Randomness

Amy got me with this one. So, y'all want to know 7 random things about me, eh? Well...where to begin...

#1: I was afraid of the dark until I was 15 years old. Yep, night time scared me to death. I was afraid Mr. Boogety, or something similar would come get me. And people wonder why I hate scary movies... I remember one of my first weeks in college B told me like the whole plot to a pretty scary movie, and I couldn't sleep at all that night; and I didn't even watch it! Yeah, I have a VERY active imagination. Fortunately night time doesn't freak me out as bad, but I still don't like dark places. I am a lover of light.

#2: As a kid I always wanted to be a dancer. Unfortunately for me, I have the build of a football player, so that career option was out before it was ever a real possibility. I still dream about being a dancer sometimes, but I have zero coordination, so that wouldn't really work, would it...

#3: I dream almost every night. I guess a lot of people don't dream every night and remember it. Almost every morning on my mission I would wake up and after praying I would say, "Holy cow I had the weirdest dream last night" I would write letters to my friends and they'd write back wanting to know about my dreams. My companions still ask me if I am dreaming nightly, and I still do. Last night I dreamed that I was supposed to go on this blind date with this really attractive guy, but I ended up not going because I was a secret agent and I had to go chase this bad guy and we ended up in this alley and the guy shot me and I woke up....crazy, huh.

#4: I own a Twilight shirt. It says "Cullen 13" on the back. Me and Fort both have them. Mine is brown and hers is blue. We are going to wear them when we go see the movie...maybe. It depends on how brave we actually feel like being that day. I am generally the one making fun of people who do that, so I don't know if we will or not.

#5: The only time I don't talk is when I'm not comfortable...or really really tired. I am a talker, as you all know. At work when I started I didn't talk for a while and they told me recently they had no idea I was such a talker because I was so darn quiet!

#6: I carry a notebook with me at all times. Some of you already knew this, but I always, always, ALWAYS have a notebook with me in case I get an epiphany or something about a story idea, or a scene for my book. Comes in handy when I'm in the middle of History trying to stay awake and a thought hits me like a brick wall.

#7: I am in love with a fictional character of my own imagining. His name is Jason Tyde. I posted the beginning of his story a few days ago. He is a pretty amazing guy and no one will ever know that quite like me....to bad he is FICTIONAL... dang.

Okay, now its time for the lucky winners! I am going to tag B, Nat, and Kar-if y'all want to. I won't be offended if you don't want to!!

TAG!! I'm it!

Well, Kar tagged me with this one, here:

"This blog invests and believes, the proximity. [meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' -being close through proxy]. They all are charmed with the blogs, where in the majority of its aims are to show the marvels and to do friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize, and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut, or that they propagate? Then let’s try to give more attention to them! So with this prize we must deliver it to 8 bloggers that in turn must make the same thing and put this text."

And everyone seems to translate the translation, and I liked Nat's the best about all the coolness...go check it out. And, since I don't really know a ton of people in the blogosphere out here, I'm just going to talk about y'all and why I think you're cool!

B: Okay, so I give major props to B for even having a blog, and also because his blogs are random and make me laugh like all the time!

Nat: I love her blogs about life as a mom with four kids. I especially like Nat's blog because I live far away and I feel more connected with their fam through her blog!

Amy: Has been my sister-in-law the longest and I feel that we are pretty tight. I love her blog because she has the neatest stories about her kids and the funny/random things they do!

Kar: I love how she writes about life. Everything is an adventure, even if you never leave the house! That is an amazing thing to do, make EVERYTHING interesting.

Kelly: Is just cool, all the way around, and she has the funniest videos of Jack, who is one of the funniest/cutest little boys! (disclaimer: I am not picking favorites, I love all my neices and nephews equally)

And, anyone else I might have missed, you ROCK and I love your blog too. So, now everyone can feel all cool and what not. I know, I'm totally ditching out on the tagging other people, but y'all pretty much have already gotten this one!

Another little bite

Here is another little bit of my story...I'll leave it up for a bit, and if you happen to miss it, just let me know and I'll get it to you! ENJOY!! PS: This is Jason's beginning...the story flips between his and Kyla's point of view...its pretty cool...

If the sun hadn’t been so bright at noon, I could have slept all day. I wanted to. I hated my life, I hated everything about it. Everything I had worked for had been ripped from my hands. Stupid women…nothing but trouble. Every girl I’d ever known had caused me grief in one way or another. I couldn’t stand the sun in my face any longer. I rolled out of bed and saw my phone on the dresser across the room, with the little red light flashing. Great, I thought, $20 says it’s the lawyers…again. This whole divorce was giving me a constant migraine. I flipped my phone open…yep, I was right. Of my five missed calls, three were from the lawyers, and the other two were from my assistant down in LA. I was trying hard to avoid her, but she was persistent. Pretty soon she’d be having my agent calling, and I really didn’t want to talk to Phil.

Just then, my phone went off again. Fabulous, just the person I didn’t want to talk to. “Hey Phil” I said trying not to let the annoyance come through in my voice just yet. “Jason, where are you? You were supposed to be in LA two hours ago! Do you have any idea what time it is?!?!?!” Obviously I didn’t…either that or I didn’t care because I was obviously still in Sumerland at my beach house avoiding the world. I was doing a pretty good job at it too. I finally glanced at the clock to see what the exact time was. “Well Phil, its about 12:26 PM, and I’m guessing this isn’t just a social call.” I guess I should be nicer…I mean I’m pretty sure one of these days Phil is going to have a heart attack and it will probably be my fault. We both knew that I was supposed to be in LA right now, and we both also knew I wasn’t going to make it. “Jason, these meetings are important. If you want more work, you have to meet with these directors and producers so they can give you work…you’re not here, you don’t get work.” He tried to sound nice, maybe even respectful. “Well maybe I don’t want to work anymore. Maybe I want to just stay here in Summerland and live out the rest of my life in peace and quiet.” I was walking over to the medicine cabinet and pulled out a little orange bottle and dropped a couple of Zantex into the palm of my hand. I really hated relying on these stupid little pills to get me through the day, but without them I was useless. Nothing seemed to phase me these days.

Any way...let me know what you think...

I think I've lost my mind

Okay, so the WEIRDEST thing of my life happened to me yesterday and I thought I would share it with y'all... so I work at a plant (a foundry, really, but I have found a lot of people don't really know what a foundry is) and its out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by fields, and about a mile away is another plant owned by the same company. So, it can be a little freaky around the plant sometimes because its got huge ceilings and not a ton of light everywhere. Perfect for a "crazy murderer hunting you down" type scene, and I have visualized many different scenarios in my head for a future story that I will work on eventually. So, I was at work yesterday and I was at the copy machine that looks down a hall way that has all the main offices down it, and people were walking down the hall and I saw this cute little girl run down the hall and into Jared's office. I didn't think much of it, I figured maybe it was Jared's kid or something, I didn't know. So, I walk back to my office and I look into Jared's, and its just him sitting at his computer. I glanced around and was half tempted to walk into the room to see her, but she wasn't there. There was no little girl running down the hall...I was the only one that saw her. FREAKY!!!!!!!!!!!
I often feel like I am going a little crazy there because I often think I see things out of the corner of my eye, and that is creepy enough, but this was me looking straight on down the hall, and she was there...only she wasn't. It was weird.

BORED

So...I have class in a couple hours and felt like posting, but I'm bored and don't know what to post about...
Default: Story update. I finally have reasonable cause for this huge part of my story to happen. I was quite ecstatic about it. Brooke (Jason's crazy ex-wife) is going to play a part in the climax and Oh, it's going to be good. I gave Jason two cars this week, too. He drives a Ferrari F430. Cherry red with white interior. Its such a pretty car. He also drives a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder. That one is shiny silver with black interior. I've had a lot of fun checking out cars and trying to see the characters actually driving them. Did I mention I REALLY like the Ferrari....its SO pretty! Plus it goes way fast. That is totally awesome.
Um...I've been writing a lot, but I can't really go into a lot of detail on it without explaining A LOT of background info and what not, so I guess I'll just leave it that I am writing and LOVING every minute. The characters are becoming more real and Kyla is becoming less and less like me, which is so good. I never meant to write her like me, but I guess I did....odd, but true.
Okay, I will update more later...Hopefully class will be fun tonight. Stalker boy is in my class tonight, so we will see if I get the nerve to actually talk to him! I will keep you posted on that situation too! ;)

A stalker that doesn't know they are stalking you

So, I am in school right now, which has been so much fun! I love it, it's a lot of work, but I finally feel like I am progressing towards my goal! YAY!! So, there is a guy in my Spanish class that always sits three seats over from me, and I can't really say that I have ever talked to him before. But, I have seen him everywhere. Its the strangest thing, and it happened again over the weekend. I was standing in line at Cafe Rio with some friends and after about 10 minutes of waiting in line, I look back as this guy walks in! It was crazy. If I had actually talked to him before, I would think he was stalking me, or vice versa, but I have never talked to him in my life, so you can't really stalk someone you know nothing about...can you? Well, I guess people do it all the time, its just funny how timing works out sometime. Like when you keep running into someone all the time, but never really talk to them...maybe its a sign...

Random writing stories/comments

Okay, so this is just a post about my writing experiences this last week. First of all, B FINALLY read the manuscript I sent him like a month ago or so and so he called and we were talking about it. See, I ask B to read them because he will be completely and totally honest with me about it, but in a nice way. B is one of those people that could tell you to go to Hell and you're looking forward to the trip. So, he mentioned that it was a little Twilight-y, and my story is not supposed to be anything like Twilight, so I decided that I need to work on my character development...what is Jake really like? How would Jason Tide REALLY react in this situation...things like that.
Well, I was re reading some of the stuff I had written when Jake and Kyla's first date just came to mind, and I like it, I think it's a pretty awesome scene, and the whole time I was writing it I was thinking "does that sound Twilight-esq?" and if it did, I went back and rethought it, or left it depending on how I felt it fit in the story. It was really funny because one of my brothers was downstairs when I was writing and I asked him to tell me a cool car that wouldn't be in the Cullen's garage. Am I going a little overboard here? Probably.
I was watching the music video for "whatever it takes" by Lifehouse and when I saw the lead singer my first thought was "Wow, he has hair just like Jake...that is neat" here is a link so you all can see what Jake looks like.....kind of. Jake's got broader shoulders and is a little bit shorter than this guy....maybe....plus Jake's hair isn't blonde...he's got brown hair, but he styles it like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iawro7IfoCM
Speaking of Jake...I gave him a car this week in my writing...its a Metropolitan Gray Mica Mazda3....it really is a pretty car, and totally something Jake would drive. Sensible, and not too flashy, just like him....hahaha...okay, not really. He is quite sarcastic in a funny way. Should I rename him Zack? Because right now we have Jake _____ (he doesn't actually have a last name yet...), and Jason Tide. Jake and Jason...someone told me that might be a little confusing...what do you think? Let me know...and B, seriously, I really love ya and appreciate all your comments.