Random Babble

To be honest I do not have much to say...and I haven't for a while.

I was going to post about what I got for Christmas, but to me they can come off braggy. Don't get me wrong I love what I got for Christmas and am so thankful, my husband spoils me and I do the same to him, but not everyone goes all out like we do. I will say that my favorite gift was this:

I love my new camera 'Sophia' and this is why I have not taken many pictures with my phone for instagram lately.

I might do a review of a new game we got Cards Against Humanity which is an amazingly horrible fun game. We have played it a handful of times and let's just say not everyone was a fan.

From Amazon - currently sold out on CAH site

I have not really been reading much since Something Worth Fighting For. I started Neil Gaiman's American Gods but could not really get into it. It seems like a good book I just haven't been in the right mood to read that type of book I guess and maybe because while reading it I kept picturing the characters from Supernatural. I need to come in to that book with a fresh head and start again. Maybe go for something silly first to clean my slate.

I had full intention of doing a cheesy SyFy movie review but the show was more like soft core porno so I promptly turned it off maybe 15 minutes into the movie and do not recommend watching 2 Headed Shark with anyone who is not mature. Every time Carmen Electric came on screen it went into slow motion and zoomed in on her, it was ridiculous.

That is really all I have to say. Da Hubby and I are about to start gutting our guest bathroom, guestroom, and craft room and redo them before we get new floors everywhere so I am not sure how much craft stuff I will be doing soon. Hopefully soon I will be able to show y'all my beautifully remodeled house soon...just waiting on our contractor to set a date to put a beam in our attic so we can knock out some support walls to open up the house a bit.

I am babbling a little too much now so TTFN - Ta Ta For Now

Christmas Crafting

I cannot believe Christmas is just around the corner! (and that I forgot to do any Thanksgiving posts)

I have been working on making presents lately and I am SOOO excited about them.

This is from paint night with my niece. Her painting below blew me out of the water.

Can you believe that crap. She was looking at a tiny picture on my tablet and busted this bad boy out. All free hand and that is acrylic paint not water paint.

But I made this MASSIVE D20 for my step-dad for his birthday.  I think it is safe to assume he has the biggest one in the family - the one in his other hand was his 'big' die before he got his present.

I also made this Dapper T. Rex (Theodore Rex III to be exact) for my sister. She has a bit of a dino obsession. This makes me so happy I was attacking Da'Hubby with Theodore.

I may have shown this one off, at least I think I did on insta. This is an Owl bracelet I made for my brother's sweet girlfriend. She has an owl obsession but who could blame her.

This is another one I may have shown, this is my 'Mirror, Mirror on the desk who is the best?' gift for my niece. She loves all things Disney. 

Disclaimer: I know that is the wrong face in the mirror but, this face is more memorable than the usual man in the mirror.

Lastly some messy holiday nails.

I took this while it was still wet and I had not cleaned them up yet, I forgot to take a clean picture before I cleaned them off for birthday nails.

So are you doing any fun holiday crafts?

My First Comic Con

This weekend I spent an amazing time here!

Austin Freakin' Comic-Con!!!!!! This was the most amazing experience I have ever had. 

The first day was all down stairs on the show floor looking at the booths spending too much time down Artist Alley and being amazed at the cos players. 

  
Ryan Frye and Ivy Doomkitty were the Big name cos players there.... Ryan even had the Thor voice it was incredible!

501st Legion Star Garrison showed up in full force, Storm troopers were all over the place.

R2 Builders were great too, the R2s moved and made the noises. Da Hubby said this was his favorite from Friday night.

    

     

I saw a Tardis dressing room, fought with Vader, met Mario and a Ghostbuster while wearing my Mario Ghostbusters mash-up shirt, survived a Sharknado and found another tardis

       

Saturday was all panels Stan Lee, James Marsters, Shatner with Bakula, and B movie King Bruce Campbell

   

The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special was spectacular. I was teary, I had my heart race in many parts, it is one of my favorite episodes ever. 

 

Watched a costume contest

And met some MENIONS!!!!

 

 

Sunday was just James Hong and then home but James was hilarious I mean check out the video for example. 

P.S. Sorry so the massive picture dump but I had to share. 

P.P.S. Have you ever been to a Con? 

Book Club: Something Worth Fighting For

I originally read this book because I went to school with Ashley and I wanted to support her. With that said my knowing her has no affect on my reactions to this book.

The Amazon synopsis says:

After a rough past Ellie Grant now leads an easy life. Between school, work, and beach days with her loud mouth best friend Darcy, she keeps things simple. She never knew there was something missing until she found it. 

When Marine Corps Sergeant Atlas Ryker walked into the diner that morning her world stopped and started spinning in the opposite direction. 

Falling in love is easy. 
Deployment is hard. 
Distance will mean nothing when someone means so much. 

My feelings:

I am so glad that I read this book. I was not even half way finished with it and I had already bawled and giggled many times. I was recommending this book before I finished it. 

Growing up in a family with 2 grandpas, an uncle, step-dad, brother and many friends in different branches of the military I knew this girls pain. I lived on a marine base, I saw women whose men were off shore, I saw their pain. Reading this book it was all brought back.  As soon as I finished I called to see if my baby brother was still wanting to enlist. 

I felt like I knew the people in this book, way she make you fall in love with the characters is amazing. It was like they were my friends or family and I was reading their diary. I was fully engulfed in this book, I could not put it down. 

My Rating:

♥♥♥♥1/2 out of 5

I would have given it a full 5 but I lost sleep reading this book and that is my way of getting back at it lol. Seriously though it is an amazing book and I HIGHLY recommend it to you even if you are not a big love story fan it is fantastic! 

P.S. I am reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods now and will review it next. If you have a book recommendation let me know!!

One more day!

I cannot believe tomorrow is Halloween! Last night Da'Hubby and I were not home to watch a Halloween movie, instead we played in a costume bowling tournament.

We were Superman and Supergirl! We did see a few other superheroes like Robin, Power Rangers, and Wonder Woman.

My niece showing off her muscles as Snow White. 

Hippy brother-in-law

And lastly sista-in-law as a wickd witch and her little ballerina.

We had so much fun! I whooped some hiney on the first game with 3 strikes in a row (turkey time). On game 2 I sucked it up pretty bad, I lost my super powers I guess. For the costume portion we lost the individual and the group awards, but hopefully next year we will smoke them guys. 

What have you been doing for Halloween this year?

Countdown to Halloween Movie Edition: The Mummy (1932)

This is one of those old movies that I have always wanted to watch but have never gotten around to. I am not turned away from a show being black and white or being from before the 80's, Heck I actually love some old movies ( just usually not westerns).



I was not blown away by this movie but it was okay. I feel like I should love this movie because it was the beginning but I just can't.  I was able to mark it off my list and it has Boris Karloff in it.
SPOILER ALERT!! SPOILER ALERT!!

This is just like any mummy film a mummy comes to life, mummy awakens spirit of lost love, blah blah blah.
There was nothing that set this movie apart really except this was the first movie like that. All of the other mummy movies have copied this one! I do not know what I was expecting when I started watching this but I just was not captivated. I wish I was I love old movies just not this one I guess.



What about you, have you ever watched a movie hoping you would love it just to find you think it is okay?

Countdown to Halloween Movie Edition: House at the End of the Street

I have been on the fence about seeing this movie. I love Jennifer Lawrence, but I am not big into actually scary movies. Cheesy horror is more of my pick, I can handle suspense, I can handle gore but scary movies are not my favorite. I am starting the movie now so let's see what I think in 1 hr and 40 minutes from now.

Well I just finished it and I was just not impressed. Of course J. Lawrence was good, heck the acting was great. Going into this movie I thought it was going to be scary suspenseful but it really wasn't. The action really does not start until the last 30 minutes of the movie. Don't get me wrong the last 30 minutes were great but it did not make up for the slow hour leading up to it. I think that so much of the story is in the end, they really should have spread it out a bit more. 

I do not think I will be buying this movie but I am glad I watched it. The trailer for this movie was more suspenseful than the actual movie. Seriously the majority of the trailer was scenes from the last 30 minutes of the movie, I feel like I do not even need to say spoilers since the trailer did that already.   

So have y'all seen this movie? If so what did you think?