A Kansas City Shuffle.

Well yesterday was my favorite holliday! THANKSGIVING! I like it because its like christmas, without all of the bullshit. And its where you freely express what you are truly thankful for TURKEY! No I'm just kidding, although I do make on hell of a turkey! What I am thankful for this year... gee I don't really know. I really mean that I don't really know what to be thankful for this year. I gess I'm thankful for all of the sweet distractions in life that actually make it all worth while. There is that good? Well we had my Uncle Terry and Aunt Lila, and my Cousins Emily, Ross and Laura and their little boy Waylon over for dinner. Cassie my sister came home too, she made pie! It was a good time, good food, and I love my 2nd cousin! He is so damn adorible! He is a total Swanson too, you can just see it, he looks like Ross and me. I made my Martha Stewart Scarbero Fair turkey, thats what I call it because you rub a Parsley, Sage, Rosemarry, and Tyme mixture under the skin.

Phase 1 of the turkey, just prepared for cooking!    

Phase 2, about half way through cooking.

Phase 3, Done and ready to be eaten!

Today I'm trying to do one of my reserch papers. I had tryed doing it on wensday but it was just horrid! I couldn't use it it was crap. But this version is way better! I'm writing down on paper first so when I type it its more like a final draft. but it seems to be working out that way better any way. Tomorrow I'll work on my corrections one, that one might take a little longer, seeing has how 2 of my sorces were shit and have to find 2 more, but if its anything like today was it'll be a sinch.

So I took Hailey and her boyfriend Joey out to see New Moon last friday. It was damn good! I was really suprised. the first one was just horse shit! I think its one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. So yeah New Moon was good, way better than the book was! Now I'm not saying that it was Oscar worthy or anything like that, some of the actors need to get some formal training or somthing cuz they just bad! But the quality of the movie was excalent! I need to find out who directed it cuz it was fantastic. The look and feel of it was more earth bound, like Twilight is saposed to be. The music was fantastic and thats what really sold me. It really tyed the whole movie together, so I went out on saturday and bought the damn soundtrack, and haven't stopped listening to it all week.

I don't really have much else to say today.

bub bye!

JD

Home is behind and the world ahead, and there are many paths to tred, earth and shadow cloud and flame, away shall fade a way shall fade.

If You Touch Me There...

Today I thought I would talk a little bit about my love life. Seeing as how I don't have one there wont be much to talk about. Well it was kind of that that I wanted to talk about. Actualy more or less what I specificaly wanted to talk about is my taste in men.

Ever since I was a little kid I've had a strange fiasination with the Native American culture. As I grew up it started to spark of an interest well sexualy.... I've had an interest in the native american man for some time now. The thing is when I think of having a family in the future in my mind my suginificant other is usualy a man of Native American Ethnicity. Now as all people these fantasys always diminish and come back. Their like waves  on a sea rolling in and back out.

Now I've done the whole online dating website thing with no avail. All the guys seem fake and are always so god damn steriotyoical! I mean seriously do you actualy think that thats atractive? Sure they maybe good looking but their personality is horrendus! well anyway. I always find myself looking at eather the Asians or ofcourse the Native Americans. Now the last site I was on was OKCupid. It really sucked ass. All of the "Native Americans" wern't actualy Native Americans. Some how they got it into their minds that seeing how their great great great grandfather was means that they are (pardon the semirasist term) full blooded. In my opineon having a certain Ethnicity in your lineage dose not make you that ethnicity, unless it is a direct liniage, in other words your parents.

But to all my searches there never seems to be that one guy that I'm waiting for, the one that I keep thinking about day in and day out. Lately I've been thinking that I won't ever find him.

But then again lately I've been having some conflicktions in my life regarding the direction my life is going in. Right now becoming a Writer and living up in Grand Marais seems to be the right path, or at least a very tempting one. I've even started some miniscule writings.

I think this has all come about from those damned Twilight Books! Just the thought of the character of Jacob Black has me smilling. I know its fucking rediculus, and I'm acting like a god damned school girl. but hey! Have you read the books i know they are nothing to be desired, but Jacob is fricking hot!, not mention amazing!, and hes Native American and one who holds on to his heiratige very strongly, and to me that is the most atractive thing a person can do.

I have a high regaurd for my own heiratige, I love that I came from Vikings and I were a symbol of it around my neck everyday. Its a part of who I am.

The ThankBondMass is going slowly. What can I say I have to do school shit too! Well I just got done watching Goldfinger and almost through with the book. I like the book much better ofcorse, all of the Bond books are better than the movies, except From Russia With Love, its pretty much the same damn thing! although they did change up the ending a bit but still freeking amazing! How do you like the title of the blog? I thought it was appropraite for this one. Its actualy Chapter 13 in Goldfinger and it suits the other theams of the blog. blah blah blah. well I think this is enough ranting don't you? I sure do.

But first before we go. Pics of Hot Native American men! come on seriously you can't denigh it.

ok first 2 are Twilight the other wont be.

Well bye bye for now everybody. ;)

"My name is Pussy Galore".... "I must be dreaming!"

A Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Halloween! Ok so Halloween was a week ago now, and I had a blast! I went out to Shooters with Emily (formaly refered to as Elizabeth), Ross and Laura. I wasn't sure how well that was going to be seeing as how my origonal plan was to go down to the Twin Cities. But my infernal cousin Joe decided that he did want to do ANYTHING! that night. And seeing has how he was Mulder to my Scully plans were changed. More or less I was also in a bad mood, but then getting a couple of drinks into me things lightend up pretty quickly. Emily's costume was hilarious she was Flo from the Pegressive Insurance comercals. She even won the costume contest.

The weekend before that was pretty darn fun too! On that occasion Joe actualy went out with us. We went out to Shanan and Moose's house, for their anual Halloween party.

Well now its been a week, and all of this seems rather boring to write about.

D&D!!!! I almost forgot to mention it! I had another round of gameplay last sunday. It was the most fun that I have had doing it and am certanly going to continue to play. It turned out that our Dungeon Master Matt was starting the campaine over again. So that means we had to create all new characters, aside from the Drou ones that we had made previously. I made a human monk, not to far of a streach than the Drou monk that I created before. But I think that its much funner starting with lvl 1 characters. I named the new guy Carlisle after the lead vampire in the Twilight saga.

Ever since then I've kept thinking of the Twilight books, I had read Twilight and New Moon, but New Moon wasn't all that great so I didn't really see the need to continue. That is again untill this past week. I had already been reading Sphere by Michael Crichton, but on friday I put that one on hold for now. And I don't think it will be to long before I'm back to it. Because on friday I started reading Eclipse, the 3rd book in the series. Its only been 3 days and I've already cleared 266 pages, but it goes by fast. I'm overly in love with the Werewolfs in the story, Meyer really created a better Werewolf lore than she did vampire. I just get so happy when Jacob Black is around.

School as been well school... I have some major reaserch papers due in under a month and I still have to go over the information so as i can start writing them.

You know I've been thinking about this blog, I enjoy writing it because it gets some of the things that I've been thinking or bottleing up out in the open. but is anybody even reading it? I seend out an email to my friends when ever I write a new one but now one usualy responds. I know that Nicole reads it, and I read her blog too, although she hasn't written one in a long while.

I never got all of thouse movies watched in time, just another failure on my part. but its one that I really don't care aobut so it dosn't bother me.

Today I am starting one of my most favorite times of the year in movie terms. I like to call it ThankBondMass! its a bout a 2 month celebration in which I watch all of the James Bond movies in order. not all at once of corse its spred over the 2 months that incompasses Thanksgiving, and the Hollidays (Christmas, Hannika, Kwanza, and New Years). I'm watchin Dr. No right now.

Well I do beleve that that will be all for today.

SoLong!
JD

For your eyes only darling.

Remember remember the fifth of November.

Most all of my friends know about the legendary Guy Fawks mainly from the movie V for Vendetta. But seldom of my friends know that on this day the fifth of November which is famous for the gunpowder treason and plot, don't know that nine years ago I had the most tramatic experiance of my life. For me the fifth on november shall never be forgot. I'm having trouble putting it down on here as to what happend. Its something that is very privet for me and I don't openly talk about it. I seldom get a day where this event dosn't haunt my dreams and innermost thoughts.

His name was Norman Swanson, he was my grandfather and today the only one I call my true grandfather. I was 12. I haven't been to his grave in nine years, I should have done that today. But I didn't and why? Because I'm one of thouse people that are slightly OCD I have to do things on intervles of 5. If I celebrate something its usualy on an intervle of 5. So in my head the ninth year of my grandfather's death isn't as significant as the tenth would be. thats completly horrable. Forgive me.

My Grandma Swanson, Aunt Debbie, Cousins Mandy and Joe (reffered to as James previously), and myself stood witness to his transformation from physical to energy. It was not a pleasant passing to say the least. I think thats all I say on that.

I'll talk about Halloween and all that stuff on a diferent blog, but this one gose out to my grandfather.

I miss you grandpa
Love Jake.

See ya'll next time
JD

I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.