Throwing Rocks

Helloooo peeps! 

I know, I know….it’s been entirely too long since I updated my journal and I honestly don’t have any excuse except to say that I’ve been tremendously lazy.  Anyway, I’m hoping to be a bit more proactive in keeping up with it in the future.

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

Here are the five cancanlaughs  suggested to me:

( 1. General Hospital )


( 2. Writing )

( 3. Music )

( 4. Friendship )

( 5. Lost )

Ok so besides the fact that I totally LOVED Chuck and Blair tonight on Gossip Girl. I can't even begin to profess how epically awesome next week's episode looks.  I mean so.friggin.awesome.

Who's with me on that?

OK, just had to jot a quick post to say

HOLY SH*T

That first scene tonight was yikes!

(also....is that Chris Isaac singing the theme song?  I've been meaning to ask.)

So I’m going to go out on a limb and trying something different in the coming months.  I’m going to participate in NaNoWrimo.  What is NaNo you ask?  It’s the National Novel Writing Month challenge.  In it writers have 30 days to write a 50K word novel. 

That means that I’ll have to write approximately 1600 words a day y’all!  Egads….what a challenge…..but one that I’m willing to take.  The good thing is that the challenge encourages writers to just write, not edit and not obsess.  I’m hopeful that it will help me with the latter so that I can bang out some good stuff then go back and concentrate on the finer details later.

Wish me luck!

Hi flist! :)

Long time no talk!!  Well at least I've been good about commenting on your posts anyway.  Well most of the time, LOL.

Just a quick drop to say hey and to gush about the goodness of Fringe.

Dude, Joshua Jackson (aka - Pacey Whitter) alone makes this show watchable.  He's grown into one fine lookin' man.  Having said that the show itself is also very good.  I know many of you are x-file fans -- Fringe is reminiscent of that.  I don't think it's AS good as X-files but good enough AND it has JJ eye-candy so that makes it worth the watch :)

I would have used a JJ icon (as there were so many yummy pretty ones) but honestly....how could I pass up two of the characters eating chinese food with a cow?  I mean, come on!!

Flove to all!

To all the GG/Chuck Bass lovers on my flist....



Who here can't wait for season two to see the badness/hotness?

If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

In follow-up on my last post about Bones….

Romance is blooming! 

1.    Brennan and Hodgins were buried alive and he admits he loves Angela
2.    Boothe running to save Brennan in the mine and then dragging her out of the sand – such awesomeness
3.    Angela offering to allow a very emotional Hodgins to stay the night with her so he wasn’t afraid – amazing!!

Such a great episode.  My favorite so far.  Go figure….I like me some angst. ☺

O.M.G.

So I subscribe to like a milliondy billiondy blogs (mainly for professional development and keeping current with different things) and one of them had a post today that lead to another blog they thought was awesome.

Being experimental I thought I’d check it out, looks cute enough.  So I went to Geeks Dream Girl and perused around.  Can I say HYSTERICAL!!  Start by checking out the Dreamgirl’s “about” page.  She’s fabulously nerdish – in a just like me way. 

On top of it all, she’s about spreading the love for the geek.  She offers online dating advice!  I don’t know why, I just found this girl so genuine and funny and wanted to share, check her out.

Ok….so I’ve got an addiction.  It’s not your typical addition…..drugs, alcohol, sex, the Internet (ok well maybe the Internet, but I’m among many friends there).  Nope….none of that….

**stands proudly**

Hi my name is Michelle and I’m addicted to TV shows on DVD. 

Hi ho, flist….checking in to give and update and see how you all are ☺

Big thanks to all who contacted me about my dad – he did really well in his surgery and is working it in the hospital as he continues to progress.  Still unsure if he’ll go to a rehab when released or not but he’s doing good so we’ll take it!

Still working on the health thing and don’t want to jinx it by saying anything positive, LOL.  I’ll just leave it at that.

I’ve been offered a new job – it’s a development position (so I get to work on the web all day!) that is like ten minutes from my house instead of an hour.  They matched my salary too!  Even better?  They want me to start August 1st so I get SIX WEEKS off!!  This makes me happy in a myriad of ways, not the least of which is it giving me a chance to really get back on track with the doctors and such.

You win some, you lose some – I don’t know why or what I’ve done but it seems I’ve lost a couple of friends this month. It makes me very sad and it certainly hurts my feelings, particularly since there has been no indication as to what caused the rift.  But the good news is that I’ve gained some really great friends over the course of the past couple months as well.  I feel loved and supported and understood during a time of great anxiety and difficulty so I’ll focus on that.

I’m sporting my new positive attitude.  Does it look pretty on me?

Hugs to all!  You’re the best ☺

Just got off the phone with my dad a bit ago and was glad to get the chance to talk to him.  Not only did I want to pay tribute to him on Father’s Day but tomorrow is the big day.  He’s having his surgery.

For those that may not know he fell and broke his neck a few weeks ago.  Like literally broke his neck.  It’s a long harrowing story (as most things like this are) but needless to say he’s been in a brace since the accident and hasn’t been able to really move without a walker, can’t drive, and has to sleep in a chair because laying flat is impossible.  

Anyway, he got into one of the best neurosurgeons in his area and the man is a hero….scheduled his surgery right away.  Once done he’ll be in the hospital for who knows how long – it all depends on when the doctors can get him mobile at a proficiency they are comfortable with – so getting in this quick is a good thing.

So, tomorrow is the big day.  My sister flew down this morning so she could be with my mom and help out during and after.  I wish it could be me, it’s been six months now since I’ve seen her and my dad and I really would have liked to have seen him before tomorrow.  I can’t help but get nervous, he’s healthy but it’s major surgery and he’s overweight.  But I’m not going to go there.

So in honor of today I send a giant heaping batch of good karma and positive vibes to my dad….he’s a great guy who’s done so much for his kids.  Love you daddy!

What’s a girl to do when she’s sitting on her ass all day long every day for weeks on end you ask?  She binges out on technology tools.  

I’ve been on the couch with my laptop resting on my knees surfing around aimlessly this whole time and finally this last week I went nutty!  I started learning more about “social media” – all sorts of cool tools.


The most positive outcome of all this technology splurging I’ve done?  I’ve decided I need to get back in the techno-game.  It used to be the primary focus of my career long ago, before I got into education.  I miss the creativity of design and the Internet.  So I’m all about career change….I’m all about brushing up those dusty skills I let diminish for the more academic pursuits.  I’m all about making changes that make me happy so that I can be more stress-free (at my doctor’s advice, LOL).

Morning flist!  How is everyone?

You’ll all be happy to know that as of today I’m trying to bolster my positivity and optimism since lately I’ve been such a negative nelly the past few weeks!  LOL

I saw this quote on a blog I was reading and it just gave me such a tingly feeling.  Thought I would share….

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.  Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.  Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.  And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.  They somehow already know what you truly want to become.  Everything else is secondary.”   -- Steve Jobs

Dude knows his shtuff eh?  Despite the fact that he’s a power monger and captain of industry I think that was a pretty enlightened and inspiring thing to say.  

Said it before….tingly feeling.

I feel a bit accomplished today. 

It's about 10:30 am and I've actually mustered up enough stamina to have already gone to Target.  My first official outing (minus hospital and doctors office visits, ten minute stops at the grocery store for food and the Mobile mart for water bottles) in like EVER!  I mean at least a month here guys.  Of course now I'm completely exhausted and have taken to the couch for the rest of the day, but I went out!!  O.M.G.

The purpose of my endeavor was of course to buy some cheap clothes to wear around on the weekends.  I've lost 40 pounds you see and I don't fit into anything I own any more so it was essential given that I need to be able to go out in public at some point in something other than my pajamas (they are drawstring and as such the only thing that allow me to keep something on my body, LOL). 

Can I get a woo hoo for being down to a size 10!  A SIZE FRIGGIN' TEN!!  It's been, like TEN YEARS since I was that size.  Oh and I'm a medium up top.  UGH, if there was going to be a silver lining to the continued hideousness it's got to be that.  Right?  I may be in pain, I may be exhausted, I may be crabby and have a shit immune system....but damn it I may come out of it on the other side with the body I had when I was in college.

Oh!  And I actually wrote and posted an update today.  What is the world coming to?

Hope you flisters are having a good weekend :)

Wanted to jump in for a quick update.  Check out the cuts :)



On a more positive fangrly moment here is some good GG scoop (well for those who love Blair/Chuck like me)


Love ya flist!

Morning Flist!

I’m surrounded by your love and I can’t even properly express in words, visuals or actions how much I adore you all!  At the very least, I wrap you all in a big fat virtual hug.

Today is day two of my bubb-i-fied existence.  I’ve been hanging out with laptop, puppy dog, television and my cross-stitch.  I know, most of you don’t realize that I’m old before my time enough to do needlepoint but it’s quite relaxing – it is not something that allows for multitasking.  I haven’t been doing much writing as my level of creativity isn’t quite where it should be for such things I don’t think.  I have some critiques to do for my writing class so maybe that will get things going.  **shrugs**

I love y’all!


(oh -- and for those of you who watch, tonight is the season finale of The Tudors.  Anne meets up with the Executioner of Calais.  eek!)

Today was not a the best day.   Why you ask?  Because today I found out I’m officially relegated to a bubble.  No, no….not the hermetically sealed kind of bubble….YET….but a bubble none the less.

I’m gonna sob behind the cut to save those of you who are currently in a happy place.


Love you flist!

So it’s been awhile again flist, but here I am in all my emotionally depressed glory, to fill you in on what’s going on.  I’m likely going to ramble long windedly so apologies before hand for it all.  I hope you are all well and that life is treating you kindly. ☺

Morning Flist

**waves**

Wanted to first thank you guys for your lovely well wishes.  The pneumonia is indeed kicking my ass but it was so lovely to have everyone think of me.  You all are the best, truly!

Second wanted to link you up to a new journal I just opened up.  I've started writing original fiction and thought a spot dedicated specifically to that would be better than cluttering this account up.  Feel free to browse on over to writingartist to check it out if you want.  Full chapters will be for friends only, but teasers are open for anyone who wants to decide to friend or not.

I hope to be a better LJ'er in coming months.  Perhaps post a bit more than I have been.  Keep y'all updated on things in general and of course our mutual admiration for fangirling! LOL

**smooches**