I is back!

Vacation was great. Large amounts of good food and good people. A belated good Festivus, merry Christmas, and happy New Years to everyone!

Saw the Golden Compass and I Am Legend. Loved them both, though both had endings that pissed me off. The Golden Compass less so, since that at least had a good reason for cutting off the ending of the book, but I Am Legend's ending....grraaaarghhhh! Why?! WHY!?

Both had great CGI, though, and I felt like The Golden Compass did the book justice, even if they did chop up the plot in some odd ways. I Am Legend was a good movie, but not really comparable to the book because it was -so- different. If you liked the movie, I'd really recommend reading the book.

Also got to try out Rock Band, which is awesome once you get the hang of it. And that does take some doing; it's not nearly as simple as Guitar Hero. The drums are much harder then they look, and I stuck mostly to the guitar. (which the owner, my step-nephew had already managed to fuck up despite only owning the game for three days)
Though I did wind up singing "Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld". Turns out that even if the song is mostly just singing "TIMMMAY" over and over, it's still difficult...

Got some new pens, Copic Fineliners. I'd had a bad experience with the similar Sakura pens completely sucking, so I was wary, but holy crap these are awesome. Love, love, love. And they're waterproof, so I finally have something decent to ink watercolor/marker pictures with. I think I'm in love...

All in all, it was a great time. Even if I did come home with a bad cold from my sister and her husband... one which I'd managed to avoid getting up until the day before I left. Oh well.
I miss Chicago already, though