Video findings

So I was trying to find a video yesterday I could tape Earthsea on, and pulled out out of my 'can tape over this' box. As I went to pop it in, however, a few things caught my eye. First on the tape was the first episode of Earth 2. Which means that I certainly could not tape over that part of the tape! I love that show. Really strange and lost me from time to time... but Antonio was damn cute and Tim Curry was brilliant as always... and the characters were interesting.

Anyhoo, following Earth 2 was Star Trek VI. Following that was St. Elmo's Fire (which I have on DVD, probably the reason I pitched it into the box in the first place). And then after that was what I like to call 'Random Stuff'

I have at least 50 'Random Stuff' tapes. The title usually means it's a mix of a lot of different show and other things- too many to list out on the side label, at least. There's also a good chance that 'random stuff' on a tape with existing quality stuff meant I had to rush to tape something. And that rush usually- but not always- means sneezing is involved. This was no exception. After an episode of Happy Days (I still don't understand that one) and an episode of Two Guys, A Girl, and A Pizza Place (I don't really know why I taped that, either, but I'm glad since I dig the boys), was the Seinfeld episode where Kramer and Mikey are practicing their fake sneezes. And then, after that, was the Ricky Martin episode of fanatic (VH1 was it?). OMG I honestly thought I'd lost that forever. I thought it, like a few Sesame Street segments I'd managed to quickly tape, had not been labeled amongst my other random stuff because I was too shy to write anything down on the label and, thus, it would be lost forever in my vast collection of video tapes. But, no, right there on the label- Ricky Martin!!!

So I watched. Guhhhhh. Okay, so I adore fictional sneezes the most because so few people ever really sneeze the way I really like in real life. And Ricky's isn't really my favorite kind, either. But there's something SOOOOO very sexy about the way he breathes out deeply, trying to urge the sneeze on. That something is probably a little bit of desperation there as he's trying to sneeze before the interview starts. But Ohhhhh how I'm glad they didn't cut that out of the show! What luck. And sexiness. Oooohhhh yum! If I ever get my microphone working properly again, I shall have to re-record that one to wav format, I think.

work

Had a nice day at work today, too as far as sneezing goes.

Boss' son was home from high school because he was sick today. He spent the whole afternoon sniffling almost constantly, the poor lad. He's a little young for me... and with the whole boss' son thing I honestly can't make myself feel that way... but it was still rather delightful to listen to from the other room all day. He even tried the 'take a hot shower' thing and he didn't sound any improved while in the shower, poor thing. I had tons of terrible plot bunnies attack me, though. And he did sneeze once. He's a rather big guy- as in basketball team/wrestling sort of big. And when he sneezed he stifled it through with his stuffiness and the strength of the sneeze the building-up and exhaling afterwards were twice as loud as the sneeze. So sort of a "Uhh-huhhh-hahhSQUEAK-HUHhhhhh"

And then boss sneezed once today as well- first time I've ever seen/heard him sneeze. A full, normal sort of sneeze. I wasn't prepared for it so I didn't really get a change to click the recorder in my mind on. But I recall thinking that it was rather yummy.

I blessed them both, though. Which takes lots of courage from me. And lots of trying not to blush. But as I was the only other person in the room both times, I figured I should be polite. And poor son-of-boss seemed really sorry to have sneezed. Though he wasn't so sorry that he didn't stop sniffling and occasionally coughing for the whole afternoon.

Anyhoo... it was a nice work atmosphere. LOL!

Happy day!

Happy day! The RotK EE (even if I have to wait until after work to watch it *pouts*) out today... the conclusion of Earthsea on SciFi... and I just got an e-mail from Amazon.com saying they shipped my order which is, in part, Ewan's book. OOohhhhhh! SQUEEEEEE!

I had to define 'Squee' for several members of my family again today. "You mean that's actually a real word they use on the internet?" asked my mother. "Wouldn't it just be easier to squeal?"
Well, that requires more typing and is far less cute-sounding, IMHO. Besides, squee is a sound... and an emotion... and somthing 'squeal' just can't match.