Liked the second one better than the first.  Not as gross, for one thing.  Gross-out humor is not funny.  I don't laugh at body fluid jokes.

BUT...

there's a scene with Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," which had been ruined forever by the sex scene in "Watchmen," so now I can replace it with "Shrek."  That'll work.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY elfgirl13 ! How does $1,000 from HWSD sound?


Ganked from a Facebook friend:

Yesterday I went with Kelly for her to look into leasing...


An ALTIMA.



AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!



(That test track in the commercial is where Brother #1 works.  They came in to film some driving footage and the engineers had broken all of the test vehicles, so they borrowed my brother's car and got one from a dealership and filmed it.  His is the red one.)

EVERY FLINT BUICK PLANT WORKER ON MY MOTHER'S SIDE IS SPINNING IN THEIR GRAVES AS YOU READ THIS!!!

The first man I ever truly fell in love with broke up with me at the tail end of my extra senior semester of college.  He wasn't ready to get married, he said. 

Today, another ex (Parker) friended one of my alter-egos on Facebook, so I added him on my REAL Facebook page and thought to myself "yet another ex-boyfriend in the collection."

Facebook ex-boyfriends:  Parker, Ren, Sentinel Prime, my college stalker, my best male friend from high school, my 'husband' from middle school (it was a fun joke), the guy in high school who constantly bickered with me due to the unrecognized sexual tension between us (which we now joke about on occasion, mostly I hear about which women's been treating him like crap as of late), my first college boyfriend who ended up marrying the next girl he met, and even my unofficial 'boyfriend' from third grade.

I think it's because I just really don't like fighting with people, or I have a tough time letting go, but a lot of my exes are decent dudes, and if you've been with me longer than a month, with one glaringly evil Canadian exception (NOT WHEELJACK, we were never officla and I have dated more than one Canuck btw), usually we part on good terms or at least remain polite.

I haven't talked to the ex in question for almost a year, so I decided to see how he was doing.

http://www.goingson.be/2009/01/resume-cv.html

I was fine until I read his marital status. 

Then I was delighted!!!!

Honest to God, on every TF I own, I SWEAR I could not be happier for him.  He's a great, funny, sweet, amazing dude, and I was very lucky to have him when I did, especially after hearing the horror stories from other people regarding their college/post-college love lives.  His wife is lucky to have him now.

Congrats, Bert!

THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS GOING ON IN DETROIT THAN MY RECAP.



So instead of wasting my time recapping, I'm just going to post Wheeljack's report, which I haven't really read completely, because it's about as exciting as a bag of noodles:

( presented just as he wrote it, but my name changed to protect me )

Um, yeah...do they teach people how to count differently at McMaster U?  10-12?  There were 11, counting the people up front.  10-12 is a nice range, but this isn't condominium pricing, it's a body count.  I even posted pictures where anyone with two working optic nerves could SEE how many were there.

But whatever.  I'm not an engineer.  I was educated in the U.S.  (Troy High School, "where everyone counts," GVSU, "Our symbol used to be a pot leaf," and Walsh College "No one's ever heard of us but we'll get you a Master's Degree if you pay us enough.")

I am tempted to ask if Ashley had fun, since she had an "Oh GOD kill me now I'm so fucking bored" expression on her face.  I get the feeling it wouldn't be received politely.

I have never laughed so hard in my life.

The guy who did this said he did it for the tourism board.




For this one, he said the tourism board saw it and three of them moved out of town.



WE'RE NOT DETROIT!

There's a Coors Light commercial with Peter Cullen's voice in it.

I WANT.

Alexi Lalas shaved his beard.

GIMME.

Found a Movie Wheelie at Meijer. 

Got that.  :)

EDITED TO ADD:

The Coors commercial?  Naphtaliphoenix got it for me. 

NOW GET ME THIS!


10) Break

American Beast Wars toys by Hasbro/Kenner tended to stay within a predictable safety zone of animals that were both formidable and perhaps easier to design. Takara (Hasbro's Japanese counterpart), though, was more creative and dynamic with its exclusive toys for the Japanese market. There were giraffes, snakes, horses, rabbits and many other animals you would see in a zoo or on the farm but not in Hasbro's toyline. Break, from the totally awesome Beast Wars Neo series of toys in Japan, turns into a giant emperor penguin. It's certainly one of the last animals you'd expect to see waddling at you from across a battlefield, but as you're bent over in hysterics, he'll transform into his retro-G1 Targetmaster gun mode and incinerate you for laughing at his not-so-happy feet.

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/07/the_12_strangest_transformers_beast_wars_figures.php#more

IDW did WHAT?

Two more days 'til Polaris!!!


And check out the "other guests" part.  Cute!

I read this to Sister #3 and my brothers when we were very young and I enjoyed reading to people. (Yeah, I was that kid who'd read her entire Reading book WAY before the rest of the class.)


They loved how dramatic I got when I read: "I decided NOT to take my teddy bear." 


SIDE NOTE:  Bill Jones nicknamed Sister #3 "Ta-ta" because she carried her bear with her everywhere in Kindergarten.  (Hard to believe these people are now married, parents, GROWNUPS.)

We all have to give up the bear sooner or later.  Then again, don't our teddy bears take different forms, like cats, dogs, honeys?  The teddy bear I like to sleep with has read hair and an earring and has nicknamed me "The Furnace."  Purring cats work as well.  Sister #3 misses her dogs.

Anyway, brilliant book. 

Today was a continuation of the Tribute to Inconvenience that raged all last week at work.  Add to that the sorrow of loss and the worry over an ex and it's time to steal a meme from tactile_contact .


1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

( Red and silver merge in one memory )So Puddin'....rest easy. You were loved by a wonderful man and playfully taunted by a crazy penguin, but wherever you are, you don't hurt anymore.

I found out, through asking around, that Sentinel had a borrowable copy of "Step Brothers."  Alex had sworn up and down that it is great.  OK...

So I'm @ Sentinel's, making small talk as the movie downloads into my usb storage device, along with "Fanboys."  His kiity is still as cute as ever.  I give Hades lovins ( my word in high school for affection that Alex has since annexed) and coo. I've missed that cat.

Sentinel has gone back to match,com, but says the women are all really flaky.  I hope that he finds someone, but the evidence suggests that in order for him to be a great dad, he needs to be a great HUSBAND, and he was an ok boyfriend at best. 

Still, it was weird to be back there, but it didn't tear me up the same way seeing my landlord again did.

My beloved Sweetarts rope is back in a slightly different incarnation.  I'll take it!

NOM NOM NOM NOM.

"Can I watch?  I'll just sit there and quietly eat my pizza."

I usually have stupid nightmares.  Godzilla invades Poland and I'm there, I'm lost in New York City, Robin Williams is stalking me, etc.

But this was a bad one. 

Some guy in tried to kidnap me in the Best Buy parking lot.  I'm running and too scared to scream LOUDLY, so the noise is not really heard. Then his two friends in ski masks come up and tackle me.

Usually when I have these I force myself to dream up a solution, and for this one, I did, but I was VERY unsettled afterwards, because this isn't a goofy one I can laugh at and ignore, it's an improbable but still possible incident.  How many of us can really and truly say that they would be able to successfully defend ourselves against an attack?  Especially a surprise attack, with more than one assailant?

I texted Alex, assuming that he was asleep at 3am but that maybe tomorrow we'll talk about it or something.  (I fell asleep around seven pm and he'd called at nine and I'd been incoherent, mostly.)  He called me right back and talked to me until I felt better. I read a little and got to sleep around 5 and had a normal dream.  The phone call helped a lot.

And he says he's the lucky one in this relationship.