bairdduvessa

SO it is now my birthday. Yippee! Nothing to exciting. I'll be at the sg show tonight with shinra corp. Come say hi, I guess.

Nothing else really going on here.

My dad's birthday was Saturday, but they fake card we sent him didn't get there until Monday.

Ok let me explain.

A few years ago he called one of my brothers Craig. We have no brother named Craig. Craig was the name of my dad's best friend growing up. So my brother created a fake brother.

Ever since then on my dad's birthday, the winter holidays and father's day we always get him something from Craig. And it usually outshines whatever we got him.

But alas since I'm low on money this year we had to go another way.

So I had a friend (giroux) Photoshop my and my brother's head into one head. Oh dear lords was the picture funny. The poor "creature" had the most misshapen head ever. On top of that he placed the body on top of one of those body builder's from the 70s bodies. You know the ones who look like they are inflated balloons?

So I went to a local CVS and picked up a sentimental card (the one that was actually from me was comedic). Printed out the pic and wrote a letter as if I was Craig on the back. With a lot of inside jokes none of y'all would understand (like references to the mir space station) and mailed it out Thursday.

Now my dad lived 7 minutes from me. And I've jokingly mailed stuff to him before that got there in a day, this time it took three. But luckily I was there to see him open it.

He opens the card, reads the back of the photo (with my help since my hand writing is so f'ing bad), then he turned the card over, slammed it down on the kitchen island and started laughing his ass off.

The only way I can top it next year would to hire a "craig".

Oh well.

It was worth it.

I'd post the pic, but I'm paranoid about people knowing what I look like, so :-P

Now a rant:

I wear a 38 waste. So I bought a pair of pants the other day w/out trying them on and they ended up being too small (I shall return them); but my step mom got me two pairs that fit perfectly. Shouldn't 38 inches be fucking 38 inches universally?

To you Europeans, Canadians and well every one that is not form the US, we can't handle inches, that's why we don't use the metric system/

Seriously Darwin needs to come off the idiots on the planet.

And now book reviews!

Vampire Hunter D volume 5
how sad is it when you can't remember the title of a book you just read? Sigh.

Anyway I just read volume 5 of vampire hunter d. All in one night (it's only 172 pages so that is not hard).

And I am not sure if i liked the book or not. Seriously. While I am glad that there was no rape scene (that makes two books in a row), parts of it were just blah.

Don't get me wrong it moves fast, but it feels like it is trying to hard to be "trippie" (if you ever read the book you'll know why).

And a short story by neil gaimen

ok so i finally found a copy of Monarch of the Glen by Mr. Gaimen. And it was beautiful. Even though I won't say much in the way of spoilers,
SPOILERS! (Click to view)
ok so the story takes place 2 years after the end of American Gods and Shadow is still roaming the world, and not returning home. We find him in Scotland, basically at the very northern tip. While in a bar he is hired to be a bouncer at a party. And like all of Shadow's adventures, nothing is as simple as they should be.


the short story is wonderful, even if it is short. You cannot help but feel for the character. How many of us want to, or in some ways are trying to lose our pasts? (granted I'm not saying he is)

And coincidently the story itself ties into two books i have read recently, so it was like pure beautiful icing ya know?

Any way if anybody loved the story of Shadow Moon, this continuation is a nice piece to add to the story.

Did anybody else who has read this feel that he seems to be setting up something else, and soon with the characters?


i've been kind of obcessed with a friend of mine its making things weird between her and i...


And on a final note, why do I find women with medieval weapons?

Seriously. I'm kind of fucked up.