NCLC

OK, so this weekend i am in Tucson for NCLC or the National Collegiate Leadership Conference. It is interesting, I have learned some new things, and reinforced other things, so that is good, I have also met some new people, which is never a bad thing, at least that is what i keep being told, or reminded by Andres, or happy President here at ASUAS. but the people i met are not horrible, so that is always a good thing i guess. I got a new shirt, for sleeping because it is freakin huge, and i learned about different service projects around Tucson, a few that I would like to try and extend down to Sierra Vista. I have one three community service projects, though they offered more, you cannot do you hours with service projects alone, which sucks because i would have. anyways there was beads of courage, which gives beads for certain things to children in the hospital for a long term, those who are being treated for cancer for example, so every time they get there blood drawn they get a red bead, or an xray would be a glow in the dark bead, and then when they are all done with their ordeal, when hopefully they are healed, they then have a strand of beads, sometimes a really really long strand, that they can use to show their story with. it gives them a way to know what has happened to them. the next one i did was bens bells, and that one is a random act of kindness, you go and you make these windchimes, and then twice a year they take them and hide them all over tucson, and a few other cities, and then when people find them, they take them home. this one was started by the parents of a young boy who died, it was their way of dealing with their grief, and now it helps others for various reasons, it was really awesome. the last one we did was the boring one, it was necessary, but it was still boring. it was done by the majority of the conference attendees, and it was packaging rice, for two hours we sat there listening to a dj who sucked balls, and did a work line packaging rice, i opened the bags, 100's of bags, and have had it reinforced as to why i am going to school, so that i do not have to do that as a living. but it was for a good cause, every bag went to a family who needs help, so i would do it again, so long as i chose it and was not forced into it. the workshops have been interesting, in the first one i learned that i am green, then orange, then gold, and finally blue when it comes to the personality color thingy, and the second one allowed me to watch people tear up boxes, always a fun thing, people making fools out of themselves. today i will learn how to make a awesome powerpoint presentation, or at least i hope i will, and then i am not sure what else, but we will see. alright, laters then isa got to back and find a new place for the car. sad i liked it where it was, oh well.

Movies

ok, so on twitter i promised a blog about the movies i watched yesterday. so here it is, short and sweet so that i can get my homework done, at least that is the plan, we will see if i can stick to it.

first we have Sherlock Holmes. I liked it, and i can not wait for the second one, because there has to be one. Watson is amusing, and Holmes is just a bit crazy, but that is what makes him who he is, and i want more. just as a side note, previous to this i have not enjoyed anything to do with sherlock holmes other than the old board game 221b baker street. so that can tell some of you at least how good a a movie i found it to be.

next we have a bloody valentine. and let me tell you, this was a great slasher flick, and probably the best vday movie i have ever seen. the ending was a bit secret windowish, but it was good, and it kept you guessing for longer than it should have due to trickery with the cameras an such, definitely one to buy and watch every vday, a new tradition has been born. i want to see the original as well, the remake was good, but i also like the older movies, so we can watch and compare etc.

the last movie is 9, from my beloved tim burton. he did not write it, or direct it, but he did have some sort of hand it. but it is not one that i will be buying, it was a good onetime watch, and had a descent story to it, but it is not one that i would want to watch again, it is no nightmare.

i guess that 2 out of 3 isn't bad, now i am going to retire to my books, and then watch public enemy and the new halloween, i have been putting it off, but with the second one out i have decided io might as well give it a try, halloween is like my all time fave horror series, so i have to watch this one too, if nothing else just to say that i have.

i am going to leave you with two pieces of trivia you may or may not know. 1 bones was in boogeyman, and 2 bella was in cold creek manor. wonder who did or didnt know that, whatever all, laters.

I have no idea

So , yeah, I am sitting in my office at school, and I am bored, I have no idea what to do now that our major event for this semester is over. some of you are probably going, BORED, shouldn't you be relieved, and please don't get me wrong, I am relieved, but now I have no idea what to put my energies towards. I guess it is time to brainstorm up a new event or something to that nature, but i have no idea what that event should be, so i am just going to continue to eat my dinner, oriental by the way, and wonder what else i could be doing other than this. btw, any ideas would be more than welcome.

so it has been a bust few days, yesterday i had to take my son to Tucson for a quick visit to the dr's office, the appt was supposed to be next week but the doctor is going out of town or something, so they said come today or it will have to wait until march. i did not my baby to wait until march so off we went. then today i got a call from the county clerks office saying 'come to bisbee, we have a check for you, or we could mail it if that would be easier on you.' well mailing is something that they have supposedly done multiple times, and since i had yet to receive a check, i figured i better just go and get it. whatever right, its a 30 minute drive, and i <3 bisbee, so it's all good. and now i am 300$ richer, or i was until i paid that bill that i thought was going to be late, so win-win.

for spring break we have decided to go to phoenix, but not just anywhere there, but to a lake. we got a hotel room right on the lake, it has a kitchenette so that we will safe a bunch of money on food, i can't wait, sucks though that it is still 4 weeks away, i wish it were now. but it will be fun, look for pics on facebook, you now i am pretty good with the pics.

well, i guess that is it for now, i should get going before my counterpart gets in the office and wonders what the hell i am doing, laters all, may you have as productive month as i did last month, and may mine slow down but not to the boring place it is now. nvm, you get the picture i am sure.

Hello out there

just a quick word, i just finished reading this book called shiver, it was amazing, it was uniquely written and ended perfectly. check it out.

books, books and more books

ok, so as anyone who has read this should know by now, i love to read, and i read ALOT. so to continue with my impromptu book reviews, i thought i would share some on the two newest books i have read.

first is Flirt the new Anita book by LKH. So short, wow, like that book needed more meat to it. but it was a good story, and the situation which she describes at the end of the book, man so fun because i have had that happen. i would love to meet the man who pulled it off, would definately be something to see him, especially if her description of him rings true. but onto the book, well, sorta, i dont want to give it away, i mean it just came out yesterday and not everyone reads like me. so i will say that it is so good, and that the way the characters intermingle is definately interesting, it always is. and that i am a little sad, because (WARNING: SPOILER) there was no vampires, i have missed jean claude and asher, its been a few books since we really got to see them. bring me back to the first reason i strated reading this series, i've always had a thing for vampires.

LKH, at the end of the book says something about how people see the same thing, but yet it is still different, how she always sees it dark, but a friend of hers always see it light and funny. i have to agree, i see the world through a very dark set of glasses, different experiences lead to different ways of seeing things, and LKH and i seem to see things in a similar way, seems interesting that. if i could ever figure out how to truly write what is in my head down i wonder if i could create a world with as many people who are loved as she has. i doubt that we will ever know for sure.

sorry for the aside, now on to the next book, it is a young adult novel, by two new authors, Kami Garcia, and Margaret Stohl. I always wonder how two people can write a book, but maybe one is the ideas and the other is the words, maybe i just need a word person, someone who can navigate my mind and pull out the things that need to go together, and figure it all out. hmmm, something to look into.

anyways, it is called Beautiful Creatures, the title sorta tells you about the book, and yet is oddly lacking, anyways, this book was released in december, and is about a world just like ours, except that in this tiny southern town there is a family of, i don't want to say witches because they are and aren't, lets say magical beings, some good and some bad, or light and dark as they say in the book, and how they end up being exposed to one high school kid, a love story ensues, and a mystery from the past or two. all and all it was a good book, i could put it down unlike others, but its one i will reread. which is going to be a must because they left it way to open, there is going to be another one. now don't get me wrong, i enjoy my series, i love reading about the same characters, and how their lifes progress, but i also like to see the end of a story, to know that life s good, and let it go. this book i wished would have ended, it was good, but i do not know if the characters are strong enough for more, and the only one that is died, so i guess we will see where it goes from here.

lets see, on the subject of series that should have ended, or that need to get sorta towards the end. My first would be Merry Gentry, i love the first 7-8 books, when they are going after the crown of fairy and such, but this lastest one Divine Misdemeanors, i am so not sure about that one. the other onwe ended so strong for me, i would have left the series their, don't misunderstand me, i really want to know more about the characters and such, but it just seemed so perfect, and DM just didn't do it for me. now as for Anita, i don't think you could ever really end Anita, there is just to much going on there, and i am good with that, i know basically the blueprint of the different books, and some are alot alike, but i still enjoy them, its not really the stories there, its the characters, that world is totally alive for me, and because of that i could read it indefinately.

on to a different author, Iris Johansen, good books, like LKH many ise the same blueprint alot, but its fine because it works, she has strong characters, many who you get to see again, and many who you don't, i once tried mapping her characters and how they tangled together, let me tell you not easy but it showed different things, things that i had not noticed before, so it works. now her Eve Duncan story, great characters, but they are strarting to get up there in age, and i would love to see the end of that set. I also would love to see more on Jane and Trevor, i did not like that Jane may be getting a new beau, i liked Trevor, he was one of my faves when it came o her men, though Galen is still number 1.

Ok, to finish off today's insight into different books/authors we are going to bring up Kay Hooper, she is a good author, and her Special Crime Unit has some great stories, they all follow a similar blueprint as well, but hey as i said earlier if it works why change it. which is sorta what she did, she decided to be challenging, and now her latest trilogy blends not only individual stories, but also brings together one big one woven through the others, and so far it works, her newest one was released last month, but i have yet to read it. sad. but i am sure it will be good, what i would really like to see is more to her thief stories, Quinn and his brothers stole my heart as quickly as they did Morgannas, and I want more, on her website she has been saying for years that there will be more to this story, but it just is not happening. this blood trilogy has taken up tons of time i guess, but i have to beg, please, please write more about Quinn.

so i know i said i was going to finish, but it seems i still have more to say, James Rollins and his Sigma team, oh how much I want to read more on them, those are some good books, they make you think, and they teach you things that you may not have known about before. And he is always so good about telling where he gets this and that from, he's amazing. I crave more from him.

And then remember Harry Potter, how we were promised an encyclopedia about the characters, and where they went in the world, what ever happened to that, i want to know the details, anfter the years that were put into that series i need more, i need the end, the same thing goes to twilight's stephanie meyer, even if edward's version never gets written, which would be sad because he is far more interesting a thinker than bella, i still would like to see that encyclopedia for her work as well. they finish things, and such.

oh well, on that note the baby is upset, so now i must really go. May your day be eventful, and your life full of good cheer.