vorona_394

I collect dolls. Recently I cleared out a a few valuable dolls to be able to purchase the Ultimate Boots. During the process I discovered something. I want to refine my collecting. I was collecting any cute (to me) witch dolls and various Barbies that took my fancy. Now I have found that the dolls that give the most pleasure are witch Barbies and Wicked Witch Dolls (that I find pretty). So I am putting up a few more dolls for auction. It feels good to release that lack of direction in my collecting.

Yes I will still pick up the occasional unique Alice in Wonderland doll, but my collection is really going to be much more selective and that actually makes me happier with the dolls I do have.

Silly post, yes I know. But dolls were my lifeline in a tumultuous childhood. They gave me solace where there was nothing else there to do so.

So on with the collecting I say:)

Well I have a whole bunch of non-linear "scenes" that are all in the same story line but in no real shape of a story. So I have started to outline the story. Yes, I know this is generally done *before* the story is written, but this time I just cranked out pages and figure the rest out later. Well later has come. I am even more excited about my story than I was last month. This is a very good sign. It is a very long way from being even a good first draft but it is a draft and it is becoming more every day I work on it.

The fun is starting...again. This may be the first time writing hasn't been some painful experience of self doubt and self defeating attitudes.

I am excited to see where this story takes me. I have a rudimentary roadmap to plug all my NaNoWriMo writing into. This just might go somewhere I love:)

So.

I logged in to LJ today, and I found out from reading nina_myers24 's LJ that there's a remake of Death At A Funeral coming out next year. This is unacceptable. Death at a Funeral is hands down one of FUNNIEST and most hilarious movies I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. It's definitely one of my top five favorites all around. It's just British comedy at its best, I feel. And after seeing this "remake" which is really the same movie [including plot, lines, and in one case, actor] but with American actors, I feel....disgusted with Hollywood.

Last year they remade the awesome [REC] [a Spanish zombie movie] which was quite honestly one of the best zombie movies I've ever seen. And then not even a year later it was remade into this crap called Quarantine. WTF Hollywood?! Are you that money hungry? Let someone else share the fame and glory.

I'm so sick and tired of Hollywood insulting my intelligence. If I want to see foreign films and get a kick out of them, I don't need you remaking them for me - the original is always good enough. I dare say, that if Hot Fuzz gets a remake someone is going to get their head "blown up."

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Do yourself a favor, f-list. See the original movie [click here for the Apple Trailer]. It'll totally be worth your time. Trust me.



As for me, I'm boycotting the "remake" 'cause WTF?!

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I have been moving the various altars in the house around. My bedroom one is now in the south and the Celtic one on the mantle has been stripped of all the statues with only candles representing the three Deities. It has become the main "offering" altar. The Egyptian one has the eternal flame candle on it (thanks to ST for going to the Catholic supply store and getting us a nice refillable blue one:).

It seems so many lucky things have been going on in our lives and around us that I think "tending" the altars like this is appropriate.

The only things I need to buy are a descent Osiris statue, a Bast statue and a much better Anubis statue.

Other than that I think we have the whole altar thing sorted out...

...for now:)

Well, the change over is official. I now have all my software and freelance webstuff transferred over over to the laptop.

The old desktop was a dilapidated 8 year old tower that daniel cobbled together for me back when I was living in Joliet. It caught a virus that I couldn't get off so I've decided to wipe it and put a new OS on it. With G's help I transferred all my data to the server and virus scanned it remotely. All the files were clean so now I'm set.

I called the ISP that host most of my websites and we struggled through putting in the right log in data into Dreamweaver. The new 'puter is actually Jay's old laptop that he sold to be a few years ago. So the laptop (complete with brand new screen that I bought last week) is the main machine.

The old e-machine tower will become a web search only machine. G suggested loading Ubuntu on for the new OS. Nobody (as far as I know) writes virus for Linux, so it should be safe.

I've finally gotten done what I said I was going to do 2 years ago. Happy ex-procrastination! Now, if I can only get (and keep) my room clean. :)

I renamed my lj to morseren since that is my longtime online name. Just an update.

These boots are at this very moment being shipped to me:) Should be here in two days...I am so excited about boots, it is just silly.

The Winter holiday spirit came early this year. As a gift to myself, I registered with the Illinois Conservatory and am now taking classical guitar lessons. It's been almost a decade since I was serious about my guitar. It's nice to get back into the swing.

Also, the sweetie got me a new black Carhartt winter coat that seems to be just shy of being bulletproof. And I really needed this coat since the weather has turned yucky.

Now, that just leave me to get prezzies for the nieces, the nephews, the sweetie, the bean and the G.

I hope you have a wonderful day filled with chocolate, wine, and Snape look-a-likes.

Happy Birthday love!

I didn't participate in this fic exchange but I've been sort of following it. Anyway, I read this lovely Harry/Hermione fic that's a bit smutty but most definitely in character and overall well written! My only nitpick is that Harry comes off as super powerful. >.> -cough- Anyway! Lovely piece of work. Read it and leave a comment if you have a moment to spare.

Name: To be revealed
Recipient: Pinch-hitters and community!
Title: Where Credit is Due
Pairing: Harry/Hermione
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Sexual situations, EWE
Summary: Hermione tries to convince Harry to accept his Order of Merlin, but he refuses.

There is something seriously wrong with a culture that sees sex as more deplorable than excessive violence.

NaNoWriMo total 54,236. A sudden flash of inspiration and encouragement leads to success. That and I always do more when a deadline is looming. Now the hard part. Taking this very rough draft and making a novel out of it.

Jane Eyre meets Buffy the vampire slayer:) Watch out world.

Quick! Someone remind me *why* I shouldn't shoot a fellow library employee.

there are now two websites that I can't reach for no apparent reason, so if I disappear, it will be only be until I get the machine under control, or this one re-installed.

yay

A local shop has a variety of absinthe so I have been sampling my way through them. The ones produced here in the U.S. so far that I have tried are quite inferior to the Swiss and the French. But I did find a very good French one that is very reasonably priced at less than $50 per bottle. It is one of the La Fée Absinthe brands. Very tasty and sends me to sleep in half an hour. For a lifetime insomniac that is pretty good.

The other effect it has on me is that I want to read overwrought Victorian prose:)

This issue seems to be particular unto me: I have a problem with not being understood and/or taken seriously. The fact that no one seems to be willing to do this--take the time to understand me and take me seriously--makes me feel like a person not worth knowing. It makes me wonder if there's a reason for me to be here at all. Why exist? Why bother?

I think my husband thinks he knows me well, and he probably knows me better than a lot of people . . . Maybe. But like someone who has crossed the finish line and so ceases to run, he seems content with the amount of understanding he believes he has. AND he doesn't always take me very seriously. If I can't get my husband on my side, then what hope do I have in the larger world?

We could get into all the philosophical arguments here: "How well can one person really know another?" etc., but I'm not interested in that right now. I mostly don't want to feel like I live in a vacuum, alone with myself, and no one even bothering to try and bridge the gaps. I try. I make it a point to really attempt to get to know others in a meaningful way. But I can't seem to get any return on my investments.