bits & pieces of a life lived,

HEH-HEY!

Wow, that was very enthusiastic. I'll let you know right now, I'm not at all that...perky normally. *smirk*

I decided to make my journal Friends Only about a year or so ago, because I had (and still have, actually) all these people friending me that I didn’t know, and who had created their LJ a few months ago, and only had two or three posts, if that. If I don’t know you, I’m not going to friend you. I explain lower down in this post, it’s not difficult to get the proceedings on mutual friending with me started.

So. That's the reason for the change. It just makes me slightly uncomfortable when all these random people are friending me with no prompting and no real permission. *shrug*

So, hello. My name's Cassie. I'm 24 years old at the moment, and sort of...in between. I started college in 2006 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; I was an english major, but realized quickly that I wasn't at all ready for school. So at the moment, I'm taking some time off, looking for a job, and trying to figure out my life.

Not a lot goes on here...I update maybe once every two weeks or so. If I'm feeling really ambitious, or I have a lot of crazy quizzes and memes to post, then it might get bumped to twice every two weeks or so.

I know, I know. You can barely contain your excitement. It happens to the best of us. :D

I suppose I should post some type of Disclaimer or w/e...

Disclaimer: I do use foul language. That contains profanity, words society may frown upon in public, the taking of the Lords name in vain...stuff like that. I talk about sexual situations, I discuss issues of homosexuality, politics, religion, etc (not a lot. really never, but it has come up, so just to be sure, I'll put it up).

It's mostly just a place for me to voice my thoughts on whatever subject is flitting around my mind at the moment. It'll be a lot about my personal life. About what I've been doing lately. Nothing too horrible. /end Disclaimer.

I have two writing journals (well, one journal and one community), doggie_dreams (I'd use the little LJ name link thing, but for some reason, this post won't let me) and   The journal is completely open (not FO) as well as the community. I try to update one if I update the other, but I will warn you, I update those even less than I update this :p I manage the community with my bestest,hey_mockingbird She also has a few writing journals of her own, but I’ll let you explore her world on your own.

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So there you have it. I'm pretty laid-back and easy-going. Just comment on this entry with how you know me, or where you found me, and maybe an explanation of why you want to be added. What we have in common.

It's that easy. :)

Thanks so much!

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 so I realize that I didn't do my end of the week update, my....weekend update, you might say? Just call me Colin Quinn. 

I'm a little tipsy right now, so if this post is a little more fun and funny even, you can blame that :p (I refuse to say 'I'm a little drunk' because I had two drinks, but apparently those brandy and coke's hit me kinda hard :p)

so, monday...well, I've recently become obsessed with the actor (I keep saying Stellan, but that's his father and definitely not who I'm obsessed with) Alexander Skarsgard and so around the monday time (it might've been monday, it might've been last saturday, I'm really not sure :p) I downloaded the HBO mini-series he was in, Generation Kill. it was pretty much awesome and so I'm on the hunt for the three Rolling Stones issues that contain the three articles that Evan Wright wrote which eventually spawned the book, which is where HBO got the mini-series from. 

tuesday, wednesday, thursday were much of the same; finding things about Generation Kill, skipping through the True Blood eps to watch ASkars parts, re-vamping my icons to include a multitude of ASkars icons and things...yea. went to Chipotle with Erin one of those days and then back to her house to start watching Generation Kill with her. we have three episodes left. she loves it, which is awesome. 

Friday, my sister and brother-in-law had to have their ducts (whenever my mother said it I kept thinking she was saying 'ducks', which would've worked to a point because Brandon's a big hunter so has a lot of stuffed ducks and so I thought they were cleaning his animals or w/e....but no. ended up being much more boring than that :p) cleaned and then they had this huge baby merch sale at USA Baby, so they skipped out on dinner to do that. the rest of us went to Culver's instead of the mall because my mother also had to work, so going through the tedium of the mall was just out.

saturday...we went to webb's a little late, around 4ish because aly and brandon had this 3-D sonogram thing to go to, so my mother and father and brandon's mother and step-father went to that and we went to webb's after, because it's like...literally down the block. so for the rest of the day I felt like I was behind about five hours or so. we usually go to webb's at around 10 or 11 in the morning, so at like 7 I felt like it was 12 in the afternoon (it even looked like 12 in the afternoon, my day was all fucked up) and I wanted to go out and...I don't know, play in a park like a five year old or something. seemed like a good idea at the time.

today....was my cousin and godchild Quinn's fourth birthday party. my aunt mary always makes really great food for these parties, but I wasn't feeling it and had maybe a sandwich or two. disappeared for maybe a half-hour to go to the library to pick up the 'Generation Kill' book and no one noticed I was missing, total win in my book :p 

and then...tonight I went out with alex to mad dog saloon and as I said, got a little tipsy. and that brings us to here, me Colin Quinn herself telling you about my week. I have to take the car in for an oil change at 7:45 tomorrow...later today :p that should be awesome, my dad said I could get BK Lounge for breakfast after. score.

hm...yea. I had something else, like five seconds ago, but it's gone now. 

THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. I got a job at Summerfest, a yearly thing that Milwaukee does, 11 days of bands, beer and...I don't have another 'B' word. damn. w/e, there's a lot of music and drinking. it's the largest musical festival in the world. pretty cool, if you ask me. *shrug*

yea I think I'm done. 

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• Day 25 - your day, in great detail: Thursday. Well, I didn't go to sleep Wednesday night, so I was a little tired. I spend most of my day on the computer or watching my cousins. I go out with friends when possible, but really only at night. So, Thursday. I had been up reading a Merlin fic, There's No Makebelieving by miakun over on LJ in her writing comm miafic. While doing that I was DL'ing the first season of True Blood because I'd just finished the first book in the series that that show is based off of. Alex called at around 9 or 9:30 and we went out to breakfast, Mykonos on Capitol. We talked about movies as we do, and TV shows that we both watch. We reminisced about Chuck's latest episode and how AMAZING it was. After I got home, I was entranced for the rest of the day with True Blood. Erin and I were texting back and forth a little bit, making plans for thursday night. I took a shower at 5:25, took maybe a half-hour or 45 minute nap until she came and got me at....7:15 or 7:30. I don't remember. we were both hungry so we went to the mall and ate at Panera. we always sit at the little bar thing at the front of the store. I'm sure people going in and out of the mall think we're absolutely crazy, because I was overtired so we were laughing like maniacs. I always say the weirdest, yet most awesome things when I'm that tired. The Mall, which by default means Panera, closes at 9, so we left at about 8:50 and drove over to the Starbucks that used to be 24 hrs, but now is only open until 1 in the morning. We still ended up staying there till...11, I think. It's so weird, because there's this guy that's there every time we are, and he always sits somewhere in our sight line, and he just stares at us. He must go there almost every day, to be there every time we are, because we don't have any kind of set schedule that we go in there. I detoured like mad all over Milwaukee so we could take the longest way back to my house. And then I watched some more True Blood till around 6 in the morning, writing my EPIC Trek fic too and...yea.

Certainly not great detain, but I don't remember things in great detail. even if I'd done this yesterday night when it was all over, I wouldn't have remembered everything. *shrug*



Day 26 - your week, in great detail 
Day 27 - this month, in great detail 
Day 28 - this year, in great detail 
Day 29 - hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days 
Day 30 - whatever tickles your fancy

• Day 24 - whatever tickles your fancy: Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels (although I'm only about three quarters through the first one) are very good. The first one starts a little slow, and I'm still not sure who they're going to wrap this little mystery up, but I really like Bill. Not Sookie so much, but Bill's pretty awesome. I don't love Harris' writing style. It confuses and annoys me more often than not, and usually I wouldn't be able to read a series with an author like that, but my mother bought me these books for Christmas last year, and I have to read them, if only to assuage my guilt at not even touching them since I got them. 

So. I don't highly recommend reading them, but I will at least say that they're good, and I'm enjoying them. :D




Day 25 - your day, in great detail 
Day 26 - your week, in great detail 
Day 27 - this month, in great detail 
Day 28 - this year, in great detail 
Day 29 - hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days 
Day 30 - whatever tickles your fancy

• Day 23 - a youtube video: hm. ok. the title of the video is called the 11th best picture nomination of 2009. I glanced past it and then clicked because the little preview picture is of two chicks making out. So here ya go: Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer. I will tell you this. It's hilarious :D

Day 24 - whatever tickles your fancy 
Day 25 - your day, in great detail 
Day 26 - your week, in great detail 
Day 27 - this month, in great detail 
Day 28 - this year, in great detail 
Day 29 - hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days 
Day 30 - whatever tickles your fancy

• Day 22 - a website: hm...ah hahahah, here ya go: Joe Loves Crappy Movies. it's an online comic about this guy, Joe I assume, who goes and watches crappy movies and then makes comics about them. it's frickin' hilarious :D

Day 23 - a youtube video 
Day 24 - whatever tickles your fancy 
Day 25 - your day, in great detail 
Day 26 - your week, in great detail 
Day 27 - this month, in great detail 
Day 28 - this year, in great detail 
Day 29 - hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days 
Day 30 - whatever tickles your fancy

• Day 21 - a recipe: ....you know, I don't actually know how to cook. this is no good. hm. here, something simple: 

BEST HOMEMADE VANILLA ICE CREAM Printed from COOKS.COM   4 QUARTS:   4 eggs 2 1/4 c. sugar 2 cans evaporated milk 5 c. whole milk 4 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1/2 tsp. salt 1 can Eagle Brand milk   6 QUARTS:   6 eggs 3 3/4 c. sugar 3 cans evaporated milk 1/2 gallon milk 6 3/4 tsp. vanilla 3/4 tsp. salt 1 can Eagle Brand milk   Beat eggs until foamy. Add sugar gradually. Beat until stiff. Add remaining and mix extremely well. Pour into ice cream freezer and freeze using rock salt and ice. Great with homemade hot fudge sauce.   HOMEMADE HOT FUDGE SAUCE:   1 tbsp. butter 1 square unsweetened chocolate 1/3 c. boiling water 1 c. sugar 2 tbsp. white Karo corn syrup 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1/8 tsp. salt   Melt butter in saucepan. Add chocolate and stir over low heat until melted. Add boiling water slowly, stirring constantly and bring to a boil. Add sugar and corn syrup, stir until dissolved. Simmer 5 minutes, watch carefully, then add vanilla and salt; mix well. Makes 1 cup. Great over homemade ice cream. Note: Use regular size cans 12-15 oz.

Day 22 - a website 
Day 23 - a youtube video 
Day 24 - whatever tickles your fancy 
Day 25 - your day, in great detail 
Day 26 - your week, in great detail 
Day 27 - this month, in great detail 
Day 28 - this year, in great detail 
Day 29 - hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days 
Day 30 - whatever tickles your fancy

• Day 20 - a hobby of yours: writing. some people do it because the have to, to some people it's a passion. I love to write, and I even love what I write sometimes, but I don't do it every day like I should and I don't feel the need to get it out of my system or I'll explode or w/e. I love to write. but it is more of a hobby than it could ever be a profession or a passion.

Day 21 - a recipe 
Day 22 - a website 
Day 23 - a youtube video 
Day 24 - whatever tickles your fancy 
Day 25 - your day, in great detail 
Day 26 - your week, in great detail 
Day 27 - this month, in great detail 
Day 28 - this year, in great detail 
Day 29 - hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days 
Day 30 - whatever tickles your fancy

•  Day 19 - a talent of yours: um...I have a really awesome jump shot? hah, I don't think that's exactly what you were looking for. Um, ok, here's something. I'm really good with voices and names and stuff. I can almost always tell you who's in a movie because I can connect the name to the face, I guess that works in real life too :p If it's a cartoon or an animated movie, a few lines from each character and I'm really good at picking out the way they say things and matching them up with something I've seen them in and recognizing who it is. 

I don't know if that can count as a 'talent' I have. I can read really fast too :p When I set my mind to it (because if I don't enjoy the book, I'll purposely not read it or read it slowly) I can finish a book in a day or so. :D


Day 20 - a hobby of yours 
Day 21 - a recipe 
Day 22 - a website 
Day 23 - a youtube video 
Day 24 - whatever tickles your fancy 
Day 25 - your day, in great detail 
Day 26 - your week, in great detail 
Day 27 - this month, in great detail 
Day 28 - this year, in great detail 
Day 29 - hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days 
Day 30 - whatever tickles your fancy

• Day 18 - whatever tickles your fancy: sound bite :D The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens.

Day 19 - a talent of yours 
Day 20 - a hobby of yours 
Day 21 - a recipe 
Day 22 - a website 
Day 23 - a youtube video 
Day 24 - whatever tickles your fancy 
Day 25 - your day, in great detail 
Day 26 - your week, in great detail 
Day 27 - this month, in great detail 
Day 28 - this year, in great detail 
Day 29 - hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days 
Day 30 - whatever tickles your fancy