Ridiculous Fail day and XMFC fanvid recs

[castalie]

Guys, Cookie and I had the Failiest Failed Saturday that Ever Failed in Failing Land. It was such a ridiculous succession of fails that I could almost not believe it! It all started in the morning. I'd hoped to be able to (finally) sleep in Saturday morning but woke up at 7.00 due to cramps. Couldn't go to sleep after that, especially when Jack-the-cat was busy rehearsing for some Cat Opera, he kept mewling like crazy. Said cat, two hours later, decided to discover the world as he jumped from the kitchen window. And disappeared. We looked for him in the neighbourhood to no avail. We left the house, anyway, as we had to be at my friend Sandra's. We took the train and stopped at the wrong station. Had to wait 20 more minutes for the next train. We arrived at destination and then waited 40 minutes for our friend Fred to come get us (he'd actually misunderstood where we were supposed to meet and had, of course, forgotten his mobile). I'll add that it was raining like cats and dogs by then and that the painkillers were not working anymore. The lot of us did manage to find each other, though, and we had a good time together. We left a bit earlier than planned so that we could be home not too late for when the cat would make his apparition again, right? Except due to a hellish train signalisation we took the train in the wrong direction! Cue our taking another train but, of course, we had to wait for around 25 minutes. All in all, it took us 1h30 to get to Montgeron and 3 hours to get back. Add to that that I hurt a toe when the bus we took to reach the flat stopped abruptly, and you'll have the recipe for a Ridiculous Day. But, it did end well as the cat was found again, so I guess it could have been worse.

I'm hoping today will go more smoothly. We're leaving in twenty to go to the In-laws to celebrate Cookie's (well, mine by association, too) nephew's birthday - but first we're making a detour at my parents' because his present has been sent there and we were too dead on our feet yesterday to go and retrieve it. Then we'll go back to my parents late afternoon so that we can celebrate Father's Day.

Between yesterday's trip and today, we'll have been "traveling" for 7 hours. Like, almost a whole day spent in stupid suburb trains!

Before leaving, some XM:FC. It's funny because you can see that screeners have been found from the content of the most recent fanvids. Though I'm sure we're all greedily waiting for the HD version to leak. Anyway, our fanvidders are doing a hell of a good job, nonetheless, and the last two vids I just watched are gorgeous. Love the Way you Lie first (Coin scene, be still my heart!) and talitha78's Till the World Ends. I don't need to mention they're both Erik/Charles, do I?

Comments

[itsthewa.livejournal.com]

Jeez, I've watched the first vid you recced four times now and I'm just in tears. It was incredibly well done, and I thank you profusely for pointing it out! :)

[castalie.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome! It's one of my goals in life to spread the love as much as possible :-)

[french-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Okay, I see what you meant by "très mouvementé" now...

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Oui, tu as vu ? Et j'ai passé l'histoire des contrôleurs à qui on a échappé à une station près. Vu qu'on était en zone 4 et non plus en zone 3. Enfin, c'était épique !

[loki-dip.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday to your nephew-by-association. :)

Sorry that everything sucked so much for your train. Least you could keep each other company?

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thanks :-)

Yesterday was totally epic! But yeah it's always better when you're not on your own. Though I never leave the flat without a book in my bag. As well as my ipod where there're a gazillion podfics.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

*tons of hugs* Vous n'avez vraiment pas eu de chance, j'espère qu'aujourd'hui tout s'est super bien passé pour compenser.

J'adore que talitha a déjà fait 3 vids. ^_^

[castalie.livejournal.com]

C'était épique, épique ! Et j'ai passé l'anecdote des controlleurs à qui on a échappé à une station près ! Vu qu'on n'était plus dans notre zone et qu'on n'avait pas acheté de tickets. Evidemment.

Depuis le début, j'attendais que Talitha vidde pour ce fandom, je dois dire :-)

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a tough day for sure!

And I can't get enough of the chemistry they have together - thanks for the vids links, that will keep me going until I can go watch it again lol

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Non mais c'était ridicule au bout d'un moment, je t'assure lol

Omg, I know! They have amazing chemistry &hearts, ♥ You're very welcome. I have other links here (http://www.delicious.com/Mousey/xm-fc%21corpus) - fanvids, interviews and a couple of articles/entries.

[cygny.livejournal.com]

Ouch, sounds indeed like a lousy day. I hope things are looking up now! *hugs, just in case*

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Epic and ridiculous, that was our saturday. But sunday made up for it, so it's all forgotten. Well, almost lol

How was your weekend?

[cygny.livejournal.com]

Weekend was a bit too busy (two social obligations, shopping, cleaning, translating) and I didn't manage to get half the things I wanted to do, done. Which means that this week will be very busy as well. I'm getting tired of all the translation stuff, I spend way too much time on it since they put the deadline so close all of a sudden. I console myself with the thought of a nice bit of money afterwards. But I'm longing for a nice relaxing weekend in which nothing *has* to be done. At least my annoying colleague will not be seen all week, yay (even if it means a lot more work for me)!

Thanks for asking :D

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling, busy weekends are nice but every now and then you long for one where you don't have a to do a thing.