9 posts tagged “san diego”
Speaking of which, we are going to take my Twilight poster to get framed this week. Then it will be hung in my bedroom above my bed. I still have two extra big posters. I don't know what I might do with them. They all have the old release date on them too. So they will be worth something when the new posters come out. I'm greedy because I want one of them too. I don't think it's too much to ask... one of each... even if I don't have the room to frame and hang them both. Maybe I could just get another 11"x17" with the new date on it.
Decompressing turned to avoidance and now I have 3 days worth of things to write about and that is just daunting.
I have to start with Sunday when we went to the San Diego Zoo. We got a really early start too, we got there around 10AM and it was really nice to be there without the crowds. Though they showed up as the day wore on. I have to say the highlight of the day for me was the mating orangutans. I was fascinated but those around me were really a.) freaked out or b.) appalled. Me, I was all crazy apes. For other reasons than the call of nature, I do love me the orangutans and I got to spend some time just watching them. They are my favorites by far. I usually want to go check out the chimps too but the SD Zoo doesn't have any. I know that is blasphemy but it is the true. I also was rather into the polar bears. I think they were tons of fun. The male was just huge and he was making love to frond and that didn't freak that many people out. Oh and the baby meerkats. They rocked the house. The young hippo who was smushed up against the glass was rad. The cats are always favs. I'm distressed by the animals that pace. I empathize with them and imagine that they would be worlds happier in the wild. Of course that will get me on a jag about how some of these animals don't have a habitat anymore and that leads to an unhappy place so I will desist and post a caboodle of pictures.
On the way home I started reading Charlaine Harris's Dead Until Dark and I finished it very quickly. I like Bill Compton
Speaking of The Cullens, Breaking Dawn comes out on Saturday and D, Belle and I are heading to a release party in Corona. I am excited to read the 4th book, but really scared. I will be fine once I've read it but getting through it will be hard. I want too much from this book. Too much and there is no way it will live up to my expectations. *sigh*
The last few weeks I have indulged in a ridiculous amount of bookmooching and I requested something like 70 books. All popcorn books and they are arriving these days in quantities in which I can't possibly store. Nine new titles arrived today and I have the Harris books to read and I still haven't read Tithe or City of Bones or Coraline for that matter. I've been out of control. I need to learn to curb that impulse until I've read about 60 or so books. It will tide me over for the month atleast. I should give myself a goal of getting back to 120 points and then not letting myself go below 100. Self control, I need some.
As for Twilight happenings, it is Twilight Tuesday, there are a ton of tabs open on my computer. Yahoo has an article about Comic Con. I may have posted this earlier but hey. Jo Blo had they best retelling of what it was like
And LOA this week finished up the Sword of Darkness. I guess it's really kind of mamby-pamby and mushy but I liked it. It was very different from what I envisioned from the book. The Adoni were supposed to be these flesh-tasty warrior lovers and in the comic the come across as knights. Weird kinda. Also I kind of had the impression that Morgen was Barbie on PCP. I did still like seeing it. The artist wasn't my favorite, everyone is sinewy and too built. Like weightlifters, even Seren. She doesn't really come across in those frames as Kerrigan's little mouse. I will float the next book if it goes to comic life though. Knight of Darkness should be the next story. I should go over to her calendar and see if she has a time frame for it yet.
David told me that they aren't having Laura Harris play Daisy Adair and that is a bit disappointing. But Callum Blue is going to be playing Mason and I think he might be one of my most favorite parts. Mandy Patinkin isn't playing Rube though, they are introducing a new character, Cameron Kane to be played by the guy who played Desmond on Lost. The trailer which I will hook you up with, looks pretty funny. I love the part with Mason when he meets Cameron and says he met his sister, Candy. Ahhh. I have missed watching this show and I own it so there is no real excuse.
I got home in time to call my father, which did not kill me.I heard what I expected to hear. My grandmother is steadily getting worse. She had moments of lucidity but they are few and far in between. She isn't breathing that well. She is too weak to do anything. In short she is dying. Not dying of any more but actually in the act of dying. The good days are behind us. My dad talked to me for a few minutes while we waited for the nurses to get done cleaning her up so that I might talk to her. We awkwardly waited and then he promised to call back when she could talk. I didn't wait long. She was slow, slurring her speech and mumbling. Nothing like a week ago where we were debating. She talked a few minutes but I could tell she was getting tired and she asked if I would talk and let her just listen. Do that. It sounds simple. But really it's difficult as all hell to have a one sided conversation. She gave me reprieve after a while and I told her I couldn't think of anything else to say and I told her I should go. She wished me happiness and success and she said goodbye. I don't expect to talk to her again. And I have the knowledge of the fact that this grandmother dying isn't going to destroy me like the last one did.
I had a really good day. Belle was here and we spent the day talking about Twilight and perusing Twilight-ish stuff on the world wide web. She introduced me to some really geeky fangirl stuff that has totally made my year. I read sides to the movie, which just proved to make me poo-poo. I did love that they had one side that was true to the book. But there were others which were so far from the book it wasn't funny. D is getting close to the end of Eclipse and that makes me alternately happy and sad. It still is all new to him and I find that exciting right now.
For dinner we went all out to Boston Market. It's a think that I think we only do with Heather. After we walked over to the bookstore so I could look at the Twilight books there. We found the funniest book. Well if you read it straight it's not funny but if you know me and my history than the book takes on a whole new realm of inappropriately funny. I made D take a picture of it so that I could share it with atleast Nielle, but then I decided to post it here. They really do start early.
So tomorrow is SD. I'm really starting to get nervous about it. I know it really shouldn't be that big of a deal. And I will have fun if I can get past the panic. This is still the furthest I'll have been away from home since last August. The last time I was in SD it was for Comic Con. We are really hoping for better things of this trip than that though. My plan is to not sleep to 1PM tomorrow. Maybe even have D wake me at around 10AM. And we can be on the road at 11-11:30AM, arrive in SD early afternoon. We can go and get lunch and go to Cabrillo National Monument to see the tide pools. Then we can head to points unknown until check-in at the hotel. Wash, lather and repeat. At some point is going to Borderfield and Paesano's. We will see where the day takes us. For all we know, I will fail the getting up at a reasonable time and that will be only the first of our downfall. That wasn't very positive.
Last night Belle came over and the three of us spent literally hours discussing Twilight books. David became rabid even though we were hearing him he wasn't hearing us. He is very dogmatic in his views. But Heather and I got talking about the new book and she thinks that the other books are just illustrating why things have to work out for Breaking Dawn. I certainly hope she is right. I have a world of anxiety that the last book will negate the other three.
Tonight is a BSG night. I am anxious to see what happens with Kara and Roslyn. I know it won't be good for Kara. I'm also anticipating the scrapes and shenanigans of Baltar. It should be a good episode.
Tomorrow D and I are leaving for SD. I plan to take tons of photos. Maybe well even accomplish it all without me having panic attacks.
D is still reading Eclipse. He's reading it very fast but still he's still reading it. I caught up to him in my rereading and I am now waiting to reread Eclipse. How many times will I reread them before Breaking Dawn comes out? I do have to say that you catch a whole lot on the reread that you don't catch on the initial.
I'm obsessed, I know.
Today was Alex's birthday party and he had it at Medieval Times. I have never been there before and I was excited to see what it was like. Like all things in SoCal it was expensive and a Sprite cost $5.00, and despite their being veritable throngs of people, I had a good time. The games were entertaining, although not believable. I sat in the area for the black and white knight, but then cheered for the green one. He was evil and wearing my favorite color. I liked it. I would have stayed and watched more if they had let me. I would have even cheered for the green knight again... knowing he would lose to the overdressed and arrogant prince. Completely enchanting. I want to go every Saturday. I won't buy a soda next time though. I will smuggle in something of my own.
On the way home D and I talked about Twilight, which he is going to start tonight and then we went way of topic to my wanting to run away. I just want to go somewhere for a night. He said it wasn't a bad idea and we talked about maybe going to San Diego next weekend. I'll see the tidepools, maybe see Borderfield State Park. We can go to Paesano's and have Italian. Just hide for a few hours. It sounds wonderful and I feel a bit anxious about getting what I want. You can never make a girl like me happy
Last night was BSG night. I was happy with the episode. Kara is still my favorite. I love what she said to Sam about cylons. I hate Roslyn to death. I hope someone kills her. Baltar had me laughing out loud. I hope that Caprica Six finds out about his new living conditions. I'm happy Lee is going to start out on his own. It does him good to be out from under the old man's thumb. But there wasn't enough Helo in it for me. Bring on the pretty. Maybe I need to start combing the internet for Tahmoh pictures.
In the aftermath of my Twilight obsession, I picked up a Tori Carrington book, called Submission. I'm only 14 pages into but it's written different than most. Like Twilight it's 1st person. Submission has that old detective mystery feel. I hope that it will be able to take my mind off of Edward Cullen. Either that or Heather's new profession has to be talking to me twenty-dour hours a day about the Twilight Saga. It's 118 days until Breaking Dawn comes out. Three days later is Acheron. I'm hoping that I don't have an aneurysm that week.
So it's 1 November and I'm in need of nutshelling October.
I don't think I ever really introduced Mr. Squintz. Nielle gave me gifts when I first arrived in Vancouver. In my bag was a 'purse kitty' who was quickly dubbed Squintz. Mr. Squintz then became my security object. And he literally rocked my world.
Since my little security kitty has watched the L Word, met famous people, gone on a plane, he's hung with Frankie, been cleaned by Nicky and sat in Belle's cleavage... just to name his highlights. But I can show you all of that so I will start the Mr. Squintz photo spread.
Mr Squintz on Day 6 of Vancouver
So I arrived home last Thursday and spent the day with D. Slept Friday. Saturday we went to Ikea and Tam and Heather called as Tam was visiting. We made plans to meet up at the 101. I will refrain from telling you what they spent their day doing. However while we were eating it came to the more observant friends of mine, that Tessa Thompson was sitting near us. She played Jackie last season on Veronica Mars. (I will post that picture later too). The place was actually dripping with actors and actresses on Saturday. It was a nice outing.
Sunday I woke up and begun the final painting job my bedroom has been begging for for 2 weeks. At about 11:30 Belle called and asked me if I wanted to go to SD because Jason and Ryan were doing a signing at the AE in Horton Plaza. Ofcourse it was at 1 and we would have to hustle. And hustle we did. We made it down there and again... photos to come.
Monday night D took me to see the Rangers and the Kings at the Staples Center. Which was soooooo bad of a game! But I loved seeing the Hockey! I miss hockey an inordinate amount. We had a really good time. I love Darius Kasparaitis even now. And Shannie, Jagr and Army -- even though he plays for the wrong team now.
Finally I have caught up to November.
So now it's 1 November and I have begun my NaNoWriMo saga. National Novel Writer's Month, for those of you who just "huhed" my declaration. I have my plot planned, my character ideas... i know what I need to write when and how many words a day. So today is Day 1 and... I am doing pictures of last Tuesday, have to get dressed soon for my doctor's appointment and hoping to all hope that I am going to see a hockey game tonight. Priorities are a bit watercoloured in my head.
But prepare... I may be spamming my little Vox blog the next few weeks. Spamming it and making it cry.
7:53 am and I have already begun readjusting the schedule. I want to try to have a good time while we are down there without being a spaz.
Things I want to see whilst in San Diego:
- Morrison/Chopra Panel
- Veronica Mars Panel
- Battlestar Panel
- See Joss Whedon
- See Jenna Fischer
- Meet Lazeema
- Meet Rae
- Whaley House
- See the El Campo Santo Cemetary
- Balboa Park
- Check out the SDSU VM filming location
- Go to Paseanos
