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Wow, Third Post In Just A Couple Weeks, I Must Be On A Roll

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For those of you who’ve read and enjoyed R. A. Salvatore, guess what!!!!!

He was at Barnes & Noble in the Mall of America yesterday at seven, and I got to go see him!!!!!! Plus, my awesome father told me that he would buy me Salvatore’s new book (The Pirate King) if I would clean up the computer area. Score!! I also bought Servant of the Shard (#1 of the Sellswords Trilogy), and got both the books signed!!!

I now have this impenetrable bubble of happiness in the bottom of my rib cage, helped along by the fact that I’m going to homecoming on Saturday with…someone who is being kept anon. for his own protection.

I’m nearly halfway through the book, but I have this nagging feeling that I need to do something, or else Dad will be rather angry…what was it? Oh, well.

R. A. Salvatore also came out with a new book last week, co-written with his son, Geno. It’s called The Stowaway. That one is a very short read, only about 300 pages. I finished it in one day. The Pirate King has 345 pages, but the pages are much bigger and the print is much smaller.

So anyway, hope you all enjoyed that little tidbit, I’m going back to the devourment of my books.

Ciao for now!!!

Tiger Lilly-icious Updates

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Hey, peoples of the blogosphere.

First, an earworm for you:

Enjoy. The video is comprised of clips from World of Warcraft, and the song is from Jonathan Coulton, who had written one song per week for a year to keep his creative juices flowing, or something like that. His website is www.jonathancoulton.com

Second, I may start posting a webcomic on here, however, I need a name for it. Any ideas? The comic won’t really have a theme, just random stuff. And no, ‘Random Stuff’ won’t be the title.

Ciao for now!

The Jane Austen movie club?

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We watched a movie recently called The Jane Austen Book Club. It is very cute, and I would recommend it to ladies who love chick-flicks. The movie is about five ladies and one man (they all live in Cali) who decide to do a Jane Austen book club (surprise, surprise). They did one book a month for six months.

The characters:

Bernadette: An older lady who has been married six times and wants to get married one more time.

Sylvia: Just got a divorce from her cheating husband.

Allegra (Sylvia’s daughter): Lesbian. ‘Nuff said.

Grigg (not Greg): Very naive. He was invited into the club by Jocelyn.

Prudie: A French language teacher who has never been to France. A little stuck-up.

and Jocelyn: The lady who claims to ‘never want to fall in love’, so she raises dogs to fill that gap. She invited Grigg in hopes of hooking him up with Sylvia, but he has no intention of that and focuses his sights on Jocelyn.

The book club was started in February and ended in July. The first book they read was Emma, and they ended with Persuasion.

Grigg, who wonders why he’s in the club, buys all Jane Austen’s novel in one big book and thinks that they are all sequels to each other.
Allegra goes through a couple girlfriends throughout the movie. Prudie always happens to be just in time to see one of her students (that she falls in love with, despite the fact that she has a hubby) involved in questionable behavior with his girlfriend.

Jocelyn is generally blind to the fact that Grigg doesn’t want to hook up with Sylvia. Sylvia is very torn up for the first 30 minutes or so over the fact that her hubby was cheating on her. Bernadette almost always wears a crazy quilted jacket, which seems to match her personality perfectly.

I would probably give it three and a half stars out of four. I would definitely recommend it for a “girls night” some time. Very cute.

Ciao for now!

While the parental units are out…

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So last night, MD and I headed out for a movie (Spiderwick. It sucked. Read the books, and you’ll feel so much better), home to change into pajamas, them off again to Princess Flickerfeather’s house.

A bunch of MD’s friends were there. We’re sitting around playing Loaded Questions (awesome game), which took a long time. At about 10:45, everyone decides that they’re hungry. So we debate about ordering pizza, where to get it from, what to get, all that jazz. This is the ensuing conversation:

MD: Let’s get pizza!
Murmurs of assent
TL: What kind?
MD: Sausage with black olives. Mmmmmm.
Anna: No, I hate sausage. I’m ok with mushroom.
TL: Eww, yuck.
Donny: What are you on? You don’t eat beans, mushrooms… (Donny had previously made refried bean dip).
TL: I’m on the beanbag.
MD: How about a split pizza?
Ruth: We could get half sausage w/ black olives and half mushroom.
TL: Anna, do you like pepperoni?
Anna: Nope.
TL: Darn.
Ruth: How ’bout just cheese?
*Great enthusiasm.*
PFF: There’s a phone book in the kichen. Order from Domino’s.
*Anna is on the phone oredering pizza.*
PFF: Make sure to tell him the address is Summit Ave, South Saint Paul, otherwise he’ll go to St. Paul.
Anna: He’s like, ‘So St Paul, So St Paul. Hold on,’
MD: Haha! ‘There’s a South Saint Paul?’
Anna: Alright, he’ll be here in 40 minutes.
*Groaning.*
TL: 40 minutes?!
MD: I thought they had a 30 minute policy.
Donny: Or, you could just cancel that, and we could put in a frozen pizza.
O_o
Anna: Donny!!! Why didn’t you tell us?!
Donny: Well, it’s pepperoni!
Sam: They could’ve lived with it!
Anna: Yeah, I wouldn’t have minded!

So we decided to just live with the cheese pizza.

What seemed like a long while later:

TL: How long has it been?
Anna: About 15 minutes.
TL: WHAT?!

The pizza finally arrived at 11:35 and was greeted at the door by Sam and his beer stein hat. That hat was at least a foot and a half tall. I can only imagine what that pizza guy was thinking.

The pizza was almost instantly devoured.

We didn’t end up getting home until 12:something.

It’s the cows

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Be on the lookout for signs of a rebellion.

No, it’s not the terrorists (not the ones you’d expect, anyway) …

No, it’s not teenagers…

It’s the COWS!!!!

Yes, you read that right. I’ve made two long car trips in the last few weeks, through the heart of America’s farmlands, and I tell you there’s something suspicious about all the cows. They are plotting to take over the world. Sure, they LOOK all innocent when you’re driving through the country. But before they hear your car coming, they’re talking in conspiratorial whispers, scheming up ways for world domination!

First, they lull us into a false sense of security. Then, they prey on our other sources of food (did you read about that cow who kept eating chickens?)

Third, they send out their NINJA COWS!!! These cows have training specially for stealth. And they’re always the black ones. Never put a black cow at your back. You think everything’s just fine, and then BAM! You’re on the ground.

Ever notice how cows are usually grouped together, with a few loners? Well, the groups are the conspirators, and the loners are the look-outs. As soon as they hear a car driving by, or someone walking up, they give their secret code and tell everyone to ‘look beefy.’ That’s why all you ever see cows do is eat grass.

Beware the groups of twos and threes. They plot while looking natural. While we were driving home from Missouri, we saw a cow line-up. Seriously. The cows were all in a line on a distant hill. Probably doing a drill or something.

Ways to keep your house cow proof:

  • Set up a large fence with sentry posts. With any luck, if the cows come a-callin’, you’ll get a meal out of the invasion. Mmm… steak.
  • Set up rows of chickens armed with eggs. I’m sure they’ll want to get back at the cows for eating them.
  • Don’t allow groupings of more than two cows in your yard at a time. That should slow them down.
  • Pay spy cows to go into the field and listen in on the cow plans. You might also want to get a moo interpreter.

My dad thinks the government sent deer in to spy on the cows (you can’t trust the cows to do it), but the cows caught on. That’s why we saw so many dead deer on the road last week. Almost all of them were near a field of cows. Black cows. Makes you think.

But here I’ve warned you. You may think I’m crazy, to which I say:

Well, DUH!

But don’t come cryin’ to me when your home is invaded by these four legged tasty conspirators. That’s your problem.

The sheep and hawks are in on it, too.

Ciao (no, literally, chow) for now!