You didn't forget my birthday did you?

Yep.  I'm 28.  And what have I done?  Nothing?  Um...yeah...anyway.  I had a German chocolate cake.  My mom has been very sick as of late, one thing after another, some on top of each other.  So she had to buy it, it tasted good.  Hey!  My sister won me a GHOSTBUSTERS "plush buddy" from The Claw machine at her local WalMart.  I think she mailed it a couple days ago, it might arrive tomorrow (I know it's for the greater good, but I gotta savor these Saturday deliveries while I can!!).  My mom got me my gifts early, my Gramma AND my Mom's housekeeper Beverly got me $20 (each!).  Unfortunately I spent the vast majority of my gift from Gramma before Beverly gave me hers.  So I had $31 as opposed to the $53 I would have otherwise had...which is important b/c $53 would have been enough to buy that $50 BD player that Best Buy had for a few days, but on the other hand I would have felt washed out if I had spent all my $ on one thing, so I guess it worked out well either way...I bought the new Lindqvist book HARBOR.  He's the guy who wrote LET ME IN aka LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.  I think MOST people think the book is titled LET THE RIGHT ONE IN b/c the softcover had that title printed on it, and the softcover had that print on it b/c it was a movie tie-in, directed at people who had maybe seen or wanted to see the movie, which actually IS titled LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.  The original hardcover book of the text had the title LET ME IN printed on it, which is where the U.S. remake got its title from.  If the author of the book hadn't decided to come up with a whole new title when writing the screenplay for the movie, it wouldn't be so confusing!  But this is what happens when people's minds are allowed to turn to slush and details become irrelevant...Most people don't even know what a screenplay is!
I didn't actually read LET ME IN, although I did get about halfway through it.  I Just haven't felt like finishing it and it's been...6 months?  Maybe longer...since I last read from it.  This book might be the same way.  I paid a good chunk of $ for it, which makes me seem stupid I suppose...the list price was $26, but I had a 20% off coupon, which along with my B&N member discount, brought the total down to $18.  It would have been $13 or less if I'd bought it online.  The price last I checked was about $16, and 20% off that is like $3 or something like that...
 

"You have another one of those proton packs? My kid brother really wants one"

Well NOW HE CAN HAVE ONE!  Well, actually, this has been the case since 1986 or thereabouts...but for the last 15 years or so, that's only been the case on and off.  And it's still the case, actually.  There was a 5 year period in time, when nobody had internet access and the GHOSTBUSTERS toyline by Kenner was winding down, that buying a proton pack was quite difficult.

  I like the GHOSTBUSTERS 2 logo more so than the regular logo.  And the cartoon image of the "Powerpack Heroes"-ized Egon was a nice touch.  I liked his black w/purple highlights suit.
  I never actually owned the "Ecto-Charger" (known as a "Slime Blower" to those who don't read the label on the box of the Kenner toy, but were paying attention while watching GHOSTBUSTERS II), so I can't exactly reminisce about this on Amazon's product review page, so I came here to do that(!).  Mmmmmmmm...those are the days!

dream of pretty insects

I feel so unworthy, I feel in need, incapable of love, yet constantly yearning for it.  A hug of epic proportions that folds into itself onto the bed and into sex.  I’m an animal, very tame, domesticated, very much, but disgusting, disgusted, with myself, unshaven most times, sometimes filthy with the smell of my own sweat, uncaring enough of my life to take a shower twice or more a week.  I reek of loneliness and desperation, I hold no myths of my greatness, perhaps I do blow my lack thereof into mythic proportions, it’s not up to me.  If everyone wanted a piece of me, I’d feel secure.  They don’t.  I feel insecure.  I am a train wreck of a human being, unwilling to change for the fear of failure.  I feel I know I would fail.  I feel failure is inevitable.  I’m stuck in my skin, my skin is unfit for me, I just wish I were dead so my skin and worries can fade into the swamps.

THE DARK KNIGHT Trilogy

(Hopefully!) COMING CHRISTMAS 2012