8 posts tagged “christmas presents”

Is it Tuesday already? Time is passing so very quickly. Maybe this bodes well for all the books coming out that seem so far away right now. I did meet with Jamie on Sunday at Kamal Palace in LB. I should have had D get a picture of us together. I didn't think of it at the time. I wouldn't mind seeing more of her. It's nice that she drives now. Maybe we can go for sushi after she and D get off work one of these days. A Monday maybe.

I had therapy yesterday and we talked about something that I am starting to feel terribly bad about and it's not very funny although for a while I was laughing about it. Dr. Moore made me realize how wrong I was to share the thought and now I just don't know how to take off the table. I think I'm going to avoid it and see if it won't go away. She'd be really proud of me taking that route too. Damn, what a mess.

I finally got my big Christmas present hung and displayed in my bedroom. I like it very much. D done good. I love my poster. My only wish is that I had had one of the 11.21.08 posters too. I would have put them right next to one another. But that is probably a greedy thought. I love what I have. Thank you Puppy.

So I was up all night reading Rachel Caine. I finished Lord of Misrule and found the first three chapters of Carpe Corpus on her website. I liked many many many things about Misrule. I did think it needed more Shane but I would probably think that regardless of how many pages he graced. It was strange that the entire books spans about 3 days. It feels like it should be many more. A lot happens. And just when I start grumbling that it seems she will never turn 17, I see that her birthday is the first day of the next book. So it then staggers me to realize that months pass between Misrule and Corpus. My favorite character out of Misrule isn't Shane, it is Myrnin who has some of the best lines in the entire book. My least favorite part of the book is the ending. I would really like to have them have a week solid of peace. And there are 5 more Morganville books. I can't even fathom the sexual tension between Shane and Claire in book 10. Unless she starts writing cut scenes. Come on cut scenes. Shane deserves some nookie.

The book I'm going to be starting soon is Sunshine by Robin McKinely. D spotted it at the bookstore because of the cover. When he read the backcover he knew I would be into it because there are vampires. So we will see what it's like. Although I haven't read any of it today. I slept late and then have been playing on the KMM message board. I always feel like a twit on message boards. But I have been sporting my love for Barrons and explaining how I think making Jericho be a vampire or a werewolf would be so mundane and wrong. I hope the story doesn't take that road. Some girl suggested that he will be something unique and I hope she is right. Something unique and powerful. Hello, is it August 25 yet? Only 230 days. I think that it was longer when I started counting down Twilight. See not long at all.... and the wait until City of Glass? Just 76 days. I can't wait. I'm vibrating with anticipation. 

This week Possession comes out. It has Lee Pace and Sarah Michelle Gellar and I'm really looking forward to it. I love me some Lee Pace, although he forgives me for not watching Pushing Daisies this year. I don't know where it is opening yet but I think the boy will be taking me to see it. I would also like to go and see Twilight sometime this weekend. It would make easy if we could movie hop but Twilight isn't up in a lot of different places anymore. So we will just have to wait and see.

Thursday night D and I are going to the Staples Center to see the Ducks play the Kings. Go Anze and Raitis. I would like to be able to stay up the entire game. We'll have to try it out as a new thing. There is just something embarassing about falling asleep at a sporting event. A year ago I would have been all for the Ducks but then they traded Andy. I have man-loyality. And Teemu and Beauchmin aren't playing. It leaves little to be excited about. Hell, they don't even have Bertuzzi for me to be excited about someone hitting. But it will be a good game. We will have fun.

Christmas 2008 was a good one. I was really happy with things. I like to draw out Christmas so we only open a present per hour and then we watch tv or movies the rest of the time. This year we watched Roswell, which served only to remind me how much I love Shiri Appelby and Jason Behr. We watched select parts of Season 1 and the first five of Season 2. I forget how much I love this show. But back to Christmas.

I got a new purse from D's mom full of tea from refugees from Nepal. Kai Kai spent this morning pulling it all out of the bag under the tree and playing with it. I got two long sleeved t-shirts from D in gray and black. A black Gap cardigan from D's mom which I love to death. A gray hoodie shirt from Old Navy. A gray hooded cardigan from American Eagle. A green sweater from Old Navy. A gray hooded sweater from Old Navy. All of which were from D. Oh he also got me jammie bottoms. They are really heavy and that rocks because the apartment is so cold during the winter since we don't use the heat. Someone got me a Taking Back Sunday t-shirt. So I will be way fashionable the next show we go to. I got Carnivale, Season 1 from D and I think D's parents got me Hellboy 2. I got the Magic Bullet from my mom. She does a lot of weird cheap stuff but then she comes through with the bullet, a B&N gift card for $50 and cash. I love her dearly even if there are times when she just confounds me and drives me to tears. D also got me my Twilight poster framed. It should be ready next week. Then it's going to be hung right over the bed. I hope that won't be creepy for D.

D got the newest Prince of Persia game and DC vs. Mortal Kombat from me,  so we may never watch real tv again until they are beat. I got him Dr. Horrible. His mom and dad got him a special screwdriver with replaceable nibs. We never really have projects that require screwdrivers but maybe we can lookout for them now. I got him a pair of jeans from Old Navy and two Gap sweaters with three pairs of Gap socks. His mom got him a pair of Gap jeans, a blazer and a vest, which is too big, so we are going to have to exchange it. I also got him the Iron Gym. It's the pull up gadget you see on TV where you install it over the door frame for doing pull ups. He loves it and does some everytime he comes through the door. I got D a Sharks t-shirt and a license plate holder. Ah see something he can use his screwdiver on! D's mom got him some of the edgiest ties. I should have taken pictures of them. Maybe I will make him take some pictures of his gifts for his Vox. That is a good idea.

We had a good take. I think it will hold us over until Easter which I am making a gift giving holiday. Wait I can't if it interferes with going to Portland but then there is Valentine's Day. They should all be holidays where we decorate the tree in a new color scheme and exchange gifts.

I forgot about my books that I got. I got Moonheart from Heather. I am dying to read it. I had it before and mooched it being dumb. I also got two other de Lint books, The Onion Girl and Dreams Underfoot. Bother are Newford books. I have a long way to go to have them all but this brings me closer. I somehow got two copies of The Onion Girl and I'm going to exchange it for Little (Grrl) Lost. I want D to read it so badly. I also got $100 in B&N gift cards. Combine it with what I already have and that is easily $140. Which is good because Lord of Misrule comes out next week and there is a Kresley Cole book out in a few more weeks. Yes Barnes and Noble will be seeing a lot of me.

Yesterday D and I went to Universal Citywalk to see some movies and we ate at Wasabi where, usually, I gripe about something. Yesterday was no exception. We got the uneven table that they said they would fix and never came back. We were in the draft of the door which they kept leaving open when it was 50F out. They brought me yellowtail rolls instead of veggie rolls and asked if I wanted them instead of what I ordered. It was a disaster. I love Iso and Wasabi just makes me realize that so much more. When we left we went to It'Sugar and I fell a little in love. I got two mugs one says A Little Coffee With My Sugar Please and the other says When It Comes To Sugar I'll Say When. I also bought candy there. It's like heaven for my sweet tooth.

We went to see The Spirit and Twilight yesterday. I had started to have hope for The Spirit after having generally no interest and that was where I was wrong because the movie was just terrible bad. I did like Sarah Paulson in it but that was about it. The screenplay is a hot mess. Gabriel Macht comes across as wooden. The jokes are so heavy handed that only the 12 year olds in the theater found it funny. I never thought I would say that Samuel L. Jackson could to worse than Mace Windu but it was a travesty. They snuff a kitty. Scarlett Johansson is so so so bad. I think the only part D liked was the part where Eva Mendes is naked. I didn't think she was that attractive to begin with. I blame Frank Miller. I wasn't a big fan of Sin City either and the only good thing he's been involved with in my opinion is 300. And did you know they are making a sequel to that? How I ask! They all died in the battle of Thermopoly. And I'm more disturbed because I still want them to write Gerard Butler into the sequel despite knowing the King went down fighting. So, no.... I won't be going to see The Spirit 12 times. I am sad that Twilight is going out of theaters. I would like to see it three more times before it's gone. I some how spaced out last night and missed the final kiss. Go figure.

I have been pouring through my feeds lately. I miss the breadth and depth of the articles that were out a month ago. I find I am just grabbing desktops and pictures. The Twilight world is quiet and will probably stay that way until March when maybe, maybe New Moon Mondays with Larry Carroll will start. Until then life is going to be kind of dull. Althought I do have Rachel Caine livening things up. She is pretty good about writing about how far she is in her books and updating her website. She even does contests in which I can enter. I'm never going to get over the Cassandra Clare thing.

Now I need to start thinking New Years Resolutions and Christmas clean-up.

D, Belle and I went to see The Tale of Despereaux yesterday and I liked the little mouse. It was sold as a childrens film but it really came across as much older. The lessons in it were about forgiveness and bravery and I can't see anyone younger than 10 or 11 putting the pieces together. The one other thing that was a bit off was that Matthew Broderick (I love him to pieces-Go Ladyhawke) was too old to be the voice of Despereaux. D read somewhere that it was supposed to be Justin Long and that would have been better. But I loved many parts of the movie. Despereaux's ears for one. I loved that the princess is British but her dad isn't. I loved that it was overcast for a long time but it won't rain and that soup makes it rain. And I love Boldo the vegetable man. I almost cried when he fell in the war against the rats and that the soup will never be the same again. It was a good movie.

I finally watched the last three episodes of So You Think You Can Dance Canada and I was so excited to know that Nico won! I was so harried when I watched the finale because Canada does theirs different and doesn't eliminate any until the very end. I was so excited when he won though. And when he hugged Arassay I get a goofy smile on my face. Now I have to keep on top of SYTYCD Australia for when they start theirs. I wonder where Jack is now. Maybe he will come back to choreograph one of the routines this season.

So if the band aids at Hot Topic weren't ludicrous enough (yes I want them regardless), Torrid has come out with a Twilight perfume. Because I'm such a fangirl I want it badly. I think I will let it wait a little while but I will have it. The bandaids I hope to have much sooner. D might be stopping by Hot Topic on his way home from work next week. I wonder when the New Moon stuff will be coming out. I was sad to see Twilight is out of the theater in the Grove. We are going to see it on Friday at Universal Citywalk, along with Valkyrie and The Spirit. I am eager to see how Gabriel Macht does as The Spirit. I want to be impressed with the movie. I hope it doesn't leave me with the feeling that Sin City did.

On Tuesday I went buying many books and I came across this book called Wondrous Strange that just came out and utterly intrigued me. I am most excited to read it although I won't be able to because of all the others that I have to read before it. I already love it from the blurb, it's a fairie book. Those win everytime. Speaking of which I am up to the fourth book in the Highlander series. I finished the third just earlier today. I won't be able to really get anywhere in it until maybe Saturday. I do want to read them as quickly as possible, Faefever is available at the library already. I have five books to read before I can get to it. Then I have to read the fourth Vampire Kisses book so that I can read the fifth before it's due at the library. I'm not good with library books.

Tomorrow is Christmas and I am amped up. I want to open presents! I kind of worry that I won't sleep tonight. I plan to take pictures of Christmas, I hope D likes his presents.

Nielle asked me if I had taken a picture of my Christmas tree and I hadn't but now that is rectified. You can't see my new favorite ornament which is a shiny green airplane with moving propeller. I got a Year if Acheron ornament from the Sherrilyn Kenyon Minions, It's pretty but soon it will be the Year After Acheron and she will need to come up with a new gimmick. I am very excited about the amount of gifts which are gathering under my tree. If only they were all for me. :) And this is the first day of D's winter vacation. Well he's supposed to work from home on Monday but that generally means video games and hockey. I sort of hope that we ger to do a little something the two of us some time this week. I like having him home.

Last night we watched I Am Legend and I was okay with the movie. Will Smith is just a really good actor. There were two parts I just couldn't get over. The first being when the dog dies. I hate puppy snuff films and I really liked the dog. I loved that she wouldn't eat her vegetables. And then she was dead. The second was right after Sam dies when Will Smith's character is talking to the mannaquin and begging it to say hello to him because he just lost a friend. It brought tears to my eyes. No one should be that lonely that he talks to mannaquins. All in all I liked the movie. I'm just not going to get over the dog though.

Because Darkfever pulls so much from the Highlander Series that Karen Marie Moning wrote I undertook the burden to read the seven books. The first one was just typical fluff to me. The second To Tame a Highland Warrior I really liked. I'm on the third The Highlander's Touch and I predict it will be a quick painless read. It seems typical. The last one was really good so I had really high hopes for this one. Maybe it's the character of Adam Black and he just makes a book mundane. So much for being the fairy fool. I do think I will collect the whole of the series and reread them when the mood hits. I hope to buy Bloodfever this week and then skate through the rest of the Highlander Series and be able to read it right away. I have Faefever coming from the library so I need to not be a slouch with these so I can read Faefever before it's due back to the library.

I have been listening to a lot of music this week. I really like an older album by The Perishers called Let There Be Morning. I love the songs My Heart and Sway. It's a pretty understated and lovely cd. The other that I downloaded is 3Oh!3's self titled cd. We saw them with TBS a few weeks back and they were so atrocious that we have kind of been all about them. Their lyrics are terrible, one of my more favourite songs has the line of never trust a ho it's like white trash poetry. I have to see if I can get their other cd.  It's really bad. So bad you have to listen. I can actually see us going to see them play shows. It's car crash intrguing. They are apparently opening for Katy Perry now. Meanwhile I want to see Taking Back Sunday again. How long until New Again comes out? I asked for a TBS shirt for Christmas and I eagerly await Christmas day to see if I got it. YAY Christmas! YAY TBS!

Last night D and I went to see the Sharks play the Kings at the Staples Center and it was not the best game I've ever seen but it was a good game. The Sharks played really sloppy hockey. The Kings were desperate as usual. In the end the Sharks won in a shoot out. I spent a lot of the night watching Dan Boyle and I was really impressed by his skill. He has really nice hands. I'm interested in watching Shark games with D now. I would also like to plan a 3 day trip to San Jose so we could see the Sharks in the Shark tank. D would be so excited.

The new Lords of Avalon comics are out. They are the Knights of Darkness story with Varian and Merewyn. It will be interesting to see how they depict Merewyn as a hag. When I read the story I really thought they should some how have Seren or Kerrigan interacting with Varian and Merewyn but they don't really until the end. It's a good book and the comic should follow suit. I think it's the same artist which is a bit of a disappointment but hey.

I'm so excited for Christmas. I love opening presents. And I like Christmas to be a big affair. My mom is sending two more boxes of presents. She gives me plenty of gifts to unwrap. I am done shopping for D. My secret santa gift is under control. I think the gift I am most excited about is something I got for D. Although he never read the gift I was most excited about last year. He better be excited this year. Oh and I am excited about what I got for Belle. She's going to love it.

The book I'm reading right now is Dark Need by Lynn Viehl. Although I haven't gotten too far into it yet, Lucan, the lead character, was probably my favorite character from the first book. He's a caustic bastard who was an assassin to the king of the Darkyn. I loved him. So this book should be of great interest to me barring all encompassing failure on Viehl's part. I also downloaded the seven Highlander books yesterday so I plan to start on them as soon as I am done with this. I got Changling and Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn yesterday, so I have all the books from that trilogy gone wild. I also got She's No Faerie Princess by Christine Warren. I have much in the way of reading to do.

I've been doing a lot of downloading lately and I hit pay dirt today when I found Ripe by Ben Lee, The Perishers's Let There Be Morning and Nightcrawler, Pete Yorn's newest album. I also got some HIM albums I don't have and I cleaned up my Metric collection. I downloaded a bunch more too. I am happy to have so much new music. Although right now I am listening to Stellastarr* and I've had this cd for about four years. So maybe new music is wasted on me.

New Moon has a release date 20 November 2009. I am getting excited about it. I hope Chris Weitz doesn't fuck it up.

I got the best news this week. Nielle is going to buy her ticket to come and visit in April. I am already racking my brain as to things we can do. Maybe the LACMA, or the Science Center. Maybe to the Salton Sea. Maybe I will make her cook for me. I'm sure she will want to watch hours of the food channel. We will have tons of fun.

Last night I went to see Twilight for the tenth time. It was still awesome. I did notice a flaw in the screenplay. It's small but now that I noticed it it will bother. When the nomads come to the field and James does his, "You've brought a snack" Rosalie jumps to defend Bella but then in the scene in the garage she asks why she should help. My answer would be, because you did in the last scene. And how does Edward and the Cullens follow her to Mimi's when she never tells Alice and Jasper where it is located? Another plot flaw. But despite those things I still love it. I would like to go and see it with Belle and Susan. And now New Moon officially has it's new director. Chris Weitz will be at the helm. I don't know if I have much faith in the guy who accepted the screenplay for Golden Compass with it missing the last chapter of the book. I hope we don't miss the last chapter of New Moon. I'm eager to hear what will happen with casting for NM. D has been keeping an eye out for sides but nothing yet. I am seriously leaning towards our Spring trip being Portland. I know it doesn't have the pizazz or sunniness of Hawaii but I would love to see Shanny and to get to play fungirl and go to some of the locations that the movie was shot at. It sounds like such fun and Hawaii isn't going anywhere. It will still be there the next year. So yeah I'm at 75% sure of going to the Pacific Northwest.

Today was a really busy day. We had to get me shoes for D's work Christmas party and I chose shoes that I don't believe I will wear that often over the ones I loved. I really regret getting them. The other ones were even on sale. I love shoes but why do they have to be such a labour when choosing them? Then we had to go to the comic book store and now we are up to date on Spike, Buffy and Angel. Our next mission is to actually read them. We are about five issues behind on Angel. Appalling. Then we went to Petco and got a friend for Nate. I haven't named him yet because I'm leaning towards either Jace or Seth, after Jace Wayland from The Mortal Instruments or Seth from Wicked Lovely and I would be heartbroken if I had to say either of them had died. So for now my little black moor goldfish is Little Fish. Then we went grocery shopping which was an ordeal because I was there. It had to be twice as expensive because I like to shop off the shopping list. It's like I'm the bane of D's life at times. I did get pickles, silk nog and raspberry sherbet. Score! Then we had to go to the boss's Christmas party. I was not excited about it because I have the social graces of a rock. He did have a nice house and the fresh pineapple was yummy. I even had a glass of bubbly and reminded myself that I find champagne god awful. We came home and made french toast with cinnabon bread. D's a master chef and it was so good. Oh and in between the grocery store and the party I wrapped D's Christmas gifts and I love Christmas. I keep wanting to talk to him about them and that would just be bad. I'm so excited for Christmas when he will open them and hopefully like them. I know three things that he will love. The rest is all up to the gods.

I have been reading some the last few days. I read both Novel of the Darkyn books I had and they were sort of disappointing. I will read the others in the series but these books were highly recommended for being good vampire books and they just aren't. I also read the first Others book, Wolf at the Door by Christine Warren and it was a good fantasy romance. The writing is sort of mediocre and the story isn't what I would call original but it had something to offer. Last night I started Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning and I was sort of blown away. I only got 70 pages in but the style and tone is incredible. It's categorized as romance but there isn't any romance in it so far and I would classify it as fantasy/suspense. It reminds me if you were to take Sookie Stackhouse books and Dante Valentine books and then threw in faeries, but better written then the two, then that is how I would describe it. I plan to read Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind this week. I don't know if I am ready for it but I don't think I ever will be. I'm just going to have to jump in.

Tomorrow I'm meeting Team Logan at Mo's in Burbank at lunch. Tam will be there and I haven't seen her since last Christmas. I'll get to show Belle my new silver nail polish. She will love it. I hope to make plans with Susan and Belle to get lunch or dinner this week sometime. I don't see the group, well hardly ever. It'll be good to touch bases.

I have to sleep sometime soon. I am not tired. It's 3:30 in the morning. My sleep is a mess. Stupid red eye. I haven't been the same since. I doubt sitting here listening to music and updating my last.fm helps.

I just finished Wizard's First Rule and I really liked it. I already bought the second and third books although I think I need to take a break before continuing. I really liked Richard, although he cries entirely too much for a man over the age of five. And Kahlan was not at all annoying. I kind of liked the evil wizard, Darken Rahl. I do have to say the 40 some odd pages of torture were painful and tedious. And Zedd is someone I find annoying but the book as a whole was really good. I think the way Richard's mind works is fascinating. I love his really clever solutions to things. I hope he doesn't change with future books. It's a clever book. Maybe too smartly written for me since I was just in awe. There is a line that I really love. People who had paper and wanted to draw your face, people who had leeches and wanted to draw your blood. It's talking about the outside of a castle gate and the conglomerate of peoples there. It drew a picture in my mind stronger than what had been drawn before.

So it's been a week since I wrote in here and I have done things. D was home a lot of last week and it was really nice. We laid in bed and read a lot and played marathon games of Scrabble. I love the boy. We actually watched a Sharks game together last week. I haven't watched any hockey other than the game we went to. We used to share that and I'm so off of TV that I just don't do it except rarely. I wish I could say that would change but it won't. I will read over TV at every option. I did go to see Twilight again last Friday. We met Crystal in Pasadena. She tried to get me to go see some Swedish horror film but I don't see that in the cards. Today I did most of my Christmas shopping for family. It's so expensive. I would veto it but I really like the getting of presents. If only the giving wasn't so costly. There is one present under my tree and it's for Belle.

The reading has been going slow lately. It took me a week to read Wizard's First Rule. It was a meat 800 pages but still. that should be two days not seven. I did manage to read Snakecharm while reading it though. Snakecharm had me in knots for no good reason. But still I was tense the entire time. I really liked Rei being in .... woops D is reading it now and I shouldn't spoil him. I will say something about Rei and Danica really bother me. It seemed from one book to the next it didn't hold true. I have picked up the next two in the series. I like the lore of the Kiesha'Ra. It's well done. I will probably read Falcondance before I read the next Terry Goodkind book. I went on a book buying spree and I need to read more than I buy but that is not the case in the last week. I bought a couple Lynn Viehl, Novel of the Darkyn books, a Christine Warren, The Others book one, Yasmine Galenorn's Witching and more Amelia Atwater-Rhodes books than you can shake a stick at. The thing is I still have The Weather Warden books that I bought two months ago and Lilltih Saintcrow's Dead Man Rising. I have to start reading like a fiend before Christmas comes and I get more books. What a slave.