Kickin' it.

If I wasn't such a lazy slob, I would get my trash to the flippin gym. I went yesterday- good lass that I am. Honestly, fear is a great motivator. I am so afraid of getting my ass kicked at Boot Camp that I have been working on push-ups, sit-ups and running like never before.

I fear that man.

I am going to go take another practice ASVAB and I still have to talk to the Navy, Air Force, and Nat'l Guard before I make a final decision as to which branch; it boils down to where I can get the best job, and how it jives with Chad and his itinerary.

Really, I am looking back at my 26 years of life and... I'm thoroughly convinced it would make a good TV show. If the Hansens aren't enough of a TV show in and of themselves. I have really been all over the board. When we were babies my mom would make up a song for each of her kids and sing it as she changed our diapers or whatever. One song (Not mine, ironically, but my rival sibling's) listed off a bunch of things that she envisioned this child doing; a cowboy, a missionary, an army man.... Well in a few weeks, you know who that song is really going to be about? Me. Myself. I just wanted to point that out, because humans are vain, petty little brats, and I am no exception.

Chad says that I shouldn't be scared of Boot Camp (it's really called Basic Training, as it turns out, but I like to call it Boot Camp anyhow), but I think it's good to be scared of it. Fear can make you run faster, punch harder. Fear either makes you get your ass kicked, or it makes you kick ass. And I'm all out of ass-kicked.

Chad

When I wake up,
Well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the one who wakes up next to you,

When I go out,  

Well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the one who goes along with you, 

If I get drunk,

Well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the one who gets drunk next to you,
And if I haver, 

Yeah I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the one who's havering to you 

 

So, good news. I'm totally in love. With that guy.

I am astounded by my good luck; he loves me, too. 

Kind of Merry...

Well. Halloween is officially over and it's time to stop moping and get excited about Thanksgiving/My Birthday/the Hodgepodge of holidays that make up the Christmas season.
I'm kind of religious about the whole Christmas thing. I go crazy.

I'm Thankful...

I think that this morning was the tipping point: apparently we forgot to blow out the scented candles last night (SUPER smart, I know) so when I walked into the living room it smelled kind of like Santa's Workshop and when I peeked outside I discovered this season's first snow.
Merry!
Kind of merry. I slid thru a stop sign about one block away from my house and could've merrily died right there, but thankfully I stopped before collision. Plus the other car totally saw that I was sliding and gave me that sympathetic "It happens to us all, man" look as they drove by. Butch Cassidy has a bad habit of handling poorly in the rain and snow, so you can imagine that there will be very little actual dashing thru the snow.

Oh, the good ol' days

Butch Cassidy is the name of my Jeep, for those who are wondering what the hell I'm talking about.

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Butch Cassidy and I are going to be taking a little trip up to Truckee on Wednesday. I am interviewing for a job up there, a Junior Wedding Planner job which would kind of be ideal. I just wish it was down the merry lane and not over the semi-frozen river and thru the icy woods.
Why are all of our jobs so far away? Sheesh! Chad works in Carson and I'll be working in Truckee!? What happened, Reno? You are THREE TIMES THE SIZE of these places, why can you not provide jobs?
Anyhow, I think I'll get a festive nail polish and paint my fingernails. We are trying to conserve moolah these days, but I think I can forgive myself a merry bottle of nail polish. I'll get the cheap kind.

announcement

i would like to announce that it is Halloween time.

The Many Parties of Halloween

Halloween is in a few days and it's giving me cause for great excitment and also great distress.
For as long as I can remember my maternal family (the Hansens) have had a fun family Halloween Bash at Nanny's (our matriarch) house. Each year has been a little different, but has always included; The 1949 version of Disney's Legend of Sleepy Hollow (narrated by Bing Crosby!), dry ice in a cauldron of root beer (it makes a cool fog), devilled eggs, 'worms in dirt' (gummy worms in chocolate pudding and crushed Oreos), music from Disney's Haunted Mansion, and general riotous behaviour from my 40+ cousins, most still in thier trick-or-treating stages.
Well, this year Nanny has decided that, after 25 years of putting on the darn party, she's ready to call it quits. So the tradition was quickly adopted my my parents, "Uncle Robert and Aunt Nellie" to the majority of my family. This puts me in a predicatment.
See, my family and I have had a bit of a disagreement recently, and sadly we find ourselves a bit estranged while we sort out our differences. And even sadder, the nature of our disagreement makes my welcome in the house a bit worn out.
So I may or may not be able to exersize my usual duties as the 'Hallow-queen' and spook up the place.
Either way, I'll be having a pre-party from 7-10ish and then later I'll be heading to a club called Edge for 'Night of the Dead', where my friends and I will indulge in a different type of riotous behaviour.

 

 

And that will be my Halloween Night. Until the afterparty back home.

But I have fun things yet to do until then! Today Chad and I are going to pick out our costumes, and on Monday or Tuesday we'll go to the cornmaze and carve some jack'o'lanters.

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Dracula 1931 - Spanish! Did you know!?

Anyone who knows me know that I am DEVOTED to Bela Lugosi and the 1931 version of Dracula. But very few people are even aware that a second version of Dracula was filmed at the same time! Altho it is barely known, this version of Dracula is actually superior to the one that I laud in several scenes. I think that the Spanish version is cinematically superior, and I even favor a few actors altogether! If I could merge the two films, I'm sure I could get a classic we'd still watch around Halloween today! (I mean other than people like me who are huge nerds when it comes to classic horror films)
I'd keep Bela Lugosi as Dracula (of course),  Dwight Frye as Refield, Edward Van Sloan as Dr. Van Helsing, change the language to my far more beautiful English, and keep the rest of the movie in the Spanish version! Watch it and see what you think! (Oh yeah- and I'd keep the original names from the novel. I never got why they changed that.)

The Bride of Frankenstein

This Movie is kind of sad- I can't help but feel terrible for the Monster (who is not ACTUALLY named Frankenstein!)