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I’m going to keep going on the Once Upon A Time thing, but this time I’m going to talk a little bit more about Grimm. There was a bit of buzz about the two fairy tale shows coming out at the same time, and I couldn’t have been more excited about either of them.

I don’t know that I’ve talked about it much here, but I’m kind of a Science Fiction and Fantasy fan. I mean, my last semester at Sacramento State was planned around being able to take the Science Fiction option of my senior portfolio course. And I’ve come to terms with possibly dating a guy who is shorter than me by relating the situation to Battlestar Gallactica. Do I really need to say any more?

Both of these shows are definitely Fantasy, and it’s just awesome.

Once Upon A Time has a lot more happening in the fantasy world, what with the town of Storybrook being under a spell that keeps the entire town from knowing that they are all characters in fairytales. There are lots of flashbacks to tell their original stories, which then play out in current times. Oh, and none of the people in Storybrook age I guess.

It’s not a perfect show, it occasionally borders on campy and I don’t think that’s the intention at all, but I still enjoy it. There are plenty of different fairy tale stories to tell, and while those unfold, the curse that keeps them in the dark about their identities is being explored.

The one that I really can’t get enough of though? Grimm!

First off, this is what you’re forced to look at during the episode.

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I know that’s just awful, but if you can get past that, there’s this awesome combination of the fantasy world and a crime show that is just perfect.

It’s like they took the Law part of Law & Order, and just moved it into the fantasy world with a really attractive man. It’s Law & Fantasy and I want more!

Since I initially wrote this, Grimm has been given a short break that worried me, when I factor in the fact that the shows I really like rarely get picked up. Fortunately, that break was followed up by a special Thursday episode and a regular Friday schedule. I’d totes be down for some Thursday Grimm action. Crossed fingers that they make the move!

If you haven’t watched either show, I recommend trying each of them out, but I have the feeling that Grimm is going to have a wider type of audience. If you have seen them, what do you think?

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I’m not terribly active on DailyBooth. I follow friends, and I check in every day to see what they’re up to, but I don’t actually post myself very often. It’s something that I’m hoping to change in the new year.

It’s called DailyBooth, so why not take one daily?

Anyway, that’s not what I want to write about right now.

Tonight I DID post. It was kind of a lame picture, I look pretty blah in it, but I’m drinking my Dr Pepper, so I don’t really mind.

The picture did earn me a new follower though, as well as a fantastic new message from a wonderful young gentleman asking me if I wanted him to follow me, in return for following him.

He was also kind enough to tell me about another site that’s similar to DB, but with GIFs instead. If I wanted to follow him on there, he’d follow me there as well.

Isn’t that nice?

It’s people like him who make me want to write back and just say, excuse me, but you’re doing it wrong. Social media is not about following someone because they are following you. You should follow someone because you like what they are posting and want to see what that is.

I’ve never understood the follow for follow idea. Followers to me mean nothing if they are only following me because I’m following them. Plus, those usually aren’t actually people I care to follow.

Can someone please explain the follow for follow idea to me? Or is it really just a way to grow numbers?

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Has anyone else been watching Once Upon A Time? I’m a little bit in love with the little leather jackets that Emma’s been wearing on the show. I don’t really understand why she has at least a few of them when this week’s show made it a point to show that she lives pretty minimally, but that’s just the way that I watch shows and notice some weird details like that.

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I’m a little bit in love with the little leather jackets.

I wonder if there’s a chance for me to find some to try on. I noticed when she was on How I Met Your Mother that Jennifer Morrison, the actress who plays Emma, doesn’t actually have a lot of curves to her body. I’ve lost some of mine with the weight loss last year, but I still have a pretty small waist and I like to show that when I can. I don’t think that these jackets are really the best way to go about that.

They seem to actually kind of be perfect for someone like her.

I got a couple of super cute skirts at Old Navy a month or so ago for only $7 each, and I could see these jackets working with them, but will they work for me? This is why I need to have a chance to try them on somewhere!

I’m tempted to go somewhere like Forever21, but I don’t think that I would really trust the quality of F21 for something like that. I mean, I’ve had plenty of their things fall apart on me.

Where else might I find some of these jackets at affordable prices? I want to be trendy guys!

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Ok, that caffeine thing, I’ve kind of stopped that.

I don’t consider this a failure because I made the choice that right now, while I’m inexplicably tired beyond reason, that I’d like the comfort of Dr Pepper. It’s more of a comfort thing for me than it is about the caffeine. If I could buy caffeine free somewhere in Sacramento I would be all over that, but my local bottler doesn’t make it, so I have to settle for the real thing.

Damn.

While I’m typing this, I am just shy of 1150 words for my NaNoWriMo Blog Edition, but I slept for 4 hours this afternoon when I didn’t mean to and now I have my caffeine back, so I think I’ll be able to get through 2000 by tonight. If I’m really motivated, I think I’ll go for 3000!

I actually have a list of about 23 topics on which I plan to write at least 300 words, but I left that list at work. When I have that, I’m sure that I’ll be able to blow through 5 and 10 thousand without too much trouble.

I’m hoping that tonight I’ll simply be able to come up with a few more topics and get a few hundred words from each of those. It would be really nice to have that many posts ready and waiting to post, get rid of some blogging guilt while also being able to get other things done. Well that’s just the best of both worlds, isn’t it!

As of the end of this post, I’m now past 1300 words, I think I can get through 3000 in the next two hours if I just keep on going!

Word count update for the night
9:19PM, 1331
9:45PM, 1597
10:21PM, 1887
11:50PM, 2273
12:53AM, 2527
1:21AM, 2800

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Hello and welcome to the first installment of Driving Lessons with Katherine!

I’m glad to have you with me, and since you’re roaming the internet freely, I’m going to hope that you are at least 16 years old and eligible to drive. In which case, you have probably already taken some sort of driver’s education, hopefully even passed a driving test and are officially licensed to drive. However, so are the people who I see driving around on the road every day.

Those people who do some really stupid things. Enter yours truly to alert you to some of the mistakes that you may actually be making yourself.

Truth be told, I some times make most of these mistakes myself, and it’s kind of ridiculous how angry I get at myself when I do, but please rest assured that I do get angry and am thusly punished.

For today’s lesson I am pulling from the drive from my house to the bar for trivia tonight.

Unfortunately, there was an accident on my way here, though it was on the other side of the median and it should not have slowed my 6:15 drive much. Yet it did!

For reasons that I don’t understand, people slowed down and watched all that they could of the accident on the other side of the freeway. Would you like to know what they saw? They saw the flashing lights of a fire engine and an ambulance. And about a tenth of a mile before that there were the flashing lights of a police cruiser.

That’s all that you could see in the northbound lanes. Why is it that people needed to see that? I could see it from half a mile away!

So today’s lesson, DON’T BE A RUBBERNECKER!!!

I understand the slowing down a bit on the opposite side of the road, but really, even if you can see things, you can only see them for a moment, and then what are you going to know that you can’t find out by Googling it the next day?

The only thing that your severe slow down does is irritate drivers like myself, who understand that there’s nothing that I can do for the situation and just want to get to their destination.

So please, slow down a little so as not to disturb the emergency crews, but fight the urge to need to know everything that’s happening over there, you’re not going to anyway!

No, if the accident is on your side of the road, that’s another story, and another lesson.

I won’t be sure enough on my stance on the matter until it comes up again, so let’s hope that lesson is a long way out!

This has been Driving Lessons with Katherine. Drive safe all!

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Apparently I’m the kind of crazy who doesn’t look at her schedule very carefully before deciding that she’s going to take a break from caffeine.

I don’t actually drink a whole lot of caffeine in the first place. I don’t like coffee, and I’m not a big fan of tea, but I do love my Dr Pepper! The thing is though, that Dr Pepper doesn’t actually have much caffeine in it. When I drink that to keep me awake, it’s probably more the sugar than anything else.

Even so, I really do like Dr Pepper enough that when I start to drink it, I tend to drink too much of it. I can drink enough of it to become dependent on the small amounts of caffeine it does provide. I don’t like the times that I end up getting headaches and things like that because I haven’t had enough caffeine.

So every now and again, I start to taper off. For the past week or so I’ve either limited my consumption, or tried to have a glass of water for every glass of Dr Pepper. Then on Tuesday morning, when I poured the last that I had at home into my travel cup, I decided that I wouldn’t be buying anymore for the rest of the month.

Never mind that I made this decision at 4:30 in the morning, before heading to a shift starting at 5, or the fact that it was the first of four shifts like it this week. No, I’m taking my break from caffeine starting now and that’s just the way it’s going to be.

As I write this, I’m only about a day and a half in, but I think I’m going to do ok. I’ve already had way more water than I was drinking before. I think this will be a very good thing.

How do you do with caffeine? Think you could ever give it up for a while?

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