Burn, my glittery friend. Burn!

Am I the only one who is over the whole Twilight saga?  I'm so tired of seeing Bella, Edward and even Jacob (whom I loved so dearly in the beginning).  I no longer find the stories entertaining or thrilling or anything.  Now, all I can think about when it comes to those movies is how much I'm annoyed with how the vampires glitter and their eyes define who (or really, what) they are (and what they eat, for that matter).  If I could rewrite the story I'd make it so the first time Edward showed Bella his glittering-self he would quickly catch on fire and only be saved when Jacob (in wolf form), who happened to be running in the woods at that exact moment, saved the woods from the fire by peeing on Edward's burning body.  The vampire clan would then leave the town out of shame and sadness.  Jacob would become just as he once was and then he and Bella could have a semi-healthy relationship which would end when they both decided that the other wasn't actually good enough for them.  The end.  Of course, my story would never become a plague that would spread through the world infecting women's (and some men's) minds, turning them into zombie-like beings who honestly believe that Edward is out there, somewhere, just waiting for them to find him.

My other little Twilight-inspired pet peeve is that fact that it's not only still going but Stephenie Meyer is still adding books to it.  After the 4 main books came out she HAD to write something from Edwards perspective.  I didn't read it so I don't know for sure but I think it's more like a diary type thing.  And now she's done it again with another book starring some newbie vampire (who I don't actually remember reading about at all) and her short life as a vampire.  (Apparently she was killed shortly after being introduced in the world of glitter and blood.)  My only question is...why?  I guess she's kind of like George Lucas in that way.  The way that when things start to get slow (and money is starting to dry up) you come up with another way to bring your masterpiece back to life.  (Yes..I'm talking about my other pet peeve...the cause of death (in my opinion) of the wonderful 'Star Wars' trilogy. Why, oh why, did you have to allow episode 1,2 and 3 to come to light?)

I'm also very tired of watching the same movie again.  Has all creativity dried up?  It's like everyone is thinking, "Well, I can't think of anything awesome so here's my idea: Let's make a remake/prequel/sequel/revamp of a movie that was released at least 10 years ago and it should probably include a horror icon (ie. Jason and Freddy)."  Woo-hoo!  Let's go make a movie!  It's seems pretty darn easy.

Well, that's enough of that.  Moving on.

My dentist appointment went well.  I'm all healed and ready to go for round 2.  The next round will include the removal of 4 teeth.  The downer is that it'll be a month in between the visits.  I was hoping to have them closer together.  I'll have to ask about that the next time I go in.

I'm still working on the wedding but the more I plan the less excited I get.  Is that normal?  Think about it and then let me know what you think.  Toodles for now, people.

I've been to the dentist a thousand times so I know the drill....

The month of April is Autism Awareness Month.  To raise awareness buildings change their normal lights to blue lights on the night of April 1st.  If you want to see it in action check out the Light It Up Blue website.  These people are not asking you to change your lights at home but you can do other things to show your support.  Today I plan on wearing blue.  [If you know me at all you know that this won't be hard for me to do.  I love blue.]  If you're like me and you don't really know much about Autism you can check out the Autism Speaks website for facts and information.  Growing up I didn't really know anyone with Autism.  Yesterday, my best friend's son was officially diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.  He's a great kid who is very lucky to have the parents that he has.  They are striving to provide the very best for him.  The fact that he's adorable and addicted to 'Spongebob Squarepants' makes him even cooler. =)


Another thing that is going on today is my trip to the dentist.  I don't know why I scheduled it for the afternoon.  I don't know what I was thinking.  I should have asked for a morning appointment and be done with it already.  Instead, I have to sit and wait and worry and think about what going to happen when I finally get there.  I'm not really looking forward to this visit.  Having one tooth pulled at a time sucks enough, but 3?  I just hope I don't freak out or pass out or cry.  Ok.  I'll probably cry a little bit.  I'm also worried about the healing time and I'm curious to see how long it'll take me before I can talk like a normal person again.  I know there is no point in making myself crazed with all the worrying and wondering but I just can't help myself.  I know it needs to be done [the tooth pulling, I mean] and I'm hoping I can set it up that I go back every 2 weeks to have more pulled.  My goal is to have dentures before the trip to Jamaica.  I'm not longer worried about being only 28 and needing dentures.  I'm done with having to constantly keep pain pills by my side.  I'm tired of having to pass on ice cream and cake and all the other wonderful sweet things that make my teeth hurt.  [Hot, cold, hard or soft...my teeth hurt from every little thing these days]  I'm trying to just concentrate on how pretty my smile will be when it's all done.  I'm thinking about how I won't be worrying if people are judging me because of my teeth.  I'm going to enjoy the fact that I will not have to cover my mouth when someone I talk to makes me laugh.  I guess the little bit of uncomfortableness I'll be experiencing over the next few months will be worth it in the end.

So exciting - - -NOT

I've been waiting for something exciting to happen so I could blog about it.  As you can tell, nothing too exciting is going on in my life right now.  It a lot of hurry up and wait.  At least the waiting part is over for one thing.  I had an ultrasound done last Friday because my doc found a lump.  Turns out it's nothing.  The ultrasound came back negative.  Woot!

I have a 4 day weekend starting tomorrow.  I don't have much planned.  Some spring cleaning, I think.  I will make the list of things to do and check them off as I complete them.  That way I'll feel like I did something.  I also have a dentist appointment on Friday.  Should be fun.  As far as I know I'm having the 3 in the front yanked.  I'll have to wait and see.  I'll also have to wait and see if I'll even be able to eat Easter dinner at my mom's house.  It's going to be an odd adventure, walking around without any front teeth.

I think I've decided on wedding invitations.  I'm getting the basic send~n~seals.  I've decided I'm not doing anything super fancy.  I haven't yet decided on flowers or colors and I haven't looked at a wedding dress in person yet.  I still have something like 9 months to get everything in order.  And I've been secretly trying to talk the boyfriend into just going to the courthouse.  My latest argument: We can afford a PS3 if we go to the courthouse. =)  He hasn't gone for it yet.  Oh well.

A Wonderment of Wonders

I wonder if I'll be able to see the inside of my breast during the ultrasound tomorrow.  I've never had an ultrasound before.  At least it's not a mammogram.  I imagine that would be less fun than an ultrasound.  Guess I just need to wait until tomorrow to find out about this ultrasound business.  I think it sucks that they can't tell me right then and there if they think it's a bad lump or a good lump.  I'll find out in 2 weeks.

I'm also wondering how much Easter dinner I'll actually be able to eat on Easter at my mom's house next week.  I'm having my 3 front, top teeth pulled on the 2nd, Good Friday, so I don't know if I'll even be able to chew.  It'll be an adventure I'm sure.  Maybe I'll bring my blender, you know, just in case.

And I'm wondering if my car battery is about to stop working completely.  We needed a jump for it yesterday but today it was fine.  I don't know what's wrong with 'Franken-car' these days.  I guess it likes to surprise us, keep us guessing.  It's a good car when it wants to be.

Plus I'm wondering what the boyfriend and I will be doing this weekend.  We only have one day off together and it looks like it might be raining.  I've been wanting to go horseback riding for forever now but every weekend we have a day off together it's been nasty.  I figure life will happen and we'll just go with it.

The power of positive thinking

I'm nervous.  I'm not quite scared.  Just nervous, really.  Why?  Because of a doctor's appointment that I have to go to this Friday.  It's for an ultrasound.  It would have been exciting if it was because I was pregnant.  I'm not pregnant though.  This ultrasound was scheduled because my doctor found a lump in my left breast 2 weeks ago.  So, instead of having a pregnancy scare, I am having a breast cancer scare.  Doesn't seem all that fair really.


I'm nervous but I'm worried.  At least, I'm trying not to be worried but that is rather difficult.  Everyone keeps telling me that it is probably nothing.  That it IS nothing.  I keep telling myself that too and I'm trying to believe it.  I'm trying out positive thinking:  ~~They will tell me that it's nothing.  That I'm fine.  That I have nothing to worry about...for now.~~  It runs in my family.  My grandmother had breast cancer and had her right breast removed.  My mother just had a breast cancer scare but the lump that they found was determined non-cancerous.  This will probably not be my last visit to the hospital because of this.  I hope it is though.


When I get the results, which I think will be on the 12th of April, I will let everyone know.  Until then, just think positive thoughts. =)


In other news, my Gaara bag [the messenger bag I've been talking about] arrived today.  I grabbed it from the post office today during my lunch break.  I left it at home but I'm excited about it.  I'm looking forward to seeing if and how everything will fit inside of it.  I thought it was silly, at first, that this one bag came in such a large box but now I see why.  Obviously the people working at Amazon knew that I had a big fat cat named Malik who likes to sleep inside of boxes.  This box is the perfect size for Malik.  It took him less than 2 minutes to claim it as his own.  That was, of course, until my 7 pound cat, Mimzy, kicked Malik (who has to be close to 13 pounds) right out of the box.  It made for a funny lunch break. 


Now that I'm being made full time at work I have the option of getting insurance through the company I work for.  Of course I am going to.  Too bad I don't actually understand any of this paperwork that they've given me to read about the different insurance choices and everything.  I have a few days to a week to understand it and fill out the paperwork so it can be sent in.  Wish me luck with that.  It's very confusing.


Speaking of confusing.  I'm in the process of learning another test at work.  Days like this make me wish I had stuck with my original plan of going to college to major in Chemistry.  It would come in really handy these days.  Or at least help me fully understand what the test is for and everything it involves.  Compared to some of the tests I've learned to do so far, this new one seems fairly easy.  It's in no way simple, though.  I guess it'll seem simple once I get the hang of it though.


One more thing before I say farewell: My dentist appointment is fast approaching [April 2nd].  For those who don't know, my teeth suck.  I'm in the process of having them all yanked and then getting dentures.  I'm very much looking forward to the days when I won't have any pain coming from my mouth.  The first group of teeth to be pulled will be 3 front teeth on the top.  These are going first because they hurt the most.  Plus, if I'm missing my front teeth I know I won't put off having the rest of them done and getting to the end result faster.  


That's all for today.  Thanks for joining me here. Toodles! =)

A Slow Saturday

My weekends tend to be very unexciting.  I don't really plan them that way, it's just the way life seems to work out for me.  Right now, for example, I'm sitting in the living room quietly because my boyfriend is napping on the couch.  The cats are napping in here too.  I'm the only one who isn't napping.  In fact, I don't know how to nap really.  Never could.  That used to get me into trouble when I was in Kindergarten.

Today we rearranged the furniture in the living room.  Switched some stuff around and dragged in the love seat to provide more sitting spots for people if people decide to come over.  I like it.  It feels more open in here now.  I've been wanting to do that for weeks and now that we've finally done it I feel like I don't have anything else to do this weekend.

My big plans for this weekend now include watching a couple of discs of NCIS I rented from Netflix, maybe watching a few episodes of 'Bleach' on Hulu, and folding laundry.  What a glamorous life I lead!  Oh well.  I guess I should enjoy the slow days while they last.  Like I mentioned before, my boyfriend and I are hoping to start a family soon and I know that will bring an end to the slow days and boring weekends.  I'm almost looking forward to it.

I got an email yesterday saying that my messenger bag was shipped from Amazon and that it should arrive on Monday.  A big thank you to everyone who crossed there fingers and got it shipped early.  You guys are awesome.  I think it's about time to wake the boyfriend up.  Besides, I'm getting bored just sitting here all quiet like.  It's time to go and enjoy my slow Saturday. =P

Naruto Vs. Ichigo!

Thanks to a suggestion from my sister's boyfriend I started watching 'Bleach' on Hulu.com.  I decided to watch this instead of 'Naruto: Shippuden' because I promised MY boyfriend that I'd wait for him and for the DVDs to get released.  [He likes the dubbed version.  I prefer the Japanese version with English subtitles.]  But here is my plan:  I will finish 'Bleach' [there is only 117 episodes] and then switch back over to 'Naruto: Shippuden' and watch that.  And when my boyfriend and I get finally get to watch it on DVD I'll act like it's the first time I've seen it.  Who knows?  By the time they actually get released I'll probably have forgotten most of it anyway...so I guess it won't be much of an act.  Now that I've seen both leads of these shows in action I am curious to see who would win if they battled each other. I haven't watched it enough to figure out if Ichigo [from 'Bleach'] would be able to attack Naruto [from, you guessed it, 'Naruto'] while in Soul Reaper form.  It would be fun to see though.

  Naruto Vs. Ichigo

I have decided that I play 'Farmville' on Facebook way too much.  My Wall and homepage is constantly covered with 'Farmville' updates and links and special give-aways from friends.  Some days I think I should just stop playing all together but that thought kind of makes me sad.

I've been made a full-time employee where I work now which is pretty awesome.  The one thing I look forward to the most is PAID HOLIDAYS.  To be fair, my bosses allowed me and my fellow 'non-full-timers' to come in on Fridays to make up for hours that were lost due to holidays that fall on a Monday.  It'll just be nice to not have to come in on a day off to make up hours.  The one think I look forward to the lest is ONE CHECK A MONTH.  Oooh, that's going to be so hard to get used to.  It all goes into play on April 1st [which I don't have to work now because it's a holiday!].  I also get insurance [which will come in handy since I have all these doctors visits and dentist visits planned..but more on that later].  I'm also getting a raise!  Turns out that falling into this job was probably one of the luckiest things I've ever done.  [That and meet my boyfriend, of course.]

They have yet to ship out my Gaara messenger bag that I mentioned yesterday.  Estimated shipping date is for next Monday.  I hope it gets here soon.  I want to switch up the way I carry my laptop to work.  Keep your fingers crossed so that maybe it won't take a full 9 days to get here. X X