Work is still work. Trying to finalize some things and other things are sort of in a weird limbo. I just try to do the best I can and not get to me too much. I am job hunting for some new jobs. I haven't applied to anywhere, yet, but I am actively looking. Something in me just clicked recently that I am just tired of my job. And it's not that it's hard work, but it's mind-numbing most days (not to mention I'm tired of penny-pinching constantly). As much as I enjoy my fellow co-workers and everything, it's a little -- I guess -- non-fulfilling. I had been looking before, but not enough. Definitely changing that...!
Other than work, as I've said, I've been trying to relax before the final push for the Aquarium report. That has the potential to being very time consuming and draining between it and a 40-hours-a-week job. Last weekend, though, I was totally "blah." I don't know why, but I just did not want to do anything or go anywhere. It was a little weird. I didn't want to read. I didn't want to watch TV shows. I didn't want to watch movies. I didn't want to do my nails. I didn't even want to be on my computer! That's pretty much changed this week, but it was weird last weekend.
Anyway, nothing much in the ways of movies. I watched two this week and did my nails 3 times this past week. I haven't been reading much right now as there's not a whole lot I REALLY want to read. There's some so-so books, but...eh. Maybe some other day! I am looking forward to my October books I've pre-ordered, so that'll be good! I'm aiming to read 40 books this year (I'm at 39?), so I'll make that. If I could, it'd be great to get 52 to have a book a week, but we'll see. 14 weeks for 13 more books? Maybe doable...We'll see.
Fall TV shows have started up again. Bones and Revolution started last week. Castle, CSI, Criminal Minds, Person of Interest, Elementary, CSI: NY, Fringe, Revenge, Once Upon a Time, The Mentalist, and 666 Park Avenue all start this week. In addition to the fall shows, Downton Abbey season 3 started! So exciting! I've already watched the first two episodes and they've been good. I love how Amazon has already sent me the email to pre-order season 3. Season 3 comes out on DVD the end of January with the US TV show times to start early January. I'm sure I'll pre-order it at some point! Bones and Castle both had good season premieres and I'm looking forward to the rest this week.
I started watching Vampire Diaries, which I've aborted after 3 episodes. Maybe I'll try again later, but it's just not my thing. I prefer my love triangles in book form. :) I also started watching The Guild with Felicia Day. Wow. Talk about nerdy hilarity! I don't know if it'd be as funny if you didn't know about RPGs and MMOs, but knowing about them and having played once or two in my life, it made it all the funnier!
So...movies!
Battleship (Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, etc) - Think a combination of Independence Day and Transformers and that's sort of what Battleship was like? Alien invasion and the navy has to defeat them. I spent a good portion of the movie trying to pick out the game pieces and how they related it back to the game. One of the funnier things was the aliens' missiles were shaped like the game pegs and they implanted into the ships. I also liked how they were trying to track the enemy "ship" things and they used buoys and they basically shot rockets and stuff using them like the game board. It was clever with what they did, but it's definitely not a great movie. The action scenes and the plotting were neat, but the general storyline was either cheesy or not great (especially the "character" storyline between Kitsch, Decker, and Neeson). The alien concept was okay. I mean, in this day and age, it's not like they're going to set it up against two world powers or something (as is, Japan and America were doing war games together and had a great partnership towards the end), so the aliens basically substituted for that, so I'll let that go. Grade: C+
L!fe Happens (Krysten Ritter, Kate Bosworth) - Got this movie on a whim and, well, I sort of regretted my whim choice. It wasn't as funny as I hoped it to be and it was a little touching at the end, but it was basically 1:40 hours of "Why am I watching this?!" It did get better towards the end, but there's really not a whole lot to this. I actually preferred watching Friends with Kids more than this and, for all intents and purposes, L!fe Happens is similar. 3 female roommates, they lived on the free and young side, one gets knocked-up and it chronicles the lives of the 3 roommates and how their lives change and whatnot. It was either too cheesy at times or too serious. I don't know. It didn't work for me. At least Friends with Kids was a nice balance even if it was a rather dumb premise? Anyway, don't recommend it. Grade: D-
With L!fe Happens, I have finally breached 70 movies! Woohoo! Still haven't seen Bourne Legacy, it just never screens at a good time. I am excited to see Taken 2, which comes out the 5th of October. Yes, it'll probably be all action and the story will suffer for it (unlike the first one), but, come on, I've got to see it! I also am totally into Les Miserables and it coming out in December. I'm excited to see it. Whether it'll actually be really good, we'll see, but the extended look (link here) really makes it look good so I'm excited. I love the book; I love the play; I certainly hope I love the musical movie. If anything, the cast is good so it's worth seeing for that alone. The Avengers came out on DVD today (Tuesday, that is) and my copy came first thing in the morning! I've been watching it in pieces all day. Still a good film even after all this time and seeing it twice in theater.
Nails! These are just a few of the last ones I've done (aka "the coolest"). These are mood-changing nail polishes by Pretty & Polished.
Spring Fling turns the light green color when my hands are warm and the dark green when they're cold. There is also a shimmer in the polish to just add a little flare. It is rather hidden so it's hard to see, but it's nice just knowing it's there. This polish really changes colors quickly too and I really liked it. My only complaint is that the "warm" color (light green) is rather sheer so you can see my nail line when it's all light green (even after 4 coats of polish, albeit thin ones), but that didn't happen often. Most times it looked like the picture on the right with the dark tips. I got several compliments on it.
Dolli-Pop turns blue when it's warm and purple when it's cold. I just bought the new BundleMonster nail stamping plates so I HAD to do at least one nail stamped. The stamp is BM 314 stamped in China Glaze Passion. I really liked the stamp over the polish and debated stamping all my nails, but it made it harder to see the gradient or color change with the stamp and, at the time, my hands were extremely cold and were staying purple mostly. Turns out, the color gradient is a little stronger than I originally thought and probably could have gotten away with the stamp on all fingers, but oh well. I've already gotten compliments on this mani and I've only had it on for a day! The stamp does catch people's eye more. This polish has a blue shimmer in it and the blue (warm color) also shows some nail line, but not as badly as the light green did. This is either 3 or 4 coats. I can't remember...I tend to stop counting after 3...I think because the colors are similar, my nails tend to look more gradient than a strict blue-purple line like Spring Fling tended to do, but it could also just be when I happen to look at my nails too. At any rate, it's fun seeing it change!
With that, until next time!
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