REC: Castle

There is a wonderful, amazing vid that I found on my flist this morning. It's Castle! And anyone who wants to know what makes this show so fantastic should go watch it.

Streaming and downloadable here. The vid maker is kuwodora.

The video perfectly captures the relationships Castle builds with these strong women in his life. And, what I love about the show, is that the relationships don't result in anything lopsided. Castle is a strong character. He doesn't get played as foppish or ridiculous, like you see in so many tv shows now. But it's more than that. It's nice to see a man really appreciate and not be threatened by strong women.

I'm behind on this season, but I still maintain that Castle, while he may want more from Beckett, would genuinely be happy to just have her as a friend. And he's not ashamed to live with his mom. ♥

And his daughter! I confess freely, Alexis is the reason I fell for this show so hard, and the relationship that the two of them have is brilliant.

The Best Laid Plans of Bewize

Last night, I intended to work late. I had help and everything. But, it came at the end of a long day, complete with a comedy-routine worthy phone call with two women on speakerphone, whereby one woman was in "jail, but she was in the crazy hospital" until a minute ago, whose sister was trying to find her a lawyer, which devolved into a screeching fight wherein the only intelligible words were "SHUT THE FUCK UP, I'M TRYING TO GET YOU A LAWYER, YOU CRAZY BITCH!"

*headdesk*

Dear Lord.

And, after a few minutes more, it came out that lady in jail, but who had been in the "crazy hospital" had committed manslaughter.

Lovely.

On the tail end of that, I decided I needed to drink. So, we went to Brickstore, and ran into friends there! Yay! Then, on the way out, S called, so we went to Twains and played trivia. T'is the season for pumpkin ales and oktoberfests. I'm a happy bewize.

Of course, nothing got done, and then I went and did the 30 Day Shred. I'm shocked to say this, but I'm done with workout 1. It's too easy now. Time to kick it to work out 2. I'm not doing it everyday in a row, but that's about 7 days with the first workout.

Has anyone else seen the criticisms of Obama hugging Rham when Rahm left office?! I'm mind-boggled and I honestly think the only response I have for people making that noise is this:

"Give me a fucking break."

Men hugging is hardly a sign of weakness that will be exploited by "our enemies." Perhaps if we, as Americans, can do a little bit more to show our humanity, we'll do a little more to restore people's faith in the fact that we are, indeed, humane. Starting with our leaders and working down.

Here, the hug that led to the downfall of the USA:



Idiots! *throws hands in the air*

(T'is a little known fact that enemies wait for people to be hugging to attack. Trufax. - SEE how ridiculous this sounds?!)

*snickers* And now I can't stop giggling at the picture of Bush doing the stomach bump thing. *snorts*

Debt/Money

I just did that thing where you sit and add up everything you owe and have a heart attack.

Only...

I didn't have a heart attack!

(I am not counting student loan debt, which I may never pay off, for the record. *lol* But even so, I do categorize that debt differently, since it's not harmful debt.)

I now owe less than one-fifth of what I owed at the beginning of this whole debt-reduction plan that I went on two years ago. I am not out of the woods yet, but when I keep blindly stating that I intend to be out of debt this year (2010), I was sort of doing a hand-wavey thing to mean, "if possible."

Well, hell's bells. It's possible.

And pretty damn exciting.

( Rambling )

I was talking with A about some of this, and she expressed interest. So I figured I'd lay out my financial goals, beginning with the most immediate and stretching into the future.

( Best Laid Plans )

Now this is the plan that I've worked out for myself. I in no way think that it's the only way, or even the "right" way. I'm pretty sure that like all plans, it will get blown to hell as I work on it. But... I haz goals.