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03 November 2007 @ 10:46 pm

Due to recent circumstances, I've gone Friends Only (and will now be locking all my posts)! So drop me a line here if you really think you want to be my friend. Thanks!

P.S. All my current wonderful friends will remain my current wonderful friends! :)

Tags: friend only

Current Mood:

weird

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02 September 2007 @ 11:21 am

She's Some Kind of Wonderful...

Hello out there! I hope you all are enjoying the long weekend (for those of you who get it), and making the most of this time away from work/before school starts/last days of freedom, etc etc.

( Let me ramble a bit... )

Tags: imogen heap, lake, regina spektor, water skiing

Current Location: Two For the Dough - Janet Evanovich

Current Mood:

sore

Current Music: On the radio - Regina Spektor

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12 July 2007 @ 09:05 pm

Nature Picspam!

Okay, anybody who knows me at all, knows that I'm a huge nature freak. I like spiders, and snakes, and all those creepy crawly type things. And I'm a total "animal rescue" freak as well. When I ran a summer camp, I used to run a "spider saving club" (which consisted of me and one young girl), and we used to find spiders indoors, and kindly move them back outside, before any harm could come to them.

Soooo ... it should come as no surprise that I like to bring nature indoors, and enjoy giving it a helping hand whenever the opportunity arises.

Such was the case in early July of this year. Last summer, my mother had given me a "swamp milkweed" plant to plant in my "backyard garden", as it would attract monarch butterflies. This year, the plant flourished, and did host a bundle of 12 little monarch caterpillars.

( Follow the cut to see the pics, and hear the rest of the story... )

Okay, hope you enjoyed that! I'll be away roadtrippin' it to Fargo, ND until Sunday night, so ... if you don't hear from me, you'll know why!

Peace. Out.

Tags: bugs, butterflies, fishfly, picspam

Current Location: Princess on the Brink - Meg Cabot

Current Mood:

excited

Current Music: The Seed 2.0 - The Roots

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23 April 2007 @ 06:35 pm

Awesome New Song

While feeding my Portishead addiction (did I thank you for that,

callieach?), I came across a very similar group called Massive Attack. Accidentally, I discovered that it is Massive Attack who provide the *awesome* theme to House, an actual track of theirs called Teardrop. Check out the slightly artistically-creepy video HERE. (But I warn you, it's YouTube, so it could be removed at any time).

This song is my new favourite thing. There are no words to express how amazing the artist is, and how insanely calming and wonderful the song itself is.

Reminds me of a similar Canadian-made band that made great chill-out music. Are they still around? Let's find out ... oh my gosh, they are! The band is called Delerium, and they make awesome, awesome music too.

EDIT: You can also check out the vid for my most favourite Delerium song, Innocente (Falling in Love), with guest vocals by Leigh Nash. (Yes, the singer from Sixpence None The Richer). Oh, I wrote so many great works of art to Delerium's albums...

[/awesome music pimping]

Tags: delerium, massive attack, music, portishead, teardrop

Current Location: futon

Current Mood:

calm

Current Music: teardrop - massive attack

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11 April 2007 @ 10:15 pm

Dear KimberKatie, Age 5

*warning* DARK POST...

Dear KimberKatie, age 5:

Don't grow up. Life can only go down from where you are. You're five years old, about to start kindergarten and learn, learn, learn. You'll make friends, you'll throw up at school, you'll think your teacher is an alien, and you'll even fall in love and date this person for one special weekend when you are 9 years old.

Stay young. Life only gets more complicated and depressing after this. You will learn that people let you down all the time. Your friends are special to you, and at 2 years old - your brother is still your friend. You want to marry your cousin, whom you think is the best thing since sliced bread. You will soon learn that he's not.

Savour your innocence, because it will soon die a fiery, fiery death. Right now you think everything is sunny and happy, and everybody loves animals like you do. This is not true. People torture and kill animals daily, some of them "in the name of science". You don't know this yet, but you soon will - and it will make your heart cry.

Hold tight to those around you. Your grandfather is your idol - and you want to be able to create like him. He will die 5 years from now of lung cancer that spreads over his body in a matter of months. It will be a quick, yet painful death - and it will tear you apart to watch it. One month after this, your beloved Freddie crosses the Rainbow Bridge. DO NOT TURN 10! It will be the worst year of your life.

Until you are a teenager. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER ADOLESCENCE. People will turn their backs on you, and everybody's identities will shift in your view. It's a tough time, and even though you will pull through - at times it will seem not worth the fight.

You definitely won't want to age into adulthood. Here you will discover that people are constantly disappointed in you, and judge every thing you do. You will fall in love with a career choice, but it won't last. Nothing in your life will last. You are full of great ideas, but ideas sprout wings and fly away from you. As will people. You will not be able to be completely happy - either with yourself, or with anybody around you.

I warn you: DO NOT GROW UP! Stay at the age of 5. You don't realize it now, but right at this moment, you have everything. You are happy. I warn you: things will not stay this way.

Tags: darkness

Current Location: futon

Current Mood:

depressed

Current Music: Somewhere a Clock is Ticking - Snow Patrol

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10 April 2007 @ 09:34 pm

Random Quickie

Randomness is my best friend.

1. We are *so* kicking America's ass at the World Women's Hockey right now.

1b. Watching hockey makes me feel very, very violent and angry. Maybe this is why I don't/shouldn't play competetive sports anymore. I recall a day when I would purposefully kick girls' shins so they'd leave me alone with the soccer ball. Yes. I was a violent child. Are you really surprised??

2. House was un-fricking-believably fantastic tonight. I should be bothered by how much House pokes fun at Cuddy's ass, but oddly, I'm not.

3. Work sucks. No, that's not true. Work is okay, (some of) the people SUCK. My situation sucks. This succccccks (said in Hodgins-fashion).

4. Watched "Aliens in a Spaceship" again last night. Pure win. Best. Season. Two. Episode. Ever. (don't confuse that with "best moment" - which is a huge toss up between many Hodgela moments such as the swing-date, the Cleopatra's bed scene, the rescued kiss, and the snuggly-wuggly smelting moment - among others).

Tags: hockey, house, rant, work

Current Location: futon

Current Mood:

blah

Current Music: World Women's Hockey on TV

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09 April 2007 @ 09:56 pm

Ramble Ramble Ramble

Am having a hell of a time sitting down, with my damn tailbone acting up again. *grumble grumble*. I hate getting old. I hate this body. I hate hate HATE lots of things right now, and am grumpy and feel like swearing like a sailor. So I'll make this short. (*snap snap snap*)

Another cool meme, snagged from

callieach:

Rules:

1. Have your music library ready.
2. Choose one song from your music library whose title starts with the first letter (or number) of your screen name.
3. Repeat this process with each successive letter (or number) in your screen name until you run out of letters (or numbers).
4. Post up your results.

Keep On Tryin' - Poco
I Alone - k's Choice/Anouk
Maybe Not - Cat Power
Bless the Broken Road - Rascal Flatts (also by Selah)
Everybody's Fool - Evanescence
River - Joni Mitchell
Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer
All The Fun of the Fair - Anthony Stewart Head/George Sarah
The Seed 2.0 - The Roots
I Promise You - Judith Owen
Elmo - Holly McNarland

(whoa, my username is long, and "E" and "K" are damn hard letters to find songs with. I had to go to my actual CDs for those ones...)

Now I'm going to watch Aliens in a Spaceship, and eat my chocolate cherry soy ice cream, so I don't get angry and kill somebody tomorrow at work...

Tags: anger, meme, music

Current Location: Futon

Current Mood:

aggravated

Current Music: The Greatest - Cat Power

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09 April 2007 @ 10:07 am

More Useless Information...

Okay, so I'm aware that I've been doing an awful lot of these online survey/meme type things lately. But I've been (and will continue to) put them under a cut, so if you don't care - you don't have to read 'em. Alrighty?

This one looked fun...

( The 5x5 One )

Tags: meme

Current Location: Kitchen Table

Current Mood:

bouncy

Current Music: A Light on a Hill - Margot & The Nucelar So & Sos

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08 April 2007 @ 08:48 pm

The Love(s) of My Life...

So, it's kind of sad that I've had this journal up and running for quite a few months now (January, I believe, when I first got the dang account so I could have cute icons for my posts to

theevilpuppy's journal). And yet, I haven't posted about the absolute loves of my life - my animal companions.

So ... here is that very post. Enjoy!

( Meet the crew... )

I am an avid believer in rescue organizations, and URGE anybody considering adding an animal to their lives to visit these organizations BEFORE buying. Animals should *not* be bought from breeders while those in shelters continue to die. My cats were rescued from a no-kill organization (otherwise, Gracie would have been euthanized early in her stint - a thought that makes me shudder), but organizations such as Humane Societies are still awesome places to rescue animals.

At the risk of sounding like a crazy animal-nut, I honestly cannot imagine my life without these wonderful animals. They truly *are* my life, and I would be lost without them.

(Now, I'd best go and post this before my computer decides to crash and I lose it all...)

Tags: animals

Current Location: Futon

Current Mood:

calm

Current Music: The Time Comes - Nina Gordon

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07 April 2007 @ 11:05 am

House! Yipes!!!

Just a mini post to say that WOW! How insanely awesome does the promo for next week's House look?!?? It's called "Airborne", and you can Check it out here

House and Cuddy fly back from Singapore, encountering an outbreak on the plane. - From the official Fox page.

Yipes!!! I have so many questions I want answered, firstly: what are House AND Cuddy doing in Singapore?!? TOGETHER?!?!?

*fans self* Okay, time to relax. Probably just a work thing. Yes, yes, I'm sure that's it. But still ... that preview .... ack!!

Tuesday cannot come fast enough!!

On the spoiler front, I've only been mildly paying attention to House spoilers (usually through either Ausiello's report, or through E!'s Kristin), but all the info I've heard has been related to the Chameron relationship (Chase/Cameron), and nothing pertaining to Huddy.

My personal thoughts: House and Cuddy should just GET TOGETHER already, because she desperately wants a baby, and I'm sure House's little soldiers could help her with that. She's having troubles, yes, but if House's little soldiers are anything like him - they'll stubbornly find a way to make a baby happen!

[/RANT]

EDIT: Somehow, my television obsessions are melting into my unconscious mind. Last night/this early a.m. (since I didn't get to sleep until after 2 a.m.) my wacky mind created a dream where I was in an old basement with Angela (from Bones) and Izzie (from Grey's Anatomy), and both Izzie and I were in love with Angela (???), and trying to win her attention. In addition, we were stuck in the basement with a bunch of other people (whom I didn't know, but the dream-me did) and couldn't get out. We kept prying the windows open, but there were snipers outside who were going to kill us, so we kept having to barracade the windows back up. Then suddenly Angela was pregnant, my tooth fell out - and I ended up at the dentist asking him to cement it back in. And I woke up. *shakes head at the strangness of the mind*

Tags: dreams, house, rant

Current Location: Kitchen table

Current Mood:

bouncy

Current Music: Bones Theme - Squints Full Remix (AHHH! BONES MUSIC! Thank you callieach!!)

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05 April 2007 @ 07:14 pm

TV Show Meme

Thanks to

callieach for this one! Thought it looked fun, so...

Name your top six TV shows right now, before looking at the questions.

1) Bones
2) House
3) Crossing Jordan
4) Law & Order: SVU
5) Grey's Anatomy
6) Nip/Tuck

( Continue to the Qs )

Tags: bones, crossing jordan, grey's anatomy, house, law & order: svu, meme, nip/tuck

Current Location: futon

Current Mood:

aggravated

Current Music: The Office on the television

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31 March 2007 @ 12:42 pm

Who Greys(es) Whose Anatomy?

As a somewhat side-note to my earlier post about ships, and which flags I shall sail...

... I feel that I need to add the couples that I'm currently "feeling" from Grey's Anatomy. Now, Grey's is *not* my show, and I am *not* obsessed with it. I feel it's a very well written program, with an awesome cast, crazy-great characters, and more ships than a sea can hold.

That said, as I ramble through the S1 and S2 DVDs (thanks

aka_lanie), I find myself jumping ships almost with each disc.

So ... it all began with my viewing of late S2, in which I feverishly shipped long and hard for:

Izzie & Denny (Seriously, there could not *be* a cuter couple than these two)

Couple that with Callie & George ('cuz George is just the cutest, geekiest thing there is ... well, maybe he ties with Zack from Bones for that category... and you know that Callie could so kick his ass if she wanted to)

But then, as I went back and watched the season in order, found myself jumping on board for

1. Cristina & Burke (oh. my. gosh. After Cristina lost the baby, and went into her crying jag - and Burke climbed into bed with her and held her? Seriously, I came close to *melt*ing right there on my futon)

2. Alex & Izzie (okay, after he literally swept her off the stool at Joe's, how could I *not* ship for these two??). Though, where I'm at in S2, he's now being a major wanktard (thank you, Dr. Jack Hodgins for that beauty).

Now, although I haven't seen much of S3, I do know that George has recently shacked up with Izzie (what? I'll admit, before watching the show at all, I pondered the idea of the Dawson-Joey-best-friends-but-so-much-more coupling of these too. But that was *before* I met Callie and saw how incredibly cute she and George were together).

As well, I feel that I *should* mention that Meredith & Derek are kinda cute. And I was kinda feeling a bit of the Alex & Addison vibe at some point too. I'm not sure I like McDreamy much, but then again ... who I like/hate/am indifferent to changes with every damn episode I watch as well. I did feel extremely empathetic toward Meredith, when Derek went back with Addison, 'cuz the poor kid did nothing to deserve such a terrible heart-breaking. And I know this coupling pretty much takes centre stage to the show. But that said - I don't find them the most intriguing couple (though I suppose I could take up residence on their ship as well).

Tags: grey's anatomy

Current Location: Kitchen table

Current Mood:

contemplative

Current Music: John Legend - Slow Dance (Hodgela anyone??)

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29 March 2007 @ 06:55 am

Two Words: Cleopatra's Bed *commence screams*

Oh. My. Goodness.

BONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, Fox .... THANK YOU to whoever wrote the awesome episode that aired last night. And THANK YOU to the Fox censors for keeping that scene in. And THANK YOU to Michaela Conlin and TJ Thyne for being so damn sexy and making that scene unbelievably hotter than hell.

Just .... THANK YOU!

Other points of what made the episode 2.17, "The Priest in the Churchyard" extremely awesome:

* TJ, TJ, TJ, TJ. Seriously, that man secretes sexy out of every pore. Especially when he's lovin' on Angela.

* Gordon Gordon. Okay, Stephen Fry needs to join the cast as a REGULAR, because he is downright hilarious, and spot on (well ...except for the lies he fed Brennan and Booth about why she didn't sail off into the sunset with Sully).

* The end scene, with Angela calling Gordon Gordon on his hogwash re: Booth and Brennan. YOU GO GIRL!

* Cam's comment, when she came upon Jack and Angela making out in the lab, "do I need to throw cold water on you two?" Are you suggesting a shower scene for TV's hottest couple? Oh yes, please do!

* Brennan and Booth's constant bickering about religion. (I'm with Brennan all the way on the topic, but did she *have* to keep pushing it, when it clearly upset Booth?).

* re: above topic. Brennan's constant questions for the priest(s) and the looks that Booth gave her for every one of them.

*SOME OF MY FAVOURITE QUOTES FROM THE EP:*

"Can't you just live with the fact that if I'm wrong about God I'll burn in Hell?" - Brennan
"That's tempting." - Booth (and the look Zack gives them both)

"I have my own place, Jack. I need my place." - Angela
"I need you." - Jack (ensue screaming from my end...)

"You want to be one with him?" - Dr. "Gordon Gordon" Wyatt
"In a strictly scientific sense!" - Brennan (yeah, *sure* Brennan. "Scientifically" *snort*)

"Dr Wyatt, we need you to do it with her." - Brennan re: Angela. (oh, sweet naive Brennan...)

In conclusion: I wish to ALSO thank Fox, the writers at Bones, and the ENTIRE cast (especially TJ and Michaela) for making me so freaking excitable and "high" that I could not get to sleep until some ungodly hour, because all I could think about was what I had just watched on TV.

Oh, and Crossing Jordan was on last night too, wasn't it? Yeah, kind of hard to focus after the hour of Bones, but ... interesting storyline. Nice to see that Meredith Monroe is slowly making her rounds of the dramas (CSI, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, BONES, and now CJ). Somebody give that girl a steady job already!

EDIT: Emily Deschanel? I think I love you... (as if that's not the coolest hoodie ever!)

Tags: bones, crossing jordan, emily deschanel, hodgela

Current Location: kitchen table

Current Mood:

chipper

Current Music: Fisher's "You" (aww ... always time for a good BB song)

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24 March 2007 @ 10:39 pm

Just 'Cuz It Looked Fun

Found this meme on a friend's page, and thought I'd fill it out, because I love these type of "ooh ... fun, interesting, personal questions" things. You can fill it out in the comments, too, if you'd like... ('cuz I like to learn about other people as well...)

( Fun Personal Facts HERE )

Tags: childhood, meme

Current Location: Futon

Current Mood:

tired

Current Music: Grey's Anatomy DVD awaiting my return...

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10 March 2007 @ 11:29 am

Another Fun Meme...

Okay, guys ... you know the drill! Answer the following Qs in the form of a reply, so can learn all about you *evil laugh* Thanks to

callieach for the original post...

( questions under cut )

And since I haven't updated in, *like* forEVER! ... here are some random thoughts for the day:

* Jack Hodgins is SO FREAKING CUTE when he smiles, laughs, talks, and does just about anything.

* (in a singsong voice) *I know what's going to happen on Bones, I know what's going to happen on Bones!* Bad, bad girl - getting her hands dirty in the spoilerdom of Bones.

* I'm writing again! Yippee!!! It hasn't really been all that long since I've done something small, but now I'm inspired to do major things. I'm *so freaking happy* about it, too! And I've got my very first - OFFICIAL Bones fanfic written, proofed, and ready to post to fanfiction.net when my "probation" period is up! Four more hours...

* Crossing Jordan: Pssht! Was it necessary to move it to Wednesdays? Seriously? Like I don't already have ENOUGH to do and to watch on that day? All I can say is that TPTB at NBC are *damn luck* they didn't move it to 7 pm, cuz if I'd had to choose between taping Bones or taping CJ ... well, those of you who know me *know* which choice I'd have done with.

* re: the show I don't watch, and will forever deny watching is ... ready for it? ... Nip/Tuck. After having a run in with Mr. McMahon when he was in Winnipeg years ago, and learning he's a major JERKWAD, I'd never want to watch something he was in. But I have to admit, last year's storyline with The Carver was damn compelling...

Tags: bones, crossing jordan, meme, writing

Current Location: My futon

Current Mood:

awake

Current Music: Cat Power. GO Cat Power!

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13 February 2007 @ 08:44 pm

You're It!

Got taggged by

theevilpuppy

Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names.

I'm not sure how to cut my text to look all funky, but I found this button here that does something that sounds like it could be that, so here goes...

( Read My Fun Facts Here (Maybe...) )

Since I really don't know anybody other than

theevilpuppy, I guess I can't quite tag anyone else ... but I'll tag

theevilpuppyback...

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08 February 2007 @ 10:40 pm

Remove *This* YouTube

Sit yourselves down for another rant. This one comes compliments of YouTube - who *used to* be my favourite people ever. Not so much anymore, and here is why:

They have taken my Bones! Well ... not *my* bones, but Bones clips ... from the show. Gone! Most likely at the urging of Fox, concerned because people were viewing clips from the shows THEY own and they were not making money off of it. Boo hoo.

This is so deja vu ... Buffy, circa ... 2000? Maybe later. I had a Buffy website up, and Fox (who owned Buffy at the time) decided they were not particulary happy with all of the FREE websites up devoted to their shows, where people could view videos, pictures, and other items related to television. So ... Fox decided that they were going to threaten everybody who ran a Buffy website with legal action - should the websites remain active. What?! I'm serious. There was a whole movement against this - called The Buffy Bringers, who wanted to tell Fox to piss off and mind their own business. Nobody was doing this for profit, it was just to share their love and admiration for a quality television program.

While nothing ever came of this, and many Buffy pages stayed up and running ... it seems that Fox is at it again! This time, they've gone too far ... taking my Bones clips. What's next - the fan vids that people have made themselves, featuring clips from the show? Or the interviews with cast and crew (they HAVE taken off any Fox-related interviews with the Bones cast...)

I, for one, was thoroughly enjoying YouTube and the fact that I could start watching a show part way into the second season, and still "catch up" on moments that had long since aired. As well, I got to see all of the interviews that the cast had done for the show. And my most favourite part? Getting to see the previews for the next episode to air. Since I'm in Canada, and our channel loves to "override" Fox, we don't get the "Next on Bones" previews at the end of each ep. That was where YouTube came in most handy .. I could always count on the clip being up within a day - just so I could get myself excited about what next Wednesday would bring.

Seems that this is no more. I know I probably shouldn't be blaming YouTube, since they were probably threatened with Fox's crack legal team - and felt they had to start "cleaning house", but ... honestly. What harm can it do? You can't save the clips, or view them anywhere but through YouTube. If anything ... Fox should shut their traps and be happy since YouTube probably introduced a fan or two to Bones and other programs.

And while I'm ranting ... what happened to the Garcia/Morgan hug from the preview for this week's Criminal Minds?? And who the hell is this new guy on Bones? He needs to go away ... maybe they should hook him up with Cam and the two of them can live happily ever after eating their damn sausage and pepper sandwiches on a boat somewhere far, far away.

Tags: bones, youtube

Current Location: Futon

Current Mood:

angry

Current Music: Evanescence - Lithium

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