I've been picking away at this one since October, I think. It took so bloody long to get the final product, thanks to my sister being nitpicky and then me having to swipe videos from her and then render them so the files would be compatible with Windows Movie Maker. And Movie Maker likes to freeze up on me. A LOT. So that wastes a chunk of time. I'm glad to be finished with this one. I was getting tired of it.

My next one, an Ode To 2008, is already starting to form in my head...

I am getting one of these to help me get in shape in 2009: Ellen DeGeneres Reviews the Hawaii Chair.

I got maybe an hour of sleep this morning, thanks to Scythian's masquerade and the after party and then not being able to go to sleep. I'll post pictures soon. I'm nursing a sore throat (I lost my voice after their first set, which was weird, but then it returned in time for the second set) and I have prescribed myself lots of chai. Mmmmm, chai.

I've been slowly working my way through my old entries, tagging them, deleting broken links, and whatnot. I just came across this lovely bit of amusement in a February 2003 entry:

I just had a pain in my ass test in my Assessment of Young Children class. I just wanted to stuff the paper into my mouth, lean back in my chair, and chew on it, all the while glaring in defiance at my teacher.

I can picture that perfectly in my head.

In other news, Day One of my 12 Days Of Christmas Break is mostly over. I managed to get all my Christmas shopping completed between noon and 1:15pm. It would have taken much longer if I had not come up with an excellent present for my two nephews that will require them to wait until the beginning of January to get it, but that saved me from dealing with several stores in the mall while trying to find presents for them.

I figured out what I was doing wrong with my external hard drive and have begun putting all my pictures, videos, and music onto it. I also downloaded Sony movie software (free for a month) so I can render all the videos I swiped from my sister that aren't compatible with Windows Movie Maker. There are too many clips from her videos that I must have in my possession to use for video creations. I'm halfway through the current creation and hope to finish that by the weekend as I already have the next creation forming in my mind.

Weekend picspam coming up sometime in the near future.

I think I will continue my Christmas Eve tradition of watching scary movies this evening. Although I have a hankering to watch Nightmare Before Christmas, which doesn't really count as a scary movie. Well, I guess it could...

I just went to sign into Mail.com and they always have some sort of news story on the main page. Here's the one they have currently:

Best Part-Time Jobs For 2009
The new year is often tantamount with resolutions, goals and hope for a good year, personally and professionally. But how can that happen when so many people are getting laid...
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I had to read that twice to make sure they cut it off where they cut it off. Brilliant.

One day left until Christmas vacation! Oh goodness, I cannot wait! I'll spam you with pictures from my weekend later. I'm still recovering from severe lack of sleep and putting 658 miles on my car while driving to four different states from Thursday until yesterday. I'll give you one guess who had me roadtripping like that.

Take the first sentence (or 2) from the first post of each month of 2008. That's your year in review.

January
I rang in the new year in that magical state of Delaware. Brilliant. That's really all I can say about that.

( 2008 in review. )

I had a half day today. My principal decided to give all the teachers half days for Christmas presents and today was mine. My incredibly crazy weekend starts in an hour when I leave to pick up my new Scythian friend Kirsten at the Baltimore airport and then we're heading to Bethesda, MD for Scythian's Ugly Christmas Sweater Show. I found a lovely Christmas vest at Kmart to wear. We're meeting up with some other people there who will be joining us for our stalking expedition.

Then tomorrow we're heading back to PA to catch the sold out Ceann/Scythian show at the Sellersville Theater (somewhere above Philly) and we're crashing here afterward. AND THEN on Saturday we're heading to New York City for Scythian's show at Stout where they play on a stage above the bar. After that show we're crashing at Angela's place in NJ before heading to our various homes on Sunday.

I'm exhausted just thinking about it, but it will be awesome. Three shows in a row. It's my Christmas/birthday present for myself.

This is awesome. Thanks, melancthe for sharing it.

Stephan Pastis wrote on my Facebook wall! First he sent me a friend request so I accepted that obviously and wrote this note on his wall on Saturday: I must have my dose of "Pearls" everyday in order to make my day complete. Rat is my hero. Keep up the awesome work!

And today he wrote on my wall: thank you, katie!

Yeah, so it's not a long note or anything, but come on, he took two seconds out of his creative life to thank me for my note. That's awesome.

Here's Sunday's Pearls:

Here's a joke that I just came across:

Why are New Yorkers always depressed?

( Why? Why? WHY?!?! )

Driving my regular route to school at 6:30 this morning, I passed two roads about ten minutes from my house that were blocked by police. Assuming it was an accident, I didn't give it anymore thought. Until I came home and my mom informed me of this: A man who killed a guy in Philly last night kidnapped a woman, eventually dropped her off at his parents' house near me, and then holed up in his car at a nearby park with a gun. The cops were trying to get him to put the gun down and get out of the car for 7-8 hours today before the man killed himself in his car.

If we could keep the guns and murderers away from me that would be much appreciated. Thank you.

A recap of the Twilight series and how there are loads of Mormon-esque things in the books. The recaps thoroughly amused me and all the LDS related stuff (so claims the recap author) was interesting.

In other news, HAPPY THANKSGIVING! T-minus 2 hours and 20 minutes until dinner. And then, bring on the pumpkin pie!

I know, I know. You're tired of hearing about them. But I'm being a good Street Team member and talking them up nonstop. Click the picture to go to ReverbNation and listen to their lovely tunes.

Click the banner and the player a couple times. They're keeping track of clicks on ReverbNation.

Well, duh. We all know I'm an uber-dork. I love that they used "uber" as I've been using that a lot lately.

I spent most of the month of October working on this birthday video for Pam. My sister and I decided that we couldn't figure out what present to buy Pam and since she always seems to like my videos, we thought we'd make her a video. We showed it to her last night at her birthday dinner at Brittingham's (Icewagon Flu was playing) and from what I can tell, she loved it. So here's the video (Check out the high quality here):



( Onto the Flu. )

This weekend has been most excellent. It's the first weekend in weeks that I've had pretty much nothing to do. I think the last time I had an open weekend that didn't involve going out of state or to a festival or something like that was in July. Seriously. That's probably why I've been extra tired lately. Next weekend I don't have anything planned. No trips out of state, no concerts, nothing. I'm hoping to hit up a movie as I haven't been to the movies in a while. I don't even know what's out. I'm seriously slacking in keeping up with the movie world. I didn't even know that there was going to be a third Transporter movie until I saw the trailer on YouTube the other day. It looks awesome, by the way.

Now I'm off to catch up with all the shows I downloaded this past week.

You can listen to them at the bottom of this entry. I recommend track 7, "Technoccordion". Actually, do me a favor and just click the ReverbNation player at the bottom. They're tracking how many clicks the players get for a contest of sorts.