Moonlit Jazz

on the jukebox: “Can’t Lose What You Never Had” by Westlife

Most of the time, I think Hostonce is a groovy webhost. They’re VERY affordable and MOST of the time the domain is up. Well, the subdomain that’s hosted on a Windows server is always up. This subdomain and the main domain are hosted on Unix servers and for some reason Hostonce is not as diligent with those servers. In truth, I don’t know much about it, but I do know that it’s frustrating to have my site go up and down every so often.

The problem right now is that my domain email is not working. I can send email from it, but I can’t receive anything and if anyone tries to send me email, it sends it right back with one of those failure messages. It’s so freakin’ frustrating! I just sent an email off to those who email me on walelia.com and advised them to send email to my kiari.com addys instead. SUCKS! I probably seem totally ditzy. But I don’t want miss any emails. Grrrr!

(So that means if you want to email me, use jazz@kiari.com. Yeah.)

I want to take more pictures so that I can print them out and show them off. 😛 Weird, I know. I can’t help it, I like my toys. 😉

I’m getting sleepy…

on the jukebox: “That’s All” by Michael Bublé

I HATE when my domain and subdomain go down. Alas! But now I’m back up. I guess that’s the bright side of things. 😛

RECAP OF SATURDAY

We went to the mall because we are foolish, foolish people. I ended up buying an outfit to wear that night.

Saturday night…

I finally hooked up my new HP Photosmart 245 and printed up bunches of pictures. They look AWESOME! I printed out the pictures of me with Mulder and Zito and they look great. The printer only prints 4×6 pictures and smaller, but it’s cool. I like it a lot. 🙂

The party in the evening was nice. I had drinks, which meant that I didn’t have to drive home. Groovay! 😉 I took pictures, of course. People ate, drank, and did that karaoke thing. I just watched and laughed. Some people should never pick up a microphone! Never. 😛

TODAY’S ADVENTURES…

We went to the mall again today. This time I had an appointment with Alberto for a hair cut. He does such a FANTASTIC job. He left for awhile but came back. I think I’m not letting anyone else cut my hair. My hair turned out rather nice. 🙂

The mall was CROWDED and LOUD. I don’t think we’re going back to the mall until after New Year’s. It’s just CRAZY! All those people shopping for gifts and whatnot. Ye gods!

THANKS FOR THE COMMENTS…

Sharon, Karl Urban is definitely super cool. 😉 And I think I might just be a little jealous of Keira Knightly too. She got to kiss OBloom! 😛

Nicole, I always love telling my men stories. 😉 Almost everyone I’ve met has been super sweet. And they are just so cute in real life. Karl is no exception. He’s lovely to experience. And he smelled sooo good that first time we met. Awww…

And I keep trying to think good thoughts for my friend. I cannot even imagine what she’s going through…

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I just realized that my hair, while looking rather good, is also rather short now. It’s not even past my shoulders. Ye gods! But I like it. Hopefully I can fix it well enough though.

Meesh, you’re totally right, shopping now is INSANE! I don’t know why people are so last minute. I thought we were nuts for shopping last weekend. 😛
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on the jukebox: “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” by Harry Connick Jr.

Nicole, I first met Karl in 1998 at the Xena Convention in Sacramento (above picture). It was one of my favorite conventions. I was sitting in the first row and we got to just shout our questions out at him from our seats because not many people were in attendance. I was in charge of presenting him with a drawing of him as Caesar. When I have it to him during the autograph line, I asked if I could take a picture with him and he said yes. I leaned closer to him and was surprised when he kissed me. On the cheek! That’s why he looks a bit odd in the picture above. Twas a THRILL! 😉

I last saw Karl in 2001 (above picture). I personally didn’t like his grungy look, but he was great nonetheless. When I finally got around to taking the picture with him (and getting something autographed), he had that “don’t I know you?” look on his face. I’m sure he never figured it out though. 😉

TO MY VERY DEAR FRIEND

I’m so glad that you and your family are all right. And I’m so sad that this terrible thing has happened. I will definitely keep you in my prayers. Stay strong. I know you’ll get through this. And if there’s anything I can do, I’m here…

FRIDAY WAS A BLUR…

When I got this horrible news, my day went into automatic. I kept thinking about my friend and how awful that this happened. I am so glad that she and her family are all right. At first, when our friend started telling me, I thought something happened to her family. I was relieved, then so very sad. I need to do something for her…

on the jukebox: “Christmas Dreaming” by Harry Connick Jr.

The cleaning lady is here, which means I get to sit at the computer for a couple of hours while she works around the house. Groovy!

I’m still trying to recover from The Return of the King. Why am I so sad it’s over? Oh sure, we’ll have the extended version sometime next year. But it’s OVER. I don’t think I’ve ever felt like this for a film trilogy. I guess I should read the books…

Aren’t the most interesting stories the ones you can’t tell? I have a feeling that I’m supposed to do something about something that happened earlier this week, but I’m not sure how to do it without asking opinions of my predicament. I know that I should just reveal what I think I know, but I don’t want to alienate anyone. But the longer it goes, the worse it could get.

And damnit, I promised not to tell anyone! (Except Hubby, which I’ve already done.)

A kiss. Don’t you wish? LOL!

One of these days I’m going to do LOTR screencaps and WATCH OUT! Maybe I should start with The Two Towers and Karl’s two or whatever scenes. LOL! Start small. Then a little Viggo. And LOTS of OBloom, right? Right!…

I’ve been feeling oddly antsy for awhile. I need baseball season to calm me down!!! I think I need to turn my attention to something tedious like that. A slow simmer instead of hot sparks. Know what I mean? Or maybe I need to write my romance stories and direct my energies to that. Hmm.

I wrote this a time ago. It’s mine. I feel like sharing…

CRUSHING

It’s just a crush
the way he smiles
a smile meant for me
the way his eyes look
straight into mine
And what does he see?

I can’t push aside
this longing inside
so new, yet not
Do I want it to stop?

This yearning
this pleasure
a torture I savor…

Does he know
what he does
with each word
without a touch

Is it him
Is it me
Do I see what I see?

I promise myself
This electric rush will pass
This mere crush won’t last

Yet the fantasies persist-
the flavor of his kiss…
his hands upon my skin…
sweet whispers warm in my hair…

Am I falling,
lying to myself?
I’ll get over this!
Without his lips
without his touch
without a word warm or not

Still…

I crave it
envision it
and taste it

Such torment
Such pleasure
This headlong rush
this tempting crush…

© VCN

1. List your five favorite beverages.
Code Red Mountain Dew, Coke, Sobe’s Green Tea, Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper

2. List your five favorite websites.
oaklandathletics.com, wilwheaton.net, theonering.com, lordoftherings.net, bruce-campbell.com

3. List your five favorite snack foods.
Nacho Cheese Doritos, Famous Amos Chocolate Chip cookies, pistachios, popcorn, Twinkies

4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
Monopoly, Blackjack… Umm, can’t name five!

5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
Bounce Out, Bejeweled, Mahjong Tiles, Solitaire, Collapse

on the jukebox: “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” by Michael Bublé

I LOVED IT!!!

1. Karl Urban (Éomer) had more screentime! I think he even had more lines, but he definitely had more screentime. It was so cool seeing him on the big screen. He kicked ass! 😀 Go Karl!

2. Legolas ROCKED! Sure, the whole Orlando Bloom thing. Whatever. But Legolas kicked ass! A one elf wrecking machine. Yowsa! And fine, OBloom was lovely. I wish he had more lines. He’s got such a voice. Ahhh…

3. I cried for Sam. I think the other hobbits made me cry too. Oh, and I cried for Eowyn after her big battle scene.

The movie was wonderful. I would definitely watch it again in the theatre. I actually stayed in my seat for the whole thing. I didn’t get up for a bathroom break. Groovy! 🙂 And I really did love seeing Karl on screen. He was in more scenes and had more lines than in The Two Towers.

Ahhh, OBloom. He was fun to watch as well. I still like him as Will Turner more. 😉

I thought Sean Astin was FANTASTIC. Sam was so loyal and he played him so well.

Now I can’t wait to see the extended version of this film. I have a feeling a lot was cut out…

There it is, my unexpert opinion of The Return of the King. 🙂

AND THE REST OF MY DAY…

After the movie we headed out to the mall. After walking around the whole downstairs and upstairs, we left and stopped at Best Buy. We got the HP Photosmart 245. (My Christmas present!) I haven’t hooked it up yet, but I will sometime this weekend. After that we ventured out to Costco and bought more stuff.

We didn’t do the First Pitch thing in Oakland. Why? Because it was too far. And it’s not like Mark Mulder was there or anything. I think if Mulder had been there, I would have definitely gone. Now if I find out he was there, I’m going to kick myself! 😛