TOTALLY RANDOM BUFFYNESS

Posted on February 14, 2006 by thathobbitlady

As I’ve been watching Buffy lately, I’ve been taking “Notes” in Outlook as things occur to me. Below please find my random notes. They may amuse. And if you can shed any light on any of my questions, please feel free!

RANDOM BUFFY NOTES

why a cage in the library?
when do these people sleep?

he marches to the beat of a different drummer. actually, i think he makes his own drums

great, now im gonna be stuck w serious thoughts all day

Becoming

decision to add oz as regular character was made after second season? did they not know at the beginning that he would be a regular? or was it planned for him to come in later?

in what unverse do high school students teach high school classes?

wackiness ensues

you’ll see what i mean

the whole earth may be sucked into hell and you want my help cos your girlfriends a big ho?

have you tried not being a slayer?

why did she kill him at the end, when he had been turned back? my best guess, the vortex was coming to swallow up the world, but somehow would be satisfied w only angel but why? how does that work?

well we know the world didn’t end cos….check it out

mary notes that everytime she kills someone she wears overalls afterwards

pimple on her forehead in final scene on bus

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SUSPEND YOUR DISBELIEF

Posted on February 14, 2006 by thathobbitlady

Well, everything is now more settled down, after putting Mary safely on a plane to Ireland, and preparing and sending my Valentine’s package to my sweetheart….and making my first heroic steps towards going back to the gym. So now it is time for a little reflection.

My mind has been spinning quite a bit lately with everything going on, but I did take a moment last Friday to see the movie The Producers, and I’d like to offer a few words of critique. The title of this entry, as you see above, is “Suspend Your Disbelief” which is what you have to do any time you approach a musical, especially of a Broadway persuasion, and this movie is no exception.

Did I like the movie? Hard to say. Not a resounding yes or no. It felt uneven. It took a long time to get started, a long time for that comfortable suspension of disbelief to set in. At first, it was just goofy, even uncomfortable.

The Leo Bloom character was a little more “over the top” than expected. Was that Matthew Broderick’s interpretation, or is he always portrayed that way? (BTW, speaking of Matthew Broderick, now I know the world is indeed still spinning, because at last he is beginning to look older. I never thought it would happen, but yeah, it happens, even to cuties like Matthew Broderick).

After a while, you begin to settle in a little more comfortably into this ridiculous world, to lose yourself in it to some extent. But I don’t think ever completely. All in all, I was somewhat disappointed. I expected it to be better. It was still good, but I expected better. But I think to see better, you would really have to see it live on the stage, where the suspension of disbelief is already assumed to a much greater extent before the first curtain even goes up.

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THE DEFINITION OF FAITH

Posted on October 23, 2005 by thathobbitlady

This morning I had an experience that made me realize the definition of faith.

A few weeks ago, my mom and dad offered me a living room chair. Even though it was a comfortable chair, better than the chair we currently had, at first I said no because it was a recliner. Having two cats in the house, I refuse to have a recliner. If you know the nature of cats, they like to get into whatever little private place they can and sit silently. As far as I’m concerned, cats and recliners are a recipe for disaster.

But my dad said no problem, he could fix the chair so that it would no longer recline. I said well, if it doesn’t recline, then sure! So a few days later, he brought over the chair and it is now a nice, comfortable addition to our living room.

(By the way, is anyone interested in the old chair, a pink leather swiveling barrel chair? It’s kind of odd looking, maybe art deco/retro. Free to a good home.)

So this chair has been in the house two or three weeks now, and this morning I sat down in it while eating my bowl of cereal, and it suddenly occured to me that in all this time, I have not once tested out the chair to see whether or not it actually no longer reclines.

My dad said he would fix it, and that was good enough for me. If he said he would fix it, then I knew it was done. In all this time, I have had no trepidation whatsoever about this chair being in my house, and it has only been two or three weeks later that the issue even randomly came into my mind.

And as soon as I thought of it, I thought, “This is the definition of faith.” Your dad says he’s going to do something, and you believe him, and you don’t doubt, and you don’t have to test it out, you just beleive it has been done as he said it was going to be done.

Well, we have a Heavenly Father, don’t we? Who also says He is going to do certain things for us. And when we have faith like we should, we do not doubt, we do not have to test it out, we just believe and live our lives without trepidation.

Wow… The spirituality of chairs.

God is in everything.

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OUT OF TOUCH

Posted on October 16, 2005 by thathobbitlady

The subtitle on my journal has always been “In the world, but not of it.” I have always felt that way, just slightly out of the mainstream. And something happened the other day that really brought that home to me.

As you may know, I do not have broadcast TV coming into the house. I do not get the newspaper. I don’t listen to the radio. The only way I really know what is going on in the world is when I open up my internet service and see the headlines on the homepage, or when I walk into the breakroom at work, and catch a minute or two of a news broadcast.

As for what’s going on in the world of entertainment, I’m even worse. And this is what happened. I was on-line somewhere, and one of those annoying little quiz ads popped up, urging me to “Guess the Celebrity!” in order to win a free laptop or some such thing. (Yeah, right!)

Well, the thing is, I looked at the picture of the celebrity, and I looked at the three or four choices of names they gave you…and I was completely clueless! I didn’t recognize the pic or any of the names!

Now the point of these little quiz ads is supposed to be that they ask you something that is so damn obvious there’s NO WAY you can get it wrong, and then they get to say “Congratualtions, you won!” and then you feel so warm and fuzzy inside that you are easily drawn into their sales pitch. (I would imagine, anyway—since I have never actually participated in one of these things. I’m really big on the upper right hand X).

But I could NOT for the life of me answer the question that was supposed to be so damn obvious. Not a clue. hehe

And you know what. That’s just fine by me. Because I don’t feel my life is any less fulfilling by not knowing whether or not that was P Diddy or Hot Diggety Dog, or whoever else they said it might be.

Happily Oblivious.

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MY FRED ASTAIRE FANTASY

Posted on October 9, 2005 by thathobbitlady

I am having so much fun casting my NaNo!! Mary gave me the idea to do this, so my thanks go out to her for her ingenuity. Here’s who I have.

My main character, Cindy, is a college girl, kind of plain, even maybe a little dorky.

Before

Mary came up with Anne Hathaway, and this is a picture of her from The Princess Diaries. And like the character in the Princess Diaries, Cindy will have a makeover, and afterwards, she will look somewhat like this:

Yeah, I know, I’m kind of borrowing the actress and the makeover concept from The Princess Diaries. Actually, not really, because I had the idea for this story long before The Princess Diaries ever came out as a movie, but it was just kind of convenient that there’s such a parallel, because I now have great Before and After images.

Anyway, Cindy is a real film buff, and especially loves the old Hollywood Studio films of the 30’s and 40’s, which leads to her having a fantasy/supernatural encounter with Fred Astaire…

But of course he’s dead, so if we had to get someone to play him in the movie, how about Ewan McGregor, who is about the same build, oozing with the same kind of debonair charm, AND can sing and dance to boot…

Now to complicate matters, Cindy is infatuated with Jason a “BMOC.” probably a football player or some such thing.


This is Shawn Ashmore, who played Bobby, the Ice Man, in the X-Men movies. Isn’t he hunky?

But he’s not interested in Cindy (at least not BEFORE her makeover.) But Cindy has a loyal and adoring guy friend, Alan, who is totally interested in her, even when she wore glasses and her hair looked like a rat’s nest.


Here, if you know me, you will easily recognize Adam Lamberg, who of course does the “loyal and adoring guy friend” so well. Cindy is not romatically interested in her friend Alan (subtitle of my novel: “What the Hell is Wrong with Cindy???”) But perhaps that will change before I reach 50,000 words.

Anyway, that’s the main look of my novel. This is tremendous fun, and I recommend it to anyone who is doing a NaNo!

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UPDATE

Posted on October 8, 2005 by thathobbitlady

Closer has arrived, and is fast becoming one of my favorite BTE CD’s—tho they are ALL my favorite in some way. Sort of like your kids, you don’t have one favorite, you love them all, but for different reasons. It’s time to order Artifakt.

Went to the new job assignment. People and environment very nice, but they don’t have anything for me to DO!!! I’m just an extra body hanging around. In the future, I’m bringing work from my “real job” that I can do on the computer, and I’ll also do my own stuff, if it comes to that. But I’m not going to sit around and do NOTHING all day. That’s torturous! I also think I’ll be taking a lot of vacation time on Friday, which I wanted to do anyway, but now I don’t have to feel guilty about it, because it’s not like I’ll be missing any actual WORK!!!

More rain. When will it ever stop?

Also, I inderstand that the last birthday present I am waiting for in the mail is the DVD of the Disney movie The Kid. What a great movie! I love Bruce Willis, especially when he had hair. hehe! The whole idea of reconnecting with your “inner child” is so intriguing. Actually, to tell the truth, I’m not so interested in connecting with my inner CHILD at the moment. I don’t feel the need to go that far back. I am, however, reconnecting with my inner TEENAGER and that feels great. Maybe once I get comfortable with the teenager and work out all of those issues, I’ll feel the need to go back and visit the inner child, but at the moment I’m fine where I am.

By the way, this is the pic I have on my new keychain, which I went on and on about a few entries back.

Nobody has called me on it yet, but if someone should say something, I have my answer prepared: There is a teenage girl still very much alive inside me, and this is what she likes!

I have this scientific theory I’m out to prove. You know how some women can have “hysterical pregnancies”? They so much want to be pregnant that their bodies actually mimic the signs of pregnancy. Years ago I watched All My Children and there was a storyline like that. Well, I’m wondering if I can “hysterically” delay the onset of menopause by convincing myself that I am still a teenager. I know, I’m weird, but I think if the mind can have that much power over the body in regards to pregnancy, why not also in regards to menopause? You’re only as old as you feel, right? Isn’t that what they always say? Well, I feel like I’m somewhere between 17-25 years old—way, way too young for menopause!

I’ll let you know how it goes.

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BAM!!!!!

Posted on September 30, 2005 by thathobbitlady

Well, I have officially hit 25 pounds lost in the last five months. And believe me, I’m feeling it. All of the sudden today, I just felt….lighter…..smaller. It’s an incredible feeling! It really did come upon me suddenly. I remember this from when I have lost weight before. There are gruelling times when nothing seems to be happening, then suddenly—BAM! So today I had a BAM!

In other news, just one week till I start my new Friday work assignment, learning something new. I’m so excited to be learning and doing something new.

In other news, awaiting the arrival of Closer by BTE in the mail any day now. I love waiting for things to arrive in the mail! It makes the day so much brighter, knowing there could be something good on its way!

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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

Posted on September 20, 2005 by thathobbitlady

Number One Reason to Never Let the Teenage Girl in You Die Out and/or Fade Away:

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IMAGES!!!!!

Posted on September 20, 2005 by thathobbitlady

HAHA! I have just acquired a new skill, thanks to my wonderfully talented and intelligent daughter who knows so much about computers, tho she says her computer skills stink, tho she certainly knows more than me, so as far as I’m concerned, she is a genius. So thank you, Mary!

And now that I know how to download an image, I cannot resist doing it again, so I am going to subject all my readers to the lovely sight of the sweetest cutiepie I can possibly think of:

If I did this right, you should now be looking at Adam Lamberg, aka David “Gordo” Gordon.

I am so freakin smart.

So is Mary.

Life is good.

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BOHEMIANISM: OR WHY I WILL NEVER GROW UP

Posted on September 18, 2005 by thathobbitlady

And Ramen Noodles at 4:30 in the morning,
When we barely could survive,
I was never more alive.

For my birthday I have received a Better Than Ezra CD that contains a song that contains the above lyrics, which jumped out and touched me on the first hearing.

Do I need to explain why? Well, I guess that is why I am here. Ramen Noodles are the universal symbol for povery, are they not? Ten to twenty cents a package, and all you have to add is water. When you barely can survive, that is what you eat.

I am the first to admit that I have trouble with some of the BTE lyrics, (it’s the 80/20 rule—I only understand about 20% of their songs) but this song, Under You, seems to be about a couple heading out to California to pursue their dreams, and they end up working in a bar and eating Ramen Noodles at 4:30 in the morning. It seems to be about paying your dues, and what you have to go through to achieve your dreams.

Only sometimes, I think, when you achieve your dreams, when you reach your destination, you find yourself looking back lovingly on the journey (I was never more alive).

I heard a great quote once. “There are two tragedies in life. One is NOT to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.” (Through the wonders of the internet, I am instantly able to determine that these words were penned by George Bernard Shaw).

Also, by Robert Browning: “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”

I think I understand this. I think this is why I don’t ever see myself “growing up” in the conventional sense. I always see myself pursing something, and yet somehow always hoping I don’t actually attain it. I know that sounds weird, but see the above quotes. I am not interested in achieving success. I am interested in always feeling “I was never more alive.” THAT is true success.

Sometimes when you crowd your life with too much stuff, and too many concerns, when you have all the trappings of having “attained,” you lose that sense of being alive. You get smothered by your stuff and by your success. Because it’s hard to maintain that level of “success.”

Kind of like when you are in school, if you start out with an A average, all your effort goes into maintaining the A, and that is stressful, because if you don’t succeed in maintaining it, then you have truly failed. But if you are at B or C, then all your effort goes into trying to raise your grade. And failing to raise a grade is not as stressful and disappointing as failing to maintain a grade. Does this make sense?

Anyway, viva la Ramen noodles! I get the symbolism. I am a hippie. Always have been. Always will be.

Hopefully.

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