Oi, oi, you LUCKY PEOPLE! ("Spaced") It looks as though there's one more left in me for 2009 - and it's all about Star Trek.

Awesome, awesome AWESOMENESS. I loved every minute and every member of the cast. First of all, I will address Uhura, as played by Zoe Saldana, and the hawtest thing since FRENCH TOAST. She made Zachary Quinto hot by association. Although, after watching this film, I am fully attracted, mind and body, to Vulcans and the Vulcan way of life. Their emotions exist but they choose logic for a Zen way of life, which makes their emotional responses that much more meaningful when they happen. HAWT.

All the cast were pinpoint perfect. Simon Pegg is still my love god. Everything he touches turns to gold. No one else but Zachary Quinto could have played the young Leonard Nimoy, I mean, um...the young Spock. I LOVED the love twist in that scenario. Brilliant. And, as Auntie Sis says - ZZZZEXXXXXXYYYYY.

I want to watch this movie at least once a week for a long, long while.

I'm a grumpus today because somewhere along my travels I picked up a cold. My brownskin twin was still able to make me laugh, though, when she mocked me for being completely retarded about giving and receiving physical affection.

She decided my new nickname is Missus Roboto, and she executed all these weird robot arm moves to the song and saying "This is you, getting a hug." Then she said I probably have one of those reverse alerts that they put on big trucks - it goes "BWAH BWAH BWAH you're getting too close, please back away, BWAH BWAH BWAH you might actually make contact PLEASE BACK AWAY."

It wouldn't be as funny if it weren't true.

Today I mailed my application for an assistantship to the school and department I hope to matriculate from.

The little voice in my head and I are going to have what she called "Our New Year's Eve Action/Adventure Movie Marathon" - it consists of Star Trek, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and (DRUM ROLL PLEASE) G-FORCE. Do not eff with the guinea pigs. They will mess you up.

This might be my last entry of the year - I hope I didn't disappoint.

Christmas Eve afternoon I was preparing a batch of green bean casserole to take over to the SSLP's house, and I tried to slice my finger off. It didn't work, but a trip to the urgent care was still kind of necessary. The doctor who treated me was the same doctor who told me I wasn't having enough sex for my age. I don't think he recognized me.

Yesterday I saw Avatar, and I really really liked it, despite James Cameron's serious lack of dialogue skills (why, why doesn't he bring in one more person to write with him?? Someone has to proofread, right???). Even his ham-fisted military talk couldn't ruin the beautiful story and the beautiful EVERYTHING in the movie. Including Sam Worthington. I may have found a new mm-tasty boy.

And he's going to star in CLASH OF THE TITANS - I CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT SHIZ TO COME OUT. I was a huge fan of the original 80s cheese-fest, and now, with the technology we have and Liam Neeson and PERSEUS IS GOING TO ROCK MY WORLD.

I'm a little excited.

Maybe I'm a simpleton, but this video is the gift that keeps on giving, in my opinion.

Funny Cat @ Yahoo! Video

Here are a couple of random moments filled with fine holiday fun. Get a load of this and this. And don't forget to stalk Santa...

Happy Christmas Eve!

The other day I had a gift certie to Kohls burning a hole in my pocket, so me and the little voice in my head went shopping. I started piling sweaters in my arms and suddenly she wandered off. Came back with a cart. I told her that was a good idea. She said, "Yeah, I thought we would need this. Every time we come here you load me up like a pack mule."

No pack mule this time.

Yesterday the wee mite and I went out and about with no plan. First we landed at the park. All the swings were taken, so we walked the path around the whole park, looking for a duck creek. We stopped at the skate park and watched the boys do tricks. It was fascinating. I'd never stopped to do that before. It reminded me of Simon Pegg in "Spaced." The little voice in my head stood first at a safe distance away, but then we ended up right at the little gate with our arms over, watching raptly. I said, "They're so brave." To which she replied, "Of course. Teenage boys aren't afraid of anything."

When we were walking away, she said, "Now that's something amusing. And it's a good show that we don't have to pay money for tickets."

There are actually lots of other funny ones too that I could post here, but I'm sticking to my theme...

A friend of mine told me a story about how he was working at the movie theater the night of the New Moon release. He was working concessions when he saw a group of girls hovering around a giant Edward stand-up. He turned away for a moment, then looked back to find that they had put a Hufflepuff scarf around its neck. IMMD.

Fave Comment

… Team Cedric! – Sauce.

And yet another...

While walking down the school hallway I saw a guy forcefully trying to kiss a girl in the corner. I was about to help when I heard the girl say “Expecto Patronum.” The guy actually walked away. IMMD

Fave Comment

… He wasn’t harassing her, he was trying to “charm” her. – Burk

God, I love people!

Here's another one from itmademyday.com:

I was wearing my bronze/blue striped knitted scarf – which might or might not be related to an awesome book – at the supermarket today. As I was perusing the yogurt aisle, another woman – like me, in her mid-twenties – walked past me slowly. She was wearing a gold/scarlet striped scarf and whispered “Go, Go, Gryffindor.” To which I replied “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure”. We smiled at each other and went our separate ways. IMMD.

Fave Comment

… You should have dueled down the middle of the aisle. – yelhsa

I saw this today, and it actually did make me laugh out loud, especially when the title popped up (even though I knew what the title was).

My little sis is watching Harry Potter the Sixth this weekend so I can't stop thinking about it (even though I haven't seen it since the theater). I wept like a bianca from the middle of the movie till the end. There were lots of moments that moved me, but the two actors I must blame for this are Alan Rickman (Snape, of course) and Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy, surprisingly). Rickman has so many jobs here and proves that he truly is a magician. I have to say this might be one of my favorite performances of his, and there are so many great ones. And regardless of how despicable Draco Malfoy is, as a character, Tom Felton as an actor makes us realize that no matter how much we dislike him, Draco is still just a boy. Great work in this film. Great movie. Which leads me to the moment I like best on itmademyday.com followed by the site's chosen fave comment:

My niece woke up in near tears on the morning of her 11th Birthday because Hagrid had not come for her in the middle of the night. IMMD

Fave Comment

… i had a massive fight with my family on my 11th birthday because i thought they had hidden the letter from me so i couldn’t go. – ainsley


I never talked about another sequel that I had the opportunity to enjoy with some pals of mine...New Moon.

Set the scene: Me and my friends (all in our thirties) get tickets for opening night. Opening night we find out that the theater is shutting down all other films and are going to start seating at 8:30 p.m. We had originally planned for arrival at ten or so, however, there was a line at 3:30, so some of our peeps fought the crowd and stood in line at 6 until 8:30 and then fought for our seats for the next few hours because we all staggered in at different times due to work schedules and babysitters and such. We came wearing tee shirts we stayed up after hours one night to make - Team Edward, Team Jacob, and mine - I GO BOTH WAYS (because I refuse to choose. Like them both for different reasons).

Then the party began. Oh, the teenage cat fights! Security had to drag out some bleached out little lindsay who turned a bucket of popcorn over another girl's head. AWESOME. I'm not ashamed to say I stood up to watch - I don't get out much, I have to find my entertainment however I can.

Then the film, the FILM. Fantastic. Meaning, I thought it was way better than Twilight, but still so fantastically flawed that during one moment, the entire crowd (we had an interactive audience) simultaneously burst into hysterical laughter because it was so EFFING bad. It was so fun, and gave me hope that, regardless of age, they weren't about to swallow a filmmaker's horrifically bad choice of vision. If you've seen this film, you can probably guess which shimmering glimmering fairy tale scenelet I'm talking about.

Taylor Lautner's body RAWKED. I don't know if I bought the CGI wolves, but I liked the sound effects. This movie was also a lot more balanced in tone, meaning it wasn't just melodrama-melodrama-melodrama-fight-melodrama and SCENE. This one had some genuine humor (and not just the accidental kind, due to bad directing) thanks to the ever-wonderful dad Charlie (thank god for that casting choice), the little girl who plays Jessica (delightful surprise), and Bella herself had a few funny moments.

I thought this director - Chris Weitz - handled a few things way better than the original cracked out director. I think his work with Bella was awesome, he knew better what to do with setting and location, and he let the story set the tone rather than manipulating so heavily with lighting and angles. It made for a prettier movie, I thought. The colors were amazing.

Plus, did I mention? Taylor Lautner's body RAWKED.

All right, a promise is a promise and I know you've been waiting for this...the number one country for beer consumption is.........

IRELAND.

Yes, it's true. According to Google, anyway.

I've been listening to Christmas music pretty much non-stop since November 28th, and it's been quite a life-changing experience. So far, my favorite moment was a few days ago, when either an 80's Christmas song or a Transiberian Orchestra Christmas song was on, and the little voice in my head said, "This is a very technological song. I can hear the synthelizer."

Awe. Some.

I read A Thousand Splendid Suns yesterday. Really a book for all women to read, if they get a chance. It's harrowing. We're so spoiled here. And in Sweden.

The little voice in my head is doing a genealogy project for school, and we had to look up interesting facts about the two most dominant countries in our ancestry. Tonight, I will focus on fun facts about Germany:

Germans are the second biggest beer consumers in the world (tomorrow night I will let you in on the biggest beer consumers - yes, they are my people...YES!).

Germany is the first country to adopt Daylight Savings Time in the year 1916.

The tallest church in the world called Ulmcathedral is in Germany. It is 530 feet high.

Germany is the most densely populated country in the world.

In East Germany, more than half of the children are born to unwed mothers. (This was one of her favorite fun facts!)

There is a selction of more than 500 kinds of mineral water in Germany.

Tonight, by the way, I made some kickASS homemade hot pockets. Breakfast style - sausage, egg, and cheese, and Pepperoni Pizza.

You know you want to HIT THAT.

Hot hot delicious soups. That's what I've been thinking about today. That, and breakfast foods. Yummy fried eggs, toast, breakfast potatoes, bacon, yum yum yum.

I'm debating having gallbladder surgery. It's hard to do with no one in the house to help me with the little voice in my head. Plus I shouldn't (read: can't) lose two to three days of pay.

Grr.

Season four of HIMYM has not found its way into my DVD player. I am watching Just Friends right now for something funny, but it's just not hitting the spot. I think I over-watched last year. Plus, "Dusty Lee" has the worst hair in the universe. So hard to look at.

Ryan Reynolds, however, is not.

I don't know if anyone has caught this yet, but the band that plays when Jason Segel sings his "Call Me If You Need Me" song includes the two musicians from the film Once. Their band is called The Swell Season (and from reading info about the movie, I believe they had the band before Once was filmed).

I woke up this morning thinking about that movie, as you can see.

I also woke up thinking about pumpkin muffins, of which I will be making aplenty this weekend. I've had some requests.

It's actually quite cold today, and I don't want to go outside at all - however, I left my phone charger at work and I haven't seen the SSLP in forevah, so I must get out of my house. I must, I must. Especially after the nest fest of last holiday weekend. I think the little voice and I shed our pajamas only twice for the sake of real clothes.

Please. Please. Please. See the movie Once. Then, after you watch it (or just listen to it - the story's mainly in the music, aside from the gentleman lead's face), look it up on IMDB.com, and in the trivia tab, find out what she really said. Please - do it in order. Don't cheat.

My younger sister and my mother traditionally shop together right around Thanksgiving and buy the little voice in my head some winter clothes. This year my mother almost didn't make it out alive, due to her true nature. What is her true nature, you ask? WHITE TRASH WHITE TRASH HOOCHIE MOOOOMMMMMAAAAAAAA1!!!

Now, you may think that's mean, but I'm not saying it to be evil or judgmental, it's just true. My mom has the fashion sense of Daisy Duke mixed with 80's flash. Seriously. When I was sixteen my mom was wearing bootie shorts that showed most of her bootie and begging me to wear belly shirts.

I have a always been a more conservative dresser, however, and as a young lass (and still today), I was very bookish looking. So flash and sass didn't suit me. My daughter looks similar, and so we do bling in different details of the outfit rather than the ENTIRE outfit. My sister nearly took down my mom because everything she chose was slinky, short, skintight and ruched (sp?). Also in very brassy colors. Little Sis won every fight but one - all the casual clothes are adorable, age-appropriate, and I can let my daughter wear them without fear that I will be arrested for child prostitution. The Christmas dress, though - let's just say this weekend we'll be making an "exchange." Because it didn't fit. AT ALL.

One of the items that I love best also freaks me out a little. It's this beautiful red-hooded swing with double-breasted black buttons and foof at the cuffs. She looks so cute in it I could lay down and roll around on the floor in rapture. But it also looks just like the coat from Don't Look Now, one of the freakiest movies ever made. I keep having David Lynch flashbacks every time I look at her in it because I watched that movie at a ridiculously young and innocent age.

Aside from the red riding hood jacket, there was something else I've been planning on writing about all day, and now that I'm sitting here in front of the laptop, I cannot remember what it is for my own sweet life. I hate it when I do that.

The little leaning Christmas tree is up, and I thought, what better way to ring in the season than to watch Signs? I've probably covered this before because from beginning to end it's one of my favorite movies due to its excellent storytelling and the relationship between the brothers. I love it when the younger brother tells the older brother he needs to swear and act crazy, and what the result of that advice sounds like. Also, the first scene when the younger brother jumps out of his bed because of a faint, far-off scream KILLS me. It reminds me of when the little voice in my head was just a wee mite without any words. She was a newborn and we were all laying about in the living room, and my younger sister was dead asleep on the floor. The baby silently threw up all over the place and before me or my mom could move or make a noise to imply something had happened, the younger sis was up and wiping up the mess. It was unbelievable.

I knew that she would be a great mom.

Anyhoodle, again, today, all I could think about was food. I've been looking up ham glazes and tasty side dishes. I found a twice-baked mashed potato recipe that deserves a chance. I've also been thinking about chicken fried rice again. I made some a month or so back and it was really tasty, but I think I can do better. It's one of those dishes I'm going to try and try again until I get it just right. (Sometimes I can cook something perfectly right off the bat, especially if I've watched someone else do it, but mostly it's try try again with me until it goes from good to magical.) And whenever I think about making a ham, I think about au gratin potatoes, which is another of my specialties.

Dude. I need help. INTERVENTION!!!!! (Wherever there is an intervention, there be snacks...)