Archives for January 2009

Upcoming January Fun-Stuff

January 8, 2009 by Amy 1 Comment

My calendar seemed to fill up quickly after the first of the year but we have some fun stuff coming up this month. Here’s what’s on my calendar so far:

Today 1/8 – Dinner and meeting at our house for Youth Group Leaders

Saturday 1/10 – Emma has a birthday party

Sunday 1/11 – Winter Jam concert featuring Toby Mac and Hawk Nelson

Monday 1/12 – writing date with Melissa

Tuesday 1/13 – Mary Kay party at my house

1/16 weekend – Scott is going skiing with the youth group

Tuesday 1/27 – Dinner at The Palm with J&J as part of Queen’s Feast

Friday 1/30 – Dinner at Ruth’s Chris with D&D as part of Queen’s Feast and possible overnight at a hotel in uptown Charlotte

Saturday 1/31 – Belated Choir Christmas Party

So Yeah. Busy. And fun.

Twitter Updates for 2009-01-07

January 7, 2009 by Amy Leave a Comment

Bedtime Stories was SO cute! #
back home and finishing the bachelor and then its @Privileged #
@GiGiBelts that is really cool! congrats! #
Maksim and Karnia. Really? http://tinyurl.com/988y9d #
@sizzlemaker i am following you…will it not let you DM me?? #
meant to come back to bed to finish writing but i just laid down and am worthless. nite! #
Hubby is my hero today. Stayed up after working all night to take 6yo to school for me. I’m taking 4yo to preschool now. #
20 Celebrity Hotties Who Twitter, most I didn’t know about http://coedmagazine.com/entertainment/50532/ #
4 out of 5 mobile phone users only use them to make calls: http://tinyurl.com/7omv3p via @mdurwin that’s surprising to me #
@javalicious i didn’t think monday was that great. kinda disappointed. #
@mamadrama you are right! at least Laurent is a name from Twilight…it was late when i wrote it! #
@HeatherRenae98 what??????????!!!!! #
@oohamanda at times I do love Jac0b. A lot. But not sure about more than Edward. #
@HeatherRenae98 well you did. Hmm, finding out major family drama on Twitter… #
@javalicious i do too 🙂 #
Just took my 4th mugshot! http://www.dailymugshot.com/main/show/13400 #
Twitter Tools users…any way to leave out @ replies when it summarizes your tweets for the day? #
Writing in the car line. And listening to Dora. World Adventure, if you’re curious. #
right now it’s raining, the sun is shining and there is a rainbow. half the sky is grey and half is blue with clouds. and REALLY windy. #
The wind finally knocked our power out. We’re going out to eat! #
@cltblog that has me cracking up. #
Sure. I’ll check it out. #
@sizzlemaker that last tweet was for you #
Trying out a pizza place Donato’s #
@HeatherRenae98 @darianbouley @bethsportsmomma not a fan of Donato’s. Scott liked it though. #
@HeatherRenae98 i would say those that like thin, crispy crust would enjoy it more #
back home and my power is back on. whew. #
Going to church #

So I’m slowly, slowly, slowly making progress on my non-novel. Melissa finished her novel along with all the other “National Writing Month” winners, writing 50,000 words in 30 days. I wouldn’t commit to that but I’ve been slowly writing since the end of November. I think I have about 25,000 words. Half the words in twice the time!

Melissa sent me a link to someone who had classified the different types of writers and thought it’d be interesting to post which ones I thought I could relate to.

Ahead-of-Themselves Worrywarts: People who are way too worried about what publishers will accept, and whether they’re going to get in legal trouble for some part of their story. Can I use names of real people? Is it okay if my character blows up a McDonald’s? Can I use X word in my YA novel?

I Would Do NaNoWriMo, But I Want to Put Real Thought into a Story: This wrimo-er isn’t exactly a real wrimo-er! You tell them about NaNoWriMo, and they say ‘Oh, I would LOVE to, but I want to put real thought into my novel.’ They watch your wordcount increase and they might read your NaNo, then you might get it published and it might become a bestseller, but that story that they wanted so badly to put tons of thought into just never seems to get on paper.

“My Characters Won’t Obey Me” NaNoers: whose imaginations run wild to such a degree that their characters become uncontrollable. Then they post a lot of threads wailing, and begging for help with keeping their unruly plots on track.

Obsessive Researcher Authors: who ask oodles of questions for verisimilitude and surf Wikipedia for hours, but it takes them forever to actually write their novels.

Renee from The Bachelor

January 7, 2009 by Amy 7 Comments

I’m really not trying to pick on Renee she’s a beautiful woman that seemed perfectly nice. But the whole time I was watching The Bachelor this week I kept thinking she looked super skinny and her hair/head wasn’t in proportion to her tiny little 80 pound body. I wish I could find some screencaps of the show because I think she lost even more weight since this photo. Anyway, I kept thinking she reminded me of someone…

And then Heather and I realized who…one of my children’s Polly Pocket toys.

No?

My Future Blogging Career

January 7, 2009 by Amy 6 Comments

I’m realizing almost my entire future blogging career could change based on news coming up soon. First off, the role of Jac0b Black is supposed to be announced from Summit this week. Heather and I have created a fan site devoted to Michael Copon (we haven’t technically launched it yet), one of the actors in the running to replace Taylor Lautner. Things don’t sound good for Michael right now but if by some chance Michael does get it, that could become a very popular blog. Or not so much.

Secondly, OTH actors are in negotiations right now for Season 7. From what I gather, the network wants a Season 7 but the contracts all expired after 6 years so they have to make sure everyone they want is on board. I think there might be a few of them that want out but we’ll see. It would be tough to lose any of them and I’m not sure if there are any must-haves the CW is counting on. My guess is if any of the core 5 don’t sign, we don’t get a Season 7. Anyway, obviously if there is no Season 7, that blog slows down a lot. I would guess I would keep up with the actors and future projects but I’m sure it wouldn’t be the same.

As for my Privileged blog, it’s limping along. I’ve been sticking with it, not wanting to get behind if it lasts past a first season. No news on a second season but numbers haven’t been stellar. OTH never had stellar season 1 numbers either so I’m not taking that as the only sign. I guess we’ll see what happens but I’m hoping for the best!

Twitter Updates for 2009-01-06

January 6, 2009 by Amy Leave a Comment

Internet is back up!! I’m ready to live-blog OTH for tonight now…onetreehillblog.com/@onetreehillblog #
too much to watch on TV tonight! should i stay up and watch Gossip Girl AND The Bachelor AFTER OTH? What am I going to do when AI comes on? #
is it weird i just added about 10 coworked on facebook? that could be weird. #
I love Jason on the Bachelor!! #
@MissLaura317 yay! so excited. trying to get the kids to bed so i can get set up! #
@Zandor i can’t wait until i watch it after OTH! #
@HeatherRenae98 we’re not waiting…hurry!!! #
@javalicious crazy girl! surfthechannel.com will save your day! #
One Tree Hill is so good tonight!!! #
ok, One Tree Hill was awesome tonight. Now watching Gossip Girl #
@geekyjenn yes! I loved Brooke tonight! #
@sizzlemaker awesome! you’re welcome! #
We’ve moved onto The Bachelor. I’m getting sleepy. #
@javalicious nope #
Couldn’t make it through the bachelor. 6:30 is too early. Nite! #
I kept negotiating with my alarm clock but I lost. #
Let me just say the radio is playing the heck out of Lady Gaga #
just scheduled a meeting with someone about the refi. hopefully we can get it done soon. #
just got off the phone with ins co and the drs about a claim out since april. turns out someone fat-fingered a 2 instead of a 3 on our # grr #
@illuminatedeye whew. that was weird. i thought maybe my refi and ins talk had bored you 😉 #
http://twitpic.com/107tb – My new Nine West boots. Love Nine West! #
Grey’s looks so good this week! http://tinyurl.com/72mqtq #
somebody fix Twitter!! #
hubby just brought me starbucks. hello, white mocha! #
@twitbacks thanks for my new background! #
planning a movie night with @heatherrenae98 and my girls #
http://twitpic.com/10a21 – Dinner is served. Yummy roast beef #
@adevine1 all homemade. Even the gravy 🙂 #
3yo is dipping her roast beef in ketchup and ranch. Just not right. #
Wow except I don’t have a 3yo. She turned 4 two months ago. fail! #
@adevine1 thanks! It’s one of few dinners I do well. #
@heatherrenae98 came to eat my roast beef leftovers #
On the way to see Bedtime Stories with our free tickets. #
@WendiH shirt and shoes required never said anything about pants 😉 #
@jlloyd good to know. I’ve heard mixed reviews and was a little worried. #
@sizzlemaker are you going in the show?? #
@WendiH I get it right every once in a while 🙂 #
@WendiH now that’s smart thinking #
I like @danzarrella ‘s Tweetbacks idea – show tweets about your blog post with your comments http://tinyurl.com/9e4ank (via @problogger) #

Review: Bedtime Stories

January 6, 2009 by Amy 1 Comment

As part of our free movie tickets, Heather and I took the girls to go watch Bedtime Stories tonight. We really wanted to see Tale of Despereaux and thought for sure that Bedtime Stories would be a little hokey. After seeing the raining gumballs, I thought it would be a fantastical tale that only the kids would enjoy. But let me tell you, we were pleasantly surprised. We had the entire theater to ourselves and Heather and I found ourselves laughing. Really Loud. A lot.

I would skip this part if you don’t want completely spoiled. Basically Adam Sandler’s character has to watch his niece and nephew for a week. Each night they come up with a bedtime story and the next day, the stuff that the kids come up with come true the next day. But not literally. For example, in the story, it rains gumballs. The next day, it appears to start raining in his truck through the sunroof but it’s actually a candy truck that has wrecked on the bridge above them spilling the gumballs. All of it is stuff like that.

Adam Sandler was hilarious as usual. But it wasn’t TOO much Adam you know? Big Daddy almost crossed the line for me a few times but in this, he was funny without being inappropriate with the kids.

Keri Russell was a huge surprise. I have always been a huge fan of Keri’s and I didn’t know she was in it. I’m not sure I would have thought to cast her but she fit the role perfectly and did really, really well.

The one actor I really enjoyed though was Russell Brand. I found him funny but slightly annoying in both Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the MTV Movie Awards. But here, he was a great compliment to Adam and we laughed more over the stuff he said than anything else.

The greatest part is the funniest parts are NOT in the trailer. Loved that. Emma and Lexi declared it a winner as well. Emma says she “loved it”.

Here’s the trailer in case you haven’t seen it.

The Bachelor – Week 1

January 6, 2009 by Amy 3 Comments

Finally Heather and I finished watching The Bachelor tonight. I really think this season is going to be good. Jason is one of the sweetest, most sincere, romantic and yet responsible guys I have ever seen on there. The only guy I think that could rival him from that show is Trista’s Ryan. Seriously, go watch that video, you’ll fall in love with them again.

Anyway, no major drama this week. The token drunk girl got kicked off tonight. I was surprised that the stalker girl made it through. A little surprised on the first impression rose girl. I like her but she seems too boring for him. One of my favorites so far is the Dallas cheerleader. Not sure if she’s mommy-material yet but she seems like a lot of fun and in a decent kind of way. I liked hot dog girl. So happy he passed the test :). And unrelated, I really like restaurant designer girl’s restaurant. It was gorgeous!