Birthday Post

[ericadawn16]

So, my birthday was a lot more low-key this year. For one thing, I had to work 8:45-5 PM. This is when I started wearing my reindeer antlers to work. I ate grilled cheese and Code Red at KMart for lunch.

Then, I got home, napped and read all the wonderful posts and comments and Tweets from everyone before going to see Sherlock Holmes and the Game of Shadows.

When we got home, I happened to look over and see a shooting star!
Then, we did crackers which we'd never done before. I didn't even know you could buy them in America. They were fun but the pops didn't always work. We split them up into two for my birthday, two for Christmas and two for New Year's.

Oh, speaking of Sherlock Holmes, I saw that OTHER Sherlock Holmes movie today. You know, the one with Gareth David-Lloyd?

It actually wasn't as bad I was expecting. I think the main problem was that the Sherlock actor was completely wrong for the part. Otherwise, I want the Warehouse 13 spin-off in Victorian times so HARD!

Also, here's the outfit I got for my birthday although I also got a skeleton Hello Kitty purse and a Lucky bracelet:

Comments

[mercystars.livejournal.com]

hey, happy birthday!

[mercystars.livejournal.com]

Also? Your birthday and my brother's birthday are ON THE SAME DAY.

Woooo-OOOOO-ooooooo!

(this would probably trip you out more if you had as few brain cells left as I do)

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Is it like exactly?

12/16/82

Or just December 16th?

Because all the cool kids are born on December 16th like Jane Austen, Beethoven and Arthur C. Clarke.

[mercystars.livejournal.com]

12/16/70

lol XD

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I love that .gif so hard!

I still have that episode on my DVR. I haven't found screencaps so I'm going to make my own.

[mercystars.livejournal.com]

me too

YAY we always ALWAYS need more conan gifs

[jedi-harkness.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a good birthday. John Barrowman was tweeting that day and I tried to get him to RT a tweet for you and another friend who also had a b-day but no such luck. *sigh*

I'm glad you saw that Sherlock Holmes film with GDL! He and Dominic Keating were the best things about it. I agree that the lead actor was all wrong. I'm waiting for the new series of Sherlock to hit PBS.

Speaking of Sherlock, did you hear that Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast as the villain in the next Star Trek movie??? *major fangirl squee*

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I thought it was cool that you had tried though, thank you.

The US gets Sherlock in May! Woohoo! It's hard hearing everyone say how wonderful it is but four months isn't too bad.

I did hear! I'm totally excited although I hope it isn't like Eric Bana where you could barely recognise him. Plus, Noel Clarke is in it, too!

Sherlock and Mickey!

[jedi-harkness.livejournal.com]

Sherlock, Mickey, and Sylar (who's now Spock) in the same movie? I might have a full-on fangasm! ;)

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely, and don't forget Simon Pegg!

[cp.livejournal.com]

Holy late comment, Batman, but I had to chime in to say that the wife and I really love the BBC Sherlock! That's actually what got us into Doctor Who, too--we saw the first series of Sherlock and thought we'd give DW a try since Steven Moffat was clearly brilliant, and of course got hooked. I'm doubly pleased, since my wife never considered herself a sci-fi fan. Now I'm thinking of what else I can get her into, like maybe ST:TNG. Anyhoo, no way we could wait until May for the second series so I've been downloading them--the first two were quite good, haven't seen the last one yet. Might hold off a while because that will be the last one for a long time!

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Actually, my love for Steven Moffat also goes back to Disney...

In 2003, they released Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Of course, my mom and I liked Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom but the person who really stole our hearts was Norrington aka Jack Davenport.

I wanted to see more of him but this was very hard in the pre-Youtube days as you can recall, too. It turned out that WEDU was showing Coupling on Saturday nights. I decided to give this a shot. The first episode was fairly light on Jack and I didn't care for it much, but NBC came out with its own version which was so horrible that I decided to try the original again. This time, the episode was centered around Jack's character and I LOVED it. I was hooked and was impressed that every episode was written by the same guy! Plus, it was based off his real relationship with his wife and she was the executive producer and so was his mother-in-law!

Then, I saw Curse of the Fatal Death and talked with him online and saw how cool he was and realized how much of a geek he was. When I heard Doctor Who was coming back, I knew how HUGE a fan he was and hoped he would be involved. Then, when that happened I hoped he would be show-runner someday...

If you love Sherlock and Doctor Who, you MUST see Jekyll. Like Sherlock, it's a sort of modern retelling of the old classic. I also recommend Coupling. My mom usually hates sitcoms but even she has seen every episode twice.

I usually don't like downloading stuff if I can help it. May does seem like a long way away but then I remind myself about having to wait until June or July for SciFi to show the Christmas episode of Dr Who or even worse....waiting four years between the fourth and fifth Harry Potter novels. Actually, when the third Abarat book came out in fall 2011, it was SEVEN years after the second one.

But GREAT news...Steven said today that we could have series 3 by the end of the year!

[cp.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I forgot about Jekyll, I'll have to check that out. And we're on the lookout for a new sitcom, Coupling sounds worth a try as well. Looks like Netflix has it, sweet! :)

Hm, hadn't heard of Curse of the Fatal Death, that sounds like it's worth tracking down as well--Hugh Grant as the Doctor? That I have to see!

Good to hear about Sherlock! Sounds like Benedict is going to be busy this year!

[spartan-117.livejournal.com]

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Am happy you had a good birthday :) Love, love, love your t-shirt.

I have the Sherlock film with GDL but it's from the UK and I don't have a region free dvd player at the moment so I can't watch it *sulks*

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

And no one has a computer with a dvd drive?

The Macs are tricky but it's really easy to change the region settings for PCs.

Thank you, I got the shirt at Hot Topic and then I bought a TeeFury one so now I actually have TWO Doctor Who shirts. I never thought I'd see the day.

[spartan-117.livejournal.com]

The laptops do but mine is locked to region 4 and can't be changed cos it can already been changed 4 times before and now it's locked apparently. Even if you remove it from my laptop.

My parent dvd player might be region free but I'm not game enough to play with it, nor my parents computer. It's not worth the crap that will follow if thy're screwed up.

I watch DVDs on my XBOX 360 and it has to be hacked to make it region free and I'm more than a little hesitant to have someone hack my beloved 360, source of all my Halo games.

LOL two Doctor Who t-shirts are very good to have :)

[promisemewings.livejournal.com]

Happy belated birthday!

[amerally.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had a great b-day! Happy belated. And that's a cute pic of you! :)

[hippediva.livejournal.com]

A belated Very Happy Birthday!

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[ayaneva.livejournal.com]

Did I miss your birthday? If I did, happy birthday! If not...um, happy birthday anyway! :D

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I don't remember about LJ but I know you said it on Facebook and maybe even AIM.

Thanks!

[indiwise.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[rinygrin.livejournal.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! <3

Your hair is super cute and the stripped pants: do want!

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The pants are a thrift store find.

[atlantis2-04.livejournal.com]

you are capricorn too!!!! i was born 11th january.
happy birthday...a very late happy birthday i am sorry!!

OMG I LOVE YOUR T SHIRT!

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I was actually REALLY late with my birthday post. I'm a Sag, but thank you so much and I hope your birthday went well.

Thank you, I bought the shirt at Hot Topic.