Well, we're here over at Rand's house preparing to kill by boiling some live lobsters. I can't do it. I think it's insanely cruel so my poor Love is stuck doing it. They ordered them before they left but I guess Fed-Ex and such were backlogged because they got snowed in at their central processing station, leaving it up to us to do the dirty deed for them. *eep*
Anyway, HELLO TO RAND OVER IN HOLLAND (on the off chance you see this)!! :) Hope your flight was ok and hope you're enjoying your vaction so far. (and *sticks out here tounge* Meanie! You hid Highlander on us!! *lol*)
That's about it. Just wanted to pop off the message. ttfn
This entry brought to you by the letter K as in "Kush-ka" and "Keyboards". Two mutually exclusive things. Both can not be in my lap at the same time though Kush feels that my keyboard tray is hogging in on his claimed territory. I am currently trying to type over him which isn't working out so well and is resulting in much grey kitty fur on my keyboard.
Silly kitty. Lately, every moment of every day he wants to be sitting on me. Not near me or with me, but ON me. He doesn't even wait for me to put my legs out to give him a lap; he just walks on me no matter how I'm sitting and trys to make himself comfortable. Whoever thinks cats aren't loving and attention-wanting and bonded to their owners has obviously never seen Kush.
He's been doing well all things considered. He's still eating like mad, his weight's been pretty consistant and he's in good spirits and personality as ever. The tumor itself is just massive and protruding very, very obviously, but so far, there's been no skin breaks or other signs of tumor rupture. It's been over three months now since the doctor called it terminal and every day has been a blessing. My wonderful kitty is here to see another holiday with me and that's the best gift I could ever get. :) Just wanted to thank everyone for their continued thoughts, prayers, well-wishes and all for him. It means a lot and he means a lot to me so it's wonderful that I still have him in my life.
I think I'm going to call it a night. Watched BTTF 3 with my Love tonight then had to run to the 24-hour Super Wal-Mart (at like 2:30am) because we were out of toliet paper *lol* and now it's getting late. G'night all & ttfn.
So, I've been posting and reading a bit on the BTTF.com message board on the Back to the Future DVD release and people are actually throwing a fit that the US version "only" comes in Dolby Digital 5.1 and not DTS. *rollseyes* Come on people, it's a 17 year old film! It sounds just fine in "only" DD 5.1. Other regional releases (such as I guess the European and Australian) versions come in DTS, but at the cost of all the cool extra features.
Is it nice when I get to use my $30 fiber optic cable to watch a movie which supports DTS? Sure. Is it mandatory for me to enjoy the film? Of course not. I like the movie. I like the movie in Mono (which is how I've heard it for years on old tapes and tv's and broadcast versions). The DD 5.1 soundtrack sounds wonderful and I don't need one more bell and whistle to make me enjoy the movie any more. People are actually NOT buying it just because of the soundtrack issue. Me? I'll be enjoying my movies over and over while they're bitching about how mad they are at the soundtrack options and missing out on a great movie.
And now for something completely different before I lay me down to sleep....two very amusing (well I and my friends thought they were) pictures I took at K-Mart last week while trying to kill time before our showing of Star Trek: Nemesis.
Two just stupidly amusing things I found the other day. I love my digital camera - and this is why I lug it around everywhere with me in my purse. Enjoy & nighters! :)
wasted $10 today. Was supposed to be with all my friends and stuff right now watching lame-ass Two Towers but the line was insane (we got there at 5:30 for a fucking 7pm showing and it was already backed up, PLUS there was a flock of uber losers who were dressed in renn fair ware including velvet cloaks and shit {people, it's a fucking movie, get a god-damned life!}) and by the time we got in there, we had horrid seats. I had to crane my neck way up just to see the screen - I kept seeing it over my glasses. There was no way with these perpetual headaches that I was going to be able to sit for three hours with my head tilted way up like that so I left 15 minutes before it started. Good I wasted my whole day with crap like that and good that I wasted $10 too. I got in a fight with my Love on the way out - I just knew I'd hear it from the like seven other people we were with that I left (because no one can ever fucking mention LOTR with out making fun of me for not liking it) - but he said he'd make sure people didn't give me a hard time. A year of LOTR mockery was more then enough so I hope he does talk to them - I'm so sick of listening to crap about it. It's not the end of the world, I just don't give a shit about the books or the movie. I just don't like Tolkien, get on with your lives already.
I feel kinda guilty though since it means so much to my Love and I didn't watch it with him. There was just no way I could sit way off to the side, way down low like that and not kill my neck and head even more. Ugh. So I'm glad I'm not there because there's still over an hour left of the movie (more like 1 1/2 hours still left) and my head hurts enough as it is sitting on the pc.
I'm just in such a bad mood lately. My head is never getting better and I'm in the "on" cycle of getting migraines. Makes everything that much more annoying - when you're just miserable, you can't and don't deal with shit well. Doesn't help my migraines have been getting worse each year over the 10 years I've been getting them, nor that I have no medication to take when it gets bad, nor that Time Magazine reported that studies have shown that each consecutive migraine a person just "deals with" (ie: not stopping with medications) gets worse and worse, nor that I haven't seen a doctor for them in like 3 years because I've not had medical insurance and there's nothing cheap about tracking down headaches and stuff (they'd want to do MIR's and shit which are uber expensive and probably still inconclusive). Grr. It's just a lose-lose situation.
Anyway, I'm glad to be home. Glad I'm not watching the lame-ass movie. Instead, I think I'll pop in a Back to the Future and veg on the couch a bit.
Ugh. I just haven't been writing. Lately it's nothing but over sleeping and too many headaches for me. I never get around to getting to the journal, though I have things to talk about. Tonight we're going to see the Two Towers *Gag* I do NOT like Tolkien and I did NOT like the first one and I really don't want to see the second one (esp. since I have to go stand around outside a theater for seats two hours in advance for a damned three-freakin' hour movie I don't even care about) but everyone's going and me NOT going is not an option. All my friends are selfish and they're insisting I go and they already bought me a ticket. I think that really bites and there's no way I'm going to be feeling good with my neck hurting and my head hurting the way it's been after five hours at the theater. *grr* fucking movie.
Rand is leaving for Holland on Friday and will be there 'til next year, so we did our present exchange last night. Got some cool stuff and have pics, but I haven't formatted them yet and since I'll be at the lame-ass movie tonight, I probably won't get them up 'til tomorrow.
Went to the Super Wal-Mart Monday-Tuesday at 12:30am and was one of five people waiting around for Back To The Future on dvd. (I didn't feel so bad that there were other people there!) PIcked it up for $37. Three disks (all three movies) and like ten hours of extras. It's SO awesome. You have to understand, BTTF was supposed to be one of the FIRST dvd's that Universal released when they began making dvd's. It was to be one of their launch dvd's. It only just NOW made it to the stores. There's been tons of rumors, news, lies, schedule changes, etc. for years that many fans honestly beleived the damned thing would never actually get made. Issues with containing material with Eric Stoltz (the original Marty McFly, as seen in original versions of scenes on the old VHS box set and which is NOT afterall included in the dvd set), issues with timing, issues with content, etc. etc. it just never got made. This is why I was at the Wal-Mart at 12:30am to get mine. :)
headache. *frowns* a lot of them again lately. no idea why. everything wants to turn into a migraine on me. I can't take anything for it - literally, even asprin and associated (yup, all of them) - don't work any more. I still avoid all my triggers but it doesn't seem to matter lately. they just keep on a-coming. over and over and over. really frustrated being so subject to the whims of my damned head. stupid disorder. stupid brain.
pc's hurting my head worse so I'm walking away now.
Got almost all our christmas shopping done today and we didn't spend that much money. We did really good. I'm quite pleased. Pretty much everything came from the all-purpose wunderkid store, Target. Still have some funny pics to put up from Friday, but they're still on my camera. *note to self: upload them damn you!
Mmm...nothing like a nice, warm bowl of Cream of Wheat with a ton of honey mixed in to take the chill from your skin and the growl from your tummy. I love the stuff. Grew up eating it as a kid in PA. My mom always made it on the stovetop for me - because of course, back in the day, there was no such thing as the "instant" or "microwave" version. I still get the stovetop version - just mine cooks in 2 1/2 minutes instead of like 15. Used to be so much work for my mom. Stirring non-stop for 15 minutes. But I loved it and boy did it help warm me up on a cold winter day. Picked some up a couple weeks ago and have been eating it every couple nights since. I'm going through milk like it's going out of style - it takes two cups per bowl I make. That's a lot of milk for me and for us seeing as we normally buy the "chug" (pint) sized things of milk or it goes bad (and even then, sometimes it still does)
*smiles*
Anyway, warm, full tummy. Now I'm going to bed. G'night all.
