March Media #3

Day 3

3.) Most Recent Song you heard (MP3/CD/Cassette)
Busy Signals - The Pink Spiders



Was playing in my car last night as I pulled into the driveway on my way home from Erin's. She posted a link to a Pink Spiders song on her facebook last week and I have been listening to them a lot this week. I have them in my music library because of Steve. We were sitting at the truckstop one night maybe a year and a half ago (wow been a long time), and he was talking about them so I got some of their music but never listened to them that much until recently.





Media Blog

Present 1.) Most Recent Movie you saw (In Theatres)
2.) Most Recent Book you read3.) Most Recent Song you heard (MP3/CD/Cassette)
3.) Most Recent TV Series you've been addicted to
4.) Most Recent Movie you saw (at home)
5.) Most Recent Song you heard on the Radio
6.) Most Recent Concert/Live Event
7.) Most Recent favorite YouTube clip
8.) Most frequented website

Past1.) One of the best movies you saw in a movie theatre
2.) One of your favorite books
3.) One of your favorite songs
4.) A favorite memory a song inspires
5.) A favorite TV series that is off the air
6.) CD you own that you have listened to the most
7.) A favorite Web video
8.) A website you used to visit a lot

Future1.) Movie you want to see coming out this year
2.) A Concert you would like to go to
3.) A book you want to read

The Good - The Bad - The Weird1.) A movie you really enjoyed watching
2.) A movie you really don't like
3.) The strangest movie / A movie you don't understand
4.) A book that you really liked
5.) A book that you hated reading
6.) A strange book / a book you didn't understand
7.) A band you really enjoy listening to
8.) A song you really don't like
9.) A strange / weird song
10.) A band you will never understand why people like
11.) A movie you will never understand why people like
12.) A book you will never understand why people like

March Media #2

Day two in the March Media Series

2.) Most Recent Book You Read

A Death of Honor

Picked this up for free on my Kindle for something to read,  Its a Science ficition murder mystery story.

I'm a fan of old Sci-Fi... H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, etc... so I can get over dated Sci-Fi though reading a Sci-Fi from the 1980's can be fairly unintentionally humorous... The Soviets are taking over the globe, computers still have green screens and take DOS commands.

Overall I rate it very average, worth picking up if you need something to read but nothing special overall. There were some intersting aspects but the author skipped over them and went for more of the basic murder mystery plot. 

Media Blog

Present 1.) Most Recent Movie you saw (In Theatres)2.) Most Recent Book you read
3.) Most Recent Song you heard (MP3/CD/Cassette)
3.) Most Recent TV Series you've been addicted to
4.) Most Recent Movie you saw (at home)
5.) Most Recent Song you heard on the Radio
6.) Most Recent Concert/Live Event
7.) Most Recent favorite YouTube clip
8.) Most frequented website

Past1.) One of the best movies you saw in a movie theatre
2.) One of your favorite books
3.) One of your favorite songs
4.) A favorite memory a song inspires
5.) A favorite TV series that is off the air
6.) CD you own that you have listened to the most
7.) A favorite Web video
8.) A website you used to visit a lot

Future1.) Movie you want to see coming out this year
2.) A Concert you would like to go to
3.) A book you want to read

The Good - The Bad - The Weird1.) A movie you really enjoyed watching
2.) A movie you really don't like
3.) The strangest movie / A movie you don't understand
4.) A book that you really liked
5.) A book that you hated reading
6.) A strange book / a book you didn't understand
7.) A band you really enjoy listening to
8.) A song you really don't like
9.) A strange / weird song
10.) A band you will never understand why people like
11.) A movie you will never understand why people like
12.) A book you will never understand why people like

March Blog Series - #1

So as promised I will do a March Blog series this month to get back into the swing of blogging hopefully.
This months series is based off of a list of blogs about media...


Media Blog

1) The Most Recent Movie You Saw in Theatres...

The weekend before Valentines Day, Erin and I sort of did our Valentines day gift exchange because the Tuesday that Valentines actually fell on didn't work well with our schedules. That night (the 11th) we went to see the movie "The Woman In Black"

http://youtu.be/7lReemWmO5o

Overall I don't think either of us were that impressed with it, I thought the ending left some to be desired and Erin didn't think the back story was developed quickly enough. (She also couldn't see Daniel Radcliffe outside of his Harry Potter role).


Present
1.) Most Recent Movie you saw (In Theatres)
2.) Most Recent Book you read
3.) Most Recent Song you heard (MP3/CD/Cassette)
3.) Most Recent TV Series you've been addicted to
4.) Most Recent Movie you saw (at home)
5.) Most Recent Song you heard on the Radio
6.) Most Recent Concert/Live Event
7.) Most Recent favorite YouTube clip
8.) Most frequented website

Past1.) One of the best movies you saw in a movie theatre
2.) One of your favorite books
3.) One of your favorite songs
4.) A favorite memory a song inspires
5.) A favorite TV series that is off the air
6.) CD you own that you have listened to the most
7.) A favorite Web video
8.) A website you used to visit a lot

Future
1.) Movie you want to see coming out this year
2.) A Concert you would like to go to
3.) A book you want to read

The Good - The Bad - The Weird1.) A movie you really enjoyed watching
2.) A movie you really don't like
3.) The strangest movie / A movie you don't understand
4.) A book that you really liked
5.) A book that you hated reading
6.) A strange book / a book you didn't understand
7.) A band you really enjoy listening to
8.) A song you really don't like
9.) A strange / weird song
10.) A band you will never understand why people like
11.) A movie you will never understand why people like
12.) A book you will never understand why people like

A quiet winter and a cool photo

Ok I'll start out the blog with the cool photo that I promised. I came across this today at the museum of a few cool dudes in Millhousen...




So I know all of my dedicated readers are going into withdraw from a lack of updates on my extremely exciting and important life. I'll admit that I have failed as a blogger these last few months, and have come to realize that their comes a time when you are so far behind on things you need to write you need to just put those things away for awhile and write some blogs that are current. Whenever I say I'm going to get caught up on writing the blogs I had planned for December & Early January I feel like I'm so far behind its discouraging and I then proceed to put if off longer or make very little progress.

Thus I'm proud to announce that for the month of March I will be starting one of those blog challenges, something quick and simple but will hopefully get me back on the blog writing train, as I really do enjoy writing blogs and see them as sort of an open journal on my life. For me its intersting to look back and see what I was thinking at different times and that doesn't really work when I don't get any blogs posted... so look for more action in the future

This is a post

Sneaking this one in since I haven't had a post all month and its the last day of the month. Ugh I have to get caught up with stuff I meant to write in December! Hopefully Feb will be more productive

Year in Review 2011: Part 2

Note: This is a start of a four part series, the object being to give a quick review of my experiences in the year 2011. In this part I will cover the months of April, May, and June.

April

Easter was in April and as per our sort of tradition Casey and I dyed some Easter Eggs and tried to make our poison egg once again. (trying to get one as dark as possible with a pirate skull on it) Ben had come over to see Casey and Erin came over to see me, even if she doesn't like silly things like Easter Egg dying.





At work I had our Annual Dinner, as well as Chantel's wedding, it was difficult getting it all arranged but I got to see the wedding, the annual dinner, and the end of the reception with Erin looking stunning :)



towards the end of the Month Erin and I went to Brown county with her dogs, and had a wonderful day walking in the park.



On a sad note in April, my great Grandma Zeumer passed away at the age of 98.

May

In may I got to experience my first "dog birthday party" as we had to throw a celebration for Erin's dog Jude who turned three and became much more mature.... what kind of gifts did she get? well balls of course!





As always I spent a lot of this month hanging out with Erin.

I was also going to the gym a lot in may, trying to drop some of the pounds I had gained since starting my new job at the museum, seemed like I gained around 10 pounds this spring... and I had the added incentive of being part of a pedometer team at my Aunts school so I was trying to get as many steps in as possible.

Towards the end of the month we had a big storm hit Decatur County, we would be without electric for 3 days as power lines were ripped down all over the place. Many houses in Greensburg including the Museum had storm damage and needed there roofs replaced a process that is still going on. I was at Anytime fitness with Scott when the storm hit and you couldn't see the parking lot from inside the gym with how bad everything was blowing.

After the storm let up I picked up dinner for Erin's family and went to their house, where we spent the afternoon without electric before I went home late that night.







Actually before all of these storms I had went with my Dad, Grandpa, and Grandma down to Brookville to see the family graves for Memorial day.

June

June started out with my birthday! and Erin got me two great gifts... A laser disc player and a hippo bank! and Casey got me Muppet Treasure Island, so it was a great birthday!





At work I started what would become a long process (still not complete) of getting the roof at the museum replaced due to the storm damage. As well as working to put together an Apprisal show for the museum which was a big project!






Erin took me to see her friend Josie who works with baby tigers at a local petting zoo, which was cool because we got to pet a 4 day old baby tiger.





And in what is a summer tradition around here I spent some time helping my Dad bale hay on the farm.



In June Brock had hosted a party to watch the Aliens movies at his new place, which was fun hanging out with everyone...

And that takes us through 1/2 of 2011

Year in Review 2011 : Part 1

Note: This is a start of a four part series, the object being to give a quick review of my experiences in the year 2011. In this part I will cover the months of January, February, and March.

January - Checking out

I kicked of the New Years celebrating the holiday with Bruce, Joe, Chantel, and Brock at Joe and Chantel's... I'll say the night before had started out with 3 shots of Everclear and went downhill from there. I woke up that next morning and Joe's and made my way home still feeling under the weather.



I went to a couple snowy stoage auctions this month as well, still never bough anything, but enjoyed looking around at the possiblites... just have to take that big jump of risk..if I ever want to buy one. Check out my blog in January of this year for a full write up on Storage Auctions

For fun I played at least one weekend at Columbus some Heroclix with Bruce, Joe and Brock

The biggest news by far thought this month was me interviewing and getting the Executive Director position at the Historical Society! I had applied for it while I was at Check into Cash University last winter and on a friday in January got an interview. I was lucky that they moved the interview to the first thing in the morning and my co-worker opened the Check into Cash store for me that morning so I could interview and then rush off quickly to Indianapolis.

It was a couple weeks later that I would recieve a phone call from the President of the Society to offer me the job while I was driving home, it distracted me so much that I got off at the wrong exit and spent an extra 30 minutes driving around Indy calling my parents and friends. I knew it was going to be a very tough budget shift for me, but was exicited for the oppertunity.

Next up was just to call Check into Cash and put in my two weeks notice, which I did and was excitied for the next month to begin my new job.


February - A new face

Well I didn't get to go to work on my first day because of an Ice Storm, we lost electricity for a couple days and Casey's friend Tess got snowed in with us. The generator died over the first night so Dad and I went to town and bought a new one. Tess, Casey, Dad and I played board games (Masterpiece) by candle light and overall had a decent time. We blocked off part of the house and Mom brough in a kerosine heater to cook soup on in the dinning room. It only took about two days for everything to melt off.










After talking on facebook post back and forth every so often I met up with Erin on Feb. 18th to see the movie the Eagle.  It was an intersting experience, we met for the movie and she only let me buy her a drink (large mountain dew without ice of course) and we went to the movie. I liked her right off the bat but didn't think she was that into me. After the movie was over we left and both went home our seperate ways, I had wanted to ask her to dinner but was a chicken I guess, lol so we text back and forth a few times that night and it wasn't until a few days later when I was playing heroclix with Brock and Joe in Columbus that she started texting me again. She had found a cattle skull in the woods and we joked about the skull caps the guys in the Eagle had worn.

That next week we went and had dinner at El Reparo and were at the resturant for around 3 hours when they were getting ready to close. Then we sat in my car and drove around the county, throwing broken limbs off the road (it was raining), only to come back and sit in the El Reparo parking lot some more.... It was almost 4 o'clock when we called it a night and she went home.

I also joined Anytime Fitness this month to start working out at their Gym, I went in with Scott and signed up, every one in awhile I still meet up with him and work out there.

March - Hanging out

I went to Dave and Busters with Bruce, Megan, Joe, Chantel, Casey, Brock, Cassie for Chantel's Birthday party, it was fun I had never been to Dave and Busters before. After we got back to Shelbyville Erin met up with us at Joe and Chantel's and we played some games.



Erin and I started seeing each other a lot, and played a lot of video games, Wii bowling is something Erin turned out to be a professional in. We also played a lot of N64; Mario Cart, Smash Brothers, Mario Party, Pokemon Stadium