Today was incredibly entertaining.
I didn't have to go to school.  So that was a plus.  INSTEAD, we went on a field trip to the courthouse.  I must say, that I was totally stoked to see all the stuff that goes on there.  We watched a few court cases.  Most of them were just plea hearings and stuff.  But one was a little more entertaining, with a guy having to be held in the accused box.  
Some of the people being tried though... this one kid looked twelve and was being charged for theft under $5,000.00 at knife point?!!! I couldn't believe that.  And some other guy, who looked stoned by the way, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, and stealing CK cologne.  What a loser.  
Then we got shown around the holding cells and everything by the sheriffs.  He showed us all the tools they use, and told us stories about his time on the job over the last 16 years.  It was just crazy, the stuff that happens.  By the end of the day, I was entirely interested in becoming a sheriff, so me and Cindy talked to Peter, the head sheriff that had shown us around the courthouse, and asked what courses you would need.  It's only an 8-week course and $2,800.00 along with passing an endurance obstacle test thingy.  Hey, if I can get myself into shape, I would seriously consider doing it.  It would be really awesome.

Other great news:  Only one more work day left!! (Friday)  Then I'm free.  Well, sort of.  Then I just have to find another job.
Pretty good day overall.  For a change.
I get to start working out again this week, doctor's orders have expired.  YAY.  Oh and Stay is out on dvd.  More Ryan Gosling goodness.

Ah ah
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
How soft your fields so green,
Can whisper tales of gore,
Of how we calmed the tides of war.
We are your overlords.

Can't you just hear the pounding bass line of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song?  ^above^
George Bush never fails to scare me.  He's trying to be like Condoleezza Rice and 'get hip with the young peoples' *snicker snicker*.  Now they just need to photoshop this and make him have beady eyes, a devil tongue and tail, and a Black Sabbath t-shirt. 
I bet I'm not the only one who wished this guy would just go away.  
Far away.
Where no one can find him.
Perhaps where they only play banjos.
And have missing teeth.
And all their cousins are either Bessie or Samuel.




Oh and below, it's the raging battle of wits.  Wait...scratch that, rockstars usually have a low IQ.  Make that a clash of leather pants and product embellished hair.  Axl Rose and Scott Weiland are getting nasty.  I've never been a big fan of Axl nor Weiland.  They're both too old and crinkly for my liking.  Guns and Roses has better music, in my opinion, than Velvet Revolver.  They both have craptastic music videos.  Well maybe you'll get a kick out of the letter below.  It's interesting to look at the grammar and sentence formation of rockstars.  Maybe they should make an actual Rock School.  Where nasty, anorexic, washed up rockstars go to finish their elementary and high school education.  Now that would be entertaining.
Watch them cry when they get stuck on a really hard multiplication table.
Hear them yell when they get their lunch money stolen. 
See the bloodied person who tried to steal their lunch money (or more like cocaine).
School dances with them frontlining.
Man, it'd be sweet.






And on the lighter side of things: AWWW look it's Clive Owen and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.  A Brit and and Irish fellow.  Both have wonderful accents, and are quite handsome.  Meyers looks a little femmy in this photo though.  Kind of like Clive's bitch.  Maybe he should smile next time instead of pouting his lips like a starved male supermodel. He's always got that stunned look to him.  Like he's playing the freeze game.  
Freeze Jon!
Hmmm... needs some work.
 He's still pretty though.

The song by Weezer, "We Are All on Drugs" comes to mind right now, as I sit at the computer in a drug-induced sleepy stupor.  My drugs of choice: Tylenol 3, Diclofenac (anti-inflammatory) and Baclofen (Muscle relaxant).  Ahhh, the joys of having joint problems.  Plus, I have my war wound from getting a blood test earlier this morning.  I'm getting tested to see if I'm infected with the disease called arthritis.  Brutal, eh?  I'm 19 and might have arthritis.  I know everyone's always said that I act mature for my age, but I had no idea that health ailments would come along with that package.  If so, I would have acted my age from the beginning rather than suffer from the health problems of those two or three times my age.  I'm a big pathological whiner.  Stop me, I think I'm addicted.  Maybe there's a pill for that too?  No wait, I think they just use duct tape in Canada. Don't worry, it's not tested on animals either.  We're all about the peace up here in beaver, igloo country.  "We stand on guard for thee" indeed.
Anyhoo, moving on.  I bought a new computer monitor.  I'm staring at it right now.  It's nice and big.  Yes, size does matter.  *giggles*  I swear it's the pills, they make almost anything seem funny.  My new computer was supposed to come today, as far as I knew.  However, here I am on my dinosaur of a computer, with my new HP computer nowhere to be seen, probably fell off the truck and someone stole it, knowing my luck.  I'm pretty depressed about that.  I wanted to watch Harry Potter on it, since it has a dvd rom/ dvd burner/ cd burner.. blah blah.  I have to gloat a bit.  I never get anything new and spiffy.  And as long as I pay off my credit card, it will STAY mine.  
I'm most likely going to find a new job.  I hate my job right now, and it only makes my back problems worse.  Plus, the people there are incredibly bitter and back-biting (pardon the pun).  They all talk about each other behind the other's back, and they're supposed to be adults? *scoff* (perfect arcitc monkeys lyric for them: "All you people are vampires").
The biggest saving grace right now: Pottercast and the Leaky Lounge.  When I have nothing to do, and I can't really focus on higher level thinking tasks, I can peruse the forums and listen to Sue and John squeel in Irish accents.  
OH, I got a really good cd yesterday.  It finally came in after the shipment had been delayed when I tried to get it the first time.  The Arctic Monkeys (thus the source for my journal entry title).  I'm not a big fan of the cd art/cover because it's not even pictures of the band, just this random guy smoking.  GREAT music though.  Buy it, download it, burn it, whatever, but it's good.  They're from the UK, and you can clearly hear their accents with their gritty voices.  Their guitar distortion is cool and they have original lyrics (even though their grammar is horrible, as is that of every other famous band).  

Okay, I'll stop talking now, I'm starting to nod off, kthanksbye *waves* 

It's 

SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!! yay :D

I have to keep looking at it, or it might go away, never to be seen again.  I mean come on, I live in Abbotsford, that's Western Canada.  We barely ever get snow.  So, it's fair to say this is pure miracle, lol. 

I got the dvd yesterday and spent most of the day watching the movie and all of the special features because I didn't go to work because my knees and back kept hurting.  AHH I'm getting too old.  Not really, but hey.  So now I'm feeling the hangover from the muscle relaxant I took last night.  Seeing stars as we speak.  Again. Joking.  

Back to the dvd, it was really good.  Here's what I said on the Leaky Lounge, so I don't have to type it all up again (and katie and stewiegryf):

QUOTE(mugglebornkat @ Mar 7 2006, 04:57 PM)

QUOTE(stewiegryf @ Mar 7 2006, 04:31 PM)

Anyone else get a normal insert in their copy, or is mine just missing it?

First of all, I didn't even get an insert. Which is kind of weird...but oh well. I've only watched the special features so far...well most of them. I'm listening to the Dan/Emma/Rupert interview right now as I post. But these are my views so far:

Deleted Scenes:Hogwarts Song was hilarious, to see Draco "singing" was great. The extended "Do the Hippogriff" scene was great, we actually got to see how Flitwick actually started crowd surfing. The outside of the yule ball was hilarious. And we got to see Karkaroff and Snape's discussion yay! We also finally got to see where the picture of the trio infront of the fire came from. The mystery has finally been solved.

Behind the Scenes With the Champions: Was so entertaining. I loved that it showed a day in the life of the 3 champions. It also had a couple of bloopers shown on there which I liked. I love seeing bloopers.

Yule Ball: I loved the whole segment, to see the actors learning to dance was great. And I loved when Emma said she was going to join the dark side. LOL it was great.

Can't wait to finish watching the special features because they are awesome!
What I said:

I didn't get an insert either, and that's the first thing I noticed when I opened up my dvd case. I was disappointed about that, but I still had the movie in my hands, so how could you not be excited?! Special Features were awesome! I must say that they quite outdid themselves compared to the other Harry Potter installments. The deleted scenes were lovely. Especially that sing-a-long to the Hogwarts school song. Oh my gosh, I laughed so hard, I must have had tears in my eyes. Tom was hilarious. And the hand movements, watching Dan, completely enthralled as he gazed up at the words with jazz hands. That was a sight to see.
Like mugglebornkat, I loved the day in the life of the champions. Robert Pattinson was quite funny (and looked quite good-looking, even though I wasn't exactly stunned by his looks in the movie). It was so nice to just see a behind the scenes type of deal.
The learning to dance segment was great, I loved hearing all of the actors' opinions of it all. It was cute when Tom and Emma danced together (I think he fancies her a bit ).
The interview with Dan, Rupert and Emma was really good too. Dan was pretty funny, so was Rupert. Rupert was fairly quiet though. It's funny to imagine him in golfing clothes lol.
Ralph Fiennes interview about Voldemort, I must admit I was enthralled, he is such a captivating person with or without the makeup. He just really submerses himself into the role and I love him for that.
Seeing Mike Newell wrestle the Phelps twins was really funny.
I wish we could have heard from the older characters. That was my one big gripe. Did anyone else notice that Dean Thomas talked a lot in the interviews even though he wasn't in the movie a whole lot? 


I'll just leave it at that for now.  
Major point, I really liked the special features, wish there would have been a commentary, but I wait for the Pottercast one.  Tom Felton was hilarious in the deleted scenes.  It was really good over all. 

Dude, I'm so psyched right now it isn't even funny.  Well, I could be even more excited if I had the fourth Harry Potter dvd (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) in my hands right now, but alas, I'm still at school.  I don't even know if I'll be able to watch it tonight.  I'll FIND time to watch the Special Features at least.  AHHHH I'm so excited.  Katie was telling me about the commentary that John, Sue and Melissa from Pottercast will be doing.  That sounds pretty fantastic in my opinion.  Especially since Mike Newell decided not to put a commentary on the dvd *grumble grumble*  I'm sure the commentary will be hilarious, knowing those three.  I can only imagine the amount of fun it will be listen, I can hear John now.  *giggles*  We all know who I really want to see on the DVD.  Don't we, Katie?  lol
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It's Saturday, Saturday, woot! I'm feeling a little Nickelback and Kid Rock charged right now.  Pretty good day today.  Went to see Aquamarine with Char and her daughter (won't say her name on here, just for safety reasons).  Sure, it was a kid movie, but it was better than that stink that was Pink Panther.  I love SilverCity theatres too, the seats are comfy and you get lots of arm and leg room.  If they made commercial class airplane seats like that, we'd all fly in style.  

*Song change (it's on shuffle).  The Streets with their British-style rapping with What's he Thinking*

Katie and Lisa came over and I got my new (or rather old-kinda, Katie knows what I mean) Fall Out Boy cd.  I listened to it while I made dinner.  It's really good.  I love it that they don't write sappy songs.  It's hard to listen to one fast heavy rockin' song one minute and the next minute have to lose your momentum with some sap-tastic ditty.  Know what I mean?
Course you do, I have a smart audience :D

*Manual song change, because I'm losing interest.  New song:  ooh Pat Benetar - Heartbreaker*

Heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker don't you mess around with me... Don't you mess around, no,no,no,no!

This kind of describes my mood when I heard that my beloved footballer Alan Smith was injured around a week ago.  I had completely forgotten to post on it.  He plays with Manchester United.  He barely plays anymore as it is, due to the bursting amount of talent on the team, and then he broke his leg in a game against my other favourite team, Liverpool.  Now he's out for nine months, the doctors and trainers say it's one of the worst breaks they've seen.  He's quite an aggressive player, so I'm not completely surprised that he got such an injury, but I was still devastated.  This post is in blue and red (Manchester United team colours) in support of Smudge (Smithy's nickname), get better soon.  We miss you already.


*Song change: Higher Ground_RHCP*

Leaky forums were down today, which sucked.  I was looking forward to getting caught up on all the Pottercast postings.  SO much for that. I'm sure they'll be up soon though.  Can't wait.

Mugglecast forums are getting rather annoying.  These little teen fangirls are quite unnerving.  Another reason to get further accustomed to the Leaky Lounge.

*Song change: It's Like That_Radio Mix*

And that's the way it is...
I'm excited for this coming week.  I'm getting a new computer on Friday (at least it SHOULD come that day) and on Tuesday Harry Potter comes out on DVD (fangirl giggles).  And, not to mention, Katie is interested in the fanfic once more, so I'lll actually get replies again.  A BIG YAY FOR THAT.