Season 2 Day 58

It's been over a month.  How'd that happen?

I've been just so not myself lately.   Tonight, wrestling ppv. 

Hobbies have been on hold. Projects on hold.  I'm enjoying the semi mild weather.  Lot's of rain though here.  Lots of migraine headaches too.

Not much to talk about.  Scrapbooking projects getting some of the bulk of my time.

till later

season 2 day 57

oh my it's been a month?  I really lost track of things. 
The last few weeks, I've been working on a new manuscript. It was suppose to be a short story, but it's turned into a novel.
Other then that, I've been having a lot of headaches, mostly due I think to the late hours at the computer typing on the manuscript.

The weekend was busy for my wrestling blog. As it was Wrestlemaina weekend.

As far as my vampire movie a day project, dude, I'm in so much trouble. I haven't worked on it or the side projects in over a week.  I've become the type of person I hate. And I have no excuse for it.

Sorry to my readers, till later

s2Day54

Well, I'm really disappointed today.
Had a scheduled book club, in which I had 3 new members.  None of which showed up.  I'm really beginning to think I'm cursed with this.

Seriously, not sure what I'm doing wrong?  When others pick the selection, no one bothers to read it, when I pick the selection, no one bothers to read it.  Nor does anyone seem to bother letting me know they can't make it either.

Totally sucks.

I keep saying I'm never going to do this again if it fails this meeting.  Then, I always end up giving it another try because I get new people messaging me telling me they are interested.  It's a vicious cycle.

This time I think it was the book itself.  We were reading American Psycho, and even I found it extreme.

Seson 2 Day 53

I was just hanging out on a scrapbooking site, and I've noticed before a common project title.   "project life"   which seems to be done in weeks.
So I started to flip through some of the pieces people have done and even went looking elsewhere online to see their versions on blogs and in videos.

I really like this idea. 
They take a photo a day for a year and scrapbook it. 

I've wanted to do something similar, but at the moment I don't have a colour printer.  When I bought my current printer, I was only thinking about using it for my writing, and sadly it's only a black ink.

Every so often I come across some really creative and beautiful scrapbook pages and ideas.  Today, my hat's off to those who are in the process of creating a 365 Scrapbook

season 2 Day 51

It's been about a week since I checked in on this blog.
This was always meant to be the drama free blog.  So, I suppose not having much to rant about is a good thing.

The vampire challenge is not going as smoothly as I was expecting it to. It just seems that last year's one movie a day challenge, even with all it's faults moved along better.
That makes me a bit sad.

It's funny how we end up living our lives on the internet.  Here I have something- the challenge- which last year was originally meant to be blog only and it expanded to a scrapbook, and changed how I viewed my life, how I interacted with my family, how I planned my day.   And this year's  challenge, which is meant to be more offline, has fallen into a giant crack.  None of the secondary projects connected to the vampire challenge are working proper.

It's all making me think I should go back to the idea of the original challenge.

But anyways, that's where my head is right now. Somewhere between a life online and one in the real world.

till later

Season 2 Day 49

It's a Thursday.
means nothing really. 

Been very addicted to the tv show MI-5 (Spooks)   well, just seasons 7-9 the ones with Richard Armitage.  Cause, you know he's hotter then hell in a bathtub. Spent most of the last week watching all the episodes from those three seasons of the show.

And I've run out of British shows on Netflix Canada to watch.  I'm really hoping that BBC Canada gets  the new show Ripper Street.  Or Global or CTV or one of the Canadian channels, cause it looks pretty groovy.

Seriously, the only British show left is Doctor Who.... and I don't think I could handle that.  I've avoided that show for most of my life, only having to sit through maybe three episodes ever when I was a kid. My cousin and uncle loved Doctor Who.

I'm babbling, but that's okay cause it's my blog.  Speaking of vampires, the vampire movie de jour is up. Day 10 over on the vampire blog...  it was a movie I'd never heard of until yesterday.

okay time for coffee
till later

Season 2 Day 48

Another week, and few days into a new year.

So the vampire themed project is well under way.  You can catch up here if you haven't already.
I'll be doing a weekly round up on the movie blog every Friday, with the links and such. Cause that's just easier on me.

Saw the Hobbit... loved it. Talked about it sort of on the movie blog I say sort of cause... well you'll see if you read the post.

Looks like it will be a big year for me book wise too. Joined some book challenges on GoodReads.  Plus, as I mentioned on my main blog last week, have also got my own book clubs this year again.

That's the small catch up today, I'm hoping to make the vampire blog the "main blog" for the year, sort of like how the movie blog was last year, but plans are plans and things turn out the way things turn out so we'll just have to see.

till later

Season 2 Day 47

it's New Yea's Eve Day

And it's been over a week since I posted on here.  But, it's been the holidays.

So today will mark the end of the One Movie A Day For A Year Challenge over on the movie blog.  And I plan on spending much of the day doing posts on there. 
I have to still watch the last movie.  And find a few bonus posts to blog about.

And then tomorrow a new year, and a new set of topics for the movie blog, vampire blog and etc.
I've decided to do a year of blogging on my vampire blog starting tomorrow. Originally all vampire movies, but I decided to do little bit of everything, vampire movies and tv shows. plus a few other items.  Mostly because I have about 165 vampire films in my collection which is not enough for a full year of just movies. But I do have about 6 complete collections of vampire tv shows. So... you get the idea.

And for those who do follow the movie blog, I will be posting on there a few times a week still.

Happy New Year, stay safe, DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE!

Catch up tomorrow...

Season 2 Day 46

Wake up, check emails, find that there is yet another someone telling me I've been added to yet another site that connects bloggers to ads by one of their users.

Dude, that's so wrong. I'm starting to think that the internet is becoming hell. Hell on earth. 

With that said, I woke up to snow this morning. I knew the the heatwave we have been having that's melted everything was too good too last.

That's about it for now.  Down to 13 days - I think- on the movie de jour blog. Then when the new year starts,  whole new set of movie related projects.

Catch up later

Season 2 Day 45

Leek and potato soup.  Homemade.  Yummy.
Now, if only I had been smart enough to write it down as I was going.  I've got to sit in the kitchen now, and try to remember what and how much of things I put in it.

Now, I have to find a movie for the movie de jour.  Down to something like 14 days left to go on the movie challenge.

Music- I bought the soundtrack to the tv show Nashville.   Love it! 

That's about it for now. Catch up later

Season 2 Day 42

Back at mom's. Staying for the holidays.

Catching up on WWE's NXT, as it's something I can't seem to find online. But thankfully, mom let me keep that in the DVR after I left. Nice, I know. 

Got very hooked on the BBC Sherlock. Watched all of both seasons on Netflix Canada. Now, need to find another show to fill the void.

That's about it for right now.   Need to get my Seth Rollins aka Tyler Black fix.

Till later

Season 2 Day 39

I have literally tuned out the world for the last few days.  I have done nothing but sit in my living room, playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer -Chaos Bleeds,  on PS2. 
Yeah, my game system is that old.  One of these days, I'll save up and buy something new. 
I only stopped to watch the movie de jour when my thumb gets numb and starts to cramp.

I've never been a big gamer.  We had the Nintendo growing up, with about four games for it.  Always more interested in movies then anything else.
I didn't even buy the PS2 until about three...four years ago.  Whenever it was that TNA put out their first Impact game. 
So, I have a grand total of 5 games for the PS2.  Buffy, TNA, a Batman, WWE and a James Bond game.   I've never managed to beat the buffy game at all.  Been playing it off and on since I bought it.

So that's what I'm wasting my time on right now. 

till later

Season 2 Day 38

I know it doesn't always seem it lately,but I'm a big believer in positive thinking.

There is one thing I've learned because of my disability, there is no healing without positive thinking.

And anyone who has managed to make things happen in their life will say the same thing, you put so much of your energy into something and the rest is believing in it.  That goes for everything from work to relationships to finding a really rare issue of Batman #14.   Okay I'm guessing on the comic, but you get my point.

So, I'm part of this forum, and there are a few people on there that when you bring up certain topics, they tell you to stop dreaming. Now, let me just say that the topic they're so negative about is the main topic people end up on the forum for. 
But that's not the point I'm trying to make, the point is for as much positivity a person builds around them and puts into the universe, there are three times the people sending out negativity into the world blocking things from happening.  
And lots of times it's something they don't even realize they are doing.

Season 2 Day 33

Just watching Bold and the Beautiful,  and wondering if the soap will last now that one of the main and first characters has left the show?
After 25 years, one of the core actors decided it was time to move on to other stuff so they killed the character.
Damn eh?  No contract mind change there.

Running down on the movie blog.  Day 331. Aren't endings weird?  The way endings can affect or not affect us. 
Some endings are atomic in our lives and other ends are barely a feather touch.

Season 2 Day 32

There is a tarot site I like to read every so often.  This week, the discussion was about the Three of Swords.
A card about pain and heartbreak but also about brutal truth.

Ironically, my card.  It was the very first card I ever pulled in the first reading I ever had.  The sight of the card, no matter what deck, always leaves the person with a sigh of loathing.
As I was reading the article, it got me thinking about some stuff.

One of those is the fact it has been a silent card the last few months.  But the Two of Swords has been popping up like weeds in the last few months.

The Two of Swords is a card of silent conflict, of disbelief and of being afraid to make a choice. Staying in a situation that is unhealthy because you're too afraid to do anything else.

That card has been everywhere this year. And given my situation, it all makes sense now.  But it took reading about the dreaded Three of Swords for me to make the connection that's been staring me in the face all year.

I'm starting to think that the knee injury was the transition from the two to the three. In real English, whenever I've had a broken leg in my past, it's ended up being a time in my life where I've ended up having a massive life change.  Usually because I was doing something I wasn't suppose to be doing even though I secretly knew better.  And I would end up with a broken leg and have to literally sit still and rethink everything in my life, eventually doing something completely different after recovery.

See, now it's making some sense.

I have been feeling like I'm stuck in some limbo for the last few years, for different reasons.  The writer's block  -I thought was the result- now I'm starting to think it was just a warning sign.

It's what makes working with Tarots such an interesting thing.  Just like every deck's design is different because every illustrator is different, it's going to give you just what you need just when you need it.

Season 2 Day 28

Listening to the Lost Boys soundtrack.  I can't get over the fact this cd is almost 30 years old. Timeless.

Been trying to spread my blogging love around to some of my very neglected blogs. Did a post on the cooking blog the other day, on the wrestling blog, had three days with a short few sentences each on the main blog.
One of these days I'll have my blogging life together.  Just not today it would seem.

Also, was just working on a new story.  Another new story.  Page 8 on it, so this could be promising. I find if I can make it past the first 10 pages, the story usually has a better chance of really getting developed.  Otherwise, it fades into nothingness and I end up forgetting all about why I started to write it to begin with.

Tomorrow, I'm going to see the last chapter in the Twilight Saga.  So I only have to avoid spoilers for another day.

Speaking of vampires and movies... If you have been a regular reader of any of my ramblings, then you know I've been hinting at something themed blog-related for the new year.
Well, part of that is every Tuesday starting in 2013, I'm going to do a post on the movie blog about vampire movies.
There's a shocker for ya eh?   I'm coming to the end of the year for the one movie a day for the year challenge- damn that's a mouthful- and am thinking of how to continue the blog over there.  I'm also going to be doing a second year challenge.
Which I'll talk about when I get it all straightened out in my own head. I've got ideas and need to organize how to do most of them.

catch up later

Season 2 Day 27

I posted on my main blog last night with a painting I was working on -on the computer.  I spent some time yesterday puttering around with ideas for a project.
Well, actually, I spent about four hours yesterday going through iStockphotos and clip art sites looking for something to use in an post but couldn't find anything suitable.
Not totally true, did find a few cool looking photos that would have worked, but they had been downloaded hundreds of times and I've seen them everywhere on book covers and dvd covers and other websites so I didn't want to use them. 
This lead to me spending some time trying to draw something for the project.   Ended up making this really cheesy cartoon, but it will do for now.

And the project itself, is part of the movie challenge. Well, a mix of the movie challenge and one of my goals I was talking about earlier in the week.  Only I suppose since I was talking about it on that website about reaching your goals/dreams it might not make sense for those of you reading this here.

Don't worry, all this will start to make some sense in a few weeks, once I have more pieces in place. 

Succeed or fail.

Season 2 Day 23

Sitting here listening to the new The 69 Eyes cd
I go next week for my last doctor's appointment with the surgeon.

I realized I hadn't come in here the last few days to post.   I've been posting on some of the other blogs I have this week, but nothing serious.

I think that's my problem, I feel like there should be something massively serious for me to be talking about, to be doing.  And really my life is just a bunch of busy nothings.

My highlight yesterday was playing a video game.

Season 2 Day 22

Movies movies movies.
This year I had chosen for me to be the year of movies.  But it wasn't until just a minute ago, when I was reading some of the comments from people on GetGlue about the new Twilight movie, that I realized, this has unwittingly been the year of the movie.

For everyone.  Everyone seems to have had a movie this year that they really are/were looking forward to.  Whether it was the superhero movies like Avengers or Spider-man, or the horror films like Sinister or Paranormal Activity,  or the vampire movies like Dark Shadows or Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter  everyone had a movie this year that they would/have done anything to see. 

Odd that.

I read once that in years when there were massive world traumas movies did better.  People want to escape the reality of how bad things are and movies are the best way to do that.

Looking back on this year for me, that's more then fitting.

Could be why this was such a good year in television too for shows like Once Upon A Time.  The chance to tune out and just escape reality for a few hours.

But Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2.  Holy hell man.  I am starting to think it's the most anticipated movie of the year. Maybe even the last five years. I'd say decade, actually. 

Season 2 Day 21

It's a Sunday.  Yeah, 4 days since I blogged last. Pretty much anywhere other then the movie challenge blog.
I'm becoming a really bad blogger. I have to break that habit ... or you know use the offline time to do something worth blogging about more.

Funny thing that. When I started blogging all them years ago, I had such a busy life, tons of stuff to blog about now, I just babble about nothing really.

So, the last week, been totally into the British tv show  Being Human.   Spent all my time watching it on Netflix Canada.  All four seasons. 
I am going to have to get it on dvd or something and try to find a way to see the new season in a few months when it airs.

yeah, totally addicted.