautiful theme composed by Martin Phipps). The commentary looks like it's for all three episodes, which is unusual, but lovely! There's also a radio special about Jane Austen, I think.

The interview was disappointing, though. I was hoping we'd have the cool behind the scenes stuff that is on the PBS site, but no, it's just a half hour of Andrew Davies talking about how he's God's gift to perfecting Jane Austen's work. *sigh* I have to admit, he does great stuff — just look at the three new ITV adaptations, and Northanger Abbey is most definitely superior, &c. — but he's so full of himself. His name is even on the front cover of the DVD! At least Jane Austen's name is first, but his name isn't far behind. *facepalm* What about Sandy Welch? She's done a fantastic job with Our Mutual Friend and Jane Eyre but she hasn't got much recognition. What's that? *gasp* Adaptations that were wonderful and did not have the golden-Davies touch? *rolls eyes*

But yes, other than my growing dislike for Andrew Davies and his growing god-like status to the world of period drama, I'm very pleased with my S&S DVDs. Plus, the case and everything is so pretty!! It's packaged to look kind of like a book — the outside is like a book cover rather than the typical plastic DVD cover, if that makes sense.

Of course, I've always been biased towards this adaptation. It's two of my favourite things together. Jane Austen + BBC miniseries = something I can't resist! ;)

Why is there never anything good on TV? And the rare times there actually is, it's a bunch of stuff all on at the same time?!

1. The Juno Awards
Feist won all five awards she was nominated for!!!!! She is so awesome and I'm so glad for her. Most of you will at least know her from her song "1 2 3 4" that was featured on the iPod nano commercial. I just love that she's Canadian, and she's doing so well, and she's soooo talented. She was up there with Avril Lavigne, Anne Murray, and Celine Dion — all of who are pretty big Canadian names — for the "Best Album of the Year" category , and she won! She cleaned out the awards. Yay Feist. :P

2. Sense and Sensibility (BBC, 2008)
For some reason, my PBS station is a week behind the "norm" and is only showing the first half tonight. I guess it will be showing the rest next week? I've only been half watching, because I'm getting the DVD through Amazon as soon as it comes out (hopefully Tuesday)! Hopefully I can convince my mom to watch it with me. I wish she was as enthusiastic as I am about these period dramas, but I'm afraid I have no one to squee with about all my favourite British shows. But anyway, this version of S&S is amazing and I can't wait to get my DVDs. Plus, I'm looking forward to seeing Miss Austen Regrets. I wouldn't have bought it seperately but it just comes with the S&S DVD, so it's a nice bonus. It sounds good, too. It's received pretty good reviews from the Janeites, which is always a good sign! But I guess anything is better than Becoming Jane.

3. The Tudors (BBC)
We're getting a free preview of a new CBC digital channel called "Bold" and tonight it's been playing The Tudors! I don't know where it started at though, whether it's the beginning of the series or in the middle or what. I've heard good things, so I'd like to watch more if I can. I'm not crazy about all the politics and the sex, though. But it looks ridiculously pretty. Especially with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Henry Caville in the same shot! *swoon* I might have to give it a try.

But yeah, two BBC shows are on at the same time! My dad joked that I must be in heaven. ;) At the same time, though, it's kind of frustrating, because usually there's just junk on TV. Why can't they play more of this good stuff? Like Doctor Who and these period pieces, and Moonlight and... *sigh*

Ooh, but there is a channel playing One Tree Hill on the same night as it's playing on the CW in the States! At least there's one good thing on.

From the BBC Press Office:

Dame Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Francesca Annis, Julia McKenzie and Jim Carter return in the popular award-winning BBC One drama about the lives of the people of Cranford, in a two-part special for Christmas 2009, it was announced today.... The Christmas special picks up the story in September 1844, a year after the town celebrates the wedding of Sophy (Kimberley Nixon) and Dr Harrison (Simon Woods).

Who else is excited?! :D

(Thanks to ladybluelake for sharing, and posting the link.)

So I've looked up the nominees for this year's Junos, and it's quite exciting. Feist is nominated for four categories, I believe: album of the year (The Reminder), artist of the year, pop album of the year (The Reminder), single of the year ("1 2 3 4"), and songwriter of the year. I hope she wins! Plus, she's performing at the ceremony. I will definitely be tuned in.

And the biggest and best surprise? RELIENT K IS NOMINATED AT THE JUNOS!!!!!! YAY!! See, I should probably explain that the Junos are the Canadian music awards (I guess like our equivalent of the Grammys?) So it's unexpected, but I think there are at least a few members of Relient K that are Canadian — they've just moved to the States. So I really, really hope they win! They're nominated in the Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year category for "Five Score and Seven Years Ago." Such a good album. ;)

The Junos take place this Sunday, April 6. For more info, click here.

I know this is old news to many of you, but since I was away at school I only just saw the new miniseries now. It was wonderful! I already preordered the DVD a couple of days ago and I can't wait for it to arrive.

( My thoughts, behind a cut, &c. )

I seriously loved this drama. BBC FTW! (Yes, my attempt at sounding serious and intelligent has completely failed with that last "sentence." Whoops.)