I love how my brain is trying to distract me from fantasies of probably-expensive projects with fantasies of less-expensive projects that I had not previously considered. It is so sane in here, you just would not believe.

New Year’s was good. We celebrated by baking cookies and watching “The Dark Knight” while scarfing cheese-and-crackers, chips-and-dip, and the aforementioned cookies. Its a family tradition. Mom had two glasses of wine and declared that I make the best chocolate chip cookies in the world. *grins* Just remembering it is a happy-maker.

For Christmas I got the Castle tie-in novel, “Heat Wave.” It…was less than stellar. I mean, the story itself was good enough, and the dialog was giddily reminiscent of the show, but the actual narrative voice wavered between mediocre and kind of bad. And yet! It was an actual, physical book from a fictional author. With real authors giving blurbs as if he was a real author who had written many books! That they had read, even! Acknowledgments were written at the end in the character of Richard Castle. It is complete with Castle’s bio, and a picture of Nathan Fillion two seconds from full-on smirk on the back. As a “real” book, its a bit of a disappointment. As a snickering, fan-service piece of show merchandise? It is so fucking awesome.

Maybe next year we’ll get a Castle calendar. Mmmmmm, twelve months of Nathan on my wall….