Another late post...

Sorry another late post. I wasn't thinking about the blog at all on Friday. Anyways I hope everyone had a great turkey day. At the moment I'm working on my NaNoWriMo story. I'm over the worst of my writers block and I'm more concerned now with what perspective I'm going to write this certain large part I'm writing next. The perspective that I'll be writing it in is pretty crucial, so it's something I want to figure out now, not in the editing phase. Also, I just "won" NaNoWriMo about a half an hour ago. I cheated. I copied and pasted my first 26k words again in the same doc and submitted it. WAIT WAIT WAIT. I had a good reason. The first few days of NaNoWriMo I couldn't even get onto the site it was so busy. I have a feeling that people submitting stories tomorrow (the last day), will slow the site down. Even though the number of partcipants is much larger than the number of winners. Either way I didn't want any probelms getting my certificate. But I'm honest. I wont print it out and act like I won until I actually do. So I'm still writing till midnight tomorrow. I'm really really behind. But Joe said that because I procastinate I work best under pressure. I hope he's right and I do finish my story. As much as I hate it right now I really do love it for all it's craziness. I'm actually glad that I wrote this post. I'm feeling more like writing, I'm almost over this writers block hill and soon I hope I'll be a writing machine. I just gotta figure how I'm writing this part I'm stuck on and then I'll be set. Anyways wish me luck!
-Liz

Phrank: Thanksgiving Special

This Thanksgiving season, we have lots to be thankful for. I, in particular, am thankful for my wonderful fiance, Lisa, for the wonderful times we have together as a family, for Matt Cassel, for raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my thankful things. One thing we do not have to be thankful for is Pachebel's Canon. Watch the following video, so as to learn why Pachelbel's Canon in D haunts us to this very day. Greg, it relates to cellos, so you better watch it.



Thanks for a great Thanksgiving, here's a link to our first post ever in the blog, and it was about the legendary and infamous Munchkin game that still divides us to this very day. I did enjoy this game of Munchkin today, I mean, Rat on a Stick was hysterical. That first post was on March 24, and kicked off our sibling blogging. We're within four months of one year of posting, and it's been quite a year so far. Well, enjoy your month of Christmas music, now that Thanksgiving is over!

God and Thanksgiving

I hope Bill forgives me for writing in purple. I really wanted to go for pink, but I didn't know how well it would show up.
So, I went to my RCIA class today, I did manage not to fall on my face Sunday, which I think is a miracle in itself. I received a beautiful cross and a brand spankin' new bible. My mom didn't go, but my dad did, and I couldn't look at him without almost crying. I don't know why, maybe it's because I feel like this is where I belong. The classes are awesome. I don't question the teachings, as in, how could Jesus possibly be human and without sin? It's a mystery! Some of my classmates just don't get it, but I just accept it. Back in my dad's day, you went to Catholic school, and you had your lessons and you didn't question anything.......or else you got a ruler across your knuckles.....(or else I was told so..).
One of our "ice breakers", actually our last one, was what are we thankful for? Greg said he was thankful for me, which was sweet. I said I was thankful for my family, my RCIA group,Greg and you guys. Yeah, I know it sounds mushy, but when Greg and I get hitched I'll have some pretty cool siblings. I'll have (in all) 3 younger sisters and 3 brothers. I'll actually have an older sibling for once (Bill)! If you ask my mom I always wanted to be an only child, because they spoiled me from the start, and then as I was getting used to the idea of my brother, George, being around, my mom turned around and had Rebecca. =-0 The older I get the more I realize I'm extremely lucky to have my siblings. (just don't tell them I said so).
In other news, I get to see you all in about 48 hours or so... I can't wait! I won't be able to make Christmas, but I'm sending gifts. I already got Anne and Liz squared away, but I need ideas for you boys! If you don't give me some suggestions, I'll leave the deciding up to Greg.................
Tomorrow will be a busy day, I am baking the pumpkin pie, getting my check and...going to work (ick!), but then I have a nice 2 days off, so I can't complain much.
Have a good night.

Yea, this might get me in trouble...

So Jess amused me in a way I haven't seen since I we saw Indy... This happened last saturday... which in an ironic way is exactly 6 months since I saw Indy with her. Up here in NH, they still produce a Chronicle Show. Chronicle is a show about the area it covers. Interesting stories about the seacoast or old-stlyed stuff... sometimes a restaurant and\or a recipe. The point is, it's all local. There used to be a RI and MA on TV 15 or so years ago. The RI featured a Magician in one episode. It runs in the hour slot at 7pm (after the news, but before primetime)...

Well up here in the NH, at the end of the show a local historian named Fritz Wetherbee has a segment. It's sorta like Andy Rooney on 60 minutes, but not angry or bitting but old-timey and local to NH. He's just wrote book and is doing a book tour. So off I went with Jess last Saturday to Barns and Nobles so Jess could get the new book, have it signed, and get a picture with Fritz. Oh yes, I was there to carry the drool bucket for her. Yea... Just as Bad as Indy.

Am I concerned... Nope...
Gives me breathing room to explain Captain Jack when I start watching the next season of Torchwood...

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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!