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Yikes, my calendar says it's been 2 weeks since I posted? Clearly, the brain-wave powered posting mechanism has not yet been implemented.

Non-fandom Life in bullet points (fandom stuff in a later post, feel free to skip):

Poison ivy - Systemic, but not bad enough to bite the bullet and go for the crazy-making Zpack. ::itches::

Spring break - Here, but no travel. Fun things like cleaning out the corners of my bedroom and finding the tops of my dresser and cedar chest under all the clutter and crap and hauling around the hand-me-down couch and loveseat from my mother-in-law. Today I am tackling BabyBoy's room which is a frightening thing.

Spring in GA - The pollen count yesterday was >6000. No, that is not a typo. The pine pollen goes swooshing off the cars like the little cloud of dust and dirt that followed Pig Pen around in the old Peanuts comics. I don't even *have* allergies and it's killing me. It's supposed to storm today, which will hopefully clear the last of it out.

Thank you for all your movie suggestions in response to my earlier question. We are working our way through them--yesterday's matinee was Big Hero 6, which, good grief, I was not expecting to be all choked up over. I knew the assorted kids in my life had loved it (over New Years, I ended up buying 3? 4? Baymax souvenier drink thingies for the (now all taller than 6 feet) kids (mine + L's) because they all had loved the movie so much) but apparently they all felt it was important I go into this w/o knowing it was going to rip my heart out. I felt the only appropriate response was a re-watch of The Iron Giant so it was sort of a soggy day around here yesterday.

I have a baking spree planned for the weekend -- I haven't actually decided on the recipes, but the stack of cookbooks by my bed passed ridiculous several days ago so I feel like crazed baking is the only way to redeem myself.

...and that's really about it. Fannishness to follow in a bit...

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Yeah, I didn't expect to cry over Big Hero 6, even though I knew it was a superhero origin story! Have you seen the art of Baymax + Bucky? SO MANY FEELS.

I have seen the Baymax and Bucky art, but now that I've seen the movie and really know Baymax, I need to go find it again, to properly appreciated the feels!

Enjoy your baking spree. Sounds like you need it.

I am waiting for the Momofuku Milk Bar book to arrive from the library and then I'm going nuts!

I also just saw Big Hero 6! OMG! So good!!

I would love to see a sequel!

good grief, I was not expecting to be all choked up over

Right? OMG I cried my eyes out. WTH is up with that and with no warning?!?

The Iron Giant is coming to our indi theater this month on the the giant screen. I can't wait because we love that movie. I got teary-eyed just watching the trailer and so am expecting a good weep fest.

Oh, I would love to see IG on the big screen! We saw it when the boys were little (one of them might not even have been born) but then have been making do on TVs.

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Absolutely loved BH6. Baymax is just perfection. I've never seen Iron Giant. Is it one of those things I should see immediatly and never mention not having seen it again?

Ooooh, a baking weekend! I sigh with jealousy. I need to annex some teenage so I don't bake my mother and I into diabetes. There will be a list of what was made, yes?

Oh, yes, you should definitely see IG! It got no support from the studio when it was released--I think they were dismantling the building around the artistic team--so it disappeared very quickly despite overwhelmingly positive word of mouth. I think part of the problem was it didn't look like all the pretty animated features of the time, so people looked at it and it didn't jump out at them, but the style and palette are absolutely perfect for the story it told. And there really is a story there, and characters that aren't the standard, cookie cutter animated characters.

I will list (and possibly photograph) all baking!

I have BH6 on my computer, but haven't watched it yet. Glad to hear another recommendation.

Oh, definitely a recommendation! Definitely!

So glad you liked BH6! At least it sounds like you did - because choked up is good, yes?

Have fun baking! We got our disaster over with last weekend - turns out dictating a cake to two teens while sitting on a couch with an ice pack on your knee is NOT the same thing as doing it yourself...

Choked up is definitely good!

As for the baking, hah, yeah--#2Son has started taking an interest in cooking and has been joining me in making dinner lately and I always knew I cooked by feel, not by recipe, but having to translate that into a process he can follow has been a little nuts. (and I write processes for a living!)