Cimorene

So I finished watching season 1 of Project Runway Canada last night. I came out of the finale with a new rare RPS ship, Lucian/Biddell, and a CRAVING.

At first it was kind of a lolship, like, "there is so much pigtail-pulling going on with these two grown men that either someone spit on someone's mother or they are sublimating a lot of sexual tension!", but then they had a few moments and then they eventually kissed and made up and um. Cuddled a few times. And by the end, I was like "WHERE IS THE FIC?" Alas, according to AO3, there is one single ficlet from Yuletide Madness 09, and it's both kink (not my thing) and kind of crack-humor (which I love but I was craving like something EPICALLY SERIOUS about their FEELINGS and also their INTENSE SIZZLING attraction). So anyway, that was a bit sad since the odds of new fic for random old reality tv rps pairings are not good. They just. There's this video *_* ...

I hate it when I acquire an intense craving for a really rare pairing. :s

Meanwhile, if you weren't sure how great Tim Gunn is, his motto about changing people's lives apparently applies to you, the viewer, too, and not just to, you know, his fashion victims. He's already changed my life and Wax's.

Now, you should understand about Wax several things:

1. She hates reality television.


2. She hates fashion, but especially women's fashion.


3. She hates fashion television most of all. She somehow hated Project Runway.


4. Shopping for shoes or clothes with her is a giant ordeal because, even if she NEEDS them such as because there's snow on the ground already and she doesn't have any shoes she can wear in the snow that don't have holes in the soles, I have to drag her out to the stores and then she'll stand around pouting and refusing to pick anything because she feels oppressed by shoe fashion and doesn't like anything with fur or the wrong kind of heels or the wrong colour or too tall or blah blah blah and she'll eventually have a panic attack right there in the store and when I try to coax her into rationally discussing her options she'll just stand there like she's comatose and not even answer. She hasn't shopped for bras, in general, since before I moved in with her in 2004, and she's lost 30 pounds since then.

Well, Tim Gunn is so awesome that she watched every single episode of Tim Gunn's Guide to Style that played while she was in the room, and she liked all of them. She made running commentary and craned her neck to see my monitor with lively interest. One of the first steps in this show is that Tim Gunn and Veronica the supermodel go through the woman's lingerie drawer, throw out the inappropriate items, and take her to a lingerie expert to be fitted and purchase some really good lingerie that will form the foundation for her wardrobe.

Wax was inspired to go bra-shopping, so we went bra-shopping the other day and she found her size (75E/34DD) and bought a few bras that fit. Myself I'd kinda given up on bras a while ago because I wear a 32A, but at the very small end of it such that in about 75% of brands I'd need the non-existant 30AA; since my boobs are so tiny I haven't really worn bras... pretty much at all... for a couple of years. But I decided not to put up with non-fitting lingerie either and we bought a bunch of bras for her and a bra and some underwear that's not too big for me, and then we spent the day out yesterday and it made such a difference. Wax kept exclaiming aloud, "My breasts feel great!" or "My bra hasn't moved at all!" or "Look, my breasts are still where they're supposed to be!" - To the somewhat consternation of the young gay guys we were out with. I didn't subject them to a similar discussion of my panties, but believe me, I'm in love with them. I want to run back to Stockmann and buy ten more pairs right now.

My Tim Gunn buddies, we're having a minor IP address issue. We'll consult Brother Linux and hopefully get the remote logins straightened out in a couple of days.

US residents - you lucky bitches - Tim Gunn airs on Bravo on Thursday.

so we watched grey's anatomy.  my most profound thought is that meredith is kind of like santino. well, except dumber. and less attractive, although granted she does have more hair. i still love christina, bailey and burke enough to keep watching the show apparently through an almost endless variety of horrid voiceovers and awful behaviour from the other characters.

and then i said "why do people have lame icons that make me sad?"

and wax said, "karma," which anyone who watches grey's anatomy will realise was pretty good, especially since the show had been over for at least twenty minutes in there and we had already discussed a couple of other things, such as male actors who in some way or other make their characters read as gay without apparently having any idea that they're doing it. 

then i told wax about the interview with tim gunn on out.com, in which he reveals that he believes he is still single because a long time ago a psychic told him that he has not had any past lives and he isn't ready or something.  and wax--who knows all about tim gunn even though she doesn't watch project runway, because obviously i talk about him all the time, frequently by throwing random quotes from him into conversation the way other people do with star wars or the lord of the rings--said, after a little pause,

"oh my god, tim gunn is a flake!  that's great!"  and it really, really is.  tim, you can be as flaky as you want, and i will still adore you.

okay actually, if you get elected president somehow (if only!), and consult a psychic for help with decisions about running the country, then i will probably hate you, but as far as things that might actually happen in this lifetime (hah hah hah) go, you are golden.

1.  is there anyone as adorable as andraé anywhere on this earth?  i don't think so.  and if there is, don't call me, because one is enough.

2. omg boys' club.

3.  AHHAHA i love rachael.

caps taken of this episode pre-culling: 1 696.  *facepalm*

eta: missi, add one more surreal blog comment to the ranks of "saw andraé in h&m" girl, here. "An awesome night would be hanging out with you and making out with Andrae! Love those lips! Please come out with a Santino and Andrae show!! LOL." dot dot dot. lower down: "The two of you should team up and do action movies together." presumably action because she likes how andraé flounces? (to be fair, andraé's flouncing is fabulous.) ( ahahah )

first run-through episode reaction log, composed as i watched and polished very briefly for your edification. ( project runway 211 what's your line? )

there appears to be a new thai restaurant on aningaisgatan in the first block from the river, one of my favourite places to walk to and probably less than ten minutes' walk from the flat.  needless to say i'm rather excited.  it looked like they're not open yet, but otherwise i'd sort of like to run down there.

yesterday and saturday chi and i (and sugar) watched the beginning of season 1 of project runway--torrents through 108 (out of eleven) have been posted to isohunt.  it's a good thing they went up when they did, cause we were both in need of some more watching after we viewed ( 210 makeover ) last night.  i'd already read about half jeff's recaps at twop, so it was interesting to be, like, prepared to hate wendy and love austin at least. 

i feel odd and am sort of realising i think i have been online much less than usual the past couple of weeks.  at first i didn't even notice that it was happening, really, because my day-to-day routine was turned on its head by the inavailability of wax's computer.  which, by the way, is mostly working now. or halfway working, anyway. fingers crossed.  i still feel a bit shook up though, like some bits in my brain are disconnected.  maybe it's the season.

( the l-word. ) 

( csi. )

and this isn't a spoiler, but i continue to love veronica mars. 

CHI: i totally want some underwear that says "i think it's supposed to be sexy and i think it's supposed to come off, is what i think" on it.
CIM: i don't know, it would have to be pretty big underwear to fit all that.
CHI: no, i was thinking like emmuzka's thing that lets you print a stencil with a printer and just use that.  it could be tiny, like 10-pt.
CIM: yeah but then someone would have to be awfully close to read it--okay, i guess it doesn't matter because not many people can be reading your underwear anyway*.
CHI: it can be a private joke.

[pause for cim to convulse with laughter]

CHI: don't you think it would just make everything so much better if you're having a bad day, like you drop your bag in the mud or something or a teacher says something awful to you, if you know you have a santino quote on your underwear?

ladies and gentlemen, she has a point.



*unless you're a ho.  or a supermodel who has to do a little walk-off in her underwear so the designers can compare walks.