Green (drabble)

Sorry, Mem, I couldn't manage to work your phrase into it.

Still, it amuses. Conall and Niven from Never Say Thank You show us the proper way to celebrate certain holidays... ^.~

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I'm going crazy. I'm starting to feel trapped in my own house. Mikey and I can't seem to talk about anything anymore without one of us getting upset and him either storming off or giving me the silent treatment. He's become particularly fond of the silent treatment.

Excuse me if I'm a little rattled right now, but my brother's apparently wanting to move to North Dakota which leaves Mom in the awkward position of figuring out how to deal with the family home from afar or selling it. I spent twenty years in that house. I'm a little upset.

We can't talk about work anymore, because he has no interest in mine, and I'm apparently not allowed to make Walmart-is-stupid comments anymore. Just because he fucking likes his position now doesn't mean he wasn't as miserable as the rest of us before. Walmart likes to screw its employees over, and I'm sorry if he takes offense to me saying so. I'm also tired of his comments when I try to tell him that someone gave me kudos, because apparently kudos aren't good enough if they don't come with monetary value. I'm sorry, but there are more important things in life than money and what you spend it on.

At this point I'm half tempted to take Ken up on his offer and move to Pennsylvania, despite that city creeping me out with its busy-ness. x.x But I don't want to leave my job, because I'm really happy there. I just wish it wasn't the only happy I have anymore.

I really wish I had someone to talk to...

Excuse me while I go drown my sorrows in chocolate.

Sub Marine Adventures

So, I've been kinda iffy the last few days, and at some point I embarked upon a movie marathon. Unintentionally. I started by randomly popping in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Kinda silly movie, but man, Nemo's boat is Yum. So I idly searched the 'net for Nemo slash... yeah, no luck there. Instead I threw in my special edition copy of The Abyss. *_* Man I love that movie. Seriously. And not just for the tech, though I will admit that the tech is a big part of my love for it.

Then... I made a mistake. x.x I decided I wanted to see where Nemo came from, and I never have been able to wade through the book. Discovered that there was a 2007 interpretation and ended up watching that first. x.x Shoot me. 30000 Leagues Under The Sea sucked donkey balls. The husband/wife fight-and-get-back-together thing sounded like a lousy rip-off of The Abyss, and Nemo's ship was nowhere near as classy and elegant as it's supposed to be, and Nemo himself was a bad B grade villain rather than the sophisticated, exiled genius that Jules Verne wrote. -__- AND, there is no freaking reason to call it '30000 leagues' because they go down all of like two miles and don't travel horizontally anywhere which means that the title is a complete misnomer. Blah. Oh, also, plot holes up the wazoo. Skip this movie at all costs.

So, after that fiasco, it was time to watch Disney's 1950s version of 20000 Leagues Under The Sea. Much better than the 2007 remake crap, that's for sure, though the effects are seriously dated and I wound up getting bored and wandering off about halfway through. *shrug*

But I was still in the mood for some underwater adventuring, so a couple episodes of SeaQuest DSV it was. ^^ First season, that is, when it was still good and not trying to compete with Star Trek. x.x That's some yummy geekery right there, yes. And as usual, when I got to the Hydrothermal Vent episode, it was off to Wikipedia to read up on all the yummy yummy science that's ever expanding the more times they send Alvin down. *__* Guh.

And after all of that, I'm still in the mood for some Nemo-esque slash. So, me being me, I whined mentioned it to maderr. Who questioned, pondered, and handed me back the framework for Shiny Story Idea. >.> I was doing such a good job of resisting until that... *__* Shiiiiiny...

So y'know, there may be a possibility of undersea slash at some point. Not anytime soon (there are Details to be worked out and all) but the Idea has been planted and I have such a serious weakness for the sea...

*goes off to continue reading up on oceanic trenches and downwelling*