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Was up this morning to watch the 83rd Academy Awards. There were several draws to it for me this year, despite them being unable to get any of the Twilight trio to guest. One was James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosting. Another was that I've watched four out of the ten films nominated, and am looking forward to seeing three more. (We get some of the films later here.) Lastly, Colin Firth! <3 Also, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield and Armie Hammer... I am happy that most of my favorites to win, won. But then again, Colin Firth and Natalie Portman were such shoo-ins for Best Actor and Actress, it was bordering on boring. LOL. The fight really was in the Best Picture category, except, apparently, that was a lock for The King's Speech, too. At one point, I thought maybe The Social Network or Inception would at least have a chance? I guess not. Personally, I was rooting for Inception. The Social Network was brilliant, of course. The screenplay was just a beautiful batter of wor...

I don't celebrate Valentine's. I did when I was a kid. I think I also did back in college. But later on, when I was part of a couple, was when I saw what all the single people saw about the day. Isn't that ironic? Kurt from this week's Glee VDay episode said it best: "It's a simple excuse to sell candy and greeting cards on a holiday." In fact, I think the scriptwriter quoted me somewhere, because I remember writing something like this on my LJ. LOL. But it's true. Why relegate yourself to one day a year to show affection? My husband surprises me with little things even though there's no occasion. I think those times matter more than a huge bouquet or a bucketful of chocolate on February 14. Anyway, here's a blog I found that shows you where to buy anti-valentine's shirts. Don't get me wrong, though. I'm not against the day. I just think it's overrated.

Dear Blizzard, Have you ever thought of building a World of Warcraft Theme Park? Hear me out. It's not totally ludicrous. In fact if you search Google , you'll find that the idea isn't even original. There were rumors that the Chinese had plans of making one , though I'm sure considering all the technicalities, it won't come to fruition. If it does though, I'd still rather you be the one to do it. I mean, it's CHINA. I'm sure it's going to be unlicensed and illegal and the rides will be poorly-improvised and poorly-executed. If you need ideas, there's this post I found, which has some pretty interesting stuff, if you ignore the sarcasm littered here and there. For example, I like that he suggested the prizes for carnival games be faction marks, but instead of the ones from the Burning Crusade, they be from either Alliance or Horde. Your mascots can be all the faction leaders. There'll be spots like in Disneyland where people can have picture...

After Tuesday's patch, my husband and I logged on to see that the Alliance had control of Tol Barad, the contested PVP area past-level 85. Paul expressed concern upon hearing that Blizzard was going to make defending the fort harder than attacking it. Before the patch, Horde had held TB for about 2 weeks, so we wondered if that had anything to do with the slight change. (NAH. LOL.) Last night, we joined a raid. Taking it back should be easy, right? But we couldn't, for some reason. We'd get two forts and just as we're attacking the third, the Alliance would regain one of the two we had acquired. I remember thinking of it as their revenge. They probably felt like this last week, when they couldn't seem to get a foothold of Tol Barad and the Horde, well, whenever I was on, anyway, would literally hoard all of TB's dailies. "Hah, now they know how it feels!" It was quite frustrating being on the other end of the winning-losing spectrum. One of the raid me...

... was 93 minutes of INTENSE. Going in, I had a vague recollection of what it was about, having only seen the trailer the week before. I knew it starred James Franco and it and he were both nominated for Oscars. (Though, Franco has a lot of competition with Colin Firth this year.) I knew it was about an adventurer, Aron Ralston, who got stuck in the middle of practically nowhere because of a boulder that crushed his hand. And those 127 hours? The amount of time he spends struggling... with his fate, with his emotions, with his decisions, with the choice to live or die. Crudely, I can compare what he experienced with the five stages of grief: Denial. (You've GOT to be kidding me. Did this just happen?!) Anger. (WTF! STUPID ROCK!) Bargaining. (*chip chip chip* *grunt* *lasso rock and try pulling*) Depression. (*records on camera* Hi Mom, Dad. I might not make it. Just so you know, I love you.) And later on, Acceptance. You would think that to spend almost 2 hours in a cinema watchin...

Saw this on Citibank. I haven't been to one yet, so it should be worth a visit. More details on the event's site here .

They're going to make a How to Train Your Dragon 2 ! XD Excited mainly because of this guy... Cutest dragon ever.