what am i up to?

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

what the hell did i do that for??

i joined myspace. don't know why. i've been dead set against it for so long. heard it was a swingers site.

maybe i have a secret desire to be "myspace" stalked. lord knows i've done my fair share - and oh the people i've found. *shutter*

what do you think? is the background me??

http://www.myspace.com/gfygrl129

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

sorry i let you all down...

i never finished my harry potter posts before the book came out. they were in this order:

3rd fav: hagrid - cause his just a big lovable oaf.
2nd fav: harry - bet you thought he would be first huh?
1st fav: hermione - girl power baby! all that and brains too! kind of role model i want nina to have!

picked up the book at 9 am on saturday. started reading at 11 am. by sunday night i had 5 chapters to go. i finshed the last at lunch today.

and i'm overall happy with it. still not sure i really buy harry and ginny as a couple - if she was going to make ginny a romantic interest for harry - rowlings should have started working on it back in book 3 or 4 instead of wasting so much time on his infatuation with cho. starting it off in the book six didn't give us enough time to really believe it!

i won't say who lives or dies. some of my predictions were sort of trueish. not exact - but close.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

mayor slay rejects "ike turner day" ...

i know that i owe you 2 harry potter posts today. yesterday was rough so i didn't get to it.

however - in the meantime to tide you over until i can get it together - i'm happy to report that mayor slay has denied the request to proclaim a day over labor day weekend as "ike turner day" to celebrate the effect he had on music history. he was met with a lot of opposition from women's support groups because of ike turner's violent tina beating and drug doing past.

i'm super happy. i was already planning my protest sign - i just hadn't decided if i was going to protest at the concert - or at the mayor's house which is just ever so close to mine....

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

my fourth favorite harry potter character...

is professor snape...

i still believe he's good.
i still believe there is more to him that we know.
i still believe that he killed dumbledore as part of of dumbledore's ultimate plan.
i still believe that dumbledore wouldn't have trusted him all this time without reason - dumbledore isn't dumb enough to be tricked by snape - perhaps dumbledore made him take the unbreakable vow to always be loyal?

after all - we only see snape through harry's eyes and what's that they say about two sides and every story??

i saw an interview this morning with daniel radcliff and he said that he thinks that in the end - snape will turn out to be the tragic hero of the harry potter series. worth some thought....

not as cute as he used to be...

celebrating the 20th anniversary of my favorite movie "The Princess Bride" - here are then and now shots of all of the cast. well - everyone except andre the giant of course.

wesley's just not as cute as he was as a sweet, quiet little farm boy with his naughty sword carrying side...

and did you hear that inigo montoya is leaving criminal minds over "creative differences"? that sucks...

Monday, July 16, 2007

my fifth favorite harry potter character...

in an effort to get us all pumped for the holiday on saturday, i am going to count down to the big day by counting down my top five favorite harry potter characters!

i know you are all totally psyched. and if you aren't - pretend convincingly...

so here goes.

my fifth favorite harry potter character is....

NEVILE!

i think there's so much more to nevile than people know and see. and he's kinda unsure of himself. bad self esteem. feels everything he does is done wrong no matter how hard he tries. can't stand up for himself. not super popular. but when he whipped out that wand and threatened bad hair lady in the latest movie - i felt personal triumph! i mean - with the exception of the parents driven to the insanity ward at st. mungos and the gift with plants - i feel a strange sort of connection with nevile. why - it's kinda like readin about meself (as hagrid would say)...

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

i am an orphan

just like harry potter.

and i'm moving into a cardboard box with a sign that says "free puppy" and i'm gonna use big sad eye faces that mean "are you my mother?"

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

news of the weird...

and it really doesn't seem to be much weirder than this...

Monday, July 09, 2007

oh harry - how do i loathe thee wait...

i am quiet impatiently passing my time until the release of the fifth harry potter movie and even more importantly - the long awaited seventh book.

it's been two years. TWO YEARS! two years since the "death" of dumbledore at the "hands" of snape. after reading that - i refused to believe that he was REALLY dead - i thought it was all part of dumbledore's ultimate plan. but jk has said in interviews that he is dead. so if i have to accept his death - then i am choosing to believe his brains, knowledge, and wisdom will continue to live on in one of the portraits in the headmaster's office and he will give his instructions from there. or he could be a ghost. i'm still kinda hazy on what makes some wizards ghosts and others not. even if nick did explain it in book 5.

i do think that dumbledore planned his own death though. i think he knew about snape's taking of the unbreakable vow and made it work in his plan. i don't think snape is evil. in fact - i've got to thinking - perhaps snape is a relative of lily - you know - harry's mom. lily used to yell at james when he picked on snape and seemed to have a strange sense of affection and desire to protect him. much like one would a brother. now - i don't think that they are siblings - because hello - they didn't have the same parents and smelly petunia would have said something if she had a gifted brother too. however, both snape and lily were gifted at potions and i don't think it's a coincidence.

i also don't think it is a coincidence that james and lily died in godric's hallow, that godric griffyndor was one of the founders of hogwarts, that harry is in the house of griffyndor, and that harry was able to pull godric griffyndor's sword out of the sorting hat (also originally owned by godric griffyndor). i really think that harry may be a decedent of godric himself and the home in godric's hallow was a family home. there is significance here. i'm sure of it. especially since this month of july 2007 in which both the fifth movie and seventh book are to be released - godric griffyndor has been chosen as wizard of the month on jk's webpage. fishy. VERY fishy.

there is also the issue of who is "R.A.B." and how did he/she know that the horacrux in the locket existed. lots of speculation that it's a member of the black family. but what about the possibility that it isn't just ONE person - but that each letter stands for an initial of a person involved? it could happen! except the only "B" i can come up with is Bill Weasley and that seems to be a stretch.

the love connections. ron has to end up with hermione. harry with ginny. no other match is doable - because i'm certain that even in the wizarding world it is illegal for ron to end up with ginny.

i really don't think harry, ron, or hermione is going to die. i could just be in denial. but i just don't think that they will. (and in true karen fashion - i will probably read the end before i read the rest just so i have the answer to this question because it kills me more and more with each passing day)...

i do think that the following people could all die:

neville - as books progressed - his character has become more and more important. the prophecy could have been about him. big noseless baby voldemort just picked harry. but i think it still makes neville vulnerable.

hagrid - it would be so sad to see him die - but i really think he would try to physically protect harry and die. and no one would see it coming.

snape - once he is finally redeemed and seen as good and the reasons why dumbledore has always trusted him is known - he could then die.

the agony is killing me.

in the meantime - i'll just keep reading all the harry potter entries on wikipedia - it's SO interesting...

Friday, July 06, 2007

i am so tired...

we're dog siting and it's interfering with my sleeping patterns....

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

another day....

another rejection...

nobody likes me everybody hates me i'm gonna eat some worms....

i'm okay with this one though. really. i promise....

Monday, July 02, 2007

it has come to my attention

that planters has discontinued the cheezball. i, for one, think this is a total travesty.

the world as i knew it is no longer the same. the days of sitting in the car in traffic at the riverport/umb/verison amitheater traffic afer a concert at midnight eating an entire canister of cheezballs are no longer an option.

and what about the future generations? poor nina will never know the joy of a cheezball canister binge! isn't that sad?? doesn't it make you want to cry?

awful. totally awful. there isn't even a word awful enough to properly relay to you all just how awful of an issue this is.

i say we all BAND TOGETHER!

DEMAND THE RETURN OF THE CHEEZEBALL! Don't eat a single planters product until the Cheezball is returned to the shelf! eat those emerald nuts or whatever. no more mr. peanut!

here is the contact screen from the planters webpage. send them nasty notes!

the CHEEZBALL SHALL PREVAIL!!!