A New Life

So it feels like I'm getting a new life. I'm actually getting a whole lot accomplished lately, and I thought, "I haven't updated my blog lately". So here I am. I now work at home, because my work couldn't stand it if I quit. Tom and I have bought a house, and it's very likely that we'll start moving in next week if all goes well. I'm writing more, drawing more, and being more active in all my geek stuff. I feel more excited about things lately. I've been exercising and have more energy (although I'm more hungry sometimes). I've also just go back from vacationing in California, which was a blast. And best of all, I'm only coughing a little. The air filter helped toned it down, but I've been getting a whole lot better, and I'm sure moving out of the big city to a smaller town will be a big help. All in all, I'm hoping that things are turning for the best. I'm in a real good mood.

Gender Confusion Dream

Okay, I really like to talk about some of my dreams. A few nights ago, I had a really interesting one.

First, I have to explain a few things. I really, really love Batman. I love him in a way that is beyond hero worship. I really admire him, even if he is just a fictional character. I love him so much.

Anyway, a few nights ago, I dreamed I was Batman. (This isn't the first time I've dreamed I was Batman. I've also dreamed of being Spiderman, but that's another issue.) So, I'm Batman, and I'm tracking down some really bad thugs. They escape into the church from my hometown. (Yeah, weird). So there's this thing going on at my church that involves all the people from my high school, but everyone is grown up. So I guess it was a high school reunion.

Anyway, the bad guys dress up as women (with bras, hose and girdles), so naturally I have to take off my own disguise. So now I'm Bruce Wayne, walking around with my class mates and talking to them. While I talk to them, I notice all the men pulling their wives and girlfriends closer to them. And I think to myself, "I'm Bruce Wayne. I'm a millionaire playboy. But wait, I'm also a girl. So why are they afraid I'm going to take their wives away."

In my dream, I knew I was a girl, but I was also Bruce Wayne.

Gender confusion.

Maybe that's a little too much of me in a nutshell.

See ya next time.

I Miss You Blog

It certainly been a long time since I blogged. I need to do it more.

I'm just going to post a few highlights of my life.

First off, I've had chest pains and a cough for every. I went to two different doctors who each did a bronchoscopy. The first doctor thought I needed surgery to clear away some scarring around my voice box (Which didn't make sense to me why I was coughing). The second doctor (Who was suppose to do the surgery, but wanted to do a bronchoscopy first) decided I just needed to see a speech therapist (Which made even less sense).

I felt like I was going out of my mind. Then I went to my parents house for a week. They live in a very country place. My cough cleared up almost immediately. Once back in the big city, I was coughing again. We got an air filter for Christmas, so we plugged it in, and I'm feeling great.

Stupid doctors.

The funny thing is that both my husband and I thought that this was the solution in the first place. It sure would have saved us on medical bills.

One of our New Years resolutions is to save more money, so I'm on a tighter budget than usual. And there are things that are coming up that I want to do.

In March, I'm going to Fannatiku, which is a small anime convention. I'm trying to get some small things made to sell at a table there. And then Botcon is in April. And its in Texas, which means my sister and I will be flying.

But that's okay. I have a B-day coming up, and I'll just use the money I get to get what I need.

To finish up this blog, one of the things I got for Christmas was the new Zelda game for the Wii. On Monday, since I had the day off of work, I was going to play it all day. But guess what, I need a special remote for it. I was so mad.

That is, until I played Okami for a while. Now I feel better.

That's been my life in a nutshell for the past few months. I'll tell more of it later.

It's been a while

It really has been a while. I usually wait for something interesting to happen to write in my blog, but the past month or so, I've just been in a bad mood. I've been slightly depressed, and I've had some health problem. Not a great part of my life, and not much I want to talk about. To sum things up, I was depressed because I didn't think I was accomplishing much. Soon after that, my chest hurt late at night and I went to the emergency room. I've been healing since then, and trying to get into a pulmonologist. My lungs have been poor for a few years.

It was soon after making an appointment to see the doctor that I started to feel better (go fig), but I'm still going since I've had this ever lingering cough for almost two years. Time to get that cleared up. But I'm feeling better and my spirits are up so I've been working more on my projects.

Anime Banzai is coming up, so I'm getting ready for that. I'm making a few costumes and getting things ready to sell at my table. One of my costumes I'll be wearing is Astrid from How to Tame a Dragon. I'm really excited about that costume. Especially since my husband is going to be Hiccup for Halloween, so we'll be matching. ^.^

My writing has fallen behind. Lately, the only thing I've been wanting to write is chapter summaries for all my books so that I have them written down, but it'll take me forever to do that. I just keep coming up with more and more stories that I'll never get through them all. But I want to.

Another thing going on in my life is that I'm in training to be my ward's organist, not something I ever thought would happen. I never thought of myself as a great piano player, so when I was asked to start learning the organ I was a little excited, but more than a little apprehensive. I've played two songs in sacrament so far, and each time I'm very nervous. And I've found that it's hard for me to learn new songs. It's been a long time since I've had lessons.

Now I'm just complaining. I can't really think of anything of real importance that I've accomplished lately. I've been reading a lot of books, and watching plenty of Monk. I love that show.

Maybe next time I'll have a little more to write about. For now, that's how my life's been going in a nutshell.

My first poem for the blog

In a nutshell, I've been watching too much Animaniacs, and reading too much Calvin and Hobbes. I also blame my sister for reminding me about how creepy my home town really is.

The poem (I don't have a title).

There is a race
That came from space
With long tentacles and deadly machines.
They thought it right
To come and fight
Against the Earth, a planet, blue and green.

And just before
They start this war
A human they needed, to study his head.
They wanted one smart,
A scientist to start,
And just their luck, they abducted me instead.

They poked and prod
Me. This poor sod!
To get me talking to they could learn our language.
I was not in ease,
So I aimed to please
By saying things like, “Gotach fam toka mertagage.”

On that spot
I did taught
Those aliens our culture; everything bright and new.
In misdirection,
I didn't mention
They were all things no human would ever, ever do.

In just an hour
They showed their power
By making a copy of me to send to Earth.
I did not dare
To show how scared
I was of this abomination they had birthed.

The creature's mission:
To sow dissension
Among our leaders, to ruin and make a mess
To make us weak
And when we're meek
They will take over and destroy us more or less.

The copy went down,
And when she was found
Was taken to my apartment by the cops.
My husband dear,
Had little fear,
Was unaware of the plan he had to stop.

That bad clone of me
My husband did see
Act in a manner that was wild and obscene.
Even as a hostage,
This I could acknowledge
Watching the Mothership's wide visual screen.

It didn't take long,
For things to go wrong,
My husband knew and finally submitted.
Was this his wife
He wed for life?
In the end, he went and had me committed.

The invasion was doomed
To a white, padded room.
The creature was locked up with all the psychotics.
Her masters wondered
How she had blundered
While doped up on five kinds of narcotics.

Up they beamed prescriptions
Of every descriptions
Wonder written all over their ugly mugs.
A lie I told
Was bought and sold.
Those alien fiends readily took the drugs.

That super strength
Would come at length
Was the fib I told; they wanted to believe.
They laughed and cried
Some even died
Chaos reigned until their senses were retrieved.

From drug delusions
Came to conclusions
That Earthlings used too many vile tricks.
They vowed to pack,
Never come back,
(At least 'til they needed another fix.)

To end my doppelganger,
They exterminated her,
And cleaned her remains up without sign or trace.
As for MY dilemma,
I don't mind to tell ya,
They disposed me in their experiment's place!

As if my life
Needed more strife.
Those aliens only ruined me a little.
I nearly snapped
When I was trapped
In my new cell inside that mental hospital.

I couldn't tell
Those in my cell
That aliens sent me here like a delivery.
In just a few
Short months, it's true,
I walked away a miraculous recovery.

Normalness returned.
From TV I learned
Not to let my mouth spill over like a tipped cup.
I won't jeer,
I lived in fear
That if I talked the government would shut me up!

But I just couldn't keep it
From my husband, this secret.
I trusted him above all other men.
I was without
any true doubt
Until he had me committed again.

7th month anniversary.

Yes, my husband and I have been married for seven months since yesterday. It's so sweet. And to celebrate, we went to go see a play down in the Orem Hale Center Theater. It was really good. It's called "The Hit". If you ever get the chance, go see it. I thought that is was so cute.

We barely got there in the nick of time due to the fact we stopped by Sizzler for some food. Our waitress probably thought we were crazy because we told her we were in a hurry, and had her bring to-go boxes when she brought our meal. So we're shoveling food into our mouths, and rushed out the door. We were late to the play, but the play started 15 minutes late, so we were lucky.

It would have been a terrific day if it wasn't for the fact that when I got home, I laid on the bed in exhaustion. I hadn't been sleeping too much, so I couldn't wait to climb into bed and sleep. Then I saw on the ceiling about five tiny, baby spiders crawling around. My husband and I killed about twenty of them. After looking around the house and seeing that they were only in the bedroom, I figured they came from the window. Or there's an egg sack in our mattress (which is something I don't want to dwell on for long). Knowing I would never get any sleep in that bed, I made my husband sleep on the futon with me.

But other than that, I had a great time yesterday.

That's 7th month anniversary in a nutshell.

Books I recommend that I've read recently

Recently I've finished a couple of books that I've been very happy about, some that relate to the books I've recommended on past books.

I finished the third book of the Circle of Magic series called Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce. I didn't think it was as great as the first two, but it was fine.

Next I finished the second book of the Keys to the Kingdom series called Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix. I really love this series. It is fantastic. It's very creative, and it feels like Alice in Wonderland but with a plot. It has strangeness all over it, but a nice adventure feel.

Another book I finished is called The Roar by Emma Clayton. This book is a distopia and kind of creepy. I would not suggest this for younger audiences. It's post-apocalyptic and involves corrupted governments and lying politicians, as well as kid endangerment and brain washing. I really like the characterization of this book, and some of the plot twists. Now I gotta go get the sequel "The Whisper".

Last of all is a book called The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison. This isn't my usual type of book. It's fantasy, but more on the romance side. It was very interesting, and a different type of fantasy than I'm used to. My only complaint was the ending was kind of slow and a bit softer than I liked. I was hoping for a cliff hanger since there's a sequel.

I'm still addictive to books. I can't do anything without taking a book with me. I'm currently reading two more, and then one with my husband. I can't stop. Also I bought three more books at DI. What am I to do?

At least my husband is keeping up with my addiction. He's just as bad.

That's my obsession in a nutshell. I'm glad that I might be able to spread it to others.