Wednesday Ramblings

Happy halfway through the week friends! Hope you can keep up with all the stuff running through my head today! :)

First of all, I wanted to let you know about this awesome blog I just discovered: Sweet November. If you love crafts, this is the place to go! They are offering free advertising until they reach 300 followers. Click on the icon below to get more information!

As some of you may remember, I was a huge fan of the TV show LOST. Did you hear  the Mega-Millions winning lottery numbers last night? Four out of the six numbers on the winning lottery ticket were the same numbers as Hugo's winning lottery ticket on LOST (and the same numbers that kept "appearing" throughout the series). 

Mega Millions numbers: 4, 8, 15, 25, 47, 42

Lost numbers: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

The winning lottery ticket on LOST

I'm not familiar with how the lottery works (I personally don't play it), but I believe if you get at least three of the numbers and the mega number right, you win a small amount. I wonder how many LOST fans were still playing those same lottery numbers??

In other ramblings, last week on Twitter (again, follow me here if you would like), I entered Master Card's "Priceless to Me" Tweet of the Week contest. You had to send a tweet and put #pricelesstome in it, and then obviously say something that was priceless to you. Master Card then voted on the best one. Well, I won!! :) I'm supposedly getting my prize sometime this week or next week. I'm not sure what I'm getting, I'll let you know once I get it though! :)

My winning tweet and my notification that I had won!

I've been meaning to post this for a while. I mentioned a while back that I know how to cross stitch. For Christmas I made my sweet friend Jillana a tissue box cover. She loves lighthouses so I picked a lighthouse pattern. I thought I would show y'all a picture of it (a lot of you do "crafty" stuff on your blogs, and I was feeling left out). ;) I didn't mention it while I was working on it since she reads my blog. :) I'm so glad that she likes it! It was fun to make!

 

My tissue box masterpiece (okay, maybe not masterpiece)

Hope you are all having a fab week! Thanks for all the sweet comments, they have really made my week! And thanks to all of you giving me encouragement either in comments or on Twitter with my 30 Day Shred workout! I appreciate it! :) XOXO!

My Final Thoughts On LOST...

I know not everyone is a fan of the show, so I'll TRY and keep this post brief (but you know I had to post about it!) But just think, now that LOST is over, I won't be mentioning it (as much).

Again **SPOILER ALERT** If you ever plan to watch LOST, or the finale, please be aware there are spoilers below. Thank you!!

So, my closing thoughts on LOST. I liked the finale. It took me until this morning to come to that conclusion (yes, I thought about it for a while), but the verdict is in: I like how they ended the show. Could it have been better? Probably. Could it have been worse? OH YEAH. I already had some scenarios running through my head that I prayed they wouldn't use. But overall: after 6 years of numbers, the hatch, Dharma, time traveling, The Others, bright flashes, polar bears, black smoke, love triangles (and in some cases parallelograms) and Matthew Fox and/or Josh Holloway walking around shirtless (okay, I actually enjoyed that), I was satisfied with the ending. Were there questions unanswered? Yes, but that kinda leaves the mystery that was LOST to continue on (if that makes sense).

Examples of endings I didn't want:

1). I didn't want it to end with Jack (played by Matthew Fox), waking up on the plane, only to hear, "We are now arriving at LAX, thank you for flying Oceanic flight 815, and have a great day." Basically, I didn't want the whole show to be a dream. I joked for the past two weeks if someone woke up and Patrick Duffy was in the shower, I would be mad (if you never watched the show Dallas, that will make no sense to you!) I knew deep down the writers would never do this, but still, I have trust issues when it comes to finales of TV shows.

2). I also didn't want it to end with Hurley (aka Hugo) in a mental hospital, looking at a picture of an island and all of this to have been in his head (for those who remember the 80's show St. Elsewhere, the series ended with the hospital all being in the imagination of a little boy).Yeah, I'm full of random information!

3). I also didn't want it to end with everyone back on a plane, and it crash (or almost crash) on another island.

4.) I didn't want the island story to be a paper that Walt was writing for a college creative writing class. (FYI, Walt was NOT in the finale. Supposedly details of that reason will be on the DVD).

There are MANY articles/blog posts/comments on the internet talking about how the show ended. If you REALLY want to know, you are more than welcome to Google that information. I'm not going to spend time retyping what other people have already said. But, one blog post that I found interesting came from none other than Rangers pitcher C.J. Wilson (who I will forgive for not having his "A" game yesterday while pitching. They lost by 1 run. On my birthday. It's okay, I'm over it! If he can have a good outing next time, I won't mention it again.)  I'll also talk about the rude Cubs fans another day. So anyways, back to LOST. I think I posted a few weeks ago that C.J. was a big LOST fan. He had some interesting things to say that "summed" up the episode and what it meant. If you would like to read his theories, you can go here and here.

Quick side note to my Thursday Thirteen from last week: 10 of the 13 characters I wanted to see return for the finale were in the episode. Walt, Michael and Mr. Eko were the only three not there.

For the few LOST fans who might be reading this, I found some interesting articles I wanted to share. The LA Times ranked every LOST episode from "not best" to "best" (they didn't want to say "worst"). Go here for that article.

There are also some funny clips, including a group of cats giving a summary of LOST in a minute, as well as Jimmy Fallon interviewing LOST cast members. Go here for those videos.

So anyways, if you are a fan of LOST and have any theories/comments/ regarding the show and the finale, feel free to email me or comment below.

Have a great week everyone!!

Thursday Thirteen

**SPOILERS** If you are not caught up on LOST, or, if you ever plan to watch it on DVD, the list below will provide spoilers! You have been warned! : )

With the LOST series finale airing this coming Sunday, I thought I would dedicate my Thursday Thirteen list to the show (I've already said that I'm a nerd, this pretty much confirms it).

So, here is my list of The 13 "Former" Characters from LOST That I Hope Make One Last Appearance in the Series Finale (either in the "island" world or "alternate" world). This includes characters who have "died". If you don't watch the show, it's too confusing to explain!

1. Charlie
2. Boone 
3. Michael
4. Walt:
5. Mr. Eko
6. Aaron (Claire's baby/toddler)
7. Vincent: (Walt's dog) HEY, he was an important character! : )
8. Penny
9. Shannon
10. Juliet
11. Sayid
12. Jin
13. Sun

Wednesday Ramblings...

So, did you watch LOST last night??? O....M....G.... Okay, if you don't watch the show, bear with me. Just two episodes left until the series finale. I cannot wait to see how they tie all of this together. Does anyone else have questions?? I have LOTS OF questions. :)  

Two of my favorite characters, Jack and Sawyer

So, since I'm talking about LOST, I had to post these videos from YouTube. Turns out that C.J. Wilson of the Texas Rangers is a big fan of LOST as well. He got to meet with the executive producers a while back and ask them some questions about the show.  **SPOILER ALERT**: If you watch LOST and are not caught up this season, OR if you ever plan to watch LOST on DVD, you might want to watch these videos with caution. There are some spoilers from season 6 as well as previous seasons in here. If you are all caught up on LOST, or just don't care for it, you should be good to watch!

Part 1:


Part 2:


Part 3:

Oh, a follow up to my apartment complex situation (for more info on that, see my post from last week here.) Yesterday as I was leaving for work, my apartment complex manager was out there again. He said he was trying to find a way to keep the sidewalk from flooding while the sprinklers were on. My suggestion would be to run the sprinklers about 4am or 5am, that way they aren't going when I'm leaving at 7am. But oh well, it was nice to see he was trying to figure out a solution to the problem. Again, I tell you, the man fears me!!

In closing, I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Cinco de Mayo!

A friend of mine posted the picture below on her Facebook page with the caption, "Happy Cinco de Mayo". It made me laugh! Happy Wednesday friends!!