a turquoise flower

I learned today that you actually do /not/ put bananas in the freezer. <---did not know this

I was going to make this guilt free "ice cream" and I kinda skipped over the part where it said it was important to put the sliced bananas in the freezer.

And then today Mom was looking for the bananas to make banana bread and wondered what happened to the four I had inadvertently browned. (She thought twin brother had taken them somewhere and forgot about them. And after a panicked moment of deciding whether I should tell her the truth or not, I fessed up.)

But, anyways, I helped with the banana bread and it came out fantastic--probably because Mom was the one who measured the ingredients and all I did was mix stuff and put it in the special pan.

This is why I do not actually cook on a regular basis. Or am allowed in the kitchen without supervision.

~*~

I'm all caught up on Once Upon a Time and these are the things I desperately want to happen in s3:

• Emma goes looking for Neal and finds him, preferably alive. (And preferably after she first gets Henry back from Neverland, safe and whole.)
• We meet Wendy Darling again. 
• Tamara and Greg die. 
• Captain Hook and Bae/Neal reunite.
• Belle and Gold move to Fuji and spend the rest of their immortal lives (after Gold makes Belle immortal) selling hats to tourists. (Or I dunno, ice shavings and ice cream, whatever they want, it's their choice; it doesn't have to be hats.)
• Anton somehow produces even more magic beans. Charming and Snow move back to the Enchanted forest; Emma, Neal, and Henry also move to the Enchanted forest and start a detective agency with Mulan, Aurora and Phillip.

Now, who wants to take bets on what from this list will actually end up happening in s3?

I suspect this might pertain to at least one of you on this flist, but Syfy has released the Warehouse 13 season 4.5 premiere a week early; it can be viewed here on Syfy's official WH13 page or on hulu (it's only gonna be up for four more days though. I'd have put up a proper review of it but all I can manage is: MY BABIEZZZZZZ AND EVERYTHING HURTS AND NOTHING IS ALRIGHT. And just a whole lot of general flailing and teary sighs.)

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read two thoughtful meta essays on Joan Watson and Loki, two of my favorite fandom characters (for different reasons and for different feels):
♥ Different for girls: Joan Watson's extra shift
♥ META: Another Literary Ancestor for MCU!Loki

Castle
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PSYCH
SERBIAN GANGSTER THUGS OMG (or were they the mafia? I think officially they're supposed to be part of a mafia but I like calling them gangster thugs /for reasons/). What the little dialogue I could catch--the thugs were yelling but there was gun fire so most of it was muffled for me--sounded like the correct Serbian. (At one point I think one of the thugs was yelling for his partner to aim at the window.)

It reminded me of the story arc on One Tree Hill's final season when Nathan Scott was kidnapped by the Serbian mafia and I thought the writers were creative in using thugs of a nationality no one used. And then I thought about it some more and realized, hah, the Serbian mafia, rightly, didn't really portray the culture in a positive light. WE ARE REALLY LOVELY PEOPLE, I SWEAR. I suddenly and heart-wrenchingly know how minorities feel--though I am aware that it's not really the same thing at all. (But still...I guess my point is that I'm wary whenever a specific nationality/race is portrayed in popular media.)

I really liked the episode though. Jules! Kicking a tree into the river! And taking out the Serbian gangster thugs mostly by herself with Lassie watching her back like the awesome partners they are! Not a spoiler: Gus and Shawn end up being mostly useless, of course. I laughed when I shouldn't have--especially toward the end when the stakes were getting high and I just couldn't keep it in because it was so absurd but so uniquely Psych. Bless the little show that could, I still love it.

ELEMENTARY
ALFREDO! ♥♥ I love that the episode we get him back and find out he's officially Sherlock's sponsor is the episode in which he teaches Joan how to break into cars. Hey, it's a bonding moment. I want him to be involved in all of Joan's & Sherlock's cases from now on, though I know that might be impossible narrative-wise.

I liked that the episode also introduced us to Joan's friends, people she knows outside of her relationship with Sherlock.

I felt like mostly this was Joan's shining episode (Sherlock was there, but more in the background, being the good mentor he is to Joan), and though there were a few mishaps, she was kickass. And I loved the ending scene. BABIESS.

"Always"
Rane Arroyo

We met in proud Utah and wore opaque
vodka on those vague Sundays for the
unfaithful on your dangling back porch
while dreaming of the very New York

where we entangled for the last time.
Te quiero, you said there, my ears as
paths. You then vanished with a macho
because I had a lover, because we’d

never ride across Russia together in
that frozen train, because listening
to A Chorus Line all those weekends
didn’t teach us the foreign language

of our bodies, because of your career
as a model after years as a military
mannequin, because we never expected
adios to be our actual parting last word.

Because, because, and because. You
turned around to stare at me and I waved
back: I love you too. What an education:
poetry always demands all my ghosts.

~*~

Also, saw the s6 finale of Psych. WTF?!! Seriously, that ending still has me shocked and angry. And season seven won't be premiering until the fall, which seems like years away. (If anyone else on my flist sees it, PLEASE TALK TO ME ABOUT IT. BECAUSE I CAN'T HANDLE IT. Especially what happened *before* the last five minutes.)

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I seem to be using both DW and Tumblr for all my episode ramblings. And I really ought to stick with just one to be consistent (I feel like I'm developing dyslexia because I wrote constant but that didn't feel right for some reason except I had no idea what the right word was that I was searching for), but sometimes it feels right to blather on about Psych on Tumblr and sometimes it feels right to blather on here. So I guess I'll use both for now until I've made up my mind one way or the other. (Not that anyone probably cares a great deal what I thought of all these shows I watch but it's awesome for me to get all my thoughts down.)

Also, signed up again this year for Mini NaNoWriMo, with a word count of 150 words for the next thirty days. I thought that was a reasonable, but still somewhat challenging goal. (November is just such a sucky day to commit to writing a novel - at least for me.)

and a meme that's going around:
Come knock on my door by replying to his post with 'trick-or-treat' & I'll respond with a small something -- sentence fic, an icon, a declaration of my love for you, a pic, etc. ♥