Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

I'm back at work but believe me when I say if I'd had the choice, I'd have stayed at home. On the other hand, staying off longer would only have encouraged the office to pile up even more work on my desk that they have already :P

Throat's still a bit sore but I've switched from the linctus to some throat lozenges. I'm giving that until Monday morning. If there's no drastic improvement by then, I'll go crawl out of my pit at the crack of dawn and go to casual surgery, get it checked out. I suspect I need an expectorant but I'm reluctant to get an over the counter one because many of them aren't suitable for asthmatics and, while pharmacists can and do give good advice, I'd rather I got the good word from the doc. Besides, I could be totally wrong and I might actually need antibiotics, who knows?

Been catching up on my TV gossip - two of my favourite shows are promising big changes which always makes me very nervous. What is it with US shows and the need to fix things that aren't broken? I know a show has to develop but geez, they do go overboard. BSG is the one that worries me most, atm. ( huge honking great spoilers for S3 and, possibly, S4, you were warned )

As for Grey's - and this isn't a spoiler - rumour has it there's to be a spin-off show featuring the character of Addison. Now, I love the character, think the actress is great but...not the character I'd have picked for a spin-off. I don't think the show is the sort you CAN spin-off, frankly. Plus it's not a good sign when the show's creator, who's steered the show so well, is going to split her attention between the "old" show and her new baby. It's doesn't usually end well. Consider this - Buffy fans point the finger at Joss paying too much attention to Angel, and (subsequently) Firefly, to protect the original show with the result it really did go downhill around S5. Most of the blame gets shoved onto Marti Noxon, who was the executive producer while Joss was busy. So. Ask me who Grey's have just taken on board as a "consulting producer"? Yup, Marti Noxon. No, I'm not pleased at all....I start seeing anvils raining down when I'm watching Grey's, 'm going to fly out to LA, buy me a baseball bat, and use it to give Marti a Clue.

Thank gods for Bones *cuddles Bones* *stares at those evil Bones pushers, therealsherbs and lithium_doll* No major changes forecast there yet! Mmmm Hodgins...*sighs happily*

Squee Part the First: I came home today to an amazon parcel. Funny, thought I, I haven't ordered anything. Opened it up to discover a belated birthday present from thalinoviel, the 4-disc box set special edition of "Kingdom of Heaven". Orrrlyyyyyyy! Squeeeee!

Squee Part the Second: Last night's ep of Bones was going to feature Hodgins quite a bit, if the blurb I'd read was anything to go by. I've been looking forward to it all day, and I've come home to find it's downloaded perfectly! Once Masterchef is over, there will be Bones watching and contented purring! Yay for Hodgins!

I had a lovely day on Saturday, as predicted, topped off with a fantabulous evening out with thalinoviel. There was cider and vast quantities of pizza. So much, in fact, that for the first time in living memory, I had to ask for a pizza box to take half my pizza home. This may or may not have been due to the large slab of apple crumble I scoffed mid-afternoon. *coughs*

Sunday was "slob on the sofa, under a duvet, with a hot water bottle and a purring cat" day. And very good it was too. There was rugby, football and Time Team to watch during the afternoon/early evening and then I had shiny Bones DVDs to fall back on. I am loving that show. I've started downloading S2 now and I shall be wandering off to watch some more eps shortly :)

Work has sucked donkey balls, frankly, for the past two days and shows no signs of getting any better. I let my stress get to me a bit today and I must apologise to BigBouncy tomorrow. It's not like I'm the only one who's busy, y'know? One big bright spot at work was they gave me pressies yesterday! Yay! They perused my amazon wishlist carefully and bought me two Diane Duane books I've been pining for for ages, the special edition DVD of "The Sound of Music" and (not on the wishlist), a small gift set of smelly stuff. Hee! I was a happy mousey. I remembered to get up early today and get to Tesco's to buy cakes for the office, too, so that's my duty done.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and watch Bones and try and de-stress. :)