Lauren

scandalkitty @ 2008-12-01T12:20:00

2008-12-01T17:21:46Z

Can anyone tell me how to post a picture of my little XBox person? I've seen dozens do it and can't figure it out.

Tumblr

2008-09-18T22:38:04Z

Recently I've switched over to using Tumblr for most of my blogging needs. Using LJ only to check up on things as opposed to posting. I was wondering if anyone else has a Tumblr account? I'd like to increase my list of people I'm following. :D If you want to add me my name is Savvymac.

scandalkitty @ 2008-07-29T22:07:00

2008-07-30T02:09:34Z

New Harry Potter: Half-Blood Prince trailer!

scandalkitty @ 2008-07-10T19:23:00

2008-07-10T23:24:01Z

Does anyone remember a Buffy video about Spike called Strip Tease? Anyone know where I can find it?

A little help

2008-07-09T21:42:02Z

Lately a lot of people seem to be teasing me/suggesting I go back to my natural hair color. Personally, I like being blonder because I think it works with my skin tone, I don't look so washed out. But, I keep hearing it (even the boyfriend says so, but he says that's just cause he's never seen my real hair color) so I'm considering it. Lord knows it would save me $$$ at the salon. :) So I know it's probably vain but I'm making a poll. Please vote on which hair color you think suits me better.

Blonde! ^

Brunette!^

View Poll: #1220588

Jobs :P

2008-06-04T19:03:09Z

Well, my job search continues. I have applied to about eleven places and been formally rejected by two, I'm on the "standby list" for one, and I'm still particularly positive and waiting to hear back from three. The others? Not so sure, I submitted resumes because they were friends with someone and just said "Sure shoot it over" but didn't necessarily have any openings. I'm still hopeful though! In fact, the one interview I thought I bombed and they would never call me back just told me they were still looking so at least the process isn't over yet!

I really need to get a better grip on this job search thing. There are so many people to keep in touch with, call, send notes to...its crazy. But I'm pretty much on top of it. Hopefully I will find a job where I will be very happy. I know the one I really want and my fingers, eyes, and toes are all cross but I dare not speak its name for fear I will jinx it!

Oh well, I may have been rejected a few times but I know that's all part of the process. I'm fresh out of college and a lot of these places want more experience then I have. I just need to learn to sell myself better! Just gotta stay positive. :) I'll probably be back here in a week saying "I QUIT! I'LL JUST LIVE IN MY PARENTS BASEMENT!" But hopefully not.

Friday I leave for Europe, a nice tour through the Mediterranean. I'm not fully excited yet, I don't think the reality that I'm going has sunk in and I'm also going to miss my phone calls with Ben a lot!, but I'm getting there! Should be fun once I'm off that horrid 9 hour flight. >.< I also need to buy a new book before I go. I'm just about the finish The Memoirs of Helen of Troy by Amanda Elyot, which was extremely good by the way, so I'll need something for my trip!

Well after a bad day yesterday, I've laid in bed almost all day today and now I think I'm going to get up and buy a Sims 2 EP to cheer myself up. :P

Meme snagged from Sandy_S

2008-05-01T22:00:12Z

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

O.o

2008-03-24T02:22:24Z

I just came across the weirdest thing looking up other airports in the Atlanta area for cheaper flights. Yeeeeeah...did you know you can HIRE a plane specifically for the purpose of joining the mile high club? There's a mattress in the back!!!! And the part that freaks me out the most? There's only a curtain separating you from the pilot. >.< Mildly romantic (when they talk about the countryside at sun set) but...creepy at the same time.

http://milehighatlanta.com/

Buffy Fans, I need your help!

2008-03-09T21:38:06Z

I'm hoping to get my boyfriend into Buffy, since he never saw the show when it was on the poor guy. Normally I'd just say he should borrow my season 1 dvd and go from there but, personally, I think the show starts out a little slow. So I was thinking I'd pick about a handful of episodes that really capture the essence of Buffy to see if he likes it, then if he does we can start watching it from the beginning.

So here's my question for my friends list! What episodes would you suggest? I was thinking of:
Hush
Fear, Itself
The episode where Buffy sends Angel to Hell (can't remember the title)? maybe.
Once More With Feeling (might wait for Dragon*con for him to see this one lol, but with everyone singing along that might not be good).

That's what I had off the top of my head. Help please! :D

GRUUL DEAD!

2007-09-13T03:43:30Z

WOO! My guild just cleared Gruul's Lair! YES!!!!!!!!!!

scandalkitty @ 2007-09-08T19:45:00

2007-09-08T23:46:15Z

Snagged from jasontd.

scandalkitty @ 2007-09-05T01:35:00

2007-09-05T05:36:33Z

I took Sage Vivant's Erotic Personality Quiz and discovered I'm a Romantic!

What is your Erotic Personality? Find out now..
"The Romantic can think of nothing more erotic than being saved from peril. They are not necessarily helpless people, but the notion of being saved makes them feel desirable and sexy. The Romantic needs to feel sought-after and practically worshipped before sex can be on the agenda. They imagine partners who not only make passionate love to them soon after saving them, but they imagine those partners will know how to please them without any instruction whatsoever. Their lover’s sexual finesse inspires their own, heightening their capacity for sexual pleasure. The Romantic is especially fond of people who can read their minds and deliver the sexual excitement that they secretly desire."

Dragon*Con '07

2007-09-04T04:50:02Z

Well, another year's gone by and Dragon*con is over once again. :( 360 days to go. This was probably the second best D*C for my group, the only drag had to be the lines and the hotel staff at the Hyatt. Made things just a little tense at times but over all it was fabulous.

Right now I'm absolutely dead tired and missing Mario so much it hurts, it gets harder and harder to say goodbye lately, but tomorrow hopefully I'll have some pictures to post. Gotta run and ship some stuff tomorrow as well as buy the third season of The Office and pre-order Halo 3 (yeah I know I slacked off on that one :P Luckily Mario has an extra copy if I can't get one). After that I'm coming home to go through my photos before turning to some much postponed home work.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend and to my fellow Con attendees I hope your trip to D*C was great as well!

scandalkitty @ 2007-08-28T23:38:00

2007-08-29T03:45:16Z

Here's the situation: My dorm room is attached to another room by an adjoining door. It's RIGHT next to the head of my bed. EX:
_______[door]______
[head]

Head being the head of my bed, the ____ is the wall and the door is well...the door. So hopefully that's makes it clear. Now, for some odd reason (and I'm going to call maintenance about this) I can't lock the door so I'm a little worried though I doubt anything will happen about her or someone else just waltzing into my room. Also, because its next to my bed I'm worried she can hear me through it when I talk on the phone or something.

Here's my question: Anyone have any tips for kind of sound proofing the door and keeping people out till I can get it locked? Right now I have a piece of furniture in front of it but that won't do much for sound. So, I was thinking maybe taping the edges of the door and hanging a decorative type sheet over it?? Maybe?

Anyone out there had a similar situation or have any ideas? Greatly appreciate the help! Thanks.

Random pictures

2007-08-27T05:42:31Z

Ok this just ticks me off. Audrey Hepburn is one of the most amazingly wonderful classic actresses of all time. She does not need to be imitated by Paris Hilton.

Ok not really but it's still good photoshopping and really cute!

Michael Vick

2007-08-15T05:56:03Z

I know this is fairly old news, this Michael Vick dog fighting stuff but I'm sitting here watching the news and growing increasingly sick as I watch this story on Vick develop. The things he "supposedly" did? They're awful! Now, I've heard some argue "his cousin did it! can't help that!" Yeah, well even if he just knew about it that's just as bad! He knowingly let those dogs get hurt and didn't help. How is that any different from putting them in there yourself? I don't see much that distinguishes the two. But from what the reporters are saying the evidence is pretty much not in his favor, that they found a ton of stuff to incriminate Vick himself. I really hope he doesn't get some slap on the wrist because of his fame. What he did is a felony in GA and he should be charged with such. This plea he's going for? Sigh. This is why I'm seriously leaning toward animal rights/enviromental law as a career. I want to help put a stop to this.

On a slightly more shallow note, why on earth do the Falcons finally get a decent player, a name that people really recognized and he has to go and do this? We're not exactly a power house team and now, sadly, I think the team will be remembered as the team that dog fighter was part of instead of for the hard work the rest of the team puts in.

I just had to vent about this. Watching the news was causing a flood of emotions to build up inside me.

DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILERS BELOW!

2007-07-29T06:34:12Z

An interview with J.K. Rowling where she clears up the details she glazed over in Deathly Hallows' epilogue! Includes a lot of answers to questions we all wanted answered but she says couldn't neatly be writen into one chapter of her book without it feeling stuff with facts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/

Check it out!

Meme

2007-06-26T05:42:14Z

Snagged from Sandy_S.

1. Made out for more than 3 minutes?
Yes

2. Slept in a different bed from your own?
Yes

4. Made out with 2 different people in one night?
No

5. Thought your cousin was hot?
I've noted that he's not ugly but not in a sketch way. :P

6. Been in love?
Yes

7. Slept past noon?
Yes

8. Taken a shower with the opposite sex?
Yes

9. Gone over the speed limit?
Yes

10. Painted your room?
Yes

11. Drove a car?
Yes

12. Danced in front of your mirror?
Yes

13. Gotten a hickey?
Yes

14. Been dumped?
No

15. Stole money from a friend?
No

16. Gotten in a car with people you just met?
Yes

17. Been in a fist fight?
Kinda

18. Snuck out of your house?
No

19. Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back?
Yes

20. Been arrested?
No

21. Made out with a stranger?
No

22. Left your house with out telling your parents?
Yes

23. Had a crush on your neighbor?
No

24. Ditched school to do something more fun?
Yes

25. Slept in a bed with a member of the same or opposite sex?
Yes

26. Seen someone die?
No

27. Been on a plane?
Yes

28. Kissed a picture?
Yes

29. Slept in the opposite sex's bed?
Yes

30. Love someone or miss someone right now?
Yes

31. Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by?
Yes

32. Made a snow angel?
Yes

33. Played dress up?
Yes

34. Cheated while playing a game?
Maybe...

35. Been lonely?
Yes

36. Fallen asleep at work/school?
Yes

37. Been to a club?
Yes

38. Felt an earthquake?
No, slept through it :P

39. Touched a snake?
Yes

40. Ran a red light?
Yes

41. Been suspended from school?
No

42. Had detention?
Yes

43. Been in a car?
Yes

44. Hated the way you look?
Yes

45. Witnessed a crime?
Yes

46. Been lost?
Yes

47. Been to the opposite side of the country?
Yes

48. Felt like dying from embarrassment?
Yes

49. Cried yourself to sleep?
Yes

50. Sang karaoke?
Yes

51. Done something you told yourself you wouldn't do?
Yes

53. Caught a snowflake on your tongue?
Yes

54. Kissed in the rain?
Yes
55. Sung in the shower?
Who hasn't?

56. Had a dream that you married someone?
Yes

57. Played getting married?
Maybe my Barbie and Ken

58. Got your tongue stuck to a flag pole?
No

59. Ever gone to school partially nude?
No...? Who would do that?

60. Been on a blind date?
Kinda

61. Sat on a roof top?
Yes

62. not take a shower for a week?
Yes, two. :P Hiking trip in WY.

63. Ever been too scared to watch scary movies alone?
YES!!

64. Played chicken?
No.

65. Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on?
I think so

66. Been told you're hot by a complete stranger?
Yes

67. Broken a bone?
Arm

68. Been easily amused?
Always

69. Laugh so hard you cry?
Yes

70. Cheated on a test?
A little.

71. Forgotten someone's name?
Yes

72. Blacked out from drinking?
Never

73. Played a prank on someone?
Yes

74. Gone to a late night movie?
Yes, several

76. Failed a class?
Once

78. Played an instrument for more than 10 hours?
Guitar Hero count?

79. Cheated on a girlfriend/boyfriend?
Never.

80. Did you celebrate the 4th of July?
Yes

81. Thrown strange objects?
What qualifies as strange?

82. Felt like someone else?
Kinda...

83. Thought about running away?
Yes

84. Ran away?
When I was little and ran away I hid on top of the mailbox (it's a big mail box made of brick) where I thought I couldnt be seen but I think I was actually MORE obvious

85. Had detention and not attend it?
Yes

86. Made parents cry?
Yes...not proud of it

87. Cried over someone?
Yes

88. Owned more than 5 sharpies?
Yes

89. Dated someone more than once?
Yes

90. Have a dog?
Had.

91. Own an instrument?
Guitar.

92. Been in a band?
No.

93. Drank 25 sodas in a day?
lol probably come close but no

94. Broken a cd?
Probably

95. Shot a gun?
Yes

96. Been on Livejournal for more than 5 hours?
No

97. Fell asleep at the computer?
Yes

98. Have a major crush on someone right now?
Yes

Getting close to that time of year!

2007-06-19T16:31:47Z

Dragon*Con season is rapidly approaching. If it were a perfect world I'd be half way though having this costume made for myself:

I'm completely in love with it but I'm sure the leather work and detail would make this an incredibly expensive costume! So, I'll keep dreaming. :)

Costumes aside! Aug 30-Sept 3 Ross, Mario, Luis and I will be at D*Con. So, this is my annual notice to remind those that want to go that they need to buy tickets (which are $70 if you buy now, $85 at the door). Also wanted to point out you can check Dragoncon.com to see who will be there. I can tell you some that I'm excited about are the MythBusters, James and Oliver Phelps (the Weasley Twins), Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings), and MY personal favorite! James Marsters! :D

Quite excited. So, if you're coming please let me know.

google meme

2007-06-19T05:33:32Z

Snagged from sandy_s. Go to google and type in "YOURNAME needs" and list the first 10 things it says you need.

1. Lauren needs attention.
Yes I do! Now adore me! :) hehe.
2. Lauren needs a hotel room.
What am I up to that I need a hotel room? hmmm...
3. Baby Lauren needs our prayers.
Aw, this one is sad. :(
4. I think Lauren needs to get over it.
O.o what did I do?!
5. Lauren needs to kick the crack habit.
Uh oh. >.<
6. Why does Lauren need someone with her when she is outdoors? Does Lauren need help or encouragement getting dressed or undressed?
Um...no.
7. ...Lauren needs no further adjustments to herself.
Why thank you! :D
8. Lauren needs attention.
I'm really craving the attention today aren't I? LOL this one came up twice.
9. Lauren needs to work on her self esteem
Probably true.
10. Lauren Needs Help Too.
Learning to surf? Yes, that is true.

New Maroon 5 song

2007-05-20T01:22:03Z

The new M5 single Wake Up Call is my new love. Can this CD come out already?! Its not actually 6 min long, theres like 3 minutes of dead air on it at the end but its the best quality one I could find.

scandalkitty @ 2007-05-06T21:57:00

2007-05-07T01:58:32Z

Memes and Spiderman 3

2007-05-05T17:46:49Z

I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a Lauren! What a Lauren!

Which movie was this quote from?

So I saw Spiderman 3 last night.

good, highly recommend seeing it but I think #2 is my favorite. I would've liked to see a lot more action from this third installment but oh well. This movie focuses much more on the life of Peter Parker, the emotional side. What they gave us was very well done just perhaps not what some people went in there to see. Like I would prefered about double the Venom time and half the Sandman time, putting those two villains on the same level was just...why? That's really my main complaint. I never heard of Sandman before this movie but almost everyone knows Venom. They aren't the same level of bad guy. So there you go, it's a vague review but the best I can manage during exam time. :)

scandalkitty @ 2007-04-24T12:30:00

2007-04-24T16:34:19Z

The domestic version of the international trailer I posted previously, courtesy of bunny_lita.

Lots of new shots and oh em gee I'm excited about this movie! I can't help but cheer when Fred and George are causing hell in the Great Hall. <3

scandalkitty @ 2007-04-22T15:36:00

2007-04-22T19:37:23Z

OMG fangirl squee!