Ok… this movie is hailed as “the most frightening horror movie since The Exorcist“.
Here is what I thought…. It’s sort of Stephen King’s The Stand meets Richard Matheson’s I am Legend, but with zombies instead of vampires, and a lot more gore than the movie version of The Stand.
Oh, and I didn’t think it was scary. At all. I suppose the bloody scenes were meant to be scary, but it was just gross. Jeepers Creepers scared me more than this movie did.
Maybe I’m just jaded towards horror movies. I’m hard to scare, I’ve read a lot of Stephen King, a movie’s gotta work hard to instill terror in my heart and get my pulse racing.

My halloween was spent taking Comet to the vet and trying to return a rental car while carrying a sick dog, all my junk that had accumulated in the rental… and finding out that, while they fixed the damage to my car from the insurance claim, they didn’t fix the vandalism on the trunk of my car. All in all it was a rotten day.
Poor Comet… mom’s husband poured bacon grease out in the dirt in front of the house on Thursday and both the dogs were out there eating it. But what they really ate was a lot of dirt, twigs, and little rocks. Bailey, being much bigger, is fine. Comet, however, was very sick. I just knew he wasn’t feeling well. At the vet’s office, he got an enema, x-rays, an antibiotic shot, an anti-vomitting shot, and some medicine. He seems to be doing much better now, but he still has some rocks in his little tummy that need to come out… I hope he’s not in any more pain.
I really do enjoy being back in California, but it’s starting to wear on me. Not being here, but living at home, not knowing a lot of people around here anymore, and not having a job. And I’m sort of sick of people in general, or maybe it’s just guys. I feel like I’ll always date the wrong guys, that anyone that I’m close to will turn out to be a jerk. It’s the story of my life, why would I think moving back here would change anything?

My cookies were a disaster… rather than make more, I switched to brownies, and they are delicious! =)
I really can cook, I swear!

I tried to make cookies today. I don’t know what went wrong… but I ended up with a cookie sheet covered in a mushy, slightly burnt, cookie-ish substance. Ugh. Last time I made cookies, they came out great.
It’s been a long time, lots has been happening… let’s see.
I had a job interview last week with DST Innovis, in El Dorado Hills. I’d have to move, probably to Folsom, which is right down the road from Sacramento. Sort of the opposite of where I want to go (which is south, south, to beautiful southern California), but beggars can’t be choosers, now can they? I still have one to two weeks of waiting before I find out if I got the job.
Chemistry is going well so far. Of course, I’m only on chapter one. There’s about 80 to 100 problems at the end of each chapter, so I’m still working on those, but I’ve been doing good except for some small mistakes. Exponential notation and unit conversions sucks! Hopefully this afternoon I will proceed to chapter 2.
California is great, I love being back here. The weather is just wonderful, and it’s a shame I’ve only been to the beach twice. I’d like to go again and take Bailey, and maybe Mom’s dog Cody too. Hopefully once Mom gets back from Italy/Portugal, I can talk her into going with me.
The only bad part about being back here, aside from not having a job yet and being almost completely out of money already, is that I’m very lonely. I did meet one nice guy who I went out with a few times. I just haven’t had the heart yet to tell him that I think he’s a great friend, but that’s it. There really isn’t a good way to tell someone that, is there? And I met a cute guy in Davis, while I was visiting for the weekend last month. Too bad I didn’t get his phone number!
Oh, and for some reason, I stayed up late last night to finish making a CD. A CD that I mailed to my ex today as sort of a belated birthday gift. I don’t know why I did that. In his way, he’s made it clear that he is still in love with me, and I know that I will always care for him, but I’m not sure where it could go. There’s a lot that I haven’t forgotten or forgiven, and it’s just horribly complicated. Ha, I suppose it’s just like everything else in my life, a complete mess! =)
And of course, tonight is the big Aerosmith / KISS concert. I’m so angry that I don’t have the money to go. I really wanted to see KISS again. I missed it on the east coast too because I was leaving to move back here. And tomorrow is the Navy Ball, and I can’t go to that either. Boo. I’m just going to sit at home doing Chemistry while everyone else is out having fun…. but just wait, once I get a job and get settled, everyone is going to be so jealous of all the fun I’ll be having. (I always try to keep a positive attitude, you know!)