Drama Queen and Mini Drama Queen

Riles and I were goofing around tonight after dinner. She learned how to record short videos on my digital camera this past weekend. Therefore, she's been filming EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING!! I found a video of the toilet flushing. My child is rather creative, don't you think? I'm hoping the video that we filmed tonight will upload correctly. It is taking forever to upload. I wonder if I am doing this right......I have NO CLUE and I can't ask Wayne because he probably does not even know how to access my blog! He's not much into the computer except to check his email from his friends. Oh and of course to check out hunting websites. Yippee!!

This thing is STILL uploading. (tapping fingers) I wonder if I will be sitting here until 5:00 a.m. and it will still be uploading.... Perfect for the insomniac in me! However, I do have my limits. I must be doing something wrong..... Maybe I cannot upload it directly from my pc. I think I have to save the video to a site first, but my blog would be a site. Crap, I can't remember!

Well since I'm here literally twiddling my thumbs... I am currently reading The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. It's....interesting. I doubt I will read anything else written by Bernhard. No offense buddy, but this book truly is not my cup of tea. The thing that grabbed me was on the back of the jacket cover. "A novel of emotional awakening that you'll never forget." Now that sounded pretty darn intriguing to me! I'm so ready to put this book down. I'm half way through, but I'm stuck. Do you ever get stuck with a book? I think I've discussed this before. I am truly stuck. sigh... BUT.... there are some gifts wrapped under the tree and I know I have several books under there!!! I bet if I unwrapped one and read it in front of Wayne, he wouldn't even know it was a gift he got for me! I could always take THIS book here, The Reader and wrap THAT one up!!! He'd never know the difference. Although I told him which author to buy. I want EVERYTHING by Jodi Picoult. Which reminds me I need to check out her website. I finished reading The Pact and am passing it on to Jahnay. I hope she loves it as much as I did!!!! It was suspenseful, romantic, tragic, family oriented.... I don't even know how to explain it. I think I felt every emotion possible throughout the entire novel. It was amazing! I'm so glad I bought it. The jacket cover grabbed me first. Isn't that sad??? If a book does not have a great title or great cover, I pass right by it. Unless it's an author that I like, but pooh, if you do not have an eye catching cover or a title that just jumps off of the cover begging me to buy it, I keep walking....and searching....and searching. Then I come across The Reader and now I realize it's not all about appearance, but what's on the inside. The appearance of this book looked and sounded good, but grrr...I'm so frustrated by it. OMG! Am I going on and on and on about this freakin' book???

This video is STILL uploading. I did something wrong. What the heck?? Finally, I looked up the help information!!! It basically said I'm going to sit here until the cows come home. Probably till 5:00 a.m.

How long does it take to upload and process a video?Uploading a video may take a while, since videos tend to be very large files. However, the exact amount of time required will depend on the size of your specific video and the speed of your internet connection. The processing stage usually takes about five minutes. Blogger will display a status message below the post editor to let you know how this is going, and there will be a placeholder icon in your post to show where the video will appear.

Okay, so maybe Riles singing a song from The Nutcracker and her and I goofing around with a Taylor Swift song was entirely too long! The size of this file must be ginormous!!! Okay, I'm going to watch Dr. Phil or Oprah or something. I obviously need to get in touch with my inner self because if I was an alcoholic, I'd have drank an entire bottle of Merlot by now or if I were a drug addict, I'd be done with my crack pipe! This is taking WAY longer than the anticipated 5 minutes. So I'm off to do....something....I can't close this page or it will delete the video uploading "in progress". Gosh, this video better be worth it! I know that's what you're saying! And no, it's not worth it to you, but it is to Riles and I. She's going to love seeing it!!

I went outside to continue reading The Reader and I come back in and the video is now uploaded!!! Woo Hoo!!! I'm going to finish this book! No unwrapping gifts and rewrapping The Reader in disguise!