Yes, it’s been a good day in NYC afterall. I’ll be home this time tomorrow, and I’m actually ready to get home ASAP.

I want to see Ben and Jesse (hopefully) on their way home from Dollywood and now that Coley is around, I want to talk to her some more, too! Shrader and I will need to hang out and, oh, you get the picture.

As usual, my mom and dad went all out on the gifts and bought not only the Zune, but several accessories to go with it. In about 20 minutes, I had nearly all of my favorite vids loaded. The quality is actually much better than I had heard it would be. I have noticed that my vids made larger than standard look better, but it’s because the screen is actually a little bigger than 320×240. All the fanvids I’ve put on it (about 50 so far) look and sound terrific. I’ve even decided to carry a purse so I can tote my Zune around with me at all times. I’m love it.

( The rest of the undeserved haul )

Merry Christmas, everyone, and thanks for being the great friends you are!

Oh it’s good to be a geek.

Yes, I am easy to please. I know it. We all know it. *g*

( VH-1 Greatest Toy List, x=owned it, **=REALLY loved it )

Oh dear gawd. The Brothers Grimm was by far the worst movie I’ve ever sat through in a theater. OK, maybe it’s tied with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. POA had a reasons to earn my hatred, though, and I’ve stated them all before. TBG was just bad. Really bad. From the script, to the score, to the acting…it was just bad. Matt Damon and Heath Ledger do well enough with their roles, but their roles are stupid. There is no cohesiveness to the storyline and whoever edited this movie should never work in film again. Ben, Jesse, and I have determined that it would have made a LOT more sense if the film hadn’t been chopped up so badly. This is a Gilliam film (he of the “Chris Columbus ruined the first two HP movies” rant. HA! The irony!) and he tries way to hard to recreate TAoBM, but just can’t do it. He doesn’t even come close.

This movie isn’t even a “but” movie. Van Helsing was bad, but fun. Troy was bad, but pretty. Even Sean Bean couldn’t have saved this movie. It’s.that.bad. Do yourself a favor and just skip it altogether.

I’m such a 12 year old boy.

My Galadriel Entranced arrived today. Her eyes and hair light up, but no sound. :cry: I’m still very pleased with her, however.

This is a quiz that was made by one of my favorite LOTR and now SW chickies.

( Which Anakin do I prefer? )

*runs off to play with Anakin*

And I’m unemployed.

We came back home and watched the end of LXG ,and then the original Stargate was on, so we watched that as well. I finished burning the rest of LOST for them (and one for me) and that was about it. They left and hopefully found some food for Jesse to eat, since he still had a snack card left.

Thanks guys!

Mood: Accomplished

I have an extra ankle. While judging Science Fair projects–which were wrongly set up on the gym BLEACHERS– I, um, kind of fell down a few of them. I rolled my ankle, lost my footing, and managed to hit only one (now bruised) knee. However, throughout the day the ankle swelling has gotten worse. I think I may never be able to work again.

Yeah, but that has nothing to do with the ankle sitch…. On a brighter note, we had some really good projects.

Ooh ooh, just found out that my Lord of the Rings Return of the King Series 5 Figure: Eye of Sauron just shipped!

It was ten years ago that the Oklahoma City bombing occurred. That’s (selfishly) sad to me. Ten years ago, I was fresh out of grad school and working in NC (for the first time). Since then, I’ve been a few places and done a few things, but I’m still no closer to figuring out the rest of my life. Sadly, I’m not even concerned about it. The fact that I’m not is probably the scariest part. I’m just a little too content right here….and I soooo shouldn’t be.

Football news: Sam Mills died. I’m sure if you need to hear the details, you know how to find them. I really liked him and hate to see a non-jock superstar go so young. He’ll have company soon, though. ESPN just acquired the rights to Monday Night Football. It’s as good as dead. MNF belongs on ABC. Why? Because it does.

I listened to Garbage’s new CD. I like it, but I was really hoping for some vid inspiration. I didn’t get that. Oh well. Let’s go play with the old toys while we await the new!
[Edit: man, tons of news today. New pope. Rob and Amber were married Saturday. :cry: I guess I'm happy for them :cussing:]

Mood: Accomplished

The haircut is awesome. I love it. It’s chin-length with tons of choppy layers. Now that I have only one chin, I can wear it like this. *preens*