A Product of Christa..

Merry Christmas everyone

nobody@vox.com(Christa) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:05:17 -0800

This is one of our family's most favorite Christmas movies, we watch it every year as a family tradition.

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Merry Christmas Eve

nobody@vox.com(Christa) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:28:40 -0800

For some reason I am very cold and a little sad.

My mom she came in and did what she does every year. She said "I didn't get my daughter enough for Christmas". Usually or rather in the past she has then taken me out to pick something. This year I said "yes you did and no you don't have to get me anything more".

Reasons why my mom gives me plenty and does plenty for me.

She listens to me obsess and be overly anxious.
She tells me repeatedly not to worry.
She always helped me in school when I needed it, from kindergarten on. I would not have gotten as far as I did if she had not helped me.
When she goes on vacation she always calls me once a day.
She worries about me if I go out at night, she always wants to know where I am at or where I'm going.
She tells me that I am a good person and that I am her sweet daughter even when I'm not feeling so much the good person.
Even though I get annoyed with her and some times am not always nice to her she still loves me and still refers to as her sweet daughter. (except I have this theory that you tend to take things out on the people you care about and that care about you because they'll love you no matter what or so you assume).
She taught me my love of reading.
She has always been there for me and supportive of me.
She lets me come in to her room at night so that I can talk her ear off even though she's tired.
She doesn't think she got me enough for Christmas but she did..she got me plenty because she loves me.

There are a lot more reasons but these are the most important ones.

Merry Christmas everyone.

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Now I can read whatever I want...

nobody@vox.com(Christa) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:42:23 -0800

My TBR pile

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Sweet Silver Lining - Kate Voegele

nobody@vox.com(Christa) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:20:59 -0800

Im going home
Downhearted and hoping
Im close to some new beginning
I know
Theres a reason for everything
That comes and goes

But so many people are looking to me
To be strong and to fight
But Im just surviving
I may be weak but Im never defeated
And Ill keep believing
In clouds with that sweet silver lining

Most days
I try my best to put on a brave face
But inside
My bones are cold and my heart breaks
But all the while
Somethings keeping me safe
And alive

But so many people are looking to me
To be strong and to fight
But Im just surviving
I may be weak but Im never defeated
And Ill keep believing
In clouds with that sweet silver lining

I wont give up like this
I will be given strength
And now that Ive found it
Nothing can take that away

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graduation

nobody@vox.com(Christa) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:59:30 -0800

I'm done with school and I am exhausted but for some reason sleep has not been coming easily to me. I have been tossing and turning for the past three nights. I wake up around 1 am and I can' t seem to fall back to sleep for another hour. Then I woke up around 6 am and had the same problem. I am so exhausted and yet my mind won't let me sleep, it's just racing a million miles a minute. Hopefully tonight I will finally fall asleep.

Friday I had a ceremony that was just for my school. They had refreshments for us and we could talk with all the professors and our parents could meet with them as well. It wasn't a cap and gown ceremony so we just wore business casual clothing. I was so nervous that I pretty much didn't eat the entire day. I really don't like being the center of attention and I get really nervous being in front of crowds even if I don't have to say anything! They did pass out a little certificate and did a couple of speeches.

That night my brother, dani and the kids showed up and brought New York Pizza which is just sooo yummy. We basically just talked for the night and didn't do anything exciting and then I went to bed early but couldn't sleep. I woke up Saturday and Dani did my makeup which was really nice of her and I think she did a good job. I was again really nervous for this ceremony because this time I was walking across a stage to get a memento of sorts. Also my whole entire family was coming to this ceremony as well as other important people in my life. I was having panic attacks in the morning and almost crying and Dani had just done my makeup so I had to keep calming myself down. Then my mom came in and told me how proud she was of me and almost made me cry again! The ceremony ended up going well and I found some friends to sit with so I wasn't alone. However when I was walking across the stage and I basically tuned everyone out and just looked straight ahead. I didn't hear anyone cheering for me because I was just way to nervous.

My mom threw a party for me and we had Eegees and cup cakes as well as a couple of other treats. It was a very a nice day but again I ended up being really exhausted but like I said I couldn't sleep :o(.

We celebrated Christmas with my brother and his family today. We had a family breakfast and then opened presents. After they left I went with my mom to the grocery store because it's her birthday and I thought I'd help out. After that I have pretty much just sat here doing nothing except reading through my google reader and uhh staring at the wall. If there are any mistakes in this I apologize now but I'm too tired to go back and read through it and check it!

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One more..

nobody@vox.com(Christa) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:30:33 -0800

I have one more final in my under graduate career and right now I am just thinking about all the books I can finally read.

Well that and what to get my masters in...

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Hey,

nobody@vox.com(Christa) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:01:32 -0800

I'm not really looking forward to the next week..at all. In fact I've been putting it out of my mind and hoping that I'll just wake up on Friday, next Friday not tomorrow. I am pretty much a bundle of nerves...anxiety...meh. I get to see The Princess and the Frog tomorrow night with my sissy though..

Christa

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call it what you want

nobody@vox.com(Christa) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:55:08 -0800

City of Glass (Mortal Instruments)

Cassandra Clare

Wrote this in an e-mail

....I finished City of Glass last night. She put in a Harry Potter reference again and I don't know if she does it on purpose or if it's something she doesn't even realize she's doing. This time she said "but you look like him*-except for your eyes, those are your mother's". Honestly that almost ruined the whole entire book for me because it was a blatant rip off of Harry Potter but I digress. (I just looked that up to make sure I was using it correctly). Anyway I did really like the book besides that nonsense and I liked the way it ended. The weird thing is the whole time I read the book I had this feeling that she was writing it in a way that she was hoping it would become a movie some day. I can't really explain it but that's just the feeling I got because she would go in to description about things that you swear you could literally see it play out in a movie. I still recommend this series, it was pretty enjoyable.

I read at her website she is actually going to be writing a fourth one even though she finished the series with the three but I guess it is about Simon. She also is writing another book that is with the same people from the mortal instruments but in a different era.

*him = father

I got this book from Barnes and Noble or Borders, one of those two.

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Two posts in one day

nobody@vox.com(Christa) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:31:09 -0800

Things I really enjoy doing (so therefore am thankful I can do them):

· Talking books with people so basically I like to read to
· Hanging out with Zack and Co. (Co. being anyone else that I really enjoy their company)
· Going to the movies
· Girls nights
· Having happy hour
· Debating with anyone that is willing to debate with a stubborn girl

What I am Thankful for:

· Ice cream (Haha just had to throw that out there)
· My family (all of them including immediate and extended as well as “might as well be family”) for whom I could not have succeeded in the ways that I have without them
· Having a sister-in-law that knows me. So in essence knows how to shop for me (She says that she knows me better then my own brother which is true)
· Zack (He puts up with me but I put up with him so we’re a pair)
· I’m graduating with a B.S. in Family Studies and Human Development in December (this has sort of been a long hard road for me but it was worth it)
· My mom who also puts up with a lot especially dealing with my anxiety
· Being able to laugh and having all five senses!
· Little things in life like cupcakes, Oliver kisses, and warm snuggly hoodies
· My new lap top! He’s so pretty!
· All the DVDs/Books I have giving me an endless amount of entertainment.

What am I not Thankful for?

· Constant migraines
· Mushrooms

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In which I talk about the movie 2012

nobody@vox.com(Christa) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:25:48 -0800

I am going to preface this by saying that I am going to spoil this movie (2012) in the following paragraphs and so if you’re the sort of person that doesn’t like that happening to you then you should stop reading when I tell you to! But if you've seen one Roland Emmerich movie then I'm pretty sure you know how the movie will play out.

I went to see 2012 with my cousin and I was not dragged. I willingly went and saw it and actually I can give you a little preface on the whole thing.

First Zack told me about it and I saw the teaser trailer where not much happens except destruction and a lot of black and 2012 coming soon. And I thought yeah there’s action so I’ll go see it.

Second I saw another teaser trailer with just a little bit more and I thought to myself that I would still go see it but I don’t know if I would race to theater to see it.

Third I saw the actual trailer where you get to see who’s starring in it because before I never paid attention to it and this was my reaction “OMG JOHN CUSACK IS IN THIS?!?! OMG I must go see this! I will be there opening weekend!”

Alright now that we’ve established that I love John Cusack and will simply be biased about anything from here on out you might want to skip this review altogether! No just kidding read it because I might be making fun of 2012! Although I totally think everyone should go see it because it’s so bad that it’s really good! Worth that 10 bucks (well in my case 7.25 since I went to the matinee.)

This is where you should stop reading!

This film was directed by Roland Emmerich who directed such films as Independence Day which is FREAKIN awesome and you know possibly one of the best action movies of my time. You just can’t go wrong with Will Smith beating up aliens and stuff. Then he moved on to direct such films as The Day After Tomorrow which I think I was some how tricked in to seeing because ID4 was so awesome that I thought that you know he could do it again! I think maybe The Day After Tomorrow’s only real redeeming quality is that Jake Gyllenhaal is in it which is why it has a place in my DVD collection and well I kind of liked it. Kind of…

Moving on…

So is it me or does every single Roland Emmerich “The earth is in terrible peril” movie kind of have the same story line? I don’t know if that last sentence really made sense but here’s the thing they all have the same story line! You see he starts out the movie with some catastrophic event that some scientist finds out about and has to go tell the world and at first the person he wants to tell doesn’t want to listen to him and then he does! Then he’s like you better get ready because you are about to meet the president! Then switches to a scene with the president telling other countries that the world is coming to an end in so many years! ONLY the scientist guy got it WRONG! It turns out you only have like 30 minutes to prepare for whatever is inevitable. Well ok I’m exaggerating there were a couple of years where they obviously had to prepare for the end of the world in this movie but the scientist still calculated wrong and they quickly have to alter things. Also there always seems to be a divorced couple that finds each other in the end again.

So basically the first few scenes is “omg the world is coming to an end because of some scientific stuff that I can’t even go in to” and it basically takes forever to get to scenes with John Cusack (yay!). John Cusack is a divorced father of two who hates the guy his ex-wife is dating and his son is basically angry at him. Also his daughter has a thing for hats which I think is suppose to serve for some comic relief for something that happens later on in the movie when LA is falling in to the ocean. Anyways John(YAY!) or Jackson takes his kids on a camping trip that ultimately will be cut short because Amanda Peet’s character wants him to bring them home immediately due to the fact that she was in the grocery store when a major earth quake happened that split it in half. Sorry about that run on sentence! While they are on this camping trip they meet Woody Harrelson who of course plays this crazy character and Jackson finds out all this conspiracy type stuff that’s going on and how the end of the world is near and that these giant “ships” are being built but you have to have lots of money to get on them! Also Woody Harrelson’s character likes pickles just throwing that out there.

So Jackson (YAY!) brings his kids back and then it turns out he is a limo driver for some Russian rich guy and finds out that this rich guy is actually going to get on the “ship”. Oh and you know basically LA is about to become nothing and that’s pretty much what happens for the next few scenes. Jackson some how manages to get a plane and rescues his kids, Amanda peet and the boyfriend (Gordon) and they make it to the air port just in time only the pilot is dead! But that’s ok because Gordon knows how to fly a plane or just barely I guess which also serves as some comic relief. For whatever reason they are unable to really get the plane in the air so they have to fly through all the tumbling buildings and blah blah blah. My cousin had to make a comment about it to which I told her to be quiet because a.)John Cusack(YAY!) is in this movie and b.) I love action and all I could think about was how good this would look on blu-ray!

Sooo after all that they go back to get the map from crazy Woody Harrelson who doesn’t want to go with them and wants to die while watching the world come to an end and die he does. But the catch is the ships are in China! They have to get a bigger plane! Turns out they run in to Jackson’s (YAY!) Russian boss and then they have a plane! Only they need a co-pilot but that’s ok because Gordon knows how to fly a plane but not really! Also Gordon is a plastic surgeon and did the Russian boss’s girlfriend’s(who I will now call RBG) boobs so they know each other. RBG is really nice and apparently was having an affair with some other guy and so when they finally make it to China ,and not without a lot of trouble either, Russian boss ditches them all but he doesn’t make it on the ships anyways.

Well whatever Jackson(YAY!) and Co. plus RBG and RBG’s dog some how make it to the ships that turn out to be not space ships but arks. They sneak on to the ships with some help only a lot of stuff happens and you know they almost don’t make it and basically I’m getting tired of writing everything that happens in this movie because it was 2 hours 38 minutes! Which actually it didn’t feel that long since enough was going on that I was entertained! But they almost don’t make it..well RBG doesn’t make it and neither does Gordon. Which come on that’s just not fair! All Gordon wanted was a family and to be happy and thought Jackson(YAY!) was so lucky! But Gordon had to die obviously so that Jackson and Amanda Peet could find each other again and the family could live happily ever after!

On a side note there are a lot of other scenes I’m not mentioning like the President dieing in a huge Tsunami wave because he insisted on staying behind rather then going to the ships with everyone else. There is also a lot of other around the world scenes where the world is coming to an end and more science guy scenes as well.

And lastly as my cousin says the whole world meets its end except for the thing that is meant to save them. That some how manages to make it through it all and they set sail for Africa because of course there is still land for people to populate.

Now what did I learn from this movie? That if I’m not rich then I sure as heck better go to Yellowstone and meet some crazy Wood Harrelson type character to tell me about said “ships” so that I can make my way to China. That or find John Cusack(YAY!) because I’m certain he’ll know what to do!

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