Ok. So? Have you seen it?

Any thoughts?

Alrighty then, I will share mine.

Over all?

FAIL

Yeah. You heard me right.  Let’s break this down for all y’all who are going to jump down my throat about it.

(Before I begin, let me set one thing straight. IF you are 13 years old, you will love this movie. IF you have never read the books, you will love this movie. Otherwise, if I were Stephenie Meyer, I’d be pissed. Plz continue.)

Acting = FAIL
Screen play adaptation = FAIL
Character development = FAIL

Ok, now now, calm yourselves. Those of you who are hyperventilating, please put your head between your knees for a moment......

Better now?

I know it sounds that way, but I didn’t hate the whole movie. I really think that they cast Dr. Carlisle Cullen, Alice Cullen and Charlie Swan really well. I even liked the Charlie Swan character better in the movie than I did in the book. Not sure about the Jacob Black character, as he sorta had a nose that resembled that of a pig, and it was quite distracting. The Billy Black character was cool, too tho. I do believe they should have given Alice (played by Ashley Greene) more screen time, as I could easily develop a girl crush on her. *swoon*

As for the story.
The beginning of the movie was really slow. Truly. I almost got bored. I’m not convinced that Robert Pattinson was the best choice in actors to play Edward Cullen either. He wasn’t nearly engaging enough. I thought that the Bella Swan character was carried out poorly as well, but that I leave more to the lack of acting abilities displayed by Kristen Stewart. Maybe that falls back onto poor adaptation of the screen play, poor writing, who knows. All I know is that it didn’t work for me at all.

There were many things that I found in the book to be key points of the story, and very interesting ones at that, that were completely left out of this movie. Had I not read the book and could hear Bella’s narration within my mind, I would have been left slack jaw and feeling as though I was missing something in places.

I realize it must be hard, to take a complex story, complex characters and translate it all successfully onto the big screen, but there have been several instances where this has been executed successfully. This was not one of those times.

I pray that, should they create a screen version of New Moon, that they take these things into consideration and do a better job with it or I have a feeling that theaters, such as the one I was in this afternoon, will not be experiencing lines that wrap around the damn building like they have over the past 24 hours.

Just sayin’.

Oh, and could you give Alice more screen time in the next movie?

kthx.

Ok. So? Have you seen it?

Any thoughts?

Alrighty then, I will share mine.

Over all?

FAIL

Yeah. You heard me right.  Let’s break this down for all y’all who are going to jump down my throat about it.

(Before I begin, let me set one thing straight. IF you are 13 years old, you will love this movie. IF you have never read the books, you will love this movie. Otherwise, if I were Stephenie Meyer, I’d be pissed. Plz continue.)

Acting = FAIL
Screen play adaptation = FAIL
Character development = FAIL

Ok, now now, calm yourselves. Those of you who are hyperventilating, please put your head between your knees for a moment......

Better now?

I know it sounds that way, but I didn’t hate the whole movie. I really think that they cast Dr. Carlisle Cullen, Alice Cullen and Charlie Swan really well. I even liked the Charlie Swan character better in the movie than I did in the book. Not sure about the Jacob Black character, as he sorta had a nose that resembled that of a pig, and it was quite distracting. The Billy Black character was cool, too tho. I do believe they should have given Alice (played by Ashley Greene) more screen time, as I could easily develop a girl crush on her. *swoon*

As for the story.
The beginning of the movie was really slow. Truly. I almost got bored. I’m not convinced that Robert Pattinson was the best choice in actors to play Edward Cullen either. He wasn’t nearly engaging enough. I thought that the Bella Swan character was carried out poorly as well, but that I leave more to the lack of acting abilities displayed by Kristen Stewart. Maybe that falls back onto poor adaptation of the screen play, poor writing, who knows. All I know is that it didn’t work for me at all.

There were many things that I found in the book to be key points of the story, and very interesting ones at that, that were completely left out of this movie. Had I not read the book and could hear Bella’s narration within my mind, I would have been left slack jaw and feeling as though I was missing something in places.

I realize it must be hard, to take a complex story, complex characters and translate it all successfully onto the big screen, but there have been several instances where this has been executed successfully. This was not one of those times.

I pray that, should they create a screen version of New Moon, that they take these things into consideration and do a better job with it or I have a feeling that theaters, such as the one I was in this afternoon, will not be experiencing lines that wrap around the damn building like they have over the past 24 hours.

Just sayin’.

Oh, and could you give Alice more screen time in the next movie?

kthx.

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Not an easy thing to hold onto, is? Say it. Repeat it. live it.

Sticky note it to your forehead.

Don’t focus on the shit.

I mean, it’s always there, we all have it. Some folks need to wear waders to get through it sometimes, and for others it’s a mere stinky blob of temporary inconvenience on the bottom of your favorite tennis shoes. Either way, it doesn’t matter who has bigger shit, it only matters who sits around wallowing in it’s stink and who focuses on the beauty of life around them instead.

Shine.

You are beautiful.

Today is a new day.

Not an easy thing to hold onto, is? Say it. Repeat it. live it.

Sticky note it to your forehead.

Don’t focus on the shit.

I mean, it’s always there, we all have it. Some folks need to wear waders to get through it sometimes, and for others it’s a mere stinky blob of temporary inconvenience on the bottom of your favorite tennis shoes. Either way, it doesn’t matter who has bigger shit, it only matters who sits around wallowing in it’s stink and who focuses on the beauty of life around them instead.

Shine.

You are beautiful.

Today is a new day.

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So, I’m going through my gmail settings, and I find the ‘labs’ tab. Now, this tab isn’t really new to me, as I have implemented two of the things in there, but I hadn’t really gone through and paid attention to the things they offer in there.

Until now.

Srsly. I enabled this one. This is genius. Please tell me who couldn’t use this function?

Mail Goggles
by Jon P

Google strives to make the world’s information useful. Mail you send late night on the weekends may be useful but you may regret it the next morning. Solve some simple math problems and you’re good to go. Otherwise, get a good night’s sleep and try again in the morning. After enabling this feature, you can adjust the schedule in the “General” settings page.

Um. Yeah.

Google is your friend.

So, I’m going through my gmail settings, and I find the ‘labs’ tab. Now, this tab isn’t really new to me, as I have implemented two of the things in there, but I hadn’t really gone through and paid attention to the things they offer in there.

Until now.

Srsly. I enabled this one. This is genius. Please tell me who couldn’t use this function?

Mail Goggles
by Jon P

Google strives to make the world’s information useful. Mail you send late night on the weekends may be useful but you may regret it the next morning. Solve some simple math problems and you’re good to go. Otherwise, get a good night’s sleep and try again in the morning. After enabling this feature, you can adjust the schedule in the “General” settings page.

Um. Yeah.

Google is your friend.

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Ok. Y’all get the cheesy, as Lucy’s Terrorist calls it, ‘myspace face’ picture on my cell phone for right now as I didn’t feel like getting out the big cam and the tripod and all that jazz @ 5:30 this morning.

I love it.

And that’s all that truly matters.

Thanks for y’alls help.  I will post a better pic sometime today, mmkay?  Gotta few things I need to handle right off the bat, but will get around to it when there is better light, more time to screw around with fixing the pic cuz I take shitty pics, and then you can get a better look.

I went for a medium brown/red.

My hair was so light, that the brown didn’t turn out as dark as it was on the box, and the red is definitely visible!

I love it.

Ok. Y’all get the cheesy, as Lucy’s Terrorist calls it, ‘myspace face’ picture on my cell phone for right now as I didn’t feel like getting out the big cam and the tripod and all that jazz @ 5:30 this morning.

I love it.

And that’s all that truly matters.

Thanks for y’alls help.  I will post a better pic sometime today, mmkay?  Gotta few things I need to handle right off the bat, but will get around to it when there is better light, more time to screw around with fixing the pic cuz I take shitty pics, and then you can get a better look.

I went for a medium brown/red.

My hair was so light, that the brown didn’t turn out as dark as it was on the box, and the red is definitely visible!

I love it.

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How often you got up in the middle of the night
when one of your children had a bad dream,

and sometimes you woke because you thought
you heard a cry but they were all sleeping,

so you stood in the moonlight just listening
to their breathing, and you didn’t mention

that you were an expert at putting toothpaste
on tiny toothbrushes and bending down to wiggle

the toothbrush ten times on each tooth while
you sang the words to songs from Annie, and

who would suspect that you know the fingerings
to the songs in the first four books of the Suzuki

Violin Method and that you can do the voices
of Pooh and Piglet especially well, though

your absolute favorite thing to read out loud is
Bedtime for Frances and that you picked

up your way of reading it from Glynnis Johns,
and it is, now that you think of it, rather impressive

that you read all of Narnia and all of the Ring Trilogy
(and others too many to mention here) to them

before they went to bed and on way out to
Yellowstone, which is another thing you don’t put

on the resumé: how you took them to the ocean
and the mountains and brought them safely home.

Joyce Sutphen

How often you got up in the middle of the night
when one of your children had a bad dream,

and sometimes you woke because you thought
you heard a cry but they were all sleeping,

so you stood in the moonlight just listening
to their breathing, and you didn’t mention

that you were an expert at putting toothpaste
on tiny toothbrushes and bending down to wiggle

the toothbrush ten times on each tooth while
you sang the words to songs from Annie, and

who would suspect that you know the fingerings
to the songs in the first four books of the Suzuki

Violin Method and that you can do the voices
of Pooh and Piglet especially well, though

your absolute favorite thing to read out loud is
Bedtime for Frances and that you picked

up your way of reading it from Glynnis Johns,
and it is, now that you think of it, rather impressive

that you read all of Narnia and all of the Ring Trilogy
(and others too many to mention here) to them

before they went to bed and on way out to
Yellowstone, which is another thing you don’t put

on the resumé: how you took them to the ocean
and the mountains and brought them safely home.

Joyce Sutphen

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