Friday 5

This week’s Friday 5 is The Middle.

1. What film have you seen in the past year that’s completely average? The Proposal. It was ok, not great, not horrible.
2. Who’s the most average-looking person you know? Not sure I want to incriminate myself by naming someone.
3. In what area of your life are you performing just well enough? Cleaning I guess, so housekeeping? I do it well enough to get by, but can’t seem to find the motivation to really do a thorough clean.
4. A new radio station features music you neither like nor dislike! What are three songs you’re likely to hear on it? I don’t know if I even know the names! There’s that new 12-year-old kid that has a pop song out. It’s catchy but not good. There’s probably one by Karl Wolf, but I’m  not sure of the name. Oh and another one, something about on a dance floor. Not sure of the name or who sings it. It’s ok.
5. What game or sport are you just okay in? Seriously? A sport that I’m okay in? I don’t think one exists honestly. Now a game, that’s different. I’m okay at some strategy games and better at others but can’t think of an actual game.

Thanks for participating, and have a better-than-middling weekend!

Another Winner

I’m so excited to announce that my photo won the November Photo Contest with Paterson Photography. The theme was Fall Frost. It was snowing the other day so I decided to run outside in my pj’s and shoot some photos before it got too heavy. I wanted to get down nice and low to the rocks in the back yard, so I layed down and got soaking wet. Apparently it was worth it! This is the winning photo.

Things I Love Thursday

• New York steak cooked medium rare
• Getting my hair cut
• Finding a completed story and being able to finish it without waiting for updates.
• Christmas shopping. Retail therapy is best when you have a reason for it.
• Finding something you’re looking for when it’s the very last one.
• I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Glee!
• Hot chocolate, made with real chocolate and milk.

Twilight Tuesday

Welcome to this week’s Twilight Tuesday, or, my Revirginization for Eclipse. I decided after watching the many many previews for New Moon a few months ago, that I would forego the spoilers and set photos to get revirginized for Eclipse. Really I’m doing this for two reasons. First for the anticipation. It’s like a virgin on a wedding day. You’ve thought about the act your whole life (well maybe not your whole life), and the day finally comes and the lead up and anticipation is almost as good, if not better than the act itself. Second the excitement, everything’s more exciting when you have to wait for anything. Take Christmas morning, you wake up with all the wonder and excitement of opening something that you don’t know what it is, and the thought of seeing something you’ve never seen is just so exciting, and I think it will enhance the anticipation. I’ve thought this through, and think I may be able to do it. I am not a patient person by any means, nor do I claim to be! I’ve also presented this idea to Twi-Whore, to only watch officially released trailers and previews, and she’s agreed to revirginize with me.

In doing this together we also agreed to wait to watch any previews for the first time together, and maybe video tape our reactions to them, which we think would be highly amusing. We also think that when we have our date for Remember Me, which is already planned, might I add, for March, that there will be an Eclipse preview. So in reality, we only have to wait till March to see a preview. Not that bad.

And so begins the long wait, the anticipation, and excitement of our Twilight revirginization. We dedicate it to you, Edward Cullen, the original 107 year old virgin. Wish us luck.

Photo of the Week

Here’s this week’s Photo of the Week

I’m Dreaming Of…

Everyone knows I love Christmas. It’s my favourite holiday and time of year, and I’m a self-admitted “Christmas Whore”. Two weeks ago I put up my Christmas tree, not feeling Christmasey but doing it anyways, to get it done and put Austin in a better mood seeing as I was babysitting him. It took me three hours just to put up the upstairs tree and decorate it. A few days earlier I put the downstairs “fun” tree up as well. It was exciting but a big stretch for me to have a “fun” tree. It has colored and blinking lights, as well as our “special” ornaments that are all different colors. To fill it out I bought plain silver balls in different sizes. This is the first time in my life that I’ve had a tree with colored lights, and while it’s fun to have, I have to say I love my white/clear ones upstairs best.

I stuck with the same colors this year upstairs, keeping with moss-green, brown, and orange, with dashes of white and silver to brighten things up. Snowflakes are the main theme, and I have a few touches of feathers thrown in too to add texture. I haven’t gotten around to taking pictures of everything yet, not really feeling like I need to this year, because everything’s pretty much the same as last year, only more spread out from the larger house. I have been playing around with the lights and bokeh though, and have gotten a few good shots.

This year is especially exciting because I’m having Christmas Day at our house. No packing gifts and food up to bring to other houses, no being uncomfortable after dinner cause you forgot your “comfy pants”, no worrying you drank too much to drive home. This year we can sit around and not go anywhere. It may be a lot of work with all of the cooking and cleaning, but I get to do Christmas my way. We’re doing what my family does at Christmas (other than the fighting hopefully), a large breakfast, snacks all day, and ham and scalloped potatoes for dinner around 6:00.

As it gets closer to Christmas and the snow starts falling, shopping is getting done, and preparations are in order, I’m starting to feel it more. The songs, the lights, the smells, and the events that this time of year brings around all help to make me feel Christmasey. And even though I hate the snow and cold, I’m still caught dreaming of a white Christmas.

Friday 5

This week’s Friday 5, Finale, are in honor of a certain award-winning American TV series finally coming to its quirky conclusion (this week and next, I think). What? You thought finale meant the bowing-out of Friday 5? Ha! In your dreams! Friday 5 cannot hope to be stopped; it can only hope to be delayed a few hours, as with this week’s questions!

1. What television series finale did you particularly enjoy? I think Frasier left with a great ending.
2. What television series finale did you think was a disservice to the series as a whole? Roseanne. Great show, horrible ending.
3. What is your favorite dessert? Cheesecake!
4. What were the circumstances surrounding your most dramatic exit from a room? Probably a fight, yelling, screaming, stomping away?
5. If you could choose any symbolic way to end 2009, how would you end it? Going to bed early. It’s been a shitty year all around, and ending it early would be nice.

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekfinale!

Things I Love Thursday

• Santa’s Choice hampers
• My iPod “Other” playlist
• Classic Christmas music. Burl Ives and Bing Crosby are my favourites.
• New Moon!
• Seeing it as a double feature.
• Unexpected updates on my favourite stories.
• Packages wrapped in pretty paper and ribbon.
• Christmas movies. Classic, new, religious, funny, serious, they’re all good!
• The crackle from a fire.
• That this list is mainly Christmas and Twilight related. Lol.

Twilight Tuesday

Amazing isn’t even the right word for it. Beyond amazing doesn’t describe it well enough either. Saturday I spent the afternoon and evening watching New Moon. Twi-Whore and myself decided that we were brave enough to throw ourselves amongst the throngs of screaming fangirls and tweens to see New Moon twice in one day, because just once wouldn’t suffice. Our first showing was at 4:00 and I got there at 1:30 expecting to need to walk around the mall for a bit before getting in line. Boy was I wrong! A line had already formed and was only 4 people long, but join them I did! It didn’t take long for it to grow either. While in line I read a chapter of Tropic of Virgo, and listened to my iPod to pass the time. Twi-Whore showed up not long after and we waited for another hour before they let us in.

The squeeing began when the previews rolled, then subdued a bit (for us anyways). And when we were cockblocked with an extra preview I almost got mad till I realised it was for Remember Me! We squeed so loud and nearly hyperventilated, and the ladies next to us gave us the stink eye. Finally it started. Twi-Whore and I held hands through probably 3/4 of the movie, just because we were so excited! It was ridiculous and silly and my hand cramped and she cut the circulation off of my fingers, and I made her ring gouge her thumb, but we were just so crazed. 

I can’t say enough good things about the movie. The effects, the acting, the direction, the screen play. They were all amazing, and put together with the cast, I just don’t have words to describe it. We got to see Jasper and Emmett a bit more this time which was so nice ’cause I heart them hard, and Charlie. I loved Charlie in this! Billy Burke was exceptional! His parts were funny and touching and just all around great.

I’m so glad we didn’t see Stutter Bella this time, and Smell the Fart Rob. Taylor was exceptional, and played his role extremely well. I walked in expecting to leave feeling extremely angry with Edward but surprisingly wasn’t. It ended up being Bella I was mad at, for hurting Jacob so badly. And can I just say I loved the cliff hanger ending? We all know what happens in the end anyways, and if you haven’t read the books shame on you you deserve to not know how it turns out till you see Eclipse.

After the first movie ended we went for dinner at Pita Pit, and the guy working made fun of us a bit for going twice and tried to rub it in that he went the night before. Whatever, I’m a good Twi-friend and waited. That says a lot about me, I think. After dinner we went back to the mall and were going to browse for a bit, but I had a feeling there would be a line up so we headed back to the theater thankfully to stand in line. I was right, there was already a huge line forming, with about 30 or so people ahead of us. So we stood there for another 2 1/2 hours. The line ended up forming a huge loop around the inside of the mall, and we later learned it had sold out. We didn’t hold hands that time but were still just as excited to see it start (and for the Remember Me trailer). All in all we had a great day! And the effect of seeing it twice in the same day was a definite plus! We caught things we had missed the first time, and were able to absorb more without judgement. I can’t wait to see it for a third time, and a fourth, and a fifth….

Photo of the Week

Here’s this week’s Photo of the Week.

This desert heat draws sweat from my skin,
to pool between my breasts
Like condensation on cool ripe fruit,
The moist stain on my shirt a secret mention to another warming
Lower
Your lips to me and lick the hot circumference of my flesh
Squeeze the desperate juice
And kiss me after, that I may taste my lemon on your tongue.

Quote from here