I am, first and foremost, most importantly a full-time working wife and mother. Also, a web 2.0, video game playing, electronic and technology crazed she-geek. And a stalker magnet!
| www.flickr.com |
For some reason, my camera was acting like an A-HOLE this day and most of the time it would give me a “recording failure” and I ended up losing a lot of footage. *ANGRY*
Watch my vlog from July 24th. Sorry it took so long to get added because it literally took this long to get YouTube to let me upload. Watch and subscribe!
Check out the videos below from July 17th. If you enjoy watching me get lost and yelling at my GPS, then you might enjoy the first video. The second video is behind the scenes of the film we were filming yesterday. You really had to be there to appreciate the “douchebag” scene in it’s full glory!
Let me warn you now, this is a boring video. I’m sorry that I could only film a few things before work. Work = no time to film.
If you’re on YouTube, subscribe to my channel!
I’m all about supporting locals, not to mention when they’re my friends. Dan and Aaron from Bottom Line are two great people and friends of mine and along with Greg, they deserve all of the promotion they get. Bottom Line is such a great band! If you haven’t heard them, you should definitely check them out! Also, they’re being promoted by Ryan Lytle whom is in the running to be one of MTV’s first Twitter Jockeys. Be sure to check out the links below to follow them and vote for Ryan.
Check out the videos below and vote for Ryan!
Vote for Ryan Lytle on Facebook
Bottom Line Promo EXTENDED from Peter Weisgerber on Vimeo.
I’ve been a huge YouTube watcher since the beginning of YouTube. I subscribe to some people on there and watch them regularly. If you follow me on Twitter, you have probably seen me post links and talk about how much I love KassemG’s videos. He is truly hilarious! I subscribe to him along with ShayCarl, iJustine, sxePhil, MakeUpByTiffanyD, TheCurrentCustom, JuicyStar07, SarahsFabChannel, etc. There seems to be a misconception about YouTube for a lot of people. Eight times out of ten, if you ask anyone about YouTube they will probably think of miscellaneous videos about people doing stupid things or music videos or someone playing a prank on their friend, whatever. But, really, YouTube is exactly that! You – Tube! It’s there to let ordinary, regular people have their own “channel”. People like ShayCarl and iJustine vlog often and make it a part of their daily lives. That’s what they do. Others, like MakeUpByTiffanyD and JuicyStar07 create tutorial videos about a particular subject — in this case, they’re makeup gurus. SarahsFabChannel is all about health and fitness. I’ve gotten a LOT of great information and tips from so many gurus on there that it’s ridiculous. I love it. I’m kind of addicted.
For a long, long time now, I’ve been wanting to start my own channel and continuously, actively upload videos to it. What can I be a guru about? I’m not into filming makeup tutorials or anything, so I decided, for my first video, it would be a “day in the life” style video. Though, it’s more of a “Day In the Life of Sean” video. I mean, I kind of already do this in a written format with my blog and stuff. However, let me clear some things up. There is no way I can record my ENTIRE day! Not only would I run out of space on my camera and the battery would die, but I am very forgetful about things like that. There have been soooo many times that I would forget just to check in to a place on FourSquare and recording my life won’t be any different, I’m sure. Plus, I don’t want to let people into EVERY aspect of my life and I don’t want to show too much information. And, sometimes, I just don’t have a very eventful day! Especially working and going to school full time. There is nothing interesting about watching a video of me working or going to school. Yes, this is my life, but it’s very watered down.
Below, you can watch my first and maybe my last video. Enjoy! (The video was too long for YouTube, so I had to make some adjustments and take out a lot of footage. Not too happy about that! Plus it took 5 attempts to upload and the final attempt took 10 HOURS for it to upload!)
Last Tuesday, June 29, 2010, my husband and I, along with 11 other girls went to see the newest installment of the Twilight Saga, Eclipse. The first part of this blog entry will be my personal review and opinion of Eclipse. The second half will be about ‘Remember Me’. I will explain why later.
The midnight showing of Eclipse went very smoothly. Chris and I arrived at Newport On The Levee roughly around 8pm, had dinner at Johnny Rockets, walked around the stores, etc. and then met up with my friend Dom and the rest of the ladies. When Chris and I had arrived, the line to get in to see Eclipse was wrapped around the entire middle level of the theatre. By the time we were ready to join in, the line was all the way wrapped around the middle level AND the bottom level. That is one long ass line. Longer than any amusement park ride I’d ever seen!
Well, Dom, the other ladies and I had absolutely no intention of standing in that line. F that! So, once they removed the velvet ropes and allowed the estrogen to pour through we worked our way into the mess. Needless to say, we cut in front of a LOT of people.
Anywho, onto the movie. It was great. I’m torn between whether I like it better than New Moon or not. I think they’re both pretty much on the same level. I’m a little disappointed that I’m not more easily able to say which one was better, but New Moon was so good that Eclipse being as good, if not better isn’t a bad thing, because it still makes it damn awesome.
It starts up with Riley as the main focus and gets almost right to the point, in a sense, without going right into the newborn army. In the theatre I was in, particularly, when Edward showed up, you could hear a pin drop. Maybe I was in there with a bunch of Team Jacob people, or it was because the way they introduced Edward. In New Moon, the first time you see him, he gets out of his stupid, not so shiny, black Volvo and does a very dramatic, windy slow motion entrance. [Insert swoon] Have you ever seen ‘Not Another Teen Movie’? If so, then you should be familiar with the scenes with Lacey Chabert portraying Jennifer Love Hewit’s part in ‘Can’t Hardly Wait’. The joke behind it is that whenever she enters the room or a scene, everything goes in slow motion and no one can move until she starts walking again. That’s exactly what Twilight and New Moon did with Edward — that silly slow motion entrance. I say silly, but it still gets me. Sad, I know. So, to conclude, I think maybe lacking that “special Edward entrance” may have prevented the reaction I was expecting when he came on screen.
Jacob, on the other hand, did get quite the reaction. To me, his introduction was much different than Edward’s. In fact, I think that David Slade might have been Team Jacob himself. The writing and the directing seemed to favor Jacob, to me. Between the differences in each character’s entrance and the “I am hotter than you” line, David Slade might have a man crush. As Taylor Lautner goes, in the beginning of the movie with his many shirtless scenes, he looked like his normal, buff self, but, to me, towards the end, especially during the tent scene, it looked like he wasn’t as cut as he was earlier in the movie. I don’t know, just an observation.
Overall, the movie was great. It followed the book pretty closely. It left out a few minor details I think should have been in there. As the movies go on, you see less and less of Bella’s friends. If I remember correctly, I don’t think they show up at all in Breaking Dawn, so I can pretty much already to expect them to be out of the picture. If it was up to me, I would have put the parts about Bella’s friends going to Seattle and her not wanting them to go because of the “murders” and such happening in Seattle, in the movie. It would have made for some character building and Bella would have seemed a little less Edward involved. The again, why would we want that?
The fight scenes were a little short lived and I wasn’t too fond of the breaking ice effect the vampires made when their heads and limbs were ripped apart. Especially Victoria’s deadly decapitation. It was a little comical to me the way her head looked after she lost it. Ugh, and speaking of Victoria, I really didn’t like Bryce Dallas Howard as her. Rachelle Lefevre was much better, but I might be biased since she was the original. What Summit did to her was downright wrong, but I won’t go into that. She didn’t even get a speaking part in all of New Moon. Eclipse Victoria was ridiculous. Her hair… c’mon! Way too red, way too curly and just downright ugly. Ugh!
Bella… err… Kristen Stewart… whatever. Kristen did a much better job this time as far as acting and personality goes. She showed more personality and character in the “sex talk” scene partly because that’s what the scene called for, but I think Kristen went with it very well. I’m really eager to see how she is in Breaking Dawn considering [spoiler alert] that after she turns to a vampire, she’s on top of the world, very happy and personable. Well, that is until the Volturi try to come and kill them all. But, I just hope her acting improves more for that movie.
Maybe I should add a category to my blog for movie reviews. The way I watch movies is much different than most people. When I watch a movie, it isn’t just for entertainment, but I take in every aspect of production. I scrutinize the directing, writing, acting, consistency and even the film type and filter’s that’s used. Yes, I said film type and filters. Have you ever seen a movie that had a horrible red or blue or just a really dark tint to it? Twilight was like that. It had a blue cast over the entire thing. I suppose Catherine Hardwicke thought it was “artistic” but really it was hindering the movie from it’s true potential. I think I even recall Chris Weitz commenting on that horrible blue tint from Twilight and so he removed it completely from New Moon. If you’ve ever seen ‘Three Kings’, that movie used a Kodak film that intentionally over exposes the footage. In this case, it worked well with the movie considering most of the movie took place in the desert. So, when I watch a movie, I think about all of this. If something is rubbing me the wrong way, I will try to figure out what it is. I seem to scrutinize big name blockbuster movies more than others, but that’s because I want to be honest with how I feel about it rather than feeling how the critics and media wants me to feel about a movie. I look at it from the creative and production side. And, if you’re wondering, yes, I have thought a LOT about going to film school, but to me, film school or any kind of art school is a waste of time and money. Something like that can’t be taught. Techniques, yes, but the true vision, cannot. That’s why I would never pursue it and why I haven’t pursued going to school for graphic or web design — it’s the same idea. I’d love to, really, but I’d rather take a class than go to school full time for it. I don’t know. It is my absolute dream to direct a movie. That, and to go into space, but I’d rather direct a movie and I’d rather be behind the camera than in front of it. To me, it takes more talent to make the movie than to act in one, but I’d still act in one. Maybe that’s why I am so fond of Eli Roth!
“I didn’t go to film school. I went to films.” – Quentin Tarantino
Now that you know how I feel and the way I watch movies, this leads into my next review. ‘Remember Me’. I first saw the preview for this when at the midnight showing of New Moon. I actually thought it looked like a good movie. Plus, I was really curious to see Robert Pattinson in a movie where he wasn’t Edward. No, I didn’t see him in Harry Potter.
Chris and I watched it tonight. Thank you Netflix. I can usually tell if I will like a movie by the preview, but I’m not always right. In this case, I was. And I have to give Robert Pattinson props for this movie. Previously, I thought he was kind of a bad actor because of how he’s been in the Twilight movies, but that boy is a damn good actor, contrary to popular belief. It took me seeing him in a different role to realize that him playing Edward is just awkward. During ‘Remember Me’ I didn’t see any bit of Edward in that movie, but I did see a little bit of Robert Pattinson, rather than his character, Tyler. That little sighing smile thing he does is just him, not an Edward thing. I wasn’t particularly attracted to R-Patz before, but he’s kind of hot now — when he isn’t Edward Cullen.
So this movie is good, it made me cry, which is hard for a movie to do. The only complaint I have is that there didn’t seem to be a climaxing conflict, unless you count the surprise ending. And I have to add, without spoiling the movie for anyone, that I hate unfulfilling endings like that. Is there a such thing as a good hate? If so, then that’s the ending of this movie. I hated what happened. I hated it so much that it made me cry and it made me want more. I wanted to know what happened next, but there was absolutely no way I could find out. And, in an ironic twist of reality, I do know what happened. This is all very confusing sounding, but if you see the movie, you will understand. I know that when I went into watching this movie, I didn’t expect the ending to have anything to do with the plot at all. However, it was tastefully done.
I suggest seeing it. Oh and if you’re one of the 5 people left on Earth that hasn’t seen Eclipse, you should see that too!
For this project, my father pretty much did the entire desk, with my help, of course. I did all the sanding and painting. Woo! The photos makes the paint job look bad and I don’t know why. Must be the way the light reflects. It actually looks really good.
This desk is very simple, very modern and I love it.
You’ll notice that I didn’t paint the inside of the desk. Why? Because I didn’t feel like it. Plus, I knew it would be very difficult to paint inside there, thus making it more difficult to make sure it is evenly painted.
What do you think? Leave a comment and tell me how awesome my father is at what he does. He thinks he isn’t any good! PSHT!
Last night I began playing the Volvo “Lost In Forks” game.
The object is to find the Cullen’s house using the shortest route possible.
After many, many tries, I finally got there and was able to do it in 11 forks.
Everyone with the shortest route to the Cullen’s house will be able to advance on to phase two in a chance to win a Volvo XC60. I don’t need a new car, but hey, it’s free, sure why not? Plus I doubt I would win anyways. Although, I was really, really close to winning the one they did last year for New Moon.
I thought I’d share some of the tips and tricks I found along the way for any of you that it might be driving crazy too.
I’m NOT going to post the sequence or anything and I will delete anyone’s comment who does contain it.
Check out some of the screenshots below for tips, tricks and hints.
Did you see the Volturi necklace hanging in the trees by the pond?
Do you know what the Masen truck means?
Did you see the graduation sign?
Did you find the ribbon stuck in the bushes?
Be sure to read Riley’s missing person poster.
Peel away the dog food sign.
Victoria is hiding behind the rock, but she doesn’t do anything.
There are a lot of hints. Watch the Easter eggs too! The one in Bella’s bedroom is the best!
Leave your comments below to add your own tips, tricks and hints!
This will be a sticky post that will continue to stay at the top of my blog entries. I will be using it as a means of advertisement.
I got into Gold Canyon Candles when two of my friends and co-workers began selling them and brought in their samples to work. I had absolutely no intentions of becoming a demonstrator myself, but after smelling all of the scents, there were just so many that I wanted. Not to mention the cute accessories to display them in. I pretty much became ridiculously obsessed with these candles. I used to buy “other” candles, but then I found out that Gold Canyon Candles cost less than they do and they last longer. If you know a thing or two about me, you should know that I’m a sucker for a good deal.
First, I decided to just buy some, but then I decided to become a demonstrator instead. When I saw how people flocked to these candles, I knew I had to get involved, plus I could get all the candles I had originally wanted for FREE! Free is a word I like to take advantage of as much as possible.
So, anyways, I wanted to share why I decided to take the plunge into a business I never thought I’d ever do.
If you’re on Facebook, take the time to “Become a fan” or “Like” my page. www.gc.vanilla-milkshake.com
If you want to check out the products online and even make purchases online, you can do that here.
If you’re local to Cincinnati and would like to smell the scents before you buy them or host a party to get what you want for FREE, email me at carla.garza@goldcanyon.us
For a limited time:
I am offering $10 in FREE product in addition to your $20-$230 in FREE product if you host a party! I will do all the work. You just sit back and reap the benefits! This offer is only available for the first 4 people to schedule a party! I also have some great items to give away as FREE gifts at your party!
