For the very first time, the background on my gmail account is showing that it's sunny out today. Which is a really odd thing considering that it's sunny here somewhere around 300 days a year ...

Okay, so this is like 2 week old news, but I really was planning on posting it sooner. I swear lol.

Being the nerd I am (and I'm sure that most of you reading this are too) I went and saw Half-Blood Prince at the midnight premier. It was crazy, you know? At just the theater I went to (which admittedly, I think is the biggest/best in town) between 11:59 and 12:30 there were THIRTEEN theaters playing the movie. That's quite a few thousand nerds who all saw that movie at once in just that one building. I wonder how many people actually went and saw the movie that night. Jeezy.

I was going to make a Gryffindor scarf since I finally learned how to crochet last year (after countless attempts at learning from multiple people over the years lol) and I'm actually pretty good at it now. I didn't think of it till too late though (like the night before hah), and even as good as I am at it now, well I still can't make a f-ing scarf in 5 hours - I got two stripes done before I gave up lol. But I did wear my awesome Gryffindor shirt that I bought a couple years ago. It was while I was wearing this shirt out in public - not at the theater around all the crazy costumes and other decked out fans - that I made a discovery about myself. So I'm kind of a nerd, and as much as I almost hate to admit it to the world, I love Twilight (mostly hah) and have been spending a ridiculous amount of time in that fandom over the last few months. The only 2 fandoms I've ever REALLY gotten into are Twilight and Harry Potter. So that night it occurred to me that while I was completely fine sporting my Harry Potter shirt for the world to see, well, I wouldn't be caught dead in a Twilight shirt. Even in the private of my own home. I think tha's pretty amusing.

But anyway, back on target. The movie experience.

Overall I thought the movie was really good. In all honesty I enjoyed it much better than I remember enjoying any of the previous five. But I'm not entirely sure of the reason for this. I dunno if it's simply because the movie was actually better - or, what I think is more likely, since it's been 2 years since I've read the book I'm not as sharp on the details so I wasn't nitpicking the whole thing. I just sat back and let myself enjoy a good old Harry Potter experience for the first time in years. I really do miss Harry Potter. A lot.  I actually just managed to finally finish reading Sorcerer's Stone last weekend (after being halfway through it for 6 months), and hopefully I'll be able to finish rereading the series this year. I'd really like to get back into fandom. *sigh*

There were two notable things that happened with the crowd that night that amused me and I want to share with you, dear interwebs. (And actually the entire reasong I'm posting this now long winded entry). Both of these happened before the movie started.

1) When they were doing that whole pre-preview random junk on the screen, someone randomly yells "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" a la Harry at the end of PoA. The entire theater laughed and burst into applause. It was hilarious.

2)After the previews, in that moment of silence before the beginning credits started some girl yells "When I say Harry, you say Potter!" Only to be immediately cut off while yelling her first "Harry!" by someone else yelling "SHUT UP!" ...  which the entire theater applauded. THAT was gold. I'm sure that first girl was angry/mortified lol. I got a cramp from laughing.

Anyway. That's my two cents for the moment. Now I should really go study for the statistics test that I have in 4 hours *sighs again* Summer school is both a blessing and a curse I tell you.

I haven't been drawing much in the last couple years, mostly due to college I'm sure. But I've been posting my art even less. So here now, I give to you some works from the last 2 years that never made it past the pages of my sketch book. They're mostly just crappy pencil doodles, but I still figured I'd share
( pics behind here )

 

( 'Without literature my life would be miserable.' - Naguib Mahfouz )

Sorry for the spam, I just needed a place to put this ^^

I've just decided that my goal for the year, besides the obvious one of getting into nursing school for January, is to read at least one book a week..

Considering that it is now the 11th week of the year, and I have only read 5 books, this may prove to be a bit difficult. but then on the other hand, I've read all 5 of those books in the last 7 days, so perhaps maybe not.
( Books of 2009 )

It's not a very impressive list so far, mostly young adult stuff. But well, I already read half of Emma in January, so when I finish reading that it'll add a little more character to my list. Maybe I'll make that my next project. I also plan on rereading the whole Harry Potter series. Already started it actually, but I'm only about halfway through Sorcerer's Stone and I've read it so many time already that my mind just wanders so it's kinda difficult to keep reading. I imagine it will be like that until I get to Goblet of Fire.

I can tell that it's late and I've been doing too much reading. Also that I've been spending too much time on the internet.

I just read the word 'locates' as 'lolcats'

Twice.

Okay, so as promised, here is some art.

They're not anything special, just a couple of pencil sketches, but I like them and it's nice to have something to post after such an artistic dry spell. It's nice to even have anything finished hah.

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Are any of you going to be going to Azkatraz? I'm kind of interested in it now but I'd like to see if any of you that I know will actually be there :)

( This is much longer than I intended it to be when I started )

TL;DR version.

Hello livejournal, I'm back.

Some of you have changed your names, if you are one of these people I would really appreciate a comment letting me know who you are. Thanks a bunch :)

Art soon

Friends! I need your help!

Ok well I suppose it's not really help, but more advice and recommendations.

I just got a Sony Reader for my birthday, and its super cool. Most books you have to buy, but they seem to be about the same price as their paperback counterparts so it's cool I suppose.

However, with the registration of my Reader I get 100 free classics from the eBook store. And the offer is only good until the beginning of May. I can't for the life of me think of 100 classics that I might want to read one day, so this is where you all come in.

Recommend your favorite classics to me please :)

I return from a ridiculously long break bearing art!

( Meghan )

THINGS I DISLIKE TODAY:
-I'm at school at 830 am
-My school's ridiculous parking lot
-The stupid rodeo that is making that ridiculous parking lot even more ridiculous
-The fact that I didn't sleep last night
-Studying for finals
-My ex-boyfriend and his silly girlfriend
-The lady at the table next to mine who won't stop clearing her throat every few seconds

THINGS I LIKE TODAY:
-The weather. It's cold, but not too cold and I get to wear layers
-My hair - it's being cooperative for once
-Cheerios
-Old attempted Harry Potter fanfiction that I found in an old notebook
-Free software trials
-Caffeine
-Finally being able to wear my glasses again
-My statistics class - for being so easy it's almost stupid
-The fact that the semester is over in a week

My sister in law [well don't think she's technically my sister in law, she is my brother in law's sister and I don't think that actually counts as anything... whatever] she gave me an Adderall so I could stay up late tonight and study for my anatomy test tomorrow. Well its working very well, I'm not tired at all.

Except that I keep getting distracted by photos and myspace and dumb stuff like that. And well now livejournal is distracting too. Why does livejournal say that livejournal is spelled wrong? that's dumb.

I've still got like 5 hrs before the test. Thats enough time to read 3 chapters right?

OMG ASHLEY YOU FAIL



But also b/c of all the crap in my life I'm definitely falling back into internet escapism a lot more in the last few weeks. So I'll probably be much more active on livejournal for a while. I'll definitely have to weed out my flist to see what I even still want to read haha, I haven't been active on livejournal in like a year and a half. I'm sure theres probably some Harry Potter crap that I really won't care about as much anymore. Don't get me wrong, HP is still great, but I'm just not as into it as I was before book 7 - and though since I haven't been around much I can be sure about this, but I'd imagine that the fandom has probably died down a bit in the last year anyway.

So whats been going on dear flist? Anything interesting on the great interwebs? Anything fun and exciting [or anything at all I guess] been going on in your lives? Any interesting websites, fanfiction, new fandoms, new anything that I should be aware of? Anything of interest IRL like books or movies? I'm bored w/ my life lol.

I really do miss livejournal so much D:

ok, I haven't been doing much art for the last year or so ... I just simply haven't had time. But I drew and colored this about a month ago, so i figured I'd share.

I have a few sketches and such of other stuff I've done in the past few months, so I might get around to scanning them sometime soon. Don't hold your breath though.

I have been keeping a journal for the last 9 years. I just started journal number 10 a couple days ago. Heres some statistics on my writing habits:

Number of Journals - 10
Pages written - 2038
Over - 2893 - days

Average pages per day for the whole time - 0.7
for the last year -1.4
last 3 weeks - 7.1

I think I tend to write more when I'm upset hahaha

Hello livejournal land.

So, tonight I went and got my nape pierced. Its awesome. I've wanted this piercing since I was like 13.  Its awesome too 'cause it doesn't hurt at all right now. But considering that I only got it 2 hours ago, I'm sure it will later. A lot. But my friend said that when she got hers done it hurt a lot, but it didn't really bother me at all - it basically just pinched a little. That brings me up to a grand total of 10 piercings now - 4 in each ear, my belly button, and now this. And my hair has has just finally grown out enough since I hacked it all off last year that you can actually see my ear piercings now.

Sorry if the pics a bit big ... I don't know how to resize it without the program I usually use and I haven't had time to put it on my new computer yet. And my new computer haha is an hp tablet notebook and is quite awesome. I just finally got it like 3 weeks ago. I'm in love with it

Also, I've decided that I'm moving this summer. I'm probably going to move to Rochester NY where I have some family, but I may go somewhere else. I want to go to nursing school, and that I can do anywhere. Its kinda odd though 'cause my boyfriend wants to go with me. Now, we've only been dating 4 months or so, so it kinda weirds me out a bit. It seems really sudden. But he was my best friend for ages before we started dating so I dunno. We've been getting into a lot of dumb fights lately so I'm just sort of hesitant about the whole thing. I don't want to just leave him though you know? I figure though, that if I move where I want to and he comes with me and for some reason we break up - I'm still by family and I'm where I wanted to be, its not like I'm moving for him.

Anyway, I'm sleepy so I'm going to go take a nap or something.

Hello all

Sorry I haven't been around forever, I've had a lot of stuff going on in my life in the last few months.

I don't want to go into all the details about it right now, but I need your help for something.

Holy crap guys.

HI

I just realized that I havent posted in over three months - thats crazy.

I've had a lot of crap going on this year - some really good, some really fucking terrible thats kept me away from the internet. Last semester was all kinds of crazy - but I passed everything yay. This semester I am taking:

Eng102 - because I massivly put it off for 2 years lol
Womans Studies - because it totally counts as 2 classes at once
Animal Behavior
and Mammalogy

They're super awesome,  but yet again keeping me busy. But at least this sememster so far I don't really have any silly boy to keep me occupied - not that I'd mind one or anything lol

I did a lot of cool hiking and just hanging out with friends this summer. You can go see pics over on my myspace. I've actually kind of become obsessed with taking pictures lately. I'll put that down to dating a photography major for a while though.

I have a little bit of art done that I'll try to post here soon - as soon as I get off my lazy ass and scan it.

Anyway, what have you guys been up to? I miss you all terribly, and I shall try to be around more often.

So Flavor Flav came into the Applebee's I work at today. I was not impressed. Honestly, before he showed up I had no effing clue who he was. Everyone was like "OMG" and such, but I didn't care. I wanted to tell him to move his damn Escalade from my ToGo parking spot as he was not placing a ToGo order.  Wayne Brady was in last week, and that was cooler.

Also - Michael Jackson made an appearance at the Childrens Museam here in Vegas today (I found out from a friend who works there) I also find that more interesting than Flavor Flav

Anyway. Not much going on here. I've been spending most of my time at work or hanging out w/ friends (as I keep getting comments about it when I actually am home, things like "Oh yeah, thats what you look like, I almost forgot" silly family) We've gone hiking a lot and I have a crap load of pictures I might get around to posting a few of them.

I like summer xD

My friend Karen told me that Midol actually works awesome like its supposed to, so I decided to buy some and give it a shot. So far it seems to be working just fine. I decided to read the box, just you know, wondering what was in it that made it so special. Basically its just Excedrin with a diuretic, but whatever.

However on my little exploration of the box, I come across this lovely detail.

"Ask a Doctor before use if you have:
-Difficulyt in urination due to enlargement of the prostate gland."

Um... what? This is on Midol. I suppose theres really nothing in it that men can't take - but really, how many men out there are taking Midol to releave their aches and pains?

Just weird, and I thought I'd share