THE Andrea

dance as though no one is watching

Smile!

Just a quick note here. I do plan on expanding on this subject later. But for now...

Over the past year or so, I've been slowly sinking back into my depression. It finally clicked that maybe my regular doctor isn't the best person to be figuring out my brain chemical issues.  So, I went to a psychiatrist, and she has me on a new medication. I've been on it for about 6 weeks now, and I feel AMAZING! I haven't felt this good in probably 13 years. I feel like ME. Anyway... this is just leading up to show a  pic of me. I don't like pics of me in general, so this is monumental folks. This was me yesterday. I just really liked how happy I looked and wanted to share.

Enjoy!

and SMILE :D

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Auto Tuning

I don't usually share videos, but this had me LAUGHING OUT LOUD!!! Hope you enjoy as much as I did.

Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on Vimeo.

Vimeo HQ - 4:12pm

Blake needs to talk to Jack about the homepage... or at least he tries to.

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Wordless Wednesday

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SXSW 2009 - Day 1 - Friday

I took the first day of SXSW off, even though the movies didn't start until the evening. I have to have time to prepare you see. Rest, relax, basic slacking. I had planned on going to the panel on getting the most out of SXSW. But as usual I didn't plan well. The traffic at 2 pm was worse than rush hour then combine that with the pouring rain. Not pretty. So it took me 45 minutes to get down to the convention center. I still needed to get my goodie bag. I managed to snag a meter spot and only had to pay 75 cents to park. Even that was overkill cuz it didn't take me but ten minutes to get in and out. The ride home took me an hour cuz of the scared pansy drivers. You'd think it was ice and not just a wee bit of water.

Later, Mike and I headed down to Paramount to catch I Love You, Man. I went to my badge line which was INSANE and Mike went into his little film pass line. I got us seats, Mike was able to get in, and voila. The entire main cast were there and it was very cool to see them. Excuse the blurry picture, but we were quite far up the balcony.

The movie was hilarious. Paul Rudd was excellent. Understated, which made the hilarity that much more yanno, hilarious. The Q&A afterwards was a bit of a bummer, because Janet Pierson obviously didn't think about what kinds of questions she would ask her first Q&A at her first screening of the first year as her being the director for the SXSW Film. If that were me, I think I would have practiced about 100 questions to ask. Just to have them in the pocket and ready to go. Instead of fumbling around, hemming & hawing. Bah. Makes me miss Matt Dentler, that's for sure.

We stayed at Paramount and watched ExTerminators, with Heather Graham, Jennifer Coolidge, and Amber Heard. It was filmed in Austin, so that was excellent of course. It was about a group of ladies in an anger management group that decide to take matters into their own hands when it comes to the men in their lives. Very good stuff. Heather Graham was very good and I'm not usually that impressed with her. Mike also said she has "awesome boobs". Yes, yes she does.

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Introducing...

I thought I would introduce y'all to my xbox live avatar -- reigners... reigners-body

This does not look anything like me, as some people like to do for theirreigners avatars. Well, I mean, I do have red hair and I'm short, and I am probably that pale, and I do sometimes wear pig tails, but I'm not that skinny or you know... a vampire. Also, I would never ever wear a skirt like that.  This is more like wishful thinking. What would I like to look like if I could. Yup, this would probably be it.

So, thanks to the wonderful world of avatars, I can look like that online, while playing dorked out games that I love.

The pic on the left is my gamertag picture or whatever that is called. How I took that picture with my avatar's eyes closed I will never know. But it's cool, so I kept it. I know, you're jealous. It's okay, many people are.

Latelly I've been playing all the Lego games. Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Star Wars, and I've recently just started Lego Batman. I also have the new Prince of Persia that I need to start too. But I've been in the puzzle-y mood so Lego it has been.  I also think that I may be moving my time from xbox to knitting. I'm like that ya see. I do things in phases, in an all or nothing way. I do one thing and I do it a lot and I mean A LOT. Then I burn out or just get over it and move on to the next thing. I feel like I'm in a transition stage at the moment between xbox and knitting.

We will have to see what wins out.

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Knit 1, Purl 1

So, I've taken up the knitting. I've just started, but I think I'm really going to like it. It's good, tedious, repetitive fun. I am most definitely a beginner. I can't get my edges very tight. They always seem to end up loose. Also, as you can see from my example.. I messed up by doing 2 rows of purl stitches. I was able to correct this without undoing it AGAIN. I think I've started over about 37 times. I got a book and then I got a DVD cuz the book was confusing to me. The DVD rocks cuz it shows you and explains stuff and each section is seperate, so essentially it teaches you a lesson then stops so you can practice. When you're ready, you start up the next lesson.

On a completely different note, we went camping this weekend with some friends. We went out to some land with a primitive cabin near Mason, TX. We were there from Saturday afternoon to Monday morning. Saturday night was just killer awesome. Our friends had their 3 kids, and brother there. We played Catchphrase while the grownups got silly drunk and we had a friggin' blast. I had so much fun, that I ended up getting up in the middle of the night to go pee and added a bit of hurling to the list. I think it was more from the sweet wine I brought and not drinking enough water. Cuz I wasn't THAT drunk. The next night was much more somber, cuz all the kids except the youngest left. It was no less fun, but it was definitely a different fun.

We also ate at this one cafe there called Willow Creek Cafe. I think we ended up eating there three times. It was lishous! They had meringue pies with the highest meringue I've ever seen on a pie. I think Mike has pictures on his website, so I'll try to grab one or something.

Ok, just a quick random update. Felt like I needed to write something. So there :P

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25 Random Things About Me

Ok, I did this for Facebook, but I ended up digging it quite a bit, so I'm duplicating the post here. I'm also doing this in response to a tag I got from a fellow EntreCarder... Pinklady.  Thanks for those that tagged me on this!  It was hella fun.

1. I have very little sympathy for humans, but can cry over road kill. Animals are at our mercy people.

2. I have written 4 paragraphs of a vampire-type book I want to write. But that was over a year ago. I feel like me and creativity no longer know each other.

3. I eat meat, but I CANNOT deal with raw meat. It's gross. The vegetarian husband cooks all my meat for me :D

4. My house burning down was one of the best things to happen to me. Except I lost all of my yearbooks.

5. I still feel like I'm a kid. I seriously don't want to grow up. (Mom, I'll never dress like an adult. It's just not in me.)

6. I have a screw in my left fifth metatarsal. I broke said bone while walking on a flat surface, wearing flat (but 2 inch soles) shoes. According to my husband, I went to the "Aggie School of Walking". I will never hear the end of this. Also, if I sit cross-legged with my left foot on the floor, I can feel the head of the screw.

7. I cannot seem to grasp the importance of taking care of myself. The basics are painful to me. Eating, sleeping, drinking water, facial regimens, makeup... These things take way more work than they should. My husband has to constantly remind me to eat.

8. I desperately want a female BFF. Someone I can call and just chitchat with if I wanted to. Or even better... show up at her house and just hang. What a friggin' concept.

9. Not only do I absolutely adore Justin Timberlake, but I have a really unexplainable love of all things catchy and poppy.

10. I really love listening to Rap/Hip-Hop at insanely high volumes.

11. I know a lot of ladies think they are gross, but I only use OB tampons.

12. I wouldn't be brokenhearted if I never have a kid. I'm just too spoiled and selfish.

13. I cannot be the person who breaks a spine on a book. I read a book just opened enough to see the words.

14. I will never not dye my hair anything but red. It's an obsession... or a mistake by nature. I should have just been born that way.

15. I'm seriously contemplating getting gastric bypass/lap-band.

16. I have a word doc for every television show I've ever watched. I keep track of what episodes I have & have not seen. Don't judge.

17. I scan in every single receipt that my husband and I get. Granted, it does help with taxes, but still. It's kinda weird, I know.

18. I've been rejected by SXSW twice for the same short film that I wrote/produced/edited, but I'm still giddy that I even have something to submit to a film festival. Hollah!

19. I feel like I talk too much, and am far too open with what I talk about, so that makes people not like me. (Perhaps reason for lack of #8). You'd think this would shut me up, but I think it just proves that nothing can shut me up.

20. I feel like I'm maybe two bad incidents from being an agoraphobe.

21. I'm damn proud of my 2 years in individual therapy and the 3 years in group therapy, and have never been afraid to tell anyone. I'd highly recommend group therapy for pretty much anyone. I think we as people really have no clue how to communicate with others with any degree of decent depth.

22. I really dislike it when someone touches my fortune cookie before I do (excluding the server, of course). Most of my friends/family know this and are very good about it. Thanks buddies!

23. I adore monotonous, tedious, even repetitive tasks. I'm about to take up knitting. It'll be a BLAST!

24. If I ever get a tattoo, it'll be on the top of my foot. Possibly a Shakespeare quote. However, I can't quite get to that level of commitment.

25. I miss my eyebrow piercing.

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A Quick Pic

A sick Mikey with his nurse, Sundae. This is them RIGHT NOW! I couldn't pass up the cuteness.
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I got a blog award!

One of my fellow Entrecard-ers gave me an award! It came from Isolated Existence and is given to blogs with great Gratitude and/or Attitude. Thanks so much!

I'm supposed to pass it on to 10 other blogs, but I'm just really lazy at the moment. Maybe if I remember in the future I will award it to 10 others.

Make sure you visit her website!

Thanks again!

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Gimp Toe

Q: What happens when you get off your lazy ass and organize your garage?

A: You somehow, without knowing it, jam your toe and get Metatarsalgia.

I honestly do not remember hitting my toe on anything. I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that I did not hit my toe on anything. I just stood and walked back and forth for 7ish hours. Now, I have this Metatarsalgia (which really just means sore around one of the toe/foot bones). From everything I read about it, and from what the doctor says, a mild case of it can take about a month to completely clear up. Lovely. In the mean time I have to stay off of it as much as possible. 

But, our garage is about 90% organized. So, YAY us :D

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