candyland | Layton fandom, stop making awesome icons! (Reply)

I am hereby making a commitment. For the duration of the Live Healthy challenge, I am swearing off pop. Exception will be if we go out somewhere or something like that, since that's a once-in-a-while thing. Coffee, tea, and water from here until mid-April. Mostly tea and water.

I'm also hereby vowing to start packing carrot sticks or apples or something to take to work for snackage, and try to not eat much of the actual Chinese food at work. And I'm going to force myself, come hell or high water, to spend at least twenty minutes a day doing some form of exercise. Tonight, I did about twenty-five on the treadmill and ten on the weight machine, but it's hard to use the weight machine when I have to keep shifting a bookshelf around--we moved it in there to get it out of the way during the Big Bathroom Overhaul.

If this is going to work, I've gotta make the change. So I'll be posting little updates here with exercise times and things. It might be boring, but if it's kept public, I think I'm more likely to stick with it.

Speaking of work...I've mentioned my one co-worker before? The one who really needs an off-switch for her mouth? Well, today she actually managed to floor me when she took my arm and patted my hand and told me, "Nothing would make me happier than seeing you and [Manager] start dating."

*BRAKES SCREECH*

She kept patting my hand and going on about how I would be a good wife and a good mother someday, and he's the kind of man who would treat a girl right and he's so nice and he's only thirty-three, ten years older than me, that's not that much, and she's going to ask him if he's seeing anyone--

*BRAKES SCREECH AGAIN*

Okay, Manager is a nice guy. But in terms of romance, I'll pass ^^;; Not looking, not interested...quite frankly, dating and getting married is right above "Scheduling a dentist appointment" on my priority list. Which should tell you my feelings on going to the dentist. I think I got her to understand that I'm really not interested in dating right now. I hope I did. And judging by the laughter upon hearing this tale, I think

kaitodoushi got a kick out of the "You gotta hear this!" phone call she received upon my leaving work.

And now, some thoughts on Escaflowne~

I'm...trying to like it, guys. I really am. I want to. Especially because it seems so many of you recommended it so highly. I care about the characters, and I want to be really engrossed in it. But I'm having difficulties. Although I've been told by at least one person that once it hits the second half (I'm almost to the halfway point), the shiz hits the fan and it goes fast.

The saving grace for me at the moment? DILANDAU. HOLY FRIGGIN' CRAP. I LOVE THAT GUY. Seriously, I don't know if it's the blatant psychosis or the pyromania or what, but he wanders onto the screen and smacks somebody, and I am suddenly full engrossed. And this is where I prove that I'm probably in a minority here because I tend to like a really awesome bad guy. And he is a very awesome bad guy.

Also, vocally speaking, Dilandau equals Conan. Minami voiced/voices both of them. Color me godsmacked, if only because gobsmacked is a delightful word and I really must use it more often in my daily conversation.

And if there is not an icon in existence with Dilandau on it and the text "Fire is pretty," there should be.