Okay, so I had a pretty long, rough day yesterday and all I wanted to do was get home, shower the barn and horse crap off of me and crawl into bed with an obscene amount of drugs to kill the pain and muscle spasms. My roommates were out and I was alone. Once showered and in jammies sitting in bed checking my email my one roommate comes home from work and did a happy dance. Robbi was thrilled that I was still awake (it was 10:15 pm and those who know me know that I am usually well into dreamland by then). She came running into my room with her huge bag and said "I got you a present". I questioned her reasoning and she simply replied that she knew I would have had a hard day so she went and got me a present. Now Robbi works at the LCBO and I was thinking booze to dull the pain. Nope, not booze, something so much better! She went out to a special store and bought me a Serenity metal lunch box. How cool is that?
Now for all you people out there that don't know what I mean you should. Firefly - the best show ever is the tv series that started the whole Serenity movie. Firefly was a Joss Whedon creation that was very short lived. It is set 500 years in the future where people fly around in spaceships and are all cowboy like and swear in Chinese. There are very funny lines and very sad moments and the characters just become your friends. It was not appreciated in its time for what it was. It is a cult classic and due to the fans unrelenting pestering it was given a slight reprieve by giving the funding to create a motion picture years after the show was cancelled and off the air. I mean that never happens to a cancelled show where they didn't even air all the episodes. I strongly urge all people out there that has any sense of taste to go, rent or better yet buy the series to do so. You won't regret it. I watch it daily, over and over and still laugh and cry. I will caution those new to the show that the first episode can be a bit slow and you may not want to watch another episode but please do as they only get better as they go along and you get to know the characters. I sat down with my parents and watched the entire series in one sitting as we got hooked. I sat my previous roommate down and watched it again with her and she was hooked. I once again have watched the entire series with my new roommate and she too was hooked. Its just damn good writing and I for one am really looking forward to Joss's new series the Dollhouse which starts on Fox in January.
So thank you Robbi from the bottom of my heart for my surprise gift which will be put to good use. I can honestly say Firefly ... I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me.
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