The weather lately cannot decide what it wants to do. We were barely hitting 60 for a few days, now it’s back to summer. I hope it makes up its mind soon! I hate when mother nature goes schizo on me.

The shoulder seems to slowly be getting better. I have discovered heat aggravates it, which sucks as I love hot showers. I’ve been using my Icy Hot on it and smelling like a giant tic tac, that’s helping. The other body part, the thing that shall not be spoken of because of the google ads, well it’s still hanging on. I have managed to put a shoe on too and not have any issues.

Fed-Ex came this morning and I missed them. We’ve had problems with the doorbell. By time I woke up and got to the door after hearing it, they were gone. All I was left with was a sticky on the door. Damnit! I think it was my lovesac too! Oh well, I’ll be sure to be up earlier than normal tomorrow. With my luck though it will be something the BF ordered!

Finally I leave you with the silly words of the day, to see if they affect the google ads: Willy Wonka, Incontinence, Dentures, Sexual Chocolate, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ikea.

I figured I had tried every other look, might as well complete it!

-Dustin

This is what the BF does every night he comes home from work. Lays on the floor and lets the dogs jump on him and lick his face. SNAP! Oh yes, I am posting it on the internet

Out of curiosity I added google adsense ads to the blog under the first post. I probably won’t keep them. My blog doesn’t get enough traffic to make it worthwhile at all. However I was curious to see what ads would show up. Google ads work based on the content of the page. Since posting it this afternoon I’ve only seen ads for “Days of Our Lives” and for corn removal and toe fungus. Okay what gives? I almost never talk about “Days” on here! It must be from the shoutbox. I have talked about my toe a lot, so I can see why those ads would show up.

Now I feel like I’m on a mission to talk about weird things just to see if I can influence adsense. Like if I talk about how wonderful Susanne Somers is, will they advertise thigh master? If I say BAM! will I get ads for Emeril’s cooking show on my page? What about Head-on? Head-on I hate your commercials, but I love your product!

Today, like yesterday, was very very wet. I’m not that fond of rainy days, but then who is I guess. I know some people love them, and there are times when a good rainy day can be fun for staying in doors and vegging in front of the TV. Unfortunately with two small dogs that have to be walked, it’s not that fun. Nikko could care less about the rain, but Princess well . . . she’s a princess. The minute we get out of the gravel driveway and to the the grass, she’ll dig her heels. She will not walk in the wet grass, no sir! She will insist we turn around and go back inside.

My facial hair finally is back to normal, though I must admit I was tempted to do another weird silly move with it this weekend. I didn’t, but who knows what I’ll feel like tomorrow morning

I ordered my birthday present today. Yes I have bought myself a birthday present for the past several years. Hey it’s my birthday, I can do what I want. I ordered myself a love-sac, which I’ve wanted for almost two years since I first saw them. They are basically a giant designer bean bag chair, but instead of Styrofoam beads it is filled with shredded durafoam. They are the most comfy things ever! Unfortunately when I first saw them 2 years ago, they came in 2 sizes, both insanely expensive and insanely large. Now they’ve branched out and are in a variety of sizes, so I got s small one just for me. I want it for gaming and for watching movies. I can’t wait till it comes. I’ll probably have to throw a sheet over it because of the dogs, who will decide I in fact purchased it for them. They can sleep on it, I just don’t want it to smell like them Plus Niko may decide the purpose of it is in fact a giant stuffed animal that exists for him to rip apart. I’ll have to watch that. If there is something over it, he might not figure it out.

Percy hides and teased the dogs at the bottom of the steps

I’ve made no secrets that I love a good scary movie. I’ve also made no secrets that most of what is put out today I think is garbage. So when I find something good, I try and share. Oddly this movie “Beneath” comes from MTV studios. I’d never heard of it, I think it must have been a straight to DVD flick. Nevertheless, it was pretty good.

The story surrounds a young woman named Christy. She and her sister Vanessa were orphans, Vanessa basically was the older sister who raised Christy. Vanessa married and had her own child while Christy was still a teen. Vanessa and Christy were in a terrible car accident. Vanessa was caught in an explosion while Christy was thrown from the car. Vanessa was burned all over her body. She lingered for six months before dying. Meanwhile after the car accident Christy seemed to suffer a breakdown. She “sympathized” with her sister’s torment and pain and began having “visions.” It seemed she was imaging she was her sister at times. Upon her sister’s death, she lost it at her funeral. She was convinced her sister was not dead and even tried to open the coffin. Christy was promptly sent off to an institution. After she recovered, she went off to college and began med school.

Years later Christy returns home. A caretaker who worked on the sister’s family estate died, she was close to him. She returned home to see her former brother-in-law, his overbearing mother, and her own niece who was now around 11 or 12. Upon returning to the house her sister raised her in, and where she died, Christy’s odd visions return. She remains convinced her sister was buried alive and is now calling out from the grave for revenge. Christy, who has sketched over the years as therapy, soon finds she’s sketched things and people she’s never seen, all tied to the estate.

If you want scares, this movie isn’t for you. If you want gore, this movie isn’t for you. What this movie does offer is a very creepy and disturbing story, through both the setting of the house, Christy’s visions and her niece’s insistence that a “dark thing” lives in the walls of the house. The story I felt was excellent. You’ll probably figure it out about half way through, or think you have. This film has a great twist at the end that even I didn’t see coming. It’s well acted and well shot. Two thumbs up.

I was prepared after this weekend to call the doctor about my shoulder, which became so painful today I thought I might cry. It seems though from talking to others, I most likely have a pinched nerve and there is nothing that can be done. *Sigh* The pain has been up there with migraines, but not as bad as the dreaded kidney stones. I’m ready for it to go away.

Let’s see, what else went on this weekend. Once again I never made it to see Harry Potter. It’s still playing this week, but I know this will be the last week it will be in the theaters because of the limited showtimes. I have to make plans to see it one night, otherwise I’m stuck waiting for the DVD for Christmas (not that I won’t buy it anyways).

Keith’s visit next week may be canceled again. He’s having car troubles and may not be able to get up here if he has to fork over a lot of money to have it fixed. Oh well.

In anticipation of Keith’s visit I had cleaned the downstairs guest room. He probably would have stayed upstairs, but it has been a mess forever and needed to be done. It’s all thanks to me dropping stuff off in there, taking DVDs off the shelf and not putting them back, etc. Nobody goes in the room but me, so it easily becomes a mess quickly. It’s all clean! I also had to clean it as this is the room I’m having DirecTV installed in, so I can continue watching “Passions.” I’ve been looking into DirecTV, we can get so much more for so much cheaper than our cable, but we lose our cable internet. We’d have to go to DSL of some kind, and I haven’t done the additions to find out if it ends up being the same amount of money or not. We ditched our phone company for Vonage, so we’d have to go back to the phone company, which I fear would make the phone bill+DSL not that much of a savings in the end.

The only other bit of news is that I picked up this game Rune Factory for my nintendo DS, it’s a fantasy version of the Harvest Moon series. Harvest Moon is a life sim slash farming sim. I have only one other game in the series, but I remember how addictive it was. I picked this one up because it was a fantasy version, plus it was on my DS and I can play it just lounging about the house wherever I want. I like that It’s a cute game and I’m already addicted. If you enjoyed Animal Crossing either on the Gamecube or Nintendo DS, then you’ll probably like this. It’s far more involved than Animal Crossing though. If you have or planning on getting it, hit me up! It has internet features where we can trade crops and other items.

I woke up this morning and soon enough, the arm was aching like mad again. I thought I slept carefully, though a few times I woke up catching myself having turned over a weird way during the night. I tend to sleep on my sides, which is why I thought sleeping odd is what has whacked my arm up.

This afternoon while walking the terrors is when it hit me. The arm hurting me is the arm I hold Nikko’s leash with. Normally he is very good walking on the leash, actually much better than Princess who actually went through obedience school. However if he sees something he wants, he’ll try and dart and pull me to get to it. I’m wondering if maybe he’s pulled a little too much lately. Yes he’s small, but don’t underestimate him!

In other news, Emily and I canned the movie night tomorrow. She needed a break and I really have a lot I need to get done too. In two weekends is when Keith comes. Yeah funness! My birthday is the week after I think. Absolutely nothing has been planned. So many of my friends moved away this year, so the ones I normally would be going to dinner with I won’t. Emily’s birthday is after mine, we may try and plan something in the middle.

-Dustin

PS “Vacancy” was TERRRRRRRRIBLE

Some hate it, some love it . . . I love it. Play-doh, one of those smells that takes you back. I swiped a sample canister from the farm, they had a whole bunch for some reason, parties or what not. It’s only the amount of say, what you’d get if you bought silly putty (hmm where is my silly putty). It’s enough to get the glorious whiff of play-doh smell. It smells the same, but not as strong as I remember. It tastes the same too. Yes, I licked the play-doh! Now I’m nostalgic for the play-doh fun factory, though it was one of those toys I never really got. We had one, but basically all you could really do with it was make a long play-doh turd (as demonstrated in the photo).

Not much else to report. Emily and I swore we wouldn’t be doing another movie night this weekend. We’ve done two in a row, and well, last weekend lets just say we had a little too much fun. We decided not to have another for awhile. Seems like we decided to have another anyways.

Not content to just have the disgusting looking toe, I had to hurt myself some other way. I always hurt myself in multiples. I’ve somehow slept on my arm wrong the past night or two, and now it’s sore and not feeling well. It’s the shoulder. I’m getting older, which sucks. I’m off to lay on the heating pad for a bit and watch this movie “Vacancy.” I don’t have high hopes, we’ll see though.

The toe still doesn’t know what it wants to do. It’s become a kaleidoscope of colors lately. It went from the original blood blue/black, back to an almost normalish color, to a deathly looking white/grey and is now getting bloody again. I keep meaning to just soak it in a bowl of hot salt water to see what might happen.

Here’s a photo for you to enjoy! Hopefully nobody is eatting Honestly it looks a lot nice here than it has before.

I rented “Doctor Strange” this week. It just came out on DVD, it’s Marvel’s latest animated straight to DVD movie. I am not a comic book buff. I do know the characters, but only because of cartoons, movies and what not. Doctor Strange has made guest appearances on lots of Marvel cartoons, so I knew who he was.

Years and years ago, back in the glorious late 70s, when The Hulk and Spiderman became TV shows, Marvel tried with Doctor Strange. They made a pilot, which you can catch watch a clip of on YouTube. Warning, it’s SO very bad. However it was the late 70s. They showed the movie on TV a few times years ago, I recall watching it. It was entertaining enough and stuck with me, probably cause of the bad costume and terrible Mr. Brady perm on Doctor Strange. Apparently the show never made it to series as it came under fire from the Christian Coalition for its depictions of black magic and demons. A pity.

Now however, for those who can’t get a hold of that “great” pilot and don’t feel like reading comics, you can rent the animated movie! I have not rented any of their others (Captain America and the Avengers as well as Iron Man), so I don’t know how this one compares. This movie was however enjoyable. It has a great storyline and is well animated. I was impressed. If you are a fantasy lover, but not a superhero lover, you may find this one enjoyable.

The plot basically is as follows. Doctor Stephen Strange is a man dedicated to his work and the glory he gets from it, having abandoned the true purpose of medicine and why he got into long ago due to a personal life changing incident. A car accident leaves him without the use of his hands. He tries all surgeries he can, nothing works to restore them. A strange man tells him to go to Tibet where he’ll find the answers he seeks. He arrives at a monastery where he learns to become Doctor Strange, sorcerer supreme.

The movie serves mainly as the back story of how he became who he is, the origin of his powers and his “purpose” as a superhero. Doctor Strange was basically the one of the first (if not the first) comic to really get into the bizarre world of demonology and mysticism. Nowadays that’s nothing of course, back in the 60s I’m sure it was a big deal though. It’s different from other superhero comics/movies because of this. It’s set up for a sequel, I hope they really make one as it was a great start.

The strawberries were once here, only a few months ago. They however are gone.

Fall is coming, so it’s time to get ready with the fall harvest.

Could one of these be the Great Pumpkin?