2 Great Movies

I finally got around to watching some of my screeners from the PGA. I first watched Julia and Julie. I wanted to see this when it first came out but never found the time so I was excited when I got the screener of it. It was exactly what I expected.. fun and entertaining. Both Streep and Adams were great in their roles. I love how it's based on two stories and those stories main characters never cross paths. There is a moment at the end that I thought they would be it never happens, which was kind of disappointing but "hey" it's a true story. This was a sweet, heartwarming movie and I highly recommend it.

The second the movie I watched was The Blind Side. I'm a HUGE Sandra Bullock fan and love a good rags to riches story. This too is based on a true story and it involves football. I laughed and cried during this film. It was sweet, kind and charming. It lifted you up and knocked you down. But in the end it was a very heart warming story and showed that there are still good people left in this world. Of course I loved Sandra and thought she did an outstanding job. And it was fun to see Tim McGraw acting, I love his country music but he's a pretty good actor also. All around the cast was fantastic. I would highly recommend this film as well.

So two great movie, both very different and well worth seeing.

Christmas

We spent today with my family as we have always done. One thing that was different was that it was my nephews first Xmas. Though he is too young to remember it was still nice to know this was his first.

We went to my Mom first. Got there around 10:30am, which was quicker then expected as their was barely any traffic. We spent some time chatting with mom until Mike, Lora and Kenobi arrived. Then Chuck and my grandmother arrived and we exchanged gifts. This use to take and hour as we use to get tons of gifts but this year there were very few gifts so it only took a few minutes.

Once gifts were done Mom went to the kitchen to finish making Turkey lunch, while I put together Kenobi's new high chair.

We ate a turkey lunch and all the trimmings, after that we hung out and visited till around 3pm and then packed up and headed to my Dads.

Got to Dad's about 4pm and started the night with opening gifts. Now there were a ton of these mostly for Lora and Kenobi so it took us a little over an hour to open everything. Once that was done we ate another Turkey dinner and all the trimmings. We visited for a while and then made the trek home.

It was another nice Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

The Snuggie

Harry got me a Snuggie for Xmas.. I wanted one but didn't know he got it.. was very excited.

Christmas Eve

Since we spend Christmas day with my family, Harry and I celebrate our Christmas on Christmas Eve. So we built a nice fire and hung out in the living room opening presents. It was a nice quiet evening. We both got some cool items, most we knew but there were a few surprises.. especially the digital video camera that "Santa" brought for Harry. It was a nice day.

Working the Holidays

I love working the holidays.. our company goes dark for two weeks but we are able to work if needed. Since I had editors and loggers working I figured I would come in a few days.. plus I need the money so it's was all good. I would work the first 3 days of the week and then take 4 days off and then again the following week work 3 days and take off 4 days. Plus having only 1/3 of the staff there makes my life a bit easier. Yes two weeks off would be nice but would hurt the pocket book and with the new house and remodel I can't afford to take any time real time off.. but I'll enjoy my 8 days off.

Survivor

Watched the season finale of Survivor. I've watch all 19 seasons and still loving it. This time around the right person won the million dollars. Not sure if I like the idea of the next one Heroes vs Villains.. but might make for some fun TV. Guess will find out in February.

Guild Secret Santa

I'm participating in The Guild Secret Santa gift exchange. I haven't gotten my gift yet but the person I had drawen got his and he really seemed to like what I got him. He's in England so I was just happy that it got to him in time for Christmas. Here are some pictures that my buddy Markus sent.

Lazy Saturday

I love lazy Saturdays.. I have a ton of things I could be doing but sometime you just have to kick back, watch TV and hang out with those you love.

That's what I did today.. I did manage to wrap all of our Christmas presents, but that took a whole lot of effort.. but other then that I sat and watch hours and hour of recorded TV shows.

Sherlock Holmes

Today I was lucky enough to get an advance screening of the new Sherlock Holmes movie. The PRG (Producer's Guild of America) were sponsoring it. Since Harry didn't want to see it I took my friend Greg Aronowitz who really wanted to see it. It was playing at some Guild theater so no food or drinks allowed and because it was a pre-screening they didn't allow any cell phones.

Two hours flew by and what an AWESOME movie. I'm not going to give away any spoilers just my general thoughts of the film. It was a fun, murder mystery type movie. The acting was great, RDJ was the perfect Holmes and Jude Law was fantastic as Watson. It was funny, sad, action packed and kept you guessing the entire way through. I loved how it was shot and how they would slow things down and drop the audio.

I'm not a huge Sherlock Holmes fan so I don't know how true this is to the original but it was entertaining and I can't wait to see it again after Christmas. Here's hoping it does well so we can get a sequel.

Going Bald

I have been trying to deny this for the longest time but no longer.. I'm going bald!!!!

I have noticed that my hair has been getting thinner and thinner on top since my late 20's. It was hard at first because I had such a great head of curly hair all my life and now I was starting to see thinning. I went to the doctors and see if there was anything that could be done but alas he informed me that my hair lose has the characteristics of male pattern baldness.

For the next few years I tried to hide my thinning hair. I would grow it out and since it was long and curly I was able to comb it in a way where you couldn't see the thinning. Then while getting a hair cut the stylist told me that if the hair is shorter the thinning is less noticeable and she was right.. so I started shaving my head every few months and kept my hair super short.. that worked for a while but this last year life's been a bit stressful (buying a house) and I have notice that my hair has gone from thinning to being bald.

I don't know what changed but instead of trying to hide it or be embarrassed by it, I embraced it.. so I'm going bald, I don't know if I'll go completely bald (at least on top) but you know what.. I don't care. I can't do anything about it as I'm not buying a toupee.. I may try hair transplant down the road but for now I just have to live with it.

So here I am in all my baldness :)

The Guild Sell Out!!! Xmas Special

This is what I was working on a few Sunday's ago that I couldn't talk about.. The Guild Christmas Special. I'm actually in two of them.. see if you can see me (one is obvious and one isn't so much).

Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3_PDrJO8Zc&feature=sub

Codex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0gzL-3_CAg&feature=sub

Vork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMcm7Se-KpY&feature=sub

Tink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOMffR3h4Fg&feature=sub

Clara: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Nc63RDRzc&feature=sub

Zaboo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRE6nJMAWsg&annotation_id=annotation_991892&feature=iv

Bladezz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juCvu9cbLJ8&feature=sub

The Guild Comic Book

This is what Felicia has been working on the past few months.. The Guild comic book..

Felicia Day (W), Jim Rugg (A), Dan Jackson, Georges Jeanty (Cover), and Cary Nord (Cover)
On sale Mar 24
FC, 32 pages
$3.50
Miniseries

Internet phenomenon The Guild comes to comics, courtesy of series creator, writer, and star Felicia Day


(Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)!

Chronicling the hilarious on- and offline lives of a group of Internet role-playing gamers, the Knights of Good, The Guild has become a cult hit and is the winner of numerous awards from SXSW, YouTube, Yahoo, and the Streamys. Now Day brings the wit and heart of the show to this three-issue miniseries. In this origin tale of the Knights of Good, we learn about Cyd’s life before joining the guild, how she became Codex, and how she began to meet the other players who would eventually become her teammates. This storyline fills in details never before revealed on the web show, making it a delightful new chapter for existing fans as well as a perfect jumping-on point for new fans!

• The Guild is “perhaps the smartest (and definitely the funniest) webisodic series of the year.”

—The Los Angeles Times

• The web series is the winner of three 2009 Streamy Awards: Best Comedy Web Series, Best Ensemble, and Best Actress for Felicia Day.

• See the web series at watchtheguild.com.

The Internet phenomenon The Guild comes to comics!

Knights of the Guild Ep11 pt1

Show Notes:

Here it is Episode 11 part 1 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• * First up we have a Vorkism.
• * We are LIVE in studio via UStream
• * We discuss our thoughts on the S3 Finale along with written comments from listeners.
• * We have a great crew Interview with one of the funniest guys I know Jeff Lewis (Vork)

• * We find out what the cast and crew are up too.
• * We Thank our donors.
• * Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

This podcast was recorded live, you can watch the video on our UStream channel - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/knights-of-the-guild You do need a password to access it. The password is KOTG

Thank you again for all your support, we do this podcast because we are fans and more importantly for the fans.

Kenny & Jenni

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Podcast Promo’s played during the show this week:

• Anomaly
• Worlds of Wayne

Putting up the tree

Well it's a two weeks late but we are finally putting up and decorating our new Christmas Tree. This year has been a bit different. Not only are we two weeks late from when I normally like to get a tree but this year we got a fake Christmas tree. Took some doing be we got the tree put together and fluffed. We then put additional lights (colored) on, then bulbs, then orinments and finally candy canes. And to top it off we put on our new tree topper.. Jedi Yoda. I have to say this is one of my favorite trees we have had. With the decorations around the living room everything really came together well. Check out the video below..

Xmas Tree and Family

Today the weather was much better, but regardless of the weather I was going to put up Christmas lights and we were going to get a Christmas Tree. So I started early in the morning on our back deck hanging lights on the back of the house since that was the part that over looked the hill and that folks would see the most. I didn't want to put staple holes in the trim of the house so I stapled the lights to the top of the roof. I manage to cover the back side of the house and then had to figure out how and what I was going to do for the rest of the house. First of all I didn't have a tall enough ladder to get on the roof. I didn't want to put holes on the trim and I really couldn't figure out where I wanted all the lights.. so I opted to not put lights up this year.. it's only 12 more day till Christmas and this was much more a hassle then it should have been. I'll do it next year and have a better game plan before the time comes. So with that I pulled down the few that I had put up and once Harry was up we went Christmas Tree shopping.

We normally get our trees from Home Depot as they have nice and cheap trees. Before that we went a little Christmas shopping at Target and while there we checked out some of the artificial trees. Both Harry and I have talked about getting one but I have been opposed to them for the longest time but this time around and they fact that they look so real now I was interesting in getting one. Target was having a 50% off sale on all their trees. We found two that we liked.. one pre-lite and one not.. the one that wasn't pre-lite looked a bit nicer and we both agreed that , that was the one for us.. of course they were sold out. They did have 2 of the other pre-lite ones but instead we decided to head 30 minutes south to the Santa Clarita Target and see if they had the tree that we really liked. We figured if they didn't we would get the pre-lite one from them.. as surely they would have some.

Well we get to the second Target and they had less then the first and were out of both Trees that we liked. We went next door to Lowes and there artificial trees were not an sale and didn't look as good. We checked out there live trees and they were the most pathetic things we saw. We opted to head back to the first Target and hope that one of the 2 pre-lite trees were still there.. if not we could always go to Home Depot, which was are original plan. Our luck changed and they still have one of the pre-lite trees that we liked. So we got a $300 tree for $150. Can't wait to put it up.

Oh while at Target we came across one of the best Tree Toppers around..

Took us almost 4 hours to get the tree but we came home for a half hour, visited with the dog and then headed to my Dad's to visit. Got to Dad's around 6pm and went out to our favorite Chinese restaurant and then back to his place to visit my brother, sister-in-law and nephew Kenobi. Spent about 3 hours with them and finally head home.. got home around 10:30pm and we were tired.. figured we will put the tree up after work tomorrow.. can't wait.

Doctor Horrible Comic Books

With all this gloomy weather there was a bright spot.. I got my Doctor Horrible Comic book. It came out a few weeks ago but sold out quickly so I ordered mine from Ebay and got it today.... and because I'm a geek I had to have all three covers. Can't wait to read it...

Xmas Tree Shopping.. NOT

Today was my big day.. I as going to put up Christmas lights and go out and buy our Christmas tree. I was very excited because it's only a few weeks till Christmas and this is the latest I have very done these things. Well we have had cold weather and rain the past few days and today was no different.. it rained and rained. Instead we were stuck in the house, which wasn't a bad thing just not what we wanted to be doing today.. we did manage to head into town to get some groceries but that was about all we did outside and it rained, rained and rained.

Rain or Shine.. I'm buying my Christmas Tree and putting up lights tomorrow!!!!

New Harry Potter DVD's

Got my new Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince blu-ray DVD but what I really was excited to get was my Harry Potter Year 1 & 2 Ultimate Edition DVD. There are some cool new extras, the movies have the deleted scenes cut back into them and for the first time directors commentary. They are releasing two years every years.. Years 1 & 2 in 2009., Years 3 & 4 in 2010, Years 5 & 6 2011 and Years 7pt1 & 7pt2 n 2012. Can't wait till I can watch them.

What a Morning

Today I had a doctors appointment. My doctor is out in West Hollywood and the appointment was for 9:20am. So not knowing how long it would take to get to West Hollywood and the fact it was raining I got up at 6:30am and left my house by 7am. Traffic was actually not bad and the rain wasn't coming down hard so things were looking up. I got to my doctors office at 8:20am and found a metered spot right our front... looking good.

So I had an hour to kill. I had brought my netbook that Harry had bought me for my birthday. I was hoping to find some open wifi and surf the net.. bamm a very strong open signal, so I sat in my jeep listening to Christmas music and surfing the net.. life was good... until....

Around 9am I figure I would start packing up my computer and get ready to head up to the doctors office. As I was getting out of my car I pulled the keys out of the ignition and my warning bell went off.. it means my headlights are on. I then thought to myself.. "Oh Crap!!!! I had my engine off, headlights on and the radio on for the past hour... please, please battery don't be dead.. " I go to start the car and nothing.. I try again and get the familiar click click click sound of a dead battery. Okay.. not horrible, I'll call AAA when I get out of the appointment and they will come and give me a jump. So I exit the jeep and walk over to the meter and start to put quarters in. first quarter :15 minutes, second quarter :30 minutes, third quarter :30 minutes, fourth quarter :30 minutes.. wait a minute.. I'm parked in a 30 minute only metered spot and my appointment was still 20 minutes.. No problem that's plenty of time to find another parking spot... So I start to head back to my driving side when it hits me that my jeep battery is dead. I can't move the car.. so I'm stuck with a doctors appointment in 15 minutes and my jeep is at a :30 minute parking only.

I said screw it and hoped for the best.. I put in another quarter and brought my time up to :30 minutes and headed to my doctors office. I sat there watching the time click by as my :30 minute disappeared. Now I could only hope I get down there before a meter maid got to my meter. Thirty minutes pass the allotted time I head back down to my car and sure enough there is parking ticket on the wind shield for $40 bucks.

Sometimes life just SUCKS!!! But on a positive note I got in my jeep and after a few drives it started right up.

Rain, Rain and More Rain

Winter has begun.. well maybe not on the calendar but up where we live it's been getting colder and colder every night..on average we hit about 22f at night and today it's the start of what they say will be a wet week. I'm happy for us because we need the rain.. it not only waters all our planets but replenishes our well.. so yay rain.. just wish it was cold enough to actually now. Everytime it starts to rain the temp goes up to about 37f .. oh well.. this is only the beginning.