3 posts tagged “blankets”

Yep, I told you I'd write it!

My Wednesay was your typical, not too exciting Wednesday, up until 2pm, when I, armed with a max pack (large popcorn w/ butter and brewer's yeast, large diet coke, m&ms and milk duds) and accompanied by Spencer, Aubrey and Hanna, finally saw SUPERBAD! I have been dying to see this movie for ages, but haven't gotten the chance, a torture that was made all the more difficult to handle as anyone who is anyone saw it in August.

Sometimes, when you look forward to something for a long time, it disappoints you. SuperBad did not do that. Holy cannoli! It lived up to and surpassed the hype in a big way! But, then, when you have Michael Cera and Seth Rogan (my two favourite Canadians...and on the Top 5 Hottest Guys list - guess the other 3) in it (and writing, in Seth's case), how could you not? If you are often offended by teenagers this movie might not be your cuppa, but if you are a normal person who has not seen it yet, do so immediately. It will change your life. (And check out Knocked Up on DVD as well, if you haven't already. Seth R. + Katherine Heigl = Genius!)

 

When I got home, I finished Blankets, which I had been reading all day, through as many classes and breaks as possible. Oh Em Golly. That is so hardcore an amazing book! If you haven't already, read it. It is definitely being added to my list of the Best Books of my Lifetime (that is, books after 1989 that I adore. There are a lot of books that I love but sometimes it's deeper and more connection than that). Thank you so much, Siobhan, for bringing two amazing books into my life. Speaking of ALFA, I'm getting tired of lending it out because I want to read it again.

 

Something else was waiting for me at home, besides the end of Blankets. A genius box from Keith @ Fred Flare! Um, Hello, I love you! Inside was the crazy awesome Good Life Mix that K sent out to peeps that shot him a B-day Mix (like me!). I put it on the stereo immediately, and it totes started rocking the house. Thanks for the tunes, Keith! I should post the playlist of the mix I sent him...it is a pretty neat selection, I have to say!

 

The other thing that was in the box ('twas a very large box) was a pair of roller skates! (I wish I could find the BFF post about it, Jen looks TOTES cute in them!). Now, I knew that they were there, but still, opening the box and actually seeing them was definitely a thrill! It was even better when they fit (buying shoe-type things online is sketchy). I immediately put them on, of course, and went rollerskating about my house all day. I mean that literally, I didn't take them off until I went to bed, after midnight. It's somewhat surprising that I even took them off then, as my mom pointed out, I'm just the type to sleep in my skates. Just because I'm awesome... Anyway, I haven't tried them out anywhere that is not my house yet, but I did pretty well on them there. It helps that my house is mostly carpeted, though going up/down stairs was somewhat harrowing. Heh heh heh. I'll try to get a pic of me 'n' my skates today, and get that posted up. Because they made my life.

 

The last thing (yes, this is a long list) that was in there was another CD: Thinking of You, by The Kung Fu Girls. Now, the KFGs had been on the Fred Flare Blog recently, but I was so buried in homework and whatnot that I didn't really have a chance to check them out. Boy am I glad that K sent me the CD! I listened to it at least 3 times all the way through that night. They are super-cute and super talented sisters NYC who play poppy rock, kind of like a better, more B.A., chick version of the Plain White T's. ((I found out, on further investigation, that they share a producer with the T's, and are going to go on tour with them!)) I'm going to try to get one of the songs up here - my favourite is "Dance With Me" - but you can check the tunes out at their MySpace page for now, and friend them if you have the 'Space.

It's safe to say that they are my new favourite (non-TH) band!

Grrrr...putrid Firefox. I had my post all half-typed and had to force quit. ::sigh:: I am really too tired to re-type it at the moment, though I'd love to. Instead, I'll just give you the basic outline of things that made my day amazing:

*Seeing SuperBad (finally!)
*Finishing Blankets (Newest Addition to the Best Books Ever list)
*Getting a Big Box From Fred Flare (and the things that were in that box:
*Roller Skates! (Yes, I am still wearing them, thankyouverymuch)
*Super Duper Mix CD! (Keith is a genius DJ!)
*The Kung Fu Girls CD (I seriously love this and have listened to it all the way through three times this evening!)

Tomorrow I shall do my darndest to get this post back together with all the fun deets and links and whatnot, because I know you are just dying to be able to see that.

First things first, though:
Sleep,
Civics quiz, and
Trig Test (woohoo!).

See you tomorrow!!

Love always,
Charlie

Hmmm...Yes, this post was originally intended to be in ze morning...and I don't really feel like backdating it, so it will be internetized nearly 14 hours after it was begun! And gosh DARN I don't know why I am so bright eyed and bushy-tailed at 7 in the morning...especially because I hadn't had coffee...odd!

Anyway, moving on to more important matters: I got some pretty genius mail yesterday!

Wow, I'm on crack and forgot to flip that photo...oops! Oh well. That is a (backwards) picture of my Tokio Hotel Schrei CD (the original...I got Schrei [so laut du kannst] ages ago), which arrived from Moscow, Russia! I was so not expecting that, especially because I had ordered it from some place in the UK. Oh, eBay, thou art a wiley creature.

It's pretty awesome and positively coated with cyrillic (see the front and back), which is genius. The only problems are [a] because it's sealed and in original RUSSIAN packaging I'm reluctant to open it, and [b] now I have to get the German (and Japanese!) versions. ::sigh:: Oh, the travesty.

As if getting mon CD (finally! I seriously ordered it a good...oh, whenever 10 September was) wasn't enough of a cool thing to happen, I also got my copy of Blankets, which the lovely Siobhan Vivian advised me to read.

((Genius me did not flip this picture either. Go Charlotte!)) I am very much looking forward to beginning this book, though the homework load has kept me from doing so. To-night I hope to begin!

You know what is nifty? Looking through my Voxed books and seeing who else has Voxified them. Most of them are not V-oxed by anyone else, though, because they are aimed at an age group that, I daresay, is underrepresented in the bloggage world.

Hmmm...if anyone has any information about the super scandal in the life of Nathaniel Hawthorne, could you please share? I'm searching and searching and coming up empty. Found it. Ignore the creepy man and scroll to the second paragraph. It will change your life. Or not.

Love always,
Charlie