Day Twenty-Nine

It seems like forever ago this month started, and here we are almost done. Craziness.

I watched three new movies tonight. It’s not a bad way to pass some solo WoW time. I have now seen Get Smart, Hancock, and Juno. All mildly entertaining, and none that I’d add to my collection. If I had to pick one to watch again, it’d probably be Get Smart. Just a bunch of dumb humor. I like Steve Corell’s totally flat sense of humor. There aren’t a whole lot of people that can pull off saying some of the completely left-field stuff he says with a totally straight face, and it cracks me up. I’d hope he’d be a ton of fun to work with. I think this one would be safe for older kids, if you don’t mind some references that’ll probably just fly right over their heads anyway. It’s all delivered so deadpan, it’s easy to miss.

Hancock was interesting, in a “that’s not the movie I expected from the trailer” sort of way. There’s some swearing (mostly “asshole”), so probably not suitable for kids. I don’t know. It tries to be a story-driven action flick, and it fails in both categories. The twist makes you go “Huh. That’s a pretty cool idea,” but it just doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of impact on the film as a whole. Same thing with Hancock’s abandonment issues. “I’m lonely so I act out, but I’ve got super powers, so it’s kinda a big deal.” /shrug. Lot’s of potential, very little delivery. Save it for one of those days where there’s nothing else to watch, or just pass it on by.

As for Juno…. I can’t honestly understand why people raved about this movie so much. I liked the characters because they all seemed just a little larger than life. Everything in their personalities were exaggerated just a little bit, like caricatures. I had read a couple reviews, so I wasn’t surprised by the fluid love-interest stuff. Again, interesting, but the characters seemed driven by the story, rather than the other way around. I didn’t like the guy she ends up with much at all either. He’s very very geeky/dorky. You can totally find him in pretty much any high school in the country, and consequently I didn’t find him particularly compelling. Honestly, I can’t really think of anyone I’d recommend this to. I don’t mind that I watched it, just to see what all the hype was about, but I think it’s been found wanting. Several of the song selections were really odd too, just so you know. They fit the character of the film, so they didn’t bother me, but they definitely weren’t something I’d throw on my iPod.

One more day folks.

Day Twenty-Eight

Gha! Yet another that I’m sneaking in under the wire. I’m sorry there haven’t been more thought out posts this month, but at least I’ve gotten words down in a post every single day this month. Today was kinda crazy, as I was Black Friday, and I worked a full shift at Gamestop. From here through Christmas it’ll be just about full-tilt packed almost all the time. Good stuff.

Day Twenty-Seven

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  I’m grateful for all of my friends and family, and I’m grateful for the ease of the life I lead. I hope you’ve all had a good day full of food and fun and good stuff.

Day Twenty-Six

Squeaking this one in again. I have a car until Sunday night, and it feels great. Other than the fact that I don’t have anywhere to go. TallMan, I’ll respond to what you wrote, I promise, I just want to think about it a bit. But thanks for your response!

Day Twenty-Five

Today, because things along these lines have been on my mind a lot lately, I share with you the thoughts of G’Kar.

If I take a lamp and shine toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often we assume the light on the wall is God, but the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search, who does not bring a lantern with him, sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light, pure and unblemished. Not understanding that it comes from us, sometimes, we stand in front of the light and assume we are the center of the universe. God looks astonishingly like we do. Or we turn to look at our shadow and assume all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose – which is use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and all it flaws, and in so doing, better understand the world around us.

Day Twenty-Four

Six left. Less than a week left of this daily blogging stuff. I’m almost there, and I’m almost finished. It feels pretty good to be heading for a finish line. One that I set for myself. I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself though, I’m not there yet. Just close. Plus, I just found out that I will have the use of a vehicle from Wednesday night to Sunday afternoon. I don’t know what I’ll do with it, cause I don’t really have anywhere to go, but it will be there, waiting.

Day Twenty-Three

Today I have nothing to say.

Day Twenty-Two

There is something very satisfying about eating food you cooked. Even if all the indgredients come out of a box, it’s nice.

Day Twenty-One

(The crazy in me had to take a minute and make sure that the number in this post’s title should actually be hyphenated.) Today I feel like I’ve gotten some work done. It’s not actually the work I’ve wanted to get done, but that’s not too hard. The work I want to get done involves pretty much everything. Getting ‘pretty much everything’ done is a lot harder than you’d think. Or at least harder than I’d think. Mostly because I was thinking. I was thinking, I need to do the dishes, but the counter is dirty, so I should clean that first, but there isn’t room, because the counter is covered in dirty dishes, so I should move them to the table, but the table is dirty, and to really clean it, I’d need to move some stuff off of it, but I can’t because there’s no room on the counters, and I’d have to sweep all the dirty crumbs off onto the floor, which needs to be swept and really mopped, but to do that I need to move just about everything out of the kitchen… and I need to clean the bathroom and the living room and the bedroom and do laundry and vacuum and clean the vacuum and… and.. and…

And then I plunk myself down in front of my computer, because I can’t possibly get all of that done, so why bother trying right? It gets even worse when I start adding in other areas of my life, like finances and fitness and food and friends and family and.. and.. and….

So today I put some things aside. I will not think about my weight or my fitness (or I’ll do my best not to stress about it, at least) until the first of March. December is a bad time to think about all that for me. You’ve got the holidays and all the parties and all the food, plus it’s cold outside, and I’m a pansy when it comes to the cold. January is out for me, because I’ve set a weight/fitness goal every January for practically my entire life, and it hasn’t worked so far. The beginning of February will be caught up in performances of Trip to Bountiful, and halfway through the month is Valentine’s Day and my second anniversary with the BF. With any luck we’ll go back to the Melting Pot to celebrate, and a meal that fabulous shouldn’t be marred by anything outside ecstatic enjoyment.

So come the first of March, I will reexamine where I am, and set some goals. This doesn’t mean I’m going to let myself go, as it were. It just means I’m not going to stress about it. Similarly, I’m not going to worry too much about the state of my house until January. When it comes to the long-term state of my life and my relationship with BF, getting the finances under control are our biggest priority. So the next week or so I’m going to get all the paperwork together, and create a big-picture view of our monthly incomings/outgoings. Then I’m going to just move through the month of December and see if what I came up with matches what actually happens.

I guess the lesson for today is creating a to do list sometimes means keeping stuff off the list.

Day Twenty

The internet gods have smiled upon me. I was in despair, having nothing to write. I can only say “I played WoW” so many times before this daily exercise becomes truly pointless. However, I can instead bring you one of the most interesting internet games I have ever found. Go to http://playauditorium.com and prepare to spend a couple hours just playing around.