By the Hammer of Tyreese? [Walking Dead Spoilers]

I spaced out this Sunday and forgot to watch Walking Dead at nine. I didn’t realize I had missed it until about 10:30, when Talking Dead was half over. Well it’s a good thing that AMC replays each episode a zillion times. I was able to watch the encore and bring you this awesome review.

I wasn’t too impressed with this week’s episode. Therefore, I only half watched it, half browsed the internet. I did pick up on a few key moments:

1. First of all, Carl is still alive. Every episode I think “Is this going to be the episode they get rid of Carl?”. But it never happens. Also, why did he get his gun back? He just got it back last episode and he’s already starting to get trigger happy. He is out of control. It seems that Hershel has a bit of a hold on him.
2. Speaking of out of control, I think Carol has gone off her rocker. First of all, what was with the hole knocking over the barrel of clean water in a fit of rage? Totally uncalled for. And she was the one that killed and burned those people?! Well I knew it was her all along. And by all along I mean since the beginning of the episode. When they were discussing it, she got all nervous an shifty-eyed. If that doesn’t say guilty then I don’t what does.  I bet she’s the one feeding the rats to the zombies.
3. Glen is sick and I am sad. I’m scared that he might die and I don’t like that. If he dies I might just knock over a barrel of clean water!
4. Rick seems to be coming back. and then some. When he and Tyreese were talking about who burned the bodies and all of a sudden he goes all Shane on Ty. I think the Rick was momentarily possessed by the ghost of Shane.
5. Tyreese is pretty B.A. The scene with the hammer? A-maze-balls! At first he was all mopey in the car, like “I don’t have a reason to live because the women I love is crispier than fried chicken.” Then he was all “I will kill all these zombies with my one hammer!” The other three left him for dead (which is so rude by the way), but he proved them wrong! He’s almost like a black Chuck Norris.

Other than these moments, I thought the episode was a little…bleh. I don’t know how else to explain it. I still don’t think the show has picked up like they said it would. What does next week have in store for us? Maybe the Governor will be back? Dun dun dun!!!….

Book Review: Divergent [Spoilers]

Divergent

By: Veronica Roth

 

 

At first I was a bit skeptical about reading this book. I thought that it was going to be like The Hunger Games. I was kind of wrong. It’s set in the future and the city is divided into five different factions.

The beginning of the book was pretty good, while Tris was going to through initiation. And then it kind of took a bit of a twist and turned into a war. I thought that was a little..sudden. But at the same time I guess it kind of led up to it. Tris always suspected that something bigger was a foot.

As for the actual writing, I felt that the author could have been a bit more descriptive. I kind of got a little lost in some parts because a scene wasn’t described enough. I also felt that some parts jumped around.

Let’s talk characters: I always like a strong female lead. At first I didn’t think I was getting that from Tris. Though, as the book progressed, she progressed. At first I thought of her as weak,I didn’t like that she wouldn’t defend herself.  but of course she had to be because she came from a faction that didn’t think of themselves. I also didn’t like that she was always putting herself down and doubting herself. Don’t we all do that though? I guess that’s what made her character more relatable. As the story evolved and I started to see that she was like any other teenage girl I liked her even more. Towards the end she was stronger and stood up for herself. She had to be, especially during the war. She had to make choices she didn’t want to and do things she didn’t like, but did them anyways because it had to be done. She faced fear and embraced death like an old friend. Though she watched both of her parents die, she kept moving forward. She even showed a little mercy towards the guy that tried to kill her. She could have shot him in the head but didn’t. She did need him to get to the control room, but she could have shot him afterwards and didn’t. In the end, I really liked her as a lead.

Four, I did not like. He was too manipulative and condescending. I don’t like the way he talked to Tris, Calling her pathetic and idiot. He said it was for her own good, but there is a line. It was partly her fault because she enabled him. She did stand up for herself, but still allowed him to keep doing it. I don’t really have much more to say about him. He wasn’t charming, or exciting. He was bland and forgettable.

All in all, the book was good enough for me to finish it and move on to the second book. I give it 3.5 stars.

 

NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month.

November 1st-31st.

The point of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000 word novel in one month.

Until a week ago I hadn’t even heard about it. Now I’ve signed up and will be participating in it. The only writing I’ve done since high school is on my blogs. Even in high school, the only writing I did was creative writing stories in English class.

I always enjoyed writing though, so I decided why not? I’ll give it a try.

I have no clue what I’m doing.

I have a couple of ideas but don’t know quite where to start. Then I found these weekly writing challenges on WordPress and decided to try one.

This week’s challenge was: The Difference Point of View Makes.

Here’s a summary of the challenge:

In today’s challenge, you’ll tell the same story from two or more unique perspectives. You can choose from the prompts below, or create your own prompt. The length of your story is up to you — you can write a sentence from each perspective, or whole poems from each perspective or a paragraph from each point of view. The structure is loose so that you can adapt the challenge as you see fit.

They gave three different scenarios and this is the one I picked:

A waitress welcomes an elderly regular as he takes his seat at the counter in the diner. The man just got word his wife is dying of cancer. The cook watches through the order window.

I’ve already written my first draft and will be revising that draft tonight. I will be posting my finished piece tomorrow.

If you’d like to find out more info about NaNo, here is the website: http://nanowrimo.org.

You should sign up and we can help each other out.

Love in the Time of…Zombies. [Walking Dead Spoilers]

I know I just wrote a WD post, but guess what, there was another episode on this past Sunday. Let’s discuss it along with discussion from the Talking Dead (in case you missed it).

Talking Dead Guests this week:

One of the Writers-I don’t remember his name. He seemed cool though.

Comedian-Doug Benson. Always hilarious.

Paramore Lead Singer-Hayley Williams.[ B T Dubs if you watched the TD what was up with her hair? I loved the color because I’m all about bright, crazy colors, but the cut? I would not have let that walk out of my salon…Okay moving on.]

This week’s episode started out with a mysterious figure feeding the walkers a rat. OoOoO. Who could it be?? I had no ideas until I watched TD. Their theories were the older sister (the one that named the zombies) and the Governor. I think that either of those could be correct. I mean the little girl was unreasonably obsessed with the walkers, especially this “Nick” character. I mean right after her dad died all she could talk about was “Nick”. [I put his name in quotations because he’s a zombie and not a person. Though he was once a person, he no longer is now]. It could also be the Governor back to stir things up for the folks at Camp Prison. He might also be the one burning bodies. I feel like that’s something he would do, especially with that eye patch. I mean he killed his own people. He cray.

Can we talk about Carl now? When are they going to kill him off already? They did good when they took Lori off, not it’s Carl’s turn. Whoever is feeding rats to the zombies should do us all a favor and feed Carl to them. That sounds horrible doesn’t it? I mean I wouldn’t actually feed a child to a zombie, you know if they were real. Unless of course said child was Carl. Then I can’t make any promises. I just want to punch him. Like when Carol told him not to tell his dad about her fight club. What does he do? Tell his dad. Doesn’t he know that snitches get stitches? Also, obviously Rick is going crazy again because he gave Carl his gun back. What?! He does not deserve that. He’s just going to kill again. Once you get a taste for hunting human, there’s no going back. [or so they say. I wouldn’t know…and I’m not sure who “they” is in this reference, but someone said it.]

Speaking of Rick. That whole pig slaughter/bait scene was really hard to watch. Why did it have to be the pig? Why?! He could have used Carl…I mean what?…

He had to do what he had to do though. The walkers were breaking down the fence and he needed to think fast. It looked like he felt sorrow afterwards. That helped a little. Moving on…

So apparently the thing that killed the Harry Potter look a like was some sort of zombie flu that spreads super fast. Scary. Why didn’t they quarantine those exposed to it? They just walked out and talked to everyone not exposed. “He hey there’s a zombie flu and you shouldn’t be around us, but were going to get near you anyways.” Yeah that makes sense…Not. They sure did shun the black guy’s girlfriend real fast though. [I can’t remember either of their names, but I know that the women played Scott McCall’s mom on Teen Wolf. I missed chunks of season two so I don’t remember the names of a lot of the newer people from the Governor’s Camp]. My heart broke when the black guy [we’ll call him Joe for now] went to take Scott’s mom flowers and he found her body dragged out and burned. Morbid. Joe had just found love and was so excited and it was taken away from him just like that. Like I said earlier, I blame the Governor. Or, plot twist, what if it’s someone totally unexpected? Well we know it would have to be someone strong enough to drag a grown woman and man quite a ways. And quickly. So it’s probably a man doing it or a strong woman. Ooo what if it was Michonne?! Though she was busy crying on a baby to do it. Unless she did it after she cried on the baby. She could have been stricken with such grief from re-living whatever horrible incident she had with a baby that she finished off two dying people, dragged them outside and burned them. I could totally see her doing that. She’s so B.A. but also mysterious.

Now about Michonne crying on a baby. I wonder if she used to have a baby of her own and it died? I don’t know. We’ll probably, eventually, maybe find out? Let’s hope because that scene was awkward and weird.

Well those are all my thoughts on this week’s episode. What are some of your thoughts and/or theories?

It’s Raining Zombies, Hallelujah! [Walking Dead Spoilers]

Speaking of raining gross things, I’ve been fighting a wicked sinus infection for the past few weeks. I’ve just been laying about and being lazy (and not blogging). While being lazy I did happen to watch last week’s Walking (and Talking) Dead. If you watched it too, then stay for a bit and enjoy my review. If you didn’t watch it, then you best leave now. Unless you like spoilers then, by all means, stay. You score even more points if you watched the Talking Dead with Chris Hardwick and Nathan Fillion afterwards.

The episode started out slow, they’re at the prison, livin’ the zombie as usual. They’ve adapted to the fact that hordes of zombies live right outside the fence. They’ve come up with crafty ways of keeping them out; like stabbing their faces or pushing them into the spikes with the gates. Hershel has a cute little garden. Carol has story time/ let’s teach kids about knives times. All is well in the little prison community. [Also, apparently Carol and Daryl are an item now? I don’t remember that finally happening, but I’m excited it did!]

Then Darryl’s gang goes out to get supplies. This is where it starts to get interesting. They find an abandon store, kill a couple of zombies, and think they are in the clear and begin their shopping. La la la la. Little do they know there’s a zombie helicopter rave happening on the roof. That’s when the bodies start a’ rainin’! Did anyone else automatically start singing “It’s Raining Men” in their head when that started happening? I know I did. [and so did Nathan Fillion]. This rainging scene was a bit chaotic. I thought for a second that Glen and Daryl were goners! [If They would have died I would have quit the show!]  After slaying all the zombies that fell [and losing that one guy, who was what’s her name’s boyfriend], they finally made it out of the zombie storm. And with the black guy too! [The black always dies first. Not with this show. T-Dog lasted til season 3. Let’s see how long this guy will last. Racist? Not a bit. It’s only fact.]

Back at Prison Camp, Carl is still being a douche. What else is new? First he won’t let the kids name the zombies, then he’s going to be a little snitch about Carol’s Fight Club. Meanwhile, Papa Rick is out following Crazy Clara [was that her name?] to the middle of the forest, alone, to find a bag of zombie head [which I totally knew was gonna happen] and to watch her kill herself. Seriously, what was the whole point of that part of the story? Maybe it means something later.

And finally, the episode ends with Harry Potter look a like coughing on the clean water, dying and then becoming a zombie. All while everyone is asleep and thinking they are safe. Dun dun dun!!!

So if you are cool like me and watched the Talking Dead afterwards, you will have enjoyed Nathan Fillion, Chris Hardwick and that Walking Dead writer guy talk about the episode afterwards. If you were lame and went to bed right after Walking Dead, then you might want to sit tight for a moment longer.

They said the reason this first episode was slow and uneventful was because it’s going to escalate quite quickly in the next few episodes. Gasp! Okay that’s really the gist of what you missed from not watching the TD. Of course you also missed out on fun times too, but the didn’t really explain much more. Like why did Harry Potter guy (and that pig) die? We still don’t know yet. Or why did Daryl and what’s her name share an extra long hug? That’s still to come. Or who name’s their baby Judith? That’s the first time I heard them call her that. That’s not a baby’s name, that’s an old lady’s name. [Sorry if your name is Judith and your young.]

Well maybe some of these questions will be answered in this week’s episode. I also hope they explain why Carl is still a douche. I don’t think we’ll ever know the answer to that one.

Day 17: What gives you everyday inspiration?

Inspiration can be found in a lot of places these days.

As an artist and a hairstylist I  find inspiration in everyday life.

Anything can be inspiration if you have an open mind:

The ocean

The park

Work

The store

Movies

TV shows

Curtains

 Wrapping paper

Clothes

Fabric

A scarf

Wallpaper

A rug

Grass

Flowers

Magazines

The list is endless…

Day 16: If you could have any job in the world, what would it be?

[I’m going to finish this challenge even if it kills me.]

There are a few jobs that I would want to have and apparently these are real jobs:

Professional chocolate taster-

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/being-a-professional-chocolate-taster-mirrorgirl-261729

 

Bed tester-

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47568956/page/3

 

Waterslide Tester-

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/being-a-professional-chocolate-taster-mirrorgirl-261729

Teddy Bear Repair Technician

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47568956/page/8

 

(Little did Sam and Dean know that this is a real job.)

 

Face Feeler (yeah it’s a thing.)

After someone shaves, the Face Feeler feels the face to confirm that it is indeed silky smooth. Not creepy at all.

This would be the perfect job for me.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47568956/page/9

Mermaid

I would love to be a mermaid. I’ve loved mermaids for as long as I can remember. My favorite movie is the Little Mermaid. I’m even named after a mermaid ( Daryl Hannah’s character in Splash).

There’s actually a place here in Florida called Weeki Wachee Springs that puts on mermaid shows.

 

Throwback Thursday

My Ninja Gator shirt (I don’t even know).  Obviously I’m super excited about something! It’s probably the fact that I’m wearing purple pants. I don’t match now and I didn’t match then. Some things never change.

Oh hey there…

How is it already October? It’s been a week and a half since I last posted. You should know by now that I kind of suck at keeping up on my posts. Oops. It’s been really busy at work, plus I just haven’t been in the blogging mood. But I got some down time so here you go, I’m posting. To make up for my absence, I’m posting this little gem: