Just in case anyone on my f-list was wondering, since I haven't had a proper post in what seems like a year- I am alive! I am living in Wisconsin for how and have been since January. I have to go hang out in a garage at the horse barn I work at to get internet, and now that my car won't start, I don't even get to go to Panera, but it's all good. I'm coming back home (to Chicago burbs) for (if everything goes right) about three months, then I'm moving randomly to Cardiff. Ok, well, I guess people can guess why I picked Cardiff. *blush now* but it's a cool place and I was looking in the UK anyway. Besides, I've been talking to a lady who owns this yard in South Glamorgan and they might let me come live and work there for a while.

Yeah, and I'm going to Chicago TARDIS 09. I'll be there even if my mom has to give me a ride there! It'll be the first con I payed to get into. I hung out around Terminus but we were in Mackinac the first part and I was really broke so we just went to Reggies and that stuff. Also, I was dressed as Tonks for that but I wasn't doing anything special. I plan on being in character as Gwen the whole time there, even though I have a feeling not too many people will be cosplaying at all.

Also I haven't been knitting too much but I have made one Marquise gauntlet
http://www.elann.com/ShowFreePattern.asp?Id=249024
again and this time I've even started the match with the same yarn!

HELL YEAH! I love halloween. I start thinking of and planning my costume typically around the beginning of September. Once I decide, everyone knows because I barely shut up about it. Last year I was Vyvyan from The Young Ones and this year I'm being Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd.

This question is highly relevant. Actually, the most infuriating thing is when I find almost exactly what I was looking for and the person hiring keeps ignoring me and re-posting the ad for the job. Maybe do you wanna take me up on that free two week trial now?

I think I forgot about LJ. Yeah.
But, Siriusly, the 11th Doctor= HOT and I'm very happy about that. I already made some icons, one of which I am using now.

and I'm pretty sure I got a job. A good one. I have a weekend long trial this Friday through Sunday. It's as a working student/instructor to very beginners. It's in Onalaska, Wisconsin.

I just got home from a wrock show, it was really cool. I have pretty good footage that I'll put together and put on YouTube soon. For now, here's a shot I capped off one of the vids I took.


I got everyone to sign my Deathly Hallows so now I have 10 whole signatures on it. :p

I also bought Goodbye Privet Drive finally and I love their cover of Potions Yesterday. I wish I had enough for a shirt. I bought a tiny pin from Justin Finch Fletchley and the Sugar Quills. I really wish Whompy and Ministry of Magic would get some pins. They're cheap and I can put them all on my purse and then I'll always see them.

I'm sitting here in an auditorium. This is a special auditorium because John, Hank, and Katherine are here. I gave them a wristwarmer that says NF, and I got a dreamcatcher. Hank said was to catch extra nerdy dreams and I told him I've been dreaming whole episodes of Angel so my dreams are already extra nerdy. :) I had all three of them sign my DH and John wrote CRAP on the epilogue and then Hank went to do it and was sad that John beat him. Katherine also signed it. I'm going to have the wrocker boys sign it too. Next Saturday I'm going to see Ministry of Magic, Whompy, and Justin Finch Fletchly and the the Sugar Quills.

I have just failed the Walmart test. I now have to wait another 60 days before re-applying. I had to sit there and lie about 65 questions about how thrilled and excited I am to pursue my career at Walmart and I failed it.

So then I go to the McDonald's website, and it says they're hiring at the one like three blocks from my house, but I have to use Internet Explorer to fill out the application.

At least I can update my yardandgroom.com profile to say I'm willing to go anywhere starting next semester.

Random man at party (to Angel): You are a beautiful, beautiful man
Angel: Thanks.
Random man (several lines later): This isn't a come on I'm in a wonderful relationship with a landscape architect.

I AM A SAD ORPHAN GIVE ME MONEY YOU OLD BAG!!!!!!!!!

Last night something happened that I don't think has ever happened to me. Even when my sister was little and we shared a room, when she woke up screaming because the severe thunderstorm scared her. I was waken up last night because of a noise.
By the time I came to enough to realize it was a sound that was bothering me I was still to drowsy to wonder what it was. At first I thought it was a storm, because it was threatening to yesterday. Then, I thought it was a raccoon rummaging in our garbage bins. They're right outside my window. I peaked through the blinds but I couldn't see them from the angle of my window. It was a few minutes later that I remembered my dad saying they come and take the garbage in the middle of the night. I peaked out again and caught the lights of a big truck driving away through the thin wall of trees.
I started the Goblet of Fire audiobook where I last remembered before I fell asleep and set my computer to fall asleep in one hour. If I let it play all night I wake up like I never slept at all, worse than an all-nighter. I layed there for an hour, but it cut off somewhere around Veela- and then I was just laying there. I couldn't stand it and it was about 6 am, an hour til my first alarm went off and I knew if I fell asleep I'd never get out of bed and I'm sick of being late to school.
I put on Angel where I left off, I got two episodes in and then hurried out of the house to stop at McDonald's before school.
I was still kind of dazed, and I swayed on the spot while I was waiting at the busy McDonalds. They were out of biscuits and Mcgriddles. I wanted a biscuit, but I settled for a funny tasting bacon egg and cheese bagel and a coke.
Now I still feel messed up, my eyes warm and tired. I think I got the equivalent of 2 good hours of sleep.

I'm here at school again, and there's another musician up on the little stage with his guitar. He's kinda cute, he's called Zane Williams. Definitely the kind of music I listen to in my car when I'm driving alone and want to belt something out.

Yesterday I bought a lot of stuff. I bought a jean jacket to make into Vyvyan's for Halloween, and I got it for under $5. Then I wanted to go to Hobby Lobby to get the studs for it, but it was closed on Sunday for "family time and Worship." bull. So I went into the fabric store and got a white paint pen and a black sharpie and three little ceramic pots for Vim's tank.
Then I went into that huge book/music/movie/stuff store and almost bought a Slytherin shirt and a Serenity lunchbox, but I decided to save my money, but I bought a Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix poster book, to wallpaper my room with. I also got the Lord of the Rings trilogy finally, so I can read it instead of just listen to the audiobook. :D

I also said I didn't want to make more videos, but I do whatever I feel like at the time, and right now I'm feeling like making some more videos.

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Has it? Or do I just have a lot to talk about?

I saw Sweeney Todd last night, live and it was amazing, for lack of a better word.
All of the actors also played instruments, Toby was crazy, and there was a very good song that came back in a lot of reprises that was taken out out of the movie. It was the Ballad of Sweeney Todd, and it was great.
"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd
His face was pale and his eye was odd..."

The ending was so great.

The original Broadway was a very grand scale musical, but the 2005 revival scaled it down a lot. It was written for a huge orchestra, but I think the smaller version is cooler.
Here's where you can hear samples of the 1979 cast recording http://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Todd/dp/B0013DDPAK/ref=dmusic_cd_album

and the 2005 cast recording
http://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Todd/dp/B0012ELMK0/ref=pd_sim_dmusic_2

and the 2007 movie version (which I own)
http://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Barber-Picture-Soundtrack-Highlights/dp/B001202LR2/ref=dmusic_cd_album?ie=UTF8&qid=1222372329&sr=1-1

Today I woke up, went to check on the rats, and found one of the babies with guts coming out of it, dead. Dad's gonna help me clean it up tonight, and check if the other baby is still alive. If it is, I think we'll freeze it.

Right now I'm watching/listening to Lauren Fairweather do a live BlogTV thinger. She took my request first, and sang Kayley's Song. >_<

I went to Walmart and got some stuff. I found a really early Toby Keith cd, one that has some songs from my greatest hits cd that I got for my birthday in 7th grade, and it was $5.00!
I also found a package of two Tim McGraw cds for $8.82. :D
I haven't listened to them yet.

I went to see Phil Vassar on Saturday, and he was playing at a racetrack so I got to see a NASCAR race too! :D


I also re-applied at thefanlistings.org for an Emerson Drive fanlisting. I was approved about two years ago, but I never did more than the main page, because I couldn't figure out scripts and I thought I'd need it. I can just paste a code and enter my email info, and then update it by hand, because I don't expect too many fans.

So, I've known the date and time of the one Sweeney Todd showing that I just bought tickets to yesterday for a long time. I've also known the date and time of my class for a long time. I just connected today that they are in fact, the same date, same time! What am I going to do? Blow off humanities, of course! I won't entirely though, I'll make a video for the mini presentation, and hand my hand outs to the teacher at her desk on Monday.

Now you know why I am in fact so bad at managing my time and remembering dates.

In other news, I TICKETS TO SWEENEY TODD RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF ROW 4! And they only cost me $25!

I DON"T HAVE A SWEENEY ICON SO OTHER JOHNNY CHARACTER WILL HAVE TO DO FOR NOW!

I LIKE ALL CAPS TODAY!


OH, AND I got a fishy. His name is Vim Fuego.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m94/Oslobunn/100_3176.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m94/Oslobunn/100_3135.jpg


MY WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING FINALLY! WOOHOO! I feel like making King Arthur fanart, or as I like to call it, FArt.

^ click that to go to my pretty website.

I am watching it right now.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/28343/dr-horribles-sing-along-blog#s-p1-st-i0

Pretty much the reason it's funny so far is seeing Nathan Fillion in it.

I'm sitting in the student center listening to a girl called Shevy Smith singing and playing guitar. She's pretty good. Maybe I'll record a little bit here with imovie. I got the English class thing worked out, I'm in a creative writing class with some characters. I was finally going to sit down and watch that Comic Strip Presents that has a really pretty young Ade and Jen in it, but I think I'll just listen to Shevy instead. I wonder if she has a CD out.

Last night I saw a really good Mash episode, Hawkeye runs off to the peace talks. :D When he comes back BJ throws a party and they're all wearing red and they all dye their hair red.
I was thinking I'd dye my hair red now anyway because it's faded pink now, but it's almost all blonde with one inch dark brown roots, so once I bleach the brown out I really could do any color, but I like red. I went to Sally's and they had a permanent red dye, so I will either buy that, or I will transfer $15 to my paypal from my old IL checking and buy two bottles of Cherry Bomb. Also, the fountains at my school have dyed water that looks like MP's Enchanted Forest, and I have a teeny bit of it left so I may do the tips or just a streak of it in the red.

Yesterday my dad and I went to the Farm Progress show. I posed for pictures in front of a bunch of huge ass combines and tractors, and we saw Nevada Joe, a mustang who has a breyer model made of him. Pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/thamnophis/AgProgressShow

I am sitting here in the main building of the college, waiting to see an adviser about my screwed up schedule. I am trying to block out the extreme stupidity of the kids sitting around me. It's not working because I am also waiting for them to call my name. I thought I was used to the stupidity from going to one of the most stuck up high schools in the country, but these kids are almost worse.
I somehow signed up for a non credit English class, NOT what I wanted. I also wasn't even on the class list at all, even though I can access my schedule from my online thingy.
I think I am the only person here who moved from Chicago just to go here.

*very audible sigh*

I just finished Breaking Dawn. I'm sitting here at work and the feeling is different, yet kind of the same as finishing Deathly Hallows. Like I could pass out or jump up and down at the same time. I have to say, I liked it.

( SPOILERS! DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE WHOLE BOOK! )

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!

Today was amazingly awesomely awesome! I cannot even explain how amazing it was. It was probably one of the best days of my life, if not THE best.

It started out normal enough, I was able to wake up before my alarm and get out of bed at around 10:30, then I went and picked up my check, $200, and went to the credit union and cashed half, deposited the other half. Then Trish and I went downtown (someone que Kevin Turvey! jk) and went to the huge ass library to see JOHN AND HANK GREEN!!! Then, I bought An Abundance of Katherines for $4.50 and John signed it, but wait, it gets even more awesome! Standing directly behind me were 3 of the 5 Awesome Girls! So I took a picture with Lauren, Kristina, and Kayley.

Then we went to Panera, where Kayley, Kristina, and Lauren came in just minutes after us. Then went over to the park and saw more awesome Youtube people. When John and Hank showed up Hank did his two Harry Potter songs, and then Leanne and Lena sang and Lauren and Kristina joined in some, and it was awesome, because John came up and stood right behind where I was sitting to film them singing the song about Looking For Alaska. Hank got up and I got a pic with him. (squee!!!)

Then we went to the Bean and made a movie!

Then we went to Reggie;s Music thingy for DANCE PARTAY WITH JOHN AND HANK GREEN! Ok, so really, it was Hank opened with the same two songs, then some newer wrock bands I hadn't really heard of, then Paul from Harry and the Potters played some songs and everyone was dancing like crazy. My feet were really tired we went to sit down by the wall, and I was kind of dancing there. All of the sudden, John was dancing like two feet from me, then Hank joined in. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

THEN, (that's right, the awesome doesn't stop there!!!) Just when I was saying, "The only thing ever that could make this night better was if Alex Carpenter showed up." AND THEN HE DID! With MC Dumbledore. THEN, Whompy and Brian of Draco and the Malfoys came on and Alex played tambourine and they really rocked out, then they played Wizard Rock Heart Throb and I was screaming, then they played Draco and Harry and right in the middle Paul came up and kissed Brian!! :DDDDDD My camera had run out of battery by that time. :( Then they did House of Awesome and I was just screaming the lyrics at the top of my lungs. Then it was over and they kicked us out.

All in all, I think 8/8/08 was wonderful, super, fantastic, coolness, remarkable, and AWESOME and the best day in the history of the world.