Week 63 (+45) Been a while again

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

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

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, ^_^

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

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.

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

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)

Week 56 (+23) In planning mode

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.

Week 55 (+21) SCORPIO FOREVER!

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!)

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

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.

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

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

Week 33 (+6) A day late

33

-A normal human spine has 33 vertebrae when the bones that form the coccyx are counted individually.
-Jesus's age when he was crucified in 33 A.D., according to many, though not verified historically.
-Jesus performed 33 miracles.
-33 is not only a numerical representation of “the star of David”, but also the numerical equivalent of AMEN. 1+13+5+14=33
-33 is the coming of age of a hobbit in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
-33 is the title of the first episode of the new Battlestar Galactica television series.



Owl City concert photos from the 12th of April Saltair show.

The show was at the old Saltair next to the Great Salt Lake just off of I-80 (also known as Saltair III as the first two incarnations of it burnt down years ago).

Outside the venue as we pulled up.

Gravel parking lot.

This is the first time I've been out to the Saltair. Before I looked up info on it (you can wiki it and flikr it for more pics and info like I did) I thought it would have been much larger and grander then it turned out to be.

It reminded me greatly of driving out to a underground rave in that it is out in the middle of nowhere and alone and if you did not know you'd almost think it was a abandoned building that had see the last of it's glory days. Well not totally but that is what it sort of felt like. It has been remodeled and is a very neat and unique place. Even more so to hold concerts in.

Its is not a very large venue though to see the people line up for the show and that line wrap around the parking lot and out into the surrounding field you would not know it. I'm glad that I had bought our tickets before hand as we did not have to stand out in the rain for two hours hoping to get day of show tickets.

Inside the doors it looks like a gathering hall with a balcony that wraps around three of the four walls. The floor of the Saltair was pathing-stones/brinks. Very cool look I must say. The inside has a very honky tonk bar feel up in the balcony (where they only let the 21 and older be since they serve beer up there). I went up there knowing that I'd have a better view of the stage since I'm so short >.< and the concert was all GA seating.











^ Yeah that is me. See how bloody short I am? lol! Was fun even though we got stuck at the back of the building looking up and over at the stage. Not my fav venue but was really interesting and a better night then I though it was going to be. ( I tend to have a pessimistic view of new things sometimes >.>).

Would of have more but the phone was slowly dying. Also kinda piss because I got chased off the stairs when Owl City came on (they played last after Lights and first was Paper Route) should have snapped a pic before the bouncer chased me off. Oh well.

I think that I'll have to dig around and list more to both Lights and Paper Route. I liked what I could understand and hear from the concert.







Also here is what most of the pictures from the Snow Patrol/Plain White T's Concert back in October of last year looked like. Not going to upload all of them but this one has some good light and is my fav from the bunch.


Okay I lied two pics. This is my fav pic of that night. Paul, me and his girl Celeste outside UVSU where the concert was held.

Week 31 (+5) What I did after I dropped Rach at the Prom Saturday

31

-The number of days in the months January, March, May, July, August, October and December.
-The number of flavors of Baskin-Robbins ice cream and the shops are called 31 Ice Cream in Japan.
-Turkish slang for masturbation ("otuzbir"). (O.o okay...)



So I have not done a picture post in sometime so here are some pics of me doing some stencil work on a couple shirts and some spare cloth I had around that I might make into cuffs.


This is some of the things gathered to get going on the project. Foam brushes, fabric paint, the stencil, the shirt and cardboard to keep the table clean. This stencil is from a company that makes stencils from Stencil1.com. I've always made my own stencils before but I like this stencil when I saw a shirt that someone made at a event that Stencil1 did so I wanted to try it out myself.

Here are a few shots of the finished shirts and the non-sewn cuffs. (Can't tell that I like big baggy t-shirts can you >.> lol)





Here is a pic of the dark grey t-shirt up close. I don't know if you can see how I smudged the stencil in a few places and how it did not come out ac crisp and clean as I wanted. It kinda mad me mad at myself and sad that I felt like I 'ruined' the shirt but I do like how it looks over all and I'm not to mad. My panda stencil shirt got to smears but I still like how it looks and wear it all the time.


Also got the two on the v-neck smeared and off their mark. Oh well lol. That will teach me to do them upside down next time.

Oh well you live and learn as you go and each time you learn something new for the next batch.

 If you want one of the wrist bands/cuffs tell me and I'll throw up pictures of them when I'm done with all of them. Then ones in the two pics above are just two colors and not cut down and sewn yet so don't judge them to harshly just yet.



Can't wait as I have another stencil from the company coming in the mail and I'm excited to get started again.