Well, here I am at the computer watching TVU like always, its almost Christmas. I'm a little upset because Showbread was number 3 on the countdown, and thats not good enough, so everyone needs to start going to www.tvulive.com and voting for the Ten Most Wanted, and vote for the 'Bread. We got to open a present tonight, as per usual, and I opened the new Further Seems Forever cd from my sister, and it is awesome. I highly recommend it, the first two songs will knock your sock off. I'm really getting excited, because less than 2 days from now, I'll be in GA with Katie!! Yippee!
What else has been going on? Well, basically the same sitting around and watching tv, then coming here to the computer to watch TVU. MC gave me a gift certificate to Blockbuster and I went and got The Iron Giant!!! For those of you who have not seen this move, go rent it now. It is definitely one of the top animated movies of all time. Its got a great story, and was written and directed by Brad Bird, who later made the incredible, The Incredibles.
I also finished Dark Tower book 5, but I can't get book 6 because the liberry was closed today, so I'm reading HP until I can move on. I don't know if I updated since then, but HP6 comes out July 16th, 2005!!! Yippee skippy doo!! Okay, I'm actually kind of tired, so I'm going to watch a bit more TVU then go on to bed! Happy Christmas, all and to all a good light.
Godspeed
So tonight, contrary to all my pressings for the Incredibles, my family went to see National Treasure. It was decent, predictable and very DaVinci Code wanna-be. However, it did have Boromir in it, and that is good enough for me. Plus it had the teaser trailer for Hitchhiker's Guide, which I am eagerly anticipating.
Katie got back from Wisconsin today, so I actually got to talk to her for a decent amount of time, that really helped me make it through the monotony of the day. There really is just nothing to do during the middle of the day. Nothing good comes on tv, there is only so much to do online, so I basically wind up reading all day. I have demolished 3 books, 6 graphic novels, and 250 pages of my current book since I have been at home. Not bad for 6 days, eh? Well if anyone has been reading the posts on roperisdumb.com or playing games on gsn.com, look out for conniedarko, because those have been my hangouts of late online.
BIG NEWS!!!! J.K. Rowling opened her secret door on the website, and after making my way through the clues, you find out that the release date for Half-Blooded Prince will be announced within the next 24 hours!!! She turned in her English transcript to the publishers!!! Woohoo!!! Ok, that was a great ending.
Godspeed
well, bad news. As I have been cruising the internet during my free time, I learned that the sister of the guitarist for Anberlin passed away about a week ago. I was reminded of this just this moment, because their video is playing on TVU, which I am watching as I write this. Sorry to start off on such a downer. For good news, I've been watching the 10 Most Wanted on TVU every night and Showbread has been #1 for the past 3 days! Rock solid. Katie is still up in Wisconsin, but she says its good, its even snowing there (as of an hour ago when she called me). I wish it was snowing here.
I've almost beat my Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy game, its a really good Zelda clone, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who needs a cheap (only 12 bucks used) new game to play over the break. Also, we watched Cheaper by the Dozen last night for my like 4th time. Its an ok movie, but it really starts to get on my nerves after I've seen it this many times.
I'm trying to convince my parents to see the Incredibles, cuz I'm all up for seeing it a couple more times, and my parents havent seen it yet, so why not. Well, drop that for today, I just got up to ask mom, and it turns out she left and went to the church when I wasn't paying attention, and since she's got a wedding to do tonight, it will probably have to wait. Poop.
Well, thats about all. Drop me a line and tell me about your holidays.... please... I'm so lonely.
Godspeed
So, I'm at home now and there really isn't much to do. I've played some nintendo and Doom 3, watched some tv, and read some, but nothing really big. Katie arrived safely in Wisconsin this morning, so she is working on getting her wedding dress all fitted to her. I worked a little on my story this afternoon, and I rekindled my love for Mythbusters last night.
For those not in the know, Mythbusters is another great show on Discovery in which they put urban myths to the test to find out whether or not they are possible. Also, last night was the repeat of the 2 hour premiere of LOST, and next week they are continuing the repeats so its a great time to get on board, i Tivo'ed it on my parents Tivo to watch over and over. But back to Mythbusters, this time they made a rocket chair, presumably to launch him into space with fireworks, it didn't work, but boy did it fail spectacularly! So, another reason to keep your eyes glued to the TV on wed nights. Anywho, I'm watching some TVU live online now, watching for the Showbread video. So, I'm out!
Godspeed
Well, I have finished the first semester of my senior year, and now I'm in Mobile for the break. Katie is at home with her family too, so I miss her now, but we will be together right after Christmas, so I just have to make it that far.
Nothing else is really new, I just wanted to get on and let everyone know that I'm done and will hopefully be able to write a few things over Christmas (if something actually happens).
I saw Blade:Trinity and Ocean's Twelve, both were pretty good, but I happened to like Blade better, because Ocean's Twelve just didn't hold up to the original, where Blade was better than both of its previous movies. Anywho, have a great Christmas, I'll be back soon@
Godspeed
So, all I have to do now is write my Youth Ministry paper, and I'm one semester away from graduating from LaGrange College. Currently, I am watching The Rundown with Chuck, Dani, Ryan, and Dan's bro Ben. Talk about a great movie, its all about fun and action. No need for a really strong plot, because it rocks so much. Hahahahaa, just in case you didn't know it stars the Rock, and so that was a pun. I'm really funny.
For those of you who have not gotten onto the LOST bandwagon yet, this wednesday they are replaying the first two episodes at 8/7c, so please tune in and see what I've been raving about.
I also decided this week (with Katie) that we really need to move close to my brother and sister-in-law, because I really need someone to play D&D with, and no one here really wants to play. Plus, Dan and I have to be close so we can get to work on our comic shop.
Oh, I finally started Dark Tower 5. I'm loving every minute of it, but I feel sad because I haven't been able to work on my own story in a couple of weeks. Hopefully after I finish this paper and over Christmas break I'll be able to squeeze out a couple more pages.
And finally, for some sad news.... The Supertones are breaking up. Yes, next year will be their final year. 10 years of awesomeness and they have been one of my favorite bands, but oh well. So, they join the ranks of Five Iron and Bleach. I'll be sure to see them on their farewell tour next year, I mean Roper will be with them, so it has to be a great show. Anyways, back to the movie.
Godspeed
Well, who knew that having four guys huddled around a tv playing Super Smash Bros. Melee could be so time consuming? That's mainly what my late night free time (usually reserved for playing on the internet) has become now. Its been great though, Ryan Snider has been rocking the new catchphrases. "Pika-Domination" is his motto - hence the title. We are hoping to make shirts that have Join the Nation on the front and on the back would be Pikachu and the words "Pika-Domination." Also, this time has been great for me to listen to the Showbread CD that I have been borrowing from Ryan... talk about awesome.
The only sad thing about this finals time is that both Katie and I are stuck on duty 24 hours and therefore dont get to see each other very much:( However, today we got to go to a couple of Christmas parties (seeing how it is reading day and everything gets planned on that day). So, I got two cool White Elephant gifts, a plush Junior Asparagus, and an awesome Noah's Ark set that came packaged with a sticker set of all 12 Apostles (rock on!) Katie and I did get to go to Columbus this weekend and finish up our Christmas shopping (plus I got 3 new GameCube games thanks to the sale at GameStop).
I finally finished the Dark Tower book 4, after a getting a huge chunk done over Thanksgiving, and now I've only got 3 of those books left before I can move on in my reading agenda (LOTR is next, then the HP books again).
It turns out that I don't have to take a final for Apostolic Age class, because I got an A- on my research paper, and he said we could count that as our final if we wanted to, so woohoo! Now, all I have to do is take a final on thursday at 8 in the morning for Medieval Kings and Queens, and then I have two papers to write (one by sat and one by mon) and then I am done for the semester and I head down to Mobile for Christmas. Whew, that sure is crazy!
Anywho, I'm off to go study and play nintendo, but mostly just play nintendo.
Godspeed
"Your eulogy is like poetry, but your mouth is like a magazine."
Showbread
