OMFG. Winter is here, fellow Albertans, and like always it ain't pretty sunshine and lollipops. *mumble grumble grumble* It doesn't help that 1) my car starter has gone on the fritz this year and refuses to work, so that means cold driving for me; and 2) I think the heat in our apartment is busted too... It's freezing in here and pumping up the thermostat doesn't seem to change it any. Thankfully Mason hooked up his smarmy electric blanket this evening so by the time I tuck in for the night it should be all warm and toasty~ XD YAY electric blankets! (Sans potential fiery death obviously...the nagging little paranoia in the back of head will nag me to check that it's turned off every morning.)

Beowulf was awesome! I'm not actually sure if I'd say that the 3D-ness made it better or not, I mean after the first twenty minutes of being all "WOW HOLY SHIT IT'S COMING OUT AT MY FACE!" you kind of forget it's there and it's like you're just watching a regular movie again. It was entertaining though, full of bloody fighting and slinky Angelina Jolie demons and naked Beowulf~ I also got done almost half of my Christmas shopping! Look at me, I'm totally on schedule!

In the spirit of the consumer-filled holidays, here's some shameless promotional plugging of things that you should really be interested if you're not already:

1) Gargoyles season 3 comics! Chelle received the first five available issues in the mail and like the greedy moocher I am I read them all in one night. Being a long time die-hard fan I feel the need to lend my hand in the loyal promotion of Greg Weisman's baby in hopes that Disney will some day pick it back up or at the very least sell the rest of the series on DVD. So buy season one and the first part of season two on DVD at Amazon! Buy the comics! Help Gargoyles live again! (Past nerdy now, I am aware.)

2) IconBuffet! Dammit, Sarah got me all hooked on this site again. *shakes fist* It's like trading and collecting stamps, only they're cute icons that you can use on websites and anything you make. I sent out invites to all the designer type people I know who may be interested and only two signed up. Come on, people. I get 50 points for every person I refer! It's fun! It's addicting! (And remember, I get POINTS.)

I was all excited this past weekend to go on a special outing and now I have to wait for another whole week because our silly tank isn't warm enough and the silly water isn't finished doing all it's chemical balancing hoo ha. In any event this upcoming weekend if all goes according to previous plans there will be pictures posted -- I won't tell you of what but I'll give you the subtle hint that it may or may not be fish shaped. *glee*

(Chelle, I'm very very tempted to steal Gale's absolutely perfect name, for lack of anything as so absolutely perfect and fitting. I'm afraid what ever I choose just wouldn't compare. Other ideas? Suggestions?)

You said you were fast! You boasted of unmatchable high speed intrawebbing! Now on a Monday evening I'm sitting here waiting for blogger to load for five minutes. I can't even play Guild Wars it's lagging so much. A pox on your money grubbing lying corporation! *shakes fist*

We went to the Taboo Sex Show on Saturday at Northlands, a giant romp through one gigantanormous sex shop. Ashley and I watched the male strippers and I bought a chocolate penis and ate it while I mosied through the dildos and fuzzy handcuffs. It was rather tasty~ My only regret is that I bought tickets beforehand online -- we ended up entering in through the exit doors unknowingly so we bypassed the entire ticket process at the front gates thus negating my $20.00 worth of online transactions. *Feels ripped*

Yay, I finally got my necklace de-knot-afied~ Never again will I put you in my purse all tangled. *hearts* Thanks to the nice and only slightly patronizing woman at Peoples Jewelry who fixed it for me.

I lurk a bit around some of the Nexopia Harry Potter forums and like the big geek that I am I joined a thread where you answer a list of questions and the other forum members sort you into a Hogwarts House. They all put me into Hufflepuff! T-T People I don't even know are sorting me into Hufflepuff. And by unanimous decision! (Well...aside from the one vote to make me a squib and/or muggle...what a burn to me, lol.) *Sweatdrop*

OMG OMG OMG, Chelle found out that Greg Weisman is continuing season 3 of Gargoyles in comic form! XD They're already on Amazon! I want to leech them off you so bad, Chelle! *flails* SO EXCITED.

I'm reading Hush again, the sexy Batman comic with the equally sexy art simply because it's that gorgeous~ Jim Lee is my comic book artist hero. *Has his prettily-drawn comic babies*

We're seeing Beowulf on Saturday in IMAX 3D, and even if the movie itself sucks it's going to be awesome anyway! There's going to be dragons and crazy giant ass birds and other insanely sweet things jumping out from the screen at my face! It's going to rock!

I notice my blogs are less of entries about one subject or story, but more of a jumbled confusing mess of rambling thoughts. This is my mind, people. It's not so much linear as it is one of the crazy spirographs that you used to play with as a kid. :D

I meant to write all these posts during Christmas break to satisfy my poor blog, and it just never happened. I was kind of preoccupied during the holiday with work and spending lots of splendid time with my Aryan Ninja. :3 Things are going really well, and that fills me with happy~ Last night we saw Brokeback Mountain and it was good. (A little less hot cowboy love than I was hoping for, but still very good. But their love was so VIOLENT! :x)

Unfortunately, yesterday school started all up again, so now I'm going to go back to having very little time for anything except bloody homework which I'm sure they're just waiting to pile on us in the next couple of days. *Cries* I miss my free time already! Good news though, I got my marks back from first semester, and I finished with 90s in almost everything, except 3D and video, but I was expecting as much so it's no real letdown there. I was really surprised that I ended up with a 79% on my flash animation, since I handed it in far from finished. That blew me away. Maybe he just mixed my mark up with someone else's. . . I'm not saying anything though. ¬__¬

Let's see, what else since I last posted. We went to The Globe the other night to celebrate Vance's birthday. None of my dancing dancing buddies were there though, so it was a lot of sitting and trying to shout conversations over the noise. New Years was awesome, however! I actually finished an entire cooler in the course of the night, so it didn't end up getting me drunk, but it's a record for me in any event. (I'm such a lightweight, ho ho. . . *sweatdrop*) It was nice just hanging with a bunch of people all night, even though some didn't come or couldn't make it. I'm not seeing everyone as much as I used to, and that's making me a little depressed. It's hard to get everyone together anymore.

I bought the first volume of the Gargoyles second season, and it rocks my face off as only one of the best parts of my childhood possibly can. I also ordered Hot Gimmick 10 off the Chapters website, because I have all of this pretty Chapters money from Christmas just begging to be used up, and this way I get the thrill of having something arrive in the mail for me that isn't a bill.

OOH! And while on my periodic Grievous web-surfing excursions, I discovered that they're coming out with a Grievous short story in the next issue of Star Wars Insider, which obviously thrills me to death on many different fangirly levels. They're also doing a companion piece to it that's going up on the starwars.com, but you have to be a freaking Hyperspace member to see it. Which I am not. . . And membership for Canada costs $50.00. Which I do not want to spend. . . It fills me with terrible rage. *Twitch* Terrible. Rage.

Oh, and the last frame in VG Cats comic 184 made me laugh my ass off today in Design class. That is gold.

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Stability results were moderately low which suggests you are worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious.

Orderliness results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun.

Extraversion results were moderately low which suggests you are reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive.

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introverted, irritable, feels invisible, observer, depressed, does not enjoy leadership, reveals little about self, dislikes large parties, feels undesirable, does not like to stand out, submissive, suspicious, emotionally sensitive, not a thrill seeker, solitude loving, likes silence, fragile, second guesses self, negative, unadventurous, fearful, weird, focuses on people's hidden motives, paranoid, phobic, dependent, cautious, avoidant, semi intellectual

These are terrible results because half of them are true, and the other half of them are just horrible! :x

Merry Christmas, all! I have to agree with other people that Christmas didn't really feel much like Christmas this year, but it was still a good day. I got a two-button, scrolly mouse; a 1GB USB stick; a pair of heavy duty winter gloves, Tigger socks (OMG CUTE *wiggles feet*), the new Sarah McLachlan remix album, and bunch of assorted gift certificates for West Ed, Chapters, and the movies; and also the three Lord of the Rings movies (unfortunately, they're not the extended editions. . .so I'm going to trade them all in at the store and get me the boxset, yay!) Then from 11:00 to 9:00 we trooped around to different family gatherings, which is always. . .you know. . .less than awesome fun. And then it all carries over to tomorrow when we go to another family gathering. Christmas isn't actually very relaxing for our family; it's more like a two-day mass extended-family orgy of boredom. =_= Oh well.

OMGOMG, during my last minute Christmas shopping I found out that they've released the first 26 episodes of Gargoyles season two! XD TOTALLY BUYING THIS WEEK!!!

YAY, Orochimaru's finally back in the Naruto manga! Prepare to witness my Orochimaru-fangirl-craze resume very strongly in the coming weeks. You have been warned.

Lance and I watched American Beauty on Friday, which was INSANE and also AWESOME at the same time. I totally called that the psycho father was going to think his son was all cute and gay and flip out!

We also had our Christmas dinner extravaganza on Thursday, although half of the group didn't show up which saddened me. . .so it was more like a half-extravaganza. But the restaurant was freaking tasty, and King Kong totally kick the ass out of three T-Rex's; and the writer with the dark hair and the hooked nose reminded me of Snape, except that he smiled far too much and didn't have nearly as much bitter angst.

Mwa. . .I have to work at 9:15 tomorrow. T-T I book off Boxing Day every single year, and I never get it off. It fills me with a tiny, horrible rage. Maybe next year I'll try not booking it off, and then maybe I'll get it. We'll have to see.

First off, Roboraptor is the shitz~ I never thought a half-meter long dinosaur-shaped robot could fill me with so much glee. He's so CUTE. And he can NUZZLE YOUR HAND! He's like a kitty, only raptor-shaped! If I had $200 to frivolously blow without feeling guilty I would skip out to Toys R Us and purchase a little raptor of robotic doom right now, and then turn him on and just let him wander around my house. Occasionally I may dress up a tiny, furry animal in rodeo gear and tie it to his back to ride him like a prehistoric cowboy.

Inspired by Roboraptor's awesomeness, I doodled this in Illustrator class because I'm just a little insane like that. THE PEN TOOL DESTROYS MY SOUL!!! >_<

Also, while not inspired by robotic dinosaur awesomeness, but rather the awesomeness of, uh, spheres. . .of the circular shape. . .*shifty eyes*. . .I GIVE YOU SPHERES OF DOOM! (I like the lava-rock one, muh HA.) I'm enjoying 3D class to a copious extent, despite it being the most frustratingly complicated program I've ever used in my life, and my goal is to be able to make an at least somewhat recognizable General Grievous model by the end of the year, if my brain doesn't implode before then.

I finished watching Gankutsuou the other day and it was fab -- although I didn't much care for the Count as much anymore after he became all broody and asshole-ish. The show had some good, tingly music though, so I downloaded the OST and I've been listening over and over to track 18 for the last three days. I've also started watching the entire series of Last Exile, mostly motivated at this point by the need to see more Dio action, but also because the broody captain, whatshisname, reminds me of an angsty, military-garbed Snape which thrills me for very obvious reasons.

OMFG, my sister's friend downloaded the entire series of Gargoyles and now I own it all and I can burn it to DVD and watch it without messing with scribbly VHSs and YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! *Happy~*

Yesterday during lunch I played cards with Brock and a few people from my class. Somehow I managed to win at a game I'd never played on the first round, but then every round after that ended up either Scum or Vice-Scum. *So much failure* I think we need to break out a game of Zombies or Ninja Burger one of these days at lunch because it makes lunch go by fast, and besides then I could blow the world away with my Zombie prowess~ WE'LL SEE WHO'S VICE-SCUM THEN! (Board games make me competitive. . .)

To wile away the hours during my boredom in Web class and Photoshop class, I've started to make avatars, because I think I could be a very avatar kind of gal if only I actually had some avatars. So I sort of went on a bit of an obsessive avatar-making spree in the course of a day, and now I have all these avatars and absolutely nothing to do with them. With that said, AVATARS IN YOUR FACE!

Blaaaerrrgghhhlll~ Sever bluckiness yesterday that made me come home early from work, slept it off enough to properly enjoy Gargoyles-a-thon last night, now the head trolls with blunt hammers are back and I have to go to work in an hour and stand all night.

So on Thursday I went into downtown Edmonton for aforementioned jury selection. Forget the actually jury selection itself, just traveling down there was a whole plain of stressful bad that you can't even imagine, stemming from me getting on the wrong bus at the wrong time, although I can hardly be held accountable since the bus said it was the 201, and I was seven minutes early so I just thought the bus was early too, so a novice bus rider such as myself really had absolutely no justification not to think that was my bus.

Anyway, assorted bus havoc aside, it wasn't anything like what I thought it was going to be; for one, I went in prepared to be grilled in some interrogation-like interview but they didn't ask us a single question at all. Jury selection consists of 200 random strangers sitting in a courtroom where they made us watch a hardcore 70s intro movie to the process of jury selection, complete with big frizzy hair and ugly mustard suits, and then they randomly draw names and call us up twenty or so at a time to the front in a line before the prosecuting and defending lawyers for the case -- they stare at us, then either say "content" for yay, or "challenged" for nay, and in accordance we either sit bad down or take our place in the jury box until there's twelve jurors and two alternates. (It's crazy. For all they know they could be selecting twelve racist bigots who don't like the color of the accused skin, and he'd wind up with life in jail whether he was guilty or not.)

So I'm an ALTERNATE. For an ATTEMPTED MURDER case.

So in a nutshell, I'm the backup they plop in the box if two of the jury members die or whatnot over the weekend, or if one of them dies and the first alternate goes MIA or similar. I have to go in on Monday, regardless, to see if I'm needed and if not they ship me off back home and I'm off scott free. Or at least that's the story they give us. . .

*Court officers show up at Brenna's house*
"You're under arrest."
"What?! But I'm an alternate for the jury!"
"No no, that means if the accused if found innocent, YOU go to jail, muh ha ha ha ha. . . Judicial loophole."
*Drags her off and bludgeons her death when she tries to flee across the border*

;_;

Oh, and then when I was waiting for the bus back to St. Albert, some woman I've never met before in my life drives up in her car near the curb, honks at me, and is like, "I was in the jury, you going to St. Albert, I'll give you a ride," and I'm like, *sweatdrop* "Um. . .no, thank you. . ." *takes a step away*, and I spent half an hour waiting for the stupid bus and avoiding the scary crazy man walking back and forth across the road. I hate Edmonton.