Vampires Suck
I read Twilight a while back, and wasn't a huge fan. With all this hullabaloo about Breaking Dawn and the Twilight movie coming out, I thought maybe I would give it another try, since everyone seemed to like it so much. Then as I searched the interwebs I found out that I am not the only person who doesn't like it and I don't feel so bad! Luckily I saved myself from books 2 and 3 by reading cleolinda's awesome recaps (check out Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse). But her recap of Breaking Dawn (Parts One, Two, and Three) almost make me want to read that one (for the lulz, as they say). Should I do it? Have any of you read it and seen if it is as bad as it seems? Is it entertainingly bad or just bad bad?
Also the movie looks sooooooooo awful :D Wow I heart schadenfreude.
But like I said before, part of what made me want to read the first book was that it was set in the Pacific Northwest. I love the descriptions of all the rain and green forests. I know you are supposed to hate them because Bella does (she prefers Phoenix, a place that I would not live for any amount of money - all the open sky, flat land, and tiny trees freak me the hell out) but I love it. Are there any GOOD books set there that I can enjoy (besides Snow Falling On Cedars which I have already read but probably should again)?
I finally watched the Olympics Opening Ceremonies online last night. They were freaking awesome! At the beginning I was all "Ok cool lights zooming around and then making rings whatevs" and then the rings FLOAT UP FROM THE FLOOR BLACK MAGIC OMG. And when the printing blocks turned into flowers it like touched my evil blackened heart somehow. wtf.
Speaking of touching my heart, Doctor Who Season 4 finale actually made me cry. I BURST into tears. Actual tears came out of my eyes for a whole 2 minutes. I don't cry at movies or TV ever (EVER! even Doctor Who Season 2 finale!), I don't know what was going on. And I wasn't even crying at the sad Donna part like a normal person should. No, no, I was crying at the FINALLY DOCTOR AND ROSE KISSING YAYYYYY part. I have so many issues. That season was so awesome though, I love Donna even though I expected to hate her with a passion.
And that reminds me that Laura Roslin almost made me cry about a million times in this past half-season of BSG. What is wrong with me.
How about some pictures! Yes I am going to be lazy and link you to Picasa instead of resizing them and including them in the post.
In mid-June I took a few hundred pictures of one really gorgeous sunset.
At the end of June we went to Bethany Beach. I took a bunch of pictures (as usual). One day the water was super blue and super clear, it looked like the Caribbean. And I did actually go birding once, I saw Willets which I don't think are on my life list (I have to check), and added Boat-Tailed Grackles to my life list. I also saw a Brant on the beach, in the middle of many blankets of people, not trying to run or fly away. I bet he was hurt and I didn't do anything to help :( That's a lifer at least.
I went to Redskins Training Camp a few weekends ago, and thanks to the girlfriend of a coworker I was in VIP. This would probably have been more exciting if I had (a) watched a full game of Redskins football any time in the last 15 years and (b) a clue who any of the players were. Which I didn't. I still had a lot of fun. I got about 7 autographs for my brother and took a lot of pictures (and got horribly sunburned). Click for pics.
I found some pictures from the first time we went to Niagara Falls (I think it was back in 2003). Some are from the Maid of the Mist (which we didn't go on the second time we went there) and there are some of me petting and feeding a killer whale, sweet.
This weekend we are supposed to go to some hotel up in Western MD that is on a lake and supposed to be pretty. Hopefully I will take 10000 pictures like I usually do on vacation.
Also the movie looks sooooooooo awful :D Wow I heart schadenfreude.
But like I said before, part of what made me want to read the first book was that it was set in the Pacific Northwest. I love the descriptions of all the rain and green forests. I know you are supposed to hate them because Bella does (she prefers Phoenix, a place that I would not live for any amount of money - all the open sky, flat land, and tiny trees freak me the hell out) but I love it. Are there any GOOD books set there that I can enjoy (besides Snow Falling On Cedars which I have already read but probably should again)?
I finally watched the Olympics Opening Ceremonies online last night. They were freaking awesome! At the beginning I was all "Ok cool lights zooming around and then making rings whatevs" and then the rings FLOAT UP FROM THE FLOOR BLACK MAGIC OMG. And when the printing blocks turned into flowers it like touched my evil blackened heart somehow. wtf.
Speaking of touching my heart, Doctor Who Season 4 finale actually made me cry. I BURST into tears. Actual tears came out of my eyes for a whole 2 minutes. I don't cry at movies or TV ever (EVER! even Doctor Who Season 2 finale!), I don't know what was going on. And I wasn't even crying at the sad Donna part like a normal person should. No, no, I was crying at the FINALLY DOCTOR AND ROSE KISSING YAYYYYY part. I have so many issues. That season was so awesome though, I love Donna even though I expected to hate her with a passion.
And that reminds me that Laura Roslin almost made me cry about a million times in this past half-season of BSG. What is wrong with me.
How about some pictures! Yes I am going to be lazy and link you to Picasa instead of resizing them and including them in the post.
In mid-June I took a few hundred pictures of one really gorgeous sunset.
At the end of June we went to Bethany Beach. I took a bunch of pictures (as usual). One day the water was super blue and super clear, it looked like the Caribbean. And I did actually go birding once, I saw Willets which I don't think are on my life list (I have to check), and added Boat-Tailed Grackles to my life list. I also saw a Brant on the beach, in the middle of many blankets of people, not trying to run or fly away. I bet he was hurt and I didn't do anything to help :( That's a lifer at least.
I went to Redskins Training Camp a few weekends ago, and thanks to the girlfriend of a coworker I was in VIP. This would probably have been more exciting if I had (a) watched a full game of Redskins football any time in the last 15 years and (b) a clue who any of the players were. Which I didn't. I still had a lot of fun. I got about 7 autographs for my brother and took a lot of pictures (and got horribly sunburned). Click for pics.
I found some pictures from the first time we went to Niagara Falls (I think it was back in 2003). Some are from the Maid of the Mist (which we didn't go on the second time we went there) and there are some of me petting and feeding a killer whale, sweet.
This weekend we are supposed to go to some hotel up in Western MD that is on a lake and supposed to be pretty. Hopefully I will take 10000 pictures like I usually do on vacation.