Things that are good, things that suck

Good:
Creamy milk chocolate for breakfast.
Waking up to a cat licking my hands, rubbing my face, and generally cuddling.
Knowing that my husband will be home tonight.

Suck:
Going to edit past journal entries, and hitting the delete and enter buttons because I wasn't paying attention.
People who accuse me of never answering their MySpace messages, then not understanding my lack of desire to sign onto MySpace more than once a month. Sorry, I don't live on MySpace. You must forgive me.
Assholes who call me at two in the morning, demanding answers to why I didn't call them, and then when I ask them not to call me so late, telling me to fuck off.

Steve went into the hospital a few days ago with a throat abcess. I've talked to him on the phone; he is okay and he is recovering slowly. A while back, Steve introduced me over the phone to an acquaintance of his, whom I shall call Asshole. Asshole and Charlotte do not get along, mostly because Asshole doesn't like Charlotte being a Druid (she's not a "real Druid" because she's pagan and a witch, blah blah blah) and because her opinions and ideas are not his opinions. Steve just barely calls him a good friend anymore. He is also a severe alcoholic and not getting help, getting piss drunk every single day and not bothering to go out and make friends and be nice to people. He assumes that he knows more than the rest of his, that he is better than the rest of us with all his bookish Druid knowledge. He has a bad attitude. Luckily, he lives in New York, and Charlotte and I only have to put up with his drunk phone calling every so often, in which he loves to tell us how much better he is than us. He calls Steve so often I am surprised Steve willingly allows it. Asshole is like an annoying puppy, I swear.
Last night, around two in the morning, the phone rang, jolting me out of a sound sleep. When I answered the phone, Asshole said, "Hi, I just called Steve and he said he's in the hospital. Why didn't you call me? Why didn't anyone call me?" Now there were several answers I could have given. Because you're not my friend, because I don't have your phone number, because you constantly call Steve's cell phone anyway and would have found out on your own, like you just did. He talked at me a bit more, bitching that nobody informed him. Then I politely asked him not to call me at two in the morning anymore. He paused and snapped, "Oh, you know what, fuck off!" and hung up. I went back to sleep.
After Adam has been home, I plan on visiting Steve to see how he's doing.

Under all this I am still a fangirl geek

The Foxbox TMNT series
And yet...
Fast Forward? Harumph harumph. I don't enjoy the new direction. I want the animated Turtles back the way they were for the series, dark and edgy and in 2006. I hope they get rid of this Fast Forward crap soon.
And no, the theme song sounds nothing like ZZ Top. Sorry, people.

From http://www.ninjaturtles.com:
EPISODE ONE HUNDRED FOUR
"The Ninja Tribunal"
Synopsis:
The Turtles find themselves abducted... but not by aliens -- by ninjas. There’s a new force on the scene. Actually, it’s an ancient force. The Turtles have found themselves caught up in a seemingly endless battle between good and evil. And, when they see who their abductors look like, the Turtles are in for quite a shock!
NOTE: The fifth season was originally planned to be a continuation of the "Ninja Tribunal" story before the "Fast Forward" direction change was implemented - hence the unfortunate cliffhanger at the end of season four.
The good news is, "The Ninja Tribunal" story line will be completed - the bad news is, it won't be airing on television in the USA.
4Kids Home Video plans to debut the entire "Ninja Tribunal" story arc on DVD in early 2007. This action-packed adventure will not be aired on TV anywhere in the US by that time - so they will be "straight-to-DVD" releases (at least in the United States - at the moment we're not sure if they'll air anywhere else in the world, but it seems unlikely). We'll post more info about "The Ninja Tribunal" DVDs on the site as soon as we hear more news from 4Kids.
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Mayhaps I need to be on the lookout for a couple of DVDs soon...

Naming

http://www.babynames.com/Names/name_display.php?n=suri
Huh. Maybe Tom and Katie aren't so insane after all. This is actually a beautiful name.

I love unusual names. I keep trying to come up with interesting names for new characters. I love names that describe beautiful things, like Angelina, or Rose, or Dawn, or Ariana, or Liana.
(When I was a child, for some reason I thought my name was boring. I wanted to expand on it, change it, make it prettier. And then I decided Joanna was a beautiful name, and I learned that my mother had named me after a movie character played by Audrey Hepburn. And then Mom said, "It's a good thing too, because you have her jawline and eyes, and her skin." We laugh, sometimes, because I am so much like my father that Mom isn't sure if she was even there in my conception and birth, and we've joked that I absorbed Audrey Hepburn's spirit, hah. I am nowhere near as amazingly phenomenally soulfully rose-petal beautiful as she, but I like having a somewhat similar look.)

I have often wondered what would be the most intriguing names I could give to human characters, names that really mean something. I'm still thinking about what names I would call the most lovely to my ears.

Names can have power in strange ways. It can affect people in different ways. A name connected to different people can influence those who hear it.
Adam doesn't like the name Sarah at all. He connects it to his first girlfriend, and the relationship ended horribly. He dated another girl named Sarah -- although it was only her nickname, as her real name was unusual -- and again it ended very badly. He's not fond of the name. Yet for me, the name Sarah is lovely and has good memories. My very first friend, when I was a toddler, was a girl named Sarah. For a while I wanted to name my future daughter Sarah.
I have known many girls named Jennifer. One of them, another of Adam's exes, is a vicious whorebitch. Another is one of my dearest sweetest friends. One of my grade school friends was Jennifer. It is a very common name.
My first boyfriend, David, went by his middle name, Damar, since his father was David. His friends called him Dave; his family and I knew him as Damar.
I have actually known people to avoid socializing with a person of a particular name, because someone terrible from their past had the same name.
Names have power.

For humans, everything needs a name. In magick, if you know the name of a thing, you have a link to it. You can affect it and in turn be affected by it. Invoking a name can be powerful, yes.

I am still browsing babynames.com, by the way. I used to collect baby name books. My parents never quite understood why. Even as a child I was fascinated by the power behind names.
Once you name something, a part of it might always be yours.