Wow, this is surprisingly difficult!  There are quite a few characters that I absolutely ADORE...but I'm not sure who would make the best date...


Torchwood - Ianto Jones.  Completely ignoring the events of CoE, of course.  Ianto would probably be fun to hang around with, he would be able to show me all the sites in and around Cardiff, but it wouldn't be a real date.  He's Jack's through and through.  And who stands a chance against a man from the 51st century?

Doctor Who - The Doctor (Ten).  He would be amazing to travel with, but how can you have a relationship with a Time Lord?

Stargate Atlantis - Major Evan Lorne.  Oh, Lorne!  Sheppard's right-hand man, the handsome marine with a softer side; he paints!  He would most likely make an excellent date.

Leverage - Eliot Spencer.  Definately one of those guys your mother warns you about.  He's a tough, gruff, "retrival specialist"; a killing machine with a (buried) heart of gold.  One of the sexiest men alive in my book, but unfortunately he's kind of a manwhore.  So, while I'm sure he could show a girl a good time, there would probably be some consequences from said good time.

Firefly - Mal Reynolds.  Even Captain Tightpants need some lovin', but the man is practically married to his ship.

Burn Notice - Michael Westen.  The love-child of Batman and McGyver, only waaaay hotter.  He has the brains and brown to get out of any situation.  But if we went out, he would only be thinking of Fiona the whole time.

The Mentalist - Patrick Jane.  He would know just what to do to make it a perfect date, since he can read people like a book.  But you could never be sure what his ultimate motive was, or whether or not he was manipulating you.

Numbers - Colby Granger.  Have you seen this man with his shirt off?!  I mean, come on!  How can I be expected to think of anything else?

NCIS - Tony DiNozzo.  Funny and hot as hell, but a total adolescent manwhore.

In closing, it would probably have to be Major Evan Lorne.

This isn't "who do you like more?", it's "who would win the fight?"...be honest and give valid reasons why you think some one would win.  Feel free to suggest any other match-ups!!

Eliot Spencer (Leverage) or Lt. Col. John Sheppard (Stargate:Atlantis)

Ziva David (NCIS) or Zoe Washburn (Firefly)

Michael Westen (Burn Notice) or Eliot Spencer

Jayne Cobb (Firefly) or Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)

John Sheppard or Mal Reynolds (Firefly)

Kate Todd (NCIS) or Fiona Glenanne (Burn Notice)

Michael Westen or Leroy Jethro Gibbs

Mal Reynolds or Jack Harkness (Torchwood)

Tony DiNozzo (NCIS) or Nick Stokes (CSI)

Madeline's, a french bakery on Main Street in Concord NH.  The most amazing bakery ever!!

There are three acts that I just love but haven't seen live yet...Dierks Bentley, Christian Kane, and Rascal Flatts, and I would travel all around New England to see them.    Unfortunately, they almost never come to New England, and when they do, I'm either too broke to go, or not actually in New England myself....


On a side note, I think it's funny that the only three acts I haven't seen live are the only three country acts I like...

And another side note, the best concerts I've ever been to were Green Day, and Josh Groban...

The only thing I worry about when I break a mirror is cutting my hand while picking up the pieces!!  I go out of my way to pet black cats, and I walk under ladders on almost a daily basis at work (usually just to freak out my boss).
I do wear my birthstone, but it's because it's my favorite color and I think it's pretty.  And when I get married, I will wear; something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.  But that is more for tradition's sake than anything.
Though I can tell you, it almost always rains after you wash your car!!

It's probably me discussing UFO's!!  I think  that some people have some interesting theories on UFO's, but at the same time, there are some real nuts out there!  I don't necessarily believe in them, but I hope they exist.  It's a pretty big universe, and it seems like an awful waste  of space if we are the only "intelligent" life here...

No.  But my grandmother and aunt wanted to boycott Sesame Street because, and I quote, "Oscar the Grouch isn't very nice.  He doesn't set a good example for kids."  


They don't get out much.....

So, she did it.  My little sister is officially a married woman!!

Got back from Texas Saturday evening, (yes, the wedding was all the way down in Texas!) and I am still tired. 

Flew down Tuesday afternoon, had a stopover in Atlanta for about 40 minutes, and got to San Antonio a little before 9pm.   Dad got Nick and I our own hotel room right on the Riverwalk.  Wicked nice place.  Had dinner at the 24hour Denny's across the road after we got settled in (and checked out the pool...not something I would recommend for my fellow New Englanders...it was a warm saline pool, pretty gross.) and went to bed. 
Wednesday we got up and went over to Alex and Shawn's new apartment, then over to New Braunfels for a nice 3 hour float down the Comal River.  I only got sun burnt on three little spots: one on each knee where the sunscreen wore off, and a small spot on my chest where I apparently missed with the SPF 50...oops!   Aferward, we went out to dinner with my parents and Shawn's mom and stepdad (veeerrrrryyyyyy interesting...) and I finished off a 17oz. Texas T-Bone!   Soooooo yummy!!!!   Then I headed out with Alex, Eilleen, and Amanda for the "bachelorette party".  We went to this cool little pub called Mad Dog's, and spent a few hours with a few drinks.  Nick went out with the boys at the same time, but I got back to the hotel room about 40 minutes before he did.  Of course, the girls were just down on the Riverwalk, and the boys were a few towns over!


I'm falling asleep writing this, so I think I will go to bed now and hopefully continue this tomorrow!!!  Night!

So, I am a Red Sox girl.  BoSox are my boys (I made myself a t-shirt that says "Mike Lowell is my homeboy"), but I just fell in love with Pablo Sandoval of the Giants.  Nick gets Sports Illustrated, and they did a piece on Sandoval.  The man has gone on record saying he would do something that I have talked about forever! 

"Teams have tried to pitch around Sandoval, but that is impossible, unless they throw the ball behind him.  He dreams of reaching across the plate and hitting an intentional ball.  "If it's close, I'll do it," he vows.  "I did it in Little League once, and I got a double.""

I have been saying this my entire life!!  I think it's cowardly to intentionally walk someone.  (Nick calls it smart, but we can agree to disagree on this.)  If, for some strange reason, someone tried to intentionally walk me, I would take a swing anyways.  I would try to hit the ball, but at the very least, it makes them throw another pitch.  Just throw the damn ball, and trust in your team to do the best they can to get me out.  If they can't, they can't.  There has to be a winner one way or the other.



Oh, and Sandoval's hitting philosophy?  "...see the little white thing and swing..."   He is my new hero!!

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Dear Sarah Palin, Paris Hilton, Ann Coulter, and Kate Gosslin....(among others)
On behalf of females everywhere, please shut up!  You are making us look bad.
Thanks.
-Writingskier

I'm not sure how old this is...but I just watched it and it made me giggle.  So now I am sharing it with...all three people who might actually read this.  Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vR0-wbVHgM

So...I saw Star Trek last night with my sister and parents...........and it was AWESOME!  I was like a little kid on a sugar high!

 To the people who are saying they don't like the movie because it's not like the old show...are you for real?  Come on now, it says in the preview "This is not your parent's Star Trek".  It should go on to say "It's way f-ing better"
Yes, I love the classic Trek...I love the whole franchise, and I recognize that if it's going to survive another 40 or so years, this "reimagining" is exactly what is needed. 
(And to the people who are complaining about how they got some minor detail wrong...if you were paying attention, it is all explained...)
Sorry about this little rant, but I heard a supposed fan bitching about how they ruined the old show, and it really pissed me off.   The movie was awesome, the actors did phenomenal jobs channeling the original characters without making them cheesy.   No, it was not perfect, there was one little bit I could have done without, but on the whole, it was fantastic. 

Ohhh, this is a tough one...Area 51 or the JFK assasination?  I'd probably have to flip a coin! 
And the coin says...Area 51.  If it's not aliens, I bet it's some pretty kick-ass, high-tech stuff.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-06/you-can-forget-my-taxes/
Singer Melissa Etheridge rails against the passage of the gay-marriage ban in California—and she won't be paying the state a dime.

 

Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books.

Okay, cool I don't mean to get too personal here but there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes too. Wow, come to think of it, there are quite a few of us fortunate gay folks that will be having some extra cash this year. What recession? We're gay! I am sure there will be a little box on the tax forms now single, married, divorced, gay, check here if you are gay, yeah, that's not so bad. Of course all of the waiters and hairdressers and UPS workers and gym teachers and such, they won't have to pay their taxes either.

Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

Oh and too bad California, I know you were looking forward to the revenue from all of those extra marriages. I guess you will have to find some other way to get out of the budget trouble you are in.

…Really?

When did it become okay to legislate morality? I try to envision someone reading that legislation "eliminates the right" and then clicking yes. What goes through their mind? Was it the frightening commercial where the little girl comes home and says, "Hi mom, we learned about gays in class today" and then the mother gets that awful worried look and the scary music plays? Do they not know anyone who is gay? If they do, can they look them in the face and say "I believe you do not deserve the same rights as me"? Do they think that their children will never encounter a gay person? Do they think they will never have to explain the 20% of us who are gay and living and working side by side with all the citizens of California?

I got news for them, someday your child is going to come home and ask you what a gay person is. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

I know when I grew up gay was a bad word. Homo, lezzie, faggot, dyke. Ignorance and fear ruled the day. There were so many "thems" back then. The blacks, the poor ... you know, "them". Then there was the immigrants. "Them.” Now the them is me.

I tell myself to take a breath, okay take another one, one of the thems made it to the top. Obama has been elected president. This crazy fearful insanity will end soon. This great state and this great country of ours will finally come to the understanding that there is no "them". We are one. We are united. What you do to someone else you do to yourself. That "judge not, lest ye yourself be judged" are truthful words and not Christian rhetoric.

Today the gay citizenry of this state will pick themselves up and dust themselves off and do what we have been doing for years. We will get back into it. We love this state, we love this country and we are not going to leave it. Even though we could be married in Mass. or Conn, Canada, Holland, Spain and a handful of other countries, this is our home. This is where we work and play and raise our families. We will not rest until we have the full rights of any other citizen. It is that simple, no fearful vote will ever stop us, that is not the American way.

Come to think of it, I should get a federal tax break too...

Melissa Etheridge is an Academy Award-winning and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter.

RIP Michael Crichton

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx/?news=338162&GT1=28101

This was stolen from http://skidmo.livejournal.com/
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
"She went back into her bedroom, and rummaged in the pocket of her jeans."

Sad news....
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/10/27/tony.hillerman.obit.ap/index.html 

He was one of my favorite authors.  RIP Tony Hillerman. 

Either Wales or Vancouver.  Most likely Vancouver...I don't think there's much skiing in Wales!

 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)


I've read 38, and I intend to read another 30....what about you?


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [Okay, so I haven't read everything he's written, but I've read a fair chunk.]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo