It's been a busy few months. First, towards the end of January, when the South was hit by the ice storm, we were without power for 2 or 13 days. Depends on who you ask. It seems to be in question. Since our well runs on an electric pump we also didn't have water. Of course, it was well below freezing. When the storm first started, trees started falling — one came within inches of going through a back bedroom roof. It looked as if a tornado had gone through.
Then my sister (who had end-stage Alzheimer's), died on February 16th.
Current Update:
I've turned my life around and I've given my life to God and Christ Jesus. I was baptized when I was 9 years old, but I didn't know what the hell I was doing back then. But He's merciful and forgiving, so I know he has forgiven all my many sins. And believe me, there was plenty to forgive. Therefore, I'm no longer reading slash fanfiction and I've taken down all my fiction from AO3 where the stories are D/M. There are a few up still, but they aren't slash. One I had to change from sometimes lovers, to friends and one I left where it's mentioned that they had been ex-lovers once long ago.
But I had spent a large amount of time editing Watcher Orphans recently. The one place I had them kiss when Methos came in and mentioned that Duncan was his lover (at the very end), not to mention Joe's one night stand with the FBI agent, were too important to the story to change it. So, Watcher Orphans had to come down. Removed them all from my Kindle library and deleted them from the files on my computer. I also had to delete several files of stories I had enjoyed over the years. 109 documents in my Kindle library!
Believe me, I'm not condemning anyone else. I lived with Jerry for a year before we got married. My first baby was 3 months old when we got married. Then, when Jerry had his affair, even though we were still legally married, I had an affair with Tommy and my second child was conceived. So, yeah, a lot to forgive.
You would think I would really miss them, but I don't. No regrets. Although, admittedly, Watcher Orphans hurt my feelings a little bit. Then, nope - delete.
If anyone is interested, while I don't have a church in my neighborhood to go to, plus it's too difficult to drive myself, after 4 surgeries, not to mention this damn right heel lift (my right leg is shorter than my left leg after my left hip surgery), it's almost impossible to accelerate with that foot. So, okay, I found a pastor on YouTube that I really like. I've been catching up on his past sermons, plus some of his new ones. I'm currently also taking a 4 day course on Spiritual Growth. And June 4th I have a 2 hour class on Speaking in Tongues.
He's Pastor Opha Turnbough at Lionheart Church in Georgia. He evidently has a Facebook page, which I need to look up. He also said he has content on "Ticity Tok." Yes, that's how he pronounces it. He teaches straight from Scripture, but he's funny too and doesn't take himself seriously sometimes. While he admittedly says the scripture says not to judge or gossip, he still has to work on pointing out people at Walmart who are dressed improperly. More than once, he's gone to find his wife and told her to "come here, you have to see this." He's not extremely judgmental though. He simply follows scripture and follows the Word of God.
This is his website, but you can also do a search on YouTube and you'll find all his sermons. That's what I did.
https://lionheartchurch.org/
Some of his sermons pop up on the official website, mostly series that him and his wife have done, but the individual sermons can be found on YouTube. Just put the name in the search engine on YouTube and it will pop up. I came in to watch day 2 of the 4 day class, but my notifications have a new video that I will probably watch from my bedroom. I have to do the classes on my desktop since my Laptop died a year? ago. It's messed up on the inside where it charges. And my granddaughter broke my computer chair. Not real comfortable sitting at this computer.
Anyway, there it is.
I know I haven't posted in a while. But I don't think a lot of people follow dreamwidth or livejournal much anymore. Which is a shame. I rarely post to Facebook either, although I do follow posts. And I hate that I'm posting for the first time in a while asking for help. But it isn't for me. It's for my son's vet bills for his little dog who suffers from seizers. He's done well for a long time, but on July 4th he had a seizure and he wouldn't come out of it so they had to take him the the Emergency Room Vet. Brenda explains it much better on their Go Fund Me page.
I know it's hard with today's inflation, but if you can please donate $5, $10, $20; that would be a huge help. I'm going to put my money where my mouth is, so to speak. When I get my check Monday, I'm going to donate, although I can't donate a lot. My grandson will donate what he can when he gets a check too. The amount doesn't matter. Please help them take care of this precious little dog.
https://gofund.me/94765035
On another note, my friend with benefits, Mike (originally Mr. Nice Guy) texted me tonight, letting me know he'll be headed back home in a couple of days.
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Man #2 - We have a date this Saturday night.
Man #3 and I are at the email stage (all day today) figuring out if we really want to meet or not.
Group 3 - man 1
We have just started the Match.com email process.
And since I've let Christmas slip me by (with no help from the tornado!)
And lest I forget: Happy New Year!
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First, the film; it was not only changed, but things shown in many of the trailers on Youtube -- and there are dozens -- were edited out. In some ways you know more about the movie from the film clips, since parts of the clips are simply gone when you see the movie.
Poor Jamie Dornan had very little to work with. You could tell that he was trying hard, but they were obviously very focused on Anastasia (played by Dakota Johnson) since the story was told from her viewpoint. In fact, in the book, it was told in first person, so we were in her head the entire time.
He had to manage an American accent, which I thought he did reasonably well, but he is Irish and some of the reviews were brutal about his natural accent coming through. If you've seen him in interviews or watched him in the BBC series The Fall , you will see that his natural accent is very thick. Also, in the interviews, the reason he has that nasty looking beard is for the series. If you watch "The Fall", you know the guy can definitely act.
They did make Anastasia's (the protagonist) role much more likable. Maybe it was because we didn't know what thoughts were going through her head, but she was much less annoying.
As you would expect, the scenes were changed dramatically. They only had a two hour time frame to work with, afterall. Unfortunately, a couple of the scenes altered were critical to the development of their characters and relationship in the book. There is especially one scene that could have been filmed -- and needed to be filmed -- exactly as it played out in the book. They could have cut out one of the scenes from the BDSM room instead.
Overall, I enjoyed it, but it definitely wasn't Ana or Christian from the books. While I guess they did a good job of following the plot of the story, they didn't really capture the meat of the story. It's a shame because they could have easily done so. Since they didn't, if you hadn't read the books, it would have been very difficult to understand what the hell was going on and why.
Critics raved about the business meeting in his office where they talked about the contract. But the scene was actually two scenes in the book. One at a private dining room where she leaves and he sees her Beetle. Then enter a new car shortly thereafter. The main portion of the contract discussion was actually at her home. She was drinking and it was much more giggly and fun in the book. At the conference room she asks what a butt plug is and that's the sum total of her supposed innocence and humor about that scene.
In the book, they are going through the soft limits and there were many more blank stares and uncertainty as she tried to wrap her head around some of the terms. Especially when she asks -- in shock -- what anal eggs are, thinking they are real eggs. That would have been a much more fun scene in the movie.
The tension and heated debate over Mrs. Lincoln (the woman who raped Christian when he was 15 and introduced him into the lifestyle) was watered down to almost nothing.
Okay, to shorten this, Taylor's part is almost nonexistent. Ethan doesn't exist (at least in any scenes), Ray (Ana's dad) had his couple of scenes slimmed down to almost nothing. The casting of Christian's mother was completely opposite from the graceful and sensitive woman portrayed in the books. In fact, if they had cast the actress who played Christian's mom as Ana's mom and vice versa, it would have fit perfectly with the characters in the book.
So there you are. Very little drama in the movie. Seriously, if you hadn't read the books you would have been asking yourself, "wtf?!"
The drama was afterward when I was walking out to my car and realized I didn't have my Kindle in my hand. I had brought it with me to read while waiting for the movie to begin. They even got a flashlight and went into the theater to help me look for it. No go. So I emailed Amazon to ask them questions about my options if it wasn't found or found later if I had already replaced it. Instead of answering my questions, the person automatically unregistered my Kindle and removed it from my account. What?!
It is password locked, so I wasn't too worried. I was going to give them a chance to turn on the lights and see if the cleaning crew found it before doing something so drastic. And that's exactly what happened. I called them as soon as someone was there and they had my Kindle. So I called Amazon. They said once I had my Kindle they could go through the process of getting it registered again. But they couldn't do it before then. And of course, it would cost me.
I raised holy hell. I had not requested it to be unregistered and it was done without my permission. The person reviewed my email and their response and within a minute my Kindle was registered and back on my account with a huge apology from Amazon. My friend lives up the street from the theater, so she picked it up and I'll get it back Tues morning when I have my doctor appt in Memphis.
I was much more worried about my Kindle than happy about seeing the movie. And there it is.
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"Remember, even a small act is all that's needed. A call to a friend you haven't talked to in awhile, flowers for a neighbor, letting someone in front of you in line, leaving a happy comment on someone's fic or vid or podcast or graphic, sharing a pic!spam of joyful moments on your journal, giving someone a compliment, planting a tree, or taking a moment to smile at someone else as you walk by them. It doesn't have to be expensive or complex, but whatever it is, I love to hear about it, so I'll do my annual post here for you to tell us what act you performed, and then we can expand the impact of your joy by vicariously living through your telling! It's a win-win! :)"
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