Cookies, books, and a puppy

Okay I know this is supposed to be my Harry Potter post but that is turning into something much bigger so it will take more time (there's like lists and whatnot involved) So in the meantime you get a mini rant about food.

Today I bought one of those Betty Crocker Warm Delight thingies and while it was warm I did not find it to be particularly delightful. Ususally that is one of those things that looks good but I don't ever waste my money on it (because I have much more important things to waste my money on...like books or dvd's or music or vegetarian bacon.) but today it was on sale and I was hungry so I bought it. Now when these were first introduced I was lead to believe that this was a thing that came pre prepared, all you had to do was toss it into the microwave for a few seconds and you would be good to go the other thing is that not only the commercial implied but the box showed a picture of this full bowl of cookie. Yeah neither of those things were true, first surprise is that you open up the box and there is the bowl with a little packet of cookie mix (cause I got the cookie one rather then the brownie one becuase in general I like squishy cookies better then brownies not that I don't like brownies I just like cookies better) and a packet of fudge and yes if I had read the box I would have been aware of the fact that you have to mix it yourself but it was an impulse purchase based on false advertising not something I actually thought about so while mildly annoyed that I had to put in extra effort in my efforts to get fatter I added the water to the mix and very quickly realized that not only had I been misled about the preparedness of the cookie but also about the size so here I am with this moderate size bowl and this thin layer of cookie mix on the bottom of it which got me a bit more annoyed with the Betty Crocker people I know they are trying to trick people into buying this thing and that all prepackaged food is less then it looks (the huge potato chip bags that are half empty when you open them. Anything frozen.) but seriously you just don't need to waste all that plastic cut the size (of the container not the product) and the price call it mini and I'll bet anything that the sales go up. So anyway I took my weird regular cookie size cookie like product and tasted it, (I need to mention that I love cookies especially when they are still all gooey and slightly undercooked and yes I know that's bad for me but that doesn't make it any less delicious) it tasted kind of like those weird cookie dough bites that you know are in no way related to cookie dough and taste like it and it's just not at all what you want, and severly undercooked cookie while still being solid. It was not good, the fudge they give you to put in top made it better but I think that was mainly because it was masking the weird taste, it wasn't really bad it's just not something that I would buy ever or would really want to eat. I think next time I'll just bake cookies and save my money. Overall Betty Crocker has lost a good bit of my respect which I think it sad, they should stick to cookbooks not making weird ass cookie things.

On a totally unrelated topic I've been working on organizing my bookshelves mainly because they were so disorganized that I could never find anything and all of my books were just sort or haphazardly stacked on the shelves. I have now learned that you can fit a lot more books on the self haphazardly then you can when they are organized.

The shelves originally all looked a bit more like the top shelf. Also ignore the plastic bags they're part of a project I'm working on. And I do have more Harry Potter books then just the three up there but they're on the shelf you can kind of see to the right there.

I now have no home for about 2/3 of my books, plus I displaced a whole shelf of dvds (yes I have a lot of dvds mainly because I can (or could) still afford those seening as how the five dollar dvd rack exists and there isn't really a five dollar book rack)

See you can fit way more there when they're not really in any sort of order.

but that just made me realize that I also have no home for my dvds as that rack is also more then full. I need to move out and stop trying to fit an apartments worth of stuff into my tiny bedroom, not that I have anything against small bedrooms, when I was in the aparetment I have a relatively big room and all the space freaked me out it's just that I want to have enough room to fit my stuff in in an organized way. So it doesn't look like I'm the biggest packrat ever. I realize no one really needed to see some of my shelves but I think it helps prove my point.

Also just so this isn't just a rant wrapped in annoying. My mom got a puppy a couple months ago so here are a couple pictures of Echo:

Echo, she's a Springer Spaniel
My mom, (She doesn't have a weird growth on her back there I'm pretty sure that's he phone), Dude (The Golden Retriever) Echo (The puppy obviously) and Crash (the Greyhound)

Oh and have a flower picture because while I was looking for the Echo pictures this jumped out and was yelling at my to put it on my blog.

The last what...month?

So I guess a fair amount of stuff has happened since my last post. I know I mentioned a while ago that I would be taking a photography class which I did and it was awesome. I didn't exactly learn anything new. Like I knew what the aperture was and about three point lighting and all of that, but it was nice to get some actual feedback from someone other than my mom. Here are some of my favorite pictures I took duing the class:

and these two I took about three years ago but I'm still really proud of them and my teacher picked them as some of his favorites:

Last sunday I went to this film indusrty expo thingy which was supposed to have a bunch of job opprotunities and all of that which would have been helpful because I did go to film school and with the tax incentive for the film industry in Michigan it seemed like an obvious thing to attend. It turned out to be a total waste of time they has all sorts of schools advertising there which seemed kinda dumb to me because if I wanted to go to school I would have gone to a college fair, then they had a bunch of radio stations advertising there which I really didn't understand at all. Finally they had a couple film related things there but when I went to talk to them they were more like "yeah here is what we do and what we can do for YOUR film no we have a full staff we're not hiring but if you want you can HIRE US." Again why were they there? I know people keep telling me that film is a good thing to be in in Michigan right now because of this whole tax incentive thing and that people think I'm lazy because I don't have a job yet but really NO ONE is hiring this thing didn't really create more jobs in Michigan it just made it so that the people who are already working in film don't have to get second jobs to support themselves. So I think I'm going to keep doing film as a hobby and hope that I can find a way to get in but try to find something that will actually pay me, it's disappointing because I was a huge supporter of if you love it find a way to do it no matter what but I just can't live that right now with the way things are going in my life.

On a happier note Jessica's birthday was on Sunday to for her birthday I got her tickets to see Green Day on Tuesday. That show was AWESOME!!!!! I love love love Green Day and have seen them every time they have come to Detroit since I was fifteen and they have never once been bad or even disappointing. There was one part a found a bit lame but it was more then made up for by the rest of the show. If anyone has ever seen Green Day perform they know that Billie Joe always pulls people from the crowd to play with them which he did a couple times the first time he did it was not cool instead of having the people play the instruments while he sings he had these people sing which just felt like a bad game of karaoke revolution the guy he pulled up first while his voice wasn't terrible his timing was atrocious, when he messed up bad enough Billie Joe kicked him off the stage and pulled up a girl who was litterally the worst singer ever in the history of the universe her timing was WAY off, she was almost definitely tone deaf, nad she was totally unsure of herself. She barely made it through the last couple phrases of the song (which was longview by the way) then finished by shouting Detroit? into the mic. The next guy Billie Joe pulled up onto the stage was much better He had this guy play guitar for Jesus of Suburbia and that guy rocked. The show was awesome Billie Joe talked a lot but not in the annoying way some performers do he got a lot of audience participation having the crowd sing most of Boulevard of Broken Dreams or just asking everyone to make sex noises which got more weird cheering then anything else but was still amusing nonetheless. After leaving the stage having done a full set usually Billie Joe will come back out a do a really simple version of Time of Your Life this time they did their whole set then came back out and did another full set then left again then Billie Joe came back out again and did Macy's Day Parade and Time of Your Life. This show was awesome and I'm so happy that Green Day is still Green Day and that their new stuff totally lives up to everything I would expect from them.

I have a lot I want to say about the Harry Potter movie but I think I've written a long enough post here so I'll post my comments on that soon.