Fat Nerd Fit

So much has been going on! I hardly can believe all the changes going on in my world that I don’t even know where to begin. I guess, least awesome first. At my last one-on-one with my manager, I asked her what I could be doing now to position myself for a promotion when an opening came along. Basically, there are two areas I can train in to help develop my skills for the store and develop leadership skills. Today, I started training in one of those areas which give me the absolute slightest edge of authority. Once I train in the second area I will be two steps down from an assistant manager at my store, but one step down at any other location. I’m hoping to move to another location in the next six months or so because…… We’re buying a house! My husband and I have been on the prowl around town for several months now and, barring anything crazy, we close on a house on Friday! We’re moving from a one-bedroom apartment to a three bed/two bath house with a yard for Scout-the-dog...

It is firmly established in my head-cannon that Harry Potter exists in the universe of Stargate. I love the idea that Jennifer Keller packed up her copies as her allowable personal items when she gated to Atlantis. Her books, along with several other Airmen and Marines’ copies got lent around the base spreading the famous Earth story across the Pegasus Galaxy. Of course, back in the dear old Milky Way the SGC, the Alpha site, and probably a few field packs have worn, beat-up copies traveling with devoted fans. And who doesn’t love the idea of retired Gen. O’Neill secretly loving the books but refusing to admit it because he spent so many years making fun of his beloved nerds of SG-1. What child of the newly freed Jaffa wouldn’t feel a connection to the story of children who grew up with the looming threat, and eventual war with, an evil ruler their parents helped overthrow a generation before? Or maybe I’m hung up on the idea of my favorite TV characters loving my favorite book...

I’m all caught up on Stargate: Origins and I’m still not quite sure what I think about it. I’ve been sitting here trying to come up with a decent summary of what’s going on and it’s a lot harder than it sounds like. Partially because so much is going on, but nothing really happens. The Professor is kidnapped by Nazis who want to go through the Stargate for Nazi reasons leaving Catharine behind on Earth to grab her friend Beal (who I cannot stress enough is NOT ERNEST) and his sidekick Wasif to go through the Stargate to rescue him. On Abydos, we are introduced to a new Goa’uld, Aset. She has a harsesis which up through episode 7 serves no purpose other than to have a nice little call back to SG-1 and give Aset something to do with her hands. Aset easily captures the Nazis and the Professor. The head Nazi in a power move shows Aset some Nazi propaganda movies (which, it’s cool they used actual footage) and Aset falls for it. She decides that clearly the Tau’ri are ready to be s...

It is finally here, well, a third of it is here. Stargate Origins has dropped on Stargate Command and so far, it’s…. meh. Granted all I’ve really seen is the first act of a movie’s worth of material. Origins is being released as 10 separate 10-minute episodes of a web series. The story is set between the prologue of the original Stargate movie and the scene when Catherine Langford recruits Daniel Jackson to Project Giza. Young adult Catherine is going on an adventure Tomb Raider style. It’s a different set up than I’m used to watching so the short bursts of the movie are taking some getting used to. Sure, I’ve watched The Guild (love it!), Dr. Horrible (brilliant!) and ConMan (hilarious!) but I didn’t watch them as webseries-es. I watched The Guild on Netflix as basically a movie per season, I watched Dr. Horrible as a movie, and ConMan I got to see now that SyFy has it and airs it as a TV series. The only web series I’ve watched as a web series was he Lizzie Bennet Diaries (so ...