Yesterday, I had the best sandwich in the world. I was made with 89 cents per loaf bread, cheap skinny chicken meat and mayo. I ate it at work, and I was super hunger. The minute I bit into that sandwich, I was in heaven. It was the weirdest thing, since it was such a simple sandwich, but I loved every bite. I was so ready for another one after a finished it.
After a while, I figured out why it tasted so good. My husband had made that sandwich. He made it with love. And that's the special ingredient that made that sandwich the freakin' best thing in the world. And I can have that same sandwich anytime I want.
Except we don't have any meat.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
I'm such a copy cat, part 2
Once again I find myself caught in the waves of someone else's party boat. I saw something cool, and I wanted it for myself. This time it was my older sister with another geek project, and her excitement was catchy. This time its (drum roll) My Little Ponies.
I kid you not. I thought she was crazy at first. She was cleaning up her old vintage collection, cleaning up a friend's collection of around 200 ponies, and started a newer collection. I went over to her apartment and there were ponies everywhere. It was kind of funny, and also brought back old times since I remembered a lot of her ponies. Then she showed me a bunch of old, worn out ponies that the fandom call "bait ponies". Basically, they're the hashed figures that people use to customize their own ponies. After seeing everything my sister showed me, I started to think, "I want to do this too."
Less than four hours later, I was on ebay looking up My Little Ponies. I must be crazy, because I'm already making a big deal about this, but it seems fun and I want to try it out. And lucky for me, I have the best husband in the world who supports me in all my crazy hobbies that I'll pick up. I almost bought something last night in a spontaneous burst of buyer fever. However, I didn't. I wanted to think things through to make sure I'm not just riding my sister's coat tails and if the high wears off I'm suddenly not interested. So I decided to sleep on it.
And then I dream of Ponies. And it wasn't one of those dreams that you do things, go places and things move. No, it was just ponies. Ponies that didn't do anything, didn't move. It was such a weird dream. However, even after that I still want to try this pony thing. I'm going to look for old hashed ponies at DI and buy a few on ebay and see if I can clean them up and paint them in a fun way. It'll be kind of fun.
Anyway, that's my new obsession in a nutshell.
I kid you not. I thought she was crazy at first. She was cleaning up her old vintage collection, cleaning up a friend's collection of around 200 ponies, and started a newer collection. I went over to her apartment and there were ponies everywhere. It was kind of funny, and also brought back old times since I remembered a lot of her ponies. Then she showed me a bunch of old, worn out ponies that the fandom call "bait ponies". Basically, they're the hashed figures that people use to customize their own ponies. After seeing everything my sister showed me, I started to think, "I want to do this too."
Less than four hours later, I was on ebay looking up My Little Ponies. I must be crazy, because I'm already making a big deal about this, but it seems fun and I want to try it out. And lucky for me, I have the best husband in the world who supports me in all my crazy hobbies that I'll pick up. I almost bought something last night in a spontaneous burst of buyer fever. However, I didn't. I wanted to think things through to make sure I'm not just riding my sister's coat tails and if the high wears off I'm suddenly not interested. So I decided to sleep on it.
And then I dream of Ponies. And it wasn't one of those dreams that you do things, go places and things move. No, it was just ponies. Ponies that didn't do anything, didn't move. It was such a weird dream. However, even after that I still want to try this pony thing. I'm going to look for old hashed ponies at DI and buy a few on ebay and see if I can clean them up and paint them in a fun way. It'll be kind of fun.
Anyway, that's my new obsession in a nutshell.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Writing Prompts
So because I really have no idea what to write in a blog, I went looking around for writing prompts. I've decided to try and commit to writing an exercise or prompt each day and post it on this blog, if I don't have anything really awesome to post.
I've found two really awesome sites for this for anyone who cares. How about you Hubby? The first one has a prompt for everyday in the year. Here's the URL: http://www.theteacherscorner.net/daily-writing-prompts/ This one has a lot of prompts, but some of them kind of stupid so I might ignore some of these prompts. The next one only has a few, but has many different kinds. Here's the URL: http://www.oneofus.co.uk/index.php/writing_tips/writing_exercises/ I also saw that there were a couple of books with prompts, so I'm going to look into borrowing a few from the library if there are any available.
Maybe doing stuff like that will get me writing more for my book. I had time to work on it today, but instead I procrastinated and organized my playlist. Music is very important for a creative mind.
Today's writing prompt is: On March 24, 1874, magician Harry Houdini was born. What is the best magic trick you have seen or that you have performed yourself?
It wasn't long ago that my husband and I were on our honeymoon. We went on a Carnival Cruise. Every night, we'd go to the dining room to have our evening meal. During the last half of our vacation, our servers started performing cheap magic tricks. They weren't anything special, but it was fun to joke around and try and figure out how to do the tricks. They even let us try the tricks ourselves. I remember that there was a young woman at a table next to ours who would get so worked up trying to figure out the tricks. It was the highlight of our meals.
Well, that's it for today. That's writing prompts in a nutshell. I'm going to have trouble fitting in that phrase every day. ^.^
I've found two really awesome sites for this for anyone who cares. How about you Hubby? The first one has a prompt for everyday in the year. Here's the URL: http://www.theteacherscorner.net/daily-writing-prompts/ This one has a lot of prompts, but some of them kind of stupid so I might ignore some of these prompts. The next one only has a few, but has many different kinds. Here's the URL: http://www.oneofus.co.uk/index.php/writing_tips/writing_exercises/ I also saw that there were a couple of books with prompts, so I'm going to look into borrowing a few from the library if there are any available.
Maybe doing stuff like that will get me writing more for my book. I had time to work on it today, but instead I procrastinated and organized my playlist. Music is very important for a creative mind.
Today's writing prompt is: On March 24, 1874, magician Harry Houdini was born. What is the best magic trick you have seen or that you have performed yourself?
It wasn't long ago that my husband and I were on our honeymoon. We went on a Carnival Cruise. Every night, we'd go to the dining room to have our evening meal. During the last half of our vacation, our servers started performing cheap magic tricks. They weren't anything special, but it was fun to joke around and try and figure out how to do the tricks. They even let us try the tricks ourselves. I remember that there was a young woman at a table next to ours who would get so worked up trying to figure out the tricks. It was the highlight of our meals.
Well, that's it for today. That's writing prompts in a nutshell. I'm going to have trouble fitting in that phrase every day. ^.^
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
How to start a blog
Because if you're asking me, then you're in really big trouble.
But as for me, I'm not sure how to start my blog. As far as I know, a blog is like a big diary that anyone can read. However, I shouldn't be too concerned since the only one who is reading this is my husband, and he can just lean in and read over my shoulder.
So for anyone who comes across this by chance, I hope you love reading about the day in the life of Emilou, random fangirl and wannabee writer. In the meantime maybe something exciting will happen to me that I can report on everyday.
But just a little something about me, I'm 26 years old, just barely married, have a BA in English, and am working as a data entry. I don't think my ultimate calling is data entry, but it pays enough to help out with the bills. Not to mention I listen to books on CD all day, which is totally sweet since most of the time it doesn't even feel like I'm working.
Right now I'm listening to a book called The Eye, The Ear, and the Arm (or something like that). I didn't notice it before I started listening to it, but it had a dancing blue monkey on the cover. I told myself, "It's a blue monkey. This book has got to be good." Not to mention it is narrated by George Leddel, who has one of the most soothing voices I've heard in the narrating business.
I'm going to be guessing that I'm going to be talking about books a lot in this blog.
That's all I have for now. That's the beginning of my blog in the Nutshell.
But as for me, I'm not sure how to start my blog. As far as I know, a blog is like a big diary that anyone can read. However, I shouldn't be too concerned since the only one who is reading this is my husband, and he can just lean in and read over my shoulder.
So for anyone who comes across this by chance, I hope you love reading about the day in the life of Emilou, random fangirl and wannabee writer. In the meantime maybe something exciting will happen to me that I can report on everyday.
But just a little something about me, I'm 26 years old, just barely married, have a BA in English, and am working as a data entry. I don't think my ultimate calling is data entry, but it pays enough to help out with the bills. Not to mention I listen to books on CD all day, which is totally sweet since most of the time it doesn't even feel like I'm working.
Right now I'm listening to a book called The Eye, The Ear, and the Arm (or something like that). I didn't notice it before I started listening to it, but it had a dancing blue monkey on the cover. I told myself, "It's a blue monkey. This book has got to be good." Not to mention it is narrated by George Leddel, who has one of the most soothing voices I've heard in the narrating business.
I'm going to be guessing that I'm going to be talking about books a lot in this blog.
That's all I have for now. That's the beginning of my blog in the Nutshell.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
I'm such a copy cat.
Everything I've wanted to do, always came from some sort of inspiration. In other words, I'm a big, fat copy cat. And it didn't take fate long for her to place a blog in front of me good enough that I wanted to blog as well. I've never been good with keeping a journal. Even with my aspirations to be a writer, I have a hard time trying to write every day.
If procrastination was the eighth deadly sin, I'd be in big trouble. Or does it count in slothfulness?
Anyway, now I'm trying my hand in keeping a blog. We'll see how well this goes. I don't know what will be worse, letting this dry out like so many other projects I started, or having a ton of fun with it and nobody reads it.
Here goes nothing.
That's the reason for this blog in a nutshell.
I hope I don't crack.
If procrastination was the eighth deadly sin, I'd be in big trouble. Or does it count in slothfulness?
Anyway, now I'm trying my hand in keeping a blog. We'll see how well this goes. I don't know what will be worse, letting this dry out like so many other projects I started, or having a ton of fun with it and nobody reads it.
Here goes nothing.
That's the reason for this blog in a nutshell.
I hope I don't crack.
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