Hello Old Friend!

Gosh! I miss you, blog. Seriously. It's been way, way, way too long. I might be crazy, but isn't Blog kind of a cute name for a kid? I'm sure my fiance would say NOOOOOO, but honestly, I'm starting to question his taste in names. I mean, he likes the name Jade, and Jade just sounds like such a dirty stripper name to me. I like fun names like Stella, Regan, Paisley, Harper, and Avery. Oh well, since he's a name Nazi, I save all of my totally awesome names for my characters in my stories. My main characters right now are Annabelle, Stella, Regan, and Avery. HAHA! I'm saving Harper for a really kick ass character. She hasn't come to me yet, but I'll know it when she does, and I have no doubts that she will be AWESOME!

So this week has been insanely exciting! It's new show week! All of my favorites are coming back and new shows are just starting! I love, love, love this time of year! It makes me so happy. It's fall! The weather is getting cooler (yeah right, this is Florida but a girl can dream) and people are starting to get in the holiday spirit! I work in retail (DUH!), so the holidays start for me in September, which I know by normal person standards is just plain crazy. But at work we start to hear some holiday music here and there. The ornaments are coming in, and we're starting to get Christmas outfits! I already can't wait for Thanksgiving. Okay, truth be told, before Thanksgiving is even over, I'm ready for the next one! I just love the holidays. I love seeing my family, and everyone is seriously just nicer.

So, I'm trying to find some new books to read. After the Sookie Stackhouse series, I'm kind of struggling. I'm on book two of the Aurora Teagarden series, but I'm not too sure how much I'm really enjoying it. I was thinking about picking up the Dexter Morgan series, but I don't want it to ruin the show (which by the way I love and can't wait for it to come back on TV!). So I'm kind of just stuck in a bind. I'm just not really sure where to go from here. I'm sure I'll figure it out though.

So fiance is sitting on his computer playing StarCraft 2 - SHOCKER! He's not screaming or flipping out, so perhaps we're making progress....baby steps. He just bought the new Halo, which I'm kind of surprised about. He was all, "The new Halo is so stupid, I'm not gonna buy it." blahblahblah. And now look at him! He's been going to his house a lot lately to play it. I'm wondering when his XBOX is going to make it's way over here. If it does, I hope he brings his fancy LCD TV. I mean, I still have the old TV which weighs like 70 pounds, easily. I'll definitely keep you posted on the whereabouts of a certain gaming system.

I'm not sure what to get my fiance this year for Christmas though. I know I have a lot of time, but I kind of like to pre-plan and get some kind of idea. I'm sure I'll figure something out, and I'm pretty sure it will have NOTHING to do with any computer or any gaming system. That reminds me, he's been complaining that his computer has been acting up lately. I wonder if he's going to try to find a way to get a new one. I said something about getting a new one, and he was all, "oh no" blah blah, but I think he's just trying to get his foot in the door. I'll keep you posted on THAT too.

It's also football season, which in my house means, yell at your television until you can't speak anymore season! My mother is a DIE HARD Miami fan. She passed those genes down to my siblings. My dad is a DIE HARD Cowboys fan (which is America's/God's team, of course). Sadly, my dad didn't really pass those genes down to any of his kids, except for maybe me. But I hate football so much. I only pretend to like it so my Sundays and Mondays aren't totally unbearable. I have this theory that if you pretend something long enough, it just becomes real. For instance, all day today I pretended like I LOVE my job, and it didn't turn out to be a very bad day. I'm thinking of adopting this philosophy for good. I'll keep you posted on that as well.

Well, I think it's off to bed and to enjoy some new TV shows in the relative peace and quiet (he's still not yelling!).

Dear Blog, How I have missed you...NOT!

So, usually, if I'm not blogging, that means my fiance is being a good boy and not gaming too much. Sadly, this is not the case as of recently. True, I haven't been blogging, false, my fiance has not been gaming. I just haven't had much opportunity to complain because I've been crazy, crazy busy with work and school. I'm seriously wondering why I ever wanted to grow up. I don't want to be a real person anymore, and I'd like to have recess and nap time back. Speaking of naps, I used to nap ALL THE TIME, and I never even have TIME to nap anymore. Speaking of time, isn't it an interesting concept. God, I think my writing workshops and Shakespeare studies are getting to me. When did I become so poetic?

I'm a big fan of constructive criticism. In fact, I thrive on it. I always, always try to take it into consideration. When my teachers give me tips on how to do dialogue, I'm probably the only person in my class that actually uses it. So, when someone points out that I don't use paragraphs, I'm going to fix it. Because, honestly, who wants to read a big long block of crap? Certainly not me, and certainly not others. Perhaps this is why I only have two followers? Maybe now that I use paragraphs I'll have more followers. I suppose only time will tell.

Speaking of school, as busy and crazy as it's been, I'm actually loving it. I'm doing my work EARLY. Which is basically unheard of when it comes to me. I do everything, and I mean everything, at the very last minute. Not anymore, I'm such a new person this semester that I don't even know myself anymore! I'm even enjoying my Spanish class, and honestly, who really enjoys Spanish class? I'm taking fiction writing workshop - which is like phenomenal, screenwriting workshop - which is plain awesome (I mean I study screenplays for Juno and Inception how is that not awesome?!), Shakespeare Studies - which is probably the worst of all my classes (obviously not that bad, though), and Spanish - which is surprising me more everyday! Next semester should be absolute torture though because I'm going to have to take six classes. I guess I should just be enjoying it while I can.

I feel like I can't talk about StarCraft 2 anymore. I hate it so insanely much that it's just not right. I used to get some kind of laugh out of it, but right now, I'm just jealous of it. I'm convinced that it's encrypted with porn. I mean, it has to be, what other thing captivates male attention for hours at a time? That's right nothing - only boobs. I think it's encrypted so that it only shows itself when seen through male eyes which is obviously in their DNA. It all goes back to science somehow, and because I hate science, there is no way I can fully describe the theory brewing in my mind.

So instead of talking about StarCraft...I would just like to say THANK YOU to the Oxygen channel for playing Pretty Woman all night. When my fiance can't be any company to me, Julia and Richard have fully fulfilled his role.

Just as a side note though, MLG is having another tournament in Washington DC, and luckily, fiance is NOT signing up for it!!! WOO HOO! Hopefully he doesn't get an invite either because I can't go. However, I'm not entirely sure I would even want to go. The only silver lining is Day 9. Oh and also to protect fiance from all of the dirty nasty groupies. By the way, I thoroughly miss Day 9. What a nice voice he has...HAHAHA. (That's for real...not sarcasm...but who knew I'd actually mean it!?)