Shirtless Hotties

Today's post will probably be a little shorter than my previous posts.  I'm tired and nothing truly exciting happened yesterday.  We finally rented X-Men Origins: Wolverine, having refused to pay $10 a person to see it in theatres.  I'd heard from some friends that the CG was terrible, the plot weak, and the dialouge worthy of George Lucas for it's lack of believability.  I am happy (?) to report that this was all true and we saved about $15 by waiting to rent it.

The main redeeming quality is that Hugh Jackman winds up shirtless, and nekkid, quite often.  The audience is rewarded for sitting through the film with the occasional glimpse of that fine, sculpted tushy.  The unforunate part is that Ryan Reynolds doesn't get shirtless until he's all mutilted from experimental surgeries. 

Basically, the movie is kind of worth the rental fee.  It's fun, but not well-done enough for the series. Some stuff is canon with the comic book series, but most of it isn't.  Facts are smudged over for the sake of the plot, and that's ok, I suppose.  I'm not the major comic book geek that Arthur is, so it didn't bother me as much.  If you're gonna watch it, have a stiff drink with you.

Megan, my sister, finally got up with me this morning to go walking.  We brought her boyfriend's dog and had a lovely walk and some nice conversation. I also found an app. for my iPod that turns it into a pedometer.  Unfortunately, you have to keep the Pod unlocked for it to continuously count your steps.  I didn't realize this at first, so it only counted my first 117 steps, stopped for about 15 minutes, and then I restarted it.  By the time we got home, it had coutned about 2,900.  I figure, with the lapse, we did a little over a mile and a half.  The goal is to do between 1.5 and 2 miles, so success!

My biggest disappointment is that I haven't been having the huge energy rush I had the first day.  Now, I'm just feeling sluggish.  Maybe I have to keep it up for awhile to get that energy back.  I dunno.  At least it's getting easier to get up at 5.

How bout some book stuff?

For anybody who is a fan of the Wheel of Time Series, written by the late Robert Jordan, I've got a great link for you!  As you know, Robert Jordan died on October 16, 2007 after a long battle with a rare bone disease.  He had been in the process of completing his long-running and much beloved series.  They were able to find a young writer to finish the series.  Brandon Sanderson will be completing the series based on RJ's extensive notes and thurough outlines.  The first book (yes, they broke the "last" book up into three books.  Way to milk it, guys) is coming out Tuesday, October 27, 2009.

Now, if you've been a follower of the series, you know how long it is.  The Gathering Storm is book 12 and all of the books are LOOOOOONG.  I myself tried to reread the series earlier this year.  I think I got about 1/4 of the way through the third book.  Needless to say, I got tired.  It's a difficult series to read and each book is just...so...long.  I've been desparing of my situation.  How am I supposed to remember all the plotlines?  What's going on in RandLand?  Who is Cadsune?

Happy day!  While trolling blogs the other day, I stumbled upon the Tor Books online community.  And guess what?  I'm not the only one who's been worrying about this.  A woman by the name of Leigh has been diligently rereading the series for us and posting chapter summaries (along with some commentary) on the message forum!  This blog is fantastic!!  I'm only on book one, The Eye of the World, but she's already up to The Lord of Chaos, book #6, chapters 44-45.  Granted, there's still 5 more books to go, but hey, this is still awesome of her.

So, if you're a fan of the series, but have a life and thus no time to reread the epic, visit Leigh's Reread of WOT.

Now, the required goofy video of the day:  (DISCLAIMER: BAD LANGUAGE)



Have a lovely day.