I'm still trying to process that whole Game 7 of the World Series.  But the important thing...

CUBS WIN!!!!!

108 year drought is OVER!  Cubs are the World Series Champions!!!!!!!

Sleep is not coming for me tonight.  Too excited!

So, I'm an hour and a half late.  Spent the night with the family at my brothers, most of it playing World of Warcraft Trivial Pursuit with orionrezil, my brother and 2 more nephews.  I came in second to Ori.  No surprise that he won.  Twas fun though.  :D

I wish everyone a happy 2016 and hope it was better than 2015.  I think we say that every year, but it seems like the new year is at least as blah as the previous.  Maybe this will be the year it changes for the better, hopefully for at least one of us.

Hugs and love to you all.

Ok... now that I've calmed down from the happiness and excitment, I can post something.

MY CUBBIES ARE GOING TO THE NLCS!!!!!!

For the first time in 12 years, the Cubs are going to the conference finals!  This is what makes it worth being a Cubs fan. :D  

So orionrezil has been having a LOT of fun doing his own type of manips.  Ever since he was a wee boy, he was obsessed with and old adventure game called Quest for Glory (thanks to my brother).  Lately, he's taken to doing manips from screencaps inserting various other pop culture bits and pieces into game images.

His latest is with Supernatural and I promised if he posted it to LJ, I'd share with you guys so you can see what Dean, Sam, and even Baby look like in all their 8-bit glory.  I tease him about these (that's what an aunt's supposed to do, right?), but I do think they turn out pretty awesome.  :D

So....here's the link to his post if you'd like to wonder over and see it. http://orionrezil.livejournal.com/7872.html

Happy Mother's Day to all the mommy's out there.

We had a nice cookout at my brother's.  I got to practice my cake decorating skills. *G*  Mom loved how the cakes turned out. :D

Every year when orionrezil gets his tax refund back, we have a day out together (I do his taxes for him lol). Today was our day, did movies & dinner.

We went to see Seventh Son. It was such a fun fantasy movie, with some pretty cool effects, especially the dragons. And of course, Ben Barnes, who I swear has not aged (possibly de-aged) since The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Still so very pretty!

Then, for dinner... something new for me: sushi! I love seafood, but sushi never appealed to me. Ori pretty much hates fish, but likes sushi. O.O Yeah... not asking. So, we decided to do sushi for dinner. OMGNOMMMMMS!!!!! Soooo good! Can not wait to go again. Though, with how expensive it it, it'll be a while. :( But it was definitely a fun treat and a very fun day. :D

I've never really had an interest in Groupon before, but was looking through some of the offers today and found one for allromanceebooks.com. I know quite a few of you guys love ebooks as much as I do.

The offer is for 5.00 for 10.00 or 10.00 for 20.00.

Here's the link of anyone's interested. http://groupon.com/bwf/78b7b968-e6f8-44b2-8327-39c005d0a1af?utm_campaign=OfferReferral&utm_source=bwf_link&utm_medium=bwf

If at least 2 people buy in the next 3 days, we all get $2.00 refunded too. I never complain about saving money and getting books cheap. :)

Last night, Moose passed away. He was almost 15 years old and spent the last 8 years 8 months giving so much love and affection to our family, and some torment too. He really took over the house from the moment we brought him home. He claimed anywhere he wanted to lay, which was everywhere. Our house is going to be much quieter and empty now.

I love you Moose, and will miss you greatly. :(


January 21, 2006 - August 21, 2014

I'll begin by saying that I am just a Superman fan in general. Granted, Christopher Reeve will ALWAYS be my Superman, but as long as the general idea of Superman and his ideals stay the same, I'm open to some changes.

That said, I went into the movie with no preconceived ideas of the movie at all. I stayed away from pretty much anything but the commercials and previews. I just wanted a really good Superman movie with a really good Superman and Lois. That's exactly what I got.

Henry Cavill was really fantastic as Clark/Superman. He was great at letting Superman's humanness show through. Though, it was rather freaky how much he looked like Tom Welling! I'm assuming it's more because he's younger that he got the role over some of the other actors who were in the running, because if they wanted a Tom look-a-like, they could have just gotten Tom. lol Seriously, there was a scene when Clark was maybe 15-16 and it could have been a scene from the early seasons of Smallville! Henry is also very very very pretty, with some VERY white teeth! *g*

Amy Adams did a good job as Lois. She had a tough, no-nonsense way about her, but a feminine side without being too girly. Wish she had bit more dialog though.

I think what surprised me most was Russel Crowe as Jor-El. I'm not a big fan of Crowe's but I don't dislike him either. His portrayal of Jor-El was very impressive, it came across strong, caring, and intelligent.

The movie was almost 2 1/2 hours, and I wouldn't have minded if it was longer. There were some scenes that kinda seemed rushed, but I don't think there was really a lot of just 'filler' scenes either. Some of the fight scenes may have been a bit longer than necessary, but that seems to be the thing in action movies any more. I'd definitely give it a solid A, but I may be a bit biased just because it's a Superman movie.

The cool thing was, there were 2 short special behind the scenes/making the movie vids shown before the movie. One with the cast talking about the movie and one with Zac Snyder talking about making it.

On a side note, if anyone's interested - both Walmart and Amazon have the last few seasons of Smallville for 15-17.00 each. I got season 7 (thanks to orionrezil) last night. Just need 8-10 yet. :)

Thus ends my poor attempt at a review. :)