Going to Ireland March 10th (weather permitting) and back around the 25th.  Never been out of the country so this will be fun.

Still waiting to hear about the latest version of my book so planning for a trip out of the country is a good distraction. :)

So happy the editor assured cutting out was her area because I started with 396 pages and ended with 431.  That's 116,250 wonderful little words.

Was worth it.  Now back to waiting for (hopefully) the final word.

For Christmas I'm trying to find my sisters something unique.  I came upon this site and just about died!




I loved Barbie growing up.  My sisters weren't so fond of her.  In fact they tortured Ken and buried the remains in the backyard.  If only we had thought of it making jewelry from the body parts ourselves.  All those decapitated little bodies.



 

The site is:  http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5165121



Oh-well.

I really like Asian films.   I like their horror films.  My sister Amy turned me onto them.  She's a huge J-pop follower.  I even went with her to an Anime convention up in Ohio one year.  She dressed up as a Gothic Lolita, very cute need to find pictures. . . 

Anyway, back on track.

There is a movie coming out called The Uninvited.  It's due in 2009 and stars Elizabeth Banks and Emily Browning.  The movie is a remake of A Tale of Two Sisters, a really good Asian horror film.  I would highly recommend anyone who likes horror but not gory horror really should see this. Yes, read subtitles. No, don't see the American version first.  I am worried the American version has been Americanized and that would be disappointing  but I might go see with my sister so we can 'yeah' or 'nay' amongst ourselves.

I did recently see the move Survive Style 5+.  I will describe is as a less violent and no gore Quentin Tarantino  type movie.  Little very strange, at first doesn't seem to have a point, seemingly random characters, all collides an in unpredictable manner.  I have the theatrical trailer up on my Myspace page.

Getting away from the Asian aspect of films, has anyone seen Repo! The Genetic Opera?  It had limited release but looked like fun, horrible or surprisingly good (great fun either way).  I found the trailer and just about died.


Hope everyone is doing well and still doing . . .

 

My youngest sister is in college right now 'gettin all smert' and plans to graduate in another year (which is better then my NKU drive by plan going on ten years now).  She attends a college in Springfield Missouri and our parents live in Michigan. 

ANYWAY, this last year she changed her major to Creative writing, got a boyfriend (she's really picky so the rest of us are chomping at the bit to meet this guy) and now she has a tattoo.  Not a small butterfly on her lower back, no my sister committed.  It's as large as a paper-plate on the top of her back.

Looks Awesome!  What makes me laugh, our parents don't know.  I called our other sister and we talked about it.  We kind of want to be 'home' for Christmas just to watch the paint peel under our mother's screams. 

Just like old times only this time, it has nothing to do with me!  WOOT!

I've been reworking my book.  An editor suggested I try first person perspective instead of third, initially to help better connect with the main character.  After doing the first fifty pages I realized how much better the book would be in this point of view. 

So, undertaking the 'change' of a 400 page book, I'm almost done.  Just no time for anything else.  And I dream of finding 'her' instead of me and 'they' instead of we and on and on and on.  So . . .  close . . .

I'm still optimistic. 

I did take a brief break to go outside and see a movie with my sister.  Twilight of course.  I really liked it and that's saying something with movie ticket prices.  Gouging.

My husband is running the Thanksgiving Day Race they have here in Cincinnati.  I will be there.  The loyal, wonderful, adoring wife, in the cold freezing my ass off.  Not kidding.  Though I've taken up jogging myself, there is NO FREAKING WAY I'm doing it in the cold.  Can't complain about the 'nuts' if I become one of them.  :)

Finally, I want to pay tribute to one of the best South Park episodes I've seen in years.  Thank you South Park for clearly defining 'Goth Kids' and 'Vampire Kids' for the world.  Awesome.

Hope everyone has a great holiday.

Best Regards!

The Cincinnati Art Museum is currently showing Gregory Crewdson's Beneath the Roses exhibit.  The exhibit is free and show photographs size 57x89. 

The photos are not of singular objects of distraction or angled objects illumined with lights.  They are scenes from moments either just happening or after some morbid incident you can't quit figure out .  These images are not grotesque and can not show their full value when looking at them on a computer screen.  His depth is such that you can actually look though the window blinds in a picture and see with perfect clarity what lies right behind them.  The images are so clear at first I thought they were paintings.  Every aspect of the picture is intentional from an open closet, smudge marks on the walls as a group of about forty people working with Crewdson help him set up the 'scene'.  Sometimes the shots are so intricate, he'll close down streets in the neighborhood or move street signs so to make the shot what he needs it to be.

I am not very good with art.  My sister is a fantastic artist and I should have her write something using words like 'composition' and something else artsy.

Some of his works:













I would highly recommend anyone in the Cincinnati area to go and see the Crewdson exhibit.


Hope all is well.  :0

Long Week


Started with a business trip to Berlin in Ohio.  Wonderful four hour trip.  That's sarcasm.  My cell phone couldn't get a signal but thankfully the hotel had internet access so my husband got me a laptop so I could plug in and keep in touch with someone sane, him.

Loved the area.  The business part of it was another thing.  My head still hurts from all the information crammed into my brainwash experience of script writing, Crystal Reports and a whole lot of other things I'm just barely scratching the surface on.

Went to Louisville today and drove a Smart Car.  Absolutely loved it!  It's an automatic but it feels like a stick shift.  The driver and passenger side look and feel like a normal car but you don't have a back seat.  The waiting list can be up to a year but there's an orphan list that could have us in a car in a few months.  Better then a year long wait but it still isn't as nice as driving off the lot and being done with the process.

My husband ran the half marathon for the Flying Pig.  Not going to go into the Cincinnati 'Pig with Wings' thing, still don't get it myself, like their chili/spaghetti obsession.  Wasn't raised here can you tell?  He did Awesome!  I was so excited!  They had the best weather.

Hoping everyone is fine and the mother's are having a lovely Mother's Day.

Our 10th Anniversary was Friday.  Hard to imagine.  I'm sure some of you looking back from thirty + years are rolling your eyes but ten years is a big deal to me.  Seriously.  I didn't think I'd ever get married because boyfriends drove me nuts.   I had this plan I would become a stewardess for some major airline and travel across the Atlantic which would take me away from home for a few days so any possible significant other wouldn't drive me crazy with wanting to spend every waking moment together.  Then I met Jason. 

Oh-well.

So, we went to Georgetown and did some tourist stuff over the weekend.  Just got home Sunday to a very happy cat and a bat.  Yes, a bat was/is in our basement.  Not sure how he got there or where he is now, pretty sure he's still down there.  Our cat Zel wasn't impressed with him so a-little-hunter he is not.  Maybe if I take his food away for a few days, tracking the bat would be more fun.  I am certain Zel couldn't  catch the bat, I just want to know where it is so we can get it back out.  Could be a long week.

Well, it does starting around 1 and until about 7, if we're lucky.  :)

I've been trying to get my pictures developed from the all girl weekend during my sisters' visit.  The Jailer's Inn http://www.jailersinn.com/ in Bardstown Kentucky was wonderful.  Lovely area.  I'm planning to go back with some friends to see more of the area.  Though we didn't see any ghosts, I'm pretty sure after two of my girls got the giggles from visiting the Talbott Inn's bar http://www.talbotts.com/ and 'sneaking' back into our room, I think they might have become part of the 'ghosts' other Inn guests heard late at night.  I almost died at the breakfast table when the woman next to me said she could hear a ghost woman crying late in the night.  :)

I've been working on a new book for a while.  Delving into necromancy, Hades and a cello named Corinna by her owner.  That's all I can say. 

Hope all is well and calm or loud and fun.