Vacation All I Ever Wanted...

"this city's made us crazy and I must get out..."

Earlier today... err, yesterday... when I blogged - I wanted to talk about all this, but I didn't have time.

I woke up at 730a yesterday and decided to catch up on reading New Moon for the 2nd time while I watched the Travel channel. The first thing on the Travel channel was this awesome special on Niagara Falls. I learned so much about it that I had no clue of!

After that was a special on the Colorado River which stretches from Denver all the way down to Lake Meade, which is 20 miles from Las Vegas. There were some areas in the special that I almost felt compelled to find and take photos of. A ton of spots were in Glen Canyon National Park, Utah/Arizona. (If you look on Google Maps, both the highway and the railroad follow the river, cool!) Of course the Grand Canyon - which is something I've always wanted to see - and I have seen it... I've seen it every time I've flown over it to go to Vegas... but I would like to get down there and touch it.

After that was a top 10 amazing places in the Northwest... I can't remember which number it was, but I recognized it instantly... Multnomah Falls, Oregon.

Of course, I only recognize it because it's visible from the baseball scene in Twilight - but as soon as I saw it in the movie I instantly wondered where I would be able to find such a gorgeous waterfall... I started wondering about it and if it was just some random waterfall somewhere, or if it had meaning... Luckily for me, it was the latter.

Multnomah Falls is visible from the Oregon or Washington side. The baseball scene in Twilight was filmed on the Washington side as the vampires do live in Washington. Of course, in the movie it looks like Edward just took Bella to a random field to play baseball in which there just happened to be a 620ft waterfall in the background. In reality, Multnomah Falls is almost 5 hours from the tiny town of Forks, Washington where fictional Bella resides... I don't think Edward is going to have her home by curfew.

I started researching Twilight filming locations when it was still in theaters, hoping to plan a road trip up there with my camera to catch all of this wonder in real life. It wasn't hard to find Multnomah Falls. Once I saw it, I knew that I had to go there.

I've always adored waterfalls. Such wonder they give; their cascading waters somehow capture you in awe and suddenly you feel insignificant in this huge world where things of such beauty exist.

Origin Legend of Multnomah Falls:

There is a Native American legend that explains the origins of the falls. In this legend, a tribe was infected with a deadly disease and was in danger of dying. The daughter of the chief went to the top of a cliff and prayed to the Great Spirit to find how she could stop the epidemic. She was told that to stop the epidemic, she would have to throw herself off the cliff and sacrifice herself. She did this and died. The next day, the chief found his daughter's body at the bottom of the cliff. He wept bitterly and cried out to the Great Spirit to give him a sign if this sacrifice was not in vain. At that moment, water began to fall from the top of the cliff, forming Multnomah Falls. The legend also says that under the right conditions, you can see the daughter's face in the waterfall.

10 minutes from Multnomah Falls is this little inn where they filmed the prom scenes for Twilight. You can actually stay at the inn, and get a little Twilight tour of the area. ;)

It's definitely on my list of 'shit to do' this year... to make a trip up to Washington/Oregon. I had thought about flying, because it wouldn't cost too much, but the areas that I want to go to area pretty secluded and once you get out there, you really need a car in order to get around, so I'll probably wait it out a bit, rent a car and make a road trip of it. Not sure if Jennifer will come. She hasn't seemed into it really... I can always bring her back the incredible photos, but I have a feeling that nothing will compare to the real thing here.

Also on my list of places to visit, of course Forks, Port Angeles and La Push, for their obvious Twilight reasons. Seattle and Portland as well, just because they're places I've always wanted to go. I've thought about it and I might not make it out to the Northwest until September, in which case I might as well until September 13th, Bella's birthday - and also Stephenie Meyer day in Forks, Washington.

Multnomah Falls (click photos to enlarge.)


First Beach, La Push, Washington:


I cannot wait until I can stop staring at these photos and make seeing them a reality. I imagine these places to be quite peaceful and wonderful. They sound like the perfect vacation spot for me, rainy, dreary and secluded.

xoxox

Jodie

Day Off

I told Jenn to pick a letter and a number, hence picking my song of the day.
"Say you lines, but do you feel them?
Do you mean what you say,
When there's no one around?
Watching you, watching me,
One lonely star..."

Today Jennifer has the entire day off! The whole freaking day! We're going to the movies and lord knows what else.

We're seeing the Haunting in Connecticut @ noon and then Knowing @ 2... I'm very nervous about the first one, I don't do well with horrors. I get scared very easily... so I'll let you know how that goes.

Yesterday I went out to get Rob's cover of GQ and we went to Barnes and Noble to get it... we get to the magazine section and there's this dude standing right in front of the last copy of GQ... I kinda stand behindish/to the side and I see this middle aged man pick up the mag. He then proceeds to walk away with it.

Some middle-aged, balding dude went home with my copy of GQ!

I have never laughed so loud or so hard in my life!! I just thought it was the most hilarious thing ever!

So we went off to Target where I found the magazine and the special edition of Twilight. I didn't know that the 3-disc special edition came with a digital copy of the movie (and all the special features). It was waaaaay worth the $18 I shelled out for it.

Came home, watched my special features, loved them all. :) The conversation with Stephenie Meyer was incredible... her agent's name is Jodie. ^_^ I loved the music feature, it was a behind the scenes thing of the music, in which the music editor (hello, dream job.) said that Rob Pattinson was one of the greatest musicians that he had ever met... which brings me to "Edward's Piano Concert" --- back before Carter Burwell composed Bella's lullaby, Rob was going to compose Bella's lullaby... something I was definitely looking forward to... unfortunately, for Rob and myself, he didn't get to create the song - but fortunately, there was 3 minutes of uninturrupted music coming from Rob's heart down to his fingers as he played the piano in this special feature.

It was incredible. I adored it. That's about all I can say from it.

I have to get dressed and go to the movies now, but here's a special feature from the Target DVD --



Enjoy.

^_^

xoxox

Jodie

You WILL Be A Fan, I Tell You!

Alright, I've got a date with my mom this weekend and she promised she would watch Twilight! Now, to all of those that I haven't turned yet... (Strongly working on Gemma, almost there...)

I decided to start reading New Moon over again... in the process I decided I would give you a taste of what you're missing out on here.

Be forewarned, if you read this - you will be hooked - you will go out and you WILL buy the entire Twilight Saga... you will WANT to start with New Moon to read what happens next after the scene I'm about to post, but you will start from the beginning by reading Twilight because you're a good little fan and don't wanna go out of order. ;)

Here's a short excerpt from New Moon, Chapter 1 - page 28:

I took the little package, rolling my eyes at Edward while I struck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape.

"Shoot," I muttered when the paper sliced my finger, I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut.

It all happened very quickly then.

"No!" Edward roared.

He threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table. It fell, as I did, scattering the cake and the presents, the flowers and the plates. I landed in the mess of the shattered crystal.

Jasper slammed into Edward, and the sound was like the crash of boulders in a rock slide.

There was another noise, a grisly snarling that seemed to be coming from deep in Jasper's chest. Jasper tried to shove past Edward, snapping his teeth just inches from Edward's face.

Emmett grabbed Jasper from behind in the next second, locking him into his massive steel grip, but Jasper struggled on, his wild, empty eyes focused only on me.

Beyond the shock, there was also pain. I'd tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my arms thrown out instinctively to catch my fall, into the jagged shards of glass. Only now did I feel the searing, stinging pain that ran from my wrist to the crease inside my elbow.

Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.

I definitely hope that Stephenie Meyer isn't mad at me for posting that small excerpt. :S I'm just trying to turn the last four people in the world that aren't a Twilight fan. ;)

Annnnd, if I did manage to piss someone off who is high up on the Twilight chain, drop me a line below and the excerpt will be PROMPTLY removed, no hard feelings.

Let me know what you think... after the jump.

xoxox

PS - I have no hard feelings towards Jasper. If you read, you'll understand why. ;)

How Do I Feel This Good Sober?

For the record - I am sober while I write this...

1 week sober actually.

Do I intend on staying that way forever? Possibly.

Probably not... I can guarantee that it's not my time to give up 'drugs' and alcohol, however, there will be a day that I will need to. I've seen that elephant in the room for a long time. A big huge, 1200 pounds elephant with a bright pink tutu on. I chose to ignore it.

http://www.videojug.com/interview/dr-drews-addiction-advice-3

Dr. Drew has been someone I have looked up to for the longest time. He seems like a cool dude who is in on pop culture and know's his shit. I used to sneak up and watch Loveline late at night in middle school. Honestly, I wanted to know about the sex stuff, but in reality he's an addiction specialist.

Annnd, if you watch that video above, he states that addiction is 60% hereditary. Meanwhile, BOTH of my parents are alcoholics and have problems with addiction. What does that mean in simple words?

I'm fucked.

My mom has been sober since like 2003, I believe...? Around then... Now, I'm not inside her head or anything, but she seemed to have more problems with it at the beginning of it than now... I'm sure it's still an everyday struggle.

If you're addicted to something, and you take that away, you get addicted to something else... that's what an addictive personality does... Now if I knew what I was addicted to the most, I could give it up... or try... or not.

Depression setting in...

To think that all this was really brought on by Twilight... something so happy... err...

xoxox

Twilight DVD Release

Guess it's not a secret anymore...

Just wanted to send a short update and some photos your way since I've been so sick and I haven't gotten a chance to really update.

Jenn came home sick a while back and my immune system has never been that great, so now I'm even sicker than she was...

Friday night Jenn and I went to the Hot Topic Twilight DVD release party... if you can call it a party... we showed up at 930, and were pretty close to the front of the line... around 40/200.

We went in and got to shop around a little bit and we each bought a Cullen sweatband. :) I'm getting ahead of myself...


Here I am at home before going to the party with Edward... no I didn't go to the party WITH Edward... you get the picture...

We both wore all our Twilight merch. I had on my Esme Cullen bracelet and my Team Edward bracelets, my Twilight shirt, Team Edward sweatshirt, a Twilight bag clip and a necklace that I forgot to put on until after the photo was taken.

We had gone to WalMart earlier in the day and I got the bag clip -- which I put on my belt loop -- and the necklace -- that I forgot to put on until after this pic... $5 each! Their shirts are $10 -- the one I'm wearing was $22!!

...Now, I hate Walmart with ever inch of my being... but if I'm going to get Twilight gear THIS cheap, I might be prone to going more often.


Me in the car, super happy to FINALLY get the DVD!!


Got my picture with Edward! :) There was a Hot Topic employee named Jacob who was manning the Robward stand, and he was trying to convince us that that was REALLY Robert Pattinson. XD He was funny... we got our pictures with him because he was really cute and his name was Jacob... I won't post em cuz I don't have his permission... but they're on my Facebook and MySpace if you're blessed enough to be on those. ;) He said he wanted to make a shirt that said "Team Me" (hehe, get it... Jacob...) But he said he didn't have enough time.


Here's the Taylor Lautner autograph that was sent out to every Hot Topic store. Winners announced Monday. I waaaaaaant... they're also giving away that Edward stand... I would really prefer the Taylor autograph, even though I run with Vampires...

I've really began to admire Taylor... I can't stand Jacob... stupid mutt is so annoying, it's sweet that Edward and Jacob, like, became friends... but I hate that dumb dog... and the parts in the book where Bella seemed *confused* on whether she should love Edward or Jacob? Well let's just say it's a good thing these are all fictional characters because I would have to kick Bella's ass... I'm getting off track here... I'm really looking forward to New Moon to see Taylor shine. He's such a sweetie. :)

So we bought our merch then had to go sit back outside and wait for midnight... along the way on the ground I found someone's ticket for their DVD... no one was around, so I pocketed it... Later on a mom and 2 teenagers came down the line and the mom was all, "you're gonna ask EVERY SINGLE PERSON in this line!" and I said, "did you guys loose your lil card?" They said yes and I pulled it out of my back pocket... "well I found this one..." I said and handed it to them and they all three thanked me a hundred times... I said it was no problem... a little while later the 'kids' came up to me and said "ma'am" (yes, they really said 'ma'am' --- I wish they didn't.) And they handed me 2 coupons for Joe's Crab Shack as a thank you... I said thanks for them and they made it seem like it was no big deal... but really it was a wonderful gesture. (Even though I hate seafood.) I hugged them both and they went back on their way... Jenn said I got good karma. :)

We didn't get in to get our DVD until 1245 because Hot Topic can only have 50 people in the store at one time.

I'm going to get the Target DVD on Thursday... meanwhile I've been so sick I haven't even made it through the Hot Topic DVD -- or had time to go up to FYE to get the DVD we preordered there.

Good times...

My back spasmed out a few days ago so I've been dealing with that AND being sick AND Twilight.

xoxox

Ya, Ya, Ya...

"If it makes you less sad, I will die by your hand,
Hope you find out what you want, already know what I am,
And if it makes you less sad, we'll start talking again,
You can tell me how vile, already know that I am,
I'll grow old, start acting my age,
Be a brand new day, in a life that you hate..."

Ughhhh, I didn't want to post today, but I had promised to post YESTERDAY, so I figured I owed ya one. ;)

There's a Twitter updater thingy over ----> there. Follow me!

Jenn's been sick the past couple days, so what happens? On the day I've been looking forward to for MONTHS, I wake up sick... I haven't got the nasal/congestion part yet... but my throat is dry and scratchy... got that dry cough. Fuck my life.

Today Jenn and I might go see Twilight at the dollar theater. Every time the preview for the DVD comes on the TV I stop breathing... tonight is the midnight release party @ Hot Topic!!! I can't freaking wait! XD

Also today I'm meeting a guy that I met online. His name is John and he's a lawyer... that's all you need to know right now. I'm excited... we've been talking for a few weeks. :)

Alright, so where did I leave off?

My parents came down and spent their "vacation" here in KC. Twas pretty cool and really awesome to see them 4 days in a row. They stayed at the Hotel Phillips downtown, which is really swanky. :) We went to dinner a couple times, did some touristy stuff, talked... of course I could never segway into what I needed to talk to them about, but whatever. I don't even feel it's that important anymore.

The night before SPD, Jenn and I went to the most awesome bar I've ever been to! It's called the Flying Saucer and it's in the Power and Light District. They have soooo many beers. It was their "pint night" so I got a Boulevard Wheat for $2. Then I tried the "build your own flight" for $10 and I got to try 5 different beers. I wanted to try completely random beers, so I got Flying Monkey Stout, Boulevard Pale Ale (which I loved), Fuller's ESP (from LDN, which I loved), St. Louis Frambroie (which was actually from Belgium and made with fruit! Very tangy!) annnd, my 5th? Oktoberfest beer!!!! It was really good, my favorite from the bunch! I wanna go back there.

St. Patty's Day was cool, it was the first time that Jennifer or I had gone out since we had turned 21, and I think it might be the last. LOL I got too drunk. I'm definitely backing off drinking for a while. I'm thinking maybe ONE glass of wine. ONE beer. ONE martini... We'll just leave it at that. Control.

My parents and I went and did the Westport thing one day. Twas alright... we went to the World Market down there, which is always cool. My step mom bought us a whole bunch of goodies. I got Hello Kitty treats. They're little biscuits you dip in strawberry creme. I got a jar of Nutella. XD Hummus chips, chili flake chocolate, pomegranate chocolate and Chinese red pepper/garlic hot sauce...

We had just had lunch at the Jerusalem Cafe and they had this super hot sauce on the hummus and my step mom asked what it was and the waiter said it was Chinese red pepper and garlic. My dad and I liked it, but Jennifer wouldn't go near it and my step mom nearly died when she tried it! We found some at the market and bought it! I have no idea what I'm gonna put it on though. LOL

Just went back and read my blog and I haven't blogged about my mom's showing yet!!!!!

It went fabulous!!!! Other than a random day of having my period unexpectedly and LUCKILY bringing a change of clothes along... the day was pretty perfect.

Pam picked me up and we stopped off at Target where she bought some makeup for her and my mom. They got that Cover Girl Simply Ageless makeup that Ellen endorses, and it worked fabulously on them. :) Pam bought a couple eye shadows at my suggestion and she even threw in a really cool purple eye shadow for me! XD

We had a drink and a snack from Starbucks, and it turns out we both like the same thing there. My mom bought Chipotle for lunch and when she came home we started doing makeups. I helped Pam out with hers, since she's not a makeup pro. ;) She looked really classy at the end of it all.

It wasn't until we were almost ready that my mom HAPPENED to mention that my grandparents would be there... *rolls eyes*

That went alright, I guess... my grandma is retarded, but whatever. I hadn't seen them in 3 years... I wouldn't go as far to say it was "nice" to see them, but I suppose it was nice for them... and they aren't going to live forever, so I can play nice.

My mom made a joke about thinking she was going to need more Xanax than she actually took and I thought I wasn't going to need any... turns out we switched... I took more than she did. LOL Oh wells...

Everyone loved her art. I teared up a bit... I'm just so super proud of her. :) People were pretty amazed that the girl in the photo turned out to be me... so that was neat to get some attention there, even though it was her night.

She even sold a photograph!!!!! :) Pretty badass.

After the show we went to have thai food, which was INCREDIBLE. I can't wait to go back to that restaurant...

Alright, so now you're all caught up and I can stop ignoring you.

Comments = love.

Pic - click to enlarge:


Twilight cast, L-R Name (character)
Ashley Greene (Alice), Jackson Rathbone (Jasper), Nikki Reed (Rosalie), Kristen Stewart [& her stunna shades] (Bella), Robert Pattinson (Edward), Kellan Lutz (Emmett).

Twilight DVD parties tonight!!! Find one in your area and GO! At least go buy the DVD tomorrow!!!

Are you buying the Twilight DVD!?

xoxox

I'm Not Dead

...just busy...

Sorry for the delay in posts... I reckon I'll do a massive post Wednesday or Thursday to satiate your Jodie-blog needs. ;)

To make up for it, here is an icon for every day I've missed. Aren't you lucky?



Have a good St. Patty's Day and DONT DRINK AND DRIVE! I love you all, no deaths, please.

xoxox

EDIT/PS --

I just realized something. When I sent you that card, I was genuinely being honest, true and just plain nice... that's not what I realized... I realized you laughed at me. Wow...

And people say that I'm mean!

This Sort Of Turned Into Post... Sorry

"I know I sounded crazy on the phone,
Telling you to meet me here, come alone,
No, it cannot wait, til the morning,
Left him lying quiet in our bed,
All the thoughts I've tried to hide, he's read,
Now it's clear to me, what's ahead,
And I can't go home, til I make this known,
Goodbye my love, I'm leaving in the morning,
Goodbye my love, this is our last warning,
This is the end..."

Those lyrics are from Keri Noble. Her album was playing the other day when I was at Barnes and Noble and I adored it so much I actually went up to the people at the checkout and asked who she was... Incredible. I had never heard of her until then, but she's pretty popular.

(Weird actual thing... after I downloaded her album, I downloaded Kelly Clarkson's new album... so I listened to Kelly's album, then I go and type in "Keri Noble" in my iTunes so I can listen to hers and Kelly actually covered one of Keri's songs on her album. Haha, weird twist of coincidence and good timing. I love when things like that happen.)

My sleeping is all messed up again. Last night I think I went to bed pretty early, but Jodie standards -- was around midnight, I think. But then I woke up at 6, which is different from the usual 430a on the dot that's been going on for a while now... so I guess I was relieved in that...

Even though I'm sure there are loads of people who get just that much sleep every night, I'm usually the kind of girl who can't function without a good solid 8-10 hours of sleep a night... 8 is on the light side... lately I've been lucky if I could get somewhere between 4-6... and 6 is if I'm lucky...

I'm pretty stoked about my mom's showing tonight. :) I'll of course let you know how all that goes, I'm sure it'll be fantastic. The other night Jennifer and I were talking about photography and stuff and I said that I hoped one day I could have my own showing and she (just like everyone) says, "oh, I'm sure you will!! You're a great photographer..."

Yes, thank you... my mom is an EXTRAORDINARY photographer and this is her FIRST showing. She's been doing photographer in the teens amount of a years... She's had a piece in a showing before, not sure if it was more than once, but I remember the show Ambiance, she had a piece in it... Anyhow, for someone as extraordinary as my mom to just now be getting her own gallery show and then for people to be super confident that I'll have my own show someday... it's not the same people. Sure, I take good photographs. I'm definitely not great yet. I am my mothers daughter, and thank god for that... thank god there's a photography gene and I just happen to get it, (that was a joke, photography is just a talent/passion we both happen to possess.) but that doesn't mean that this will come easy...

People (yes more than one, don't freak if you were one of them who has said this to me...) keep saying to me, "well I hope this photography thing takes off" or something of the sorts, basically "I hope you get really successful with this" or "I hope you make a lot of money..." They KEEP saying that to me, and they aren't LISTENING to the things that I've said before...

I wouldn't mind doing weddings (my mom has sworn up, down and back again that she will NEVER do another wedding as long as she lives) portraits, headshots, etc to make some money... but I never started doing photography looking for a career. (My mom doesn't even want it as HER career... although I'm sure she would like to make more cash from it, she's more interested in massage therapy and healing as a career) I just wanted to take photos because I truly love doing it. I love taking photos and sharing them with everyone... so of all the things that I've wanted to start a career out of -- photography was the one thing that I actually started doing with no expectations...

I guess that's great of me... if by some random twist of fate I made some money doing this, then fantastical! I'm never one to turn away money... but this isn't about success for me. I just wanted to make that clear. This is just about the love of photography.

Tis the end... Lader Vader!

A Post In Itself.

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*click to enlarge, you really should*

When I saw the tiny snippet picture this morning I peed myself... to see that photo in all of it's gloriousness, well, I died... my lord is he attractive! :) I severely adore his lips... jaw line... everything... I love that he has green eyes... I've never crushed on a guy with green eyes. XD

See the other photos (and read the article if you want to) HERE.

My favorite photo is the one where he's smoking. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah... Sexy... screw sexy, he's SEX.

XD

Don't spoil me on the article, I'm not reading it until I buy the magazine!!!!!!!!

I love you Robert... ooh yes, I do.

xoxox

JPattz

Frustration Squiggle!

i loveeeee that part. rock it jasper. rock it hard.
"Baby you can be tough, say enough is enough,
You can even be blunt...
Just do it with love, love, love,
Tell me I'm wrong, that I'm coming on way too strong,
Don't think I'll be crushed,
Just do it with love, love love..."

I'm out of breath. Why? Because I just dyed my hair, was starting to style it when I realized that I didn't get all the bleach out... :( Had to wash it again. Frustration squiggle!

Yesterday was a giant rawr.

I was so super stoked to go get my lip ring yesterday... so I get to Freaks on Broadway and waited just a short bit to get my ring. What I SHOULD have done was gotten the ring myself and just put it in at home, but I'm super bad at getting captive balls into their slots... I figured, I'll just go have a professional do it and it'll take me 1/10th of the time it would take me at home...

So, I've been in Freaks tons, I know several people there and I have a favorite piercer there, but unfortunately she only works weekends now. The chick who pierced my lip was super cute and good at it, it didn't hurt, didn't bleed, was perfect... so this time there's this chick there that I have never seen before... she struck up a conversation about Twilight because Jenn was wearing her Team Edward jacket, so I thought she was cool beans...

She takes out my post -- something I have had to do several times because of the swelling I experienced with the piercing. I had to get a longer post a few weeks back -- and so I think she's gonna just slip this ring in there, snap the ball in place, I'll pay and we're good to go...

She tries to slip the ring in there and OHH MYY FUUUCKKINNNG GODDDDDDD - she pulled it and I felt a rip. I cringed, but hello, she's still holding onto my lip... not much I can do there... then I start to taste blood... She's clearly having a hard time with this, meanwhile I'm just regretting ever getting it done in the first place...

Finally she gets it in and then she can't get the ball in... then she finally gets the ball in and she says, "you're bleeding a little bit..." Jenn says, "well now we know you're human..." and I said "yeah, I keep asking Edward to change me but he won't." There was a moment of silence and then the piercer chick says, "that was depressing..." LOLLLL

I felt relief once everything was all in place. I rushed over to go look at it, and sure enough, I'm bleeding... Like I said, I didn't even bleed when it was PIERCED. It felt kinda numb and painful and a little hard... I pay her the $5 for the ring. No tip.

Jenn and I walk to the car, I touch the ring and the captive ball falls out...

Now, I don't know if any of y'all have had any piercings, or dealt with captive balls before (same thing that's in my tragus) but they're a pain in the ass. They're a pain in the ass but they're super secure... now, she had stretched the ring out to get it to go into my lip easier because she was hurting me so bad, so then she had to push it all back together, which she didn't do a good job of...

So we have to go BACK into Freaks and then I had to wait all over again for her to do this to me AGAIN... She didn't change the ring, thank heavens, because the blood was drying and sticking to my ring... so she fixes the ring and puts the ball back in... all done...

But by the end of the night, it hurt so bad and got in the way of everything, so I took it out (ouuuuuch) and put the long bar in so it would have some room for the swelling to go down.

Then what happens? I end up sleeping on my face the entire night. WTF?

Tonight I'm going to my Mama's and I'm spending the night with her. Tomorrow is her art show and I'm helping her with her makeup and stuff. Can't wait! :)

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I totally peed all over myself when I saw this. I had heard rumors a month ago that he was going to be on the cover of GQ... but then Justin was on the cover of it, so I was like, "okay... whatevs..." and then... oh lordie me...

xoxoxxx

Movies - 2nd Post of the Day

i HEART this part so hard.

I want to see Sunshine Cleaning so badly. I love Emily Blunt and Amy Adams so much. I've wanted to see it for about a year now, it was at Sundance last year and tested very well... I thought I was going to have to find one of those bootlegs or something, but alas, I was stoked to see it coming to theaters.

I obviously haven't seen it yet, but based on the trailer, I thought it was going to be a lot more gruesome than depicted. I had read about the scene where Emily falls into the bloody mattress, which happens to be at the tail end of one of the trailer -- the way they depicted it made it sound like it was a nasty, really bloody mattress, but in the trailer it looks like it's more made for laughs. I hope when I go see it that it's got some shocker moments. Basically the Sundance review didn't let me know this was a comedy...

Trailer

In theaters this Friday!

I can't wait to get the Twilight DVD. They've leaked a few deleted scenes... I only saw two of them because I didn't want to spoil it all for me. The first one I saw, I posted here a few blogs back... the second one I saw was shit... it was no wonder it was cut from the movie. :S They posted a third one, but I didn't watch it... and then the entire commentary with Robert leaked online, but I didn't listen to that either. I want to save some surprises for myself, you know?

Gosh I love commentary. I don't know about y'all, but that's the first thing I look at when I get a DVD. Some of the best commentaries I've found were from Ocean's 11, Riding in Cars with Boys, and Final Destination. :) I've listened to every commentary on all of my DVDs and would have listened to the commentary on Twilight without them featuring the actors. LOL

I guess it's time to get off here... comments = love.



Gaaaaahhhh... *flat line*

xoxox

Love Is What I Got

they actually have EC PJ's. ;) don't worry, i don't have those... yet.
"I'll gladly go down in a flame,
If a flame's what it takes to remember my name..."

The title of this will say Wednesday, but it's only 115a, it's still Tuesday in Jodie land. ;) My sleep has been all over the place! Last night I stayed up until about noon, then I slept til 4 and now here I am. That seems to be how I do things now... I just sleep in the day time, which is severely throwing off, oh, everything... I do have plans and things to tend to in the day time, you know?! LOL Luckily I haven't had to do any work thus far this week.

Jennifer and Bella are both snoring. Quite attractive that is.

Tomorrow (Wed) the hair is going back to blond! :) Also tomorrow I get my lip ring!!!! It'll officially be 4 weeks since I got it pierced. Man, time went fast! I can't wait for it!! :D

So the other morning, when I hadn't been to sleep yet, my mom and I were on Facebook at the same time and I instant messaged her. She was so cute on there!!! "Can everyone read this?" Awww... no, mum. LOL

Her art show is this Friday!! :) I can't wait! I'm super stoked to see her accomplishments all displayed. I'm very proud of her.

My parents (Dad and Step mom) are coming into town Sunday and staying through Wednesday. Sunday we're going to the Auto Show, which I loveeee and then Wednesday we're going to the Nelson art gallery, which my friend John just went to and said was really good... I haven't been in years... Sometime in there we're having dinner, which, I'll have to be super good at. ;) No more massive failures in my future. Been on my "diet" since the 3rd and I'm going strong!!!

I can't wait for St. Patty's Day. :) Jenn and I got wash out green hair dye at Hot Topic, also I got a head band and she got two little pig tail guys. :) I've been using a lot of :) lately. I'm sorry. LOL

Casanova is on USA which reminds me that it's almost Heath's [would be] 30th birthday... I *think* I'm getting my tattoo...? I'm not sure.

So randomly last night, it might have been the lack of sleep, but I all the sudden was incredibly jealous that all these photos of Rob and the Twilight cast had been showing up of them just parading around Vancouver... so I said to Jennifer, "how far is [Vancouver]? Let's go..." So she was like, "okay, look it up and we'll see..." I told her, "I'm not going to look it up unless there's an actual chance of us going to Vancouver." She handed me my computer and so I looked it up.

It takes 29 hours to drive there. (We don't have our passports yet...) And to fly to Seattle and take a ferry there was still too expensive... So she said "check how much it is to take a Greyhound..." So a Greyhound takes TWO DAYS to get there, but it's only about $100/person... Jenn was like, "I can't take off that much work... you could go by yourself..."

...So then I started thinking on actually taking a trip to Vancouver myself to stalk the stars of New Moon... I found the hotel they're staying at, the bus stop is right by their hotel... etc... And then I looked up hotels and for whatever reason, hotels are incredibly expensive out there. Here you can find hotels for $30/night, but there the lowest they had was $80/night... from what I found and I can't afford to do that. Not if I want to ever get my camera...

So I decided I'll go see then when they're filming Eclipse which should be sometime in the summer. Since there's only an 8 week break between the filming of New Moon and Eclipse. I still can't believe they have a release date for Eclipse... That actually shocks me... I was shocked when they released the New Moon date, but then it made sense to release it basically the same day that Twilight was released... but to have the Eclipse release date just 7-ish months after New Moon? Insane. I'm not complaining though!! Not one bit! At least they aren't going the Harry Potter route! ;)

Lately I've been getting a little all too consumed with the thought of meeting Robert. I once felt that for Justin... just ACHING to meet him, to grace his presence and now Justin is gladly given to me. Why? Because I did my time. I just wonder how long my time will have to be with Robert.

Some people get their favorite stars handed to them... Example? Rachel lovesssss David Cook (we know this. LOL) Rachel loves Justin Timberlake (we know this. LOL) Rachel's waited LORD KNOWS how many years to meet Justin and... nothing... Rachel waited like... 2 seconds to meet David and he's gladly handed to her now!!!

Me? I waited and paid my time and prices for Justin and now he's handed to me... (Not exactly "handed" I still work very hard to meet him and DO NOT take for granted any of the seconds of his time that I'm with him.) I just wonder how long I'll have to wait for Robert... One thing is true though... I do know when Rachel's time to meet Justin is! Her 21st birthday. ;) More on that in like a year... LOLLLLL

Well then, I think I'm done here. Off to save the world now. Catcha later.

Pic O'Tha Day:


Possibly my favorite photos of KStew and RPattz. Click to enlarge to freakish size... My top 5 favorite things about the photo...?
1. Kristen's eyes/purple eye liner.
2. Rob's lips/mouth
3. How the color of their eyes nearly matches. People constantly say he's got blue eyes but tisk, tisk, you're wrong, loves - they're green.
4. They're so close it's sexxxy... the shadow she's casting on his face. Intense. They're fierce.
5. His stubble. It could possibly because my father always had a beard, but I find stubble incredibly handsome. Some people can't stand it when Rob or Justin has stubble, but I adore it.

:)

Video O'Tha Day:

I WANT ONE OF THESE.

I love at the end how he practically comes up for air!! XD

*sooo jealous*

xoxox

JPattz

Hella Good

Dude, that is a true story.
"there's something about you, that gets me in a twist,
and sometimes I think that cupid, is just taking a piss,
It only takes one word or idea to send me in real deep,
So if you think you're clever, use the right words when you talk to me..."

Last night I went and got a battery for the scale and I lost 10 pounds! 10 pounds in 4 days to be precise... ;-) Gemma has prouds. Jenn was like, "yay." But that's it. I guess it's because 10 pounds on me doesn't really make a difference/dent.

Gemma and I are talking about weight goals and goal BMI's. Gahhhh, I wanna just sit and talk about all the stuff we talked about, but I don't wanna get my hopes up or anyone elses...

Although... Jennifer had the chance to let me binge last night and she didn't. :) So far, so good.

We're getting our lodging for Vegas out of the way soon... it's gonna be all booked within 6 months of Vegas, so by May 10th... maybe sooner. I have my eye on something special and I hope we can get it. XD

I can't decide on if I should get my hair cut again or let it grow out... The front I want to leave alone, but I can't decide about the back... it's getting pretty dang long, actually... what you think? Wednesday I'm getting hair dye and I'm getting rid of the pink. It's time... I still have like half a bottle left of pink, so if I wanna go back then I can. ;) I *think* I wanna do all blond. Either blond or black, can't decide. I keep thinking I wanna go black, but when I had black on the under side it was such a pain in the ass to get rid of it when I was tired of it, so I think I'll go with blond. ;) LOL

So we have this cooler, and we didn't know that it leaks... so now the floor is wet by the sink and I can't seem to get it to stop being wet. :( It's annoying. I need housekeeping... the one time I want them to come and they don't... well, actually, I don't know that yet since it's only 7a here.

Bella is snoring. LOLLLLL

The Ends.

Pic-Click to enlarge:



Only

days until New Moon!!!!!!!!!!!!

xoxox

Jodie Platz

Pleasure Fucker

Don't forget that Carlise is my Dr, Esme is the perfect mother & Jasper keeps me happy. :)

"Can't remember everything,
Her skin, it tastes like sugar cane,
And I had already, gotten there before I came,
My tank is empty, And I know you're thirsty..."

I spent a good hour last night saving a shit ton of Twilight/Rob icons, so be prepared for Twilight overload. Only 12 days until the Hot Topic release party for the DVD! I can't wait! ...I just hope I'm speaking to Jenn by then...

We got into a huge fight last night over her breaking promises to me. I'm sick and tired of it.

I've been eating really well since the 3rd, and the scale battery has died so I don't know how much I've lost, but I know I've lost some. I really want a burrito from Taco Bell. LOL I guess if I got a bean burrito I wouldn't be going against any part of my diet... even if I got a 7-layer burrito... except I'm not eating carbs, so that would be a problem with the tortilla and the rice... I've had only salad since the 3rd... I might want something warm... I guess I can wait.

My parents are coming to Kansas City next week. Also next week? St. Patrick's Day! I've been trying to find a place with green beer and good drink specials, but I reckon I'm just going to have to knock back a couple of pints of regular old Guinness... normal colored Guinness... which is the color of poop. LOL

Do you have any plans for St. Patrick's Day?

Sorry so short, I just got super tired.

Pic -- click to view large.

Check out Jackson (Jasper, 3rd from left) -- LOL He's so gorgeous and stuff. And oh ya, Rob looks fierce. I want Kristen's shoes!!!!!! XD

xoxox

JPattz

Vegas

I kinda want to ask you if you're going to Vegas this year... I kinda want to ask you to ride down there with us... I also kinda wanna ask you to stay with us?

It would make it hella balls ass cheap.

Humpf... It must be the sleep deprivation.

I was awake for 36 hours, then I finally fell asleep... for four hours! And now here I am wide awake. Retarded.

xoxox

JPizzle.

...And We're Back

"I can't help myself I'm addicted to a life of material, It's some kind of joke I'm obsessively opposed to the difficult, All we care about is, runway models, Cadillac's and liquor bottles, Give me something I wanna be, retro glamour, Hollywood get's ready for the fame..."

Sorry it's been hella long since I've blogged. I guess I just haven't felt like I've had anything to say.

I'm three days in to a hardcore diet. Been feeling pretty good lately other than the fact that I wanna kick the scale's ass. His numbers have got to be way off. I've been eating insanely healthy. Doing the "right" thing. No sugars or sweets, which is not hard for me at all. No sodas, not hard... No carbs, there's my killer. No meats... just fruits and vegetables. I'm trying to only eat fresh ones as well, they retain their flavor and nutrition better. Please don't be my mother, yes I'm getting enough vitamins and other things my body needs to live.

Jenn's mom always does that. Her mother can't be happy one way other the other. The other week her mom was like, "Jenn... I thought you were watching what you were eating?" Translation: "You're fat." Then when Jenn says that she's doing the vegetarian thing or that she's been eating well her mom gives her 20 questions. "Are you getting protein? Are you getting enough fiber?" Hello! She's 24... she doesn't need 30g of fiber to have a BM, like you. And you may not be familiar with vegetarianism, but black beans and tofu have more than enough protein in them, thanks. ;)

Today I had an awful migraine... Jenn and I are looking at a new place to move to... I hate the people that live next to us... Don't I always?

Never got to have that dinner with my parentals. The day we were supposed to there was a KU/MU game and so my step mom called to cancel saying that Lawrence would be awful that day... instead they're coming up to KC soon... Should be fun stuffs. I'm going to tell them all about the Lap-Band thing I went through when the come up.

Jenn and I were looking at Boost Mobile phones to get, kick ass, if you ask me. Also, I'm debating on whether or not to get my Heath tattoo... not entirely, just whether I should get it on his birthday or wait a min... I guess I should get it on his birthday. It's his 30th birthday and I want to get it on a meaningful day. That will delay me from getting my camera for another 2 weeks at least. Speaking of which, I was thinking we were going to get our new phones the 25th of March and then push back my camera -- again -- but then Jennifer surprised me for once and said she would like to put my camera before cell phones. So yay for that! :)

I'll have my camera in April, hopefully my Heath tattoo in the very beginning of April and then the phones in May? Who knows...

Ooh, there's a goose on TV! hehe!!

I was thinking about pushing my camera back for a much longer time when I found out about TwiCon -- the Twilight Convention. It's in Dallas in late July/Aug and it's $255 a ticket!! Insane, right? But the actors from the movie are going to be there, it's a whole weekend shindig and there's a Volturi Masque Ball!! Gawd, I so badly want to go... but there will be other opportunities to meet the actors... it's just the first year for TwiCon, and I have put off my camera for way too long.

I'm super sad I can't go, but eh, I'll survive.

Jennifer and I were talking last night about things we want to do this summer... and sure some of them are secrets, but I'll share some of my favorites: Drive in theater, theater in the park, live music -- like Sandstone and get lawn tickets because we want to not because that's all we can afford. Jenn wants to stay at a [bar] until closing time. (She said club, but I edited her response because I'm so over the club scene at the moment.)

The past 2 years I've said to Jennifer, "this is going to be the epic summer, this is going to be the summer we remember..." and each summer all we do is work and then come home and sleep or say we'll do things later... mostly because we couldn't afford to do anything. Now that we can finally afford to do some of these things, I can't wait to.

Also some things from my personal list: take more photos, put my portfolio together, update my blog and photo blog regularly, visit Rachel, save money... those are in addition to the things I previously listed.

What are some things that you want to do or accomplish this summer?

Tis almost time for the Twilight DVD release. I am so mad at Summit. I can't believe how many different versions of this stupid DVD there are. :( I don't have that much money, y'all!! We've got one reserved at FYE and I've got my ticket to the Hot Topic party... Lordy, there's so many more that I want.

Who's seen this?

I stopped breathing, let me just tell ya that much. ;)



*gasp*

xoxox