Home Again, Home Again

     Sorry for my absence, I've been out of internet service for a while. I'll get back to posting regularly again, as long as nothing else comes up to prevent me from doing so. Cross your fingers!

Current Events

     The a/c is busted and the house is sweltering, so I've been sleeping in the basement to keep cool at night. We have this problem with the a/c every year, and it's getting a bit annoying now. I need cool temperatures to sleep, and I need sleep before the Relay tomorrow.

     I've been reading Carrie Fisher's book Surrender The Pink, and, like the others, I love it. This one isn't so autobiographical, but she does give the main character a lot of her personality.

     I probably won't get a chance to post tomorrow or Sunday, since I'll be at the Relay most of the time, but I 'll try to post again Monday.

Postcards from the Storm

     Good grief, did we get a thunderstorm last night. Or rather, early this morning. I even dreamed about a thunderstorm without waking up to see that it was storming. Areas not too far from here are underwater, too. Luckily, my town is on a hill, so the worst puddle I have in my 6-acre yard is about 3 inches deep.

     In other news (tap of the papers on the desk in front of me), I recently finished Postcards From The Edge. I'm now trying to decide which book I've read, this or The Best Awful, was my favorite. I think it's a very close call, but I'd have to say... Postcards From The Edge. I don't know why, it just appealed to me a little bit more. Actually, I do know why. The Best Awful dealt more with drugs and her time in the mental hospital, while Postcards From The Edge gave the readers more of a look into who Carrie really was, sober and in her semi-normal life.

     All in all, they're both excellent books, and they've made their way onto the mental list I keep of my favorite books.

New Websites

     I've discovered some more entertaining websites in the past week or so. I added them to my favorite websites list, but for quick reference they are: www.notalwaysright.com and www.passiveaggressivenotes.com.

Happy Mother's Day!

     Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there, including my own. I hope you enjoy the day dedicated to you.

Tournament Results

     Well, the TaeKwonDo tournament was earlier today. I finished 1st in forms and 2nd in sparring. My dad and I were also recognized with an award given once a year to one student, but in this case it was split between two students. The tournament was a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to next year.
     The local Relay for Life is this weekend, and as part of the TaeKwonDo school's team I will be attending. Let's hope for good weather - last year it was held for only 12 hours and at an indoor college track.

TaeKwonDo Competiton

     I'm going to crash very early tonight, as I'm competing in a local TaeKwonDo competition tomorrow. It should be a lot of fun, as always. Wish me luck! :)

Carrie Fisher's Blog

     I just realized I didn't add Carrie Fisher's blog to my favorite blogs list! How could I have forgotten? Her blog is my absolute favorite of any I have read. To give you a little taste of her way of looking at things and her humor, I'd like to quote a sentence from her blog: "In closing, I’d like to say that my IQ is dangerously close to my weight. And for those of you skinny folks  out there, I hope the same isn’t true……." Genius. I'd never thought of it that way before... :)
     If you'd like to read more of her blog, the link is http://carriefisher.com/?cat=1. Be warned, she does a lot of swearing, but if you're familiar with Carrie's writing at all you'll know that's just the way she is. To be honest, I sometimes wish I were as brave as her.

Contact info updated

     I updated the HTML so you can e-mail me by clicking "contact." Feel free to do so anytime.

A Few Random Pictures

     I had the urge to post some pictures I found. No real reason, just for entertainment. Enjoy.

Updates!

     Notice anything different about this place? Yup... just about everything. I changed the layout to something less cluttered and a bit more elegant, changed the hit counter and added a unique hit counter, added a favorite blogs section, added a song of the moment mp3 player, and... well, that's about it, I think. Oh, and I got rid of those annoying Toplist-like buttons. What do you think?

My Current Favorite Blog

     I will be posting links to my favorite blogs from time to time, and probably keep a list of them in the sidebar as well. At the moment, my favorite blog is Hyperbole and a Half, at http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/. I could sit and read this blog all day. Check it out, you won't be sorry. Though after you stay up until 3 a.m. reading past posts, you might start o regret it a little. Please, don't do that. I did. Bad idea.

Searching...

     The search for my blog has gotten even easier. You no longer have to type "stonecoldcrazyblog" in order for it to come up in Google search, "stone cold crazy blog" is sufficient. How cool is that? I'm satisfied. With the search result, not the blog. I'm considering changing the layout to something simpler. Any thoughts on that?

I Can't Think of an (Almost) Witty Title

     Well, I'm back, but I'm brain dead from lack of sleep. My insomnia has kicked in during the past few nights. I spent last night looking up random interjections in my Latin dictionary and translating "Res ipsa loquitor, tabula in naufragio." I only sat Pirates of the Caribbean 3, oh, say 15 times.

     That's a good topic: movies. What are my readers' (reader's? maybe) favorites? I'd say mine would have to be Iron Man, Man In The Iron Mask, Star Wars (original trilogy), Pirates trilogy, Harry Potter series, Airplane!, Airplane: The Sequel, A Beautiful Mind, Benny and Joon, Sleepy Hollow, and The Mummy movies, among many others. Including, though I'm ashamed to admit it, the Austin Powers movies. I like just about any horror movie, as well, though it's difficult for me to find one that will actually scare me. Oh, and science fiction. I love science fiction. My only problem is that SciFi has become pretty predictable lately, especially with alien movies.

     Speaking of science fiction, that brings me back to my new favorite SciFi movie series, my favorite celebrity, my favorite actress, and a new addition to my long list of favorite authors. I've almost finished her book, sadly, so I guess this means another trip to the library is going to go on my schedule. Not that I have a schedule. I'm not one of those over-organized put-it-on-my-list-if-you-want-it-done always-busy people. That's my mother. And I'm nothing like her. Well, maybe a little, but I didn't get that part of her brain.

     But anyway, I've read most of The Best Awful now. I absolutely adore this book, because it's hilarious, horribly sad, and at many times, terrifying. I haven't had any interaction with drugs or doers of drugs, so reading a very open account of their affects on the mind scares me. I still don't understand how people can have the courage to let the drugs take over them. I want to stay in control of my words and actions at all times.

     In other news, I joined Twitter. Not to "tweet" or promote my blog, but just to follow other Twitter users, Carrie Fisher in particular (Yes, yes, I know, I'm obsessed. But can you blame me?). I'm disappointed that most celebrities don't tweet about anything except advertising their own shows, products, etc. I like the celebrities such as Carrie, who actually tweet about themselves, their life, events, and other such things with minimal advertising. Yes, I think it's okay and even good to promote your show or hold contests for tickets or whatever else goes on in celebrity Twitter pages, but that should not be the only thing they tweet! Fans are interested in them, don't they know that? We want to see how their minds work.

     Well, farewell for now. I hope I don't have any more interruptions in my blogging schedule anymore, and please forgive the absence I did have.

Back Again

     My friends (her sister is staying with us now) will be leaving this Saturday. It will be bittersweet, as this means the family emergency is on its way to being over, but I have a feeling our house will feel very large and empty when they leave. I've become used to having a couple of "sisters," being an only child. I suppose they must go home sometime, though. I'll miss having them around.

     I've been reading Carrie Fisher's book "The Best Awful," and I love it. I love her honest style of writing and how she looks at even the worst periods of her life with humor. I've always loved the kind of people who could use humor to lighten situations, particularly their own. I believe it makes going through life easier than if you take everything too seriously.

     Anyway, that's all for now. I should be posting regularly again after Saturday, since I'll be lonely again when my friends leave.

Silence

     I thought I should explain me recent silence and my silence to come. I will still try to post, but a friend of mine is staying at my house during a family emergency, which will take up most of my time. Bear with me until I can post regularly again.

Search Success!

     I've been Googling my blog every so often, just to see if it was possible to find it that way. I got a nice surprise today. It's listed in Google search! You have to google "stonecoldcrazyblog" to find it, so it's unlikely that anyone will stumble across it that way, but I consider it an accomplishment.
     You may have noticed the lack of ads in the blog. I'm one of those people who hate ads, very unrealistically too, since they do keep internet content free. But advertising on unrelated websites has become so obnoxious that I shudder at the thought of putting Adsense in my blog. Now, some years in the future if my blog becomes insanely popular (don't worry, that's about as likely as me growing a third arm) I may have a couple of direct advertisements with companies I actually like. But it's unlikely that this will get popular enough for me to even consider that.

     I am  thinking about adding a "Website of the Week" section in the sidebar of the blog, though, just as a place to promote my favorite websites. I'm not getting paid, obviously, as I have no followers, but I thought I could point out my favorite websites to the few visitors I have.

The Cleverbot

     I stumbled upon this website quite by accident. I must say, it is much more entertaining than I ever expected. I've been on it for an hour and I'm amazed that it's been that long, that I could have a conversation with an AI for that long. It's a lot of fun though, and the Jabberwacky is fun as well. Check the website out sometime, but only when you have quite a bit if time to kill. The website is www.cleverbot.com.

Directories, moderators, melodies, oh my!

     Because it appears I have had no visitors other than myself, judging by my hit counter, I've spent the last hour registering on blog directory sites. I hope it pays off. If I get a single visitor by the end on this week I'll be thrilled.
     I really don't have anything more interesting that the fact that I'm moving up in moderator rankings on www.fmylife.com. I'm currently up to #13, which I consider an accomplishment. I guess I shouldn't forget that that I biked 15 miles today. It should have only been 13, but I got lost and ended up taking a slight detour. Oops. There's no experience quite like getting lost out in the middle of nowhere on a bike.
     I'm starting a regular feature of the blog, which I'm calling "What Song Is Stuck In Crazy's head Today?" Aren't I clever? There's never been a more original idea that that, or a more original title.
     Yes, that was sarcasm, if some of you couldn't tell. Though I sincerely hope you could. If I think up a better name later I'll change it. Feel free to give suggestions. Actually, I'm begging you.
     Anyway, today's featured song is "Godzilla" by Blue Öyster Cult. Very catchy. You can listen to it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6rDWqjnW7w.

Fisher Fever

     Sorry I missed the last few days, I've been busy.

     Ah, who am I kidding. I forgot, plain and simple. It's a side effect of having a terrible memory. My apologies. I think it would be more practical now to say that I'll be posting 3-6 times a week from now on.

     Though I have been pretty busy, so that statement wasn't entirely untrue.

     Anyway, I'll move on to explaining the title of this post. My Princess Leia obsession drove me to do a little more research on the actress that played her character, Carrie Fisher, and in doing so my obsession spread from a single character in a single set of films to the woman behind the princess. As a result, Carrie Fisher has become my new favorite actress, comedian, and celebrity. I've been watching every video I can find on this amazingly funny person and watching as many movies she starred in as I can (I wish she played the main role in more, it's a shame that she didn't as good as she is). I've also been spending quite a bit of time at her website, and her personality definitely shows in her blogging. I can't wait to head over to the library and check out a few of her books.

     She mentions in her blog and in several interviews that bloggers have compared her appearance to that of Elton John and even Jabba the Hutt. In order to keep at least some of my faith in humanity I'm going to assume that these bloggers are people who don't realize that the celebrity they are bashing is in fact an actual human being with actual feelings, though I'm sure there are those who just don't care. I personally think that Carrie looks great for her age, especially considering all her body has been put through. Even after saying that I'm disappointed that people still consider looks a major thing, that we haven't come to realize that appearance is really the last thing about a person that matters. But unfortunately the day that we do realize and accept that fact will probably never come. Then again, maybe it will.

     In the mean time, while we wait for all of humanity to wise up a bit, head on over to Carrie's website, www.carriefisher.com, and check out her blog.

Entertainment, anyone?

     If you're like me at all, you probably kill time on the internet quite often. I have certain sites that I like to visit to keep me entertained. I highly recommend that you check them out. My favorites are www.collegehumor.com, www.fmylife.com, and www.textsfromlastnight.com. These are the types of things that I waste bits of my life looking at. They can be quite amusing, though. If anyone has site suggestions for me to look at, please let me know. If I like them I'll post them in the blog.

Of Mice and Rabbits

Warning: For those of you who do not like mice, you may wish to skip this particular post.

     It seems a small colony of mice have made themselves at home in the doghouse that is now being used as a home for our rabbits. I won't be too wordy in this post, I'll let the pictures do most of the talking. I'm going to estimate that there are about 20 mice living in the house, considering while the ones you can see in the pictures are eating there are mice watching me from underneath the house, mice running around outside the frame, and who knows how many mice working on the tunnel system they've made beneath the house in the dirt. They certainly have the perfect place to stay, although they are a bit afraid of our 17-lb. rabbits. The mice, and rabbits too, are extremely adorable, if I do say so myself.

One mouse coming up from underneath the house to grab some cornflakes.

Big jump for a little guy.

Isn't he cute?

     By the looks of some of these mice, we may have quite a few more on the way. Then again, with their abundant food supply it's difficult to tell which are pregnant and which are just plain fat.

Star Wars Fever

     What better way to start a blog than my newest obsession? I began watching the Star Wars movies, episodes 4-6, last week. I instantly became addicted, to one character in particular: Princess Leia. To me, she is the Princess that the tomboys of the world, myself included, can look upon with pride. She shows that not all movie princesses wear ball gowns and have people to wait on them hand and foot. She's strong, courageous, intelligent, resourceful, and level-headed throughout all of the movies. And she's a good shot. That's considered something to be proud of out here in Hicktown, USA.

     But she isn't all I love about the movies. I'm a big fan of science fiction in general, but there's just something about Star Wars that captures my interest. I'm one of those people who are bored watching movies that are predictable, and science fiction movies seem to have become just that. I've watched enough SciFi that I've gotten to the point where I can pretty well guess what will happen long before it does in a lot of movies. Star Wars didn't disappoint me like many science fiction movies do.

     The characters were also very entertaining. Though my favorite character, obviously, is Leia, I was a big fan of R2-D2, Chewbacca, and C-3PO. And even Han Solo, who I thought was a jerk at times. I have a soft spot for the Ewoks, too. Awfully plucky spirits for creatures that look like big teddy bears.

     So my question to you is: What were your favorite characters, and why?

New Layout

     Many thanks to www.btemplates.com for providing the new layout. I'm using Notepad Chaos v2, with a few modifications. :)

Blog up and running!

     Hello everyone! This is my first blog, so bear with me. I created this blog as an online journal of sorts, so I will stay anonymous. This is simply a place to share my crazy thoughts with the world, though I doubt many, if anyone, will bother to read them. To those of you who do, though, I thank you. I hope I can keep you entertained.

     To those who are experienced bloggers, please feel free to give me blogging tips at any time. I'm violating a rule I've read on several sites already, which is to pick a topic and blog about only that topic. I'm not too worried, though, with a mind like mine there is no possible way to pick only one. So be prepared to read about everything from my love of classic rock to SciFi movies to TaeKwonDo.

     I hope I can give you some entertainment. I will try to post daily for the most part, but I'm sure it won't always happen.

     Enjoy!