Look! I exist! \o/

Actually, I've been exisiting online - just not here. My deviantART account, for example, was loaded down with lots of photos back in September and October.

My LiveJournal is updated every two or three days.

TV.com?

Yeah, not so much. It's not that I stopped coming to the site - on the contaray I'm still here almost daily. I'm just not into the blogging, the contributing, and chatting on the forums. Which is kind of funny, because I have a lot of good friends here, which I hardly ever talk to anymore. :3

Awww, I kind of miss all of you! I hope everyone is doing well. I'm doing VERY well, married life is treating me good, and all in all I don't have any complaints. (Well, the family drama still exists, but any more it's not the firestorm is was.)

Greetings everyone. I know it's been a while since I've been here, but let's face it - I just don't feel like this is a place to be anymore. I blog mostly on LJ anymore, as well as spend quality time hanging with my peeps on MySpace.

The only reason why I'm even here posting another blog is because this is TV related news, and what better place to post it than on TV.com, right?

On Wednesday, June 18th, show number 5488 aired, and Double Jeopardy! featured an entire category of anime questions. You heard me, an entire category for anime questions. The J! Archive lists the answers and the questions for reference if you don't quite believe me.

Here are the answers followed by the questions written in white. You can highlight to read them. How many do you know?

$400 - This anime show didn't start on TV; it's charaters were first part of Nintendo's "Pocket Monsters."

What is Pokemon?

$800 - This 5-letter anime film isn't named for director Kurosawa but rather a boy who destroys Tokyo.

What is Akira?

$1200 - In this anime TV series Bumblebee turned into a VW Bug; in the 2007 live-action movie he got upgraded to a Camaro.

What is Transformers?

$1600 - This "lunar" Naoko Takeuchi creation is an example of a "magical girl" given powers to save the world.

What is Sailor Moon? (Acceptable answers probably included "What is Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon?" and "What is Bishojo Senshi Sera Mun?")

$2000 - One of the highest grossing films in Japanese history is the anime film about this title 14th c. princess.

What is "Princess Mononoke?" (Another acceptable answer should have been "What is Mononoke-hime?" though I don't know if any of the contestants would have actually known the original Japanese title to the film.)

For those who want double check that I'm not pulling anyone's leg - check the J! Archive and see that I'm not kidding. I didn't actually get to watch the show (in which case I'm pretty sure my husband just would have sighed and shook his head and then would have informed me I needed a life), but I have this all on good account.

Anime - not just for entertainment, it can make you money!

After suffering with metal in my mouth for the last year and a half, I've finally become baces free. Yay! Now I'm adjusting to the retainer. Two clear, acrylic molds of my mouth that are tearing up my tongue. Oh well, I only have to wear it full time for 6-9 months, and then I get to wear it only at night.

Well, I should go check in on the husband - he's home with the flu and is about as useful as a sharp stick in the eye.

Hey everyone! I'm popping in to say that I was married on Saturday. It tried to rain on us, but it actually held out and we managed to have a really nice ceremony. (A few pictures to follow...maybe, if I can get any of them back.) I did a few things that were new - such as buying a scrap book and one of those instant photo printers and making my guestbook with pictures that people then signed, with extra pages to put more picutes and captions in. Two of my best friends gave a toast ala The Princess Bride. As in "Mawidge is dweam wifin a dweam." One of my husband's former college roommates just about lost it. He had to hold on to the wall to keep from falling down.

All in all it was lots of fun, lots of food, family, dancing and good times. My eleven-year-old cousin caught my bouquet, and the best man (a 24-year-old LDS boy who's never been on a date) caught the garter. He blushed really bad, thinking that it had been on my leg all day. But my mom made my garter so we had a storebought one on hand to actually toss. Now everything is going to become heirloom items.

Now to help my husband clean up the aftermath of me moving in and gift opening.

Okay, these are from a more masculine POV, but I'm sharing them anyway, because the song really makes me laugh.

Jamie, Harry, Friends There's just a few more hours.
That's all the time you've got. A few more hours
Before they tie the knot. Doolittle
There are drinks and girls all over London,
and I've gotta track 'em down in just a few more hours!
I'm getting married in the morning! Ding dong!
The bells are gonna chime. Pull out the stopper!
Let's have a whopper! But get me to the church on time!
I gotta be there in the mornin'
Spruced up and lookin' in me prime.
Girls, come and kiss me;
Show how you'll miss me.
But get me to the church on time!
If I am dancin' Roll up the floor.
If I am whistlin' Whewt me out the door!
For I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Kick up an rumpus But don't lost the compass;
And get me to the church, Get me to the church,
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
Doolittle and Everyone I'm getting married in the morning
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Doolittle Drug me or jail me, Stamp me and mail me.
All But get me to the church on time!
I gotta be there in the morning
Spruced up and lookin' in me prime.
Doolittle Some bloke who's able Lift up the table,
All And get em to the church on time!
Doolittle If I am flying Then shoot me down.
If I am wooin',
Get her out of town!
All For I'm getting married in the morning!
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Doolittle Feather and tar me;
Call out the Army; But get me to the church.
All Get me to the church...
Doolittle For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
Harry and Everyone Starlight is reelin' home to bed now.
Mornin' is smearin' up the sky. London is wakin'.
Daylight is breakin'. Good luck, old chum,
Good health, goodbye.
Doolittle I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime...
Hail and salute me Then haul off and boot me...
And get me to the church, Get me to the church...
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!

Today is my birthday - which means only four more days until my wedding.

Yup, someone hand me a paper bag, stat!

I'm trying to keep my wits about me, though there's no guarantee that that will happen. I swear I've got a million and one things to do and not nearly enough time to do them. [Insert string of expletives here.] Five months ago I was sure that there was enough time to get everything done - heck, I had most of what I wanted already in mind and it was simply a matter of implementing everything.

Oh yeah, I was way wrong.

Well, I have a few errands to run so I suppose I should go take care of those.

I suppose first things first - the final answers to the movie quote trivia.

91. James Bond - Goldfinger
92. Charles Foster Kane - Citizen Kane
93. Charlie Crocker - The Italian Job
94. Mr. Miyagi - The Karate Kid
95. Capt. Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
96. Hannibal Lector - The Silence of the Lambs
97. Brian's Mother - The Life of Brian
98. Verbal - The Usual Suspects
99. Rocky Balboa - Rocky
100. Donnie - Donnie Darko
101. Liesl - The Sound of Music

Now on to the MythTastic goodness. Tonight's episode of MythBusters tested to see if a cockroach really could survive a nuclear blast. In my neck of the woods (or desert, as the case may be), that's a pretty common saying. Why? Because I just so happen to live downwind of a nuclear powerplant. More specifically, I live downwind of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where they exposed the bugs to radiation. My mom works in one of the buildings right across the stree. I kid you not. Another interesting note about the area: we have the highest number of PhDs per capita in the United States. Go figure. Nice to know that we could aid in busting such a popular myth...now I wonder if they could test it on Cher...

This is the last one, folks! After this, unless I decide to collect the most random and odd-ball quotes, I won't be doing this again. Who's to say. Anyway, here's the answers to the last set:

81. Annie Hall - Annie Hall
82. Renton - Trainspotting
83. The Terminator - The Terminator
84. Maverick - Top Gun
85. Wayne - Wayne's World
86. Principle Richard Vernon - The Breakfast Club
87. Harry Callahan - Dirty Harry
88.Rhett Butler - Gone With The Wind
89. Gollum - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
90. Mary Jensen - There's Something About Mary

Aaaaaaaaaall righty then.....this is it. The last batch. Eleven this time, so lets see how many you know!

91. A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
92. Rosebud.
93. You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
94.Wax on, wax off.
95. Now me, I'm a dishonest man, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones that you have to watch out for, because you never know when they're going to do something incredibly stupid.
96. I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.
97. He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!
98. Keaton always saidI don't believe in God but I'm afraid of him. Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.
99.Yo Adrian!
100.Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
101.So long, farewell, au revoir, auf Wiedersehen!

Eleven quotes, eleven characters, and eleven movies. How many of those can you name? Thanks for playing with me, those of you who actually bothered to try.

Um, hello! I know, I know...it's been a while since I acutally blogged (and I'll get around to posting the final movie quotes within the next couple of days...) but I just wanted to share the big news. My boyfriend of six months asked me to marry him this blessed Christmas afternoon.

Okay, before some of you exchange wary glaces filled with. "You've only known him six months, why on earth are you marrying him?" I must fill in a few details. The whole Ridiculous Real-Life Love Story, if you will.

My fiance and I met ten years ago in 8th grade science. We quickly became friends and we were surprised to find out that we had PE and English together as Freshmen. By the middle of Freshman year, I realized that I liked him liked him, but he never made any sort of indication that he felt anything towards me...and after two years of waiting for him to ask me out (like I most of the other guys that I knew did), I finally decided that we were just friends and I would date another guy. Well, that was apparently the wake-up call he needed and he finally came to grips with the fact that he liked me liked me, too. Well, the guy I had been dating for most of my junior year and I went our own ways towards the end of the year, and I decided that boyfriends were sort of overrated and I really didn't need one. (That did not mean that I didn't want one...I just didn't need one.) Just a week before school got out, he finally asked me on a date. That summer we saw each other frequently before I had to leave for Miami for two weeks, but the whole time we wrote each other every day (well, technically email because snail mail would have been, well, too slow). Before I knew it summer was over and school was starting in a week. I finally asked him if we were dating (i.e. boyfriendy/girlfriendy) and he shrugged and said, "Yeah." (I know, I know, he no Shakespeare.) So we dated the entierty of our senior year of high school and the first two years of college until the distance took its toll. Since he went to college out of state, was an engineering major, and his parents no longer lived in the same town as me, we hardly saw each other. Our relationship puttered out after three years we went our seperate ways. We dated other people. And then, just this past June, we reconnected. He moved back to town, finding a job here after graduation and one busy afternoon when I was at work, he came in. After a sort of awkward exchanged, I spoke to my mother and then made the decision that I was going to try and talk to him. We agreed to meet for drinks (which turned into dinner) and after a lot of talking, slipped right back into our relationship like we'd never broken up in the first place. Finally, in September he said that he wanted me to lookat engagment rings.

At any rate I'm really happy and can't stop smiling - which is probably an understandable thing. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Today is a blah kind of day. My younger sister is home sick agan, and she's currently conked out in bed with one of the Animal Planet shows running. Poor kid, when she gets sick, she gets sick. At any rate I'm now spending my days looking after her, but my mom said she'd be home around lunch time, which works for me. That'll let me do what I need to do today. Laundry. Oooh, exciting.

Anyway, here are the answers to the Halloween Movie Taglines challenge that only one person responded to. Oh well, I thought it'd be fun.

1. Halloween
2. Carrie (that one should have been easy)
3. Scream
4. I Know What You Did Last Summer
5. Saw
6. Dead Silence
7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
8. Silence of the Lambs
9. The Exorcist
10. The Evil Dead
11. Misery
12. Night of the Living Dead
13. The Grudge
14. The Ring
15. Dracula (the 1934 version with Bela Legosi, mind you)
16. Van Helsing
17. Army of Darkness
18. Scary Movie
19. The Blair Witch Project
20. The Covenant

Like I said, some of the true classics (many of which I did not include, such as The Shining) and some of my campy favorites (like Buffy the Vampire Slayer). While I don't really like scary movies (seriously, I don't do well with them) I can appreciate them when I'm in the right mind set.