Best and Worst of 2009

Here is my list of the best of this year...

Best New Albums:
War is the Answer by Five Finger Death Punch
21st Century Breakdown by Green Day
Black Gives Way to Blue by Alice in Chains


Best New Bands:
Five Finger Death Punch
Halestorm


Worst band/Group/singer:
Sean Kingston
Chris Cornell
Jonas Brothers

Best Movies:
Up
Avatar
Harry Potter and the half Blood Prince
Coraline

Worst Movies:
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Drag Me to Hell

Best New TV Shows:
The Good Wife
V
NCIS: Los Angeles

Worst TV Shows:
Glee
The Hills
Jon and Kate plus 8
Gossip Girl

Phases

Hello, I'm back! Well actually, I've been elsewhere online. But I do try to drop by here every now and then to see how you're all doing. I'm sure that you all have gone through phases in your lives, you get interested in one thing and really dive into it, until something new comes along and you move on to that. For example: I was once really into the movie Men in Black, which got me into Tommy Lee Jones and his movies. I've probably seen MIB 30-40 times until I finally got over that phase and moved on to a new one. I'm not gonna get into what every single phase I have been in, but what I have learned is that when they say that "nothing lasts forever" it really is true. no matter what phase I've been in, at that time I always thought that I was gonna love it forever. I still like the movie MIB, but I haven't seen it in quite a while now.
I have also gone through musical phases. Most of them come and go. I'll listen to one band for a while, then I get in the mood for another, but unfortunately there are some that I have gotten sick of! I was once really into Rage Against the Machine, so much that I got into the left-wing politics of that band. What's ironic is that before Rage, I was a republican because my parents were and I followed their politics blindly. But then after Rage, I re-registered as an independent, but this time I followed the politics of that rock band blindly. That leaves three reasons why I'm not into Rage anymore, one, I've learned that I don't have to agree with the same issues that a band believes in, two, there is a time and place for political music. (Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello's duet on "The Ghost of Tom Joad" is an exception due to the economy) but because of the crime shows I watch, I have a new respect for cops, which is why I can't listen to Rage's song "Killing in the name of" even though I know that song is about the cops who are dirty and do racial profiling. Third, my ex-boyfriend Richard was so obsessed with that band, and I mean OBSESSED! He was beyond fanatic. He made me sick of them! There are also certain songs that got ruined because of my ex-friends being into them. I can never listen to the Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden" because my ex-friend Lisa liked that song, but it's OK cause I never liked that song anyways, but when ever it comes on the radio, I have to change the station quickly. Ironically I can still listen to the band Korn because I got into them before I met Lisa, and after our friendship ended for good, Korn comes out with their "Untitled" album, which is the only one I have not listened to with my ex-friend. But I still listen to their other albums, but since I am really into the Law & Order shows, I imagine their songs going along with a lot of the characters, especially SVU. I guess you can say that I have successfully taken my ex-friend out of the picture whenever I listen to Korn. Now if only I could do the same with Rage Against the Machine!
Right now, I am really into two different things: All three Law & Order's, and Metallica! I know that the Metallica part will come and go. But as for Law & Order, I now know that won't last forever, especially since those shows won't be around forever. However, at least I'll enjoy my time as a L&O fan.

One more note before I go. I haven't been able to keep up with Facebook, so I tried to delete the account, but it looks like they won't let you, so I've deactivated it. I didn't like it very much anyways. But I do have a Livejournal account, which I love! My favorite feature is the Friend's page because all new comments by my friends are all in one place. I'll still be here on Blogger, but not very often, but I'm keeping because it has served a good purpose as a diary of my life. I'm considering deleting my MySpace account, but I'm sleeping on that right now.

Well, that's all for now. Take care.

Yes We Can!

Wow! I cannot believe the Inaugeration is coming up! And the timing is almost perfect! The day after Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday! (Oh if only it were on that day!) But really, I am excited about the inaugeration because it is such a historical one, we are finally getting our first black President!

I really hope I can see it live, unfortunately I have class tomorrow morning, but I really hope our teacher either has us go to the college cafeteria where it will be shown, or look for a live video over the internet. Lucky for me, this is a computer graphics class, so we've got access to the internet.

Seriously though, I do hope that Obama will keep most of his promises and be a good president. But if not...there's always the 2012 election.

New Years Resolutions

I'm so glad I have this blog, it's become my diary, only I keep up with this one better than a diary you write in. I was looking back at my old entries and in December 2006, I found my New Years Resolution list. I can't believe it was from two years ago! A lot sure has changed since then. One of those resolutions was to practice my guitar more often, but I think I haven't played for about a year! So now that must change.

Another resolution was to keep up with my e-mails and blogs; of course that one I kept very well! I check my e-mail 3-5 times a day, and if I don't check my e-mail for a whole day, I end up with at least 25 e-mails. Of course mopst of them are from the websites fanfiction.net and svufans.net. I read and write fan fiction a lot.

One resolution I will no longer have to add again is having to lose weight. I haven't told you guys this, but I have lost a lot of weight! I should take new pictures of myself and post them up. I went from weighing 180 pounds to 130 pounds. So I've lost about 50 pounds! Unfortunately, the way I lost the weight was due to spending so much time on the computer at school and at home. I would be so absorbed into what I'm doing on the computer that I wouldn't eat until I got off. Also because I wasn't eating often, my stomach shrunk so if I did eat, it would be smaller portions. But this does not mean I'm anorexic, when it got to the point where I realized that I wasn't eating enough, I started working my way back to eating more to get better nutrition, but not too much to where I'd gain the weight back. So now I am eating normally again.

Another resolution on my list was to return the library books in time. Well this one has changed because I haven't been to the library in a while, and I have two books that I have started reading but haven't finished. A while back I started reading "Queen of the Damned" by Anne Rice. I've read the very beginning, but have not gotten to the first chapter yet! And then another book I have started on is "I Am Not A Cop!" by my favorite actor Richard Belzer. I have only read the first page, but haven't quite gotten to the rest of the book. My excuse is that I haven't set aside some time to sit down and read, even though I've got all the time in the world to do so. My sister has been reading the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. I got her book two of the series and she whipped through it in just 2-3 days! Then when she went shopping, she bought the third book and already she's almost done, or I think she's done already. When it comes to reading books, I have to do it in one sitting and continue as soon as I can until the book is finished.

Well, that's about all the old resolutions I can remember. So now here's my new and revised list of this years New Years Resolutions:

• Try not to gain the weight back, but maintain my current weight in a healthier way. Now, work on building up some muscle.
• Cut down on my time on the computer and reduce my frequency of checking my e-mails.
• Make better use of my freetime by playing my guitar and reading more books.
• Without spending too much time on the computer, try to keep up with updating my fan fiction more often.

I'll be back to check this list next year to see how I did.