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A Whole Month Has Gone By!!
I can't believe it's been so long since I've written a post! But I have been busy, busy, busy!!
First of all, new TV shows are on and my DVR is smokin' because of all the recording I'm doing....but no, seriously, I have been hard at work getting jobs via iFreelance.com. One fell through, but was a learning experience and netted me like 20 samples I had done for them, so I posted them all on my blog! ;) (www.taylorink.blogspot.com) Plus I got half the fee they owed me, so not a total loss, but like I said, a real learning experience!!
We have decided on Morgan Amira Taylor. Amira is Arabic for "Rich, cultivated princess." :) One can hope. Watch, she'll be a dirty-kneed tomboy, but oh well! I still think it's pretty!!
I am 30 weeks today,(only 10 weeks left!!!) but if someone else tells me I look like I could go any day, I will take to kicking shins....cuz, you know, I can't do any other damage with this big damn belly in the way!! Geeez, a girl gets a little busy, has a few weeks of eating some extra stuff she wouldn't normally eat and suddenly when I wear orange, I look like I'm holding a pumpkin. True story. A neighbor saw me in jeans and an orange tank with a brown sweater and said, "Holy crap! I thought you were holding a pumpkin!! You could put triangles on your boobs and go as a jack o'lantern for Halloween in that shirt!!" I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry! This from my best friend's kids' stepmother. Never liked that bitch anyway. She.....she.....well, even now, I cannot think of a good comeback. Except that I know my weight will be gone within the next 12 months. Can she say the same thing? hmmmmm??
You don't even want to know what not one, but two people said to me at Great Clips....well, ok, you probably do, but I'm not gonna share because then I'll start crying. People are so rude. And I've never met so many "blurters" in my life----is there a disconnect between your brain and your mouth?!! Freaken A!! Get some manners people!! It's not innocent teasing, people have said some really rude stuff! And I'm NOT FAT!!!! I've SEEN fat people bigger than I am while I'm pregnant for God's sake!!!
ok. feel a little better now. didn't realize how much that was bothering me! moving on!
I've been working on some illustrations for a woman who is doing a website of Create a Cards. I am doing a pilot, a fireman, and a train engineer. You can order MY ART (how freaken cool is that?!) on your children's invitations either as-is or you will be able to add your own child's head to the picture! :) Now, I haven't heard from her since Tuesday afternoon, which has not been like her throughout our business relationship, and I'm getting anxious, because the deadline is, well, today, and she has some approvals to do yet....trying to stay positive. Hope everything still goes through as it's supposed to!!
And finally, I start school on Monday. Just got into the Art Institute of Pittsburgh--Online. I've never done online classes, but I'll be pursuing my Associates in Graphic Design. (I didn't feel like all the rigmarole of doing another Bachelor's!) I'll start out part-time, which is 1 class a quarter (6 weeks) and then in a the spring, when Morgan's a bit older, move on to 2 classes a quarter. 2 quarters to a normal college semester, so I could feasibly finish 4-6 classes in a 16-18 week period! I should be done in 2 years. If I push it, maybe less!! I am muy frustrated by Photoshop and know I could get lots more freelance jobs if I had some more software knowledge under my belt!! This will teach me Photoshop and Illustrator at the least. There's a whole list of Adobe products I'll be learning---yay!!! :)
Top Ten Ways I Hate Waking Up:
1. Ian shrieking about something over the monitor. Usually starts with a whine and works it's way quickly to a high pitched shriek. More annoying: rushing in to find he's mouth-opened asleep. Looks peaceful. Yay.
2. My alarm, buzzing so hard it's almost dancing off the night stand.
3. My husband's freight train snoring. Which often continues even when I've nudged him several times, or worse yet, I get a belligerent response when I finally hiss at him, he's like, "what the hell?! why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?!" Yeah, I could say the same thing!
4. Feeling someone staring at me and when I open my eyes one of my children is standing beside the bed....naked. Followed by the words, "Mom, I peed my bed."
5. Similarly being poked or prodded in uncomfortable places, like my eye, by a child....who's naked.
6. My obnoxious cat, crying piteously, but loudly and insistently....at 3am.
7. Cold and hanging off the edge of the bed because my husband is dreaming of being in a king size bed by himself apparently.
8. By my dog Trinity's cold nose on any exposed skin followed by high pitched whining.
9. My fire alarm, which, when the batteries are low, begins to chirp this high pitched chirp followed by a melodious female voice saying, "low...battery." Chirp! ( I cannot stand either high pitched noises or repetitive noises....I know, it's like auditory intolerance!)
10. Disoriented and still tired, before I realize the reason I'm awake is because I have to pee and therefore exit my warm bed.
New and Streamlined...
Well, sorta! :)
I'm trying to clean out the clutter---my nesting is now extending to my blogs!! I've shortened my links and blog list and added my moving iFreelance.com portfolio down the bottom there--pretty cool, right? riiiiiggghhttt? ;) If you click on it, it takes you to the website, right to my portfolio.
Ok, checking the To Do List....need to start dinner, vacuum 1st and 2nd floors, clean out a few closets, check on laundry in dryer, paint the foyer......sigh. There just aren't enough hours in the day!
True Blood: Queertastic? or Finally Getting Better?
I love the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries, the books that is. From the opening credits, I knew that True Blood was not going to be that series on the screen.
First of all, the music didn't go at all with what I thought would be the soundtrack for Sookie. And the images they used in the opening credits were really disturbing the first time I saw them (it's right up there with the Ghost Whisperer and Medium's opening credits, both of which I consistently fast forward through!).
Here are my thoughts about the show:
1. Anna Paquin doesn't seem to have a grip on the character of Sookie. She's supposed to be tough and practical and stubborn and have a bit of a temper. She smiles when she's uncomfortable. Instead, Anna smiles inanely all the time without that explanation. It makes her look like she's a terrible actress; lucky for her, I've read the books and know what that's all about! Also, she worries a lot about money in the books and one of the reasons she agrees to some of the dumb set-ups with the vampires is that they might be paying her for her telepathic time; not even mentioned in the series.
2. The vampires look like they have baby powder on. Fix that. Immediately.
3. The actor playing the Viking vampire, Eric Northman, is Alexander Skarsgard. Originally, not liking him so much for the part; I didn't think he was attractive enough, but now that they got rid of that craptastic hair and cut it short (that comes from being married to a military man I guess!) I am liking him more and more this season. He's a character you love to hate.
4. Bill. Bill Bill Bill. Where do I start? In the books, he is reclusive, dark, edgy, he loves Sookie but is unsure how to go about telling her and showing her....consequently, he ends up doing stupid possessive things and is totally uncommunicative, getting himself further into trouble with her. Typical male, but with fangs. But in the show, he's all mushy and almost comically over-possessive of her. Not in a serious, growly, I'm going to rip your head off type of "she's mine!" but in a poke you in the shoulder, hey dude, stay away from my girl kind of way. And his hair....sigh....someone needs to talk to hair and make-up over there for God's sake! STAY AWAY FROM THE FLATIRON people!! And use a foundation 2 shades lighter instead of the clown make-up!! Geesh. They need a Mary Kay rep over there something fierce!
5. Ok, Mr. Ball, listen carefully as I say this: We've had enough of the damn maenad storyline already!! I sigh and reach for the remote every time I see Mary Ann's face!! I am always thisclose fast forwarding through those parts. Sookie is the main character, like Angela Lansbury was on Murder She Wrote!! You really DON'T need to over-develope those subplots man! The one episode, I swear, I saw Anna Paquin for like 15 minutes out of the whole hour!! and with her psychic ability, well, I just think they should focus more on her and could've used a voice-over method with her voice to give us more insight into her character. Especially since none of the subplots involve her!! Even that would be better--to have her in on Tara's difficulties with Mary Ann as another thing for her to worry about. Draw her in, make her the hub of the wheel, not one of the spokes! And all the attention to Jason, who is such a complete moron, is enough to make me grind my teeth. I hated that storyline with the Church of the Sun and am sooooo glad it's over!!
6. Enough with the orgies already!! For the love of God man! You CAN over-do it! It would've been so much more suspenseful to have the townspeople just disappearing into the wood and waking up weird places the next day. It would've been very Lost-like, but to have the whole town blacking out and nobody knowing why? THAT would've been cool! and when Sam gets dragged into the clearing, just having him be like, "What the hell?!!" and then ending the episode, THAT would've been suspenseful. But no, we had to have several panoramic views of the orgy in progress. Just because it's HBO and you can show full nudity doesn't mean 50% of the show needs to be nude. Newcomers may be confused, thinking it's about a nudist camp of vampires. Enough already!! And need I mention the bloody sex scene with Bill and Lorena?....hmmm, I didn't think so!
7. My favorite characters are Tara, LaFayette, Eric and Pam. Although lately, Pam is nowhere to be seen. And still, they should be seen as friends of Sookie whose subplots are integrated with her life in some way, not separately evolving storylines, in my opinion. And poor Eric---what was with the highlight foils in his hair and the cape, like he'd just leapt from a hairdresser's chair in order to chow down on a human in an abrupt blood munchy state?? Totally emasculated him. And I called it when I said they were going to have his hair go bad and use that as an excuse for getting his hair cut. Like that needed to be written in! He's a 2000 year old vampire people!! He can certainly cut his hair on a whim with no explanation needed!!
8. Can we please fix the love scenes with Sookie and Bill. They are downright hokey for God's sake!! Ms. Harris wrote them so much better! Quick screwing with a good thing and just expand ever so gently on the original, ok? Face it, Mr. Ball, you're a guy. You don't know how to write romantic scenes unless your middle is Nicholas Sparks. Which I don't think it is!
9. Get Vin Diesel For Quinn. I demand it.
10. Finally, I have to grudgingly admit that the show is finally, midway through season 2, getting better. It was like watching a B movie train wreck the first season, but I loved the books and the characters so, I couldn't seem to tear myself away if that was the only way I could see them on the screen...Even if it did make me wince and vow at the end of every episode that I wasn't going to watch it anymore! But I have hope, Mr. Ball. Just quit trying to make it into something else. Tweak the mood and get it right! Focus more on Sookie. Drop the maenad. And get Vin Diesel for Quinn. Oh, did I say that already? :)
For more info on True Blood, one of the best places to go of course is the show's website:
True Blood on HBO.
Sonogram Todaaaaayy!!
IT'S A GIRL!!!! :) My baby intuition/radar was right on!! :)
You guys aren't helping me much with the middle name here! lol There's one vote for every name except Felice! haha
So we are super-psyched and ready to FINALLY start getting ready for baby! :)
So Ian tells me: "Mom, Morgan is NOT a girl's name! That's a boy name! We can't name her that!!" lol Not sure where he got that idea, but he wasn't budging and was getting quite annoyed with me!
Gabe says (and thankfully, he can say the name Morgan!): Yeah!! I can't wait for Morgan to come out!!
And later: Mom, when Morgan comes, I will play with her! :)
What a good boy! lol ;)
Ok, Seriously?!?
I got the reactions all set up (and even customized the reactions to choose from!! so funny!!....guess you had to be there) and the stinkin things aren't showing up!! Frankly, I am too exhausted to be properly annoyed....you do it, ok? be annoyed FOR me....now see, it's after midnight and I am just getting slap-happy!
Will write about Harry Potter tomorrow....right after I verify a few things in the book, making sure my memory isn't faulty (I know, shocking! Like I don't remember things correctly!) but I think they left out a few things---a few key elements. We'll see! ;)
Until tomorrow!!
Useless entry!
As it was not immediately apparent whether or not my Reactions were added, I felt the need to add another entry, juuuuuust to see! Look down the bottom...is it there? You should be able to click on Interesting, Cool and something else....
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