New Adventure!

One of my favorite things to do is write.

Writing is calming.

Writing is cathartic.

Writing is... well it's just wonderful.

This year I'll be participating in NaNoWriMo for the second year (and hoping to win this year) so I was looking for ways to get into the habit of writing every single day.

Then!

I remember BEDA! Really I remember Kristina Horner talking about BEDA in a video once upon a time, BINGO! I've got my answer.

What better way to get into the habit of writing than to Blog Every Day in August. It's literally perfect. Literally!

So tomorrow starts my latest adventure in blogging and I'm more than a little excited about it!

I'm a little nervous about this commitment... but so incredibly excited!!

Wish me luck!

Rainy Day Thoughts

Sometimes everything works out perfectly. You show up exactly on time to meet your friend. You are funny and good conversation and good times are had by all.

Other times you find yourself sitting in a McDonald's using their free wifi because you don't think to check what time you're supposed to show up at your friends house and you get there an hour early and there's no one there. So you have nothing to do by drive around trying to find a Starbucks (because you have a gold card and a free beverage) only to realize that contrary to popular belief Starbucks is NOT on every corner of every block in the world.

And now it's pouring rain so this is perfect.

But the rain doesn't really make a bad day worse, it just adds to the weird and random nature of the day.

So you find a McDonald's and you seem to remember from years and years ago that they once upon a time had free wifi... You think to yourself 'Can I get by with just ordering an iced tea and not feel bad about borrowing the wifi?' and then you realize you're pretty hungry because the mix up in time means you didn't eat before you left and now you have an hour so a snack sound pretty good...

BUT!

You don't want to eat like a whole meal. Also this is McDonald's and you're a vegetarian. You could get a salad, but that doesn't really sound appetizing (and you have a salad you're bringing to your friends house in your car). So you end up with that iced tea you were really craving, french fries because it's McDonald's, and a flurry because why the hell not?

Now as luck would have it you find a prime (and I mean PRIME) people watching seat in which to perch yourself as you waste some time AND (THANK GOODNESS) the DO have free wifi here!

This is the best day.

And it's only 1:15 PM.

Yes... This is my life...

Wishful Thinking?

So... I'm a semi-Apple geek. 

(Knowing this will have little to do with the rest of this post, I just wanted to put that out into the world.)

What I mean by that is I love all things Apple, but I do not own all things Apple.

Sure I have my iPhone, and my iPad, and even my iPod Touch (which is not exactly like an iPhone contrary to popular belief among my *clearly* uneducated friends).

When I purchased my iPad one of the things I was excited about was the portability. I was going to take that thing everywhere and I was going to write! I was going to be able to document my life as it was happening and document for the world to see. That was two years ago. Clearly things did not go as planned!

Recently (as in two days ago) I found this fantastic little blue tooth keyboard that's solar (yes solar for the quasi eco-geek in me!) and it was on sale and it's an integrated case + keyboard so I thought "well hey... why the heck not!" and I bought it.

NOW! NOW IS MY TIME!

Now I'll be able to tote this bad boy around with the greatest of ease. I'll be able to take a minute and write and feel good after, because it's a proven fact that *I* feel better after writing. (Although even knowing this I fail to write as often as I should.)

So here's hoping I actually follow through on something I want to do. August is coming up and I am planning on participating in BEDA (Blogging Every Day in August) so I need to knock the ring rust off now, eh?

Wish me luck!

Some change will do you good...

I don’t even know where to begin. How to you start “fixing” yourself when you didn’t think you were that bad to begin with?

So… that statement is not necessarily the most fair.

But that’s me.

Very unfair.

At least when it comes to assessing my own strengths and weaknesses opportunities. This is probably why it’s so hard for me to accept that others see flaws in me that I did not see. Because I am SO in tune with what I believe and see as my flaws, the fact that someone, outside of me, could see ANOTHER flaw that I had not seen or even known was there is almost unfathomable.

This is going to be an insane journey… and I don’t know if I am ready for it.

Nostalgia... Or Something Like It

Again with the best of intentions I fall flat.

My plan had been to write like a mad woman last year. Write until my fingers fell off. Write until all of my thoughts were outside my brain so I could think of new thoughts and keep writing.

Alas.

It's now been over a year and while I have written quite a bit in the last 13 months, I did not write anything here.

So what did I write you ask?

I don't so much know what to call it. I participated in NaNoWriMo last year and wrote 16,250 words which I believe is the highest number of words I have written on my own in 30 days. And truly I only wrote for 20 days because then I got distracted and I ended up just letting the whole project fall to the wayside.

I'm not so much happy with the writing I did, I think looking back on it, it was sloppy and jumbled and not very well put together. However! I am VERY proud that I even attempted the project AND I'm pretty excited to try again this year. (With a week of vacation scheduled during the month of November I should have plenty of time to write!)

So while reflecting on the past year of non-writing I started thinking about the writing I used to do. Remember Myspace? Yea... me neither... Ok just kidding. But really I hadn't logged onto Myspace in AGES and I wondered if all my blogs had disappeared into the great abyss that is the interwebs. There's a good two years of my life documented there for all the world to see!

So I started looking... it took me awhile to find them but I'm happy (and slightly embarrassed by the content) to say I've found them! And I'm posting a link to them which seems like a good thing to do, just in case anyone has feelings of nostalgia like I did and just wants to remember a simpler time...

We've come to the part of the blog were I share with you my new commitments. (Although I'm tempted not to share them in hopes that keeping them secret will make me follow through with them more.)

• Starting now I am committed to updating this blog once a month with new content. 

• In August my plan is to participate in BEDA, however I'm not completely committed to this one... I'm about 94.3% sure it's happening.

• This April I will be participating in VEDA, and will be posting a new video each day to my YouTube Channel. I'm pretty excited about it because I've missed vlogging in my 3 month hiatus since my last video on January 31st.

• November as I've already said will mark my 2nd attempt at NaNoWriMo.

• June I will be traveling to Portland, OR for LeakyCon for the 2nd year in a row and vlogging the trip.

There's a few other things I'm pretty excited about this year, but they will have to wait until another day because I've got places to go and promises to keep.

Much love to you,**MUAH**

Oh yea... Here's the link to my Myspace Blog in case you truly do want to relive my life from 2006-2008.

Good Intentions... No Follow Through

Man do I stink at follow through when it comes to this here blog...

I feel like I was going to do more.  More what you ask?  Well that I'm not so sure.  Just more.

Well here's some ramblings.....

I have to say that while I'm not following through on the written aspect of my new years resolutions however my YouTube Channel has been going spectacularly well.  I have 11 subscribers... like really?  11 people care enough about my channel to subscribe.  It's a little daunting and very humbling.

So I became a vegetarian this year and I never realized how much meat is in everything... also I didn't think my dietary choices would effect others, but apparently it's weirding people out... who would have thought?  HA!

I've still only read 1 book..... yikes.... Only 24 more to go!

I honestly am not sure of the point of this blog is... probably just to blow off some steam.

TAX SEASON!
So it's tax season and I always do my own taxes through turbotax... apparently I'm not very good at following directions and I screwed up my taxes in 2010.  BOO!  I met with a tax consultant this week and it's a simple fix, but dang!  That was pretty silly of me!  At least I caught it and didn't screw up this years :)

Alright... I think I'm gonna stop the ramblings for now... next time, more substance...

DFTBA!

2012 Year of the Nerd

Oh man... so I apparently am not very good at keeping up with my blog.  I had such high hopes as well!  HAHA

Anywho, I have decided that 2012 will be my "Year of the Nerd" which I mean really is just phenomenal if you think about it.

So why have I made this declaration?  Great question!
Too often I shy away from things because I'm afraid I will look like a nerd.  Well this year, I don't care!  HAHA

I'm going to Leaky Con 2012 in August.  I started a YouTube Channel.  I stopped apologizing for the music I like and the hobbies I enjoy.  I guess that last one doesn't make me a nerd, except it was always the nerdy things I was apologizing about!  HAHA

This year I made some resolutions and so far I've stuck to a fair few of them!
One - Create a YouTube channel and post videos regularly. (So far, so good!) My Channel
Two - Use my blog. (Not so successful, but this is an improvement.)
Three - Read 25 books.  (Yes this may seem like a low number to those of you that know me, but it's the end of January and I've only read one book... so I'm already playing catch up.)
Four - Be healthier. I've made the choice to become a vegetarian, and I've joined a gym. (So far, so good.)

I guess that's all I've got for now.

DFTBA!