Happy Birthday Xanthe

I've been thinking about you. Hope you have a great day. Heres something I drew for you. She will show up as one of my main characters' Nemesis.

Love you lots.

Tarkio Balloon and what was lost.

A friend in my Integrated Studies program recently made this movie. (I hope he doesn't mind my stealing this pic from his page for the purpose of this post.) I won't tell you what it is about, you should just go and see what it is about on Torben's own site, which is right here: The story behind Tarkio Balloon

However, since seeing it my mind has been racing with several things that I haven't been able to shake. (When this happens you know that you have witnessed something truly great because otherwise it would have been lost between a hundred other mundane, normal life things. At the end of the post there is a paragraph about this movie being the first in "The Lost and Found Series."  I was consumed with a couple of different phrases.

"Each story spoke to us, in one way or another, and we tried to listen."  

"Explore the theme of losing and finding through five remarkably diverse subjects."

 "Let me know ways that you are finding what has been lost in your own lives. Here’s to your personal quests." (Bernhard)

This is what has consumed me. What was that something I lost? I can think of several things, but the obsessive, often morose and difficult one inside me keeps thinking, "Sometimes you can't find something again, no matter how hard you try. When it's gone it's gone and there is only so much searching that can occur before you realize how futile your efforts are." Is this true?

This has in turn led me to another sentence that has been rolling around in my head. "How many horrors can I create before I have to face my own?" I'm not sure in what context I mean this yet hence the depth of my thoughts and the inner battles going on inside me. I do know that I want to prove the morose one wrong so here's to finding what has been lost in my life and seeing where that leads me.

Hoo Mah Moos today? Tarkio Balloon.

X-Men: First Class, I hope ya not too cool fa school.

To say I am an obsessive compulsive X-Men fan is not wrong and my the obsession continues today. I love the comics, the cartoons and all three movies. Before I go on I just need to quiet the naysayers on the quality and form of Last Stand. Yes correct, it was not the best movie, of the three, or of any other superhero movies, but I saw it (like the other movies) as a live action what-if? X-Men movie. I wasn't looking for exactness or what was in the comics (I get my comics for that), I just wanted to see some live action X-Men coolness. And that is what we got. Beast was awesome, Shadowcat was delightfully splendid and Iceman finally rocked his ice form and gave Pyro a good thrashing. These three things made Last Stand worth it. I also loved the whole "last stand" act of the movie.

Interesting aside: the first night after finishing my two-year LDS mission I watched the first X-Men movie and then sat up till almost 4 a.m. devouring the comics my mum had collected while I'd been gone.

Enamored with Eat PRAY Love:Part 2

Before I start, I feel I have to thank Mari Lowder for her Christmas blog post.  Not the only one to get scared when talking so publicly about religion. Sometimes you need to make a stand and state what you believe and I was inspired by her stand. The word "Stand" makes it sound more dramatic than the post was and than this will be but nonetheless, up to now, my life has been made up of so many smaller "stands" that this will just fit in nicely.

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No Ordinary Fan

Heroes. I loved that first episode. It was so exciting to see the different characters discover their fantastic abilities and then interact with each other. Season 2 started and then so did the writer's strike. This is the point where, in the eyes of many, Heroes started going downhill. However, I stand by my conviction that Heroes had not gone downhill, just in another direction. I loved season 1. I loved season 2 and as more of the characters began converging on each others storylines and interacting, the more rapt I became.

Season 3 came and I began to bore of the same characters but despite those characters I enjoyed the show.

I felt that many characters storylines had run their course. NBC believed otherwise.

Q: How could you possibly have a show without Hiro, Claire, Suresh and Tracy (or whatever incarnation)?

A: How do you know if you don't try?

What'll I Do?

Tessa Carrie Cook

Today was Tessa's 2 week check-up. It sounds weird, two week check up. Well really it hasn't quite been two weeks, that will be this Tuesday, but I think we are still in that first haze of adjustment transitioning from having only one child to two children and that may continue for a while. 

Tessa did really well despite having to give blood, be stripped down, weighed, measured and evaluated. She is now about 21 inches, weighs 7 pounds 10 ounces and is getting over her jaundice nicely. 

Right now, Tessa is having lotion applied after healthily chowing down on a boob, and we are all happy and content. Happy New Year right?