beats to live by

2011-08-20T23:56:00.001-07:00

I guess there is always using ping to mass post like this. To bad there is not a driod app >.<

Week 63 (+45) Been a while again

2011-08-08T22:00:00.000-07:00

63

-Sixty-three is Ascii for question mark: '?'
-The number of chromosomes found in the offspring of a donkey and a horse.

Been a large handful of days since I've been back to update or anything on my LJ.

Had to change the sibling road trip (SRT) for this year. /sadpanda Instead of Oregon and the beach and the Wildlife park it is going to be Bear Lake with swimming and a cookout and smores. Also a couple friends on FB suggested Minnitonka Caves. Sounds fun and I think that Paul 'n Rach will like it. I know that we are all excited for Bear Lake later this month.

But mark my word we will make it to the Oregon trip this next year or sometime in the near future. It will happen! lol. Sounds to fun to skip and was planned out and all things it was green light and good to go. Only problem was that we could not get all four of our free days to line up for it thanks to John's section head yanking his vacations days. >.> Arse...

Other then that its just been the norm with School prep, work adult crap and life in general.

I've also been really excited for Craig and his new life adventures. Dropped him a house warming gift and I have another planned. I think it is a very exciting time in his life right now even with it being hectic.

Anyway while out and running errands I was listening to Pandora on my Droid phone and found a shit-ton of new bands that are awesome that I want to explore some more!

All these bands have that awesome Celtic folk/rock sound to them that I love in the band "Enter The Haggis" (ETH). Honestly I'm still on the fence about Flogging Molly. I grabbed a CD of theirs' after hearing a song on x96 and was kinda disappointed by it compared to ETH. I mean I love Scot-Irish traditional music like bagpipes, drums and flutes and I love celtic-alt/rock but their music just did not seem to click with me. I've tried letting it grow on me like I have had to with other CDs, even CDs from my fav bands. No such luck. :/ Oh well some of their songs are good.

Bands from the Dropkick Murphy station:
-Dropkick Murphy (yes I need to still look into them)
-Blaggards (kinda like Celtic-rock with sea shanties really neat)
-The Pogues
-The Real McKenzies
-Tossers
-The Tossers (I'll have to double check if this is the same group)
-The Young Dubliners
-The Briggs
-Gaelic Storm (They are the same band that was the 3rd class band in Titanic)
-Great Big Sea
-The Bollox

I really should use Pandora more often. I mean it has been how long since Craig told me about it? more then 3 years I think. I dunno but a long time and John uses it ALL THE TIME... In the car while running around. Want to listen to one of the many CDS in the car? Nope Pandora. lol.

By the way my Pandora username is my hotmail right now but if I can I'll change it to my gmail. Just if you are interested in my channels. *shrugs*

Anyway just a tiny update and more rantage then update. Oh well.

laters my interweb peeps

Its that time of year again. Oi... lol

2011-06-22T16:11:00.000-07:00

Just pasting my wall post from FB here 'cuz it says it all.

Just finished up all the lil details that *I* need to do for the SR this year and I'm not to surprised at the end product. I'm leaving the gas figures to John. As I was sitting here knee deep in mapquest, hotel addresses, room prices and dates, John who is on the couch playing WoW says that I'm great at this planing stuff and could do it for a living. Thx for saying so John but ummm no thx. It is as Ina said last time (or the time before I can't tell) my mother bird phase in the trip and doings. If I don't then it will never get done lol. Now just to wait for it to get close so I can go into panic mood and start doing the packing (or should I say bugging them to get packed) and entertainment and food ready. *sigh* more planing.

OH THE RAPTURE!

2011-05-20T16:35:00.000-07:00

~~OH THE RAPTURE!~~

.....err maybe not. :/

I wonder what this is?

2011-05-06T19:31:00.000-07:00

Current Location:: H2.0 - FINALLY I'M SOOOOO TIRED! -_-

Current Mood:: amused

Current Music:: nada right now

Hmm this looks interesting. ;D

2011-04-28T09:48:00.001-07:00

"Haters are like crickets. They make a lot of noise; you hear it, but you can't see them. Then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet." lol

NERDSCAPE for Kevin Hearne's Contest

2011-04-27T20:27:00.000-07:00

Current Music:: Final Boss - MC Frontalot

Kevin Hearne is having a contest over at his blog for a signed copy of his first book Hounded.

You can either do a Nerdscape (It’s a digital photo of 1) a book 2) an action figure and 3) junk food) or a Beerscape (beer and food).

In my Nerdscape we see Kimahri playing World of Warcraft as his guild's GM (not to be mistaken for the other
GM). His guild is named
Bad Wolf. Out front of his laptop is a cope of
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on DVD and a copy of The Sword of Truth: Faith of the Fallen. Why those two? Well The Two Tower's Battle of Helm's Deep (Battle of the Hornburg) is one of my favorites and Kahlan is just phenomenal at pulling her soldier's asses out of the fire. Great inspiration for a GM leading a raid in WoW. Off to the side my stuffed Jackalope from the birthplace of the Jackalope myth (Douglas, Wyoming) is rocking out to MC Frontalots' song "Last Boss" (MC Frontalot is the godfather of Nerdcore Hip Hop) getting himself pumped up for downing the bosses in the WoW raid.

This Youtube copy seems like a bad copy >.> seriously check out his stuff it is great.

Behind Kimahri on the 'wall' are two maps. One is a map of Middle-earth with the Eye of Sauron drawn on it. The other one is a map of The Midlands from SoT with a X on the Old World. There is also a fan made poster for Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) and one for Dumbledore's Army based on the Uncle Sam poster. On the laptop there are two stickers. One is Calvin and Hobbes spoof of Han Solo and Chewie on a mini Millennium Falcon and a spoof on the USPS logo with a Owl Post of Hogwarts.

Sadly I did not include a solid junk food but, if you are a geek/nerd/gamer I think you will agree that you gulp, glug and bleed Mt. Dew.

I think I over did it a lil and yet missed the solid food part. lol When I think nerd food I think what all WoW players joke about which is Mt. Dew and Hotpockets and since I had no Hotpockets ready to use I just used the Mt. Dew. I honestly had a blast with this and it was way fun. Winning would be beyond Uberly awesome but this was fun none the less. And yes I did over do the links in the post but that is for the people that don't quiet get all the things in the pic.

Either way I'm excited to grab a copy of Hounded when it comes out. :D

2011-04-25T17:42:00.001-07:00

Low the rumble of thunder and the smell of rain in the air.

Week 60 (+31) Dresses, rings, recptions and other girly thoughts POVs etc.

2011-04-25T00:52:00.000-07:00

Current Music:: All The Right Moves - OneRepublic

60
-In time, the number of seconds in a minute, and the number of minutes in an hour. (a legacy of the Babylonian number system)
-The number of miles per hour an automobile accelerates to from rest (0-60) as one of the standard measurements of performance
-In the Bible, the number 60 occurs several times, for example as the age of Isaac when Jacob and Esau were born, and the number of warriors escorting King Solomon.
-In the laws of kashrut of Judaism, 60 is also the proportion (60:1) of kosher to non-kosher ingredients which can render an admixture kosher post-facto.
-In darts, 60 (treble-twenty) is the highest score which can be achieved with a single dart.

Since John used part of his tax return to get a PS3 we now how a semi 'cable' like TV thing going on. Since you can use it to watch Netflix on your TV you don't have to be glued to a computer/laptop to watch all the on demand/instant view movies and TV/cable shows (It also get the Stars shows :D). So while I'm going about things like sewing John's pants or cleaning up or even getting up and ready for the day/ getting ready for night I have it on going in the background.

Anyway as of late I've been watching "Say yes to the Dress". I don't know why I started watching it but it is kinda interesting to watch. It reminded me of this show that was one the crap cable at the motel when we went to SD on our road trip last year. And as you all know I'm not a girly-girl so it kinda is out of sorts for me. Anyway John sees that I'm watching it and is getting on my case about it and how it is so dumb and blah-blah-blah. This in itself is not unlike John since he hates almost everything and defiantly whatever you (the universal you in this case meaning you, me and everyone lol) like/are doing/watching/have any interest in no matter how intense or passing it is. That is just John for you. Anyway about John I digress. So it is neat how they are not pressuring the people like a used car sales man. I also like seeing each persons view of the perfect dress is and what looks best on them. I also think that I decided to watch it since Rach was talking about how she would love to have her wedding reception at this mansion up in the aves. And after looking at it I can say that I like it as well.

Anyway as you can tell when to young women get together talk can and does turn to the matters of life. Higher education, GUYS and wedded life (etc.). It really surprises me when Rach and me sit down and shoot the shit. The things we talk about and the things we have in common. I mean there is almost a ten year difference and I'm a tom-boy and she is much more a girly-girl then I will ever be.

Things that we agree on is what is the point of a huge wedding reception for other people when you could just have a simple one and spend the money on a nicer/longer honeymoon? Though with her liking the mansion up in the aves that might change lol. Also why would you and your man stand for hours on end for the procession to come by and shake your hands when you are just going to end up with sore feet? Also why sink such a HUGE amount into your dress when you are just going to wear it once and then just put it in a box/trunk and never wear again and no your daughter is not going to want to wear it. She'll want her own and who can blame her. I mean you do right so duh! That was another thing that surprised me about the show. Some really nice dresses can be had for less then $2,500. That is not a ton of money for a dress. Hell even $1,800 got some gorgeous dresses. And remember this is at Kleinfeld Bridal in NYC that are designer made/name brand so those are REALLY good prices. I bet locally you can get similar dresses no matter where you live at those prices and below.

I also like how they showed brides in all shapes and sizes and all kinds of walks of life. From the Barbie type to BBW. From Rich as hell to not so much. I mean most of the dresses and brides shopping for them ranges from 5k down to 1.8k. I like the episode with the not quiet plus size biker chick with tattoos one which was a full sleeve of tats. They knew the kind of thing she would want to do and they always work within those lines not trying to make their views of the bride or the ideal thing happen only what she wants. Like a dress that showed her tats and yet looked wonderful as well. Very interesting show and look into different people's minds when it comes to this subject.

I think it is funny how John freaked out on me over this. First off is it really that weird that I as a 20 something chick would want to watch something like this? No matter if you are a tom-boy or a pretty princess at certain times all women seem to become interested in this kind of stuff. So why not me? And while all the guilt over it. I mean :P at him. I can dream and plan just as much as a thin chick that is all sugar and spice and pink glittery barf. It gave me a look into what kind of dresses are out there since I'm not one of those girls that has been dreaming about the perfect wedding since I was like six.

Personally I want a simple dress and a small simple reception that is not held at the church gym in a month that is not summer. I like either spring or fall personally and I want a simple ring not the mother of all rocks. I have simple taste and don't care to be the center of attention. Thats just me. Only thing that I want to be top notch is the photographer. I want to nice pics of the thing to remember it by and to hang up. A mix of color pics and black and white photos. I really like b&w pics.

Also I think it pisses John off because I have not written off marriage and a husband. I think he thinks that no one will love him in that way. Rach says that she does not think she will be married either but I think deep down she wants to find a great guy and has not written it off since she has a place she has picked out for her reception and knows what kind of dress she wants. I just don't believe in throwing in the towel until they shut the lid on my plus size coffin and I'm six feet under. I mean why would you? It might not be the mainstream thing of married in your early 20s/30s with 2.5 kids and a house in the suburbs but who cares as long as you are happy and all that warm cheery stuff.

I'm personally looking for a crazy guy that is himself not matter what, that loves doing whatever we like doing and doesn't give a flying frak whatever everyone else thinks and who will put up with my odd interest in all kinds of stuff and likes dogs lol. (Must love Dogs LOL) Doesn't give a crap what mine or his family thinks and can think for himself when it comes to ignoring them and others over what he and I want to do in life and all the everyday life stuff. Someone that can blow up at me and I can blow up with him and then we can shrug it off later after cooling off. Face all the shit that life can throw at a person and not let it blow him down. Someone that keeps getting up and brushing himself and me off and keep going. I'm just looking for that random Nerd that completes my geek lol.

Is that to much to look for in a guy? lol I dunno but it is ever changing since life is ever changing.

Just my thoughts on this. Its is late and my brain is just blah-blah-blahing right now. Just thinking out loud this week, ^_^

2011-04-20T11:05:00.003-07:00

I'm such a quotewhore :D

2011-04-20T11:05:00.001-07:00

"It takes courage to say you still believe in fairytales. It takes faith to hope for something impossible. It takes passion and imagination to break free from reality. And it takes love to live happily in a world that’s absolutely against you."

2011-04-20T11:04:00.003-07:00

"When someone gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show that someone a thousand reasons to smile."

2011-04-20T11:04:00.001-07:00

"Don't look for the one that kisses your ass, look for the one that pushes your buttons & pisses you off on a daily basis, love's not supposed to be easy, it's just supposed to be worth it"

2011-04-20T08:47:00.001-07:00

"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" is the fear of long words.

Sandman and other evolving ideas - Story WIP

2011-04-18T20:32:00.000-07:00

Revisiting my ideas involving the "Dream Dragon/Night-Terror" story (The one about Baarup) I've been thinking over the evil back history of these creature and the people out to control them.

Here is my idea for the evil sect that use to use them in horrible ways. Some of the foot soldiers for the sect, the really feared ones are called Sandmen (Sandman). They are the Dark Scribes, the Blood Scribes of the sect. They and their muscle of thugs capture people focusing on children and women but taking any and all people to fulfill their needs. The bring them back to their garrisons.

There they place them in cells surrounding the clutches of eggs where a horrible smelling incense is burning. It burns the eyes and fogs the mind. There families are torn apart and put in separate cells. Out of reach of each other but within sight of each other. Here is where the Scribes get to work. When the prisoners are over come by the incense the scribes use ashes from the incense, they blow it into the prisoners faces where almost immediately they are raked by horrible seizures and screams of unimaginable fear. Using a knife to cut the person, they gather the trickling blood using it to write on their vellum only the Shaper (Their Creator) knows what. These vellum are cursed things that are later passed to the blind Elders of the sect that sit in the poisoned incense and chants from the scrolls in a tongue not heard this side of life. Then the scrolls are burned in the incense pyres. These ashes are mixed with some of the hatched egg shell from the Night-Terrors to make the powder they blow in the face of the prisoners.

All this deforms and molds the unhatched dracs into monsters, horrible creatures that the Sect uses to further its iron stranglehold of the lands.

The Sandman are dark cloaked people donning mask of monsters and viscous animals. On their backs they carry large messenger tubes that house the scrolls of cursed vellum. Of the few that have lived to tell the tale of their escape they still have dreams of the rasping sound of the Blood Scribes breathing through their horrible mask and the smell of chard blood and ash.

Just some ideas for the history of the Sect (better name might be coming in the future lol). $0.02 welcome.

Week 59 (+31) Last couple of weeks could have been a bit better

2011-04-15T18:35:00.000-07:00

59
-The number corresponding to the last minute in a given hour, and the last second in a given minute.
-The number on a button commonly worn by feminist activists in the 1970s; this was based on the claim that a woman earned 59 cents to an equally qualified man's dollar.

So This last year or so I've been a slacker in posting. Lazy yeah but also kinda busy with other things. Still wish I was more consistent like I use to be.

So I missed getting my annual blood draw due to the preceding appointment running long and so when I checked the lab they had closed for the day. Been trying to get back in and have yet to have much time. Oy... Later that week dad told me that Tortaro looked like he had a chunk bitten out of his backside when he saw him outside my parent's place. I asked Paul to round him up (since he is the fastest) and bring him on over here so I could get a look at it. He did and when I got a look at it I knew he needed to get in to a vet ASAP.

Pic of his wound after Paul brought him over for me to get a look at.

Tried our regular vet and they where working on a dog so they could not take him that day so we had to take him to one up on the East side that they recommended. We go there and after all the regular waiting and talking to the techs and the on call vet we ended up paying $215 to get him stabilized and cleaned up a lil bit. Took home some pain killers and antibiotics and a cone. He seemed okay pain wise and in every other aspect except for the massive wound on his backside, that the vet had informed us it looked infected. They wanted us to come back that Monday or hit up our regular vet. So that Monday bright and early we rounded up Tortaro which has been staying with us and stopped by the other vet since they had handled him already. Got there and they had a look at him and said that he was healing so well on his own that they wanted us to just keep and eye on him and his wound to see if it would heal together and scab over without the surgery to pull his wound together and sew it shut.

Some of the pics of his wound healing together.

Another one later one. Don't know why it is so small of a pic. >.>

Right now it is only a bumpy healed area with a sliver of a cut left to heal with fur growing over most of the old wounded area. I'm so glad.

...I've yet to get back into the doctor to do the blood draw... Oy.

Found a ton of new music and books in the last few weeks. Really diggin' Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons. Heard it on the radio and just loved it. Will have to listen to some of their other stuff and see if I like as well. Also looking into "Dropkick Murphys". They sound better then "Flogging Molly" but not quiet as good as "Enter the Haggis" so who knows. Also heard the new-ish The Ballad Of Mona Lisa by "Panic! At The Disco" and
Help is on the way by "Rise against". I have not really been listening to a ton of mainstream bands much other then the ones I fallow like "Linkin Park" so if these have been out for awhile oh well. lol.

Been spending much more time digging through the alt or indie stuff thx in large part to people at FA posting songs.

Also looking forward to getting my new cell phone and that it is going to be a Android smart phone! :D John got me hooked to Android phones by letting me play with his. I love all the fun and useful aps. Like Shazam that listens to a song that is play on the radio and can tell you the name of the song and band! Helped me tell John what the Panic! At the Disco one was among others. I really like this app. Also I'm kinda addicted to FourSquare so that will be fun to have a phone that can use it. Also gotta love the Google Maps GPS feature! It was such a life saver on the road trip this last year. Also for someone like John that could get lost in a paper bag it really helps. Just click the mic icon and say "Navigate to..." wherever you are going and it will direct you there even with voice directions and will also re-route when you need to go out of the way from its directions like if there is traffic. I also found a app called
doubleTwist that will let me transfer my songs from iTunes to the Android phone! So I won't have to carry both my iPod and my Android phone! Also the camera is better then the one on my old phone and is great since I don't like to lug around my expensive big digital SLR camera with me in my day to day errands. I love this camera app that John found called
Vignette. It allows you to do a ton on the fly pictures changes/visual effects (my fav is toy camera in B&W with a square border). Do I sound like enough of a ad for Android phones yet? LOL! Anyway I'm excited.

Also just saw Rach off for her spring break a-capella trip. Also tried my hand at french braiding her hair for her. Was not to bad, for a first time. Oy, need another hand when doing that. lol.

Anyway school is winding down around here and summer means the road trip so I'll still be busy.

2011-04-13T16:51:00.001-07:00

what do you think happen at the end of the movie "Inception"? Did the top fall or did it spin on?

2011-04-12T09:15:00.001-07:00

Ever notice there is a West, East and use to be a South High but there is no North High. Odd.

2011-03-29T11:17:00.001-07:00

Taken from OMGfacts: Dating advice from @JennyMcCarthy: “just fart right away” <--- LOL

2011-03-26T23:12:00.001-07:00

Tortaro (our cat) dislikes the cone and meds but other then the gruesome wound one his back side he is doing fine for now. Back to the vet Monday for a surgery and more 'fun'. D:

2011-03-25T10:21:00.001-07:00

Yay! Lunch at a new place. Hope it is as nummy as it looks.

2011-03-25T07:57:00.001-07:00

Hate getting out the door and started late. D:

Week 58 (+29) I love trees I really do, I just love imagination in the palm of my hand more.

2011-03-23T16:46:00.000-07:00

58

-The number 58 was commonly associated with misfortune in many civilizations native to either Central America or Southern America. Due to their beliefs in the original 58 sins, the number came to symbolize curses and ill-luck. Aztec oracles supposedly stumbled across the number an unnaturally high number of times before disaster fell. One famous recording of this, though largely discredited as mere folktale, concerned the oracle of Moctezuma II, who allegedly counted 58 pieces of gold scattered before a sacrificial pit the day prior to the arrival of Hernan Cortés.

You know you have a love of books when you start piling them up before you even got to the end of the one you are currently reading and that is just the tip of the list (long long list).

As of late many of the books I've been looking into I've found via the "Fantasy Book Critic" blog on Blogger. Very cool site and great reviews.

Just wanted to share my list here. lol. Not only because I think they are neat books but because I always seem to be loosing my lists.

YA:

-The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

-The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
-Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
-Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Adult:

Stephen King:
-Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King

Max Brooks (Zombie books)
-World War Z : An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
-The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead -

by Max Brooks

-Blacksad vol. 1, 3

-Maus vol. 1-2

Hellboy volumes:
-6. Hellboy: Strange Places (April 2006)
-7. Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others (November 2007)
-8. Hellboy: Darkness Calls (May 2008)
-9. Hellboy: Wild Hunt (March 2010) *YAY!*
-10. Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others (June 2010) *wimper*

Sword of Truth:

-Wizard's First Rule (book 1) XX-got-XX
-Stone of Tears (book 2) XX-got-XX
-Blood of the Fold (book 3) XX-got-XX
-Temple of the Winds (book 4)
-Soul of the Fire (book 5)
-Faith of the Fallen (book 6)
-The Pillars of Creation (book 7)
-Naked Empire (book 8)
-Chainfire (book 9)
-Phantom (book 10)
-Confessor (book 11)

Dresden Files:

-Death Masks (book 5)
-Blood Rites (book 6)
-Dead Beat (book 7)
-Proven Guilty (book 8)
-White Night (book 9)
-Small Favor (book 10)
-Turn Coat (book 11)
-Changes 2010 April 6 (<-- hard cover release date PB TBA)
-Side Jobs 2010 November 11 (<-- hard cover release date PB TBA)

-"Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" by Mary Roach xxgotxx
-"River of Gods" by Ian McDonald
-"The Shack" by William P. Young

Emily Gee
-Thief With No Shadow
-The Laurentine Spy
-The Sentinel Mage (Feb. 2011)

-Blue and Gold by K. J. Parker

-Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt 1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

(there are 5 or 6 books in the series)

-Havemercy by Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett

-The Magicians is a fantasy novel by Lev Grossman

-Feed (2002) is a dystopian novel of the cyberpunk genre by M. T.

(Matthew Tobin) Anderson

-Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick (TBA April 1st '11)

-Sea of Ghosts by Alan Campbell
-Scar Night (The Deepgate Codex book 1) by Alan Campbell (~maybe)
-Iron Angel (The Deepgate Codex book 2) by Alan Campbell (~maybe)
-God of Clocks (The Deepgate Codex book 3) by Alan Campbell (~maybe)

-What Time Forgets: The Daughters of Ard Creggan by K. E. Redmond

-A Devil in the Details by K.A. Stewart

-Malazan Book of the Fallen Series (1-10) by Steven Erikson

-Dante's Journey by JC Marino

Great sounding books from looking on Amazon (UK)
-Tome of the Undergates by Sam Sykes
-Black Halo (Aeons Gate 2) (second book) by Sam Sykes (TBA)

-The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman
-The Last Four Things (book 2) by Paul Hoffman (TBA)

-Shadows's Son by Jon Sprunk
-Shadow's Lure (Shadow 2) (book 2) by Jon Sprunk (TBA)

-Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence (TBA)

-Wolfsangel by M.D. Lachlan
"The Viking King Authun leads his men on a raid against an Anglo-Saxon village. Men and women are killed indiscriminately but Authun demands that no child be touched. He is acting on prophecy. A prophecy that tells him that the Saxons have stolen a child from the Gods. If Authun, in turn, takes the child and raises him as an heir, the child will lead his people to glory. But Authun discovers not one child, but twin baby boys. Ensuring that his faithful warriors, witnesses to what has happened, die during the raid Authun takes the children and their mother home, back to the witches who live on the troll wall. And he places his destiny in their hands. And so begins a stunning multi-volume fantasy epic that will take a werewolf from his beginnings as the heir to a brutal Viking king, down through the ages. It is a journey that will see him hunt for his lost love through centuries and lives, and see the endless battle between the wolf, Odin and Loki - the eternal trickster - spill over into countless bloody conflicts from our history, and over into our lives. This is the myth of the werewolf as it has never been told before and marks the beginning of an extraordinary new fantasy series from Gollancz." *drools* Sounds like a awesome book! :D
-Fenrir by M.D. Lachlan (TBA)

-Nights of Villjamur (Legends of the Red Sun) by Mark Charan Newton
-City of Ruin (Legends of the Red Sun 2) by Mark Charan Newton
-The Book of Transformations (Red Sun by Mark Charan Newton (TBA)

2011-03-22T08:14:00.001-07:00

Taken from OMGfacts: 1 study found the 2 most important factors for marriage compatibility were religion and similarity of drinking habits.

2011-03-04T15:35:00.001-08:00

Ugh my package was dropped off at my parents place and no one is home and John has the car today >.<

2011-03-02T15:18:00.001-08:00

I may be nuts but I'm looking forward to a free days to get errands done on.

2011-03-02T15:00:00.001-08:00

"It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow." -Proverb

2011-03-02T14:42:00.001-08:00

Taken from OMGfacts: There are more tigers in captivity in Texas than in the wild globally. <-- Very sad

2011-02-26T10:47:00.001-08:00

"When odds are one in a million, be that one!" ~ Anonymous

2011-02-22T07:56:00.001-08:00

Feel like death. I hate being sick... again. D:

2011-02-20T06:35:00.001-08:00

The soft and steady fall of snowflakes this morning.

2011-02-18T19:20:00.001-08:00

Took a drink of water & did not notice the soap after taste until already swallowing. Tummy now REALLY hurts! Ugh...

2011-02-14T22:57:00.001-08:00

I commiserate all the pessimistic people out there always seeing the downside and bad crap link to everything in life.

2011-02-14T16:40:00.001-08:00

Happy Saint Valentine's Day/Singles Awareness Day :D

2011-02-09T19:58:00.001-08:00

Already sleepy -.-

Week 56 (+23) In planning mode

2011-02-01T02:08:00.000-08:00

56

-The number of Aubrey Holes (thought to have located wooden posts) in the first stage of Stonehenge.
-The number of men who signed the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776.

So I have been sick this past few days with it only hitting me the other night. I wondered why I felt weak and odd and it had me worried until all the rest of the normal start up signs of being sick hit me. Not fun. I spent the last night chilling and wrapped in a electric heated blanket watching crap TV until I felt tired enough to sleep. This morning I have mucus running down my throat and a lil hint of a cough every now and again. I always seem to be the one that holds out the longest in the family when sick. Then it hits me with 20 double barrow shot guns all at once. This time it is not that bad YET.

I've been working on a few projects and even got one that I'd been mulling over for a while done with. It was a sew project that I had been tinkering with in my head.

New music that discovered in the last lil bit:

This song is brought to you by a bored Rach. It is OAH by Alexander Rybak He is the 2009 Eurovision winner and a Norwegian musision.

I also like this song by Rybak.
Europe's Skies - Alexander Rybak

His music has a folk/gypsy/pop feel to them IMHO. To bad that his CD has to be imported at a cost of $30+ bucks.

Zircon - The Art of Zen

Found this one through FA. Tons of good music is link through the artist on FA. There is another one that I've been listening to on the laptop but I can't recall what it is or who it is by so that will have to be posted later.

Now onto the planning in the Planning post.

So the destination for Sibling Road Trip XI is going to be Oregon! The major things we are hitting up are Wildlife Safari and the beach! Sadly I was planning to try and make this trip shorter then the last one but ended up making it much longer. Two days there with a stop (when I say stop I mean for the night) in Winnemucca, Navada (5 hours) and another in Klamath Falls, Oregon (10 hours >.<) and then onto our vacation destination of Winston (3.5 hours) with two days for fun there. Then the inverse of it on the way home. Six days round trip. I tried so many ways to get the second leg of the journey cut down but I just could not find a place to stop and stay at. It looks like the place leaving Winnemucca is rather desolate until you cross the boarder into Oregon.

So now the grit of planning minus the money and hotel/motel stops that John and I have already worked out. Wildlife Safari is like a MASSIVE Bear County USA that we hit up in South Dakota. Bear County was a huge hit with everyone even more then I planned. I thought that all the other sibs would just kinda like it and I was going to be the only one that really, really liked it (I can't say looked forward to it as it was a surprise major side trip while in SD). But no it was a massive hit with them. Wildlife Safari is bigger and has not just North American wide life but African and Asian wildlife as well. After I looked it up and read their website about it and told Rach and John about it Rach was giddy as hell about it! A couple extras that we are also going to spring for while we are there is the elephant car was and the tiny train ride (kinda like they have at zoos). Rachel is extremely excited about the car wash that is to quote from their site "Guaranteed not to get your car clean!!!!!"

Did I mention that you get to stay in your car while they do it? John said about the extra cost of the wash "might as well since we are going to be there". It cost only about $10 bucks more then Bear County USA sans the elephant car wash and the mini train ($2 per person). (I kinda want one of the paintings that the cheetahs paint as my souvenir.)

Then either that day or the next the beach! I have a kinda stupid but fun idea for that. While we are having fun doing all the beach stuff they can gather up a lil bit of sand and put it in some small glass viles/jars I'm going to be picking up off of Etsy and bring it home as a memento of the trip and the day at the beach.

Been thinking if I want to bring food coloring as well so they could color it if they want in the hotel room later that day but the mess seem like a bad idea and I think the bottles with the sand alone will be cute enough. (Oy I feel like a half baked crafty soccer mom sometimes lol) I think that I should look up some sand castle buckets/kits and see if I could buy one cheep for the beach as well.

Anyway that is it for tonight.

2011-01-31T00:36:00.001-08:00

Wrapped in heated blanket & still rather cold. I knew something was off when I felt weak & off today. Guess its my turn to be sick. D:

2011-01-21T21:10:00.001-08:00

Here comes another yippy-yippy YAY!

2011-01-21T21:08:00.001-08:00

Waitin' on a train, waitin' on a train la la la...

2011-01-19T22:10:00.001-08:00

Yay waiting on a train...

Found it!

2011-01-14T12:23:00.000-08:00

I tend to like watching some craft segments/shows that come on... sometimes. Many times they have HORRIBLE ideas that are just vapid crap but every once in a while they have neat or interesting ideas.

I saw this one on the Katie Brown Work Shop that comes on ch. 11-3 Create.

Direct Transfer Memoires

Materials

Stack of black and white photocopies
Clear packing tape
Baking dish large enough to fit the photocopies in, filled with water
Polymer Acrylic Medium
Thin craft wood
Pencil
Hinged metal ring

Tools

Scissors
Hole puncher
Foam brush

Getting Started

1. Cover the black and white photocopies with the packing tape photo, overlapping the strips of tape as you go. Trip the excess tape.
2. Soak the paper in the water, rubbing the back of the paper until there is no more paper on the tape and the image has been transferred. Dry the tape photo.
3. Measure and cut the wood to whatever size you want your album to be. Using a dry foam brush cover the wood in a generous and even layer of medium. Lay the photocopy face down onto the wood.
4. Beginning at the middle of the board, use your fingers to work out any excess medium or air bubbles. Allow to dry.
5. Punch a hole in the top corner of the wood and attack the metal ring; this is so that you can keep all your wood photographs together.

Hints & Clues

For black and white photocopy family photographs, the fresher the copy, and the higher the contrast the better the end result.

For extra pop and durability, add another layer of medium to the top. The imperfection of the transferred image is part of its appeal and character.

If you want to have titles for your images scan in the photographs and add type.

New (forgotten?) music and art

2011-01-14T12:02:00.000-08:00

Old classmate posted a song from OneRepublic on FB to his girlfriend and after giving it a listen and loving it I wiki-ed and youtubed them and after coming across the song below I knew I had heard them before!

All The Right Moves - OneRepublic

^The music video for this song is great! It reminds me of something Abney Park might do. Very dirty Victorian and oh so addictive!

Anyway I was trying to recall where I have heard it before and I think that is was on x96, maybe the deep x-cuts they do with new bands and songs or such. Most the time when I hear a good song/band that I do not know I try and catch the name or some of the lyrics and jot them down to look up and I think that is what I did with this one but I lost the paper before I looked it up online. I HATE when that happens and I miss out on something as cool as this band. But HA-HA I now have them! MINE!

Another band that I found through the always funny Dooce is Animal collective. She posted the song "my Girls" for the background music on her end of the year clip review.

My Girls - Animal Collective

Defiantly worth a deeper look and listen.

I might have just almost smashed the CD/band goal for '11. LOL love feeling less guilty and free going off the mainstream circuit for awesome groups and great music.

Also was toying with and idea for the short story for this year. I was thinking of revisiting the idea of the man behind the myth of King Arthur. I like the idea that "The Bear" is the main man behind the myth. I kinda want to do a exploration of the making of "The Bear". How he got the man and a bit of 'his' back story, or should I say that is what I want to make up. I was trying to think of what would you call it. It is not a true historical fiction as there is more fiction then history and there is nothing similar like mythical fiction it would just be fiction. lol yeah I'm an odd one.

The way it is forming up in my head right now is that he is sitting around a fire at night with many of the young people from his tribe and a few of his warriors after a hard day of training and hunting in the field when a youth asks him about ...oh say a scar, or how he became known as "The Bear" and start in with that being the true story. I also wanted to think that the way he became known as "The Bear" was from saving his own group of youth in training from a menacing legend of a bear while they where alone training in the wilds.

This idea kinda meshed and sprouted from the training that the Spartan youth went through out there alone as young boys/teens. I also think that the Arthur idea came from watching the movie "The Last Legion" where they took the idea that King Arthur sprang from Roman roots and a Roman Legionary. I hate that they think he had to be a non-home grown hero and myth.

So anyway the idea is there and it just needs to have time to grow from the sprouts.

Also I have been making over the walls of my space from dorm room 'chic' to something a lil more mature. I have pics but not on my computer. :/

Week 55 (+21) SCORPIO FOREVER!

2011-01-14T00:02:00.000-08:00

55

-Restaurant slang for root beer.

Astronomer Parke Kunkle says that due to changes in the Earth's alignment the dates of many zodiac signs have changed, according to NBC. In addition, there may be a 13th Zodiac sign: Ophiuchus.

Kunkle says that as the Earth and Sun slowly move the signs gradually change, as expected.

The change didn't happen over night either. The 12 signs were designated to different periods of the year almost 3,000 years ago, when astrology began, and since then the Earth's position in relation to the sun has changed.

While the sign many people were born under may now be different, it shouldn't affect horoscope readings, according to NBC.

See if your Zodiac sign has changed below.

The New Dates:

Capricorn: Jan. 20 - Feb. 16
Aquarius: Feb. 16 - March 11
Pisces: March 11- April 18
Aries: April 18 - May 13
Taurus: May 13 - June 21
Gemini: June 21 - July 20
Cancer: July 20 - Aug. 10
Leo: Aug. 10 - Sept. 16
Virgo: Sept. 16 - Oct. 30
Libra: Oct. 30 - Nov. 23
Scorpio: Nov. 23 - Nov. 29
Ophiuchus: Nov. 29 - Dec. 17
Sagittarius: Dec. 17 - Jan. 20

Scorpio: Nov. 23 - Nov. 29 = only 6 days it is a conspiracy against us Scorpios!

FRAK YOU MAN SCORPIO FOREVER! (I really dunno why this bugs me so much O.o but it does.) I am so a Scorpio and not a ~~Libra~~. Who is this Parke Kunkle and what does he think he is to mess with everyone's signs. I think that blogosphere has spoken!

Anyway this guy below is right!

^I was thinking this same thing. The heavens have had one Hell of a decade.

^I'm going with this. Suck it Parke Kunkle! Even if fools get screwed ober from '09 forward I'm a '80s baby. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(Yes I'm nuts thanls for asking!)

2011-01-12T00:16:00.001-08:00

Finishing up a project and watching a show about MoTab on the road. Love their singing!

2011-01-03T07:00:00.001-08:00

Morning people!

2011-01-02T17:15:00.001-08:00

Tried to tell John where something was in the other room. He could not find it. I keep forgetting he would not be able to find his head if it was not attached to his neck. Oy.

2011-01-02T17:13:00.001-08:00

Tried to tell John where something was in the other room. He could not find it. I keep forgetting he would not be able to find his head if it was not attached to his neck. Oy.

2010-12-30T01:42:00.001-08:00

Can't sleep again. :-/ ipod is dead so I can't listen to some of the audio book on there. Thought it was 4 but is only around 2. Might still get up.

2010-12-30T01:17:00.001-08:00

Can't sleep. Mind busy with ideas & question but only a dash of worry if that. Just to much in my head. :D:

2010-12-29T03:17:00.001-08:00

Can't sleep. Mind busy with ideas & question but only a dash of worry if that. Just to much in my head. :D:

Week 53 (+18) Grrrr I've been lax on posting each week

2010-12-12T19:55:00.000-08:00

53

-The racing number of Herbie, a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of his own, first appearing in the 1969 film The Love Bug.

Been a busy week all-in-all but, even at the same time it has been very lazy.

So for me and the boys the long waited third expac came out for WoW/World of Warcraft: Cataclysm at midnight on the 6th. We grabbed up a CE (collectors edition) at Best Buy for Paul and then I had to run John up to work before coming back down and picking up mine and John's CEs at Gamestop. So we have been spend a lot of our down time enjoying the new things and levels in WoW.

Also got new Netflixs so we got to watch the new season of Doctor Who episode one and two. All I can say is AWESOME! I think the last Doctor (number 10) was a much sexier nerd then the new Doctor (number 11) but both are funny as hell. The new Doctor had my busting up laughing through both episodes. Also saw Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. It had a great idea and plot pushing it and I was sad that it was not based on a book. Would have been a great book for YA. Much better then the Percy Jackson movie, though the PJ books have some fun ideas that they play with.

Speaking of books, movies and ideas I've been trying to puzzle the best way to keep a 'idea journal/notebook' for writing. I think I'm going to just have to have a unorganized notebook full of all the ideas I like.

Like all the ideas I got while watching the National Geographic "Is It Real" episode on King Arthur. They put forth three ideas about who he/the myth might have been based off of. I liked the one about him being a home grown man based off of 'The Bear' Owain Danwyn (Owen White-Teeth). Much better and prideful idea then the 'High King' or as interesting as the idea is a Roman solder that stayed behind with 'his adopted people'. In fact the idea that he was a Roman is the idea behind a Hollywood movies that came out in 2004 "King Arthur". It is a great film but I dislike the idea that the man the myth is based on was something other then from Briton (as it was called way back when).

Which kinda brings me back to the idea notebook. I have as of late many tabs popped up on my Firefox browser and then for some asinine reason it keeps crashing. I just had to go back through my browser history for the pages I had popped up on 'The Bear'.

Also had to deal with a big fuck up with my school tuition that has made me uber pissed. I worked it out more or less but it is still let me anything but happy.

I came across this quote while reading a fan site tonight and it is the kind of thing I would say to John.

""...but this is a fantasy world where fantastic things happen. And sure, there are rules, which is why you can turn into a cat but not a turtle, but they're not your real-world rules." -Saeadame

This is similar to my answer to people that can't suspend disbelief and enjoy fiction whether it is fantasy or sic-fi.

Anyway this is all for tonight post.

2010-11-26T21:01:00.001-08:00

Waking up to a real bird flying around your room is odd 'n kinda funny.

Week 50 (+17)I have been MIA or AFK for ANOTHER 4 weeks

2010-11-21T15:32:00.000-08:00

51

-Area 51, a parcel of U.S. military-controlled land in southern Nevada, apparently containing a secret aircraft testing facility.
-The New General Catalogue object NGC 51, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda.

Been a month since I last posted and it seems like I've been to busy to get around to posting. Or maybe I just didn't make time for it. Eeh well I'm posting now. lol

So I woke up to this when I looked out my window this morning.

I should not be surprised as it was suppose to start snowing on Friday and also snow Saturday which it finally did late that night.

I like snow I really do but, I hate the ice that comes with it. I also hate driving in it and sliding on the roads in it and the wet shoes, socks and pant cuffs. I love to watch it fall and see everything in a clean, white undisturbed sheet. I love to watch animals and kids play in it. I also love that time of year.

Christmas has been one holiday that I always look forward to. My family has never had much and each year it seems less and less for the holidays but it is just a great time of year like something joyous is in the air. I also love buying presents for other people. :D ...I dread getting presents though. I really dislike faking pleasure over them. I know most of the people around me can't get me what I really like and I don't expect them to but I don't want to be cruel and hurtful at the same time.

I also turned 26 this last Friday. I was thinking about grabbing a pic each year on my birthday and so I shot a few and some of the funny ones for that project happened on Saturday and I just love them.

I present you Jessica at 26.

Speaking of Friday I was sad to learn that Linkin Park was coming to Salt Lake (IE less then a miles from my apartment) and tickets went on sale that day and I am broke until later this week. Grrrrrrr Being broke means I'm also celebrating my birthday in a belated manor this coming week. And since I don't want to push John's cooking skills I am going to go a none cooking birthday meal. I'm thinking a pudding pie and a long sub with some finger food sides. Something fun that we cane change here and there to suit our different taste but have the same meal and we can also take it over to watch movies while we munch.

I'm kinda excited because I can pick up three CDs I've been looking forward to. The new ones from Linkin Park and Abney Park and also the Original Sound Track for the Lord of the Rings on Stage (Musical LOTRs)!

There are other things but I really can't recall them.

Other then hitting Ikea up almost each check to pick up some things here and there to slowly organize and change how our place looks and feels and how we can use and enjoy it.

Sadly the Ikea thing is very fun for me and makes me excited to do. lol

2010-11-11T00:10:00.001-08:00

Sleep killing snoring... Earplugs?

2010-11-06T17:49:00.001-07:00

I'm not mad/upset just because I'm not smiling. Though it doesn't mean I'm happy either. I just don't smile all the time like I did as a kid. :-/ hmm

2010-11-05T18:18:00.001-07:00

Fixing a belatted b-day dinner for John :D

JOHN STAY OUT OF THIS POST!!! B-day planning post

2010-11-02T02:49:00.000-07:00

Current Mood:: accomplished

Current Music:: the sound of me wiping my tired eyes

^ Like I said John stay out on threat of a ruined birthday surprise!

LAST WARNING JOHN!

Okay John's birthday is Thursday of this week and since payday is after his b-day all of this is going to be late but as he already knows that matters very lil. I think he is going to really love this idea anyway.

I was thinking over what I could and should get him for his b-day present. I don't recall when this idea formed exactly but I know it started with a very simple idea.

The first thing that popped into my head was to make him a simple Android™ stencil t-shirt.

As you can see the mascot is simple and very cute/cool.

(Yes I know I might be running this stenciling of t-shirts into the ground for some but I really like it! If you are plus size you know how limited it can be to get cool designed shirts and so this only limits what you have on a shirt by your imagination and or skill, and as we know practice makes perfect. ;D Plus this way you can always get what you want in the color you want. win-win)

But as I was mulling this over I had this funny idea pop into my head. What if I added the Companion Cube from the very funny game Portal and have them be in love. <3>

This is the raw stencil that I'm going to be printing and cutting out so the color is not final and all that will be changed when I put it on the shirt front. (...what color I want the t-shirt I have yet to finalize.)

BUT then I had another idea. What if on the center high on the back (kinda between the shoulder blades area) if I put what I might imagine the offspring of the Android and the Companion Cube *might* look like. LOL! The very idea cracks me up! So back to the web and tons for searches I found a 'evil' looking Droid mock up someone did and modding it heavily with the original and another Companion Cube stencil I came up with a very VERY rough mock up for the bastard offspring of them both.

The arrows on the face are from my modding and reminders for myself and won't be there and the color and such are going to be modded when I cut and paint it.

So here is my crazy idea. I have some big doubts about the second one for the back but I love the first one and know it will work out fine even it is goes it alone without the back one.

2010-10-31T14:25:00.001-07:00

Lunner & Netflix :D

2010-10-27T04:00:00.001-07:00

A certain someone inherited a freight train snore that spans this apartment... D:

2010-10-10T11:20:00.001-07:00

Afternoon people :-D

2010-09-27T20:05:00.001-07:00

Sometimes you have to run as hard as you can just to stand still.

2010-09-26T01:30:00.001-07:00

...nothing yet. I'm turning in as I'm really dead now.

2010-09-25T22:47:00.001-07:00

While this is in my mind where can I buy a dry errase calendar a large one & markers? Random brain fart.

2010-09-03T09:21:00.001-07:00

Is in a rather good mood as things seem to be falling into place well.

2010-08-31T18:56:00.001-07:00

IF YOU KNOW THE WORDS SING ALONG! .....crickets..... Man poor Adam Young of Owl City.

2010-08-31T18:39:00.001-07:00

Wow the crowd is dead for Owl City...

2010-08-26T09:31:00.001-07:00

Holy crap! Massive wind turbine blades heading south on another train. Not the regular stuff u see passing through Utah.

2010-08-19T00:37:00.001-07:00

What is with the zig-zaggy traffic lines in the UK?

2010-08-19T00:02:00.001-07:00

Looks like there might be a storm.

2010-08-17T19:44:00.001-07:00

A not so good day. ugh...

2010-08-13T08:07:00.001-07:00

Friday the 13th woot!

2010-08-11T18:31:00.001-07:00

Everyone give Rach 17 birthday spankings today!!!

2010-08-11T18:29:00.001-07:00

Can't stand people that CHOOSE to walk around in a grey cloud funk all the dang time. What a horrible outlook on life 'n everything.

2010-08-09T08:10:00.001-07:00

Smells like Sears basement here at Discount Tire. I really dislike the hard pitches even more so when I know what I'm getting & the cost. Oh well :-/

2010-08-06T21:31:00.001-07:00

Hate being closed out & forced to detour several blocks in heavy traffic just to double back into the fray.

2010-07-30T17:36:00.001-07:00

Trying to explain the interweb 'n such to the parental units is cause for much head-keyboarding.

Widget/gadget how to post

2010-07-29T22:46:00.000-07:00

2010-07-29T10:00:00.001-07:00

O-town small town values, big city problems. It is very pretty and then you look again and see the urban decay and crumbling old parts.

2010-07-28T21:35:00.001-07:00

Okay whos rain dance worked? Speak up now so we know who to go to next week. Lol

2010-07-27T11:54:00.001-07:00

I hate locking myself out...

2010-07-24T22:15:00.001-07:00

Hope everyone had a good 24th holiday.

2010-07-22T22:40:00.001-07:00

So bloody tired...

2010-07-22T10:41:00.001-07:00

It is sad to still see so many dead animals on legacy hwy.

2010-07-22T08:11:00.001-07:00

Did a patch job & two seams on John's jean this morning as they where his only clean pants to wear to work. Ugh lol very quick sew job.

Ugh can't find the post....

2010-07-20T00:57:00.000-07:00

Well from what I recall it was thus:

-8-12 books
-3 new bands and 2 new CDs from thus bands
-learn plus size yoga
-go to 1 or was it 2 concerts

...some other stuff that I for the life can't recall and can't find the frakken list grrrrr.

So from what I can recall off the top of my head here is what I done thus far:

-7 books: Dresden Files 1-4, The Sword of Truth 1-3.
LOVE LOVE LUUUUUUV the SoT series! Don't want to really read House of Leaves for the ONTDcreepy book club that I was looking forward to reading after looking it up but, dang the SoT series just has a grab on my imagination and I can't wait to pick up the 4th book "Temple of the Winds" and continue on the adventure with Richard, Kahlan, Zed and the rest. Love both the Dresden Files and the SoT series so I've very glad that I found them!

-Oh wow so many new bands lets see if I can list them?
Just Jack (1 CD)
Grizzly Bear (1 CD)
Daniel Merriweather (1 CD)
Lost on Propose
Gears of the Apparatus (1 CD via mp3s)
Pillar (3 CD)
Swimming With Dolphins (1 CD)
Flogging Molly (took them for a spin 1 CD)
MC Frontalot (1 CD + mp3s)
Jamie's Elsewhere
Keane
Dead by Sunrise

I not sure if this is all of them or if for example Just Jack was just before I set the list of goals. I really thought this was going to be the hardest goal to meet. Odd huh. I have had not really gone outside the mainstream alt-rock much before this other then a song here or there as my fav genre and sound was alt-rock. Don't get me wrong I had a eclectic taste in musci before but it has gotten so much more eclectic this year. (For example Craig always found it surprising that I like MoTab Mormon Tabernacle choir and I don't find it odd at all. It is the hymns that I grew up on and they are beautiful. I always find it interesting to see what kinda of people outside the Mormon faith also enjoy their singing beside us Mormons, even this Jack one XD) When you are lucky to pick up a CD every month or so (2 if you go used like ebay or half.com) then you gotta be careful what you buy and have a good idea if you are going to like the rest of the CD or risk a big stinker where you wished you just bought the one or two songs you liked on iTunes or amazon. So I'm happy that I've stummbled through many way into some songs that sent me digging on the web for more info and free things from the bands to listen to.

Great places to find music and info are as fallows:
-http://www.wikipedia.org/ (info is a plus)
-http://www.aimini.net/ (free songs)
-http://www.youtube.com/ (free listen and song bands link downloads)
-http://www.myspace.com/ (a band's myspace)
-http://www.facebook.com/ (a band's facebook)
-http://bandcamp.com/ (lots of great indie bands here with free/$0.99 songs)
-http://www.google.com/ (try googling for a band site for info, downloads and stores)

And as always shop around for great prices on CDs:
-http://www.half.ebay.com/ (always check the seller's rating and go with the best rating you can)
-iTunes, amazon, etc.
-chain stores; FYE, Bestbuy, barnes and Noble, Amazon, etc.

I really really enjoy music. If you love poetry and writing and the abstract imagery that is wonderful in writing how can you not enjoy music?

-I've always wanted to learn to do yoga and from my searches of the web I knew that there was yoga for almost everyone. After I hunted down a book and got it it was just a matter of stretching into a flabby pretzel. Not a pretty sight but very enjoyable I must say. Do what you want in life and don't let size or other such trivial matters get in your way. Plus size yoga books and DVDs are out there so go try it.

-Went to the Owl City concert that was in Salt Lake just a lil while ago. It was a blast and only the second I've been to. I have ticket's to their next one and I hope that Plain White T's make it back out to Utah like they said that they where going to at the concert last Oct.

I know it looks like I was just being a spendy person but in reality it was just trying to do things that I have not done before and try new bits of life.

So All-in-all I think that my fun, silly goals are coming along nicely.

2010-07-16T21:12:00.001-07:00

Sometimes it seems that ones life has been pushed down the rabbit hole. Up & down w/ all other knowns no longer exist or work.

week 43 (+8) Fitness to Survive the Apocalypse

2010-07-16T16:45:00.000-07:00

43

-George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States. (<--This is why the apocalypse is nigh and you need to get ZombieFit! lol)

I think in the past I've mentioned my interest in Parkour. Anyway I was on this site called Shrink Geek when they brought up an alternative exercise program called Zombiefit. The tag line for their program is "Fitness to Survive the Apocalypse" and somewhere in the back of my mind I heard banjos playing and thought hipster apocalyptic nuts with a side order of LMAO cool-ness.

Watch this:

Now tell me that does not look fun and very VERY awesome!

What a interesting and fun way to get fit (and get away from your flesh eating neighbors XD).

2010-07-14T22:51:00.001-07:00

House of Leaves came today & I want to dig into it but I'm not quite done with TSoT book 3 yet. Dang.

2010-07-14T21:56:00.001-07:00

Really dislike hitch-hicking bums coming up to me wanting rides. What do you say to such people? Give me ur best line to get them to leave!

2010-07-14T19:45:00.001-07:00

Wow did today just fly by. -yawn-

2010-07-14T11:51:00.001-07:00

5-ish hours of sleep is not enough. Ugh...

2010-07-09T20:01:00.001-07:00

Saw a license plate that said: IMB4U. O.o lol

2010-07-09T09:31:00.001-07:00

Oh my way up to O-town/Ogden. Nothing good to listen to on either of the NPR stations.

Vampires Suck movie = EPIC WIN!

2010-07-08T14:52:00.001-07:00

^That is all

2010-07-06T08:21:00.001-07:00

Listening to NPR & they are talking about non-combat PTSD. Sounds a lot like DP/DR in the disassosiation -sp?- that happens.

2010-06-24T18:50:00.001-07:00

I understand thou don't agree w/ the fuss on geo-location stamps for posts. Who u hiding from? By the way I'm @ US-89 'n 350 N do ur worse.

VIDEO GAMES LIVE Concert on PBS this August!

2010-06-09T20:15:00.000-07:00

PBS — June 02, 2010 — Trailer for "Video Games Live" concert special, coming to TV for the first time in summer 2010 on PBS. Video Games Live is an immersive concert event featuring music from the biggest video games of all time. Filmed in New Orleans with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and choir, watch as top musicians from around the world perform along with exclusive video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, solo performers, guitarists, percussionists, live action and unique interactive segments to create an explosive one-of-a-kind entertainment experience. To see when it airs near you, go to: http://www.pbs.org/tvschedules (scheduling information for this program may not be available until mid-July)

The PBS special -- consisting of never before televised live musical performances from the Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Halo, Warcraft, Final Fantasy, Castlevania, God of War, Civilization, Chrono Cross, StarCraft and Guitar Hero franchises, and a musical journey through classic gaming -- premieres July 31, 2010 and airs throughout August on PBS stations (check your local listings at http://pbs.org/tvschedules). Support your local PBS station now -- you make it possible for your PBS station to offer amazing performances and the opportunity to discover something new every day, whether on TV or online. To donate to your local PBS station, visit http://pbs.org/support

2010-06-07T20:50:00.001-07:00

Why do people really care about the Gore divorse? They are not the mesure/pulse of what ppl will/won't do. So why care about what they do?

2010-06-02T19:36:00.001-07:00

People that play coy & skirt answers are rather irritating. Oy. DX

2010-05-26T18:41:00.001-07:00

Holy hell! Just passed a biker on US-89. What the hell was he doing on a highway? Even more when a bike/etc trail runs next to it over the divider. Oy