|
Post by Cruella on Jan 11, 2013 2:30:16 GMT -5
Is it on the forum chat? I can't access Skype.
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Jan 10, 2013 17:52:21 GMT -5
Some early info on the next episodes. Keep Calm And Flutter On (S3,E10) Summary from Zap2it
"Princess Celestia tasks the ponies with reforming Discord, a mischievous spirit of disharmony, but Fluttershy is the only one who is willing to give him a chance."
...Wait... Reforming Discord... Is that such a good idea? Well, maybe this could be an interesting twist. I loved Discord! I'll definitely take a reforming Discord over a megalomaniac Trixie any day!
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Jan 10, 2013 17:48:51 GMT -5
This saddens me. I feel like I'll lose a lot of contacts, more than I already have. The computer I used before couldn't download Skype, and the computer I'm using now says it's too slow to connect to Skype.
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Jan 10, 2013 17:46:08 GMT -5
Haven't posted here in a while.
I've (re)met Tiffany. She is great. I want to say she's a great kid, but she's technically an adult (b. February 1994). She's as friendly and nice as she seemed online. She stays over with us a lot of the time, and I wish she'd stay more. Savannah is consistently nicer to me when Tiffany is around. Tiffy obviously didn't like rude things Savvy said about me in front of her, and my niece actually listens to her own girlfriend. Hallelujah.
All people do around here these days is go to church and church revivals, it seems. It's everyone, family and friends and everyone. I don't quite know what I think of that. At least there are a million different churches everyone seems to go to, so there's variety.
I had an ultrasound today and my pregnancy is going perfectly! There's a high chance I'm having another girl, like the baking soda test predicted. I'm showing now, and showing more than I thought I'd be at this point. My sister who I'm living with for now still hasn't caught on.
“Ha, of course you’re bloated. You gave yourself a late Christmas beer belly! Didn’t know you had it in you, ha!”
SAVE THIS PERSON AMEN
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Jan 4, 2013 0:09:16 GMT -5
Today is April Winchell's birthday! :-)
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Jan 1, 2013 14:08:20 GMT -5
Happy New Year!
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Dec 31, 2012 19:07:23 GMT -5
I. Sav LOST THE BET ALREADY. She lost it THIS MORNING, accusing me of using her shower supplies and telling me, over and over, that I smell disgusting. We will start this bet up again on New Year's Day. What’s driving me bananas is now I feel like I am smelly, so I’m drowning myself in too many scents and it’s never enough because “AAH, PUT ON DEODORANT FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE” won’t stop. I know I’m a sucker. Pretty sure knowing is only 0.1% of the battle for me. II. The older girls have been discussing colleges. Savannah wants to go to college with Tiffany. Darlene, my own daughter in between their ages (which are 17 and three quarters, just turned 18 last month, and 18 and a half), wants to stay with me. I really do hope she wants to, as opposed to feeling like she needs to. Among other colleges, there was a Christian college Savannah was looking at that she doesn’t want to go to, but her born-again mother wants her to go to it. But dude… I remember that college. I was seventeen myself when I visited there. There was a friendly old professor who pains me to think about because I recall him wishing I would take his classes. I never did, and he must have died a long time ago, which is why he pains me to think about. The girls there DID have a personality in my generation. They laughed and gossiped like any girls. They said, “This here that says Recreational Movement? That’s dancing. The founders are offended by dancing, so we’re waiting for them to die out so we can call our dance class Dancing. It sounds mean, but it’s true.” Savannah says the current generation doesn’t say anything remotely like that, and she didn’t see any classes that remotely looked like dancing, let alone were called dancing by name. What I remember was regular classes and some Christian classes, and it’s the other way around now. I had really wanted to go. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t because some people in charge said they talked to the girls I had spent two days with, and those girls said they found me “suspicious” and “neurotic” and they “didn’t know if I had had a good time”. So I was told I had to be an inpatient and then an outpatient at some clinic to be admitted to the school. I said no. The school called for me and sent me mail for years. Someone eventually said she “cancelled those silly psychiatric requirements”, but by then it was too late and I no longer had any interest in the school or Christianity. I feel like I’ve given the girls a legacy of failure. Darlene doesn’t even want to go anywhere for college because she plans to take care of me for the time being. I didn’t ask for that. I don’t want to be her ball and chain. Tiffany and Savannah plan on going to the place where my ex fiance went to school before he met me, which is something painful even if not much of something painful. Savannah keeps looking at places that bring back memories of the past, and Darlene has looked at some of these places, too, to a lesser extent. Just act suspicious and neurotic, Sav. You won’t have to go to the Christian school if they think you’re like me. HEH. To this day, I have no idea what I did that was suspicious and neurotic.
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Dec 31, 2012 0:34:25 GMT -5
I thought this little diva attitude one of my daughters acquired would be of use here, but it's more like
“Layla uses THREE YEAR OLD TALKING LIKE A BOSSY ADULT! It’s not very effective.”
I’ve never even played Pokemon, but I’m purty sure I described that exactly right. She’s too young to understand when to use her attitude and how to apply it in ways that make sense.
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Dec 30, 2012 20:38:52 GMT -5
I made a bet with my niece that she can't be nice to me from December 31st through my birthday, through my twin daughters' born three days after my birthday's birthday for bonus points.
She's going to lose.
She is literally stressing out over how to be genuinely nice to me.
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Dec 30, 2012 18:39:54 GMT -5
[Niece is eating my food that she knows is mine] Me: "Stop that. Go eat something I can't." [no response] Me: "At least don't eat all of it -- or most of it! I haven't had any!" Niece: "I ate almost most of it." Me: "No." [attempts to take] [my hands are pinned down] Niece: "Your husband was wrong. Buttons are fun to push. They're shiny and beckoning, and there are so many of them, especially on you!" [Sis eats more of my food while I try to break Niece's grip over my hands] -------- Niece: "You're an awkward white person in an infomercial." Me: "I saw that." (This is a Tumblr reference. We both have Tumblr accounts.) Sis: "Eww, infomercial people don't try! Oh hey, that is like you! What they should really say is, 'Look at this klutz... drop this pan. You don't want to deal with that, do you? Then kick them out of your house! It's not the pan's fault!'" -------- They're a terrible tag team! Terribly effective!
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Dec 30, 2012 11:09:06 GMT -5
(I copy and paste these longer posts from my blog. Tiffany is basically the older Amber to my niece's older Ivy. I haven't seen Tiffany since she was a child, but she and my niece are actually dating now. I have spoken to Tiffany on FaceBook. She sounds like an eternal optimist.)
We went to Tiffany’s church and Tiffany was out volunteering for the day, so I didn’t see her. The pastor was out sick, so I didn’t see him, either. There was a substitute pastor who talked about the show Blue Bloods, which sounds boring to me, and Hannah and Samuel in the Bible, which is a depressing story to me, and we got out ten minutes early.
Savannah didn’t want to hold hands with me and squeezed my hand so hard I was making faces. Why do I keep ending up beside her of all people when someone wants everyone to hold hands?
Sav’s description of this church’s regular activity is “the choir sings for fifteen minutes, and everyone else who sings is just lip synching” - I was really singing, hur hur hur - “and then Old Man Heart Attack gets up and yells the longest run-on sentences ever, catches his breath every five minutes, and then he yells them again.” He’s a fire and brimstone preacher. He didn’t have a heart attack. She continued: “I asked Tiffany if he was going to have a heart attack. She said, ‘He does this every week.’ But I like it because even though I can’t wear pants to this church, I went on a hayride and ate hot dogs there one night.”
That church has children’s areas so kids from birth to elementary school don’t have to listen to Old Man Heart Attack, so good on them for that, at least. ‘Course, their parents still hear him.
I’ve had a heart attack. I have no issue with calling this person I’ve never seen Old Man Heart Attack, although my niece later told me he’s in his fifties or early sixties. Not exactly old.
Also, today is my wedding anniversary!
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Dec 30, 2012 0:07:40 GMT -5
As for Russell Crowe, I think his singing voice fits Javert's overly serious and dutiful character.
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Dec 30, 2012 0:02:30 GMT -5
He also voiced Gargamel from The Smurfs and patented the artificial heart.
My husband's brothers started singing "THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT TIGGERS IS TIGGERS WILL GIVE YOU ARTIFICIAL HEARTS AND INCREASE YOUR LIFESPAN BY A FEW YEARS AND HOPEFULLY MORE" when I told them Paul Winchell patented the artificial heart.
(This jingle remake wasn't at all in rhythm, past a point.)
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Dec 28, 2012 1:50:49 GMT -5
I really think the cartoon was partly modeled after her. April Winchell has voiced a lot of characters, and Cruella has multiple variants, but this was the one time I think a character April voiced was physically influenced by herself.
|
|
|
Post by Cruella on Dec 27, 2012 22:09:07 GMT -5
Not my pictures, and I'm not Ian!
|
|