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We went and saw Lars and the Real Girl last night. It was pretty good. The writer(s) took it to the edge and then pushed it a little further. I like that. This movie is the true definition of quirky. If you liked Little Miss Sunshine you will like this one.

See, Lars is having issues which he decides to solve by ordering one of those ‘real’ sex dolls off the Internet. Not to have sex with her–he doesn’t even kiss her until the end when she is ‘dying’–but to have a girl companion. Just someone who will love him and listen to him. It is pretty sweet. Now of course, his family thinks this is pretty odd. (Nuts.) She’s in a wheelchair and doesn’t speak much English. (She’s shy, you know.) But the whole town goes along as they love Lars. Pretty soon, well, I don’t want to give the movie away in case you haven’t seen it…but things get goofy. It is a very touching movie in a laugh your head off sort of a way.

I recommend it!

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I think I am 10 for 10 now.

 That means 10 things (electronics or their associates that I have destroyed or somehow tripped up) in 10 days.

Yesterday I took out the turn signals in my car. I got in and they were gone. Not so good. I took out the radio a few days prior. I also put the final nail in my husband’s sattelite radio receiver over the weekend. My laptop, however, seems to be stable again. I’m not working on it though as I don’t fully trust it. Plus, once you have a huge monitor and surround sound, you can’t go back. Continuing along…the router had to be replaced. Dreamweaver is still glitching on me, but I mostly have my website up and going.

Speaking of breaking things, as I have been posting my archive blog postings, I have been sort of skimming them. This has sort of made me realise that I have trashed an awful lot of things over the year. I am hard on stuff. And I don’t mean to. I try to be gentle. Things just break. What’s a girl to do? I seriously considered finding a cliff for my car to ‘ooops’ slide over last night. (Not with me in it of course.) But I guess that this weekend I get to spend my time tinkering and fixing all the little things I’ve broken on the car lately. Either that or do taxes.

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I had a dream last night.

I had a dream that when I woke up this morning my hubby had found something on the Internet. It was an agent I had queried who put part of my first page on a website. Sort of a ‘how not to’ sort of a site. It had my title and everything. She had taken the first few sentences and put them in poem format and in that format it was this hideous string of adjectives and adverbs that went on and on. I was embarassed as it was a ‘before’ version of my first page that she had posted and there it was for all to see.

I guess all that talk about adjectives and adverbs on AgentQuery did me in. Or the fact that I got a rejection email from an agent I had almost forgotten I’d queried a few months back. And yes, I had sent her a ‘before’ query with my old first page that I now know wasn’t up to par.

It reminds me of the time in university English when the prof used an example of something I had written on the overhead. And not a good example. After trying so hard, it was very humiliating. (At least he didn’t use my name and had another student’s work up there as well.) So after that I said to hell with it and you know what happened? He thought I was plagarizing because suddenly my writing improved so much and so suddenly.

Moral of the story? Well, I guess it would be just let it flow when you write and don’t get your work put up on the Internet or an overhead as a ‘poor’ example if you can help it.

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Keep Hitting the Refresh button on your browser, I’m changing things all the time. Well, no. I do eat and sleep and go skating and sledding and to French class too. And laundry. But considering, I did all that today, I did get an awful lot done on my website. You’ll notice that the old blog link is now working on the right and I’ve almost got all my archived blog entries from FrontPage in here now.

There are still a few glitches, but I think I can solve them once I get all the old stuff cleared off the browser–but I have to finish with it first. So hopefully all those glitches will soon be gone and my site will be awesome, incredible, super-duper, fancy pants happy.

 Enjoy!

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