Just Can't Get Enough

Attack on Titan A few weeks ago Kiah mentioned wanting to get back into anime so I suggested we start Attack on Titan. The title has been popping up on the nerd blogs I read and images like the above are extremely WTF-inducing, so I've been intrigued. We tucked in for episode one and I expected to be unimpressed (I am not a fan of action shows), but was instead immediately hooked. It's set in a world where giants, called Titans, appeared and threatened to destroy humanity by eating everyone. Eventually the humans managed to build a fortress to keep the giants out and they live in relative peace until one day the Colossus Titan (taller than the walls and skinless!) appears out of thin air and kicks down one of the walls. It's a super bizarre dystopia not dissimilar to a zombie storyline and just as gory, but it's also been addictive as hell. Available on Hulu and Crunchyroll.



Eyeshadow as Eyeliner I've gotten back into makeup again after a few years of embracing a pretty plain face. I love a winged eye, but black is pretty dramatic for someone who teaches composition and sits through literature classes most days, so I bought pot of Urban Decay's Rock Star to use instead. It's a rich purple that's dark, but not as bold as black. After a couple of months enjoying my single pot of eyeshadow, I saw that some of the smaller UD palettes were on sale so I bought Dangerous (above) and the Deluxe Shadow Box. The colors are way, way bolder than I typically am with my makeup, and yet they all make great, fairly subdued eyeliners. You wouldn't think that cobalt blue, purple, gold and dark green are daytime eye colors, but they work. Still haven't used Peace for anything, though.


Hartz DuraPlay My dog relishes destruction: if he can, he will destroy it. This is a problem because loves squeaky toys, but they never last. He pokes a hole in them or rips out the squeaker and they're done squeaking. On a whim I picked up one of these DuraPlay bones at Target a month ago and it's held up remarkably well. Instead of a hollow toy it has some kind of foam inside of it so that it won't get a hole in it like other squeaky toys. Lucky hasn't damaged it at all, and I don't see it happening ever. I know this isn't a selling point for a lot of people, but as far as I can tell it's not especially loud or obnoxious. I might not be the best to ask, though, I am really good at tuning out annoyances. And best of all, Lucky loves it. It's his second favorite toy next to a tennis ball he found in the yard.

"Chain My Name" This song at the gym basically over and over and over. I've also been repeating Katy Perry's "Birthday" quite a bit.

Trivia Kiah and I like trivia. We play bar trivia and solve the Tidbits quiz most weeks. One night out I didn't feel satisfied with the 8 question quiz, so I downloaded Quizoid on my phone and we've been pretty hooked. We flew down to visit my family in Alabama over Thanksgiving and probably killed a good 3 or 4 hours just playing trivia. I think what I've been enjoying the most is learning random stuff about the world's deepest/oldest lake, a 30 year old publishing scandal, and really old stuff I never think about. My interests are usually pretty ephemeral so being told about a lot of interesting things really briefly (and making a list of special things to Wikipedia later) appeals to me.