Wednesday, December 15, 2004

books!

I'm going through one of my little funks. There are like five books I want to read and I don't know which one to pick! I want to reread the Harry Potter series just 'cause. Then there's Tithe, a book I've had for a while but haven't read. The Lord of the Rings is a little more than I can handle right now. I'd go nuts if I tried to read that whole thing. Besides, I want to read a couple of books by the end of the year, not just one. Then there's The Talisman by Stephen King. I've tried to read it a couple of times and I like it, I just . . . didn't finish it. Hmmm. Maybe I'll read that one. Tithe doesn't interest me and I've read all the HP books. I kinda want to read something I haven't read before. Or finished. Whatever.

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Monday, December 13, 2004

   Once Upon A Dream

I had a very . . . strange dream last night (or this morning, whatever). I was the daughter of Van Helsing and I had to fight vampires and something called The Walker, who was controling the vampires and some people, too, in order to kill me. It starts out with me in a line to go see a movie. Outside the theatre looks like the one in Blanchester, inside it looks like my dad's girlfriend's brother's old house. It wasn't even really a theatre, more like an extremely casual hotel. The vampires have their own entrance and for some reason I go into that one. Anyway, the vampires all go into one room. These two dork guys go into the second, and I take the third all by my lonesome. All of us stay there the entire night. The impression I had was that the vampires were having an orgy and the guys were watching the snow on their TV. Idiots. I was busy doing some kind of weird ballerina stretch or something. Whatever. It was a in-the-dream-but-not moment. All my dreams have those. The next morning, the vampires are after me. I don't have my own car, so I hitch a ride with some dude that happens to be passing so I don't, you know, die. I have no idea what goes on here, but I do know that here is where I get the information about my being Van Helsing's daughter and the vampires and The Walker and all that. For some reason I seem to remember D-sama being the one to tell me all that. I end up at some bank, where an old friend of my dad's works. The guy is like an uncle to me or some such thing. He sits me down in his cubicle thing and tells me that the guy I had gotten a ride with had been under the control of The Walker. People who he has sway over will be red to my eyes. On cue, I look outside and there is some geeky looking guy looking in. He runs off, but not before I notice the small fact that he is RED from HEAD TO TOE. I go running, too. There is an ice cream truck out in the parking lot, so I pull open the door. The idiot inside offers me an ice cream. I push him aside and get in, buckling up and telling the driver to GO, GO, GO! Meanwhile, Mr. Red is trying to get inside the van and I'm trying to beat him down. We get away, though. That's when I woke up. There was another part of the dream that didn't really fit in with the others. Me and some other person were on this ride, kind of like the Scrambler, in an amusement park right across from King's Island. To us, it looked fine and we rode it about three times. Then it turns out that the ride is rusty beyond rusty and all the other people we had seen there never exist, except in our minds. What that has to do with the rest of the dream, I have no idea. And that was my dream. One more thing before I go: it finally snowed a little! YAY! *does happy dance*

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Saturday, December 11, 2004

   Bored and Bored and MORE BORED!

I have done nothing - absolutely nothing - today except lay around and veg. Not for long, though. I'm applying to, ack, McDonald's. Something I never, never wanted to do. But whatever you have to do to get by. Money talks and all that. Listening to country right now (not my choice. country is okay, though). Something that reminds me of Fayetteville, my old friend Steph and Barbie dolls. We used to listen to the radio while we played Barbies and she loved country. The song itself reminds me of a couple of characters (Cole and Lor) and the way their life ends up playing out. And .... That's about it. Riveting, huh? Ooh yeah.

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Thursday, December 9, 2004

   'Nother List!

I should really post this on the 31st, but I feel like doing it now, so here we are. This is a list of every book I have read so far this year. It's a pathetic list, but, hey, I'll just have to do better next year. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Anne Brashares White As Snow by Tanith Lee The Third Witch by Rebecca Reisert Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chavelier Sabriel by Garth Nix Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire Life of Pi by Yann Martel Empress Orchid Lirael, Daughter of the Clayr by Garth Nix Abhorsen by Garth Nix The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale Sunshine by Robin McKinley A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Memiors of a Geisha by Arhur Golden Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (yes! I finished it today! I HAVE TRIUMPHED!)

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   'Nother Lazy Day

Today is one of those days where you feel like being lazy. I took a shower and changed into clean pajamas. I'm kinda caught up in some Rurouni Kenshin fics I've found (I'm in the process of reading one called Descent into Madness, which I have read twice before, lol). I plan on finishing The Drawing of the Three before Sunday. I have less than a hundred pages left, then it's on to The Bonesetter's Daughter (by Amy Tan) and The Lord of the Rings. *sighs* Daunting. After that it's The Waste Lands for me. Geez. Waaay too much. Sad that I really want to do this, huh? Well, I'm off to make my bed and straighten up my slightly messy room.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2004

   *sighs deeply*

The semester is officially over for me. Just took my last exam. Biology. Probably bombed, but at least I tried, right? Well, whatever. Too . . . something or other (tired? apathetic?) to care right now.

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Sunday, December 5, 2004

   ack! Too long!

I wish I had a fastforward button. I want it to be Christmas Eve sooo bad! We go over to my aunt's on Christmas Eve, eat dinner and exchange presents. It's about the only time the ENTIRE family is together, the small lot of us. Well, not so small, I guess, considering I have nine cousins, three aunts and an uncle, all of which are married. It'll be the first time I get to see baby Emma. *huggles little bundle of baby cuteness* I can't wait for that, even though I'll be too afraid to hold the tiny little thing. And it's nineteen days away! I can't wait that long! I am not that patient! That's almost three freakin' weeks! I'll shrivel up and die before then! Or go crazy! *sighs* Too late. Waaaay too late. On page three hundred and something of The Drawing of the Three. There are four hundred and sixty three pages in all. Can't wait to finish that either. I have this sudden inspiration to read The Lord of the Rings. It will kill me, I can see it now, but I'm determined to do it. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

   Ha ha!

My mom is strange. I gave her my little list and she told me to make a longer one. It had four things on it! What parent wouldn't want a list that short!? Apparently not mine. But then, my mom has never been anywhere near society's idea of normal. Anyway, here is the longer list: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, extended version To Ride a Silver Broomstick by Silver Ravenwolf To Stir a Magick Cauldron by Silver Ravenwolf Hidalgo Mean Girls The Lord of the Rings soundtracks (all three, of course) the soundtracks to Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen In the Pursuit of Leisure (Sugar Ray) Floored (Sugar Ray) Lemonade and Brownies (by, you guessed it, Sugar Ray) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban video game War of the Ring video game There. The entire thing. More than I expected. More than I wanted. *sighs* I am over two hundred pages into The Drawing of the Three. I like it. A lot. Roland, for whatever reason, reminds me of my Papaw. He has that same authority around him that Roland seems to. Truth be told, I'm a little afraid of my Papaw even though he's one of my favorite people in the world. You have to be on your best behavior around him. He's a no nonsense kind of person.

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Monday, November 29, 2004

   A Journey

I am embarking on a very long project: I am going to read the entire Dark Tower series. I have already read The Gunslinger. I want to reread it for this purpose, but as my mom has lent it out it will have to wait. Meanwhile, I will start with The Drawing of the Three, which I have already read most of. *sighs* Don't know why I'm doing this. Guess I'm a little curious or something. Mom loves them so much and so do a lot of others, so I figure why not give it a try? Oh, and here is my Christmas List (my mom told me to make one up): The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, extended version To Ride a Silver Broomstick by Silver Ravenwolf To Stir a Magick Cauldron by Silver Ravenwolf $30 gift certificate for Suncoast, Walden Books, or Borders And that would be my shpeal for the day.

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Thursday, November 25, 2004

   Well, whatever

Happy Thanksgiving to all who care. I went over to my grandma's and had breakfast. Came home and had to break into my own house. Lovely. As usual, I have barely seen my parents at all, although I did see Mom long enough to say good bye and Happy Thanksgiving to and Dad gave me my first driving lesson. I have stering issues. The good news is that I'm going to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for old time's sake (I haven't seen it in FOREVER). The first seasonal special. Yay.

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