light count, week 2

last year, December 12: 120

this year, December 11: 156

1. Oh yeah!

2. To be totally honest, not all of these were outdoor lights. I did count Christmas trees & other obvious light displays easily viewable through windows from my car. I figure if I can see lights while driving, they’re intended for sharing.

3. One house that leaves white lights in a tree all year round has added extra strands of colored lights for the holiday light season.

4. To our sort-of neighbors — why did you pick *this* night to leave your outdoor Christmas lights off?

5. To the house with the light-up inflatable Santa — you really should get together with the Thanksgiving turkey house and have a decoration-off. It would be epic.

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.

the quip-off (part 2)

Sleepy Hollow (the one with the golem, which Abbie apparently heard about at Sunday school, but I helpfully learned about from fanfic)

*bickering about language #1: Scrooge, Christmas trees, & eggnog

*”You strangled me!” “He means thank you.”

*guest star: Henry! (‘hey, so you don’t have much family, and we don’t either, so we could maybe hang out together’ I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS ACTUALLY WORKED)

*bickering about language #2: sex, dating, & crossword puzzles

*Captain Irving and Macey being adorable (“You’re getting hot chocolate, not a puppy.”)

*bickering about language #3: waiting by the car (I guess at least Crane didn’t have an ax this time?)

*”Ah! What hellish form of torment is this?” “Funhouse mirrors.” “When did irony become a national pastime?”

*the Christmas stocking

Really, the key takeaway from this episode was ‘why wasn’t Katrina better at arts and crafts?’ Seriously, she couldn’t have knitted the kid a kitten or something?

Other thoughts: I’m totally willing to go the ‘Jeremy’s not dead’ route. That was the whole point of the crossword misdirection conversation, right?

Quip-Off Tally For The Week:
Neither episode was particularly light-hearted, but Sleepy Hollow did have the benefit of including more Christmas, which I liked. Plus, Sleepy Hollow took two extremely creepy concepts (circuses, dolls coming to life) and made them not very scary, while Almost Human took a not not too scary concept (cloning) and made it super creepy. Sleepy Hollow comes out the winner for the week in my book.

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.