A brief-ish update

Hi. Sorry if my last post sounded weird; I was feeling very unusual when I wrote it.

I'm still stressing about my relatives and their behaviour, but I reserved a book on film-making from the library so that should keep me busy. I also have The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology out of the library, which is cool. I'm only a few pages in and haven't really gotten into the basics of the subject yet, but I think I'm gonna love it. It's making me want to dig out my anatomy book again - actually, when I flipped through the Manga Guide the other day, I saw an illustration of a cell and actually recognized some parts of it from my anatomy colouring book. I don't remember what they were exactly, but the names and shapes looked familiar. It was kinda cool.

I can't seem to get into a novel I have out of the library. It seems really interesting, but my brain just won't relax enough to let me read. I'm thinking of starting another Tamora Pierce book, because I used to zip right through most of her books. I have Terrier, which I tried starting twice but couldn't get into; and Realms of the Gods, which my parents bought for me at Indigo but I never got around to starting it. I might start Realms because it's a Daine book, and I just love Daine's personality.

I'm thinking of writing a blog post of books I recommend, because I've read some books that are really awesome. And I like writing reviews of books.

Oh yeah, and I sliced my fingernail - I was trying to snap a thread, and it sliced my left pinky fingernail. It was a clean break, though, so my mom was able to super-glue it back together and cover it with a band-aid.

I watched The Men Who Stare At Goats today. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, actually. I laughed quite a bit. And I got to hear one of my favourite songs - 'Itchycoo Park' by the Small Faces - in it.

A good end to a 'meh' weekend

Today I saw Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. It was great. It was in 3D, so we got the 3D glasses. Unlike the cardboard ones, these ones are plastic, and they look like the sunglasses worn by John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd in The Blues Brothers. We were asked to put them in the glasses recycling box on the way out, but we took ours home ;)

Mom and I were going to go to the local roller derby match last night, but we wound up not going. Damn. Maybe we'll go to their next home game. And maybe I'll bring knitting ;)

Oh yeah - I'm using Dad's old speakers now, because my old Koss ones are pretty much toast. The left one's blown out, and Dad says the wires are all broken up. These speakers are a bit tinny, and they're very quiet, but they work, which is always good :)

Instead of seeing Twilight...

I watched TV and read John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman :D

Doctor Who was interesting last night. And Rose is going to be in the next episode! Yaaaay!

I might go to Value Village soon to look for cardigans, because I only have two.

And I'll only go see Twilight if other people want to. Actually, I wonder if the youth group would want to go see it?

But seriously. The book was alright, the movie looks like it'll be alright, but I'm sick of hearing about Edward, Edward, Edward. Come on, people! Everyone knows that dog demons are hotter than vampires!

No offense to the Twilight fan-girls. I'm a Sesshomaru groupie through and through :)

Because I'm bored, and I need to write a new post...

I just posted a comment on Dianna's blog to add to the blog comment train, so I need to write some fresh material for someone to comment on.

So, how about another list?

Holiday Movies To Watch This Year

1. Love Actually (not for younger audiences)
2. Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! - the original, animated one. I don't like the one with Jim Carey.
3. It's a Wonderful Life - just 'cause.
4. Elf
5. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Gotta love them Griswolds :)
6. The Snowman. Who says I'm too old?
7. Scrooged (Again, not for younger audiences.)
8. A Christmas Story - "You'll shoot your eye out!"
9. A Christmas Carol - if the black-and-white version is on, I'll watch it.
10. The Muppet Christmas Carol - because, although the black-and-white version is great, I love the Muppets. And Michael Caine was good in it as Scrooge.
11. A Charlie Brown Christmas - again, who says I'm too old?
12. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
13. Meet Me in St. Louis, which is a sort of multi-holiday movie, really. I might have to really hunt to find it on TV.
14. The Santa Clause, if Mom lets me watch it. We have the VHS tape somewhere.
15. The Santa Clause 2
16. White Christmas - my mom put her name down on for a copy from the library!
17. The Family Stone (not for younger audiences)
18. Little Women
19. Olive, the Other Reindeer
20. The Holiday
21. Mole's Christmas (The Wind in the Willows)
22. Miracle on 34th St (the original, although I don't mind the newer version)
23. This isn't exactly a movie, but I wanna catch the Mr. Bean Christmas special :)
24. Last Holiday
25. Shrek the Halls (another Christmas special)
26. The Polar Express
27. Not exactly a movie either, but I'd love to catch Robbie the Reindeer: The Lost Tribe
28. And the other Robbie the Reindeer TV special, if it's on.


That's all I can think of at the moment. If you have any other holiday movie suggestions, feel free to comment on this post with ideas. Thanks! :)

edited to add #18
edited to add #19
edited to add #20, #21 and #22
edited to add #23, #24 and #25
edited to add #26, #27 and #28

Mmmmmm..... chicken wings....

Yep. We ordered chicken wings again. Five pounds total: two pounds of hot curry, three pounds of honey garlic. As I mentioned before, I love their honey garlic wings. I'll even eat them cold the next day. Seriously. I ate four leftover wings cold, and the other four warmed up. I tried a hot curry one last night, but I can't eat them. Too hot. Nowadays, my stomach hates spicy food, which is really a pity because I love spicy food. I think it depends on what I eat, though. If I have soy milk or something like that with something spicy, it helps cut down on the pain. For instance, some cheese on a bowl of chili. I had a glass of soy milk with that one chicken wing, and it helped.

Some of my other vices include...

• Knitting
• Chocolate
• Books - especially anything by Tamora Pierce
• Chewing gum, when I have it
• British TV
• Classic rock
• Good movies.

The ruff is almost done...

I think I have another three or four inches of knitting to do before the buttonhole row. Yay! I would take a picture, but it's too dark.

There really isn't much to blog about today. I'm almost finished Troll Fell - I have less than a chapter left. Also, I'm really enjoying the new Coldplay single, 'Violet Hill'. It's calming, but also slightly heavy.

I have a question, dear reader - are there any songs that remind you of something, like a moment in your life or a scene from a movie? Every time I hear 'Twist and Shout' by The Beatles, I remember the parade scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where Matthew Broderick lip-synchs. And on a sadder note, sometimes, when I hear Jeff Healey's cover of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', I remember how the news of his death hit me hard. I didn't know he had cancer, a cancer that took his sight. He died at a young age - I can't remember how old he was, but he was in his early forties, if I remember correctly. When I heard the news, I couldn't believe it. Then the next day it hit me - he died. I listened to sad songs. I wept.

And he left us some fabulous music to listen to with admiration.

Interesting...

I got a fair bit of knitting done yesterday afternoon. Well, knitting and rewinding a ball of acrylic DK. I rewound that yarn while watching most of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, then I worked on my dropped stitch scarf during Juno, and I worked on it a bit more during Sweeney Todd, which was a pretty cool film. Afterwards I felt like dancing around and singing and squashing beetles like Helena Bonham-Carter. That reminds me... she was also in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, as Bellatrix Lestrange!