Confirmations!

Dad drove Grandma and Grandpa up to Cedars-Sinai today for Grandma's checkup. They experienced horrendous traffic, and Dad battled boredom waiting for Grandma's appointment to be done with, but with that said, the news is terrific: Grandma Jo is cancer free!

This is the best confirmation of 2008 for me and my family.

The second confirmation, although I hadn't mentioned it before, is that Mom, Dad, Cammy and I are returning a day early: we're heading north on New Year's Day instead of the 2nd. Cammy was in bed nearly all day today sick. He threw up this morning, and on an empty stomach. Pure bile. I hope he feels better soon. He has to head back to UC Davis on the 5th.

I called Alex today to wish her a happy birthday. <3

Kat! <3 I got your message. Sorry I didn't call you back sooner. I know you probably won't see this LJ message for a while, but all the same, I'm adding it to this post.

I began reading Koontz's Your Heart Belongs to Me today. It's an enjoyable read so far. After finishing Odd Hours, however, I've taken stronger note of Koontz's use of similes and metaphors. Some of them are quite beautiful, don't get me wrong; but the chapters are strewn with them. His newest isn't as gratuitously strewn as, say, his older works, like The Eyes of Darkness. Regardless, I always enjoy a Koontz I haven't read yet.

Odd Thomas seems to be his strongest creation thus far, though. Along with the immortal Watchers and other greats like Hideaway and Cold Fire, everyone's favorite fry cook is among my favorite voices in fiction. First person narration suits Odd very well.

ANYWAY. Mom, Dad, Cammy and I made a run to Best Buy and Costco on Sunday. I picked up the Director's Cut of Dark City at Best Buy (on which I used my $5 Reward Certificate - whee!), and The Silence of the Lambs, Astronomica (a FUCKING MASSIVE and absolutely GORGEOUS volume on astronomy and space exploration and all that good stuff - thing cost $30, an absolute steal for a book of this quality and size), and a nine-pair pack of rainbow socks at Costco. XD

I'm wearing the lime green pair at the moment.

This means that, since Black Friday, I have acquired twenty-five new pairs of socks.

Holy shit.

This have never happened before.

But there's always a time for firsts.

YAY SOCKS!

Random post: Finch's updated playlist (Rorschach icon just because).

"Compulsion" ~ Martin L. Gore (Joe Crow cover)
"Cocoon" ~ Assemblage 23
"Low Five" ~ Sneaker Pimps
"The Way You Treat Me" ~ De/Vision
"Ways & Means" ~ Snow Patrol
"Mama" ~ Genesis

Aurora had asked me if these songs represent the type of music Finch would listen to, but he hasn't had access to TV, radio, or the Internet for eleven years. Rather, these songs represent pieces of Finch's character: his self-disfigurement, his isolation, his discontentment with living in Hades Laboratories, and his paralyzing fear of Anne Hades.

The latter three songs are not to be listened to as if from Finch's point of view - but they fit beautifully for how Finch knows Anne wants him to behave around her.

I'm terrible. D:

But they're all to be interpreted in many ways, both literally and with a grain of salt.

The ending chorus for "The Way You Treat Me," sung quite plaintively, is suiting for Finch:

You say
You'll never leave me
You say
You'll always need me
And the way you treat me
Is acceptable

Anne is a bitch.

This snippet from "Ways & Means" struck me as Finch-inspiring as well:

Maybe I can do it
If I put my back into it
I can leave you if I wanted
But there's nowhere else that I can go

Maybe I won't suffer
If I find a way to love her
I'd be lying to myself
But there is no way out that I can see

Just something of possible interest to my friends and readers. I've added a bit to Chapter Four, and I feel confident I will complete it before I return for winter term.

OH AND MOM GOT THE THEME SONG FOR KIMBA THE WHITE LION STUCK IN MY HEAD 'CAUSE SHE WATCHED IT AS A KID AND I RANDOMLY BROUGHT UP HOW THE LION KING IS POSSIBLY A RIPOFF OF KIMBA AND SO YEAH HERE IT IS:

WHY IS THIS SO GODDAMN ADORABLE?!