Birthday #25 was pretty good, if uneventful.

I did back into my sister’s car hard enough to shove the screw from her license plate through my back-end like a drill. Didn’t love that. To be fair in my defense, we never park it there and yes, I saw it…but completely blanked on it in the next second and slammed into it. IT SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN THERE!!!

Hm. I got a Hello Kitty cake, which is awesome. There’s a photo of it at my Facebook in the mobile section. I’d link to it but Fbook’s being a jerk.

Went and did some light shopping. Gave myself massive razor burn this morning on my legs which wasn’t fun.

Went out last night with the family to the Mexican restaurant and after a large margarita, was given a tequila shot from the staff for free which I drank like a sissy girl as I’ve never had straight tequila shots before. Was walking wobbly when leaving.

And I took tomorrow off so yay, 3 day weekend!

I borrowed the audiobook of this from the library when I heard about the movie. I liked the book alot, as did the co-workers who also listened to it. So my bud Kristine and I hit the theatres to see this since we’d both heard the book.

I’m still not sure if I liked it or not.

It was very well acted, especially by the 2 girls. I think Cameron Diaz is getting far to much praise for her role as I wasn’t awed by her but I’m not a Cameron fan remotely. She bugs me and looks like the Joker to me.

They changed so much from the book and that kind of stuff tends to bug me. So I’ll spoiler warn here for the both the book and the movie because I’m going to compare. Don’t click beyond here if you don’t want spoiled. (more…)

The first in the “Stephanie Plum” series. Stephanie Plum is a 30 year old woman who lost job 6 months ago is finally now down to almost nothing. She’s to trained for entry level, not trained enough for management and apparently unemployable. When she finally tells her parents (who she seems close to) 6 months after the fact they’re shocked but suggest she go apply for a filing position at her cousin’s Bond Collection agency.

That position’s filled but the secretary suggests she take a bounty position as one of their best bounty hunters is in the hospital and a dirty vice cop worth a huge bail has skipped town. It’s her job to track him down. Of course,  she has a history with said cop. Namely, losing her virginity to him one night in the bakery she worked in, behind the crepe counter when she was 18 or so.

This was a fun read/listen. I did a bit of both as I had bought this book and next at a used bookstore so I listened at work and then read some at night. I don’t love the reader, C.J. Critt. I’ve heard her read other stuff and her voice bugs me. She does a good Brooklyn accent but her natural speaking voice, which she uses for the main character, sounds gross.

Netflix claimed it was a detective thriller/murder mystery but honestly, it was yet another ghost story in the vein of The Grudge or Ringu. Ghost haunting a specific area and murdering the men who did her wrong – in this case raped and brought about her murder when someone covered it all up. And she got pregnant as result so she’s often in the company of a ghost child. Oh, and there’s even an email that gets sent to all of her victims before she does them in. Original.

There’s also the 2 detectives on the case whose names I don’t remember – and I just watched the movie if that tells you anything. The woman was raped at some point and we keep getting back story into that. The the man detective is her new partner who seems pretty klutzy according to the other detectives. I didn’t see it but since they told us, the viewer, that he is, I guess we’ll just have to believe them. He also ends up having secrets and backstorys of his own.

I was bored watching this. To similar to other recent Asian horror movies and to easy to guess. Blah. Maybe I’m just mad because I was supposed to be getting the new Friday the 13th but Netflix decided to skip down the list and send this treasure instead.

I’ll be upfront. I LOVED this movie. I think except for maybe 5 minutes, I was laughing the whole time. It has Sandra Bullock in it, whom I’ve loved since Speed, Ryan Reynolds who’s hilarious and not to painful to look at either.

Basic story, which you would have gotten from the trailers running right now: Margaret, played by Sandra Bullock, is a hard-ass, Canadian book editor living in New York. She let her visa slide so she’s going to be deported. She ropes her assistant, Andrew, played by Ryan Reynolds, into marrying her to stay in the country. To convince they deportation worker it’s a real marriage, they set off for Andrew’s home state of Alaska for his grandma’s birthday party where they plan on telling his family.

Honestly, Sandra plays the same character she pretty much always does. She’s pretty much the same woman she was in 2 Weeks Notice only change lawyer to book editor and up the bitchy scale about 45% (for the first bit of the movie anyway, until she starts to warm when she starts interacting with Andrew’s family). And Ryan Reynolds is in his character comfort zone too. But they both play the roles so well, I didn’t mind at all. And I’m someone bugged by that type of thing.

And the scene they show in the trailer where they’re both naked. Yeah, it’s a bit longer in actual movie. And the camera pans full out. And Ryan’s sweaty. Ok, I’m a perv but it was a nice scene for me.

Ick. What a shitty movie. I guess it kept me entertained but I spent most of the movie laughing at how lousy it was or snorting at least. And seriously, can Kerr Smith ever not play a douche-nozzle?

Even Jensen couldn’t save this for me, although he’s very pretty but essentially, he’s pretty much Dean right down to constantly dressing in layers. Oh, except he doesn’t have a baby brother who might go crazy demon evil anytime and he didn’t hunt any supernatural forces. Other than that, same.

I was kinda spoiled already after guessing the ending, only half serious to a co-worker who saw it in the theater.

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I was really excited about reading this one. I had been listening to the ones before it on audio, having never read any, and really enjoyed them. So maybe I would have enjoyed this if I’d had the reader reading it to me instead of having to physically read it.

So, this starts off with all the Supes coming out and revealing themselves. Not surprising, that’s been coming for a while. Right after, Sam’s informed that his mother, also a Supe, has been shot by her husband, his stepfather, after she revealed by transforming in front of him and scaring the crap out of him. I’d probably shoot someone too if they did that. Anyway, he takes off to take care of his mom leaving Sookie in charge of the bar. Oh, and Arlene quits after finding out what Sam is, since she’s become a…racist? towards supernatural creatures. I’m not really down with either plot.

The Sam plot felt shoved in just so Sookie could run the bar and find the body that turns up later. The Arlene plot has been building for a few books but at the same time, it feels like Harris just got sick of the character and instead of killing her, decided to completely change her personality so the readers would dislike her. So, she does something really bad in this book. She and her FotS cronies attempt to take out Sookie. Which again just kinda felt meh.

Oh and Sookie’s cheating sister in law Crystal ends up murdered and hung up on a cross in front of the bar. As often as people get killed and left at that bar, you can bet I wouldn’t go there. And Jason’s random new friend Mel had something to do with it and is gay and hot for Jason – both of which I guessed and aren’t very well hidden but of course Sookie’s the only one to know.

And there’s a Fairy war during which Claudine is killed off screen right after revealing she’s going to have a baby. I liked Claudine alot so that annoys me both because she’s killed and because it’s just mentioned in a few sentences. Why even have her be pregnant in this book alone if you were going to kill her, Charlaine? Ug.

Oh yeah, and Sookie and Eric sleep together. Whatever.

I don’t think I liked this book. It was a bit of a let down and most of the stuff that was supposed to be shocking was easily guessed and it felt like nothing really got accomplished.

It’s been so long since I designed a website, I’ve gotten really sucky at it. And I haven’t used Wordpress in years so it took me literally all day to mess with the template system. And then longer because by the time I was done, I didn’t like my layout and made a whole new one. At least that went quicker because I had a better hang of it.

Oh! And the already made template I was basing my layout on turned out to have jacked up code on the comments page. 20 minutes of me trying to figure out what I messed up to realize that maybe it was the original author’s coding.

Now to finish my review of the most recent Sookie book. Sorry to those who will see several post from in a row.

I’ve loaded and reloaded Wordpress today. I was using the 1 click install but finally did it manually. So, any fanlisting owners checking codes, please don’t delete me. You can find the codes fanlistings joined here.

I gotta iron out some kinks now.