It's Give-Thanksing Day
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Slither
It was a good day, but first, I need to recap the week.

Monday, I did not watch the abortion of a Monday Night Football game between the Patriots and Cheifs. Ugh. I can't remember what I did Monday evening, but at work was pretty cool.

Tuesday, I went out, just like I said I did, but I didn't put anything on my card. I decided to save up a bit more on it, and instead broke my 50 and spoiled myself. Of course I bought Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I'll review that later, I also bought a Care Bear calendar for 2005, a Golden Snitch keychain, a Grumpy Bear keychain, one of those smart-ass-saying kechains, and a new pair of earings that are black dice with rinestones for the little markings on each side. The reason for all this is well, I don't know, it just felt good to do it. I needed a calendar, since I forgot to get one for this year, I was going to get the Chippendales one, but Kevin Cornell *drool* was only on the front, and not a month, so I couldn't look at him for at least 28 days, also, there was a suspicious lack of Harry Potter calendars; the Snitch keychain was 50% off; it's really hard to find crap with Grumpy on it, so it was one of those "right place, right time' kind of things; I love those smart-ass-saying kechains, and haven't gotten one in a long time; and I needed a new pair of earrings since I only always wear my silver hoops, that I still love, but I need a change. That's my goal for the newcoming year, change. Do other stuff, try something different, hopefully get to at least visit England, so I can at least get a feel of it, and not just do it and get totally in over my head. If I do visit Ashley, hopefully I'll schedule it around next November, so I can see Goblet of Fire over there. That would be so awesome!

Yesterday, Wednesday, I helped my step-dad with his homework (it was fractions, I couldn't resist), baked a cake, then washed and pressed my hair. I was very busy. The cake was just to get out of the way for today, and my mum better eat that cake, since she made such a bloody fuss over it.

Today was great. The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was pretty good, like always, but this year they got rid of the Blue from Blue's Clues balloon and instead opted for a stupid Sponge Bob Squarepants one. Ugh! The food was magnificent. We ate early, like a little before noon. Quarter of I believe it was. Then we went to visit Uncle Andy and Aunt Pat. Uncle Andy got sick like two days ago, and had to go to the hospital, but he's fine now. It was a nice way to spend a couple of hours. We used to do that all the time, but their house is usually so croweded with other people, and we, especially my mum and I, don't really dig that. It's great to be around a bunch of people some of the time, but all the time is just too much.

Oh yeah, Jason called today, also. Wanting nothing. As usual. Blimey, that's a bit frustrating, there I was, in the middle of doing my hair, and he's calling, not talking about anything. He was just like, "I called Robert, he's not doing anything, I called Antoin, he's not doing anything, I talked to Anthony, and him and Phil aren't doing anything". Really, great, I'm doing stuff. Then he got all ADD on the TV. He kept saying, "Are you watching *insert channel here*?" Then when I would turn to it, he'd be on something else. Then, he complained about being bored. I was like, hello, you have video games, play them. Then he mentioned that he copied some backyard wrestling game to his X-Box or PS2, I don't know what he has, but I didn't really care. Then I told him to watch the game. Are you ready? Brace yourself. Jason said, "There's no game on today." Wow. I couldn't handle it anymore. I was like, "What planet do you live on? Of course there's a game on today, there's football on EVERY Thanksgiving!" "Oh, I thought that was only Christmas." How am I supposed to deal with this level of stupidity? At some point or another, I either have to get smarter friends, or just become as thick as they are. But come on! The Detroit Lions play every Thanksgiving. My mum told me they said on TV that they've played every Thanksgiving since like the year 1934! You know, I started really getting into football because guys like it, I'm glad I don't fancy Jason, or else I'd be in trouble. Although, I wouldn't have to use football to get his attention, he fancies me a bit anyway.

Okay, now onto my thoughts on the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD. Ahem. I really enjoyed it. A lot. No seriously, it was great. I think that over the past 4 months, my disappointment for the movie not living up to the book the way the first two did, helped me really begin to learn that one has got to separtate the movies from the books. They are two different mediums, full stop. Since I knew that so many things were changed, I really enjoyed watching it again. I still stand by my statement of the trio, and basically all the young students were becoming great actors. Especially Daniel Radcliffe. Wow, what a spectacular change. Since I've seen the movie in it's entirety twice in the past three days, I can elaborate on it more. Dan is just so much more believable in this film. He was no where near as bad as some people made him out to be in the first two, but he really stepped up his game in the third. He truly is Harry Potter. I don't know if it was because of the new director, or the fact that he's just really becoming used to all of this, whatever it was, he is really great. One of the things I missed the first time is the Weasley twins played by Oliver and James Phelps. They gave them some much needed film time. They came off very bookish, which is a great thing. They actually had lines in the movie, and were used for more than background. Nothing is perfect, one of my pet peeves about the movies is still there. Alfred Enoch, who plays Dean Thomas, still only gets one line in the movies, two if you count one he got in a deleted scene. I don't count when he says "oh god" after walking through a ghost (which is supposed to be very cold). There was some other boy, I heard he won a contest, or something, that got way more lines then Dean got. I was put off by this a bit. Also, I have accepted David Thewlis' portrayal of Remus J. Lupin in the film, but not in my imagination. I just can't do that, if you read the description of Lupin from the books, the movie image is not the first thing that comes to mind, but like I said, I've learned to separate the two mediums. And of course, I pulled a Dogma on the movies, and skipped only to the Alan Rickman parts. God, if that man isn't brilliant in that movie, I will never know what brilliance is. I have to use "brilliant" because "awesome" would never begin to describe the greatness that is Alan Rickman. He gets so wrapped up in his character that you really never once think of him as Alan Rickman, just as that character. God he's great.

Well, that's it for me, I'm probably going to watch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban again, or find some other way to entertain myself.

I'm phasing.