My favorite Cartoons (so I can find them later)


( I don't want to monopolize your flist page )

It is frustrating to realize after the fact that the code on most of your post failed and you have to go in manually to fix them all. *sigh*

Since I'm all up in eljay today, let me show you the shirt I just bought after telling myself that I don't need any more tshirts

It's a black shirt from Woot

Stolen from luinthoron

I'm running a test to see who's reading my posts. So, if you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your LJ USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you. Don't just post a word and not copy - that's no fun!

Is there any particular reason that there isn't a kinkmeme for the Witcher?
Is it because Geralt already sexes up everyone in canon?

Or is there one in existance that I just can't seem to locate?

Its time for an unpopular opinion:

I'm extremely emotionally invested in this series, so anytime I say ‘my' or ‘I', just know that I mean my Shepard.

( Mass Effect 3 Spoilers )

So, for the first time ever I didn't finish my 100 horror movies in a month marathon. I had too much going on in rl. My co-worker/friend was going through a divorce and needed some girl time, we repainted and recarpeted the boys bedrooms as well as the upstairs so I had to remove all of my books (which are currently sitting in boxes downstairs) and the excuses could go on forever... so yeah.

I've replayed Mass Effect 1 & 2 again and bought, and defeated, Assassin's Creed: Revelations which was awesome and kinda heart breaking. I started going to weight watchers in September since my vegan diet was still leaving me heavier than I'd like. I've lost 30 lbs so far and my resting heart rate has dropped by 20 beats per minute but, I still have work to do to get healthy. On the plus side, I'm still not anemic anymore which is still kinda amazing to me.

I've rediscovered my love of anime, I've been watching it in the mornings while I'm on the elliptical. At the moment, I'm halfway through the first season of Black Butler, after that I'm going to start watching Appleseed.

So, not much is different with me otherwise. Same job, live in the same place, read 149 books so far this year (not including cookbooks). Still here, as always.

Things I learned from Horror Movies


( 2011 )

( 2010 )

( 2009 )

Book Meme
Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
Turn to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post that sentence along with these instructions on your LJ.
Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Covet by J.R. Ward
She'd stared out of her beaten face and spoken to him with her blue eyes and her bloody lips, because she'd had no more air left in her lungs to carry her voice.

Aww... that was a sad part.

And now under a cut I will put a list of all the books that I currently own, that I need to read. Maybe it will light a fire under my butt, or at least ( curb my shopping and my tendency to re-read ) but honestly, after I'm finished with Covet, I'm probably going to re-read BDB #4 again.

OMG OMG OMG was my first reaction to seeing that there is a cast listed for the movie adaptation of Fallen.

Now, here's the thing. It wasn't a great book but it was alright. I read it at the same time I read Hush, Hush and Sojourner so bits and pieces of each kinda swirl together, since they are all ‘Angel' YA books. I'm not really sure which one I liked better and I didn't care for the sequel of any of them.

What I do remember about Fallen, other than joking with my mom about starting a drinking game for every time we read the word folded (someone needs to buy that girl a thesaurus) is that it takes place at a juvenile detention center.

To sum up... I did not LOVE this book. I didn't even like the second book but I'm (surprisingly) elated that they have a cast for the movie adaption of this book, even if I'm confused that they seem to have two actors listed for each of the main roles. idek

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1564777/

I've been around. Not updating much because other than work, all I've really been doing is reading. So far this year, I've read 115 books. A bit dull to talk about. Its hotter than I like here and between this dry heat and severe drought my garden is almost dead. The only things that are not dead are my peppers, eggplant and okra. Not that I'm getting any veg from them but they aren't dead so that's something.

I'm going to Dallas this weekend to meet up with Joe and James, my friend Melanie might come up too but I don't know yet. That should be fun.

This past weekend I went to town (I hate saying that) and saw Fright Night and Conan the Barbarian. Fright Night was good, not excellent though, and I thought Colin Farrell did a really awesome job as Jerry. I saw it at 1:20 on a Sunday afternoon and I was the ONLY person in the theater. Added to the ambience, I sat in the front so there was a lot of empty space around me, but not so good for the total numbers of ticket sales.

Watching Conan made me happy. At times, I was outright giddy. I'm convinced if they ever make a Black Dagger Brotherhood movie or tv series, Jason Momoa needs to be one of the brothers. While I was originally thinking he absolutely had to be Wrath, I think he'd be really awesome as Vishous too.

Tonight when I get home from work, I'm going to have to 'help' my son build a solar oven for his science class. Its due tomorrow and he's been putting it off for days. Typical. At least its not difficult and on the plus side, we'll all be better prepared for the inevitable robot uprising when we won't be able to depend on machines any longer the zombie apocalypse where we may be stuck on a roof of a mall or skyscraper camping trips or something.

I'm once again planning on watching 100 horror movies in October, one of my boys is a little excited too since I told him that I'd let him watch a few with me as well (and not just Nightmare Before Christmas) but certainly not all of them. We may have watched a zombie movie marathon this past Saturday but he's certainly not ready to handle an Eli Roth film or anything.

So, thanks for hanging in there and not defriending me. I'm still around, just not online much.

The nearest town with a bookstore (to me) is 35 miles away. It has a population of less than 30,000. There are two movie theaters, a fantastic library, one Starbucks, a mall, only one retail bookstore and two tiny used bookstores. The one retail bookstore is a Waldenbooks.

This really stinks because I'm fairly certain that another bookstore will not be taking its place. I do not live in an area with an abundance of readers. Out of the educated people (not family) that I know (irl), maybe 5 of them read for pleasure. I know that as a customer (even a fairly regular one) I don't have near as much reason to complain as all of the people out of a job but I can't help but feel the loss.

I love the bookstore like I love the library. The promise of the worlds within the world call to me. The loss of it makes me feel hollow... lacking. As if a piece of me has been removed and there is nothing there to take its place. There is still the library, which I support and utilize often. Since I don't live in that town, I pay a fee ($60 a year) to be a member of that library. I don't mind that at all. What I do mind is that the majority of the people at the library are not in the stacks. They're at the computers. They're renting movies. They're sitting in the chairs, using the wi-fi.

If the people at the library aren't checking out the free books and they close the only retail bookstore in town... I think I've read where this is going.

I kinda went off there on my library thoughts. I'm being a little dramatic, I'm aware but, I love reading. I love books. REAL books. I have a kindle but, I love the weight of a real book. The feel of the paper in my hands. Everything about it. I don't get lost in an e-book, not like I do when its on paper. I don't think its imagined or psychosomatic but, I don't understand why either. Its not just the written word, the story, it's the whole package that feels important to me.

I know that I'm not losing my access to books but it bothers me that my options will be limited to buying most of my books off amazon, the used book stores, or driving 60+ miles to get to an brick and mortar book retailer now.

Hi there.

If you're reading this, then thank you for not unfriending me. Its not that I forgot about eljay, it just seems like I don't have time for it.

I think I'm going to have to severely cut back my flist so that I can read and post all in one day.

I still have my twitter:
http://twitter.com/succubus77

I actually have 2 tumblr accounts:
http://occasionaloctopus.tumblr.com/ (My personal)
http://notofuforme.tumblr.com/ (my food blog)

I do have a facebook but I'm on that less than I am eljay so...

Anyway, things are pretty much the same.

Same job. Spent the entire month of March playing Dragon Age 2. Bought another 360 in April so I'm having to play all my games over so that I can have save games for the sequels (ME1 & 2); read about 75 books so far this year. Now that the ice is gone, I've got my garden going and we're in some weird kind of weather pattern that switches between droughts and OMG!TORNADOS!!! every few weeks.

Fun times. I'm not ever going to abandon this journal, just fyi.

Yesterday morning as I drove to work, I kept hearing Marilyn Manson singing Teddy Bear Picnic. I don't think that version exists but I could be wrong.

As I'm sitting here, working and listening to Abney Park I'm hearing something else in my head. I'm going to share this snippet from when my kids were little.

Eschuchen el tomate.
No es triste?
El no puede cantar.
Pobre tomate.
El deberia poder cantar
fuerte y dulce como el pepino
pero no puede...
Ni siquiera da un silbido.

This song has been running through my head, randomly, for about a decade now.
*headdesk*

Random things/thoughts/quotes from (and about) Dragon Age 2
Paraphrasing is likely because I'm at work so I can't play but I can't stop thinking about the game.

I have parent/teacher conferences tonight so I can't go home right after work and play. :(

BTW, I'm only 15 hours in and just started Act II

( SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS )

Every October I watch 100 horror movies that month. It messes with my brain. Nightmares bleed into my reality. So, I'm a little more ‘off' mid-October through about Thanksgiving than I usually am. But honestly, I kinda like twisting my own reality so...

I've been thinking that I need another movie marathon in another part of the year. I was thinking about some Dystopian movies. Not 100 in a month; I don't think I could handle all the negativity. But we'll see. Any suggestions? See any glaring omissions on my list?

( dystopia )
Of course I could also just do a marathon of post-apocalyptic movies. Like I need anymore paranoid fantasies about that.

I started a new game on AC2 again after I downloaded Bonfire of the Vanities and all the secret locations. The Medici home invasion quest was kinda awesome.

This past weekend I took the boys and bought them new mattresses since they are about to be 12 and those little kid/bunk bed mattresses are starting to hurt their backs.

Friday night, the kids were playing at their end of the house and I heard, "Daniel... Drum roll please." A few seconds later, a drum rolled out of the hall and into the living room.

My house is like a Tex Avery cartoon, I swear.

I bought a few games this weekend. Dead Space 2 (which I haven't played yet), Arcania: Gothic 4 (which I'm probably 15 hours into) and pre-ordered the signature edition of Dragon Age 2.

Because I'm just killing time until 5:00, a small picture post of my favorite Captains.

( 5 pictures under here )

I realize that its been a long time since a proper update. I don't really have anything to update though. I'm still working in the same place, still playing video games, still reading books, still living at the same place...

So, in short nothing is new.

I've been mostly vegetarian for several months now and I have to tell you that I don't think I have ever felt better.

My kids are still awesome :D. I don't know if I mentioned it when it happened but there was the incident where my son was dunking an old stuffed Bob the Builder in the bathtub to make him "TALK! TALK DARN YOU!" Which might worry some other parents but I think that its hysterical.

I'm several months into the "freezing my ass off" part of the year. Can't wait to move to a more tropical climate. After experiencing the OMG HOT and You've got to be kidding me Cold, I prefer the hot. Just saying...

I haven't made icons in many months so I need to get back into practice.

Also, there are several books that I need to bump up the Mt. TBR now that I have found out they will be made into movies.

Some of the series that they are making movies about are The Mortal Instruments, The Hunger Games, Incarceron, Ender's Game, Wicked Lovely, Larklight. So all of those need to be read sooner rather than later. *sigh*

So many books, so little time.

Books Read in 2010

Mostly in alphabetical order, because its easier that way. I severely underestimated how much I actually read.

( 85/50 )

I know its been a while and for that I apologize.

My time has been filled by working, reading, the epic movie marathon that was October and playing video games.

New Things:
Going to the gym now. I signed up for a year and I've been going 5-6 days a week for almost a month now; just walking and basic toning. I'm feeling better, sleeping better, and not nearly as tired throughout the day. I don't know whether to attribute it to the gym or the new diet.

New diet is not actually a diet. I'm not a little girl. Buxom, curvy, big, whatever... I will never be a waif and I'm quite comfortable with that. Anyway, I've gone mostly vegetarian. I say mostly because I have no intention of giving up my sushi on the rare occasions that I get to have it. Maybe one day but, that day is not today. I think the official word is pescatarian but I probably eat sushi a maximum of 12 times a year, so I feel closer to a vegetarian.

I bought and defeated Fable III; rented and defeated Mafia II; and decided that I need another 360. I'd like to get a PS3 as well but its not a priority.
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Thanksgiving was fun. We cooked the turkey and I made a pasta salad. Everyone brought a dish and we were stuck with 40 lbs of stuffing that was left over.

I made a chocolate pecan pie and added too much chocolate so the pie crust stuck to the dish. So tasty though.

I'd like to promise to update more often but I'd hate to lie to you all like that. So, we'll see.

Things I learned from Horror Movies

( 2010 )

( 2009 )

Horror Movie Challenge

Rules:
+ It must be horror.
+ It must meet the minimum of 60 minutes.
+ It must be a movie.
+ It can only be counted once.
+ You have five wild cards that you can use any way you'd like.
+ (*) Means I have seen it before.
+ (+) Means I liked/loved it.
+ (-) Means I disliked/hated it.
+ (!) Means that its so disturbing that I'll probably never watch it again but still remember it vividly forever.

And lets begin...

( movie list - to be updated continuously )


( Last Year's List )

Update:

Buster was sick last week so I had to take him to the vet. He had to be kept overnight at the vet but he came home on Friday night. Several more days of antibiotics and he's feeling much better now.

Someone commented on my book post with a comment about Harry Potter, which I haven't read this year. Which is weird and another one of those weird spammy HP comments (yeah, all of them) that I've been getting. All these comments are from people who aren't on my flist and have no entries. I don't know whats going on there. Its just weird. When I copy/paste the comments it comes up with hidden words as well like:
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On Saturday, mom and I went to Tulsa and hung out with wickedoll. We had sushi and saw Vampires Suck, which definitely did. The bright, shining star of the movie was the chick who played Becca Crane who was awesome and played her role perfectly.


My mom said something funny to me the other day.
Mom, "All little girls like princesses."
Me, "Did I like princesses?"
Mom, "No, you liked pirates but you were different."

I'm getting weird spam comments on my most recent entry so I froze them. Anyone else getting them?