Sorry for the lag in time

I guess it's about time I said this here.
Don't know how many people actually read this but,just in case.
In case you didn't pick up on this in the last post, I've moved my blog over to my site. So, I'll see you over there.

HELP!!!

Okay, I'm not sure if I'm going to get any response here, but I'm frustrated, desperate and about to cry.

I set up a wordpress blog on my site and I'm trying to import this blog onto there. I went in, granted access and I get this;

Could not connect to https://www.google.com

There was a problem opening a secure connection to Google. This is what went wrong:

Connection refused (111)

Can anyone help me? I looked in the support forums and couldn't find the same issue and for some reason it won't let me log onto the forum in order to post the question there.
SO, PLEASE HELP ME!!!

-Disco-

Les peaux des lievres

You guys have to see this!

Not only is it a beautiful song but it is made entirely out of intarsia knitting.
WOW!

-Disco-

Here are a few things

OK!
First off, Ted, Matt and I went to see Seven Pounds last night (none of us were truly that interested, Ted and I were just talking about it because I had no idea what it was about and we wanted to get out of the house {Note this was at nine at night} so we dragged Matt along {he didn't know what he was going to see until we got there and he had to pay for his ticket}). It was okay. It was really boring and confusing up until the plot came together, which was more than an hour into it. What made it worse was this music, that they must have thought was amazing seeing as they used it twice, which played some out of tune note every fourth or fifth note. I'll make it more painful for you; Go to a piano (I don't care if you have to go to the local piano store) and hit two white keys that are right next to each other. It was that sound, every fourth or fifth note. God, it was painful. Ted and I were dying (of laughter as well as pain). At one point an emergency siren went off in the theater and we all had to leave. The sad thing is Ted and I were upset only because we weren't going to get to see the end. Though, amusingly, everyone just went around to the front, went back into the theater, sat back down and waited for the movie to start again. Luckily, it wasn't a real emergency or we would have been a bunch of dumbasses walking into a fire our something.
Second, we're painting my room. We're smudging a light blue. It's gorgeous! It reminds me a lot of Magritte, which makes me absolutely giddy. I'll get pictures up when it's finished and the furniture is back in place, which might not be for a while because we're also putting in new carpet (pretty, green carpet in fact =D).
Third, I'm making a cake for Christmas dinner. It's my first time makeing a dessert for my extended family. I'm making a Yule Log cake. Not only is it my first big time dessert it's also my first roll cake, yikes. We'll see how it comes out, I'm waiting till tomorrow to make it, and I'll share pictures then. I can't wait.
Fourth, this past semester, in Children's Lit, I learned that Harry Potter, whether intentional or not, has a lot in common with Lord of The Rings but I never realized just how much. They also have lists for other films and literature, but that's just because they all follow along the same adventure/hero story pattern. Also, there are certain elements that are used in all adventure stories. However, the Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings similarities are a lot and very specific. For instance; "Evil sorceror referred to as "Dark Lord" who desires to regain physical shape", "Inherited invisibility device", "Dog named Fang", "Evil, creepy hooded creatures", "Giant Spider", "Small, pitiable creature who talks in third person", just to name a few. I really need to read the Lord of the Rings series. First, however, I need to finish Running with Scissors and the His Dark Materials series.
Fifth, I've gotten my mother hook on Charmed!
Charmed is awesome! You can deny it all you want, but at the end of the day you know you love it.
That's all for now. I need to make cookies, paint my room, go see The Day The Earth Stood Still in IMAX (We watched the original Black and White version last night, it was good {I love old movies}) and figure out a way to get my frustrated mother to pay for my flickr account without getting yelled at.

-Disco-

You Need A Bit Of , Oooh, Shock Treatment

I almost forgot; for my dad's birthday my mom got Shock Treatment, the sequel to Rocky Horror Picture Show. It is awesome. Made even more so by the fact that Jessica Harper (who played Phoenix in Phantom of the Paradise) played Janet.
Yes, Janet and Brad are played by different actors. In fact they are the only original characters, however, Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), Magenta (Patricia Quinn) and Columbia (Nell Campbell) {my favorite character from Rocky} are still in it just under different aliases. It is awesome, though a bit confusing (though, honestly, that really just made it better for me), and the soundtrack is even better.



Go rent it!
And if you haven't seen Phantom of the Paradise yet, go rent that too!
And if you haven't seen Rocky Horror Picture Show, well then, shame on you!
-Disco-

Somethings

Sometimes I just need to shut my mouth, get out of my head and except things for what they are. I really spend too much time in my head, over working what is simply what it is.

On a lighter note;
I AM OFFICIALLY A SAC STUDENT!!!
Of course, I don't think I can register until January, BUT the stressful part is over. And, GAWD, was it stressful.
I went to NLC and asked what I needed to do; apply, submit and make sure it went through.
Submitted my application to transfer my credits.
Went in the next day to make sure it went through, where they told me that it takes 48 hours.
(There is only one counselor who is good at telling you everything you need to know the first time. I still don't know his name but he always seems to be the last one I talk to)
{Did I mention this was Thursday and the schools close Friday until January}
Called today around noon after Ted left.
They said it went through.
I went to sign in. It rejected my default PIN.
Tried again. Nothing.
Tried again. I got locked out.
Mom and I went to the school to reset it.
The ladies at the front desk told me to call the service number.
I did (I was smart enough to do it there), they said SAC hadn't assigned me a PIN yet and I needed to call Admissions.
Admissions closes at 3.00 on Fridays, it was 2.59.
Mom had the great idea of asking if they could do it there at NLC, they could.
Waited what felt like an hour for an available counselor.
(there was a girl before me who was either registering or transferring and had somehow accomplished to do it without her social so the counselor was having tons of issues)
Finally, a second counselor came out and called my name.
He gave me a PIN.
(took about five minutes, if not less)
We went to one of the computers there.
It worked but I had to change it from the default first.
I collapsed on the floor in happiness.
(Okay, not really but I was very tempted)

I was so glad my mom was there with me. There were a couple times when I was about two seconds from collapsing on the floor in a stress driven fit. Thankfully, she nearly always knows what to do when in a stressful situation where as my brain shuts off and just wants to scream. I really don't handle stress well. Though I am getting better. There was a time when I would have just shut down and given up until it was too late to do anything.
Learning to read my levels of emotion is something I have really learned this past year. The ability to stop and say to myself "Okay, your freaking out. Stop and breath for a second" is just breathtaking. The other day I was at Ted's house and I could feel myself starting to inch over that breaking point, so I stood up and told Nich and Matt that I was going to go stand outside. I ended up walking for about half an hour in the freezing weather and the mist but I was able to calm myself down enough to sort somethings out that needed to be sorted.
I know it sounds like a small and strange victory but for someone who was so emotionally out of control for nearly six years it really is a huge change. I feel ninety percent different than I did a year ago. I think I can confidently say that I am nothing like the person I was in Highschool.
I finally feel as if my life is going forward.

Now, I need to go reacquaint myself with Billy Blanks.
Ted reinstated the introductions and, frankly, I think I have fallen in love all over again.

-Disco-

Fix You Up

You've loved
You've lost
You've cried
You've mourned
You've been drained of all emotion
You've let go
Now all that's left to do is fix yourself and get on with your life.

-Disco-