In response to Luke's blog:

The crush grows even stronger...




Look how intensely she points that Wiimote!

In another post, I mentioned how I hadn't met the prize man in the city in Animal Crossing. Well, he was there today! He is a walrus I think...nope, he is a sea lion (just looked it up). He asked me what prize I wanted and the choices were tough: balloon, bunny balloon, pinwheel, and a bubble wand. It was between the bunny balloon and the bubble wand for me. I ended up getting the bubble wand because you can interact with it! It turns out that beautiful rainbow colored bubbles come out. Another factor that helped me choose was I had visited my sister's town and her girlfriend had a bunny balloon sitting in her house, so I already knew what it looked like. It's cute, but it just sits there. Maybe I'll get it next time I see Phineas (the sea lion prize man).

Every once in a while, I will have this dream where I suddenly remember that I checked out a bunch of library books months ago. I scramble to locate the pile of books I checked out and can't find all of them or I can't even remember which ones I checked out. The dream I had 2 nights ago was bad because I had checked the books out under my mom's library card. You know the worst you will owe is a couple of bucks, maybe $20 at the most or so, but my mom is such a money freak that in the dream I am freaking out. I remember thinking in the dream, "I never forget when my library books are due! How could this have happened?" I'm not sure what this dream means, or if it means anything at all.

Has a "new" album out. I say that because it came out in November, so it's not really new. I also say that because it is a "Best Of" album, which she basically already did with an album called Most Wanted. Does she think we will forget about that? Her last album, Dignity, was great. So does that mean that next she will have a new studio album, and after that a new Greatest Hits? Seems to be the direction she is going in. She released a video, Reach Out. I hate the song because it samples Depeche Mode, so it doesn't seem original at all. I hate the video because she is wearing random dresses and weird outfits and trying to look sexy. She doesn't.

I watched this movie today, based on a true story about the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, some french dude named Jean-Dominique Bauby. He has a stroke and can no longer speak. He ends up writing a book based on blinking his eye when the each letter of the word is spoken by a scribe. It was ridiculous that someone could have the patience to write a book that way. The movie shows you through his eyes how it feels to awake from a stroke and can't speak. Pretty decent movie, I had never seen a film that captured the feelings of confusion and disorientation so well (although it was making me a little lightheaded to watch for awhile). Thanks to Elyse for the recommendation.

Nintendo really advertised this game and kept sending me emails to check it out. My little sister really wanted it and a girl I used to work with had it, so I wanted to give it a try. What a disappointment. I loved such games like Professor Layton and Trace Memory and I thought this might be similar, but no. Basically 90% of the game is you staring at the screen looking for hidden objects. Now, I loved those I Spy books as a kid, but this was different. There are a handful of different locations on the game that you have to look for objects in, which just keep getting reused. However, you will be staring at the kitchen scene, looking for really gross things. There are flies in the kitchen, earwigs, nasty beetles, caterpillars, snakes, cats hiding in cupboards. There is even a shoe in the cooking pot. Eww. Then you find the stuff and a new screen starts, so you have to do it all over again, just finding different items. You do this countless times, and every once in a while, the same screen will come back, asking you to find the SAME THINGS YOU ALREADY DID ONCE! Too many disgusting bugs, scary alien faces, eyes staring at you, and other unsettling objects. Very foreboding sounds and music, too. My boyfriend kept getting nervous while I was playing because he would hear a siren and think the neighborhood was in trouble. One scene had this annoying cuckoo clock go off every few seconds--unbearable. I had to turn the sound off on that scene. This game did keep me occupied for a 5 hour plane ride from DC to LA, but otherwise I wouldn't recommend it--just borrow it from a friend that had the misfortune of buying it.

Today at lunch my boyfriend said, "It's happening". And I said, "What, Ann Coulter can talk again?" That was not what he meant. He meant it was allergy season and he was sneezing a lot at work. Though unfortunately she is talking again.