Three major things before I move on: I want some sweet iced tea, I’m excited to be writing, and I need a nap. I cheated a little bit and had some Cadbury mini-eggs. I want sweet tea, even if it is Splenda sweetened sweet tea. I think I might steal some from a child if …
Category: Writing and random
Feb 26
Rum Ice Cream and Other Happy Things
Holy shiv, I just mixed a little rum with some no sugar added vanilla ice cream. It was like the hand of some deity coming down and blessing me with rum goodness. And, no, it wasn’t a lot of rum. I’m just a goofball. So, yeah, I realized I slammed some bitch down on Thursday …
Feb 20
Stage Fright
The other day on Facebook, Neil Gaiman wrote a status about getting over his stage fright and getting back into his characters. It stuck with me. He is absolutely correct. The fear, self-doubt, and anxiety I feel every time I open whatever story I’m working on is exactly that, stage fright. If I’m really into …
Jan 03
What We Think Other People Want
Here is the it of it: most of us care about what people think of us. We try to be what we think those who we care about want us to be. Even people who have accepted their social awkwardness, like me, still care about what those we love think of us even if we …
Jan 01
Oh, Hi There 2013
I know I’m supposed to write a blog about things I plan to do better this new year. I know what I need to better. It is the same stuff as ever, but resolving to change that never works, so I’m changing shit up. So here is my New Year’s resolution: Grab on to all …
Dec 27
Things I Do and Do Not Want to Talk About:
Do: I’m getting a Kindle. It is the very smallest, least model, but I’m still stoked. I know y’all don’t care, but this could signal another jump into modern technology. Who knows, someday I might even get a smartphone. Do: I have a date for New Year’s Eve for the first time in ever. If …
Dec 13
Being Awesome is a Full Time Job
I don’t think it would surprise anyone to find out I was in a rut. It wasn’t a big drama rut, but I had a few months there of feeling the exact opposite of awesome. I was happy (except for that one really bad spell), but I was really down on myself. I think we …
Dec 01
Return to Middle
So, I’m going to be totally honest right now. I have no idea where today’s blog is going to go. My mind is a bit jumbly. Conventional wisdom says I should free write somewhere private, then condense those ideas into a post that I have thoroughly edited and proofread before posting for the world to …
Nov 27
Livin’ on the Edge
So, I have this bad habit of looking at Facebook before I’ve had my coffee, which means I respond to everything wrong. I try desperately not to post or respond to anything but sometimes I fail. This morning, I was groggily checking my page, and I saw a very newly pregnant friend posted that she …
Oct 25
A Blog in which a Recluse Makes a Friend
Today, I made a friend. No shit, the hermit made another friend. Okay, technically, I knew her already but not really. We went to high school together and that shit really doesn’t count as knowing each other. I didn’t know me in high school, much less anyone else. We saw each other at my friend …
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