The Hunger Games: Movie Review

"Forget Twilight's insipid Bella Swan. This is a literary heroine girls can cherish."  

(Note: It's a little embarrassing that I took that quote from People Magazine's review of The Hunger Games, but it's accurate, what can I say??)

Joshua

Oops I almost forgot to post my Joshua review here.  Here it is, from earlier in the week.  Spoiler alert: It's the worst book of the Bible that I've read so far!

http://biblereviews.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/joshua/

One Year Later

As of this past Friday (1/27), it has been exactly one year since my aunt Amy's suicide.  Since that was the impetus for me to start this blog in the first place, I decided to do a "year later" check point on this topic.  The blogs I previously wrote on this were the following:

Initial gut reaction written shortly after it happened: http://maryploppins-brainpoops.blogspot.com/2011/02/pros-and-cons-of-suicide-note.html

More gut reaction posted shortly after the first blog: http://maryploppins-brainpoops.blogspot.com/2011/03/for-us-it-isnt-over.html

The "few months later" update from June: http://maryploppins-brainpoops.blogspot.com/2011/06/disappointment-and-why-i-might-be.html

The place I was at when I wrote the first two blogs was the point where you still feel like that knife is in your gut, and that someone is twisting it around every time you think about it (which is very often at that point because everyone is still kind of standing in the middle of the "rubble" of the aftermath and trying to pick up the pieces, if you will).  It's shock, it's devastation, heartbreak, anger, etc.  My brain subconsciously defaulted back to anger a lot during that timeframe because IMO, anger is a WAAYY easier emotion to have and to deal with than sadness and hopelessness is.

Deuteronomy

O.k. Deuteronomy is FINALLY done after my sinning detour ... I actually posted it last week but I forgot to post the link here.  Here it is:

http://biblereviews.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/deuteronomy/

Minor Sinning Detour

I took a minor sinning detour from Deuteronomy.  Here's what happened:

http://biblereviews.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/minor-sinning-detour/

I'll get back to Deuteronomy now, I promise.

Bible Studies With Mary Ploppins: Numbers

I FINALLY finished my review of Numbers, uggh.  That one took a while to read, and then it took another LONG while to write and finish the review.  Part of that was just me being busy, but another part was that I was finding it really hard to get through the review.

Details here: http://biblereviews.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/numbers/

Update: Yvette Nicole Brown Cares About Her Fans

So, I’m not gonna lie, I was pretty bummed last night about all that twitter stuff that happened with Yvette Nicole Brown.   It was so random and weird and it really made me wish to the dear Lord above that I had never ever checked Twitter when I did.  I was really kicking myself for that, and I was then also kicking myself for even being bummed about it in the first place.  It had me seriously asking the following questions of myself:

• HOW the EFF did I get myself into a frakking Twitter war about a TV GUIDE CONTEST!!??  WHAT the hell is wrong with me??  Is there something wrong with the way I’m living my life that I even got myself into this situation to begin with??  I mean look, for Yvette, it’s a totally different story – this is her JOB.  She’s trying to drum up publicity for Community because she is a castmember and she wants her show to succeed.  So of course it makes perfect sense for someone like her to be spending time on this.  But me??  Why the hell would I get myself into a situation where I’m having twitter discussions and fights about this TV Guide contest??  I don’t even work in the entertainment industry, for crap’s sake, and I haven’t gotten an issue of TV Guide for over a decade!!  So am I spending way too much time and energy into watching and discussing my favorite t.v. shows and movies??  Do I seriously need to get a life?
• Am I an attention whore??  I’ve never thought of myself as such … I mean I like to get a laugh, or tell someone an enjoyable story, definitely.  But don’t we all seek attention from our friends and fam when we tell a really cool story, tell a funny joke, post a facebook status, post a tweet, etc.?  I don't think I fall outside "normal" range here.
• Why am I even bummed about this and putting this much thought into at all??  There must be something wrong with me if I even care enough to be bummed in the first place.  And being bummed that I was bummed was just making me MORE. DAMN. BUMMED.