2012 KM Photo Project #2 (heh...number 2)

Happy Leap Year Day!!
Nothin' like putting things off til the very last day of the month.
Because you can and because it just so happens there is, actually, one more day.
How fucking awesome is THAT?!

Remember last month?
Yeah, me neither.

This month we decided to grab some inspiration from the movies.
Without further ado, here are our Cult Classic photo pix.

Dr. Marth-n-Furter

Klockwork Karen

Martha's Comments:  A black wig and an adams apple would've made this photo. It's not easy pretending to be a guy pretending to be a girl.

Karen's Comments: Why did I keep putting this off? And I didn't sweat as much!  I am still envious of Martha's eyebrows.

We Went To Hawaii Pt. 2.

After our stargazing at LAX, we received umbrella drinks when we got to our seats on the plane.
Matthew took a nap.
I caught up on Justified season 2.

At the Honolulu airport, I was smacked in the face by a flowery smell that reminded me of when I was 10 on a family hawaii trip.  It was a flower that was in the leis that folks were being welcomed with.
I kept walking behind them with my nose in the air huffing their flowers.
If you can tell me what this is, I'll find one to plant at home so I can huff it all the time.  I think its a jasmine or something.

Want.

We got the Jeep rental with a peppering of bickering while trying to map our destination, but we met up with our Party at this place to pick up some grub to make us less cranky.

Once back at the accommodations, we poked around the house, made up our beds, vowed to not turn on the tv during our stay, cracked open some brews, and munched on our take out foods.

I believe shortly after that, we sat on the back porch listening to the breeze & finished our beers before we called it a night.

The next morning, we woke up to coffee and this view:

After bagels and some general milling about, the boys decided it was time to go to Sandy's for some skimming & sunning.

 Me & Steph (look how white I am.)

 Flags mark the 'dangerous shore breaks'

 Random hot guy.

Random hot guy's dog.

 Chad.

 Exploring the lava rocks & tidal pools.

 Difficult to see, but there's a sea urchin hiding in there.

 Bob.

 Chad.

 Lifeguard talking to a random film crew.

Random actors being filmed.

We all discussed our theories on what they were shooting.

I believe we settled on 'Brazilian Porn'.

After we hung out there for a bit, we headed back to the house to chill by the pool & hot tub.

There were some fishing poles in the Fun Shed and I tried my luck sittin' on the dock of the bay.

The girls came down to join me and while we were chatting, a giant puffer fish swam up & was trollin' the nearby rocks.

For sunset, we drove out to this place with a bag full of beer and hung out.

 The Sunset Party.

Here's what my first-day-of-vacation sunburn looked like at the end of the day.

Wasn't even the worst burn I've ever had but it sure did get a lot of attention over the course of the following days.  Apparently people don't ever see sunburns anymore.  Certainly not in Hawaii.  Buncha friggin' weirdos.

Don't fret, pets - I'm completely white again.

We finished off the day with cocktails and 90s Trivial Pursuit.

Girls vs Guys...and the guys won.  Cuz they're older than us.

A Discovery of Witches

OMG.  I finished this fucking book today.
About 6 or 7 months ago, my mom was all "this is the greatest book EVAR" and it took me like 5months to get about a third of the way in.
While we were in Hawaii, I made a damn good dent in the story and wrapped it up today while sitting on the toittie.

It started off pretty cool, setting the tone, all dark and moody and Oxfordy.
Its a witch who meets a vampire in Oxford.  There are also daemons.  They're all scholarly and ivy league and shit.
And they live among the boring ass humans no one ever wants to talk about in these stories.
You get to know the main witchy lady who pretends like she's not some all powerful witch.
And she meets some ancient ass french Dr. Vampire whose BFF is a non-political political gay Scottish daemon.
French Dr. Vampire is also a vintner.
He and Oxford Witch fall in love and then there's a shit storm and some time travel.
I'd hardly call it the best book EVAR, but it was pretty entertaining after the stupid crap.
And I don't mean the sappy shit.  The sappy shit was fine.
It was the scholarly witchy witch finding a hidden drawer in her old ass Dr. Vampire's desk and wondering why he'd keep "basic office supplies" in a hidden drawer that pissed me off the most.
DUMB!
There was also her fake bowing up on some random ancient vampire foe, saying "....and if he bothers me again..."....what!?  what, exactly will your dumb inexperienced ass do?!

The only plot mistake I noticed was around the beginning when Diana, the witch, throws her bag in a cubby at the library and then just seconds/minutes later has that same bag with her at study desk/table.
The grammatical errors/typos aren't nearly as bad as Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan/Hollows series.
Of which, Perfect Blood came in the other day and I'm 3 pages in on.
I should probably go ahead and get my red pen out.

The Discovery of Witches/All Souls trilogy continues with Shadow of Night coming out this summer and movie rights have been bought up already.

Japanese Story

With the Oscars just last night...here's one that I'd never seen pop up or mentioned anywhere until it showed up on our netflix list.
I finally watched it this week.
As Matthew would say,
"Ho.
Lee.
Shit."

Its been in our queue for at least the past year and I feel completely stupid its taken me this long to see it.
I've loved Toni Colette for a while now - US of Tara, Mary&Max, among others sealing that deal....but I seriously had no idea....

Japanese Story. 

If you don't want spoilers, don't click that link.

If you don't want spoilers and you clicked that link, close that shit.

If you want spoilers and probably will or won't watch that movie, read that shit.

I love surprises and this one surprised me.
Gotta give it 4 out of 5 deadman anchors.
And now I'm feeling a bit heavy and must move on to something more light of heart.

We Went To Hawaii Pt 1.

We were in Hawaii last week.
I wrote in my book with the intention of writing more while we were there, but this is the only page to currently exist.
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2.12.2012*
Hawaii Trip

Its about 20 to 2pm & we're at LAX on a 3 hr layover in SkyClub.
I saw Pierce Brosnan.
He looked just like Pierce Brosnan.
And this woman behind me almost puked red wine on herself and is now drunkely speaking to her husband & has farted at least 3 times.
Matthew is napping through all the excitement.
He told me to let him sleep for 30 mins.
Its going on 45 mins.
We've seen some Olympiads come through.
They were all hot Aussies.
Another hour to go before our 1st class flight to Honolulu.
Been a long day.  Up at 4a.m. this morning and we'll get there at like 2a.m. our time.

The drunk farter just got up for another glass of wine.  Should prove to be an interesting hour.

OK so it wasn't an hour.
'bout 20 mins.
They just left and she staggered a lot, almost landing in someone's lap.
She had a sweatshirt tied around her waist.
I think she sharted.
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Shortly after this 1 existing page was written, I got up to whizzz and grab another rum & coke zero.**
While walking to the bathroom (which is exactly how I also caught a glimpse of Pierce), I saw The Situation walk in with a small entourage.
Later, Matthew would tell me that Mr. Sitch had been wearing a GTL shirt.
Stay classy, LAX.
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*: wasn't 02.12.2012 s'posta be magic or some shit?  I think most days are s'posta be some magical shit anymore.

**: of which, I got ON LOCK!!  I totally made some Bacardi & Coke Zero my BITCH!