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Happy New Year! If you are reading my blog, as I hope no one is (but you are) this applies to you.

Last night I listened to MuggleCast, like the Harry Potter dork that I am, and re-read the first Harry Potter book for the trillionth time. K got on my nerves and spilled food a lot (we had Thai food that my mother and grandmother made) and it was fun. The food was good, although K is getting on my nerves with his insistent urge to watch TV all the time. (I know that's unrelated. No, YOU'RE stupid.)

We followed the countdown on TV and ate ice cream, and I have never really cared much about 'Oh, it's a New Year.' Despite most of the drivel being spewed about 2010 being a whole new decade, this year, like last year, I was pleased to note the following things: I Survived and I Am Not In Jail. (Of course I noted other things, these are just the first I note. Pitiful? Slightly. Practical? Immensely so.) (I have never been in jail and I am hopefully not dead. I am far too young to be either.)

I did fall asleep at about one o'clock because I was listening to New Year's Day by U2 on New Year's Day, something I have thought about for an entirely unreasonable amount of time.

Just a few minutes ago, we came back from Avatar, that James Cameron movie. (For short, is he James Cam?) (I don't think I've ever known a movie director better than the actors.) (I know there is a man. And I know there is a lady. There is usually a man and a lady. But sometimes not. And some other men. But that's about it.) It is either really overhyped or really good. I wouldn't know, because we didn't see it. Sold out, all the IMAX ones, and the one we did go see didn't have any seats- well, they did have seats, but people have their purses and jackets saving seats.

We're going again tomorrow. And we are pitching a tent at four o'clock tomorrow morning to get seats, and we will sit in the theater until 12:15.

So. What is it? Really good or really hyped?

It probably doesn't even matter. Who can honestly tell anymore?

Quote for Friday, January 1, 2010:

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

-Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) by J.D. Salinger

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger)

Muse for Today:

People. Especially people who can't wait until you get out of the movie theater so they can attack your former seat with popcorn and handbags.

Muse and Quote- December 10, 2009

I'm reading this book called Anything But Typical. I picked it out because I like stuff that is not typical, and it is a very nice book. The main character is a boy with autism, and he writes stories and posts them on a website called Storyboard. He meets a girl named PhoenixBird, a.k.a. Rebecca, and I don't now what else because I haven't finished it yet. That is my Muse for Today.

Quote for Thursday, December 10, 2009:

I bumped into a woman I hadn't seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? 'You've lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!'

'Well,' I said, slightly nonplussed, 'the last time you saw me I'd just had a baby.'

What I felt like saying was, 'I've produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren't either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?' But no — my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!

-J.K. Rowling, "For Girls Only, Probably..." at her website in "Section: Extra Stuff"

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J.K._Rowling)

Knowing

People are really set in their ways- or at least, a lot of the people I know are. They're set in their habits; who they talk to, who they ignore, who they eat lunch with every Friday, who they call for help, who they try to impress.

All of these are based on assumptions.

People say "Oh, I know him" or "Yeah, I'm her best friend" or "You know I love you" nowadays like the words, strung together like that, don't have any value. Sometimes, in that context, said by that person,

they don't.

But all of those are based on assumptions too.

They might not know or love that person. They love what that person lets them know, or what they read into and find, or something like that. Sometimes they read in too deep, and they find what isn't there.

Sometimes they read and find the wrong things. Sometimes they find the right things and take them the wrong way. Sometimes everything is right.

The truth is no one knows anything or anyone. People can be bendable. The Laurel Jones you know may not act the same way around me. Who knows what's real, what's Laurel Anna Jones? Laurel might not even know.

Sometimes the person is that way all the time, and all the evidence is there, but you're in your bubble, bobbing along on the swirling tycoon of insanity that is your life, trying to keep everything straight, trying to make sure your head is on your shoulders and your hands are in your pockets, then barreling through the plaster and facing the world. That takes a lot, and of course you care about this person, of course you worry about them, you think about them. But they play second fiddle to you sometimes, and then you find out something about them. Indirectly or directly, it shows how you are.

It doesn't change everything, but it straightens nothing and blurs others.

It's so freaking obvious.

But was it?

People only show what they want to show, and if they show too much emotional garbage and become vulnerable, a strange mix of bravado, charisma and the so-called 'unimportance' of the situation tends to cover that up.

It works rarely, but then it does.

You look at that person in a different ways. Sometimes things shift, and you are left with a veil of a feeling.

And that is all.

Hello, Hello! As David Says

I have realized that my last post was mostly ranting.

I have also realized that I only posted five times through the month of November and I'm never going to reach my 100th post if I continue to post that way.

I only made this blog a few weeks after Questa, and guess what? She has 126 posts and I am somewhere in the seventies, which was a good era for music but not a good number for blog posts.

This isn't a competition, or anything. I just hate the feeling of incompetence.

Anywho, I shall be doing my best to post at least twice a week.

Unless that's a bad thing, and I should skip out on this 'blog' thing altogether.

(Do you know how you can remember how to spell 'together'? To get her. A friend's older brother told me that in the fifth grade, and it must have worked because I never spell it wrong!)

(And I still remember it. Huh.)

I just thought I would mention that. As holiday break comes about I might post more.

Good bye.

Quote for Saturday, December 5, 2009:

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

-A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christmas_Carol)

Dear December

Dear December,

Did I mention I hate you?

There have been a lot of you in my lifetime, and you are bad enough because you are cold. And dying. And K is reading over my shoulder and that creates pressure and good he's gone. No. Now he's back. And I don't want this post to be about him and now he's left once more.

And you come by too fast. Since we have holiday break, we are trapped inside all the time and I think my jump rope is outside! What will happen to my jump rope? And then we are cooped up and K and I try at least once a day to kill each other and mi madre says "I can't take this anymore!" and then we look sheepish and sit quietly and read. Even so, attempted murder is not festive.

No. Not at all.

And I hate you.

More reasons? Gladly! You know a reason why this winter? Particularly this winter?

YOU WON'T EVEN HAVE SNOW!!!

I understand that there are people that I know who would love for it even to be cold. But where I live, there is snow. Every winter!

And now there are 'possible snow showers' that never show and 'light evening snow' that never snows, light or night!

So. I hate you, you eejit.