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FAMILY! I have so much I want to talk about!
1st, is that I literally 6m minutes ago smashed my finger against a table by accident. I think I may have done some actual damage. So wow! Next is that my word count fro NaNoWriMo is 20,000! Whoo-hoo! I'm way behind but I just don't care~ Next is that I'm listening to Jupiter, by Holst which is AMAZING. And I'm listening to it and then it comes to this unbearably sweet part. And I was like, wow I’ve heard this right? And then my other brain was like, yeah remember that one time in band when that kid blasted Jupiter? But no, my brain insisted it was somewhere else! And then it hit me. FRANK. At that gorgeous mass during family weekend you sang this didn't you? I know you did because I was sitting in my chair going "wow, they're amazing, what is this song?" I'm not kidding, I wrote a paper for band on the music that was played at that mass. Another thing is that I finally found my favorite composer. Yann Tiersan. OHHH MY GOSH. His music is LOVE. So amazing. Anne you might recognize his music because he did all the music for the movie Amelie, which I am absolutely obsessed with. So possible Christmas present for Liz would be Amelie, the movie or soundtrack or ANYTHING Yann Tiersan does because it's just so great! (note. I have only seen part.1 of Amelie because youtube doesn’t have part.2!)

Favorite songs of Yann Tiersan (who is french fyi)/songs you MUST listen to:
(Search these w/ Yann's name in youtube and you'll find em')

*Le Demarche

*La Veillée (my favorite)

*Toujours la

*La Valse d'Amelie (Orchestre)

*La Valse d'Amelie

Continuing on...
Twilight! I'll be seeing it on Saturday; I'm super excited because it's going to HORRIBLE/HILARIOUS. But of course, I’ll have solid reasons if I hate it. I might end up really liking. Who knows? Either way I’m pumped for the experience. I’ll be washing my Twilight shirt tonight (I wore it to school today, because it’s premire night) Oh that reminds me! My bud Abbey, wore a shirt that had Edwards face on it and obve it she took this big piece of silver duct tape and wrote ‘I HATE’. So her shirt had ‘I HATE EDWARD’. Ha ha ha…

But really. I’m going to be completely unbiased when I watch the movie. I’m excited!!!!!!

TURKEY DAY

Yes, turkey day is nearing and I can already taste the hot mashed taters and creamy gravy in my mouth now. And I can feel my blood getting ready to boil for an intense game of munchkins. It’s ON.

So family I leave you to have a great Friday. Please listen to Jupiter and the other songs if you get a chance because they are FABULOUS. I’m in an absolute wonderland of listening to such amazing music for the last hour.

As always lots of love,

~Liz.

Phrank: Movies and Music

Alright, three key things to talk about. Quantum of Solace, Twilight and something good other than me from the 80s.
1. Quantum of Solace is a good movie, no debate over that. However, as a Bond film, I don't think it really qualifies. This falls into the similar category as Casino Royale, as a Becoming Bond film. I think it's at the end of this movie we can assume he is the Bond of legend, not just an elite agent with a vendetta on his mind. Also, this movie did a spectacularly bad job of explaining the villain's plan. I won't go into anymore details, but I felt very confused by the villain's plot portion of the movie. Still, it's an excellent movie and worth seeing, though I think it falls short of being a Bond movie.
2. I'm seeing Twilight tonight with Lisa, 12:05 showing. It's very exciting, though my expectations for this movie are incredibly low. I think this movie is going to validate a lot of the critique about the book, which I don't think is necessarily true. I think Bella is a perfectly written teenager, which is one of the hardest characters to write or understand. So here over dramatic personality lends itself to drawing a lot of flak because real people don't act like that. I would out forth that teenagers do, which is part of Stephanie Meyer's skill as a writer. However, this movie is probably going to make Bella look like an over dramatic whiny person, but I'm hopeful.
3. Check out this song/video!

It's called Freeze Frame, and it reminds me of the Duck Tales theme song. I heard it on the way back weekend this past Friday, and I knew this was blog worthy immediately.

P.S. Check out Yahtzee this week, he delivers two more interesting commentaries on Fable 2 and Fallout 3. I still enjoy watching his reviews, even though I've come to realize my standards are nowhere close to his. I enjoyed Spore quite a lot, even though it does have some timing issues for certain stages. I also enjoyed Halo 3, but that game is part of a trilogy and does not stand well by itself. Yahtzee's reviews are entertaining and offers a unique critical eye to the games he reviews.

Anne's Triumphant Return!

Hello everyone! Sorry for the unexpected hiatus, but I am usually at work or asleep, so I can be awake for work the next day. The overtime is nice, but it kills my social life.

First off, any punishments for me?

2nd- what do you want for Christmas? I need ideas, people! I will be more than happy to provide you with gift ideas for me in a later post.

3rd- I will be home for Turkey Day. My plans are as follows: Get home on Wednesday night. Go to Liz's game and freeze my butt off. Go home and eat as much as I can. Go home and sleep.

Thanks goes to Greg for making me realize I could write this earlier and have it post on Wednesday!

I couldn't go to bed.

Well, like my title states, I couldn't go to bed knowing that Bill hadn't posted. Greg is lucky I'm around because I harp and nag at him every Monday. From 8 am, until I go to bed at midnight.
So, not much to talk about, we moved into the new place. I love it, mainly because it has a dishwasher! I love the dishwasher, and even Greg uses it, which makes it all the better!
This Sunday I will be presented to the church. Greg gets to bless me. I had to fill out 7 questions which will determine whether the RCIA team feels I can go on to the next step in the process, or if I have to stay behind. I hope they let me move on, I'm kind of nervous, but I answered each question honestly. When I get accepted I get a cross I need to wear every Sunday and Tuesday (and occasionally Saturday, during a retreat). I also get a bible. Greg has to come to EVERY class with me, as he is my sponser.
Work is ok, but I feel like I could use a vacation. I have 3 vacation days to use before December 27th, which is my hire date (This year is my 9th year at the nursing home). I have thanksgiving and New year's day off, but have to work Christmas and Christmas Eve as well as New Year's Eve. Next year I'll be able to have Christmas off.
Well, I guess that's all for now. Sorry about my run-on sentences. I'll need Frank to give me a lesson on sentences, since he's the english major.
Have a wonderful week everyone!

Fire in the Hole

Well, I'm fulled moved in now. I didn't get Comcast to come do the install for cable\internet\phone till last Thursday. Took me till Friday night to figure out what was wrong with the cable modem. Anyways, we have an office now. all of our computers are going in there. This is where I am writing from tonight.

One of my favorite artists is Edmund McMillen. He's best known for his work on the IGF awarded game, GISH. I have his explosive tetris\puzzle game, Blast Miner. Funny story about Blast Miner... I got the game for free after his wife game a promotional code to me when I talked to her at GDC. Anyways, I'd talk about him more.... but I'd be going down a very not-Liz safe path. McMillen can get very taboo with some of his work. I mention him, because he just put out CD of his work from the past 10 years, plus extra. It's 10 bucks... I'm considering picking it... or holding off to see if someone picks it up for me instead!

Anyways, A video on Blast Miner this week