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and you wouldn't mind terribly, there's a tie in need of a breaker over HERE at disneychrtricon.

The tie-breaker was broken. ;)

He met Kelly. Technically, he spoke to him twice, but there is photo evidence.

The Drifter is the new movie Travis and Rob made. I enjoyed it even though I've never actually seen a surf movie before and didn't quite get it immensely.

Good soundtrack, too. I had to laugh during the credits, as one of the songs was by Tegan and Sara and half of my f-list has been going on about this group. I have no clue who they are, though. Must look into this.

The wind was annoying. J and I thought we were back in Wyoming. TRUE STORY. The waves were pretty crappy, but CJ won the short-board. Shocker It cooled off enough that I was wishing I had either A. worn jeans or B. brought a blanket.

Because I'm a HUGE dork, I took my copy of Surf's Up, just in case Kelly and Rob were signing autographs. I, of course, chickened out, so the brother got the DVD signed for me.

I'M TALLER THAN KELLY SLATER! o.O Okay, maybe we're even... but, still!

There was a silent auction - got a sweatshirt and tanktop for $15 - and I've got a post-beach headache. Of course, the wind is blowing outside, so it could be weather-related in general.. *le sigh*

Anyway, managed to write a bit on the way out, and sitting on the beach. And sitting at the bar, waiting. Spent some of this morning rewriting/padding. Unfortunately, the prompts are from a now-dead comm (10_letters), but I still wanted to write them.

The question is: Post each one seperately, or at once? They sort of tell a story - letters from Jeb to Adora, while he's off being a soldier. Thoughts on this, Tin Man f-list?

More later.... as I need to run over to Target and get some groceries before the game. GO CHARGERS!

PIMPING:
* VOTING is open for Challenge 45 at disneychrtricon
* VOTING is open for Challenge 23 at woz_stills

Snagged this from cerisereve

1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/TV shows/bands that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.

2. Have your f-list guess your favorite character/member from each item.

3. When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

1. Numb3rs (this one's easy)- Don Eppes cerisereve
2. Stargate Atlantis (this one's easy too)- John Sheppard cerisereve
3. Stargate SG-1- Sam Carter cerisereve
4. The West Wing- Josh Lyman cerisereve
5. The Twilight Series (I know, I know. It got me hooked)
6. Backstreet Boys
7. NSync- JC cerisereve
8. Spice Girls
9. Titanic (movie)
10. Stargate Universe- Lt. Matt Scott cerisereve
11. Harry Potter
12. Lord of the Rings
13. Third Watch (TV show)
14. Flashpoint
15. Las Vegas (TV show)

*loves on giant mug*
*sips*

So... I'm wearing shorts. *cue Kevin McCallister* And a sweatshirt, because I just am cold... It's always the upper that's cold, though. At Disney, I was always in shorts and a fleece.

Anyway: SHORTS

Also, I'm mad at myself - not Steve - for yesterday's characteraday post. I was minding my own business, surfing for a photo (we've had a lot of guys in a row) of a girl with roses. And then there was this fancy wedding dress and I'm not sure what the photo had to do with roses and I had the idea for the question of the day.

Okay, I had the answer for the question of the day. But, as I was filling out the post, Steve tweaked it to someone else. But even I thought that would be mean, so I tweaked it a little more.

Long story short: Steve has issues.

I'd picked the Title-a-Week post before the photo, so the irony of the plotbunny was FAR from lost, and managed to plot a little more. Even more creepy!fitting was that the second I started to write the first sentence of the drabble!scene, shuffle kicked to a rather fitting song and reworked the scene I had planned.

Longer story short: 1449 words later and I can't get Steve to shut up. O.o

Anyway, J managed to work a deal and is leaving early, so we can get out to the beach earlier than planned. Not sure when we'll be home, of course, as the movie doesn't start until 6ish or later. But Rob posted to his Facebook last night that he was in Florida, so J is fangirling like crazy.

My brother is suck a dork! :D

I hope he gets the chance to meet Kelly and Rob, even though I know that's just one more thing he won't shut up about.... I'm tempted to take my copy of Surf's Up along, just in case they're signing stuff...

CHUKANACHAKA!

Anyway... so that's today's random. :)

Any photo requests?

Also: VOTING is open at disneychrtricon

Hi all!! *waves*
I've been neglecting my LJ because of this not so new thing called Twitter. Follow me on Twitter to get the most up-to-date goings on with me. http://twitter.com/k8t85

-K

Today, I'm back in Ohio. All four pages of Ohio. But, I'm geting the hang of this updating without really updating... Pretty much just focusing on the insets.

In other news: I really want to learn how to play the guitar. Or, I just want to have a pretty guitar to look at. Would probably end up sitting in the corner, like the brother's longboard. But, I digress.

I swear the A/C is on at work. Seriously - there's a chill outside and I have to put on a sweatshirt ONCE I get inside. WTF? o.O

Supposedly, we're going to Cocoa Beach tomorrow to see Kelly and Rob and CJ and Damo and I'm excited and contemplating wearing SHORTS. It's wild! %]

I love my icons, because each one has a purpose, just when I need it. But I'm in the mood for new ones. But I'm not in the mood to go looking. I found some great icon sites, but nothing's tagged and I don't feel like sifting through all the Twilight posts to see what else might be there. I'm lazy like that.

I have to beta a CSI:NY fic, because I keep forgetting about it. And I need to do some spot-beta work for luxuria_oceanus. And update the memories at tinman_fic. And the masterlists at characteraday. And figure out what to do with the layout at alphabetdrabble.

I've also now got THREE songs for the Team Special Hell fanmix (aka tsh_unite), thanks to Richard Marx. Yes, TSH is still specifically Mal/River, but the songs fit the whole concept. So that makes me HAPPY.

I miss the Big Damn Prompt Table at tm_challenge. It got me through NaNo last year. And writing, in general. Maybe I can round out the rest of the tm_ficfest list. Either way, I'm looking forward to the weekend, because work is REALLY cutting into my attention span.

In other-other news: It's payday! \O/

Also: Amelia needs some love over at disneychrtricon.
And there's also some love needed over at woz_stills

The Magic Carpet ride in Disney's Aladdin! Music! Flying! Apples! Fireworks! All it needed was some chocolate!

:-)

and Supernatural has me completely cracking up...

*sigh*

Speaking of aDORKable:


OMG THESE CREDITS!!

EDIT: I can't breathe..... *snort*
EDIT 2: Knight Rider!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The empire strikes back

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Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

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I went out at lunch to look at the apartment and forgot about the monthly meeting.

Go me...

*facepalm*

that never get a proper soundtrack.

Case in point: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

( movie fangirlery AHOY! )

Long story short TOO LATE!: I LOVE THIS MOVIE

Except for that pesky no soundtrack-thing. Why? Well, I'm at work - naturally - and I just got the North Dakota page. What's stuck in my head? Dakota. The "theme" for the big move to Rapid City. And I can't get it out of my head, because I don't have it to listen to. I can't hunt YouTube in case there's a clip, because I'm at work. I can't pull out the VHS OR the DVD, because I'm at work.

So, I have Dakota stuck on repeat. JOY.

From memory:
*starts with Detroit, from The Happiest Millionaire - aka the first of the three book-to-movie movies and the last film Walt personally oversaw before his death and my ABSOLUTE favorite movie EVER and a whole other fangirlery post*
*Gibbs-slaps self*
*can't remember how it starts...* O.o
*gives you the chorus*

Dakota, oh Dakota... Where a man stands tall
Dakota, oh Dakota... Where there's land for all

Anyway... welcome to my world, y'all... So, f-list: How's that for a random post!? :)

EDIT:

It is annoying me GREATLY. But, I digress.

* As of show taping yesterday, the Colbert Nation had raised $40,000. *high fives Nation*
* Michael Buble sang the Top Ten last night on Letterman and it was BRILLIANT. I'll search for the video later and link. Should have looked when I was still at home. Whatever. BRILLIANT!
* NCIS was WIN, because of Abby's obsession with the boat, the Mike and Tony snark at the door and Mark Harmon and Robert Patrick in the same scene. TWICE! Even if RP's hair was scaring me a little. I feel like I missed an episode, though, because I didn't recognize the one guy. And I don't remember the bit about Mike's son.
* I must not have set the notifications for classic_disneys, because I missed voting. I wasn't expecting to place ANYWHERE, mind you. But I'm trying to branch out the creativity, etc.
* I finished my table for gilmore20in20, but as it's only three days in, and not due until the 20th, I don't want to over-achieve more and post so early
* I saved a spamable squee last night for something, and can't remember what it was. But it was something I meant to mention a few days ago. I guess I should have spammed...
* Donny Osmond is still on Dancing with the Stars. Almost makes me kinda want to start watching the show. But I won't. Still: GO DONNY!! \O/
* I found last night, after watching three or four episodes of SVU, that I actually liked it. This disturbs me, though, because I have no frame of reference past FRED!! and DANN!!
* Day Three of NaNo followed Day Two - go figure - with nothing being written. Well, I did type one sentence. And I pondered whether or not to rewrite the first 1000ish words. But, do I just count the rewrite as what I wrote, or only count the new words? I got bored with thinking about it and decided to put laundry away. If I could just start getting the words out, I'd be golden. *sigh*

Pimping:
Challenge 45 - Captain Amelia - at disneychrtricon
Challenge 23 - Somewhere Over the Rainbow lyrics - at woz_stills
VOTING for Challenge 73 is open over at obidalastills.

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I made a new friend on Saturday night...

He has a bit of a temper... and snorts in your ear.

Darth Maul had the same snorty-breathing thing going on....

o.O

I'm starting to think it's just me...

Also: CURSES on USA, as I've been watching L&O: SVU since I got home from work. Whyfor no NCIS USA? o.O

It's a one-time thing. Really. I mean it. damnit

and pimp:

And, if you'd care to pimp it out yourself:
<a href="https://webpoint.usspeedskating.org/wp/Transactions/Donate.asp"><img src="http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd30/gateship01/random/colbert.png"></a>

Really. This happened last night: Colbert goes for gold, sponsors US speedskating
( the full article )
Soon as I see a link for more info, I'll pass it on!

In other news... I found myself up until 2am. This is BAD. I'd leave for work, but I'm not sure I want to risk my system settling into the time change and then I'm screwing myself over. But, this is my 'natural' time, so it might work out... that's a lie: Mountain is my 'natural' time

I've got most of my icons done for gilmore20in20 - I don't care for GIMP, however... I have Print Shop Plus on the laptop; and Photoshop at work. Oh well... I'll live.

NaNo count Day 2: ZERO

Granted, I made no effort to even try... I did rework the scene I wrote on Saturday, though, so that it doesn't jump from OMG!angst to *whistles and winks*

So there's that.

EDIT: If you are interested in helping out the US Speedskating team, go HERE (top right). Or, directly, HERE

You just made my night with the Johnny Dangerously quote...

:D

*kicks LJ notifications again*

Happy Birthday wishes to amedia and turtle_82

Hope you both had a fantastic day!! \O/

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