Fool by Christopher Moore

I have just finished reading Coyote Blue and The Gospel According to Biff, and although this book (Fool) was very good, I think maybe I should have taken a break before running head strong into this one.

This was the store of King Lear but it was from the perspective of the Fool. It was different from the other books of Christopher Moore that I read, because it did not use your traditional grammar and ways of writing. He used a lot of vulgar and profane words, which of course I myself did not mind.

The teller of this tale is Pocket, he has been King Lear’s fool/jest for years and has seen the king grow old and princesses (Regan, Cordelia and Goneril) grow up. Pocket plays a fool but he is one very smart and cunning little jester. King Lear decides to find out which of his daughters loves him more so at the suggestion of Edmond (the bastard) he demands them to swear their undying love to him in front of the entire court. Regan and Gonerial swear their love without question, but Cordelia is honest and tells the King that she loves him as much as a daughter should love her father no more and no less. The king is appalled by this response and banishers her from the kingdom. The king splits his kingdom 2 ways instead of 3 and gives them to Regan and Gonerial and he steps down removing himself from king. Now the whole country stars to go to hell as the princess take over and the king is to proud to admit that banishing Cordelia was a mistake and she did in fact love him more than his other two daughters. Pocket is the only one who can correct what the king has done, so he goes off on his adventure with his idiot friend, Drool, to bring in the happy ending.

There are spells, a few wars and a bunch of shagging throughout the entire book, so if you are timid or conservative this book is not for you. Christopher Moore really shows you a new way to use…and maybe even abuse the English language in this book.

This book is long, but it is worth reading. I think so far that The Gospel According to Biff has been my favorite so far, but this book has lots of laughs and is worth reading.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff
By Christopher Moore

This is the second book that I have read by Christopher Moore, and he is still a very funny writer. I continued to laugh out loud a number of times. I think a number of people must think that I am a little crazy now, but it is all good.

So The Gospel According to Biff is the story of Joshua’s (Jesus’) youth. Biff was Joshua’s best friend growing up and Biff helps Joshua become the Jesus that we read about in the bible.

Biff was brought back by the angel Raziel to write his gospel and complete the missing parts of the Bible. When he saw our version of the Bible, he was very upset because he was not even motioned once. He was also upset that none of Josh’s youth was mentioned. Raziel is supposed to keep an eye on Biff, but he is portrayed as not to bright and more into TV.

Biff points out that you know nothing of Joshua’s life from birth until he is 33. That is 33 years of growth and becoming the man he was when he was crucified that we never hear of, and this is that story. Joshua experiences many of the same issues and problems that every child goes through while growing up. Josh has brothers and sisters and even tells his dad “You’re not my father” when he is upset with Joseph.

Biff and Josh leave their home land in search of the 3 wise men that were at Joshua’s birth so that he can learn to become the Messiah (Chosen One).

This story stretches over like 20+ years. Joshua meets each of the 3 wise men and learns their philosophies and incorporates it into his own beliefs. For example one of the wise men is a Buddhist monk. There is even an explanation of the birth of Jew-do (Now known as Judo), because Josh wouldn’t hit anyone. You meet everyone in this book, Mary Magdalene (Biffs childhood crush), John the Baptist (Josh’s cousin). Josh even asks Biff to experience certain sin’s so that he can know what they are like without participating in them (such as intercourse – outside of marriage).

I don’t want to give anymore of the book away, but there are so many twists and turns and an explanation for so many things in that are now Jewish customs. This book is funny and will have you laughing throughout the book. I don’t want to give too much away, but this is a great book and if you haven’t read it, I would recommend it. I will most definitely read more of Christopher Moore’s books.

Torchwood: The Children of Earth

I am a huge Sci-Fi buff one of my favorite shows of all time is Doctor Who. So when I saw the preview for Torchwood a few years back, I had to set my Tivo and I loved it. I loved the first 2 seasons, but I was really worried after 2 of the main characters died if they were going to bring it back for a 3 season so when I started seeing the previews for The Children of Earth I started bouncing up and down on my couch and counting down the days.

For anyone who does watch Doctor Who as well, one of the things I really loved was the fact that they brought the two shows together. There was a Doctor Who episode where you see when, why and how Torchwood was founded and in another episode Rose (one of the Doctors Companions) was saved by Captain Jack when Rose and the Doctor ended up in London during WWII.

Anyway…enough about Doctor Who (you can tell that is my favorite and if they stop making them after so many years I will be VERY PISSED!!!!)

This short mini serious of Torchwood was super short. Just 5 days. The 456 have returned to earth (the UK to be exact) after 44 years. On their last visit to the UK, no one but the government and 3 others outside the government knew and the UK handed over 12 children for the cure to a virus that could have wiped out over 1/3 of the WORLD population. Sounds like an easy trade right 12 children for the lives of BILLIONS! They took the children that wouldn’t be missed and they assumed that was the end and the 456 would never return…or at least that was the deal. The UK continued to monitor the airwave in case the 456 did contact them ever again and 44 years later…THEY DID. Now the 456 is back and they re communicating to the world through the children and they are making demands either 10% of all the children on earth or complete extinction for the human population!



(I must admit that children freak me out!!! Children of the corn and now this…I don’t know what is creepier. I guess all the children in the world stopping at the exact same time and speaking in unison is creepier)

The UK government freaks out worried that the 3 others that participated in handing over the first 12 children 44 years ago would speak out and tell the world that the 456 had been there before, so they put out the 2 kill order, but Jack was one of those few and Jack cannot die, he is a fixed spot in time and space. But that does not stop the government trying to take out Jack (the leader of Torchwood) and the rest of them (Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones). This was not a smart move because Torchwood are the alien experts and taking them out was not the best move.

You really get a chance to learn more about Ianto in this episode. Although he has been there from the beginning, you finally get to really see how he is and really begin to connect with him. You see where he is from and you meet his family. He becomes a much stronger character.

You also really get the chance to see how immortal Jack is and what he can survive, which is really crazy.

Gwen’s husband Rhys plays a much larger role in this mini serious, and a number of new characters are introduced including:

Johnson – who works for the government and she is the one assigned the task of taking out the one person in the world that can’t be taken out (Jack)

Clem – one of the original children who was given to the 456 but managed to escape them

John – the Permanent Secretary to the home office who is in charge of handling the situation with the 456 and put out the order to kill on jack and Torchwood

Lois – a secretary that starts here first day at the home office the same day that 456 make contact. She sees the kill order on Torchwood and begins to wonder why the government is killing the alien expertise when aliens finally showed themselves.

I really loved this mini serious. I stayed up until 4 in the morning last night just so I could see “Day Five”. If you like Sci-Fi, Aliens, Doctor Who or anything in the fantasy world this is a must see. In total it is a little over 6 hrs but worth every second of it. The show keeps you on your feet and wondering what is going to happen next.

I truly hope that this is not the last that we see of Torchwood. To read more about Torchwood visit BBC Torchwood

Coyote Blue

Today I finished reading Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore. I can’t remember reading anything by him before, but my best friend recommended this book to me, so I had to read it.

This book was funny. I must admit that I laughed a number of times (out loud) during this book.

The story is about a guy named Sam Hunter (known as Samson Hunts Alone) who was born on a Crow Indian reservation.

The book not only tells you Sam’s current situation, but the book continues to go back and talk about his youth and what it was like for him as a child growing up on the reservation, never having much money and being very family oriented.

After an accident Sam had to leave the reservation and redefine himself as a white man. He leaves his past and heritage behind and embarrasses his new life. He got a job as a salesman and his life was going well…until his guiding sprite Coyote – the trickster god – comes to “help Sam”, but instead he turns Sam’s life upside down!

Sam falls for a young girl named Calliope. Calliope is a free spirit and a mother. The baby’s father is a drug addicted biker and Calliope leaves him after the baby was born. When the father of Calliope’s baby takes her child and runs to Vegas, Calliope goes after her baby. Sam’s uncle receives a vision of death and tells Coyote about it. Coyote tells Sam and he goes after Calliope.

Coyote has an interesting time in Vegas, as he tries to trick the casinos. Although Coyote manages to turn Sam’s life upside down, he helps Sam find apart of himself that he lost years ago.

I do not want to give away the ending or any more of the book away, but you will enjoy this book, it is worth reading. I must admit that I will read more of Christopher Moore’s books.

Finding that Perfect Job…in this Economy

There are so many sites on the web that will let you search for jobs, but a number of the cost money, and let’s face it, if you are out of work, having the extra money to spend getting access to job listings is not the most logical way to go. So many people are out of work right now and competing with each other to find a job, that, adding another search tool to the mix will do more good than harm. Visit Classified Ads and browse job listings for free .

Classified Ads have jobs in just about every field you can think of from Accounting and IT to Marketing and Transportation. In this economy any opportunity that you get to help find that dream job is worth taking a look at. Just visit the site and browse job listings. If you don’t check it out you will never know if that perfect job passes you by.

Classified Ads will let you register, browse, and post job openings and all of it is for free. The site is easy to navigate and the search results are excellent.

Even if you are working now, it never hurts to look and see if there is something out there better for you, that will utilize your talents better and help you succeed farther in the long run. Don’t just sit around day in and out in a job that doesn’t make you happy. Now is just as good a time as any to put yourself out there and find that perfect job.

Comcast Fiasco PART 3!! YES PART 3!!!!

So today, Comcast was suppose to come out and fix/replace my cable box. After everything broke this weekend, which of course I blogged about in a blog called Yet more issues with Comcast. But of course that was not the first problem I had with comcast that was just the 4 other ones that I have had in a month. As I mentioned in my first blog about ComCast, Comcast Cable installation fiasco. I had the worst experience in the world with Comcast installation. After that I had a number of other problems between the installation and the last issue with my cable box going out. So this weekend after the cable box went out, Comcast arranged for someone to show up at my house on Tuesday between 8-11 am. Great, right in the middle of the work day, so I figured out how to make sure that someone was at my house to let them in, like we all have to do and suffer through. So this morning at 7 am I get a call while in the shower verifying the appointment. So I call them back and verify the appointment. Then at 9 they call me back to verify my appointment. WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE NOT COMMUNICATE!! They were supposed to be at my house between 8-11 so you already know that they are not going to get there at 8 so Why the HELL did they say 8 instead of 9. WHATEVER! So by noon when NO ONE HAD SHOWN UP I call Comcast and ask “um, why did no one show up at my house to fix the cable box?” so they put in a notice to have dispatch or whatever call me because they can’t get a hold of the person doing the installations. So dispatch calls me and tells me that YES someone was at MY HOUSE fixing MY CABLE BOX for almost an HOUR!! EXCUSE me!!! I think I would notice that right, someone knocking on my door, coming into my house and FIXING MY FREAKING CABLE!!!! That is something I would have noticed, but this woman tried to tell me that I was wrong!! WHAT!! HOW THE HELL AM I Wrong!!??? Comcast was NOT in my HOUSE! Someone (the installation person) FROM COMCAST LIED ABOUT COMING TO MY HOUSE AND FIXING THE CABLE BOX!! COMCAST LIED!! So that was so frustrating!! I am still FRUSTRATED!!! So they tell me that someone can come back out to my house now. Well I work, most people work so if I am at work I can’t let them in. So I tell Comcast that yes I would like someone to come to my house today like the SAID THEY WOULD and fix my cable box. I just can’t believe that Comcast said they were at my house and FIXED the problem!! GRRRR! So I told them I work until 5:30 but anytime after that would work. So they tell me that they can’t promise someone would be there. REALLY, Comcast was happy with me giving up the first half of my day to accommodate them, and when COMCAST decided not to show up and then COMCAST directly lies to me about it that’s ok, but when I ask COMCAST to come out on the DAY that they said they would and FIX my problem they can’t accommodate me!!! I am so frustrated with Comcast right now. I have never had so many issues before and NEVER IN MY LIFE HAS SOME ONE TRIED TO TELL ME THAT THEY WERE AT MY HOUSE WHEN THEY WERE NOT…and by the way, doesn’t it make you wonder what the tech was doing instead of working?! CUZ they obviously LIED about being at my HOUSE!! AND I guess they FIGURED I wouldn’t notice!!! GRRRRRRR

Yet More Issues with ComCast

I have had Comcast for less than 2 months now and the problems just continue to keep comings, so let me just say one thing off the bat. If you have a choose in cable providers, DO NOT GO WITH COMCAST!! Heck, go with satellite instead if you have to.

This image of the Comcast logo seems to fit how I am feeling and makes me realize that I am SO not the only one who has had issues with them :-)

So not only did I have the WORST experience with the installation, which yes frustrated me and really upset me, but I was willing to over look, but let’s just go down the list of things that have gone wrong with Comcast since then. After my first blog, I was nicely contacted by a representative at Comcast who offered to speak with me about my problem. I emailed the representative and said yes please provide me with a contact number so that I can call you to discuss this issue. I was very pleased with the quick response, but I did not ever receive a follow up email, contact number...ANYTHING! So what was the point of them contacting me in the first place, just to make me THINK they were going to do something?? They should have just not offered to speak with me; it would have been better then false and broken promises.

My next issue with Comcast was that they sent me a piece of paper saying that I had signed up for this special and if I wanted to continue getting this special I had to sign this piece of paper and send it back within 30 days. THAT IS Sleazy. Seriously. Cuz you KNOW they are betting that people don't sign that piece of paper and send it back to them within 30 days so then they can JACK the price up and make even MORE money. I think that is sneaky and evil. If someone calls, orders a certain special then they shouldn't have to sign a paper to that effect. I have never had to do that kind of stupid thing before.

My 3rd issue with Comcast is that my first bill comes around. I go to my mailbox after work like normal and I see the bill. I think, ok, I will pay this tomorrow, so I toss it in my purse with my checkbook and the next morning I go to work. At lunch time, I pull out the bill to pay it and open the envelop. Only to find out that it was DUE YESTERDAY. Yes! I got the check the evening that it was due. So I call them up and explain and Comcast said they would not charge me the late fee. Really nice considering that I couldn't have paid it on time even if I would have tried. GRRR

My 4th problem with Comcast that I have had in less than 2 months is that my OnDemand didn't work. Hasn't worked since they set it up. Great right. Said I had it but I didn't! WTF! More false and broken promises...but I did sign that paper and get it back to them so I kept my end of the deal.

My last issue with Comcast which happened YESTERDAY was that over 1/2 the channels that I have just stopped working. GREAT right. Everything on my TV that is above 100 stopped working. Which I wouldn't really mind except that the National Geo Channel, Science Channel and BBC America (which has ALL my fav shows on it) are ALL on those Channels. When I called to order the cable, I specifically asked to MAKE sure that I would get BBC America!! So they go out, I call Comcast and they try to re-boot my system. The guy I talked to was very nice so it helped keep me calm. BUT the re-boot doesn't work... although it did fix my OnDemand. But did that help with the season premiere of 2 of my shows this weekend on BBC....GRRR NO IT DID NOT! So now Tuesday Comcast is coming out to my house to change out the box, which means that I have to leave work in the middle of the afternoon and spend my lunch break getting a new box and setting it ALL UP AGAIN, because you know they are going to mess up my TiVo and it is going to be a huge ordeal again. I have not even had this box for a FREAKING MONTH!!!

I AM SO FRUSTRATED!!!! This just makes me wonder what the next 10 months with Comcast is going to bring, but I can promise you one thing... If I don’t' see some VAST improvements on their service and my experience with them increases dramatically in a very positive way, I don’t' care if it costs me $100 more a month with Direct TV...I will NOT renew with Comcast and I sure as hell will never recommend them to ANYONE. I am paying really good money for what feels like…problem after problem after problem. No one should have this many problems with a cable company in less than 2 months...REALLY ONE IS ENOUGHT!!

Saga of Seven Suns Book 2: A Forest of Stars

I just finished reading 2 books this weekend. One was for work (The Ultimate Sales Machine) and the other was the Saga of Seven Suns Book 2 - A Forest of Stars. A Forest of Stars start Five years after the war started. The Hydrogues maintain absolute control over the galaxy's gas giant planets.

Estarra the youngest daughter of the royal family on Theroc marries King Peter. At first she does not want to marry Peter and leave Theroc, but with her sister, Sarein,persuasion she does. Sarein is still in a relationship with Basil Wenscelas but begins to fear for her sisters life after Basil becomes upset with King Peter. Estarra, joins forces with her husband against Chairman Wenscelas when she hears the truth of what happened to Peter and how he became King. Wenscelas is no longer pleased with Peters actions when Peter stops the building of soldier compys (military robots) because he believes that the technology for these robots provided by the Klikiss robots is not a save move.

The Klikiss robots are in fact working against the Ildirans and Humans and long ago joined forces with the Hydrogues.

The Ildirans have secretly been abducting and breeding humans since to two species meet years ago in a consentration camp on Dobro. The Ildirans, after inviting the green priests to come to Ildira from Theroc (the plant of trees) and read the saga of the seven sun kill one of the green priests Otema and take Nira Khali as prisonor. In the first book Nira had begun a relationship with Prime Designate Jorah (who is next in line to take over Ildira when his father dies). Udru'h (Jora'hs borther) takes Nira to Dobro and locks her up in the breeding camp. While in this camp, Nira gives birth to Osira'h, who is Jora'hs child. Udru'h takes Osira'h because of her green priest abilities, from Nira and never tells Jora'h of the childs existence and raisers her within the palace. After Jora'h's ascension to Mage-Imperator and conviction to find and free Nira, the green priest was moved by Udru'h out of the breeder camps and to an island on the other side of the planet. However, shortly before this happened, Nira managed to get in contact with Osira'h and relate the truth of the experiments of Dobro.

Tasia Tamblyn has worked her way up in The Tarran Hansiatic League The military moves to communicate with the Hydrogues and send Tasia's lover, Robb Brindle down into one of the gas planets where he is murdered. The League decdice to move against Hydro on their main planet,Osquivel, where the Roamers are mining gas. Because of her ties and dedication to the Roamers, Tasia sends her compy DD to warn the Roamer Speaker, Peroni. Thanks to Tasia's warning the Roamers are able to hide themselves from the League, but DD is intersepted on his way back to Tasia by Chairman Wenscelas.

Jess Tamblyn leaves to go into solitude so that his love Speaker Peroni can marry Reynald Theron who is king of Theroc so that a alliance can be built between the Roamers and Theroc. While alone Jess connects to these water particles in his small craft, which are in fact the ancient water-entity known as Wental. Jess aids the Wentals in rejuvenating the Wentals so that the Wentals can fight the Hydrogues. Unfortunately, Jess is attacked by a Hydrogue warglobe and Jess has to swallow the Wentals to keep them hidden and safe.

The Hydrogue have gone from planet to planet looking for the great forest of Theroc. They finally find it and destroy a large portion of Theroc, although the trees do manage to fight back and destroy some of the warglobes it is not enough.


The war rages on and it seems that the Humans and Ildiran are powerless against the Hydrogue.

I have to start reading book 3 as soon as I get it because this story just keeps getting better and better.

Avoiding a Vampire Attack

Today I was sitting in the office, being a Friday...I was dragging. Then my best friend sent me an email (well actually 2) that really eased my day.

I love vampires and zombies. The amuse me. I read vampire & zombie books, watch movies, basically anything I can get my hands on. When I was younger I was convinced that Vampires were real. I was actually convinced they existed, mostly because I could have sworn I saw one. YES, even to this day, I still question that encounter.

So the story of my meeting with a vampire starts of fairly amusing:

I was at the mall in St. Louis. I know right off the bat; you are thinking at the mall right...way would a vampire be at the mall?! Well heck if you where a vampire living in 1990something then really where else would you hang out to meet unsuspecting young girl? DUH...mall is the perfect spot! So anyway, back to my meeting. It was dusk (of course, vampires cannot be out during daylight hours) and the pales guy I have ever seen walked out of the mall. Not pale in a sick way or in a "I was born that way", but in a "I'm the living dead way". The guy had the darkest eyes and hair I think is even possible and honestly, there was not a single speck of white in his eyes. Like creepy...all black eyes (maybe they were contacts...this concept revels itself to me now). This guy looks around the parking lot and spots a group of 15/16 year old girls gabbing and laughing. He just leans up against the side of the building eyeing one of them. She had is back to him and suddenly she stops laughing and talking to her friends becomes very stiff, turn directly around and walks strait over to this guy...the vampire. She stops in front of him and he takes her by the arm and leads her away into the dark covers of the parking lot. I never saw that girl or guy again. I know I didn't go to that mall very often and to be honest, I could have easily missed them, but I didn't see them inside the mall later or when I left, but I did pass that same group of girls a few times while walking around the mall shopping and the girl was not with them. So that is my story. And although I cannot prove that the guy was a vampire, I can also not disprove it...so we are just going with, I love vampires and even thought I am old enough to know they don't exist a little part of me wants to think they are lurking out there in the dark.

Anyway. The email my friend sent me, it was a comic on how to avoid a vampire attack.


It was the funniest thing I had seen all day. I wanted to roll over laughing, but heck the guy in the comic is definitely not going to get attacked by a vampire...that is for sure!! AND lets just say that if the girl would have had any of those weapons that the guy in the comic did, the I think she would be alive today and not one of the living dead!

ZOMBIE HOOKER NIGHTMARE

Adult Swim is great! I have been watching them on late night cartoon network for years! They have some of the best programs (like Family Guy, Boondocks, and Robot Chicken). They are NOT kid cartoons they are Adult cartoons, hence the name...Adult Swim. We all need to relax every now and again and get back to our childhood and Adult Swim gives you that.

Adult Swim also has games on their home site and recently I have been palying Zombie Hooker Nightmare, of course, being the zombie lover that I am. This game is awesome. You get the best of both worlds. A video game and zombies You are a "hooker" and you have to travel around this maze like world and you have to kill TONS zombies. When your life gets low, you have to re-charge! There are all different weapons around the whole game that you can use to kill the zombies. Some of the weapons include a gun, a shovel, a bone. Now the "Johns" can help you re-charge, but be careful and quick, because the zombies will kill them. Once you get one John, then next time you have to get 2 and then 3 and then so on. This game is fun. It has kicked my butt a few times before I got the hang of it.

Adult Swim has recently come out with Zombie Hooker Nightmare 2! They are both for sure worth playing and while you are on the site. I recommend checking out a few of my other favorite game.

5 minutes to Kill Yourself (part one, not such a big fan of part 2). This is one of the older games, but still one of my favorites. You are stuck in the office and their is a meeting in 5 minutes. No one likes to go to meetings, many times they are more of a time waste then productive. So you run around the office using different things to try to kill yourself like staplers, scissors, paper shredders etc.

Adult Swim has tons of shows and some of the best programs, I can't wait for a new season of Boondocks, if there is going to be one!! Which I hope there will.

So quick reading this blog and go play some games....that is what I am going to do!!

Puppy Decision

I have been "dog-sitting" for over a week now and it makes me want a dog of my own. Not one of those little purse dogs, but a medium size dog. Something that need me. I live alone, so having something to walk with every night and guard me while I sleep would be great. Not to mention it would be nice to have one to keep me company in the evenings while I sit along reading a book or watching TV.

So since I have been watching to dog, I realized that:
A) Dogs are needy - she wants to be pet all the time, making it hard to read and type
B) Dogs are messy - I have to pick up after her dirty busy...and she smells when she gets wet
C) Dogs are expensive - or maybe that is just me buying her all those treats :-)

But that doesn't make me NOT want one. I get up every morning and take her for a short walk so she can do her dirty business and since I work for HOURS every day, I have to come home sometimes and walk her in the afternoon (if my boyfriend can't) and of course as soon as I get home...she HAS to go out.

But she does do the cutest thing. She rolls onto her back, throws her feet/or should I say paws up into the air and does the cutest little dance thing. I find it amusing and so cute.

Now I just have to decide if I can really afford one on my cheap ass pay, and if I have the time for one, because working full time and going to night classes may not be most conducive situation for having a pet...but they are so cute. So it is up in the air and I have to think about it. Maybe in a few months, but I am for sure not lonely with her cute butt around!!

The Best Way to Relax

I work all the time it feels like, so when I finally have some time off I like to sit back and just zone out, and my favorite way to do this is by watching TV. Since my boyfriend has been staying with me lately, I don't always get to watch what I want, thankfully I can watch TV Online.

I am really excited cuz this month my 3 favorite show on BBC America are coming back on the air, none of which my boyfriend likes, so I have been looking for a new site online so that I will be able to watch them for FREE and when I want. I am big into, I guess you would call them, Scifi shows and my boyfriend hates them.

I came across this nifty new (legal) site called Spreety TV Online : Watch TV Shows Online Free. It is pretty cool. It lets me watch regular TV shows as well as news and sports (for when I confiscate the TV and my boyfriend wants to watch something), and one of my favorite features is that it has a TV guide attached to it, so I can view all of my options and pick what fits my mood.

So now I am looking forward to my new episods of Torchwood, Doctor Who and Being Human, cuz I am finally not going to have to fight my boyfriend for the remote!

I am looking forward to sitting back and relaxing!!

Dream World

Last night I had so many problems sleeping. Every time I closed my eyes I ended up dreaming of Zombies. Usually that is cool, I have dreams...or I guess one would call them nightmares like that all the time. I think it is because the books I read are usually have vampires or zombies in them. But lately I have been reading a book for work (The Ultimate Sales Machine) and the 2nd book in The Saga of the Seven Suns. So really...no zombies lately. So last night was really weird, and I think the strangest thing of all was that I actually kept waking up. At one point I woke up almost screaming! I was in a cold sweat and freaked out. I had to get out of the bed and take a breather for a second. I don't really understand it because in my zombie dreams, I am usually fighting, NOT running!

In my dream it seemed that everyone was a zombie, it wasn't a group of us fighting to survive it was just me, left alone to struggle against and undefeatable creature. They were not slow and stupid; the zombies in my dream were smart and fast. It was as if they were an advanced version. Not as smart as the average person, but smart enough to know how to walk up some stairs or look up into a tree or into a window, but not smart enough to turn a door knob or pick up a rock to break the window. I don't know, but it makes me cautious about going to sleep tonight.

Maybe I need to just leave the computer on next to my bed and try to recall it next time. Heck it takes a lot to wake me in a cold sweat since, as I mentioned before, in my dreams I am usually running from serial killers or taking down zombies. Maybe I could actually come up with a good horror novel/movie for once. Cuz we all know that it has been a long time since a truly blood curdling horror movie has been out.

I guess the reason could be that I have been working on the layout of the Zombie novel I would like to start working on, but I have even put that to the back burner since I just got back my edits from my wonderful editor on my other novel earlier this week. So any time that I do spend writing has been focused on that. I have given myself a goal to get my book done by the end of the year. I know that sound like a long way off, but heck that is just getting it completed ready to ship of to some publishers to see if I can get it printed.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

I finally got a chance to go see Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen this weekend! I have been waiting to see it, but didn't have the time last weekend. I loved the first Transformers. It took me back to Saturday morning cartoons growing up.

First, I have to say, that the sequel was actually good. Which was nice because usually sequel suck!! Shia LaBeouf (who plays same) and Megan Fox (who plays Mikaela) are of course still in it along with Sam's Parents. Sam is going off to college and decides he wants to lead a normal life after all of the action of helping Optimus Prime, and the other Autobots defeat Megatron and the Decepticons. Sadly this doesn't happen and Sam ends up playing a new role in defeating the Fallen. This movie really goes into the history of the Transformers, you get the chance to meet one of the original transformers, who is actually in display in a museum in Washington D.C.

You meet a few new characters in this movie. Josh Duhamel (who plays Major Lennox), Tyrese Gibson ( Who plays Sergeant Epps), and Ramon Rodriguez (who plays Leo).

Sam and his family are getting ready to head out to Sam's new college when Sam ends up touching a small piece of the cube. He starts to see all kinds of old symbols. He drops the fragment and it melts through the floor and into the kitchen where it brings to life every electronic appliance!! Within 10 minutes into the movie Sam, bumble bee and Sam's father have to deal with evil little transformer appliances (AKA, the microwave, blender toaster etc...). After dealing with that, the family head off to take Sam to College.



This is where you meet Leo

Leo and Sam are roommates at Sam's new college. Leo is convinced that their are robots running around the world and the government is working to cover it up. He runs a consper conspiracy website trying to prove it to the "people". Of course this causes a good laugh, because being the audience, we know that there are transformers and of anyone Leo could find out the truth from, it would be Sam.

One part that was very funny, was that Sam's mother got a hold of some pot brownies from some stoner's on campus and she ends up high as a kite and of course embarrassing her son to death.

Within in 2 days of school starting, shit hits the fan so to speak. Bumble Bee comes to get Sam because Optimus Prime needs Sams help. Sam blows Optimus off at first saying that he is not needed, but that doesn't end up being that fact. The Decepticons have been busy working on bring the Fallen back! The Fallen wants to come back to earth to power up a machine that will destroy the sun. The machine is hidden in Egypt and Sam and the Autobots have to find it before the Decepticons do and save the world.

Optimus Prime and the Autobots have been working with a secret government agency to track down and destroy the remaining Decepticons. The team is lead by Major Lennox (Josh also played in Las Vegas, which I was pissed when the cancelled that show. I really liked it, he is very hot). The Autobots have been working with them for a few years now. Then the president send in a new liaison who messes up everything with his closed mind and tight ass! All he does is cause problems for the agency and the Autobots at every turn.



They do introduce a few new Autobots including the twins who where funny and always talking smack! They were the new "African American" Autobots. There has been some tension about how the twins portrayed African Americans in a negative light and I can totally see what they where saying, but it is a movie and I went to the movies to be entertained and not to have some philisophical debate about how different cultures were portrayed.




There are a bunch of twists and turns through out the whole movie and of course it was done by Michael Bay so there are A LOT of explosions, but the movie is worth going to see. If you grew up watching Transformers, don't miss this movie!!
It was just as good as the first movie and I would give it 8 1/2 out of 10 stars.

On a side note - this family (wife, husband and kid) were sitting in front of us in the theater. I thought that the wife and husband were going to start getting dirty right then and there and then about half way into the movie they got up and LEFT there KID in the theater!! I could not believe that they just left there little boy ALONE in the theater for over an HOUR! That was just not safe or smart!!

Chongalicious

Chongalicious Video



So today at work, my boss sent everyone in my department this video. All of a sudden you hear laughter coming around the office. I don't think I have laughed so hard in a weeks!! None of us had ever seen this before, so yes...we are late. BUT OMG it was funny. I could not believe it. It wasn't like amazing or really good, it was just downright funny....and a little wrong. So after watching this funny video...which was great after working hard all day, we asked each other is Chongalicious even a word? What is Chonga? So Liz (my co-worker) gets on the Urban Dictionary and looks it up chonga and it was actually in there!!! We almost died laughing when we read the definition.

In Short:
Chonga is - girl of Hispanic origin, usually between the ages of 12 and 19, but sometimes as young as 8. Primarily found in Miami (most famously, in Hialeah), the chonga is known for her cheap form of dress, a combination of the so-called gangstalook and that of a prostitute, but can vary between the two. She wears ridiculously large hoop earrings large enough to be bracelets, which are usually gold and have their name written in them, and diamond studs high up on her ears. They may also wear thick, gold bangle bracelets in stacks on their arms. Depending on how ghetto she thinks she is, she may wear oversized men's t-shirts with tight, usually white Brazilian pants, with a colored thong worn underneath that shows through (on purpose). The chonga's shoe of choice is usually either the traditional black Reeboks, white Nike Air Force Ones, completely black Converse high tops, velvet black ankle boots, or the most popular, Chinese beaded slippers in the same matching color ad their top, and worn with ankle socks.

So of course after this, everyone in the office took a much needed 10 minute break to look at and send each other other really funny YouTube videos!!

I know a number of offices/companies block sites like YouTube, but I think it is important for people to be able to take a break. We don't have them blocked at our company, and we all work. We don't spend the time surfing the net and wasting time. We get our work done!! So if you don't give you employees some type of outlet, they will start to waste time daydreaming and doing other things. With an outlet like this...we all took a 10 minute laughing break and then it fell silent again and we all got RIGHT BACK TO WORK.

Class Registration

So I am attempting to get my Masters Degree from FIU. I started in the spring thinking I could go all year round and get it done in 2 - 2 1/2 years. I took one class in the spring because I was still considered an out of state resident. Then when the Summer courses came around I was ready to take 2 classes and get this degree truly underway.

Now I have to say that the reason that I applied to this school and this graduate program was because it said that it was designed for full time employees with night, weekend and online courses.

So when summer rolled around and I was working full time again...FINALLY...after working from home online for a year I logged on. Low and behold they were only offering a few online course...like 3 and only one of them was online. The rest of the summer courses were offered like Monday, Wednesday and Friday from like 12:30-2:30, right in the middle of my work day. And to make matters worse the online course only let in 30 student and filled up within like 1 hr!! Now it is an ONLINE course, why can't you accept 60 students. AND for that matter, with todays technology...why are they not offering more online course. It is like the NEW way to learn. So I kissed the idea of going to school in the summer goodbye.

Now I am looking forward to going back in the fall. Sadly, even though I will by then, have been living in FL for 1 year and 4 months, because I didn't get my drivers licence changed over until September I will still be an out of state resident. Which mean I have to come up with the extra 2k to pay for the 2 courses I want to take.

The Fall course are still not open to sign up yet, but I found 2 that will work great with work. One online and 1 two evenings a week. I will have to get into work at 7 and leave at 4:30 to get to class on time, but it will be ok and WORTH it. I just have to check EVERYDAY to make sure I get into those classes, because the other night class (available for the course I need to take) is taught in Spanish.

That frustrates me just a little. I don't mind the school providing courses in Spanish, but this is the USA and last time I checked we do speak English here, so at least offer the class twice at night in English and 1 in Spanish!! I know it is horrible to say, but I just want to get into my class and graduate so I can start actually making decent money before I am 50!!