my sister says my posts have gotten too long. is this better?

new botw time!

frodo and i had a great time, but it's time to move on. so many guys so little time.
next!

Owain Yeoman

He's the bad guy on 'The Nine.' Every girl loves a bad boy, right? I can't help but think this one is sexy.

Owain was born in Chepstow, Wales (what is it with Wales lately? I'm coming across it everywhere - I think it's a sign) on July 2nd (no one seems to know what year, what's with that?). He speaks conversational Welsh (maybe I should write to him and ask him to teach me - I still want to learn Welsh) and is fluent in French and German. He studied English Literature and Language at Oxford before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), from which he graduted in 2003. (Actually I looked at the English Literature and Language course on the Oxford website last week thinking that would be fun for me, but it looked way to daunting. He must be very smart.) According to the RADA website, he has a strong baritone voice and plays basic piano and tenor saxophone (music is so sexy). Owain has a certificate in stage combat, including unarmed combat, smallsword, rapier and dagger (all of which is cool - although what is a rapier?). He's had 2 years period dance training, and knows basic flamenco. (He should ask me to dance - I would so dance with him. *happy gasp*- it would be like 'Dancing with the Stars!') He's good at accents, which is why I didn't know he wasn't American until I started doing my research. I need to hear his real voice sometime. Or maybe I better not - that might be too sexy.

Having Owain as a boyfriend also brings me back to the world of the tall. That makes me so happy. He's 6'3", which is just about perfect. Sadly some pictures have him looking a little too skinny, but it looks like he's filled out a bit in the more recent ones and on the show. (I like this show by the way, and it's on right after 'Lost,' so that's convenient, though I'm not liking 'Lost' right now, but that's a different story. The point is that I like 'The Nine.' It's a good show - you should watch it.)

Sad news is, he's engaged (I haven't read anywhere that they're married yet, but I don't know) to the girl who played Dawn (the British Pam) on the British 'The Office.' But if they're only engaged there's still hope, right? Other than that, I don't know much. There isn't too much out there on him. He must still be too new. But that's cool. Less competition! (Not that there would be any anyway - hello this is me. :) ) Yay for my boyfriend!

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good ol' amanda

amanda came through for me this weekend at work. after i told her the fiasco of friday, she was schrieking at me, appalled that i hadn't given mr. hottie my number. when i told her that he was working saturday, she turned to karol and said, 'i'm gonna need a scratch piece of paper and her number as soon as possible.' karol dropped everything and got it immediately, writing down both my home and cell numbers. amanda then carried it around in her apron pocket for the rest of the day, hoping for a chance to give it to him. she was getting so frustrated by the end of the day, she was flying through her work so she'd have time to hunt him down before she left. finally she found him in the breakroom when she went to punch out. she told him i meant to give him my number the day before but i was too embarrassed. he asked if she was serious, and she said yes and that he better call me.

so he did! first he left a message on my voicemail (i almost died when it dawned on me that my voicemail is elvis singing 'are you lonesome tonight'), basically just saying that he'd try my home phone. so he did and we talked for about 10 minutes. he was working a double and was on his break, so that was all we got. we didn't talk about much - just enough for me to learn that he's a football nut (i so beyond hate football).

he worked sunday, too, which was nice. flirting always makes a day pass more quickly. and he calls me 'dimples.' unfortunately, however, i'm thinking he's not a Christian. he said he likes working his 40 hours over the weekend so he has the rest of the week free. i, on the other hand, want desperately to have weekends off so i can go to church. and if he works doubles those days, it's not like he's going to a saturday night service or something. so this is all very disappointing. i guess i don't know for sure yet, but still. it's strange to think of a non-Christian guy calling me. what am i supposed to do?

and of course it makes me all the more suspicious of him. what does a gorgeous non-Christian black guy want with a dorky little white Christian girl? especially when he started out with those looks comments. now i'm panicking again and just want him to go away. or at least to give me my number back.

i quit my Bible study tonight. i officially told the group leader and everything. it was just too structured. part of that is cuz of time constraints and part because of the questions that we had each week that basically just asked what the verses said. there wasn't much room for discussions. i tried not to compare it to our Bible study in iowa, but i just couldn't help thinking how nice it was that we didn't have questions to answer or any other book. we went straight to the Word. (coincidentally, both studies were on romans.) i liked that.

i'm attractive

leastways that's what i hear.

k, so the story that goes with that:

at work we are constantly getting nurses and nursing assistants from a pool cuz ours either don't show up or quit. (we've had so much turn over lately. it's awful.) it's to the point where i almost recognize the pool people more than our own. and of course, there's this one nurse (actually he's done both), who all we girls and women think should be permanent. he is so stinkin' hot. one of the ladies in the kitchen says he kinda looks like l.l. cool j, and i guess that's the best comparison i can think of.

anyway, so every weekend especially (cuz that's when we younger girls work together), we just pray that he'll show up. actually when i walked into work this morning i thought 'hey, i want to see him. he should be here.' but then i thought 'oh no, cuz if he's here now, then he'll be leaving at 6:30 and we wouldn't want that. hopefully he'll be here for the day shift.'

went through the morning, lalala, nothing. then at 10:30, he comes in to get water for the residents! yay!!! and of course he's all woo-woo and flirty. so at lunch time, noble girl that i am i volunteer to take the food carts upstairs just to see if i can get a smile and a 'hi.' i also had to ask about one of our residents who eats downstairs cuz she wasn't there yet. apparently she was ready, but was in her room, so i said i would go get her and bring her down.

so woo-woo guy follows me into her room and we joke around a bit while she gets up and moving. and then, thankfully she's not fully with it, cuz he starts in telling me that i'm attractive and he likes my dimples, and i'm slim (he don't want no fat woman), and asking me if i have a boyfriend and all that. i decided this wasn't the time to tell him about elijah, so i said no, and then he asks me if i want a boyfriend! i told him that was a very leading question, and he said he doesn't want a girlfriend. he wants to make some money first so he can afford having a good girlfriend. i told him it sounded like he's looking for a car. so he said no, but i would be the kind of girl he would want 'attractive, hard-working, with those dimples, and slim.' and then he asked for my number and i said, 'i don't even know you!' and he said, 'that's how you get to know someone!' and so i hustled the resident out of her room and downstairs.

my gosh! what's going on here! this doesn't happen to me! i panicked. what was i supposed to do? i just ran downstairs and told the other people in the kitchen. they laughed at me and told me i was crazy for not giving him my number. the cook just shook his head and told me he felt sorry for me.

but yeah, there are a bunch of reasons not to. one- totally have no experience with any of this. two- he's hot, so i have even less experience with it. three- i don't know him at all. four- who starts a conversation with telling the girl she's attracive? totally makes me wonder what he's up to. and what if i was fat? would he not want to get to know me then? how shallow! here's an idea - see what the girl's into first. then see if you want her number. what if he called and we had nothing to talk about? i don't do well on the phone with people i don't know. ask my Bible study leader. five- he's a pool nurse. so does he have a girl in every port? if i went from nursing home to nursing home after him, would i find a long string of girls he's hit on?

ugh. i think i liked it better when i was unattractive.

i totally understand

thoughts from tim (the equivilent of our jim) from the british 'the office:'

"it's like an alarm clock's gone off and i've just got to get away. i think it was john lennon who said 'life is what happens when you're making other plans.' and that's how i feel. although he also said 'i am the walrus, i am the eggman.' so i don't know what to believe."

i'm someone's favorite!!!

yay, linda!!! you're back!!! now i have 3 readers!!!! yay!!!

trials of the day

we had a mandatory meeting at work today. no candy was provided. instead we had to get flu shots. is that remotely fair? and then, i came home and was all geared up for chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. but there wasn't any. i had to have cookies & cream. it's so tough to be me.

my faithful few

yay! i have another faithful reader! now there's 2 1/2 of you!!! i'm so excited!

the rest of my boyfriend blog

well, he didn't show up for our date. but i'm not gonna blame him - i'm gonna blame my sister.

good news. another website listed him at 5'8". i still claim that as an 'unfortunately' but at least it is less unfortunately than 5'6". While we're on the topic, let's just get them over with: he smokes (eeew), he has a girlfriend (girlfriend schmirlfriend), and i guess that's it for now.

ok, now back to the good news. elijah has studied singing professionally and owns his own record label, simian records. maybe he could seranade me. hey - he should be in a musical. or he should at least agree to sing a song on 'tuesdays with celebrities' when i have my musical tv station. he also plays the piano.

he likes to read, and his favorite books are 'hunchback of notre dame' and 'the hobbit.' while i haven't read hunchback, my favorite book is 'les miserables' which at least is the same author. and while i didn't like 'the hobbit' that at least shows that he is indeed a tolkien geek, which i definitely am.

he likes to fence. how cool is that? he could be in a dual over me!!! that's so romantic of him!

his favorite movie is 'harvey.' what a great guy! he coulda said 'the godfather' or 'monty python and the holy grail,' but he didn't. he picked a great hollywood classic.

he's a total video game geek, which, whatever, he's a single guy under 30 - isn't that all they do? although, he's geeky enough that he goes to an annual video game convention. not so sure about that. that's pretty geeky. oh well, he can still be my boyfriend. i went to a symphony where someone dressed as gandalf after all.

i think that sums up my boyfriend fairly well.

'Cuio i Pheriain anann! Aglar'ni Pheriannath!'

('May the Halflings live long, glory to the Halflings!')

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LOTR Symphony!!!

It was wonderful! The music was beautiful! The atmosphere (I haven't been in Orchestra Hall in ages!) was great! Oh, it was marvelous!

So we got there (I forgot to mention yesterday that my mom wasn't going with me - my sister was supposed to email Elijah Wood to ask him, but apparently she forgot, so she had to come with me instead. So much for my date with Frodo.) and they had decorated the doorway with branches and rocks. People in dresses and capes welcomed us to Middle Earth, and there were other people in costume milling about. Gimli and Gandalf were the ones who stood out. There also was a huge ring hanging from the ceiling. I ran into a friend of mine from college, too, which was kind of fun (I had a feeling I would see someone I knew there). We had good seats, though looking around it seems that there aren't really any bad ones.

This concert had not only the Minnesota Orchestra, but also the Minnesota Chorale, and the Minnesota Boy Choir. The poor little boy soloist had to sit front and center through the whole first half, but he did very well. All I could think was, "yeah, no pressure there." And as it turns out the little dude only found out on Wednesday that he would be the soloist this weekend, so I think that makes it extra good. Then in the last half there was the woman soloist and she had such a beautiful voice; as my sister said, clearly opera-trained. Lovely. They also showed concept art by Alan Lee and John Howe.

It's amazing how much emotion music can communicate. It hit me during one orc-ish parts (frighteningly I know what parts of the movie all that music comes from), just how much Tolkien hated machinery and technology. It destroys trees and all the rest of GOD's creation. And I so heard that in the music. Orcs and Saruman and Sauron are bad. And there's the shire music that's so simple and happy and makes me want to live a simple country life. And the fellowship music is trimuphant. And the end music is complete and peaceful. And all that other music just makes you feel. (Yes, this all sounds cheesy, but it's true. It's true of other music too, not just my LOTR. And here, to make it less cheesy, during the first half I was also thinking, "Boromir is so flippin' sexy!" and, "I love Sam." So there you go.)

This is getting long. So suffice it to say I had a great time. And my sister said she liked it, too (though obviously she didn't care nearly as much as I did). Oh, and I have to add that we looked good, which made it more fun, too. :) And the guy who sat next to me (to whom I didn't speak, which was silly because the poor guy was there alone, which means that he is a huge LOTR fan, but didn't look like one of those scary kind - he wasn't in costume anyway) was very gentlemanly and when I stood up to stretch at the intermission, he without saying anything held my program for me so that when I sat down I didn't sit on it. I hadn't even known that he had taken it. What a nice guy. But then, he didn't take the initiative to talk, and I wouldn't want to be with a guy who won't take the initiative anyway, so that's that.

this week's boy

so tonight is the night i get to go to the symphony. naturally that means i need a date. and who would be better for a date to 'the lord of the rings' symphony than a hobbit? since i've lost contact with my friend louie (who i swear is a hobbit), i'll have to go with someone else. time to get me a new boyfriend of the week. here goes:

Elijah Wood, Mr. Frodo Baggins himself

While popular belief might have him born on Sept. 22, 1368, Shire Reckoning, Elijah Wood was born January 28, 1981 (what a great year). He considers Frodo his greatest role, and, of course I must agree. He was the first member of the official 'the Lord of the Rings' fanclub (watch the very very end credits where they thank all the fanclub members - he's listed there), has a tatoo saying 'nine' in elvish (as do the rest of the actors who were in the Fellowship), and owns one of the rings used as 'the ring' in the movie. What a total geek - how can I not love that?

He and some of the other cast members made an album "Pandemonium from America," which has some of the greatest music ever, including 'Half-fling.' If you ever get the chance, you should listen to it.

Let's see...what else is vital? I really don't have time to be doing this right now cuz I need to be getting ready for our date to the orchestra. I'll fill you in on everything else after our date. This really is so exciting! And this really is all for now!

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mondays

ok, well i got into my Bible study. only problem is, now that i've been once, i don't think i'm gonna like the format. it's all 'answer this qustion,' then we say our answers. we didn't discuss at all. so what's the point? how do i learn from that? i guess yes, if someone's answer is different from mine, i can learn from it, but we're on a time schedule so we don't really expound on anything. i don't know. maybe it was just that one night. i'll have to try again and see.

i think there should be a king. why do i think that? so we don't have to have political ads. the end.

Movie Review: Batman Begins

i've decided that since reviewers know nothing, i should start reviewing movies. so, here goes.

monday night i watched 'batman begins.' it's a good movie. it's definitely a boy movie, but it's nice to have a change from chick flicks once in awhile. it's a little long, but not too bad. it's more like how sometimes days are long, but months are fast - some scenes are long, but overall the movie doesn't seem to be. i like that it's darker than the other batmans. it has more of a plot, too.

the casting is great: michael caine is the perfect alfred, morgan freeman is wonderful as the nice friendly helper guy (i've never really noticed before but he has a great smile), liam neeson is good as the mentor guy, gary oldman is a good good cop, katie holmes does well as 'the girl' (i want to be 'the girl' in a boy movie some day), and then, of course, you've got christian bale as batman. what more could you want? oh, but i'm not sold on cillian murphy as the bad guy. there's something about him that just bugs me. maybe it's his lips. i was thinking he looks a bit like a vantriliquist dummy. (no offense, sir.)

christian bale is great. and he looks so good. :) this movie also shows again how great he is at accents. oh, and totally off topic, i forgot to mention when he was my boyfriend that he has a very distinct walk - he swaggers. it's kind of a sexy confidence. anyway.

i don't think i have anything more profound to say. i think the film's greatest asset is the casting. oh, and the batmobile is pretty cool - different, but cool.

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Into the West

Yay yay yay!!! I'm so excited I'm gonna die! Well maybe not, but close. (How come that's spelled the same as close[opposite of open]? English sure is a dumb language. Now Elvish on the other hand...) 'The Lord of the Rings' symphony is going to be performed at the Minnesota Orchestra, and I get to go! I've been begging everyone I know around here (which unforunately is a limited few - all my friends live far away), but no one would go with me. I had finally decided to go by myself, but I think my dad hated the idea of me going downtown alone, so he suckered my mom into going with me. I feel bad, cuz she won't appreciate it the way I will (I kinda wanted to go alone), but it's nice to have someone to go with. And the last time I went to the orchestra was probably 4th grade, so this is super spiffy. I only wish I had something to wear that would enable me to win the costume contest. :)

but...moving on

new boyfriend time!!!
i'm a good american. i like baseball. usually i follow it a little more than i did this season, but i still got excited that the twins won the central division and was all addicted to these last 3 games. unfortuantely it was a sweep for the a's, but what can you do? i still love the twins.
now, my sister is probably sitting there wondering why i got all addicted. seriously didder, why do you think?
cuz they have my new boyfriend!!!

Michael Cuddyer 5RF

Full Name: Michael Brent Cuddyer
Born 03/27/1979
Birthplace: Norfolk, VA
Height: 6'2" Weight: 220
Bats: R
Throws: R
College: N/A
MLB Debut: 09/18/2001



These are the vital stats according to the official Twins website. There was other stuff about like RBI's and what not, but the important points are that he's tall, he has dimples, and he looks like D.B. Sweeney. And he seems like a very nice guy. He dedicates time and service on the Twins Community Fund Board of Directors, and the press always talks to him cuz he's so approachable and positive.
I was kinda thinking all season that he was dreamy. But then I finally saw him without a cap on and yeah, he's way dreamy. And he has dimples.
There always has to be an unfortunately, though. In this case it's some finacee person that he's gonna marry in November. But that's a month away. There's plenty of time for me to change his mind, right?
(Seriously, he is so stinkin' cute.)

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how do you break up with someone who looks as good as matthew perry does in that red background picture? and i just watched this week's studio 60 and he just reminded me again of how much i love him being back on tv. and the show ended with 'will you still love me tomorrow?' and now i'm gonna break up with him. way to make me feel guilty.

the hard part of having boyfriends

this boyfriend of the week thing sounded like such a great idea. but the girl i stole the idea from never said anything about how hard it is to break up with them! as soon as you decide it's time to move on, you think about all the good times you've had with the one you've got and it just breaks your heart. it's brutal. remind me never to date anyone for real.

nature is out to get me!!! (careful - this is a horror story, not for the feint of heart)

so i'm sitting outside yesterday cuz it's gorgeous, when suddenly i hear what sounds like my father sneaking up on me to try to scare me. i don't bother turning cuz i don't want to give him the satsifaction. turns out it's not my father! suddenly, tearing out from under my chair is this psycho squirrel, that i swear coulda run up my leg if he had turned the right (or wrong) way. and then!!! his little friend darts out after him!!! and then!!! suddenly i feel this swoosh in the wispy hairs at the top of my head, and turns out a bird swooped super close and almost bonked me on the bean!!! after surving those traumatic experiences, i decided it would be best to go into the safety of my own home. so i went and told my mother of my plight (cuz that's what mothers are there for), and while i was telling her this, in what i thought was a safe sanctuary, i got bit really hard on the toe by a super evil ant!!!

add all that to the deer and the bunny, and i swear i'm gonna be scarred for life. and i thought 'the birds' was scary. at least that was just a movie. this is the true story of my life.

and oh yeah, i got charged by a cow once.

holy omigosh omigosh!!!

mario lopez did the paso doble on dancing with the stars tonight. i so could not breathe all through it and for awhile afterward. it made me want to reconsider who's on my 'list', cuz yeah, if i weren't a good girl......holy cow.

didn't sign up for harmonica after all. i woulda, but it was on monday nights and i was supposed to have Bible study on mondays. but then that fell through. so now not only do i not have a Bible study, i also don't have have harmonica lessons. :(