Random rant blog about computers. (not my class)

Okay, so I've come to the realization that it's not photoshop that hates me. In fact, its the computer. So you know my rant earlier, well, here's the thing, I've come to love photoshop again (except painting. still hate that. but whatever) and its because I found out why my file "wasn't" saving. Actually, it was, but not to the desktop like I though. I knew it kept telling me it saved.
So anyway, I did say it saved and it did. Only, it was saving to the temp folder even though I kept telling it to save to the desktop. Which is oh so frustrating since that's where all my missing documents went.

So yeah, we've come to the conclusion that it isn't actually photoshop that hates me but the computer itself. Which is still painfully frustrating. After all, I can't even find the temp file. So now I've come to hate the computer instead which hates me, just so you know. Because I know I set it to the desk top because all my other files saved there. So yeah, I already had a grudge against dell computers but its just growing. slowly but surely. After all, my first lap top broke five times. Not due to mistreatment but because they just don't like me or the makers didn't put it together right. But that doesn't even pertain to this time. This time, it just changes where I tell it to save. NONE of my other computers did that. which makes this frustrating. But oh well, I can deal with a few more days. At least my laptop now doesn't hate me. :)

Alright. Calm now. Now, I think you should watch this :)

Okay, so now that I'm calm, I'm going to start next weeks questions and then publish it on Sunday afternoon. Then I will have my 500 word blog done for the week and that work out of the way. Smart, right? So anyway, some of it might seem sorta rant-ish considering what it's about but anyway, on with the questions. Well actually, now that I'm reading the questions, nevermind. I haven't done some of the stuff for it yet.

So moving on, I guess I'll have to write about something else. Like a movie. My favorite movies. Now I have quite a few of these so I don't know why I didn't think of writing about them earlier. So anyway, some of my favorite movies are Blood and Chocolate (nothing like the book), The Break-Up, and Because I Said So. All are really really good movies. However, most of them I haven't seen in a while so bear with me if I mess up a little.

So Blood and Chocolate is about Vivian, a werewolf girl, although she is older in the movie than depicted in the book. But anyway, so sort of like in the book, she has lost her father, but unlike the book, she lost the rest of her family too. She is blames herself and since then has been preparing to run again if the need should ever arise. She is living with Astrid who is her Aunt in the movie (although not in the book. she is the villain in the book) and it is rumored that Gabriel intends to mate her for the next five years "as is tradition." However, she meets this graphic novel writer, Aiden and falls in love with him and the pack is against it and tries to separate them, first by trying to make him leave, and then by trying to kill him. As things get crazy toward the end of the book, some blood is shed, but whose you will have to find out by reading. After all, as you read in one of my last blogs (if you read it) not everything has a happy ending.

Alright, so The Break-up starts off, the couple "happily" dating and living together in a condo (I'm skipping over the very first scene for anyone who has seen this movie). And I say happily in quotes because you can almost feel the tension rising between the couple all through the first scene. And as soon as it snaps, things just go down hill from there. Each person is trying to prove that they are better off without each other because the broke up (as the title would give away). Only then it turns more into trying to make each other jealous until things just start getting to both of them and Brooke (the girl) finally decides to try and turn things around but its just too late. Things are too broken up. However, to find out whether this has a happy ending or not, you will have to watch the movie. I never ever give up the ending of books or movies.

And now for Because I Said So. I love this movie. It is so funny and so romantic at the same time. Its about this girl and her mom. Her mom is very controlling and her reason for telling her daughter to do things is "because I said so" or "because I'm your mother" or something along those lines. When her mother feels like her daughter is never going to get anywhere in her dating life, she decides to "fix it" for her by putting out an online add and picking a guy she thinks is good for her. The movie progresses and the daughter is dating two people; the one her mom found and another guy that "found her" but was actually someone from the dating service. However, the daughter doesn't know about the dating service until she finds out from the guy her mom approves of. For the rest of it, watch the movie :) Its really good and I'm not doing it justice.

And so for now I'm done I guess. These are some of my favorite movies. They all make me very happy. I suggest that you watch these. They are really really good.

Why I hate photoshop. Seriously, I do.

Okay, so you know what, I'm going to write about photoshop because I think that it is horrible. Truly and honestly, I thin k it is horrible. Not only do I think that painting with photoshop is irritatingly difficult, I think that it is just difficult in general, especially if you don't know what you are doing.

Now here's the thing, I probably wouldn't have a grudge at all against photoshop if it weren't for the fact that EVERY time I go to save something, it will tell me it's saved and then it doesn't. It is mildly irritating when following instructions on lessons. Those I can go back and find again. When I'm doing final projects though, like say...a collage, and yet again, it doesn't save, I get really, really mad. I don't even remember half the things I did and now I have to go back and do them again. Which probably won't matter since it won't save anyway.

So to address the other point of the painting, it really is just irritating. It is frustratingly long and, again, if you don't know what you're doing you are probably going to get really frustrated because it's not working. And honestly, even coloring wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so complicated. But seriously, they just keep improving photoshop and putting various brushes in with other ones and making them harder to find and stuff like that and making it harder for beginner users. And not only that, if it doesn't save, it doesn't matter whether you complete it. After all, you can't save it because the program has a freaking glitch.

And yes, this is a rant blog because I hate photoshop. Maybe its just my computer, but either way, the program doesn't work. It is horribily frustrating and I don't ever want to use it again after this although I'm probably not going to get a choice.

Good books, not so great movie. Oh well. (Not Twilight)

Okay, so first of all, just to get this out of the way, this has nothing to do with Twilight. I'm actually talking about Eragon and more specifically, the rest of the Inheritance series. I liked the first two books. The third book was definitely my least favorite one of the three and felt repetitive. If it weren't for the repetitive feeling and what felt like flashbacks, I probably wouldn't have had a problem with the book. In fact, it might have come close to being my favorite book. The only problem was that it came out so late. It left me hanging for too long and my interest faded in it somewhat which resulted in it taking a while for the book to be read.

But anyway, Eragon was favorite of the three books. I know, I know, its the first book, but acutally that has nothing to do with why I like the book. I not only had a hard time putting it down, but I had to re-read it because it had reached the top of my favorites list at the time. Honestly, I moved on to better books after that. But anyway, I actually had a favorite part of the book and that was Eragon's capture. I mean the one when the Shade had captured him and held him in the same prison as Arya (who is still my favorite character). I found that his conversation between himself and the Shade was both amusing and ironic and then the fight that ensued shortly after was also pretty good.

Over all, I just liked the book. I don't really need a reason to argue why so I'm not going to continue arguing it. But I did also like Eldest, the second book. I liked a lot of what happened then too like Eragon's training, his return to the Varden, and the discovery of what happened to his brother Mortag and who the last dragon rider is. I didn't have a particularly favorite part of the book but that's alright. It was still a pretty good book.

As for the last book, well, I already gave my opinion on it so I'm not really going to comment anymore as to the content of the book. I don't really remember much more than Eragon getting revenge and saving Sloan and his brothers wife (I think).

So anyway, that's what I have to say on the matter. Over all, a good series and hopefully the next book will be good too. So...yeah.

Just writing about whatever. Guess its another music review. Read. Listen!

Okay, so I'm really, really bored and trying to get some blogs up for class since this is one of the few things that doesn't seem to hate me right now. So I guess I'm going to blog about music. Again. Yay! Anyway, you would think that I wouldn't cry when listening to techno and dance music. Serious. And its my favorite song too.

Anyway, getting passed the fact that my life has turned into a sob story, I find that techno and dance music usually really lightens moods. I particularly like Basshunter and songs like All I Ever Wanted and Dota which are by Basshunter.

However, these aren't the only songs by Basshunter that I like. I've discovered that I also like songs like Boten Anna and Now You're Gone, along with multiple other songs. They are extremely good. It feels not just like something to dance to (particularly in the case of Now You're Gone), but that there was more of a point behind the song, but that's also how I feel about All I Ever Wanted.

I just recently found a lot more than the songs by Basshunter, which are also extremely good. There are also songs like My Heart Beats Like a Drum by ATC and I'm So Lucky, Lucky which are both good songs too. They have a great dance beat and allow for the listener to understand what the singer is saying in both songs, unlike songs like Dota and Boten Anna which are is Swedish (I think. I'm not certain though). And what I mean the listener being able to understand what is being said, I simply mean someone who only speaks English in this case.

I don't know...I guess you'll have to read ;)

Okay, so I didn't know what to write about earlier but I just had a great idea. I'm going to write about UB and how much I'm gonna miss it once it ends next week. I didn't really think I would miss it as much as I think I will now. UB has done so much for me in the last five weeks.

Since UB started, I haven't felt like I'm being criticized for every little thing I do and I haven't felt like I'm going to be told I'm a failure at life because I didn't do well at something. The people here are really supportive of the stuff I do and don't do well. And I say don't do well because they are supportive there too. What you don't do well in, the staff help you with fixing so that you will do better with it.

Not only that, but I've made some really good friends that I'm going to miss once UB gets out. I really hope that I will be able to keep in touch with them. My friends have also been extremely supportive when I'm having problems with either another friend or something else. But I haven't just made new friends, I've fixed friendships that fell apart earlier during the school year. I'm not going into the story and if that person reads my blog, they'll know who they are.

But anyway, I'm also going to miss the small classes and the set out schedule that UB has. I know that sounds weird if you know me because I hate schedules but I find the schedule making things easier in this case. Part of the reason that I don't like schedules are because they are usually too vague in how they are written (in my family at least.) and so I generally don't follow them. The UB schedule is fairly spelled out and it provides time for me to relax and do what I want to for a little bit which schedules at home don't allow for. At home it is always something that doesn't allow for free time which is another reason why I don't work by schedules at home.

But I already said what I'm going to miss most is my friends. So yeah, I love all you guys and I can't wait to come back next year.

hmmm. Oh, I Know!

Okay, so it took me a few minutes to remember what it was that I wanted to write about since at the moment I can't think of any particularly good books I've finished lately. But anyway, no, this is not a review. This is actually going to be about something I personally find fascinating as a movement in history.

The reason I find it so fascinating is that it applies to me (indirectly). I am a romantic. Now, those of you who don't know much about history would probably think 'okay...so you like romance?' and yes, that is part of it, but for those of you reading this I'm thinking more of the Romantic Movement as a whole, not just the romance aspect of it.

The Romantic Movement was a response to the Enlightenment which revolved around reason and intellectual thought only. Feelings weren't involved in the process of thought during the Enlightenment. Those kinds of ideals transferred into art and writing (the second part I’m not sure about) of that the Enlightenment period as well. The Romantic Movement, however, revolved around the human emotions and was more a social movement than a political movement, although it did have some political aspects to it.

The Romantic Movement affected literature, art and music mostly, although it did reach into things like plays too. In regards to literature, it started the Gothic Romance which targeted heavy emotions like fear and romance. Books written in this period are books like Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Frankenstein which are now considered great classics. It also affected plays play writes like Shakespeare in things like A Midsummer Night's Dream since it also focused on things like faeries and other fantasy creatures (like witches). In that regard, the Grimm Brothers also took in interest in old faerie tales and complied them into story books.

It also affected art. Art began to take form in romantic ideals by focusing in on nature. Nature was another thing that romantics took an interest in. Before the Romantic Movement, nature was considered dangerous but during the Romantic Movement, people grew to love nature, even though the Romantic Movement didn't go very long or far.

The third thing that was affected was music. Music became more individual instead of trying to please others. Famous composer of the Romantic Movement were Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and Schubert.

The Romantic Movement was dated back to the 1850's but in some regards, the father of romanticism was Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was an Enlightenment thinker but he also gave regards to human emotion and to nature. Those thoughts set him apart from the other Enlightenment thinkers and put him closer to the romantics of the future who agreed with his ideals.

The Romantic Movement ideals were ideals that were strongly associated with the French Revolution which also took place at the same time as the Romantic Movement. However, romantics didn’t approve of the methods used after to control the people like extreme terror.