must... not... give up... (also Merry Christmas)
Well i'm having a night that can only be described as GAH!!!!!!!!! This is the third time i've tried to post in the last half hour. The first time, the incredible mass of frustration that is Geocities feckin crashed everything, then i angrily rebooted my beloved Firefox and started lamenting in my new post how i was shitty but determined to stay positive...... then after more frustrations with Geocities i got up to find Jess to poke and bashed the feckin reset button!!! (also done that 3 times today, now i've taped a bottle cap over it with a band-aid :P gah) anyway let's try to share some of the Christmas spirit shall we?
*cough* okay here goes... Merry Christmas everyone!! Happy birthday to Jesus too! I had the bestest day today :) I can't believe how much food i ate (trust me to talk about food before anything else) and it was all yum yum yum, i got heaps of entertaining presents and went to Lucrecia's (Tommy's sister) large & very nice house to bask in the glory of the fact that her family is going overseas and me and Tommy and Julieta (Tommy's other sister) get to mind the house :D
I'm going to be extremely materialistic and list all the presents i got today, also because people always ask me what i got for Christmas and i always seem to forget (not because the presents are bad, just cos i have a crap memory) and now i'll have a reference :P
ahem...Punching bag (hwa!), cocktail glasses, cocktail-maker-thing-set (as in with measurer and tongs and stirrer and all that), Leunig cartoon book, wallet, cd, Empire Records dvd (which i have wanted for so long but could never seem to download one that wasn't dubbed over in French :P), pyjamas, riding boots, calendars, ice-cream bowls (so cute), pastry weights, chockies, ornaments, essential oils, a diary, more chockies, lollies, and little useful things like make-up remover and socks and such. And Tommy gave me this little booklet that looks like a book of vouchers with things that he's going to buy me, like a dress (i don't want to buy one until i lose some weight and that might take a few weeks) and shoes and stuff. It was all printed out with little pictures and everything, very very cute and sweet :) I also got a dressmaker's dummy which my auntie brought from Canberra, and as a joke she put a shirt on it and bought one of those disgusting Bratz make-up doll head things and stuck that on the top so when i came home this morning there was this... thing... in the lounge room which looked like a strange bulky torso with a freakish head :P My auntie named her Beryl! hehe :) Anyway she said i might as well keep the Bratz head thing cos she has no use for it, so i pulled dear Beryl off the dummy and now she's sitting on the ironing board next to me. I figured i'll make use of it and give her a new look every post just for fun, so here's how she started out (hope this loads):
~~Ah, dear Beryl~~
Her name is supposed to be Neva or Nevra or something according to the little "info about this product... and buy our 500 other products too or your kids will hate you! HATE YOU!!!" booklet, but i thought Beryl suited her. Muhuhahaha!
Well since i don't have much more to say about Christmas (did i mention the food? :)) i might as well have a bitch about King Kong. I saw it (the new one obviously) the other day, and what can i say... Peter Jackson just can't shake that history of B-grade horror can he?! And there are some people to whom you really shouldn't give the money to create unlimited CGI creatures and/or scenes. Seriously. Kong is still impressive, he doesn't need to fight 3 dinosaurs for 10 minutes to be cool. And why, why, why did he put that bug scene in? Okay i'm going to ruin a bit of the plot here (not that it would make any difference to the plot if he took the scene out) but there's this scene in which Jack Black and friends fall down into this chasm thing, and at the bottom it's all slimy and dark, and for some reason full of giant bugs. And not the kind of bugs one would expect to find in dark slimy chasms, they are all the most creepy-looking bugs (crickets, mosquito-ish things etc) made enormous. But why?!! If i were a giant bug on an undiscovered island (you never know) and these funny humans who are technically a bit bigger than me came along, i wouldn't run out and start attacking them! Peter! Crickets don't eat meat! And it wasn't just that it didn't make sense, it was unnecessarily gruesome too... this is where the b-grade horror stuff really starts happening: one of the guys is standing next to a pool, and these things that i can only describe as giant hookworms come shooting out of the water and start trying to go him. Eventually, to make it worse than it could possibly be, one of them gets him and the guy is thrashing around everywhere with his head inside this giant hookworm and... then i realised that the cinema walls really were rather more interesting than that. I learned my lesson a long time ago after watching Starship Troopers... when there's an enormous hungry bug creature in contact with someone's head, look away! yurrrrrrgh. So apart from that, and the fact that some of the scenes were a bit too drawn-out, i thought it was a pretty okay movie. The acting of the non-CGI characters was really good, and actually Kong was represented pretty well i thought, Pete didn't make him all cuddly or uber-human-ish, he really acted like an ape and didn't become anthropomorphous until the very end. Quite well done if you ignore the rest of the CGI stuff :P
Well i think i've done my share of bitching for the day, i'm gonna go watch Empire Records and then go to bed, and not eat for the next few days! hehe Merry Christmas everybody!! Hopefully someone will organise something for nye and i'll get to see some of youse all *points in general direction of Castle Hill*
chau chau! :D
Lola's philosophical-sounding thought of the day: Geocities - the only entity stupid enough to actually make Firefox crash
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*cough* okay here goes... Merry Christmas everyone!! Happy birthday to Jesus too! I had the bestest day today :) I can't believe how much food i ate (trust me to talk about food before anything else) and it was all yum yum yum, i got heaps of entertaining presents and went to Lucrecia's (Tommy's sister) large & very nice house to bask in the glory of the fact that her family is going overseas and me and Tommy and Julieta (Tommy's other sister) get to mind the house :D
I'm going to be extremely materialistic and list all the presents i got today, also because people always ask me what i got for Christmas and i always seem to forget (not because the presents are bad, just cos i have a crap memory) and now i'll have a reference :P
ahem...Punching bag (hwa!), cocktail glasses, cocktail-maker-thing-set (as in with measurer and tongs and stirrer and all that), Leunig cartoon book, wallet, cd, Empire Records dvd (which i have wanted for so long but could never seem to download one that wasn't dubbed over in French :P), pyjamas, riding boots, calendars, ice-cream bowls (so cute), pastry weights, chockies, ornaments, essential oils, a diary, more chockies, lollies, and little useful things like make-up remover and socks and such. And Tommy gave me this little booklet that looks like a book of vouchers with things that he's going to buy me, like a dress (i don't want to buy one until i lose some weight and that might take a few weeks) and shoes and stuff. It was all printed out with little pictures and everything, very very cute and sweet :) I also got a dressmaker's dummy which my auntie brought from Canberra, and as a joke she put a shirt on it and bought one of those disgusting Bratz make-up doll head things and stuck that on the top so when i came home this morning there was this... thing... in the lounge room which looked like a strange bulky torso with a freakish head :P My auntie named her Beryl! hehe :) Anyway she said i might as well keep the Bratz head thing cos she has no use for it, so i pulled dear Beryl off the dummy and now she's sitting on the ironing board next to me. I figured i'll make use of it and give her a new look every post just for fun, so here's how she started out (hope this loads):
~~Ah, dear Beryl~~
Her name is supposed to be Neva or Nevra or something according to the little "info about this product... and buy our 500 other products too or your kids will hate you! HATE YOU!!!" booklet, but i thought Beryl suited her. Muhuhahaha!
Well since i don't have much more to say about Christmas (did i mention the food? :)) i might as well have a bitch about King Kong. I saw it (the new one obviously) the other day, and what can i say... Peter Jackson just can't shake that history of B-grade horror can he?! And there are some people to whom you really shouldn't give the money to create unlimited CGI creatures and/or scenes. Seriously. Kong is still impressive, he doesn't need to fight 3 dinosaurs for 10 minutes to be cool. And why, why, why did he put that bug scene in? Okay i'm going to ruin a bit of the plot here (not that it would make any difference to the plot if he took the scene out) but there's this scene in which Jack Black and friends fall down into this chasm thing, and at the bottom it's all slimy and dark, and for some reason full of giant bugs. And not the kind of bugs one would expect to find in dark slimy chasms, they are all the most creepy-looking bugs (crickets, mosquito-ish things etc) made enormous. But why?!! If i were a giant bug on an undiscovered island (you never know) and these funny humans who are technically a bit bigger than me came along, i wouldn't run out and start attacking them! Peter! Crickets don't eat meat! And it wasn't just that it didn't make sense, it was unnecessarily gruesome too... this is where the b-grade horror stuff really starts happening: one of the guys is standing next to a pool, and these things that i can only describe as giant hookworms come shooting out of the water and start trying to go him. Eventually, to make it worse than it could possibly be, one of them gets him and the guy is thrashing around everywhere with his head inside this giant hookworm and... then i realised that the cinema walls really were rather more interesting than that. I learned my lesson a long time ago after watching Starship Troopers... when there's an enormous hungry bug creature in contact with someone's head, look away! yurrrrrrgh. So apart from that, and the fact that some of the scenes were a bit too drawn-out, i thought it was a pretty okay movie. The acting of the non-CGI characters was really good, and actually Kong was represented pretty well i thought, Pete didn't make him all cuddly or uber-human-ish, he really acted like an ape and didn't become anthropomorphous until the very end. Quite well done if you ignore the rest of the CGI stuff :P
Well i think i've done my share of bitching for the day, i'm gonna go watch Empire Records and then go to bed, and not eat for the next few days! hehe Merry Christmas everybody!! Hopefully someone will organise something for nye and i'll get to see some of youse all *points in general direction of Castle Hill*
chau chau! :D
Lola's philosophical-sounding thought of the day: Geocities - the only entity stupid enough to actually make Firefox crash
-.-