I watched this movie forever ago, when I was a little kid. Last night D decided to watch it on Netflix streaming, and I was cracking up. They need to make fun movies like this, where gods appear with harp music playing, and giant statues come to life and chase people down for stealing their gold. It was nice to take a break from the wedding planning last night and just watch a silly movie.

I’m amazed at how much stuff there is to do before getting married. I knew I had to reserve the venue, get the cake, photographer, stuff like that. I didn’t realize it would be a good idea to get wedding insurance quotes in addition to all the other stuff. But I will feel better if I have some insurance, since who knows what could happen, and this wedding crap is a bit cha-ching!

Back to the movie-I won’t say I was riveted, but it was fun to watch. A good ol’ classic, with Greek Mythology and men running around in skirts and no shirts. A definite B movie in my book, for a little weeknight entertainment.

With the wedding coming up, I’ve been thinking about having my teeth whitened. I’m thinking of trying the at home kits because they’d be cheaper than going to a NJ Cosmetic dentist to have them done professionally. Then I was watching an old episode of Friends. Remember the one where Ross bleaches his teeth and they get way too white? My favorite part is when Phoebe comes over to see Ross and he smiles and shows his ultra white teeth. She starts screaming, “Demon! Demon!” and runs away. So maybe I’ll try it now before it gets too close to the wedding. Otherwise I’ll be smiling about as much as Gwyneth Paltrow! Eeep.

The lastest episode of The Vampire Diaries was set with a 50s style theme because of the high school theme dance. Elena goes with both Stefan and Damon to try to keep the peace. I love her comeback to Damon when he asks her to dance. “I’d love to” she says and she turns to Stefan and they flit off, Stefan with a smug smile of victory on his face.
In this episode we learn that there is not one new vampire in town but three. The Salvatore brothers succeed in destroying one vampire who is out to kill Elena, but they are unaware of the other two.
Here’s where I’m confused. The sexy new teacher Alaric (who makes careers in teaching all the more appealing) knows the Salvatore brothers are vampires. He has a ring that he wears…but I still can’t figure out if he’s a vampire or not. Maybe I missed something in a previous episode.
We also learn that he used to be married to a girl named Isabelle, who was killed by Stefan. Isabelle just happens to be the name of Elena’s birth mother. Hmmm…
Here are the questions I have, hopefully to be answered in the next few episodes:
Is Alaric a vampire? Will he be staying on the show even though he’s just a guest star now? (pluhhhlease he’s way hotter than the others) Is Elena a descendant of Catherine’s? If so does that mean she could also be related to Stefan, as in their offspring? Or does that make this just way too much of a soap opera?
Despite it’s cheesiness, I can’t wait to watch the next episode!

This entire episode was so eerie to me because it hit so close to home. The theme was choosing your career or love. Yang was of course advocating surgery over love any day of the week. Grey said why can’t you have both? Throughout the episode we see a patient come in who is a singer, who might have his lung removed. He pleads with the doctors, saying he’d rather die than not be able to sing. He says it’s who he is.

Last night D and I had a deep discussion about his career dreams. He wants to join the Coast Guard, either through OCS to become an officer, or he’d even be willing to go enlisted. I was horrified, because when I said yes to his proposal, I never thought it would mean giving up my life as I knew it. So we talked and talked, and I felt so hurt, because I thought he was choosing his career over love. At the end of our discussion he said, “Don’t you see though? I would never say yes if you weren’t on board. I wouldn’t risk losing you. I would choose you over the career. That’s why we’re talking about this.”

Back to the show. Cristina tells Teddy she would trade Owen for surgery. She says she’s not going to apologize for choosing her gift over a man. Teddy does the right thing and tells Owen.

Shocking twist was for Izzie and Alex. I’ve been waiting for them to patch everything up, and instead Alex tells Izzie he’s happy she’s ok, and he’s happy she got a new job in Tacoma, but he wants her to go and not come back.

Owen confronts Cristina and tells it like it is. “You think nothing else matters. People matter, we do matter. You don’t get to toss me aside. I won’t let you.” They kiss, I cry. It was a good moment.

Meredith and Derek have conflict because he turns the chief in. She feels that he chose surgery over love.

So that brings me back to my life. I’ve been researching Coast Guard careers on my Acer Aspire and trying to figure out if this is something I can get on board with. I want to be like Meredith. I don’t want D to have to choose career or love. Even though he says he won’t choose career, I don’t want him to suffer. I just keep hoping there is a civilian alternative. We’ll just have to see…

This book gave me goosebumps from start to finish. Here’s what the back of the audio book case says about it:

My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.

All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don’t even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me.

Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won’t leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a “special home” for troubled teens. Yet the home isn’t what it seems. Don’t tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It’s up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House . . . before its skeletons come back to haunt me.

It’s the first book in the Darkest Power series, and I’m so happy there is more than one book! The first book leaves off on a cliffhanger that I won’t reveal. I will say that I can’t wait to ready what happens next.

The character development that Kelley Armstrong wrote helps you really visual each character. You can see Tori as the bratty teen who hates Chloe, when deep down it’s obvious she’s still jealous. You can almost see poor Derek’s  acne that Armstrong describes.
The scene that got to me the most was when Chloe gets trapped in the craw space. She’s tied up, with no lights, and all she can hear are the ghosts around her. Hopefully there is no asbestos in the crawl space either because on top of all her other problems, she’ll need a mesothelioma lawyer when she finally gets out. But the worst thing she does is in her panic, she accidentally summons two ghosts back into their human bodies. They crawl towards her and actually grab her legs. I think at one point I actually screamed out loud! It’s a vivid scene.

I give this book an A+ and I will definitely be checking out the next book in the series, The Awakening.

I may have mentioned it before, but I’m not very happy with my current career. I sort of fell into IT after college, and I’ve been wondering what else is out there for me. I spend my days sitting in front of a computer waiting for the phone to ring. It’s a very boring job.

With all of this free time on my hands, I’ve thought about getting an online degree. I’ve been thinking a lot about going back to school for teaching. I think I would be a great elementary school teacher. I love kids, and I love the idea of teaching multiple subjects. I found this website that offers an online teaching degree which would be perfect for me. I would be able to use all the free time I have during the day. I can’t afford to go back to school full time as a student so this is a great alternative. Also, WGU’s tuition is very reasonable, unlike the local University I contemplated going to. With the convenience of being online, I wouldn’t have to quit my job, so I could save up while I went to school. I’m really thinking about applying to WGU.

I give this dvd a D+. D and I couldn’t make it through the whole movie. We ended up turning it off right after the trio almost get eaten by alien creatures with two sets of teeth. I remember loving the Land of the Lost tv show, but this was nothing like I remembered. Will Ferrel was great in Anchorman, but since then his movies have gone way downhill. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, or maybe it’s because all of his characters are exactly the same. I think I’d rather watch a movie about how to make industrial handles over watching the Land of the Lost. I was looking forward to some laughs too, but Will just isn’t that funny anymore.

Last night’s Grey’s Anatomy/Private Practice crossover had me feeling sorry for Adison for the first time ever. Sure she’s an adulterous with loose morals, but she seems like she wants to change that. And here she was, getting excited about Mark Sloan and his proposal of moving to LA to be with her. I felt so bad for her when he says he’s sorry and that it was all just because he’s broken hearted over Little Grey. You can’t blame Adison for trying. Mark Sloan is so steamy he makes the furnace filter melt. But her friends did try to warn her, especially Sam.

I just hope the writers aren’t dumb enough to try to put Sam and Adison together. That would be wrong on so many counts. Don’t do it writers!!

The breakup between Cooper and Charlotte stunk. I can’t believe some of the horrible things he said to her! Charlotte is right-Cooper is an insensitive cold hearted jerk.

So back to Grey’s Anatomy, which I felt was sort of a lackluster episode. Anyone else agree? I was sad that Sloan and Little Grey broke up, but I do understand it to a point. Still, Lexie had no right to kiss Alex! I was so proud of Alex for saying he doesn’t really bet sex for surgery time, and I thought he was just going to go home and be a nice guy. Instead he makes out with Lexie, possibly more?

Yes, Izzie sucks for running out on their marriage, but you fix it. You don’t make out with Little Grey! Grrr. So much dysfunction in that place. I’m so glad I don’t work there!

I was pretty stunned by Cristina’s response to her cardio god when she said all she wants is Owen. “Take him!” I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but I was. That was probably the only storyline of Grey’s that I really enjoyed. It was good to see Cristina thriving again.

Did you catch the crossover? What did you think of it?

This was the best book I’ve read (listened to) in a long time. I once again found myself speeding up in traffic at the intense parts, and staying in my car after I arrived home, just to listen to another few minutes. Unwind by Neal Shusterman is a science fiction novel set after the second Civil War. Basically the second war was about pro lifers vs. prochoicers and ultimately it was decided that you couldn’t touch a pregnancy or a child until they were 12, and at that point you could have them “unwound” in which case all of their parts are harvested and used in organ donation. In this way, they stayed “alive” just in a divided state. How’s that for gruesome? So as children, you live in fear that if you don’t act right your parents will unwind you! Basically killing you but technically keeping you alive.

It’s a dark and twisty plot by far, but so riveting. Once again I had to watch myself in traffic because I would get so into the story I would accelerate during the suspenseful moments. I loved this book and I highly recommend reading or listening to the audio version. I won’t say more because that’s the beauty of this book. I knew absolutely nothing about it when I checked it out. I’m just glad we live in a world right now where Unwinding doesn’t occur. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it!