I looked out the window and what did I see

White. Lots of white. Six inches of it in fact. It was fun leaving my house today. After the snow got pushed off my car, I think the snow was higher than my car. Driving to work, I went slow. Crazy. I've decided the snow isn't so bad. Its the ice that will be there tomorrow morning. I would really much prefer to have the snow somewhere I could go to it if I wanted to, but didn't have to deal with it every day.

Time flies!

Ok, I just realized I'm going to France in two weeks!!!! I don't know that I am ready, but I am getting there. I have to tell you, I am a little afraid. I've never been that far from home, and never somewhere I wouldn't be able to communicate well! I'm just freaking out a little.

New Years

I don't think I've ever had a great New Years Eve.  I think maybe I expect too much from it.  I always expect to spend it having a great time, but I never do.  Generally I have a good time, but I always come away feeling disappointed.  I don't think it has anything to do with the people I'm with, I think it is totally me.  I don't like New Years as a holiday. There is a bunch of hype and no follow through.  There is nothing really exciting about it.  And I generally get depressed the following day.  I look back at the last year and realize that in reality, I have accomplished nothing. There were no milestones I reached in the last year, nothing noteworthy, just a day to day existence of survival. I make sure I eat enough, I make sure I exercise, I have enough money to pay my bills, but there was nothing with which I can mark the year.  Just a waste of time. And my resolutions are always that next year will be better.  But try as I may, somehow they never are.

The Golden Compass

I don't normally critique films, but this one was . . . interesting, so I thought I would tell you my thoughts on it. I actually have two points of view on this.
First, I had a hard time caring about what was going on. I didn't relate to any of the characters, and I didn't care about any of them. I wanted to, I tried, but they couldn't reach me. One of the elements in the story are the daemons, and in the movie, the daemons are said to be a person's soul. Ok, a little odd, but it is Science Fiction, so we'll go with it. What I don't understand is how your soul can have a totally different personality than you. How is that possible? Lyra's daemon was a little whiney "we shouldn't be here, we shouldn't be doing this" personality and Lyra was "let's go conquer the world" personality. Now in the book (supposedly) these daemons are their conscience, which would make a whole lot more sense!
Ok, second, which is a more personal point of view, so if you want objectivity, stop here. I really didn't like the film. I didn't feel good in it. I had heard that the movie was atheist, but I generally try not to listen to people who just listen to gossip, so I went to see it. I did read the books back in high school, but I don't remember anything from them, except that there were daemons and the golden compass. Oh, and back to the daemons being people's souls, they were trying to cut the children's daemons off, they were trying to cut off their souls. That just really gives me an icky feeling. So I would have to say that there is some truth to the atheism in the movie, and it did not leave me with a good feeling.
Anyway. There are my two cents. I really liked Enchanted, though.

I don't watch talk shows . . .

Except that last night, I was watching 'What Not To Wear' and they kept having commericials for 'Fashionably Late' With Stacey London. So I watched it. And I really enjoyed it. They took some of the fashionable clothes and put them in a wind machine, a rain machine and an industrial freezer to see how they held up. They also took some of those runway fashions and tried them in the real world. It was quite hilarious. Shoulder pads and plastic jackets. And a dress bedecked with feathers. Crazy!

Tag. You're it.

5 things I was doing 10 years ago
*Playing Meg in Little Women
*Was repeatedly mocked by my friends about my stage
kiss
*Taking classes at the community college
*Watching my favorite all-time tv show 'the Pretender"
*Ok, if you seriously think I remember that period of
my life, you really are delusional. I think I blocked
out that time

5 things I've read recently
*Antigone by Jean Anouilh
*Three issues of the Ensign
*Les desastreuses aventures des orphelins Baudelaire
*Various articles about living/visiting/surviving in
France
*Magician's Ward by Patricia C. Wrede - I love young adult fiction

5 favorite possessions
*My "herbal aromatherapy" hot pack thingy. Helps my
feet stay warm at night!!
*My black wool coat I bought last year
*My computer that does really cool things
*My car. It's almost paid off!!
*Toeless nylons. Best invention since sliced bread

5 things I'd do if I were a millionaire
*Invest
*Buy a small house and many pets
*Travel!!
*Have a personal assistant whose job it was to pick
out my outfits and fix my hair everyday
*Take a group of friends on weekend getaways

5 things I'd never do again
*Trust the airline company with my luggage and not my
boyfriend
*Live in Vegas
*Go through a corn maze. I hate them. Really.
*Date a guy under 21. I promise, guys, I mean it this
time.
*Go on a road trip with my sister and her fiance

Closure for Pretender

I found this on the web today. I wish they had just made the last film!! I don't want it to continue, just end already!!
"On September 7th 2007 in an interview for their new miniseries "Tin Man", creators Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle stated "Our fans still clabber for the answers because we never closed “The Pretender” out. We will just say to them please be patient, it’s going to happen, hopefully soon." They also referred to it happening in relationship to "Strange Highway" Entertainment and that the story line would continue digitally on the web."