Mini Accomplishments

Today I am spending time watching Stargate SG-1 reruns, working with stocks, and making myself homemade postcards of sorts.

Hulu.com is having a . . . marathon of sorts for the Stargate SG-1 Television show. Each of the episodes of the 10 seasons are online right now. I'm currently on Season 4 Episode 7. lol.

Anyways, so I'm also working on my Dad's stocks. I'm currently learning a lot from the experience. Though I've "recently" read an article discussing that my generation/age group are probably not going to get as involved into the Stock Market as the pervious generation. That we are more likely to act like our grandparents who experienced the Great Depression and become more cautious with our finances. I found a simular article as I couldn't find the one I actually read. This article is entitled "Recession Can Change a Way of Life" by Tyler Cowen, published in The New York Times.

So as I am working on the stocks and watching the TV shows, I am also making my homemade postcards. Perhaps the word "postcard" would be the wrong choice, but I'm not sure what else to call it. But in anycase, I'm making some cards, hopefully a large collection of them, for me to take with me to Idaho. This way it will be easier for me to just pull out a card, write on it, and send it on its way with the envelopes I've had since my High School Graduation announcements. So I'm using old envelopes, scrapbook paper, and cardstock. It's rather satisfying. I'm going to be able to use them to easily send on to my friends who are on their missions. I'm also going to get my mother to take a family picture of our family, so that if I wished to I could print out the photos and glue them onto the opposite side of the written side of the homemade postcard.

Confused yet? Yes, me too.

But life today has been enjoyable.

Classic Movies

I heard that Disney is not creating any more Princess movies, which is mightily depressing as they are classics and made up my childhood. I hear that they are worried about the audience; young girls who wish to be hot and do not wish to be princesses.

Now, I do know that there is a stage that some girls go through in which they do know wish to be a princess. But before that stage and after that stage you still love those princesses and admire them and hum the songs at random moments throughout the day.

Someday, I'll own all the Princess movies. Also the Pixar movies, as they are quickly become classics as well!

Snow White

(Snow White and the Seven Drawfs) 1937

Cinderella

(Cinderella) 1950

Aurora

(Sleeping Beauty) 1959

Ariel

(The Little Mermaid) 1989

Belle

(Beauty and the Beast) 1991

Jasmine

(Aladdin) 1992

Pocahontas

(Pocahontas) 1995

Mulan

(Mulan) 1998

Tiana

(The Princess and the Frog) 2009

Rapunzel

(Tangled) 2010

Then of course there are the non-Disney Princesses:

Anastasia

(Anastasia) 1997

Odette

(The Swan Princess) 1994

Pixar Movies:

(Toy Story, 1995; Toy Story 2, 1999; Toy Story 3, 2010)

(A Bug's Life, 1998)

(Monsters, Inc., 2001)

(Finding Nemo, 2003)

(The Incredibles, 2004)

(Cars, 2006)

(Ratatouille, 2007)

(WALL-E, 2008)

(Up, 2009)

Also, non-Pixar movies:

(Kung Fu Panda, 2008; Kung Fu Panda 2, 2011)

(Megamind, 2010)

 (Alpha and Omega, 2010)

(How to Train Your Dragon, 2010)

(Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, 2010)

(Despicable Me, 2010)

I LOVE these movies!

Someday, I'm going to own all of the movies.

Someday.

But,

Honestly...

Could you imagine not having these movies in a family?

These movies mark childhood in my opinion,
&
Will continue to do so.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

It is difficult to wake oneself up at 11 pm when you went to bed at 9 and actually fell asleep.

Last night, my mother, littlest brother, and I went to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. I had been debating if I really wanted to see it and if I really wanted to watch it at midnight. But there were several arguments as to why I should go.

I had no school, work, or activities the following day (today) to discourage attending.
It would be an opportunity to just have a moment with my littlest brother as he's a HUGE fan of Harry Potter. Looking at his blog, you can tell.
It was Harry Potter. It's a phenomena in modern culture. If I had missed it what would I tell people? Especially those who are fanatics. They'd be majorly disappointed. Haha.
My mom was paying. Yay!

The end result? I went with my littlest brother and mother. It was a lot of fun! I love to see people who are the true fans all dressed up and somewhat obsessive over the movie.

However, waking up to leave was one of the most tedious things I've done for awhile. How? Well, I had actually fallen asleep. Amazing. But I was. I was also having some pretty interesting dreams/thoughts. I rather enjoyed it. But of course, when my phone alarm vibrated, I looked at the time, turned it off, rolled over, and immediately went back to sleep. To my tired mind there was no real reason as to why I should wake up. No reason at all. Yes I'd miss the movie. But oh well. Sleep is something I love. I woke up again and looked at the clock because I knew there was a very good reason why I should go and I should wake for it. But it was only 3 minutes later. That is NOT enough time to sleep in pass an alarm, so I slept again.

Eventually, I did get out of bed. My little brother was the cutest to get out of bed. I'm pretty sure that he was half asleep all the way to the movie theater. He woke when the chilly air burst upon his face when we stepped out of the car.

At the theater itself as we waited for the movie to start, people began arguing over Twilight vs. Harry Potter. Even the security peoples. It was an interesting debate to hear from the diehard fans.

It was around 3:30 AM by the time we arrived home from a good movie. An hour and a half later my sister began readying for the day. I didn't wake until 11 AM.

What an adventure it was!