Category: Diary

yesterday i had a girl scout errand to meet with the old registrar so she could train me in my new position. afterward, instead of going home i spontaneously decided to head to cartersville to go to a bakery. i need to get a cake for lucas’s birthday party. turns out they can totally do the cake i was wanting. downside is, i didn’t think their sample tasted all that great. so jenn and i are going to go to gabriel’s on saturday after visiting matt and jenny and try out cakes. i also have to figure out what kind of cake i want to get. i think the only reasonable, responsible thing to do in this situation would be to try out all the cakes before i decide 😉

weds night kristie and i went to our annual Nickelback concert! it was such an *awesome* lineup! Sick Puppies, Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, and Nickelback!!!! (only one missing was trapt to have had all my most favorite bands)

so i was pretty disappointed because we missed Sick Puppies and i loovvee them. the tickets said 6:30pm and we were in our seats at 6:33pm just in time to catch their last song. when i got home i checked their website and they went on at 615 wtf!?

so our seats were kinda crappy sound-wise. we were under an overhang, and on the side of the stage, and right under a crappy speaker. this caused poor sound quality. ya know when you turn your music up too loud for the speakers and it makes kinda i guess a staticy type noise? it was like that coming thru that speaker.

my last complaint was that it just wasnt darn long enough. i mean i know they are just opening bands, but i wish all three of them could have had like a full concert each.

all the bands were great. shinedown’s lead singer somehow was not what i might have expected..he almost seemed polite or something. nickelback, as always, was entertaining. chad kroeger is such a partier. he’s joked before that they should just stop what they were doing and we all hang out and get drunk and them just start passing out the alcohol, well this year they actually did it! they had several crates full of tequila shots and they started passing them out to the audience from the stage, lol. then later when they were doing the tshirt canons, they started throwing cups full of beer as well.

tim, their guitarist that plays only some of the songs came out and chad was chatting with him and saying what a great guitarist he was and had him first play the mario bros nintendo music and then he played the first couple of lines of bon jovi’s dead or alive. so hot!

they sang some country song that i don’t know very well but have heard before – that one about “i’ve got friends in low places.” chad could totally be a country singer as well, he has a great country style voice.

so as usual, kristie and i had a fabulous time at the nickelback concert!!!

La Vida Vampire by Nancy Haddock

Summary Deal :: Cesca (sess-ka) is a vampire that tries to be human and works as a tour guide in FL. Then someone from one of her tours turns up dead and they suspect her. So she ends up working with the police and a paranormal creatures expert named Saber to solve the murder. A side story includes an old wizard, a cat that shapeshifts into a panther, and an old flame that shapeshifts into a dolphin. the wizard that “created” Cat and dolphin-boy says that there is a big bad evil coming and he needs Cesca’s powers combined with dolphin-boy’s powers to fend it off, but this is barely included in this first book.

Major player break down :: Francesca is a 200+ yr old mind-reading, future-seeing vampire that’s been in the ground for about 200 yrs of it…so she is new to the modern world and wants to fit in..surfing, salsa dancing, having a job as a tour guide…she is the most un-vampire Ive ever “met”. Deke Saber is the love interest that is playing bodyguard since she is being targeted by various meanies. Then there is the wizard and the cat, but they dont appear too much.

Classification :: it is classified as paranormal romance, but i classify it as chicklit/mystery

Action/Romance :: romance luckily is light and is all the sexual tension btwn vampire chicky and Saber. action is fairly light, too, since it’s a murder mystery and it is more running around trying to solve the case/talk to people than actual fighting.

Overall Opinions :: 2/5 stars. it would be ok as a Pocket Book. i didn’t not like it, but it certainly wasn’t anything special. the beginning where the wizard talks about the ominous bad guy coming and how their powers combined are needed to stop it felt contrived. there was nothing about the plot that required her to be a vampire, so all the paranormal stuff thrown in occasionally like the Cat seemed a little out-of-place next to the “some chick got shot and Cesca happened to know her” main plot. neither her (lack of) vampiric abilities nor the psychic gift she has were necessary to solve the murder – hence my opinion that making her a vampire was unnecessary to this book. the character of Saber was kinda flat. he’s this gorgeous, perfect guy that she calls by his last name even when she is sleeping with him. i think the only quote that i found lol funny was the one i posted on jenn’s blog. so i guess my overall opinion is that i would recommend for lauren or sarah, but probably not for jenn since this book really was more of light-reading chicklit than a vampire novel.

Rereadability :: none, while i don’t regret the time spent reading the first one, it wasn’t worth a second read.
Getting Next Book :: maybe if i’m bored, and i wouldn’t mind reading the second one, but i have no desire to run out and get it. the 3rd one doesnt come out until spring 2011.

Places I went today: the mailbox…with lucas…it was painstakingly slow

Something I did today: walked to the mailbox, read, slept

What Lucas was up to: drug around a decorative table and laughed at me when i told him no

Profound thoughts: lauren – i actually just haven’t made any updates because after *consults calendar* nearly two weeks of going out and doing stuff every day of the week, i have not left the house in 5 days. which means i really had nothing to talk about unless yall cared about the status of my farm.

i did passively clean out the 3rd garage this weekend. by that i mean i freecycled (that means you give stuff you would throw out away to other people to use for free) everything and had a bunch of people come to my house and haul it away for me. now we have space to store all the crap currently in our actual garage. still waiting on my cricut cartridge to be delivered so that i can get started on lucas’s bday invites.

i will at least have something to post thursday tho, because tomorrow kristie and i are going to a concert!!!

– lauren fixed my blog subscriber! apparently im retarded and where it listed “categories to exclude” i thought it was categories to include, so i had excluded everything from the email list.

– sorry jenn, this is too funny so i hafta throw it up here:
Wildkittn3 (11:47:06 PM): Parenthood (tv show) made me kinda glad i’m not having a girl – teen girls are such bitches
Wildkittn3 (11:47:41 PM): oh! quote of the day, during that particular scene jenn says “I”m glad i was never a teenage girl!”
ModernHecate (11:49:59 PM): nah she was a teenage mutant ninja turtle!

– ive made a baby registry for lucas’s birthday presents
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/baby/N6KSCOD91OZ4– im really excited about ryan. every time i hear the name ryan i get excited. i wish it was july already so i could start buying stuff!

– pasting stuff keeps screwing with my font but im not gonna fix it (edit: (jenn) I fixed it cause it was making me twitchy.)

– today we “cleaned out the garage” which means i got rid of two small items and that was pretty much it

– stuff i hafta buy: AC for eleanor erin, a new fridge, a DSLR camera, landscaping, house appraisal, and a new car…<sarcasm>yay</sarcasm>

– i was gonna type more random crap, but paul is going to bed now so im going to go read The Host (yes i just read it, but i am re-reading)

Places I went today: Lucas and I went to lunch in Marietta Sq with Steph, mom, and ron, then steph flew home to boston 😦

Something I did today: fell asleep on the futon as soon as i was home from lunch

What Lucas was up to: not much today…he walked around at lunch and ate a tiny bit of my pancake (like 1 bite)

Profound thoughts: im so behind on my scrapbooking. i need to have it all done by his 1st bday!  it really sucks that steph went back home today. i feel like she was barely here.

well im down to one cichlid. i think this one might have actually died of natural causes *gasp* since it was over 4 years old. ive been waiting for the last few to kick the bucket so i can redo the tank.i have a sick fascination with watching the frogs eat fish.

paul, lucas, and i ran errands at petsmart, michaels and the grocery store today. i’m putting lucas on the gerber diet…it’s like how jenny craig had those meal plans that were organized so that you ate healthy stuffs and hit up all the food groups each day. he has these little puff snacks that taste like applejacks or something and i sneak a couple whenever i feed them to him because they taste yummy.

when we were shopping we let lucas walk around instead of making him ride in the cart so he followed us around the stores. we also showed him the fish tanks at petsmart.

this post darn well better show up in people’s email addies now that i installed that app.

at laurens request (and because i agree with her) i am trying to find a way to make my blog email people when i post stuffs. then i started fiddling with themes so that i’ll have control over the sidebar widgets…so everything is temporarily a mess

actually jenn i dont think it was answered anywhere. end of sept/oct (like sept 24th-oct 10th is a possible range)
1. arrive in london, 1 day
2. Prague, Czech – 3 days
3. Vienna, Austria – 2 days
4. Bratislava, Slovakia – 1 day
5. Budapest, Hungary – 3 days
6. Wallachia and Transylvania, Romania – 4 days
7. Milano, Italy – 1 day

Places I went today: Sarah and i went to Kennestone Hospital to get a fertility test done – she’s all clear, so she will start Clomid next month, then we went to ihop for pancakes! Afterward I picked up Steph and we went back home to go over Europe plans. The day ended with dinner at OCharleys w/ Paul, Lucas, Steph, Dad, Liz, and Grandmother Stone. I was so tired from my long day that I fell asleep on the couch as soon as I got home.

Something I did today: Dad lent me his Nikon camera to try out. I’m thinking about getting the same kind so I want to play around with it before I spend $500+ on one.

What Lucas was up to: He learned to walk while wearing shoes and kept walking all over OCharleys – he got fussy if we tried to have him sit in the chair – he wanted to GO.

Profound thoughts: 1. we hafta buy a new fridge 😦  2. im so excited that lauren is pregnant and sarah will be getting pregnant. i saw twin newborns, a boy and girl 5 days old, at Kennestone and they were sooo tiny!   3. what does it say about your family when you can ask at the dinner table “If an alien was trying to sneak out of the CDC, how easily do you think he could do it?”  and have them give you a serious answer