Ptorchwood Ptales & Ptimely Pthoughts

Thank you toshiani007 for buying me my userhead for another year. I let it lapse cause LJ has been a bit of a pain lately, but I haven't made the move over the Dreamwidth complete. So you all are stuck with me for another year, LOL - though I'm hoping to figure out this dual posting thing at some point.

Also this round of redisourcolor is open for voting: http://redisourcolor.livejournal.com/70295.html  There are 5! stories - it looks like we're back in action. I'm having a tough time picking my favorite - which is to say that they are really good and very original in nature. Go, read, and vote for your favorite. 

Saw my last opera of the season last night, and it was a doosy! Handel had to have been on drugs when he wrote Rinaldo. It's an opera crackfic! The story is sillier than a troupe of dancing weevils, was written with visual special effects (the sorceress flies in on a chariot drawn by fire breathing dragons (Myfanwy would approve), and there's really amazing harpischord music. Two of the three(!!) castrati roles were sung by countertenors including the incomparable David Daniels. I swear there was some pretty heavy slash inferences going on.  Featuring a very unusual set. a bunch of athletic dancers and some very physical comedy moments -  it was a great ending to the season. 

I'm off to pilates, then some more house cleaning and a drabble to write - and then I want to start on a book. 
The Coffee Traders my BFF lent me. We're going to Belgium and Holland for a couple of weeks in May and the book should get me in the mood. Then I want to reread at least a couple of my old van de Wetering mysteries. I'm not a huge fan of Poirot, so if anybody has a suggestion for some good Belgium fiction, written by Belgium authors,  I'm game.