I know! I know! I haven't updated in forever. Not that many/any people read this, but meh. :)
So here's tonight's fun little thing. You're supposed to put in bold what you've done and this looks fun. I'll put in notes:
1. Started your own blog--No really?
2. Slept under the stars--I've been camping how many times?
3. Played in a band--very briefly, this one summer in high school when the pianist for my friend's band was in Russia.
4. Visited Hawaii--a few times with the family
5. Watched a meteor shower--in Rhode Island!
6. Given more than you can afford to charity--I used to give my extra pocket change to an organization called Spare Change in Boston, which collected at North Station.
7. Been to Disneyland--and Disneyworld and Tokyo Disney
8. Climbed a mountain--In such places as Peru, Vermont and Germany
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo--first one I did was in 12th grade, when I sang the "Agnus Dei Filium Patris" from Vivaldi's Gloria.
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris--First time was when I was 18 and with my mom on a two-week graduation trip to Switzerland, Italy, France and England.
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea--well, not quite AT sea. We were swimming in the ocean and there started to be a lightning storm further out, so we scampered for the beach and watched it from there.
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch--Does cross-stitch count as an art?
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning--First time from beef teriyaki on the same day that I performed in Jordan Hall in Boston for the first time.
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty--Several times, most recently on an art and literature exchange with my high school.
18. Grown your own vegetables--Long time ago.
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France--Twice
20. Slept on an overnight train--From Rome to Paris.
21. Had a pillow fight--I have two sisters. What do you think?
22. Hitch hiked--a couple of times, but nowhere on a deserted road.
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill--Sometimes, I just need a sanity day. And my mom used to let us have "sick days" before an opening night when we were doing community theater.
24. Built a snow fort--Many times in Boston
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping--No details, but yes!
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total solar eclipse--Just once.
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset--Many times
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise--around harbors.
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person--When I was 17.
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors--Mostly in Utah.
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language--Am working on German!
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied--Yeah, when I was 15...no, I've been financially happy at times since then.
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing--Twice
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David--The same trip as going to Paris for the first time.
41. Sung karaoke--Many a time.
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant--A couple of times.
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight--The first time I did it, I had my first kiss later that night.
46. Been transported in an ambulance--In Peru and in Vermont. I had a bad infection the first time and the second time, I'd injured my foot hiking.
47. Had your portrait painted--By the 13-year-old hot Japanese guy on whom I had a massive crush. His name was Akio and I think he's the reason I started finding Asian men really attractive.
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person--Same trip as Paris and Michaelangelo's David. Oh, and we got lost going to the Sistine Chapel from St. Peter's Basilica and asked for directions in this sweet little dress shop right outside the Vatican. I got a beautiful dress there.
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris--Same trip as all the aforementioned stuff.
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling--Snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain--I love it!
53. Played in the mud--Of course.
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie--I wrote and acted in a short one. I also once accidentally walked onto the set of a Stanley Tucci movie in NYC and had to be edited out later on.
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class--Tae kwon do, baby
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen--Well, mostly a food bank.
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching--In Boston
63. Got flowers for no reason--Yeah, I do that to brighten my apartment.
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma--Whenever I can.
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (oops!)--Ditto the "(oops!)"
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy--a stuffed bear that I had named Winston because he had a polka-dot bowtie like Winston Churchill.
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial--Several times
71. Eaten Caviar--first time in 2nd grade.
72. Pieced a quilt--I did a log cabin quilt and a quilted wall hanging.
73. Stood in Times Square--In 1999.
74. Toured the Everglades--With family
75. Been fired from a job--and laid off
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London--Not very well. HUGE crowd.
77. Broken a bone--many times. First time was when I was 3 and had a bookshelf fall on me.
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle--Only once.
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican--Where do you think I saw the Sistine Chapel?
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper--When I was in a community music festival.
85. Read the entire Bible--in three different languages--English, Spanish and
Latin.
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating--fish
88. Had chickenpox--when I was 7.
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous--Let's see, President Monson, Sheri Dew, Yo-Yo Ma, Marie Osmond, Kevin McHale, President Faust, Elder Nelson, Trey Stokes, John Hudgens...
92. Joined a book club--In a past ward
93. Lost a loved one--most recently, my grandpa
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone--yup, you are CHOSEN if you have the phone number.
99. Been stung by a bee--Not a good thing. Really not.
March 07, 2009
October 03, 2008
Geezzz...
Yeah, I haven't updated this in forever. Well, not as long a drought as the Rop5 production blog, but that can't be helped. Let's see...
Since you last saw me...
I got a new job. This is mostly because my old job laid off everyone who had been working there less than 6 weeks and I'd been there 5 weeks. So I jobhunted for a while, then had my brother suggest that I apply at his company. I did so, got a job doing reservations calls, which is the most boring job ever. I mean, you sit there and people call you and say they want to go to a conference and you write down their information. No-brainer. And it was only part-time, but they were going to try and make me full time after the first few weeks. Well, three weeks in, my boss called me into his office and I thought ohcrapi'mgoingtodieorgetfired because literally, this is how my year has been. Well, instead he goes, "We want to make you full-time, but they just created a new position in the company for an email-and-chat-based tech support rep. They want someone with really good verbal and written skills. Could you do that?" I got a raise, got a new workspace, a new boss and have been doing tech support/general information for basically an iPod knockoff. Less boring, but much, much more stupid people. I like my new boss--he's funny and odd and bilingual like me. I also work in the same office as my brother-in-law Chris, who is working as a programmer. So we talk throughout the day, swap snacks... He snuck my sister and sister-in-law into work over the weekend before last so they could redecorate my cubicle. All in all, pretty cool.
I moved. This happened rather suddenly. I was supposed to move out on a Saturday, but on the preceding Wednesday, the landlady showed up to check me out and went "I don't care if you're not packed! I told the new girl she could move in an hour from now!" So, with the help of friends and such, I threw everything into boxes or the Dumpster and moved in about 3 hours. My new apartment is wicked cool--it's fun living with a friend again and I enjoy having my own bathroom.
Shortly after that, I was having really bad pain in my ears, so my mom made me go to a doctor. That person realized that I had a middle ear infection and a ruptured eardrum. She gave me antibiotics, ear drops and a nasal spray for the sinus infection I was also developing. She told me to come back two days later. Two days later, I came back and she went "Well, none of the stuff I gave you seems to be working and you now have an outer ear infection, too!" So she gave me more antibiotics, switched my eardrops and gave me a note for three days off work. I didn't take them because my dad's always telling me that I'm the bottom of the food chain and no one hesitates to get rid of me. I did, however, take the order at the bottom of the note to not use a phone for 5 days. I'm feeling better now, but still have stabbing pains in my ears about three times a day.
Oh, and my final random weird thing going on, a friend in Kansas started developing a storyline for a Holocaust novel and I was helping her by being a sounding board. Then she turned around and asked me to co-author. So now we're working on a LOT of research. I got a bunch of books from Barnes&Noble, have spent hours on the internet, am learning basic German so far... It's a really interesting experience.
Since you last saw me...
I got a new job. This is mostly because my old job laid off everyone who had been working there less than 6 weeks and I'd been there 5 weeks. So I jobhunted for a while, then had my brother suggest that I apply at his company. I did so, got a job doing reservations calls, which is the most boring job ever. I mean, you sit there and people call you and say they want to go to a conference and you write down their information. No-brainer. And it was only part-time, but they were going to try and make me full time after the first few weeks. Well, three weeks in, my boss called me into his office and I thought ohcrapi'mgoingtodieorgetfired because literally, this is how my year has been. Well, instead he goes, "We want to make you full-time, but they just created a new position in the company for an email-and-chat-based tech support rep. They want someone with really good verbal and written skills. Could you do that?" I got a raise, got a new workspace, a new boss and have been doing tech support/general information for basically an iPod knockoff. Less boring, but much, much more stupid people. I like my new boss--he's funny and odd and bilingual like me. I also work in the same office as my brother-in-law Chris, who is working as a programmer. So we talk throughout the day, swap snacks... He snuck my sister and sister-in-law into work over the weekend before last so they could redecorate my cubicle. All in all, pretty cool.
I moved. This happened rather suddenly. I was supposed to move out on a Saturday, but on the preceding Wednesday, the landlady showed up to check me out and went "I don't care if you're not packed! I told the new girl she could move in an hour from now!" So, with the help of friends and such, I threw everything into boxes or the Dumpster and moved in about 3 hours. My new apartment is wicked cool--it's fun living with a friend again and I enjoy having my own bathroom.
Shortly after that, I was having really bad pain in my ears, so my mom made me go to a doctor. That person realized that I had a middle ear infection and a ruptured eardrum. She gave me antibiotics, ear drops and a nasal spray for the sinus infection I was also developing. She told me to come back two days later. Two days later, I came back and she went "Well, none of the stuff I gave you seems to be working and you now have an outer ear infection, too!" So she gave me more antibiotics, switched my eardrops and gave me a note for three days off work. I didn't take them because my dad's always telling me that I'm the bottom of the food chain and no one hesitates to get rid of me. I did, however, take the order at the bottom of the note to not use a phone for 5 days. I'm feeling better now, but still have stabbing pains in my ears about three times a day.
Oh, and my final random weird thing going on, a friend in Kansas started developing a storyline for a Holocaust novel and I was helping her by being a sounding board. Then she turned around and asked me to co-author. So now we're working on a LOT of research. I got a bunch of books from Barnes&Noble, have spent hours on the internet, am learning basic German so far... It's a really interesting experience.
August 02, 2008
And so it ends--My review of Breaking Dawn
So, last night, I stood in line with Eowyn77 at the Breaking Dawn release. She wore a t-shirt that said "Tanya's Denali Bed and Breakfast: What a way to go!" and I had one that said "Tanya's Denali Bed and Breakfast: We do Bachelor(ette) parties."
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So, I finished at 6 a.m., completely exhausted and grinning like an idiot. There are very few things that I had beefs with and that's impressive in a book. Oh, and Guin's cousin gave me a ride home on the condition that I read out loud in the car. We had to stop reading so we could laugh hysterically, which should tell you something.
So I got home, sprawled on the long couch in my living room and started reading. Here are my comments.
The scene with the guys in the SUV and the Guardian is still my favorite Guy Moment in the series. It's so cute. I love Bella's utter unfamiliarity with the experience of being affluent and Alice prying Charlie into a monkey suit as he calls it.
I thought the scene with the "bachelor party" was absolutely hilarious. As Eowyn77 from rat.com (www.ramblingsandthoughts.com, where I'm ImprintedIsh) said, Jasper right there redeemed himself for New Moon. The banter leading up to Emmett and Jasper dragging Edward off for his stag night was cute and Jasper was absolutely adorable with Bella. Emmett is such a goofball.
Chapter 3, the wedding. Okay, so I was wrong about Ang being a bridesmaid. I couldn't win them all. Renee was a cheerleader on percoset. I loved her and Charlie's gift and the quote about Alice not letting them do anything else. I thought Charlie's "Bells, we're up to bat" was so adorable. I love Mr. Weber being the minister and the brevity but beauty of the wedding.
The reception! I want a reception like that! Then again, I want a husband like Edward and Rosalie to do my hair. I thought Edward was very sweet to manfully swallow a piece of cake for Bella's sake. I loved Seth Clearwater standing in for Jacob. And then Jacob! Can I say I'm so glad he didn't show up in the middle of the ceremony to yell "I PROTEST THIS MARRIAGE! SHE'S MARRYING A VAMPIRE AND I'M A WEREWOLF!"? I love their dances and how they are both so forgiving of each other at that moment. Jacob was so in-character to want her happiness. I was utterly stunned at first by his violent reaction and then two of the pack phasing and then I realized they were out of sight of the rest of the party at that point. Poor Jacob, so protective of Bella.
Isle Esme. I want my own island. No fair! Mommy, why can't I have my own island? I love that Bella is so utterly flabbergasted by all that lingerie and that she goes to have her First Time with Edward wrapped in a towel. It's so her. Mmmm, naked vampire in the waves. Okay, stopping that thought right there. LOL, Ed, you thought you'd crush her skull in the heat of the moment. Stop fretting about a few bruises. I mean, girls have fingernails and on a normal husband, that would make a difference. And you frigging dork, EDWARD! Have sex with your wife once on your honeymoon and then decide that you're going to go cold turkey until she's a vampire? Yeah, like she'll want to have anything to do with you right after she's felt like she's burning alive for three frigging days! I love Bella's seduction scene and what they did to Alice's poor, defenseless French lingerie.
Okay, so then Bella gets food poisoning on her own honeymoon. Typical...Wait, HUH?! PREGNANT?!
YES! She called Rosalie! As soon as Edward started talking about fixing the problem, I went "No way in frigging hell is Rosalie going to let that happen."
Jacob's POV. Can I say I love the titles of these chapters? Especially the one about "You want a brain, you want a heart?" and "Too-much-information alert." I melted into a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West at Quil and Claire. That's exactly how I had no problems with him Imprinting on her. The stones scene was just so darn cute.
And then wow, the pack finds out Bella's back with some "rare South American disease." Sam really freaks me out in this whole section of the book.
Geez, Edward, talk about the pregnancy from hell. If you leaving bruises all over Bella doesn't convince her that you should never have sex with her again, all that puking and the one-month super-pregnancy with hyperemesis will! Way to cram a plot point into two chapters, Steph. I had a bit of a problem with this because, yes, it makes sense that there's something different about a half-vampire fetus, but she made it more like a Stephen King novel or that one story from Weird Tales about a girl who dies from a stomach tumor that actually turns out to be her clone. Bella seemed somewhat altogether docile at times, like she'd taken the Anne of Green Gables thing too far and become a shrinking violet 19th-century bride. But then, if I were puking my guts out for a month, I'd probably be the same way.
I loved Jacob accepting his birthright and leaving the pack. I love that Seth left with him and it was predictable of Leah to go with them.
And Renesmee? Uh...yeah...RENESMEE? Cute that she wants to name a girl after her mom and mom-in-law, but that
is
the
name
that
made
me
twitch
for
the
rest
of
the
book.
It's what a BYU bottle-blonde freshman who married an RM the first semester and thought she REALLY needed a creative name for her wedding-night baby would name a kid. It's like my friend Nyla who was named because her parents were from New York and Los Angeles. It's like all those pretentious Utards who name their kids Kimber or Mahonri Moriancumr. I EXPECTED BETTER OF BELLA and for crying out loud, Stephenie, you couldn't have given the kid a name with CLASS?
Okay, my rant about that is over. I just hate that name with the fire of a thousand suns if you couldn't tell. I thought Carlie was cute--Charlie and Carlisle, feminized. Carlie Cullen. Much better than Ruh-nez-may. If I were Steph, I would have named the kid Renee Esme Swan Cullen or something like that. All the kids at school when she reaches maturity in 5 years are so going to make fun of her after they've stopped wondering how to spell her name. Her teachers will hate the name because they'll never know how to pronounce it on the first day of school. I hope they all call her Nessie or Ness.
Okay, so I thought my rant was over, but now it's really over.
JACOB IMPRINTED ON...WTK?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?! That had me laughing so hysterically that I woke up my creepy Chinese roommate. Yeah, "I don't want you as a son-in-law!!!!!!!!!"
Staggering description of the change. Well, no, the birth wasn't a piece of cake either. I mean holy freaking cow, who gets a snapped spine from giving birth?
I totally guessed right that Bella would be on the verge of death because of Edward and then get changed.
LOL, I love the first hunt. That was very creatively done.
I also guessed that Bella would have the ability to block her temptation. I guessed that based on the fact that she had sensitivity to human blood as a human and so she was not as overwhelmed by it as a vampire.
I thought there would be more of a, I don't know, culture shock with Bella getting used to being a vampire.
I love their cottage and Edward finding designer jeans and a t-shirt for Bella. You can tell that, in spite of being the stupidest frigging vampire for half of the books, he's a good little hubby.
So, Ness is adorable. I love her reading Tennyson with Bella. I think the whole thing with her power is remarkable. It reminded me more of a reverse-Aro than a reverse-Edward.
So, Jacob, you want to break the news gently that Chief Swan's daughter is a vampire. You PHASE IN FRONT OF HIM? DIDN'T YOU LEARN ANYTHING FROM HARRY CLEARWATER?! ROFL. I'm sorry, that entire chapter had me laughing like you would not believe. It's so Jacob.
I love all of the vampires coming together. Especially Alistair. I think he could be played very well by the guy who did Lord John Marbury for West Wing. I like Siobhan and am I the only one who thinks that Vladimir from Romania is actually Vlad the Impaler who is also known as Dracula? The guy's been around for 1500 years and is pissed off at the so-called vampire royalty. The whole thing with the gathering vampires reminded me of Season 7 of Buffy with all the potentials.
And okay, Volturi, overkill much? And for what? They come 3000 miles, pay for all those plane tickets...and they have a 20-minute debate and then go on their merry way. I thought it was an effectively tense thing to have the standoff and everyone saying their final goodbyes and all that, but OMK, talk about anticlimax. Aro from New Moon would have seemed out-of-character if he voted against Ness.
The whole thing with Irina was great tension. Her reasoning was sound and poor Tanya and Kate. I liked Kate especially. (Oh, at the wedding, I loved that Edward wouldn't hug Tanya!)
Sweet ending. Thanks for the index and the memories, Steph. I am never, ever going to say the name Renesmee. To me, it's the Dumbledoreisgay element of your series. It makes no sense and I'll sidestep it, but hey, you had to show a moment of idiocy at some point.
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Okay, so if you're down here and are reading spoilers by accident, it's your own frigging fault.
So, I finished at 6 a.m., completely exhausted and grinning like an idiot. There are very few things that I had beefs with and that's impressive in a book. Oh, and Guin's cousin gave me a ride home on the condition that I read out loud in the car. We had to stop reading so we could laugh hysterically, which should tell you something.
So I got home, sprawled on the long couch in my living room and started reading. Here are my comments.
The scene with the guys in the SUV and the Guardian is still my favorite Guy Moment in the series. It's so cute. I love Bella's utter unfamiliarity with the experience of being affluent and Alice prying Charlie into a monkey suit as he calls it.
I thought the scene with the "bachelor party" was absolutely hilarious. As Eowyn77 from rat.com (www.ramblingsandthoughts.com, where I'm ImprintedIsh) said, Jasper right there redeemed himself for New Moon. The banter leading up to Emmett and Jasper dragging Edward off for his stag night was cute and Jasper was absolutely adorable with Bella. Emmett is such a goofball.
Chapter 3, the wedding. Okay, so I was wrong about Ang being a bridesmaid. I couldn't win them all. Renee was a cheerleader on percoset. I loved her and Charlie's gift and the quote about Alice not letting them do anything else. I thought Charlie's "Bells, we're up to bat" was so adorable. I love Mr. Weber being the minister and the brevity but beauty of the wedding.
The reception! I want a reception like that! Then again, I want a husband like Edward and Rosalie to do my hair. I thought Edward was very sweet to manfully swallow a piece of cake for Bella's sake. I loved Seth Clearwater standing in for Jacob. And then Jacob! Can I say I'm so glad he didn't show up in the middle of the ceremony to yell "I PROTEST THIS MARRIAGE! SHE'S MARRYING A VAMPIRE AND I'M A WEREWOLF!"? I love their dances and how they are both so forgiving of each other at that moment. Jacob was so in-character to want her happiness. I was utterly stunned at first by his violent reaction and then two of the pack phasing and then I realized they were out of sight of the rest of the party at that point. Poor Jacob, so protective of Bella.
Isle Esme. I want my own island. No fair! Mommy, why can't I have my own island? I love that Bella is so utterly flabbergasted by all that lingerie and that she goes to have her First Time with Edward wrapped in a towel. It's so her. Mmmm, naked vampire in the waves. Okay, stopping that thought right there. LOL, Ed, you thought you'd crush her skull in the heat of the moment. Stop fretting about a few bruises. I mean, girls have fingernails and on a normal husband, that would make a difference. And you frigging dork, EDWARD! Have sex with your wife once on your honeymoon and then decide that you're going to go cold turkey until she's a vampire? Yeah, like she'll want to have anything to do with you right after she's felt like she's burning alive for three frigging days! I love Bella's seduction scene and what they did to Alice's poor, defenseless French lingerie.
Okay, so then Bella gets food poisoning on her own honeymoon. Typical...Wait, HUH?! PREGNANT?!
YES! She called Rosalie! As soon as Edward started talking about fixing the problem, I went "No way in frigging hell is Rosalie going to let that happen."
Jacob's POV. Can I say I love the titles of these chapters? Especially the one about "You want a brain, you want a heart?" and "Too-much-information alert." I melted into a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West at Quil and Claire. That's exactly how I had no problems with him Imprinting on her. The stones scene was just so darn cute.
And then wow, the pack finds out Bella's back with some "rare South American disease." Sam really freaks me out in this whole section of the book.
Geez, Edward, talk about the pregnancy from hell. If you leaving bruises all over Bella doesn't convince her that you should never have sex with her again, all that puking and the one-month super-pregnancy with hyperemesis will! Way to cram a plot point into two chapters, Steph. I had a bit of a problem with this because, yes, it makes sense that there's something different about a half-vampire fetus, but she made it more like a Stephen King novel or that one story from Weird Tales about a girl who dies from a stomach tumor that actually turns out to be her clone. Bella seemed somewhat altogether docile at times, like she'd taken the Anne of Green Gables thing too far and become a shrinking violet 19th-century bride. But then, if I were puking my guts out for a month, I'd probably be the same way.
I loved Jacob accepting his birthright and leaving the pack. I love that Seth left with him and it was predictable of Leah to go with them.
And Renesmee? Uh...yeah...RENESMEE? Cute that she wants to name a girl after her mom and mom-in-law, but that
is
the
name
that
made
me
twitch
for
the
rest
of
the
book.
It's what a BYU bottle-blonde freshman who married an RM the first semester and thought she REALLY needed a creative name for her wedding-night baby would name a kid. It's like my friend Nyla who was named because her parents were from New York and Los Angeles. It's like all those pretentious Utards who name their kids Kimber or Mahonri Moriancumr. I EXPECTED BETTER OF BELLA and for crying out loud, Stephenie, you couldn't have given the kid a name with CLASS?
Okay, my rant about that is over. I just hate that name with the fire of a thousand suns if you couldn't tell. I thought Carlie was cute--Charlie and Carlisle, feminized. Carlie Cullen. Much better than Ruh-nez-may. If I were Steph, I would have named the kid Renee Esme Swan Cullen or something like that. All the kids at school when she reaches maturity in 5 years are so going to make fun of her after they've stopped wondering how to spell her name. Her teachers will hate the name because they'll never know how to pronounce it on the first day of school. I hope they all call her Nessie or Ness.
Okay, so I thought my rant was over, but now it's really over.
JACOB IMPRINTED ON...WTK?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?! That had me laughing so hysterically that I woke up my creepy Chinese roommate. Yeah, "I don't want you as a son-in-law!!!!!!!!!"
Staggering description of the change. Well, no, the birth wasn't a piece of cake either. I mean holy freaking cow, who gets a snapped spine from giving birth?
I totally guessed right that Bella would be on the verge of death because of Edward and then get changed.
LOL, I love the first hunt. That was very creatively done.
I also guessed that Bella would have the ability to block her temptation. I guessed that based on the fact that she had sensitivity to human blood as a human and so she was not as overwhelmed by it as a vampire.
I thought there would be more of a, I don't know, culture shock with Bella getting used to being a vampire.
I love their cottage and Edward finding designer jeans and a t-shirt for Bella. You can tell that, in spite of being the stupidest frigging vampire for half of the books, he's a good little hubby.
So, Ness is adorable. I love her reading Tennyson with Bella. I think the whole thing with her power is remarkable. It reminded me more of a reverse-Aro than a reverse-Edward.
So, Jacob, you want to break the news gently that Chief Swan's daughter is a vampire. You PHASE IN FRONT OF HIM? DIDN'T YOU LEARN ANYTHING FROM HARRY CLEARWATER?! ROFL. I'm sorry, that entire chapter had me laughing like you would not believe. It's so Jacob.
I love all of the vampires coming together. Especially Alistair. I think he could be played very well by the guy who did Lord John Marbury for West Wing. I like Siobhan and am I the only one who thinks that Vladimir from Romania is actually Vlad the Impaler who is also known as Dracula? The guy's been around for 1500 years and is pissed off at the so-called vampire royalty. The whole thing with the gathering vampires reminded me of Season 7 of Buffy with all the potentials.
And okay, Volturi, overkill much? And for what? They come 3000 miles, pay for all those plane tickets...and they have a 20-minute debate and then go on their merry way. I thought it was an effectively tense thing to have the standoff and everyone saying their final goodbyes and all that, but OMK, talk about anticlimax. Aro from New Moon would have seemed out-of-character if he voted against Ness.
The whole thing with Irina was great tension. Her reasoning was sound and poor Tanya and Kate. I liked Kate especially. (Oh, at the wedding, I loved that Edward wouldn't hug Tanya!)
Sweet ending. Thanks for the index and the memories, Steph. I am never, ever going to say the name Renesmee. To me, it's the Dumbledoreisgay element of your series. It makes no sense and I'll sidestep it, but hey, you had to show a moment of idiocy at some point.
July 31, 2008
Dream a little dream of me...
Okay, so this has to be the weirdest dream I've had in years and it wasn't even while I was on medication.
I dreamed that it was my wedding day. I was dressed in a gorgeous strapless mermaid-style Vera Wang dress (and had the body for it) and was arriving at BYU's Harold B. Lee Library, where I walked down the main stairs to the second-floor computer lab. Everyone was sitting around the computers in each row, waiting for the bride to arrive. My friend Mike from Boston was the officiator. Katey was in a red bridesmaid dress as my Maid of Honor.
Well, I got down there and realized "Oh, crap. I have no idea who I'm supposed to be marrying." See, I had gotten the invitations sent out, the cake ordered, the dress bought, the guests invited, etc. etc. but just assumed that by the time I pulled all of THAT off, I would have a boyfriend who wanted to marry me. But no, it didn't happen.
So, very sheepishly, I'm about to tell this to my family and all of the guests (who on second thought are only my friends and relatives) when the door opens and this blonde guy in a tux walks in. Everyone recognizes him as a guy named Owen who in this dream lived with Chris in White House North. (Chris is the guy whom I have admired for going on three years now.) So everyone goes "Oh, yeah, we always knew you guys would be good together." He pulls me aside and goes "I saw you walking down the steps to the second floor and decided I want to get married to someone today. Do you want to marry me?" Well, since it would be easier to do it this way and not admit that I was a complete moron, I say yes. We get married. But not until after I've fired Katey for not having told me after all this time of her living next door to Owen that he wanted to marry me.
So, then at the reception in the Skyroom (what passes for fine dining on BYU campus), Owen tells everyone that now that he's graduated, we're moving to a haunted attic in North Carolina so he can write the Great American Novel. And I'm apparently fine with this.
And then I woke up just looking in utter bewilderment at the ceiling.
I dreamed that it was my wedding day. I was dressed in a gorgeous strapless mermaid-style Vera Wang dress (and had the body for it) and was arriving at BYU's Harold B. Lee Library, where I walked down the main stairs to the second-floor computer lab. Everyone was sitting around the computers in each row, waiting for the bride to arrive. My friend Mike from Boston was the officiator. Katey was in a red bridesmaid dress as my Maid of Honor.
Well, I got down there and realized "Oh, crap. I have no idea who I'm supposed to be marrying." See, I had gotten the invitations sent out, the cake ordered, the dress bought, the guests invited, etc. etc. but just assumed that by the time I pulled all of THAT off, I would have a boyfriend who wanted to marry me. But no, it didn't happen.
So, very sheepishly, I'm about to tell this to my family and all of the guests (who on second thought are only my friends and relatives) when the door opens and this blonde guy in a tux walks in. Everyone recognizes him as a guy named Owen who in this dream lived with Chris in White House North. (Chris is the guy whom I have admired for going on three years now.) So everyone goes "Oh, yeah, we always knew you guys would be good together." He pulls me aside and goes "I saw you walking down the steps to the second floor and decided I want to get married to someone today. Do you want to marry me?" Well, since it would be easier to do it this way and not admit that I was a complete moron, I say yes. We get married. But not until after I've fired Katey for not having told me after all this time of her living next door to Owen that he wanted to marry me.
So, then at the reception in the Skyroom (what passes for fine dining on BYU campus), Owen tells everyone that now that he's graduated, we're moving to a haunted attic in North Carolina so he can write the Great American Novel. And I'm apparently fine with this.
And then I woke up just looking in utter bewilderment at the ceiling.
July 24, 2008
Just my luck
So, I lived with two girls and then one of them got married. The other one is from Hong Kong and has always been kind of paranoid. She will lock you out if you go out in your bare feet to check the mail. She screams in terror if you have guests. She tells you every time you don't immediately lock the door that "The bad man outside's going to rape and kill us." Her reasoning for this fear is that our apartment has a sidewalk going behind our building and at midnight, when people are coming home from campus or from parties or just being out and about, she doesn't know if the people walking down that sidewalk are men or women. She's completely fluent in Engliish, having been here for nearly ten years, so I know she doesn't have communication problems.
Well, since my other roommate has gotten married, Florence has gotten really creepy. For one thing, last week, I was walking by her room on my way to church. She opened the door, saw me and let out a blood-curdling scream before slamming the door again.
Earlier in the week, I had come back from a midnight showing and she was actually speaking to me instead of screaming. Then I went out to check the mail and get a soda. I was gone less than one minute and came back to find her sitting rigid on the couch and looking as if she'd just been terrorized by something out of the Exorcist or something. It took me three times of asking if she was all right for her to say "yes."
Now, to top it all off, I think she's a klepto. I recently lost my job and have been penny-pinching so I can survive until I get another one. Well, on Monday, I set my beige embroidered purse on my bookshelf in my room with my wallet, my phone and a few other things like my ID. So, the next day, I couldn't find that bag. I thought I was just being really disorganized, so I went about my business with the dimes and quarters I had in my change jar. I still couldn't find it the next day.
Yesterday, I was walking home from the library and saw Florence ahead of me, carrying a purse. It was beige, embroidered, and had the same leather pull as mine, plus it had the same exact stain on the bottom. So while she was opening the door, I said "Nice purse."
She immediately bolted into the apartment and locked the door in my face. I pulled out my keys and unlocked the door on my own. When I got in, my purse was sitting in front of my door and the things that had been in it were in various places like the living room or on the kitchen table. But my money is gone. And her rationale for using that purse and everything in it was this: "You weren't using it."
So my roommate is paranoid, rigid catatonic at times, hostile and steals my purse just because I wasn't using it at 2 o'clock in the morning.
Our landlord's in California, a thousand miles away. Anyone got an idea of what I should do?
In other news, I won Best Original Character, Female last weekend.
Well, since my other roommate has gotten married, Florence has gotten really creepy. For one thing, last week, I was walking by her room on my way to church. She opened the door, saw me and let out a blood-curdling scream before slamming the door again.
Earlier in the week, I had come back from a midnight showing and she was actually speaking to me instead of screaming. Then I went out to check the mail and get a soda. I was gone less than one minute and came back to find her sitting rigid on the couch and looking as if she'd just been terrorized by something out of the Exorcist or something. It took me three times of asking if she was all right for her to say "yes."
Now, to top it all off, I think she's a klepto. I recently lost my job and have been penny-pinching so I can survive until I get another one. Well, on Monday, I set my beige embroidered purse on my bookshelf in my room with my wallet, my phone and a few other things like my ID. So, the next day, I couldn't find that bag. I thought I was just being really disorganized, so I went about my business with the dimes and quarters I had in my change jar. I still couldn't find it the next day.
Yesterday, I was walking home from the library and saw Florence ahead of me, carrying a purse. It was beige, embroidered, and had the same leather pull as mine, plus it had the same exact stain on the bottom. So while she was opening the door, I said "Nice purse."
She immediately bolted into the apartment and locked the door in my face. I pulled out my keys and unlocked the door on my own. When I got in, my purse was sitting in front of my door and the things that had been in it were in various places like the living room or on the kitchen table. But my money is gone. And her rationale for using that purse and everything in it was this: "You weren't using it."
So my roommate is paranoid, rigid catatonic at times, hostile and steals my purse just because I wasn't using it at 2 o'clock in the morning.
Our landlord's in California, a thousand miles away. Anyone got an idea of what I should do?
In other news, I won Best Original Character, Female last weekend.
June 13, 2008
The Universe Implodes
So, the annual TheForce.Net fanfiction awards have just started their nominations period and my readers have been good enough to give me several nominations so far in The Saga awards. Best Humor (Beauty and the Brained), Best Original Character, Female (Amne from Wife of Deceit); Best Canon Character, Male (Palpatine from Wife of Deceit); Best Short Story (Must Hate Ewoks), Most Underrated (In Absentia) and Best Series (the two Wife of Deceit stories)...oh and Best Collab for Fanfiction: the Musical!. Well, there's one I've left out...
Best Romance. For Wife of Deceit. This is the Palpatine Love Story where the trademark signature is for everyone to put in a nauseated emoticon and then go "Great work!" because I write Palpatine courting and marrying someone and they all think it's creepy and gross and somewhat awesome that I can pull it off. I can't stop laughing every time someone mentions having put in a nom for that category for the story.
Best Romance. For Wife of Deceit. This is the Palpatine Love Story where the trademark signature is for everyone to put in a nauseated emoticon and then go "Great work!" because I write Palpatine courting and marrying someone and they all think it's creepy and gross and somewhat awesome that I can pull it off. I can't stop laughing every time someone mentions having put in a nom for that category for the story.
April 30, 2008
ABCs
Borrowed from Bob.
A- Attached or single: Single, though I did just sit in glue.
B- Best Friend: Jess
C- Cake or Pie: Lemon meringue pie
D- Day of Choice: Wednesday
E- Essential Item: My red leather shoulderbag.
F- Favorite Color: Hunter green
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Gummi worms.
H- Hometown: Weston, MA
I -Indulgence(s): upscale things found at thrift stores, like the cashmere sweater and red leather coat that I found at DI for $1.50 and $5 respectively.
J- January or July: January. So many holidays to look forward to.
K-Kids: I don't have any.
L-Life is incomplete without: Sushi, friends, true religion and cute shoes
M- Marriage Date: Don't know yet
N- Number of Siblings: 3
O- Oranges or Apples: Apples for eating, oranges for smelling
P- Phobias or Fears: Dogs, enclosed spaces, rape, flying over water
Q- Quote(s): "Preach the gospel to all the world and, if necessary, use words." ~St. Francis of Assissi
R- Reason To Smile: My new apartment
S- Season: Autumn, except for the leaf-peeping freaks.
T- Tag: Katey
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I was once edited out of a movie when I stumbled onto the set of Stanley Tucci's "Joe Gould's Secret" in NYC.
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I'm a carnivore.
W- Worst Habit: overreaction.
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: X-rays all the way
Y- Your Favorite Food: Lemon meringue pie, peshwari nan, chicken tandoori, lasagna, Philadelphia roll, shrimp scampi, cajun salmon
Z-Zodiac: Sagittarius (and Year of the Monkey)
A- Attached or single: Single, though I did just sit in glue.
B- Best Friend: Jess
C- Cake or Pie: Lemon meringue pie
D- Day of Choice: Wednesday
E- Essential Item: My red leather shoulderbag.
F- Favorite Color: Hunter green
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Gummi worms.
H- Hometown: Weston, MA
I -Indulgence(s): upscale things found at thrift stores, like the cashmere sweater and red leather coat that I found at DI for $1.50 and $5 respectively.
J- January or July: January. So many holidays to look forward to.
K-Kids: I don't have any.
L-Life is incomplete without: Sushi, friends, true religion and cute shoes
M- Marriage Date: Don't know yet
N- Number of Siblings: 3
O- Oranges or Apples: Apples for eating, oranges for smelling
P- Phobias or Fears: Dogs, enclosed spaces, rape, flying over water
Q- Quote(s): "Preach the gospel to all the world and, if necessary, use words." ~St. Francis of Assissi
R- Reason To Smile: My new apartment
S- Season: Autumn, except for the leaf-peeping freaks.
T- Tag: Katey
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I was once edited out of a movie when I stumbled onto the set of Stanley Tucci's "Joe Gould's Secret" in NYC.
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I'm a carnivore.
W- Worst Habit: overreaction.
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: X-rays all the way
Y- Your Favorite Food: Lemon meringue pie, peshwari nan, chicken tandoori, lasagna, Philadelphia roll, shrimp scampi, cajun salmon
Z-Zodiac: Sagittarius (and Year of the Monkey)
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