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hope so...

i love pictures...

i have a digital film cam - (yeah!)

need new computers w/firewire....

*sighs and looks forward to Feb or March*

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Hehe Beka!

Yeah, I'm still waiting patiently for a digital camera as well.

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dancing... i think you missed me & cam's massive convo about my camera. i've been debating what to get, and now that i've made a decision i want to order it before i change my mind!

Beka- I did miss it.
I was laughing about the whole thing before that

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hey! its saturday! this time in 2 weeks i'll be seeing wicked! the saturday after next! only 14 days... and i started counting at like 108 i think...

Lucky you! Have fun !

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aww, tell cam she's still with us in spirit. and that the thread is currently named after her.

Bad experience, Fredi?

more than one nia...

my goal is NO DEBT OF ANY KIND (gotta ways to go...)

but I tore up the credit cards ages ago (keep one for emergencies...)

the interest rates are what kill you - you work all your life just to feed the interest...

I started studying how rich people think and behave.... one thing is for certain - they don't live off their credit cards... when they use them - they ususally pay them off right away (like AMEX)

I had a great mom who taught me a lot of wonderful things - but money management wasn't one of them... i've had to learn it the hard way but the lessons took - for sure!!! now, i hope to be able to pass certain information along to my kids so they will be able to enjoy their money (i.e. live in the NOW) and still be wise about savings and planning for their future goals...

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Okay I'm back (as if that wasn't apparent already)...

Anyways. About Lemony Snicket. The movie wasn't too bad. I'm afraid I'm not the one to ask if they butchered the books or not, because I haven't read them. Jim Carey was quite ammusing (as always), and made me laugh at things I normally wouldn't have. Like whats so funny about being eaten to death by leaches? I have no idea, but when Jim Carey is involved, it can be. There were quite a few things that bothered me though. Like at the beginning, theres this cartoon and really happy music and birds chirping and little elf things singing... honestly it creeped me out. The point was for the happiness to suddenly come to an end, and the narrator to give the audience one last chance to leae the theater to see something 'more happy'. It was just really drawn out-- the song must have gone on for a few minutes, and I was beginning to wonder if I was in the right theater. The rest of the movie was okay, but it bothered me how the children were so unphased by everything happening to them. Maybe thats how they were in the books though, so I guess I can't complain...

My sister loved it though, which was all that mattered at the moment.


One last question though to those who did read the books... who the heck is Lemony Snicket? In the movie we would randomly hear his voice and see him typing or looking at pictures.

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Glory, read the books. Lemony Snicket is the author's pen name and the story's narrator who slowly works himself in as a character. They're darkly funny stories, I love them. It might make sense if you read it more. Was Jim Carrey slapsticky or more ironically comical?

its mostly rare stuff that i can't buy anywhere else, or near me.

i am definitely careful about what i buy (my parents say i need to live a little, i've gone for months without spending a dime), but this year i'm buying myself chanukah presents cause my one from my parents was wicked tickets. theres some stuff i would have gotten, but now i have to get them myself.