Writer's Block

I just got back from the movies.  CJ's home so I finally got to go see the new Harry Potter movie.  I didn't really expect much from this movie.  I think it's my favorite of the Harry Potter books and so I knew that no movie could ever do it justice.  So, really, no hopes to speak of.  This movie, though, took my non-existant hopes and dashed them against the rocky shore.  >.<  This is the first time I've ever been disappointed with a Harry Potter movie.  There have been other movies where I wondered what they were doing, but I've never been really disappointed with the way the movie turned out.  I can't even put into words how disappointed I am with this movie.

>.<

I just got home from an awesome night of karaoke-ing.  My two favorite guests from my days at the Holiday Inn were there, care of my favorite sister.  They work with the military, so there were a bunch of army guys there as well (young army guys that kept the weirdos that normally hit on me at bay ^_^)  I danced and sang and drank (ladies' night = $1 wells, wines and drafts ^^!!) and had an absolutely amazing time.  There's something about the way my sister looks at me after I get done singing that makes me so unbelievably happy.  She told me she gets goosebumps every time I sing.  The last song I sang was "Johnny and June" by Heidi something or other (if you search Johnny and June on youtube, you'll find it).  Usually there's a whole lot of noise in the background - people playing pool or laughing or yelling at eachother, etc - but when I sang that song, there was nothing else.  And that felt incredible.  And then there was applause and my favorite person in the whole wide world looking at me like she had never been so proud.   It felt good.  Indescribably good.  If I could feel like that forever, I'd never want for anything else.

My sister Jess had this in a bulletin on her myspace:

"[SEVEN] Do you have a job?
ive got 2 assholes"

She apparently has two assholes.  I guess you learn something new every day.  *laughs*

Yet another way to stay connected electronically.  And I luvs it.  ^.^  Facebook distracts me with its many applications and quizzes and other ways to waste time (And it's gonna take time . . . a whole lot of precious time . . .) that could be much better spent.  Twitter is so much simpler.  Just log in, type what's on your mind in 140 characters or less, and do something with that precious time.  Like look at lolcats or check out random youtube vidoes.  *laughs*  But seriously.  I was just sitting here, eating my dinner (a nice salad of baby greens (are these better than not-so-baby greens?), steak, sesame dressing and a diced gala apple) and I thought, eating a piece of apple, that gala apples were absolutely the best apples ever.  I didn't want to devote a whole lj post to gala apples (although it seems I'm doing just that ^^;) and I want to watch a movie before bed, so didn't have the time (precious time) to get distracted by facebook.  So I twittered the greatness of gala apples.  ^_^

And now off to watch either New to Town or The Reader.  I haven't yet decided if I'm in the mood for romantic comedy or something a little heavier.  I think Harry Connick Jr is probably going to win out.  *laughs*

I just had a thought (that I think I've had before . . . like back in high school) that it would be fun to write a character who spoke only in song lyrics.  To make it harder (and at the same time, more recognizable), I'd have to pick a particular band, I suppose.  *ponders*

So, I stumbled across Rhian's mom's blog as a link on her livejournal a while back (when her dad died, actually) and since then have been, every once in a while, thinking "Man, I really ought to check that out again and see what OKay-san's up to."  Perusing Rhian's recent entries about her trip to Colorado (which sounds so freaking awesome!  I live 10 minutes away from the state and haven't done even a quarter of the things she did!!) I saw a comment left by Kay, which reminded me that I'd been meaning to check out her blog.  And so I did.

And I have been moved.  Moved.  Reading your posts here on LJ, Rhiannon, I am often amazed at how clear you are in your writing.  How I can sometimes see exactly what you must have been seeing or feel what you must have been feeling (the most recently notable example was you describing how you couldn't know what was going to happen as a children's drawing.  That spoke to me.).  With your mom's blog, though, it seems like every entry she writes speaks to me.  I found myself, as she related a Dale story, laughing out loud with tears in my eyes because without saying she loves him and misses him, I could feel it.  Then there was this line:  "I caught it. Just now I stepped outside and howled too." and I got goosebumps.  The way she talked about Beethoven's Ninth just made so much sense to me!  I can't even explain it.  *laughs*  And I feel so stupid writing this post because I know that both Kay and Rhiannon would have been able to say it so that it DID make sense.  So that everyone understood that this was something that meant something to them.  Something that they thought was important and meaningful.  And I just sound like a rambling idiot.

I'm going to have to leave her a comment saying hi (at least), because now I feel like some kind of stalker in addition to a rambler.  *laughs*

In other, completely unrelated new, I found this awesome program called yWriter, which I'm hoping will be a more efficient way than a dry erase board to organize my characters and plot for my current WIP.  *crosses fingers*

I'm in the mood to write . . .

I am by no means a fashionista.  At all.  But I always thought it was tacky to have your bra straps showing.  Just today, I have seen four or five girls (not together, either) wearing racerback-style shirts and just standard bras.  It's easy to find bras with the adjustable straps so you can make it a racerback.  So why show the bra?  Are they lazy?  Do they think it's sexy?  Is there a new fashion trend I'm unaware of?  I just don't get it.

I won tickets to http://www.videogameslive.com/index.php?s=home

Be jealous.  *laughs*

In other words, I went to see the community college production of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_on_a_Fence. ; It was way freakin good.  ^_^

I has one!

My dad called me and Morgan on Tuesday afternoon/evening and told us he was getting married on Wednesday.  Which was April 1st.  A perfect day for fools to get married, as he says.  ^_^  Anyway, Morgan and I were getting ready to work out, so we said our congratulations and went along our way.  About an hour later, we were all hyped up on endorphines and decided we should totally go to the wedding.  So I searched for plane tickets and found round trip tickets from here to Albuquerque for $107 (!!) each.  And that's way cheap.  I called Dad.  He sounded excited but needed to talk to Deb (his new wife) about it.  He called me back at 5:45 and told us not to come; it was too hectic and stressful and he (read: Deb) didn't want the wedding to be hectic or stressful.  Morgy and I pouted and moped for about 10 minutes, then called back and basically told Dad that was too bad, we were coming anyway.  We made a deal that we would come to New Mexico, we didn't have to actually attend the wedding, we would just be in town so we could celebrate the day.  By the time I got back online to buy cheap plane tickets, they told me that I couldn't.  I guess you can't purchase plane tickets after 6pm the day of departure.  So we called the airline while we drove to the gas station.  After being on hold for 20 minutes, the lady told us that plane tickets had tripled in price.  So we decided just to drive.  It was only 9 hours.  *laughs*

Anyway, we made it safely and Dad called us at about 2am to let us know that he and Deb would be thrilled to have us at their wedding.  And it was beautiful.  Just a quiet little ceremony with a certified minister-type person.  You can find out about her here.

And YAY for an update!!  ^_^

So I've got some Ben & Jerry's Pistachio Pistachio ice cream.  What with the Pistachio recall, do you think it's still safe to eat?  I just bought it last Thursday.  I hope it's still safe.  I want to eat it when I get home.  Assuming the roads are open when class gets out so I can go home.

In additional news, go here (in real life, although the website's nice . . .) if you ever get a chance.  It's in the top five experiences of my life.  Right up there with using an oxyacetylene torch and watching my niece (10 mos old now!) go from not walking without help to chasing my dogs around the livingroom in a week.  ^_^  It's the little things, I swear it is.

If you missed it, go to ABCs website and watch it there.  I luvs it mucho lots.  ^_^

I totally would have gone!  'Cuz I'm Too Legit To Quit.

Can someone tell me what unwanted frances are?

It was supposed to come out in February. And now:




;.;

Your fairy is called Field Reedshimmer
She is a panpipe player and enchantment singer.
She lives in fields where wild flowers and poppies grow.
She is only seen when the first flowers begin to blossom.
She likes to wear red petals in her skirt. She has gentle green butterfly wings.
Get your free fairy name here!

^_^

This is a movie I've wanted to see since it was out in the theaters and just never got around to watching until now.  It was a chore to watch, too.  I rented it from the video store, was all excited to watch it, made it through the first twenty minutes and the DVD froze.  I couldn't go back to the title menu and skip ahead or anything.  The next day, I took it back to the video store, explained the problem, and they switched it out for me.  I got home, stuck it in.  Same freaking thing.  So today, I downloaded the movie (don't look down on me; I TRIED to rent it.).  It took all day.  I finally got to watch it.  So now I'm wondering, why the hate?

I was pretty positive Story from this movie and Ivy from the Village were the same actress, so I went on imdb and checked it out.  It didn't quite get six stars and won a couple Razzie awards.  I personally loved the movie.  I'm glad I downloaded it so I can watch it again without having to rent it (big plus since the rented copies don't work).  If I came across it in the store, I'd probably buy it (which says something since I don't often buy movies).  So why don't people like this movie?  Is it because it's not scary?  No huge, complete movie-changing twist?  I thought it had a fantastic story and couldn't really find anything to complain about with the acting.  I just don't get it.

In other news, I realized something the other day.  The song "Goodbye Earl" by the Dixie Chicks is not actually a funny song.  The video makes it seem like the song should be funny, but I heard it on the radio and really listened to the lyrics instead of just the catch tune and realized that it is totally not funny.  At all.  What's up with that?

In other, other news, my AAA account does, in fact, still exsist.  Check out their website.  If there's anything anyone wants ordered (I'm hoping to place an order end of this month, middle of the next), let me know what you want and I'll let you know how much of a discount I get on it.  ^_^

Additionally, this marks the very first MLK day that I've been upset about having school off.  My creative writing class is only on Monday nights, which means there's only, like, 14 or 15 classes in the semester.  And there's actually one less because of MLK day.  And I'm disappointed.

I joined the springwrite community, which is kind of like NaNo, but it's 150K words in 120 days.  I'm hoping it will get me motivated to write more.  I'm using it in conjunction with the runaway tales community (I'm an idiot and don't know how to link communities ^^;), so this contributes to my word count and knocks a prompt off my prompt list.  ^_^

Word Count:  1347
Prompt:  Chocolate Chip Mint 20:  Uncomfortable

Benny & Joon is now my favorite movie.

You may now go back to your regularly scheduled lives.

So, I've never really ever written anything that even remotely resembles a fight scene.  Any feedback on the mini-brawl here would be lots of wonderful.  ^_^

Yippie!!  'Cept I don't have an ipod or otherwise way cool mp3 player.  So I put all the music I had on my laptop into media player and hit random.  And this is what I came up with.  *laughs*  Anyway:

Step 1: Put your iPod player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly. (Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!)

Edit:  My numbers didn't copy over right.  Jerkfaces.  Use your imagination; you'll figure it out.  ^_^