Today marks the 2 month anniversary of my blog. Today is also Melanie C's 35 birthday. Today is also the release of Girls Aloud's single, The Loving Kind.

I've played both Animal Crossing for the Gamecube and Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS and enjoyed them both. So when I started playing the highly anticipated Wii version, I was a little disappointed at how much the game was similar to Wild World. However, I have discovered some new things about the game that got me excited. There is a new character, named Kicks, who shows up every once in awhile to the City. He will "shine" your shoes, meaning he will change the style and color. You could never change your shoes in previous games. You simply had red sneakers with blue and white stockings if you were a girl, and blue sneakers with green and white stockings if you were a boy. That's it. Now Kicks the Skunk will change your shoes according to the color of your hair. However, it costs 500 Bells each time. There is also apparently an animal that will pass out balloons in the town and other prizes, but I haven't seen him yet. There are new fish and bugs, too. I caught a lobster the other day in the ocean! The new changes were not apparent at first when I started playing, but there have been pleasant surprises. They did get rid of that annoying insurance salesman, Lyle. He used to come to your door and make you answer a ton of questions and basically force you to buy insurance. Now he works for the Happy Room Academy, which you can choose to be a part of or not. The bad: having to water your flowers. I'm away from home right now and won't be able to water my flowers so they will die. That's annoying.

I know these posts are probably really boring, but here goes another one. Last year, I kept buying small plastic cups and using them once and throwing them out. I really like drinking out of small glasses for some reason. But this is terrible for the environment, not to mention ends up costing a lot over the course of a year! So I found a great size glass, 5" high, at Urban Outfitters. There were 4 designs from the Wizard of Oz. Luke had to talk me out of buying 2 because they were $8 each and I am unemployed. I choose the Scarecrow. I have been using it non-stop since I got it a few days ago!

So I just came back from the post office to pick up packages that came while I was away. To my delight, my friend "Sam" from England sent me the Fonejacker dvds! They are funny prank calls that are put to funny pictures.

As some of you already know, my childhood pet cat, Sandy (aka "Kitty") died in September of 2007. As I was upset and wanted to do something to help myself and my family in our grieving process, I made a youtube video of Kitty using Claire De Lune by Debussy. I got an email from youtube this week, telling me the Philadelphia Orchestra wants the video removed because I used their song (which they didn't even write!!) My video was helping people grieve, I had gotten messages from a lot of other cat owners who said my video was very nice and they had lost pets in the past, etc. Jeez, some people really know how to be jerks, it's not like I was making money off it.

I saw 2 movies over the holidays and 1 last night. The first was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Wow. This movie was great. There was only one small part in the film which I felt ruined the pacing and didn't really work for the movie. If that part had been removed, I would have given this film the best picture Academy Award for SURE. I'm not going to ruin it for those who haven't seen it, but it deals with Benjamin becoming suddenly omniscient and explaining sequences that lead up to a particular incident (if this had happened 2 seconds earlier or later, then this wouldn't have happened, and so on).

Anyways, the second movie was Doubt, starring Phillip Semour Hoffman and Meryl Streep. I enjoyed the movie, although I think it probably worked better as a stage play than adapted into a movie. Wonderful acting of course. My boyfriend basically hated it. I would turn to look at him and he just looked miserable. It didn't help that the movie theatre was so cold I had to wear my mittens and coat throughout. I would recommend this film. There is a lot to think about the human condition. This film had some great messages.

The film I saw last night was Milk. I enjoyed this one. I didn't know the Harvey Milk story before but what a guy. Gus Van Sant makes a good film (he directed another of my favorites, Good Will Hunting). Sean Penn deserves an Oscar for this. Emile Hirsch also offers a good supporting role.

I've been in Pennsylvania the past few weeks and got home to LA on Sunday morning. Then I had another mini-vacation in Irvine at my boyfriends house, tagging my mp3s on my new MacBook (which I LOVE). Now I'm gonna catch up on some blogs! When I was in Pennsylvania, we stopped at this adorable dollhouse shoppe in downtown Danville. It was owned by this elderly woman who knew a lot about dollhouses. You just don't find those kinds of specialty shops anymore. I got two pieces from the Liberty Bay collection (the mirror and dorrie bookcase). Here is the website to the adorable shoppe:

The Wee Home Shoppe