Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Monday, December 1st, 2008
tonichelle	2:15p	God Works.... and sometimes it's at break neck speed! My friend Casey and her husband Dan emailed family and friends right before Thanksgiving that they were applying to adopt a baby girl. Then before the weekend was out they were chosen by the biological mother to be her baby's forever parents. Today, their little girl made her appearance in the world... They lost Asher just a few months ago, and this couldnt have come at a better time! :) Congrats Casey and Dan! (see the whole story here - http://caseychappell.typepad.com/baby/ ) Current Mood: excited Current Music: 2006 Olympic ODs (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
tonichelle	12:50p	Rewatching Olympic Ice... ... Ben Porn shot! hee hee. I'd just like NBC Universal to NOT use any of their normal color commentators for figure skating this next Olympics. They're incompetant, they don't even PRETEND to appreciate the sport, and they just aren't needed... especially since NBC crams five bazillion experts in the booth. The show was so cheesey, and did we ever find out who Italian Ice was? I can't remember lol Current Mood: bored Current Music: Olympic Ice (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
tonichelle	7:31a	Almost Thanksgiving... I'm not going to go into a sappy what I'm thankful for post today. Maybe Wednesday or the actual Turkey Day... but I will say I am so happy for this week to be a short one! I'm not getting to go to Kenai like I'd hoped, I think I'm okay with it. All three of us are going over to my g'parents house again this year. Hooray for crowded! blah. I think G'ma's looking at something like 15 people this year! yikes! Nothing else is really going on. Had a weird dream about one of my classes last night... it was a good dream, but weird. Gotta finish up a paper and harass Erin a bit on facebook. TTYL! Current Mood: I'm here. Current Music: FRIENDS (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
tonichelle	3:45p	Prayers go out to the Browning Family ...it's being talked about on all of the skating boards and egroups. Dewey Browning's battle with male breast cancer is over. I guess CBC did a little blurb at the end of their broadcast. He was such a figure head in Canadian/Men's skating not just as "Kurt's Dad" but as someone who genuinely cared about the sport his son participated in. Both Neva and Dewey were committed to Kurt's endeavors but also strived to raise him to be more than just a jock, and he's taken those lessons to heart. The world needs more like them, and sadly we've had to lose them. I don't know where I'm going with this, so I'll stop before I seem completely looney. My prayers are with Kurt and the entire Browning family tonight as they mourn the loss of their father & grandfather. You'll be missed, Dewey! Current Mood: sympathetic Current Music: What A Wonderful World (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
tonichelle	7:24a	Haven't done anything exciting... I've been doing my best to not get sick, but last night I was defeated. I don't have a full blown cold but I just feel incredibly run down. The three day migraine hasn't helped, either. It's managable today, though. Which is good, because I don't want to miss another one of Edgar's classes. haha! We're currently watching Salvador in class, it is not a very good film, if you ask me. Personally if a film only uses the same three swear words and very little else, it's not worth watching. My paper on the film will probably not be very good. Then again neither was my paper on Outfoxed. And before you think I just defended FoxNews, I didn't. I can't stand the program either, but I hate that the people on the movie said that Fox is the only biased network out there. It's like the kettle calling the pot black. That the press tries to say they don't push one candidate or agenda over another is absurd. In a perfect world journalism would stay neutral but it NEVER HAS. Look at how the Revolution was started, or just about every war we learn about in school. It starts with some big wig deciding to take a side. Why else would celebrities keep pushing in the news about Darfur? Duh! The news influences people to think whatever way the news wants. We're just dumb enough to take them as truth. That was the gist of my paper, I have a feeling I'm going to get a poor grade for the first time in his class because we don't agree on that. I have come to the conclusion that in order to get a good grade in journalism courses you have to blindly follow and agree with the prof or you won't get far. So it won't surprise me if Edgar is the same as just about every other prof I've had in that department. The only one I didn't have to worry about was Prof. Dillehey, but I haven't taken from him since that one class (I don't even know if he's still in the program!). I also have no doubt the main topic of class will be Ted Stevens' concession yesterday allowing Begich to become our newly elected senator. Personally I am disappointed in my state's voters for two reasons. 1. we voted in Begich who is a moron (and I don't base that on his politics. the man is a moronic jerk who is only in it for the spotlight) and 2. we almost voted in a convicted felon. There was a perfectly acceptable third choice, IMO, and he was the one I voted for. Bob Bird would stand for Alaska and was not backed by a party or cause. Unlike Begich who allowed the very people he's promising Alaskans he will stand up against. Yeah. Right. Like they're going to pay for you to disagree with them. Fat chance of that. Oh well. Six years from now we'll be sick of him (save for the church of Begich known as Anchorage) and we'll have someone replace him. Who it will be, who knows, but this is the first time in 40 years we've had two weak senators... Murkowski's just as big a joke IMHO and she's a "Republican". I quit! lol I just called down to WDW this morning and paid off our balance. You may be thinking that we'd already did that, and we had, but with the new promotion they've got out (buy 4 nights at a resort and 4 days worth of park admission get 3 free) we were holding out hope for getting a Moderate resort - specifically the Coronado Springs. As you might have read in my last journal update. I am so very excited to be going there again. I told Erin she has to take a picture of me giving the resort a big hug. I've missed it. I could stay there every time and not feel like I was missing out on a thing! Gaylord is home. Not sure why. Either he is checking up on me to see if I actually leave the house, or he keeps peeing his pants because he keeps having to come home to "change". I'm not sure that that is all about, but it annoys me. It also annoys me that Judy borrowed a few of my CDs and I haven't gotten them back even though I've asked her about them. Then I get woken up at midnight last night because Gaylord is working on a stupid slide show or something and what's playing? Josh GROBAN... and it's MY CD. All you have to do is ASK, but it's really annoying that she leant MY cd to him without even asking me when she knows I've been looking for my CDs. I have use for those disks too! BLAH. Yes, I'm a selfish little brat, but I'm just asking for a little bit of respect. Though, I haven't been the best of buddies with either of them as of late. I'm getting really tired of Gaylord trying to be the "man of his domain" and telling Judy and I what to do. He hit the roof the other night when Judy snow blowed the drive way. He said he'd do it. Yeah, well, it'd been four days since it snowed and you still hadn't gotten off your fat duff so sit down and shut up. He started yelling at me that I should have done it before Judy did. Um. I was in class when she did it. And YOU kept saying that it was YOUR job. So I stayed out of it. Apparently he doesn't get enough jollies or something or he'd shut up and leave me alone. He also decided it was his duty to tell me I was spending my money unwisely and that I was an ungrateful person to use my parents money in the way I was. Meaning - I shouldn't go on this Disney trip (Judy wants to go on one with him and he isn't into the idea). I got REALLY snotty with him and told him that it was MY money and ONLY my money that I was using on this trip. I worked VERY hard this summer to get it (ok so not VERY) and I saved it FOR THIS PURPOSE. I also got permission from my PARENTS (even though I am 23 and therefore an adult that does not NEED it, I still ask for it) and JUDY (whom I still owe for the last trip). I paid off a vet bill, a dentist bill, and a couple of other things before I booked the trip. AND then there's the check that came in September from the State of Alaska that was over 2,000 big ones (plus 1200 energy check). That was MY money, not my parents. I'm not using money from school or anything. I said if anything Judy was the only one who had right to say I needed to give HER the money and not go on the trip. Then he tried to be her proxy and suggest that's what I needed to do. Considering JUDY was the one who said I should do it if I could afford it at the beginning of the summer, I knew that was crap. And if she DOES truly feel that way she should come out and say it. She's looking forward to 12 days of just her and Gaylord in the house with the dogs. She hasn't been this excited to be rid of me in a while (which kinda hurts), so I somehow doubt she'd be happy if we canceled this trip and I gave her the money. Then Gaylord plays the wounded dog card about how he doesn't know how to get me to like him and sends Judy to make things right. How about stay out of my buisness and stop trying to be all controlling? I'm a bull headed REITTER. We don't take other people's crap lying down. You are not the one that is 'over me'. I am not your daughter, nor am I your wife (EW). I don't need to be submissive to you. so stuff it. Isn't it amazing that I can make such a long entry when I have nothing of interest to say. I should just stop talking. ha ha. so I will. Have a nice week everyone (since it's almost over!) Current Mood: pessimistic Current Music: Nash Bridges (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
tonichelle	7:31p	Head.Ache 01. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times. Star Wars, Big Fish, The Producers, Pirates, Forrest Gump, Sleeping Beauty, and many others. 02. Name a movie that you’ve seen multiple times in the theater. Big Fish, Pirates, Finding Nemo, Revenge of the Sith 03. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie. Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Hugh Laurie. Keira Knightly, Ewan McGregor... ok I'll stop lol 04. Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie. LINDSAY LOHAN, George Clooney (unless it's an Ocean's movie), Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Will Ferrel, Cate Blanchett, Shia LeBouf, Hayden Christensen... just to name a few 05. Name a movie that you can quote from. Just about all of them! LOL Pirates, Star Wars, Nemo, The Producers 06. Name a movie musical that you know all the lyrics to all the songs. The Producers. 07. Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with. The Producers, Meet Me In St. Louis, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. 08. Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see. WALL-E (gonna watch it before bed tonight!) 09. Name a movie that you own. According to my excell spreadsheet I have over two hundred films here in Anchorage, and I'm sure I have close to that at home in Kenai... first one to come to my head - Sleeping Beauty 10. Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops. Dame Julie Andrews - singing/vaudville, Martin Short - comedian, Robin Williams - comedian 11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? Unfortunately that's not a cost effective medium up here. 12. Ever made out in a movie? Um. That'd be NO. 13. Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t gotten around to it. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (because my best friend tells me I have to see it, not because I want to.) 14. Ever walked out of a movie? No, though I wanted to during Mean Girls and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. 15. Name a movie that made you cry in the theater. Revenge of the Sith (yes, really), At World's End (the second time, the first time I was shocked and ticked off), Wall-E 16. Popcorn? I'm not allowed - it makes me hyper. Nachos or Cinnibon! 17. How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or watching them at home)? Now that Gaylord's here, I don't get to go to the movies. Stupid fat man. 18. What’s the last movie you saw in the theater? Wall-E 19. What’s your favorite/preferred genre of movie? Action Adventure, Disney 20. What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the theater? It was a double feature of The Land Before Time and Oliver & Company. 21. What movie do you wish you had never seen? Just about every movie I've watched for my movies class this semester, and every Lindsay Lohan movie I've ever been suckered into seeing. 22. What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed? I guess Elizabethtown since it's not your typical feel good movie... or Dan In Real Life. 23. What is the scariest movie you’ve seen? Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte 24. What is the funniest movie you’ve seen? Father of the Bride (Remake) 1 & 2, Home Alone 2, The Producers (the Musical), Pirates, and THE THREE AMIGOS! in other news - Erin and I were able to get the resort upgrade that we wanted for 8 nights of our trip! We're going to be staying at the Coronado Springs resort from Jan 11 through to the 19th, then we switch over to the Pop Century for the 19th through the 22nd. I stayed at the Coronado last summer with the family and I can't wait to go back, I'm so glad Erin picked it! hee hee! It has the biggest hot tub which I think was a big ticket item for her! ;) I think I'm tryin to come down with a cold, I've been feeling really crappy as of late. I hope I'm wrong, I don't want to be sick for the holidays again. Current Mood: blank Current Music: House M.D. (Comment on this)