10 posts tagged “nicky”

Dreamfever

Yesterday was a day full of surprises. I wore my green sweater with my green converse. They aren't grass green, more of a gem colour and it looked really good. It isn't often that I like what I wear. So it was a good start. I went to the bookstore to get Faefever and found Lord of Misrule was out on the shelves early. I whooped and jumped up and down. I have little self respect when it comes to books. I haven't started it yet but I plan to start it today. Oh where for art thou, Shane? I went to a hockey game. Kings vs. Flyers at the Staples Center. I found myself routing for the Flyers... and that is just not acceptable. I have never liked Philadelphia. Even when Mclaughlin was making me watch every game. But I do like Braydon Coburn and D has Scott Hartnell on his fantasy hockey team. It was a hard hitting game. I imagine they will be feeling it today. Although the Kings won in the end, I didn't see it because I fell asleep on D's shoulder and we left early. Hopefully I'll have a better time of it this Thursday when we go to see the Ducks play. I can route for the Kings that game. I never have gotten over them trading Andy McDonald.

City of Glass (Mortal Instruments)

Cassandra Clare

And as is if yesterday wasn't good enough I found that when I turned on the images in my KMM newsletter that it had a pic of the cover of Dreamfever! I can't wait for it. I found all the books in hardcover so I can have a nice set of them. I'll have to re read the set once I get them.  And it's not long now until the end of March and City of Glass. I'm listening to City of Ashes at the gym and it just keeps those fires burning. I

think that it is just what's newer in my mind but I want Dreamfever much more. It could be that horrible end where the world is folding in on itself and Barrons isn't there to save her. I'd die for him is a terrible way to end a book about surviving. Back to City of Glass... Cassandra Clare had a contest for ARCs of the book and one person made Magic Cards with the characters on them and they were so neat. Of course my favorite is Jace Wayland. Then I loke the Alec Lightwood one. I wish these actually existed.

I'm of half the mind to watch some TV today. This is highly unusual. I have the gym today so anything I would want to watch gets cut into by that. And then we are going to go and meet Jamie in LBC for some Indian. By then this idea will have burned off. Tomorrow I'm meeting Nicky online at 11:30 so it is out then too. Then I have Dr. Moore. I have plans to read Lord of Misrule sometime in the next 24 hours too so that leaves me really short on time. But I have Sinchornicity, which D found for me and Lost in Austen. D is going to have Hex come through on Netflix this week. I will have to readjust my mental thinking to work on this.

New Years Resolutions!!
I made a few... alright more than a couple. I was generous with my resolve and not doing so great on a few of them. But I will list them here so that I can look back and know which ones I need to work on.

1. Go to the gym three times a week. 3 hours cardio and 1.5 weight training.
2. Lose 15 lbs and keep it of.
3. Be more mindful of my hygiene. 
4. Do something social each week.
5. Read 5 books a week.
6. Walk more.
7. Clean the house one a month.
8. Keep on top of the kitty litter.
9. To let my hair grow. No cutting it.

I don't know how well anyone else does with resolutions. The best I ever did was making it to October as a vegan. Then cheese happened. I don't know how well I will do this year having made so many... but I figure I'll see and maybe one or two will stick.

The bite from Twilight

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On one of the feeds I have someone capped the Twilight movie and unfortunately they didn't have the end credits. I badly want the bite that is in black and white at the end of the movie. There is a bit of DVD release info around the internet on how there will be a regular, special and Blu-Ray edition. I will want one that I can see all the extras with.  I can't wait until New Moon goes into production. Also in March. A lot will be going do in the month of March.

Being in LA has me feeling decidedly of two minds. It's home but it's also a cage. Really hard to be excited about a place that suffocates me. I miss big open spaces and fresh air. I miss home. At least I know that this July I'll be going home for a while. I do miss laying on the floor of my bedroom reading books all night, the sound of crickets coming in through the window. That was near perfection to me.

Lord of Misrule (The Morganville Vampires, Book 5)

Rachel Caine

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Last night I found a Rachel Caine audiostory of Dead Man Stalking. It was a story from Shane's perspective and I got very excited because in it he admits he loves Claire. He's never said it in the Morganville Vampire books so you were left wondering what he felt. I was giddy. I wonder when he will tell her. Lord of Misrule comes out in just over a month. Caine has three books coming out next year; January, July and November. It's like a banner year for me. But back to Misrule--I can't help but wonder how she is going to save Morganville. She left it burning to the ground at the end of Feast of Fools. And splitting up the core. My entire body is in EEK! Mode.

I haven't finished a book in a week. I am reading three at the moment. Dead After Dark, Snakecharm and Wizard's First Rule. I'm kind of blowing through Dead After Dark so I may finish it tomorrow. I liked Fury's story and I love Sherri but I feel like she is really falling down on her storytelling. Angelia hates Fury and then all the sudden she loves him and wants him as her mate. It's frustrating because she used to be much stronger than this on plot. One Silent Night was similar to Fury's tale and I don't really like it. I loved Fury though and wanted his story to be compelling. I did LOVE the JR Ward's The Story of Son. It was a good spin of on her vampire lure and well written. I loved Michael. Although the story bled Lover Unbound influence. Still I loved it. I still have two more stories to read.

The last two days I've had D home with me and it's nice. I like it. I like that boy very much. We decorated the Christmas tree last night and played Scrabble the last two nights. It's much nicer than me reading in bed and him out on the couch watching TV. I'd like to keep it this way. Oh and when we were in Alaska we got our gTalk video chat to work. So now while D is at work I can video chat with him. I have noticed not many people have it though. Too bad Nicky doesn't. I'll have to set my mother up wiith it.

I still haven't unpacked from Alaska. I know I need to. Maybe today. I have a caboodle of books in the one bag. I also have to pack a box or two for my mother. I ahoulsn't use my Vox as my Things To Do list. It's not the venue. While in Alaska I found a copy of Demon in My View. I love the cover of it and because I didn't recognize it as a Den of Shadows book. So now I have two copies of it. I have to quell that acquistiveness. It does me no favors.

 I have to get the Alaska pictures off the camera. But for now. Here are two that Erin took for Thanksgiving.

Dead Connection

Charlie Price

The next book I plan to read will be He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Beherendt and Liz Tuccillo. I just got it from BookMooch today. And I'm reading Innuendo by Crystal Green at the same time. Maybe tomorrow I can read through them both. I have a doctors appointment which will cut into my reading time but I don't have much else on my plate for the day. With Comic Con coming up next week, I need to read as much as possible while I can. Because I won't get any quality reading done while I am there. That isn't what you go there for.

Step Brothers

My day was good although it ended on a note of disappointment. I got to talk with Nicky on Gtalk for almost three hours today. I don't get to spend as much time online with him as we once spent. I miss him so much that the times I do get to talk with him are always a high point. If only Vancouver were closer to LA. This evening was a bit of a downer. I got all dressed up and went to Westwood for the Step Brothers Premiere and then didn't get in. They did give us all passes for a free AMC movie viewing but I had really wanted to see the movie tonight. I did get passes for next Tuesday's screening of Pineapple Express. Hopefully we will have better luck with that. It was funny because I was just telling Nicky that I was looking forward to the new Seth Rogen release.

As for Twilight, today was a big day... The new trailer premiered on Entertainment Tonight

and it, in my opinion, showcases Cam Gigandet being a scary mofo, more than anything. They showed a few scenes never seen before. Rob looks pretty good in most of them. My feeling of the trailer is that it is still selling to the fandom and I am really waiting for the trailer that is for the general public. The scenes seemed a bit hodge podge to me. I was looking for something more seamless and purposeful. I think when they release the trailer on Yahoo! Movies that it will be a bit different than what they showed on ET... sayin' that it won't have the floor destruction clip 47 times.

Colored Rain Shot

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But that's not all. I got my notice in the mail from TwilightTheMovie.com talking about the EW issue and the trailer. They had a reminder about Comic Con. And it was Twilight Tuesday today and they finally had something about Rob. The interview has some real cute parts in it. The part about his feet was a bit odd. Size 10 doesn't seem so big to me. I quizzed D about his shoe size to compare. My complaint is that while this is all new to us, the footage is months old now. I want an interview with hobo Rob in a bar somewhere with his hookers while he chain smokes and answers questions like where does he stay, here, in LA and what his phone number is. How do I get Larry Carroll on that?

New Twilight Teaser Trailer

Lastly, for tonight, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. The first act went live last night and we watched it as soon as we heard. It's pretty funny stuff. I mean it's Joss Whedon so how could it not be funny? NPH is awesome in it. I love his mannerisms. He sings really well too. Nathan Fillion is just what I thought he would be and that isn't a bad thing. I think the two of them together really tickled my funny bone. I wish this was bigger, longer and much more. My friend and comrade, Alex Cook, who doesn't pay his girlfriend for sex, interviewed Joss on Monday and the article is really pretty good. Of course Access Hollywood doesn't even have Twilight on it's radar so I don't know how serious you can take the rest of the site. Back to Joss. I have planned out everyday at Comic Con and I am planning to go to the Dr. Horrible Q&A panel and the late night showing. Seeing anything with Joss makes it funner. That is how I saw my first screening of Serenity, with Joss and 100 of his closest friends (of the night). Note to self... must meet Joss again this year at Comic Con.

It's 3:21, there is no reason to be awake. And the pathetic yawn my body produces as I state this is no consolation.

Happy Thanksgiving. Woohoo. Today will be the first Thanksgiving in ... years that I haven't cooked. To further the unusual of it, I awoke to think we should be roadtripping somewhere up the PCH. Cambria you whore for having stolen my heart and then never moved closer to LA.

Now, the tired is setting back in. A lovely feeling indeed. I don't even really feel like this entry was a committed one now. But I will post some photos.

I'll tag them later. Dreamtime is waiting.

haircut

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So today was piggedly wiggedly. I was up, I was down. I was disappointed by the lack of packages in my mailbox. Disappointed in the way time seemed to pass me no matter my intentions. I'm sluggish, defeated. I had Leslie cut my hair. I took a bath, but I'm swimming in this sludge. I can't pull it together... but it's not even falling apart.

So I napped.

I woke up because Matilda came by and was looking for company but I was sleeping and D didn't want to wake me. Matilda didn't care. She was loud and after I couldn't get back to sleep.

I wandered out to the livingroom and D and I started watching things. Happily, The Office and Grey's came on and I love Jim, Dwight, McDreamy and Meredith. Can you hear the sigh of the inner histrionic? I played some on Manic, Bookmooch, uploaded stuff to YouSendIt, looked over my Last.fm. I'm restless? No... more like searching without a goal. Is that restless?

I intended to make a post about yesterday this morning and then wrote to Nielle before I did. So I'm going to just cut and paste my email to her in here.

***posting***
Hey, sorry I didn't write yesterday. D and I woke up and went to the 101 cafe. I was muddy-headed and as I loped in I swung the door open and hit the person behind me. We walked in to the seating area and the woman I hit, who was still behind me greeted someone else and moved by us. I noticed at that point that I assaulted Kate Walshe who plays Addison Shepard on Greys Anatomy. She looks freakily the same as the character on the show... you know red headed with a side of BITCH.

So then we went to Target and I got an awesome new sweater and we got sheets. We came home and cleaned and my bedroom is so so so pretty now. We also moved around the livingroom. We watched a bunch of TV and I worked on a crapload of photos. We went to shower at like 2am and I stayed in the tub until 4 reading. I got out and started writing. Which meant I should provide you with a first and last paragrph as promised.

Men don't think about the particulars of apartment complex decor until it is unavoidable. Oddly enough, my current circumstance had me redecorating the lobby of the Shangrai Lodge with a longing most men save for the undressing of catholic school girls. I couldn't help but wish for some strategically place faux ficus as I embarressingly stood outside of apartment 109, hoping that in some odd planetary mishap earth was now unpopulated and there would be no witness to my shame.

...

That explained alot.

So I passed out while writing so the last paragraph was... not.

After sleeping for 4 hours I woke up to my phone. Julie was sending over an electrician to see to the not working plug in our apartment. Since I have been sitting here making the wedding ribbon shadow boxes I've been meaning to make for 2 months now.

I think my plans for today are going to inventory a crap load of books on bookmooch, work on some more photos. D said we should have the wedding site up this evening. We also have been talking a load about my site and the new manic. We are going to watch a bunch of what I have on my Tivo and some of the stuff I've downloaded. I have season 2 of Queer as Folk to watch.
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And pictures to boot.

3 from the Wedding...

3 from my last few days in Vancouver

one of each of my kitties

3 pics from last Saturday

9 from the AE Veronica Mars signing at Horton Plaza in San Diego