ginnyland

Shiver

2009-11-02T18:49:08Z

So last week, I got soooooooo far behind on schoolwork. Why you ask?
Because of a book by Maggie Stiefvater--Shiver.

This book was absolutely beautiful. I was hooked from page one and did not want to let it go!
The story was just magical. The love Grace and Sam have for each other cannot be fully expressed by words-which is okay, that's how they are with each other. Something about this book made me treat it delicately, as if the story would disappear if I was too harsh with the handling. I even read it slower than I usually do. Usually, if a book is getting super exciting towards the end I start reading faster, but I would not let myself do that with this one. I wanted to savor each and every moment!
I absolutely cannot wait to read the next two books in this series! EVIL CLIFFHANGER! >.<

Reading Rainbow is a Living Hell

2009-10-08T16:59:34Z

So as a kid I watched Reading Rainbow. Hell I can still sing the theme song. But it has been cancelled. LaVar Burton, who after 25+ years was STILL hosting it, "made an editorial about his feelings" on the ax.

This is some good stuff, but you don't have to take my word for it.

edit:
"" added just in case it is actually needed O.o...

ginnyland @ 2009-10-04T11:47:00

2009-10-04T16:08:30Z

I would like to state for the record:

I HATE PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS!

Therefore I LOVE Chicago Style!

Cocktail Diaries: Mai Tai

2009-09-14T21:11:59Z

Yeah, so I didn't make this one, but I think it should be shown and everyone should try it! Outback makes a kickass Mai Tai!

Literary Tattoos

2009-08-20T14:40:21Z

From halseanderson (awesome awesome author btw-most especially Speak and Wintergirls) I was introduced to a captivating website. Or maybe I find it captivating because I am addicted to books and work with them, etc. Anyway http://www.contrariwise.org all about literary tattoos. From this site, I have determined that I have to read Slaughterhouse Five. And dammit, now I am really wanting another tattoo sooooooooo much...hm maybe for Christmas I'll get something done!

ginnyland @ 2009-07-13T12:38:00

2009-07-13T16:40:56Z

Please tell me oh people of the interwebs-how do you forward a picture (from your email) to be posted onto a website (like Tagged). Yes, the patron told me it can be done cause he's done it before, but just doesn't remember how to do it. From the email, not saving the picture and uploading it straight to the website like you would do in LJ, MySpace, Photobucket, Flickr, etc.

Death by Chocolate

2009-07-08T18:07:50Z

This should not amuse me as it is.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530703,00.html

Yes, Ginny is a weird one.

Music Suggestions

2009-06-24T18:05:11Z

Give me some suggestions for new music to listen to! It can be your favorite band, song, style, whatever-just name something! Or multiple somethings, it doesn't really matter.

(Let it be said here and now that Ginny has no favorite genre of music. She listens to just about anything. Her tastes change many many times. She can go from one spectrum to the other in the blink of an eye.)

So anyway-help a girl out! <3

ginnyland @ 2009-05-20T12:37:00

2009-05-20T16:49:07Z

Dear Livejournal....

"Chocolate Cake" ruined my life.....

ginnyland @ 2009-05-16T09:28:00

2009-05-16T13:37:30Z

Using the word "please" would be nice to hear after busting your ass on something for someone else instead of having a piece of paper thrust at you with the command "MAKE THIS SIGN IN COLOR"

ginnyland @ 2009-05-12T16:03:00

2009-05-12T20:16:57Z

I detest Wikipedia. If I ever use Wikipedia for a school assignment I never cite it as a source. I go to the References/Sources at the bottom of the entry and then go to the referenced source. This is further reason of needing to do that

In which a college student scams the media

Oprah, Chicken, and a lot of Bad Words

2009-05-06T18:26:04Z

I would like to extend a great big FUCK YOU to Oprah.

Free chicken coupon you say? Two pieces at KFC?

People are coming out of the woodworks to print a fucking coupon for two pieces of chicken. And guess what? You need a coupon printer installed. WE DON'T HAVE IT AND DON'T HAVE THE ADMIN CODE TO INSTALL IT.

And by way of Oprah, fuck you to all the piece of shit patrons who are bitching at us because they cannot get their precious chicken.

Holy shit the world is ending.

Greek music to live by

2009-04-15T00:22:42Z

Found on a gravestone in 1st century bce:

"So long as you live, be radiant, and do not grieve at all. Life's span is short and time exacts the final reckoning."

ginnyland @ 2009-04-04T13:37:00

2009-04-04T17:39:37Z

You know how you can feel sleep pulling at every little bit of you-inside and out?
That's how i feel right now.
It beckons, but I can not answer its call.

Here's a Dictionary

2009-01-20T15:28:30Z

Patron: A male person is spelled m-a-l-e?
Me: yes
Patron: And the male genetalia is p-e-n-i-s?
Me: Yes
Patron: And the female vagina is....?
Me: V-A-G-I-N-A.
Patron: V-a-g-i-n-a?
Me: Yes.
Patron: V-a-g-i-n-a?
Me: Yes. If you do not trust me you are welcome to look it up in a dictionary.
Patron: V-a-g-i-n-a?
Me: yes. you can look in the dictionary if you don't trust me.
[stands there]
Me: Did you want the dictionary?
Patron: Yes.

O.o

Case Closed

2008-12-16T22:43:44Z

This makes me happy for John Walsh's family. Twenty-seven years later and it is done. And I hate for it to sound crass, but maybe the reason that his son died was to be the catalyst for all the activism that John Walsh did as a result. Had his son not been snatched and killed America's Most Wanted would never been created, Code Adam would never been instituted, missing children wouldn't have been found as much as they have been, etc.
The cause sucks, but the effect is extraordinary.

ginnyland @ 2008-12-16T14:14:00

2008-12-16T19:17:53Z

This is for you crimsoncurlz

Blessed are they who clip coupons, for they shall be redeemed.

did you know-

2008-12-09T01:03:17Z

If you run behind a car, you are going to get exhausted.

Little Facts

2008-12-06T05:44:42Z

I love Tom Petty.
I especially love the song Free Fallin'.
I hate John Mayer.
His voice makes me want to hit someone.
I just heard John Mayer's cover of Free Fallin'.
>.<

ginnyland @ 2008-11-26T12:48:00

2008-11-26T17:52:15Z

Life is too short to save the good stuff.

-WhiMSy love

Public Service Announcement

2008-08-27T03:47:22Z

A leather whip is not a jump rope.

What is Ooozing Out of Our Grounds?

2008-08-25T15:28:07Z

ginnyland @ 2008-08-23T23:33:00

2008-08-24T03:40:06Z

there is something about a heating pad in a cold room that is instantly lulling. (that and the enormous amount of alcohol consumed in a manner of 30 minutes. can we say drunk? gooood. i knew we could)
so again:
alcohol + air conditioning + and heating pad = the equivalent of a kitten laying on your back and kneading their little bitty paws (and claws) into your back and purring like there is no tomorrow!

Standing up to Sucky Customers

2008-08-19T00:13:44Z

So much awesome win right here. http://notalwaysright.com/fighting-fire-with-fire-2/1077

Oh screw that, read the whole damn website. Brings out the warm fuzzies :)

Storm Watching & the Happy Villain

2008-07-31T15:33:24Z

Dad and I like to go outside and watch as storms start moving in. Sometimes it is scary as hell, but it's nice. We are the only ones in the family who do this. A few years ago we were standing at the backdoor waiting for one to move in. So the screen door is all that is between us and the fury of the storm. We could literally see it moving furiously across the kudzu field, up into our yard. We could feel the wind blowing. Then it slammed into the house and the screen. It was so powerful it actually knocked me back a little bit into him. If we were outside I prolly would have fell over. This was one of my favorite memories of storm watching with Dad. Mom looked at us like we were crazy, well, maybe we are. But still. It really was like the storm had a body and mind to it. It knew what it was doing.

There is this blog that I love reading If I Ran the Universe. Yeah, it is a library related blog, but it rocks! Earlier in the month, she posted some gorgeous pictures that she took of lightning on a dark night as a storm started rolling in. I fell in love with the pictures and turned my favorite into an icon. So...thanks Happy Villain for letting me use your picture! :)

Now, go read the entry, drool over the pics.