today’s post/blog

Yes I know, lame title but here it goes

Yes I am still loosing weight,  I am at 142 right now,  which is good,  I am not loosing it as fast but I am also not walking 3 miles a day right now.   But regardless, I am loosing weight.  My goal is still going on,  just not as focused on it.

I know I haven’t been writing that much,  i can’t help it.  Its been busy and stressful over here.  With trying to get my finances in order and also, I guess with trying to find my self in all,  I have been pre occupied.

I didn’t want to bore anyone with all the what do I do with my life, and self discovery ( or lack there of ).

My days right now seem to roll into each other,  and I am trying to keep my self focused on my main goal:  my future ; permanent career.   Which I still don’t know what it is.  I am not sure if I think it’s just going to land in my lap or really wishing it would.  Like one day I bump into someone and they are like ” you know what you would be good at” and I have an opening right now,  willing to train for a high paying job”  yeah like that is ever going to happen.  But I guess one can dream or hope, or pray for the most absurd thing possible.  Like winning the lotto…. I guess it does happen for some.

right now I am enjoying being a parent and all that comes with it, such as the 3am puke storm.  Yep this happen twice this week, both kids at about 3 am, two different nights. I think they planned it.  I swear these kids are working against us,  its like  WWE tag team match.  while you are dealing with one the other sneaks up behind you with a metal chair and hits you when the ref isn’t look.  sly little kids.  I guess this is what they meant by ” be careful what you do to your parents as your kids were do it back but twice as bad”

My biggest problem lately is staying focused.  My ADD is really acting up with the chaos going on around me.  I am having a hard time focuses on one thing and actually completing a task.  Not sure what to do about it.

My good new is that my son as figured out that there is more than 2 movies to watch.  Now the movies have grown from just wreck it Ralph and Brave, to include Arthur Christmas, Hotel Transylvania, Pirates and band of misfits , and Planes.  So I guess my viewing pleasure has improved if not my sanity.

which leads me to ask,  how is it that these people come up with the stories.  I guess all those nerds and geeks who were made fun of in school are laughing all the way to the bank.  Who cares if you can play a sport or who was voted the most popular with creativity like this.  Sorry but writers, gamers, geeks and nerds are much cooler and have way better jobs when they get older.

question of the day (maybe the week): Whats on the menu? Zombie style

Why do zombies have to eat humans,  why are we “the living” their main food choice?

If you watch a zombie film ( walking dead or resident evil) they are all like “zombies are re animated dead people who only act on the basic instinct of the need for food”. My question, why human meat.

I mean, if I died and came back to life… wouldn’t I still want pizza, why would I all of a sudden be like “mmm human flesh, got to get me some of that .”

what is wrong with Pizza , hotdogs, or hamburgers , why is the person that is eating the food is “what is on the menu”

Just a question

Doctor Who 50th – its starting !

In case you haven’t noticed today is the 50th anniversary of Doctor who, in that the season has started and we will soon meet our new doctor and learn about the past doctor (played by john hurt, which I can’t separate from “Hellboy“)

For starters:  go to http://www.google.com, and you see that even they are doing something to celebrate the doctor.

I have been looking forward to this now for what seems like forever.  After this is over we will start playing Doctor who monopoly.  Yes I love the doctor and I am very excited about this event.

 

Here’s to you Doctor! And the end of Matt Smith, I will miss you as the doctor

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live action Mario Kart

 

Enough said with this ,  I love Nintendo !  I wonder which one has the lightning bolt ?

Friday delay

Today’s posts (Friday)  are a little delay but for several good reasons.

the main reason,  the job today,  between the running around and interview today, we didn’t get home until after 3 pm ( after leaving at 9:30am)

after that, we dealt with some more family drama and I am calling for a mass family intervention to hopefully fix stupidity ( we’ll see how many supports i have)

Than It was off to Trunk of Treat at the local ( down the street) church.  we were there from 6 to 7 pm,  and my son loved it. It was a mini pre Halloween. The church showed Charlie Brown Halloween special, and then we went trunk or treat.  next time we will be there earlier!

and then came my first time to do a girls night,  in short first girl night since before my son was born ( so over 3 years ago).  Tonight i went to my first Bonko party.  It was great, had so much fun! i want to do it again,  i hope I get invited again,  I didn’t get home until after 11pm.  It was a crazy (for mom) night.

today was a great day and hopefully this is a sign of good things to come.

representation of Me – Picture

I couldn’t help it,  I had to post this.  For me this is so true

Every day i am entertained by myself.

If only had the ability to live what i imagine in real life.

 

 

Picture of the day – New work out plan , with help from “The Doctor”

 

I figured this is perfect,  what i can do is a Doctor Who Marathon, Starting with the 9th doctor ( ep 1) to the current doctor.  i figured that by the time this season starts I will be a pretty good shape.

See all i had to do is see the “Doctor”

 

 

Parent and child influence – nerd/Geek training

just something that is a little funny.  i was watching BBC america and something came on for doctor who, and my 2-year-old son came running to me screaming in excitement,  “doctor who doctor who mama”  ,  he was giggling,

Yep ,  being a nerd/Geek is contagious or is it in the blood, Not sure. I got to say i think i am doing a pretty good job.  It started with Harry Potter, Ironman, Hulk and Captain America , Now its doctor Who I think he is old enough for “Star Wars” now.  Pretty soon it will be my little girl next.  I can just imagine it now,  Luke and Leia for Halloween in a couple of years.

Nerd/Geek children on the best!

career day : what did you want to be

Growing up we are asking what do you want to be, what do you want to do.  We are asked this from the time we start school, preparing us for the day in which we choose our career, our job and enter into adulthood.

Most kids would answer cop, doctor, actor/actress, singer, teacher, vet, president, army/military and the list can go on and on.  When I was asked I said” I didn’t know”, I was too afraid to be laughed at or call stupid for what I wanted to be.

Everyone would ask me what seemed like the same questions in the same order: “Alysia, would do you what to be, what type of things do you like?”  I would reply “animals I guess”.  And they would reply with the same questions “how about a Vet”?  I would immediately answer, “No, I don’t want to watch animals die or put them down or watch them in pain”, their next suggestion would be to ask “what about a zoologist” It felt like it everyone was following the same note cards on what to ask next.  Again, I answered the question but this time I was getting more aggravated “No, I don’t want to work in the zoo” What seemed to be the next logical question for them was “, what about an oceanographer”?  At this point I would be done with the conversation and either say “No” again or “Whatever you don’t care and are not listening “and I would drop the conversation and walk off.  But eventually I would cave in and say “sure”, knowing that I will never do it but it will shut them up.

It’s seemed like it was a requirement for all adults to ask the same questions to all kids, almost to drill it into their head.  The questions: “What do you want to do?”, “you have to want to do something, how will you make money and where will you live”.  these questions aggravated me as how does anyone know what they want to do at such a young, when you are constantly being reminded that you don’t know anything as you haven’t experienced life yet. Kinda hypocritical if you ask me.

The reality was I did not want to be anything that was being offered, I did not want to do any of those things.

What I wanted to be was a vampire (I do not mean twilight stuff, I grew up in the 80’s, Vampires kick ass then), or mermaid (like in “splash”), or something magical.  What I wanted was not real, But I didn’t care,  It was better than the other options given to me.

Growing up all I did was live in my own world, my imagination ruled all.  It helped me when I was lonely or sad.  I would spend every waking moment just making things up in my head and at night I would imagine my bedtime story, it would play out in my head like a movie.

Don’t get me wrong ,  I am no story-teller,  I can’t tell a story worth a damn but I can imagine almost anything and watch it play out in my head.  I am no writer; I am not creative or articulated enough to be able to put my thoughts down on paper.  So I don’t even try to write them down and I am too afraid of someone finding it if I was to write them down.  I am too embarrassed and scared of being made fun of so I don’t tell anyone about what Imagine or make up in my head.

But my whole family knew I day dreamed all the time.  My great-grandmother would tell my mother “don’t you stop her from imagining, let her be, she has a great imagination.”  She was the only one that spoke up for me on it.  Everyone else would tell me to pull my head out the clouds, get back down to reality and to grow up.

Looking make now, someone probably should have actually pulled me out of the clouds and put down to earth, as tell this day I spend more time in the clouds than on the ground.  till this day I have no idea what I want to do or what field I want to go in,  I am just doing “working” to pay my bills.  I think of all these jobs out there and none of them sound fun or fulfilling in any way.

When you dream of unicorns, fairies, vampires and mermaids, being a doctor, teacher, cops, or zoologist isn’t that exciting.  Life almost seems like you are just walking through it as if it’s a commercial and I am just waiting for that moment in which I can turn my imagination back on and just dream.

That’s the bad part of about daydreaming and imagining different things is that what’s in my head is far better than what is down here.  The only thing that keeps grounded now are my kids, they only thing better than what I can actually imagine.  Since having them my dreams have changed or altered a bit.  But never less I still do live a lot in lala land (as my dad would say to me growing up)

I do wonder if my parents forced me to focus more and kept me grounded if I would have turned out different but I guess it’s too late to tell.  Now I just live in a land of disappointment of the real world and wish for another world full of magic, wonder, and enchantment.

 

Video Games I would like movies made of

I read a post on my facebook page regarding the rumor of a Zelda movie ( which would be awesome) and it made me think of video games that  I would love for them to make or in some cases remake in movies,  and taken seriously.  No B or D flick.  I know its possible for them to make a great video game movie , it can be done, it may seem impossible but if they can bring the first Star Wars movies to the big screen, they can do these ( and lets face it, back in the 70’s no one would have thought of how good these would have been until they came out, they were far beyond their time).  I know that most of us gamers’ have been left disappointed and cringe the very thought of a video game being turned into a movie ( after the last few that came out ) but I still hold out for that perfect video game movie.

Video Games that I think should be taken seriously and made into movies ( no D flick)

1) Zelda –  this would be killer awesome,  I think they would have to start from the beginning.

2) Final fantasy ( live action)  – heck they can just do a live action of the  Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children movie  ( i already have the cast picked out in my head since this movie hit the us)

3) Splinter cell – this was in the talks for a while but do to “issues” the film has been abandon

4)a tie between BioShock and Skyrim – both of these would be awesome, very difficult but awesome ( the budget alone needed for these is a reason they might never do them)

5) Bloodrayne –  Yes I know its been done, but it sucked,  and should have been pulled before it hit theater,  Everything was wrong with it.  the films killed the game. This deserves another shot. I call for a reboot.

honorable mention to American McGee’s Alice / Alice Madness returns: It would be wicked to see this. an adult version of Alice.

***** please note that Uncharted was not listed as there have been talks of them doing a film,  I read some where  that a proposal  was written and at one point they thought of Mark Wahlberg playing the lead, but due to creative difference that Idea has been smashed,  but there are still talks going on with it****

New addiction : Zombies ( well not the zombie part)

I have a new addiction : Plants Vs Zombies

Yes I know I am more than likely late on the whole thing but I am loving it.  I don’t know what it is about this game but it is addictive.  and I can’t stop playing it.  (granted its been a total of like 60 mins since I first started but Still can’t stop playing it)