Paranormal Activity….I had such high hopes. I love scary movies and I really love ones about Demon because I totally believe in that stuff. I really thought this one was going to scare the crap out of me but it didn’t. I just kept waiting for stuff to happen. I was thinking this was going to be like Amityville Horror or something but it is not even in the same ball park. Yes, there are slamming doors and a couple of other things that come out of nowhere so you will jump but don’t expect to be looking over your shoulder while you are walking down the dark hall in your house to go to bed tonight.
That frighted feeling did not stay with me that long. I think the best part about scary movies is when you get ready for bed and you start thinking about the movie and you scare the crap out of yourself….I did not get that with this movie. The actors where good and convincing. If you are going to see it I suggest seeing it in the theater because I do not think this will translate well to your tv unless of course you have theater surround sound and you make it really dark, then it might.
The simple and quick answer to that is YES!!!! I just got home from the theater and I loved it. I like Gerard Butler from Sparta but I was a little worried if I would like his films after seeing Gamer. Don’t get me wrong he was good in Gamer but I was not to excited about the story line so I was questioning his ability to pick a good movie. All of that changed tonight. He has totally redeemed himself with me. I am sure he really does not care and to be honest I still would have given another movie of his a try if this one was not what I expected.
This one is great from beginning to end. Action around every corner and when you think it is going to slow down you are wrong. Seriously, at one point I was so shocked by what happened my HEART was really hurting. Really, I jumped so hard that my chest starting hurting, it was crazy.
Now, I can not tell you a whole lot about the movie without getting carried away and possibly giving away some parts of it. It all centers around a man who had a very bad thing happen to him and left it up to the justice system to do the right thing but when it doesn’t he takes care of it himself. I will tell you it definitely earns its R rating because there is a lot of blood and guts and you do see Gerard Butler’s bare butt in one scene but it does have relevance to what is happening.
My final word is: Go see this movie in the theater and then buy it on DVD when it comes out…..I know I will. A very good movie to say the least.
I know I am behind the times on this one but I just bought the Promise of Summer album by Jack O Pierce. I really like these guys. My husband introduced me to their music years and years ago. In fact that is where I got my nickname, Advent, from one of their songs. My husband started calling me that when we were just friends and look what that lead too. My favorite track on this CD is Texas. It just makes you feel so good. I am originally from Louisiana which most of you know and I am always thinking about “home”. This song just makes me miss it even more. It is classic Jack O Pierce. They also put March on it as well. Again one of my favorite songs by them. I also like Late Shift….who am I kidding I do not think there is one song of theirs I do not like.
Woman as Salvation, Anderson’s Luck, Vineyard, Please Come to Boston, and let’s not forget Advent. I could go on forever it seems. Just give this one a listen and I am sure you will like it. They are coming to LA next month and I am going to try so hard to see them. I have always wanted to see them but I have never had the opportunity but now that I am in LA I was very surprised to see they were coming. I have got to find a way to go or I will regret it.
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York
Scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came
to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network
more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers in the weeks that followed,
a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet and shortly
after, a story in the LA Times read: ‘California archaeologists, finding
traces of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors
already had an advanced high-tech communications network
a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.’
One week later, a local newspaper in Louisiana reported the following:
After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near St.Martinville, Bubba
Boudreaux, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely
nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago,
Louisiana had already gone wireless.
I made the most amazing chicken tonight. My mother and father-in-law bought me Hawaii’s Bento Box Cookbook: Fun Lunches for Kids by Susan Yuen for my birthday and there are several recipes in the back of the book for you to make. This one is called Furikake Chicken Drumettes and it was great. Lani loved it so much. I am definitely going to make this one again. When Dad comes I will make it for him. The only thing I would recommend changing is using chicken strips instead of drumettes. Here is the recipe:
6 tablespoons shoyu
2 eggs
1 clove garlic, minced
4 tablespoons flour
6 tablespoons cornstarch
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons furikake
2 pounds chicken drumettes
1 cup flour
1 cup cornstarch
2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons furikake
oil for deep frying
Combine shoyu, eggs, garlic, 4 tablespoons flour, 6 tablespoons cornstarch, sugar, and 2 tablespoons furikake in a large bowl and mix well. Add chicken, toss well, and marinate overnight. When ready to cook, combine flour, cornstarch, and furikake in a large bowl and mix well. Drain marinade from the chicken, and dredge chicken in flour mixture. Fry in hot oil until golden and cooked through.
I do not have a family big enough to cook 2 pounds of chicken so I did cut down the recipe. I did not cut down the marinade but when it came time to dredge the chicken I did only use 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cornstarch. I also put it in a ziplock bag to cut down on the mess and clean up. When I was finished I just threw the ziplock bags away.
I really suggest you try this recipe. Do not let the amount of ingrediants scare you. I bet you have all of this stuff in your cabinet anyway. If you do try it let me know what you think.
The news was just announced. Rio De Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympics. Too bad for Chicago. This will be the first time the Olympics will be held in South Africa. Rio’s theme for the Olympics is “Live Your Passion”.
The new series of Heros has begun and I guess so far so good. This season seems slower than the first one but my main complaint is the stupid commercials. Is it just me or do they advertise every 5 minutes and as the show goes on the commercials get longer. I was so ticked off last night. Why make the show an hour? You could cut it down to 30 minutes and all we would miss would be Sprint advertisements.
I understand everyone needs to make money but lets be a little more sensible about it. Just a thought.
OK, most of you know I have 3 daughters so potty training is not something new at my house. The oldest daughter was stubborn, the middle daughter trained herself and then there is Lani. Oh the little precious angel. The little one who knew very well how to “go” to the toilet but is too busy or how should I put this….hard headed to go. I did not push it so much at first but then she turned three, then it was a couple months after her 3rd birthday and still nothing.
I put my foot down and said you are going to do it or else. Well, maybe it did not happen exactly like that but I like to think I have some authority over my girls. OK, stop laughing, it really isn’t funny.
She loves Toy Story and now with the new movie coming out the stores are flooded with toys from the movies. She received Buzz and it was the greatest thing to happen to her since she was born. The next thing she asked for was Woody and I saw my opportunity and pounced. I bought Woody and told her Woody only played with big girls and big girls wore panties.
That statement alone caused me to receive the biggest and baddest stinky eye I have ever seen. Lani was not pleased with that at all but I stuck to my guns. I told her that every time she went to toilet like a big girl she could pull his string 2 times. Woody stayed in the box on top of the fridge in plain sight so he was a reminder to be a big girl. Of course we had accidents and we had times where she just refused to go but she also knew the rules. She could not pull that string unless she went to toilet.
It took us one week and one week only to get her trained. She received Woody and she was so proud of herself. Just remember you must tell them how proud you are of them when they go. It got to the point when Lani would have an accident she would say, “are you sad?” I would respond with “yes, but the next time I will be happy because you are going to use toilet, right?” Just tell them how proud and how happy you are of them and sometimes that is all the encouragement then need.
So, take off those pull ups and put on your big girl panties.
My little one is so excited about this. She has been watching Toy Story 1 and 2 since she was about 1 1/2 years old. Right now she has Buzz and Woody. She got Woody when she became a big girl and started using toilet. Bribery will get you everywhere….I will tell you more about that later. Right now living in LA, the movie capital of the world, we have been bombarded with movie posters for months. Lani yelling from the back of the van, “Mom, look an alien!” is now commonplace. The movie comes out on Friday so I think we will be at the movies come Saturday morning. Below I have put the trailer just in case you have been living in a cave and did not know this was coming out.
I really need to get back on the saddle with this blog. Life has been a little crazy because of surgery, the move to California and the start of a new job but I am hopeful I can get this thing rolling again.
We have moved to the “the valley”, San Fernando Valley that is. This place is full of Mom and Pop stores and I love it. You really do not see big chain stores here. It took me a week to find a Wal-Mart. I know you don’t believe me but it is true. The big store over here is Target, which is fine with me. I try to do searches on shops and services in the valley but come up short most of the time. I don’t know if that has happened to any of you but I thought this is my blog and I can put on it what I want, right?
So, I thought that I could start posted about the experiences I have had with shops around the valley to hopefully help someone else out. We will see how this goes. Thanks for hanging in there with me and hopefully we will all find some good in this blog.
So this completes my first week in California. I arrived on Monday night and so far so good. I have only been here once about 3 weeks ago to look for a place to live so everything in completely new to me. I am still living out of boxes waiting for our apartment to be ready. Hopefully it will be ready this coming week around Wednesday. I will be ready to get all of the boxes unpacked and things put where they belong. I hate living out of boxes and I have done it for the past month. We have settled in Woodland Hills and the area seems to be nice. Lani starts school the beginning of July so I will have more to say about that later. Dad is here from Hawaii to help with the move and Lani and we are so happy he is here. Lani has been a little terror lately with all of the moving. It has made her uncomfortable to say the least. I put up all of the things in her room hoping that would help her understand this is our new house instead of just another hotel but come Wednesday I have to pack it all up again to take over to the new apartment. Oh the joys of life.
Want to get something for your hubby or boyfriend or your lady for V-Day but not sure what to get? How about one of those digital picture frames, I love mine or a camera or a blue tooth headset but not sure which one? Check out this electronics blog and they might have the answer for you. If it is electric, new and awesome they are probably talking about it. Find the info you need about the latest gadgets.
I love MP3 players I think they are one of the best inventions. I still can not get over how you can put so much music on this little bitty device. I figured out that I can load music on it and slip it in my pocket and walk all around the office and I don’t have to stop listening to my music. I think our middle child is on her 5th player. Now days you can get them for so cheap, I think that is why we get these kinds of things for our kids at younger and younger ages because they are easy to obtain and they do not break the back so we figure why not. It would have been so awesome to have half of the things our kids have when we were young.
My Matty is so sweet. He called me at work yesterday and told me he got me surprise. When I asked why he said it was “because I love you day”! He got me a membership to massage envy. I think you know what I am talking about because from what I understand they are all over the country. I am so excited. I am not a doctor, I only know what works for me. I know getting massages help me manage my depression. When we were in Asia over the summer and the difference in the time I sort of lost track of my medication while I was there. Just about every other day we were getting a massage and I felt so much better. I have read articles here and there that studies are starting to show getting massages help with the management of depression.
I am so excited, I can get a massage a month and if I miss my massage for the month it rolls over to the next so I never lose a massage and that is very important. If sometimes I feel I need more than one in a month I get them at a discount. My first one is in the morning and I am so excited. Now I have them programmed into my phone.
It is now 1 week 2 days and I am still having a cycle. My doctor called in a prescription to stop my cycle but at this point that has not even worked. So I am on the 8th day and I am still having pain and I am still waiting for some type of relief. They also gave me pain medication but am I just suppose to keep taking those? One of them I can not take when Matt is not here because it really knocks me out and I am afraid I will not hear Lani at night if she needs me. The other is fine, no negative affects but I can not take that every night. You know those things can be addicitve and that is something I do not need to add to my list of things right now. Matt leaves on Sunday so hopefully this will resolve very soon. I will keep you posted.
If anyone else had or is having the same thing happening to them could you please let me know so I can figure out what to expect at this point.
No change since yesterday. I can say this though, unlike the Nuva Ring I can not feel the Mirena at all, I am mean absolutely nothing. I love that aspect of it.
Today I am cramping a little more. I was told that as long as I am bleeding I will hurt because of the endometriosis. Hopefully it will be better in a couple of days.
BTW, I am going to stop the counting of days and I will just highlight milestones, like the number of months or something and we will call this Living with Mirena. That sounds good.
One of the concerns I am having is the fact that some people have issues with depression while on this or so I have read. Just for the record, I already have problems with depression and I am on a daily medication. I have suffered with depression since the age of 11 so I have quite a few coping techniques that I know work for me so I am able to manage a good part of the time but I never stop taking my meds no matter how good I feel.
Well I wish I could say today was as great as yesterday. I woke up with severe cramping at 1:30 am. I could no stay in the bed because I was afraid I was going to keep Matt awake. I got up and took some Alieve. The pain is coming in waves through by stomach and I am having a lot of pelvic pressure. I am not bleeding any more than I was before so that is good.
One hour later I took Tylenol because it did not seem like the Alieve was working.
One hour later I decide to go and try to lay down because with it being the last day of the month I have to go to work. I am the lead processor and it would not look good if I called in on the last day of the month.
I was able to get a little sleep in between cramps but I don’t know how much rest I got. I got up to go to work and the bleeding has picked up since yesterday.
I get to work and at 8 am I call my doctor’s office and leave a message and tell them what is going on. I am popping Alieve and Tylenol but nothing is happening and at this point I am finding it uncomfortable to walk around and speak to my processors.
At 12 pm I call the doctor’s again because I have not heard anything and I was told they were finishing with the last patient and the doctor wanted to call me back and speak to me herself but they left that I was going ot have to come into the office. By 1 pm I could not handle it anymore and I sent out an email that I was going to have to leave for the day. As soon as I pulled into my driveway my doctor called and told me to come in right away to do an ultrasound because she was afraid it might have moved.
I head over to the doctor’s office and I get there about 2 pm. They take me back and do a 2D ultrasound and from that view it looks like the IUD is right where it is suppose to be but she wanted another doctor to do a 3D to just make sure and this doctor has been doing ultrasounds for 30 years and they want her to look at me.
At 3 pm they put me back in the waiting room and say it will be 30 minutes and they would come and get me to have the next ultrasound. Well, 4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm and then finally they bring me to the back to sit in a different chair to wait. I get to see the other doctor at about 6:30 pm. She took a history and we chatted about the fact that her husband had done the 4D ultrasound for my daughter back in July 2006.
She was very careful and asked a lot of questions and she concluded the IUD was in a perfect spot but that was not my problem. I was having so many problems because I have endometriosis on my left ovary. She seems to thing that it probably happened in July 2006 when they tied by tubes because that was when all of my problems started.
She stated they needed to stop my periods all together and she is afraid the IUD is not going to do that. She wants me to come back in March and have another ultrasound and if I am continuing to have cycles she will then decide to put me on hormones to stop them or have the endometriosis burned off.
Slight cramping and the blood flow is almost completely gone. I have to say that as much as it hurt to have it inserted I did not think I would feel this good the next day. I have been taking Alieve just to help with the little cramping but I am at work today with no issues.
by Susan Yuen for my birthday and there are several recipes in the back of the book for you to make. This one is called Furikake Chicken Drumettes and it was great. Lani loved it so much. I am definitely going to make this one again. When Dad comes I will make it for him. The only thing I would recommend changing is using chicken strips instead of drumettes. Here is the recipe: