While I work...

[cleolinda]

... on THAT OF WHICH WE DO NOT SPEAK:

I went on another photo safari (this seems to be a new Saturday morning tradition), this time at Hobby Lobby, a terrifyingly huge artsy-craftsy emporium. (The reason the photo safaris happen on Twitter is because you can take a picture on your phone and email it straight to TwitPic from there, which then appears automatically on your Twitter feed.) I mean, I spent fifteen minutes in that thing and I am ready to craft THE SHIT out of something. You take TLE there, he'll think he's died (again) and gone to heaven. Note on photos: we did not even get into any of the vertical aisles at the store. This is simply the shallow end of the pool.

@cleolinda Hobby Lobby photo safari, y/n?

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phvn3 - Our new tree skirt (green)

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phvpk - REESE'S TREES!!

@cleolinda RT @merveille: @cleolinda I believe you mean Reese's Treeses.

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phvzf - Feather trees?

@cleolinda RT @particle_person: @cleolinda "Plucked from the feather trees of northern Alabama, where they had until recently been taxed by the Grinch of those parts."

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phw8x - Icy wreath, we may get this

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phwa7 - FABULOUS

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phwjl - Stay gold

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phwl4 - Ornament emporium

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phwtz - Santa Cullen's ride

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phyoh - Diving helmet?

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phyqe - I love the flower toppers

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phyry - Sparkle tree, yours for $39.99

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phywq - $249.99, pre-frosted

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phz5o - Organic hand-picked plumes

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phzc9 - A Delia's exploded in the flower aisle

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/phzgv - I love flowers, even fake ones

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/pi0c3 - Blue flowers, so natural

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/pi0mx - Wrapping paper on sale!

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/pi0nv - MOAR PAPERS

And then, returning to the uncrafting world:

@cleolinda Just passed a Peruvian surf and turf restaurant...?

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/pi3ei - My grandmother's clock

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/pi3fc - Grandma's Easter tree (a bit out of season)

@cleolinda Hmmm, pickup notice at the post office.

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/pi57x - My package

@cleolinda omg, this package is epic. (Mostly it pertains to TLB.)

Hee, and exactly a month from my birthday, too. And one of the items was, coincidentally, something I desperately needed. Thanks, wombatgirl !


As a side note, I must issue a correction regarding...

@cleolinda "Edward Prefers Cougars": http://tinyurl.com/yh7qr6o

@cleolinda I find it sad that the immediate source of my disgust is, "Did you even READ the books?"

... as I was reminded by several people that Edward's favorite food is mountain lion. So I concede the pun.


Meanwhile:

@cleolinda RT @foresthouse: New LJ Entry: Copyright and Fair Use: UR DOIN' IT WRONG (And How To Do It Right) http://tinyurl.com/yep7fug @cleolinda

@cleolinda RT @ebertchicago: We have never seen Juliette Binoche like this before. Never. http://j.mp/888B8

@cleolinda RT @moijojojo @cleolinda Could you pimp #thefandomgivesback auction http://bit.ly/vfFgs, to benefit @alexslemonade?

Also: alliancesjr's continuing attempts to read Twilight for himself. I think it's taken him a month to get to chapter four. Now you know why I tried to take that bullet for you guys.


And then, the dogs this morning:

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/pquza - Shelby wants to rumble

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/pqv1h - Sam is not impressed

@cleolinda http://twitpic.com/pqv91 - Look, I don't know, she crazy

Back to work. Apparently the best part of the movie (minus John Cusack's best line) is online completely legally. Enjoy.



(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

Comments

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

Michael's has sparkly feathery trees on sometime after Boxing Day. Hot pink sparkly feathery trees.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

"California is going down"? Really? They used that line and expected to have a not-shitty movie? Really? (not I did not say "good".)

It's like ID4 was the pinnacle of the disaster genre and everything since then (I'm looking at you, Day After Tomorrow) (also side-eye at you, Poseidon Adventure) has been downhill.

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to count with the pics and such and I still can't tell exactly how many pets you have! My current total is 3 dogs and 2 cats but I feel like I'm missing someone. SPARKLEPONYS NOT INCLUDED.

Also, don't you mean "THAT OF WHICH WE DO NOT SPEAK"?

*flees*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ah! Yes! I knew something was off. I need to eat. I think my blood sugar is low.

(Three dogs and one cat.)

[t4-flirt.livejournal.com]

So glad I have watched these five minutes. I have saved my hubby and I at least $20 and around three hours.

I vote that TLE makes a trip to Hobby Lobby for a future Dolls episode.

And homfg, My Little Pony is slated to come back to television!?!?! WIN. Ultimate win. (Provided they don't completely blow it, mind you.)

"I vote that TLE makes a trip to Hobby Lobby for a future Dolls episode."

[ohsnapcat.livejournal.com]

oh yes. Very very yes... :)

[yazpistachio-19.livejournal.com]

That Juliette Binoche thing is incredible...

[bluebren.livejournal.com]

Yessss. I love the thing that starts at :50 so much.

[indeliblesin.livejournal.com]

Craft stores are amazing because you can go in like I AM ONLY GOING IN FOR SOME HOT GLUE STICKS and next thing you know you're in the checkout line with fake flowers, a jewelry making kit, and tons of knitting stuff.

Also, I'm going to see the midnight premiere of New Moon. Anyone have any tips on what to expect from the audience? I'm just more than a little anxious.

[nodiskette.livejournal.com]

Make sure you muffle your laughter with a sweater so the Twihards don't murder you.

[wumbawoman.livejournal.com]

You have seen....... purity.

I imagine watching this was like listening to Beethoven's Ode to Joy for the first time.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

What, the 2012 clip? Because it totally was, let me tell you.

[wondersheep.livejournal.com]

*sings*
You are the bestest!
Better than all the restest!
Because I saaaaid so,
and I'm Mary Sue!
Tra la!

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

Icon love! It's the "(bom bom)" that makes it. :-)

[aravynkenobi.livejournal.com]

*stares at 2012 clip*

Wow. I just....I don't even know what to say.

I had a creepy 'Twilight' experience on a trip to Burger King yesterday, though. I was with my mom and we parked to go in. I looked over in her side mirror and Edward was just...there. Standing there, staring. It was unbelievably creepy. Her mirror was reflecting the 'lifesize' cling of Robert Pattinson they had on their door. Mom didn't see it until we got right up to it and she just about jumped out of her skin.

*shivers* Never thought a window cling would creep me out.

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend's new favorite game is trying to get me to go to Burger King, so I can stock up on Edward Cullen merchandise which he insists I want, because I'm supposedly obsessed with the guy. I told the BF that I have no interest in sparkly stalkers who don't even put out.

[wombatgirl.livejournal.com]

You are very, very welcome. I'm glad it was something you needed. :) Happy early birthday!

[wombatgirl.livejournal.com]

And BTW - I am completely there with you about JoAnns. My spare room looks like JoAnns threw up in there, because things can't help but follow me home whenever I drive within a mile of the place.

[janecpb.livejournal.com]

Okay, I obviously must see this movie. I love bad disaster movies and those five minutes had me so stressed out (but in a good say) I think I must go lie down now.

[xerinmichellex.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about going to craft stores and thinking you want to become crafty that second. I made my mother buy me a candle making set at Michael's years ago and I've never used it.

Also, having escaped working at Delia's a year ago, that picture of the flower aisle cracked me up. I'm having flashbacks of folding that damn t-shirt logo wall night after night right now. *shudders*

[unicornluvr.livejournal.com]

Sweet god, I had the same thing with Urban Outfitters. Anytime I am in a store now I glare at people who unfold t-shirts. They are ignorant of the pain they inflict upon others.

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

I cannot BELIEVE you can write that well in the dark. When I do it -- and I've had a lot of practice -- my writing is still all over the page and sometimes the lines are on top of each other, so I can't even read what I've written.

*Burns with envy*

[sun-star-n-moon.livejournal.com]

well, now I almost feel obligated to watch 2012 so that I can get the jokes in that-of-which-we-dont-speak-of.

Herm....maybe Ill go find a dubiously legal copy of it online and watch it that way so that I dont waste money on it.

[iczer6.livejournal.com]

Your doggies are so cute!

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

That's the best scene in the movie? Didn't the last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer do the identical same thing a couple years ago?

Also, it's nice that CGI artists have spent so much time looking at footage of the collapse of the World Trade Center so they can accurately mimic how a skyscraper goes down, but 8 years out I'm still not findin' the image even close to entertaining.

[elbales]

Craft stores are collectively my Waterloo. I recently bought four 50-gallon bins for my fabric stash, and not all of it fits. I think I need an intervention. O_o

[chaos-slave.livejournal.com]

Garden Ridge in Irondale can give Hobby Lobby an run for it's glitter!

They have a black Christmas tree I want!

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

*cackles like Jafar when he was turned into a genie* YEEES. That will be the best...thing we don't speak of ever. (Sry I Tweeted you about it. I was still overexcited/boggled from that ridic movie.)

WAIT, WHAT IN THE NAME OF FUCK IS THIS (http://www.regretsy.com/2009/11/11/swan-dive/). Less disturbing than the plush uterus, to be sure, but...WHAT. Best comment: "Could someone please put me into cryogenic sleep until this whole Twilight crap is over?" Me too, please. Sweet fancy Moses.

[stinalotta.livejournal.com]

I'll have to go read Artemis Fowl now that you've mentioned cryogenic sleep.

Thanks for reminding me I still have that book :)

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

I spent a ton of money at Hobby Lobby the other day buying stickers and cardstock and fancy paper and fancy scissors for making Christmas Cards.
I purposely did not venture into the Christmas decor aisles. I would've never left. Whenever I go into a store like that (Hobby Lobby, Michael's, Trees & Trends, Pier One Imports) I want to LIVE there and just use all the stuff to turn one corner of the store into a perfectly decorated home for myself.

[stinalotta.livejournal.com]

"I think the worst is over"- seriously? Something had to happen after that just to punish him.

Also, I miss American stores. German ones are not insane enough. And there's also not as much glitter around.

[melissa-actress.livejournal.com]

2012:
1) That limo has some really good tires...
2) Seeing the Randy's doughnut rampaging across the street (miles from where it lives makes me happy)
3)I'm pretty sure you can't get to Santa Monica airport by going N. on Sepulveda from Olympic...

Ok, I'll stop now. I think I much prefer to read anything you put out about this one, rather than wish for those 2 1/2 hours of my life back.

[more-dragoncelt.livejournal.com]

I'm sad that only Hobby Lobby has that sort of plethora of FANTASTIC Christmas Ornaments. Jo Anns, Roberts, Michaels, NOTHING. They lose.

I still have a sparkly plastic clear rose on my rearview mirror that I picked up one Christmas Season at Hobby Lobby, it is awesome.

[7tree-hugger.livejournal.com]

I am most amused by the mental picture brought to mind when one considers our terribly rude 2012 olympic logo and the phrase "California is going down"

Oh dear.

[velessa.livejournal.com]

Good grief. I feel dumber for having watched that trailer. =\