Sucked back in....

With everyone saying, "too bad you're not on facebook," I finally gave in. I reactivated my account. I cleaned it out of all the friends, save for those I want updates from. So the majority of the people I added because they were players of RB vamps (people I barely knew, I might add) and I or they wanted more people to join this app game or another.... Yep, all deleted. I've got less than 10 people. And that number might actually drop to just close family and friends.

So, I'm back, but only sort of. I won't be adding ANY stupid apps. Don't expect a million updates from me a week, well not unless I link it to this blog. I just wanted to be able to stay in touch and see the pictures you all share. Since SOME of you, don't even check e-mail.... Seriously, SOMEone is lucky they live on the wrong part of the world, or I'd be kicking his butt.

I cleared out all the "recent activity/history" crud too. So my page is naked-ish and will remain that way. We'll see how long I stay there....

Wow....

Between my lack of some sort of daily schedule and my excitement at the movie release (mostly the excitement, I think), I thought today was the 20th. Doesn't help that my cell phone went off at midnight to remind me about Sarah's birthday coming up. Yes, I set it early, but ya forget these things when you're excited. :P

I've lost count how many times I've watched Kung Fu Panda (2008), Coraline (2009), and Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) this week alone. Well that's not true.. I've only seen Monsters vs. Aliens maybe two times this week. :P What can I say, I can't seem to get enough of them. Panda especially. HBO's been airing that one longer and I've seen it countless times as a result. :P


Po: The Furious Five! You look a lot bigger than your action figures! Except you, Mantis. You're about the same.

:D

Tai Lung: You can't defeat me! You... you're just a big... fat... panda!
Po: I'm not a big fat panda. I' m THE big fat panda.

:P

Writers' Block...

I know I know. I haven't blogged as much lately. And it's not that nothing's happening (not that the somethings I blogged about were uber thrilling :P ). The routine of my life remains pleasantly the same for the most part. I just haven't been focussed enough to write. I got a letter a couple weeks ago, and I have yet to even write back. I haven't even been enthusiastic about the RPs I write, well with the exception of a new character at an RP forum I joined with a friend of mine. I dunno. I haven't been reading as much either. Just too scatterbrained to focus lately.

I'm hoping my writers' block clears up soon though. As I can already feel it. I know I will want and need that mental escape. Not just the escape of fantasy in RPing and reading; I felt better when blogging during sad times.  And I'm going to go do some letter writing right now. With any luck, I'll get letters back just in time to cheer me up when I'll need it most.

As far as what's been going on lately? The usual Target Tuesdays with my silly Dad. :) Mom made a shocking three trips out of the house this month already. Three! That's progress. And tonight she even thought about driving all the way to Anaheim tomorrow (er today/Friday) for some Persian food at this one restaurant we loved, until she realized she had to go to work still. :P I think she thought it was Saturday. :P The other day a power cord fell down the street. Fire department came down and everything. Neighbor had to borrow the blocade things that were left next to the tree stump (from the fallen tree), to block off the street until fire dept. got there. We heard it when it happened too, a loud buzzing noise, I mean LOUD.

Mom's still avoiding the dentist like the plague. And they're not helping the issue. She had an appointment today and they called and told her to come in earlier, which of course she couldn't cuz of work. >.<  I wish she'd go in just to get her permanent cap put in, since the temp one keeps falling out and she's afraid of losing it or choking on it in her sleep! But ugh! I'm losing my patience and sympathy. She's cancelled on them so many times, that is WHEN she's bothered to even schedule the appointments. Oy.... So much for her eating real food this weekend.

New Moon comes out today (okay, I give in, I'll refer to the now as today/Friday), and I've already reserved twenty bucks to buy it. :)  I'm resisting the urge not to beg Mom or Dad to drive me to Target to get it. :P  I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard nothing but good reviews. The same will happen next month when Avatar comes on DVD on...... Get this... April 22nd! The DVD gods smiled on me and granted me the best birthday present! :P So, yeah, I will so be buying that one as soon as possible too. :D

Anywho... Letter writing awaits... And then maybe I'll attempt RPing at the forum I run... It's hard when the others in the RPs drag down the mood. >.< But I'll try to ignore their "poor me, pay attention to me" routines..

Heh, I was just gonna write a little update.... Writers' block may have been unblocked?

Let's just flutter for a while...

Ever spread your arms and just spin and spin, letting your head fall back, and spin til you're dizzy? I'm 29 and I was spinning around in the middle of our Target Tuesday adventure. I had a long jacket and a long scarf, and they flew out with me. It was so fun. :P You should totally try it sometime. It's somehow more liberating if it is done in public like that. While there were few if any shoppers in that part of the store at the time, I didn't care who saw me or how stupid I looked. And as Mom pointed out to me, the cameras and mirrors probably caught me, so I wasn't alone even if it looked it. :P Dad asked if I was having fun, and of course I WAS! :P

Apparently that wasn't the only thing to make me look silly though. At dinner after the Target trip, Mom pointed out I had glitter on my forehead. I pretended to try on a glittery leprichaun hat right when we walked into the store, and well, I guess I got glitter on me. I must have had it on me the whole time! :P

Silliness continued this week with silly song singing with/from Dad on the phone and me pushing Mom around on her computer desk chair. "Just like a ride at Disneyland!" :P

I've been having some fun role playing again lately. Making new characters is so fun. Like starting all over with a new life and identity. Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting into some fun role play writing. :)

Oh, speaking of Disneyland, I've already made plans to go first Sunday I could steal Issi away when she get's back from her trip. :D I'm hoping to go once this month and at least once next month before it expires. My options are limited now to Sundays though as Saturdays are blocked now that it's spring. I'ma miss it, but this year of having the pass was spent well. Each trip has been pretty fun. So it's a good way to go, y'know if ya have to go? I've already set aside money for a couple more Mickey beanies. Just gotta find the right ones. A leprichaun/St. Patrick's day Mickey would be adorable I think. :) Dunno what I'll get for April. Oh, and I'll have to stock up on cherry balls! :P

So now that I've babbled enough... Let's just flutter for a while.. or spin and twirl! Let's see what adventures and silliness the weekend brings. :) Toodles doodles!

Whose dream is this anyway?

Soooo.... Today we were supposed to play taxi for my Nana and Gabriel (her hubby). They had a party to go to and it was gonna run real late. Nana doesn't like to drive at night, so she was gonna make Gabriel drive. Yeah, there's a good idea. The man's so ancientt he can't even stand upright anymore, he's recovering from cataract (sp?) surgery on one eye, and he was more than likely going to drink at the party. Goooood mix, all at night with possible rain. Yep... So Mom (apparently after SEVERAL hints) offered to drive them there and back. But that plan got foiled. Flat tire. Drat. :P Neither one of us wanted to play driver (or in my case, keep her company while she played driver). So yeah. We got all bundled up for cold Cali weather (which is probably WAY warmer than you got it Mellie :P ), went outside, and then came right back in. Gotta love those quick errands.

Now before all this... I had weird dreams I was gonna share. Some of it is however lost.... Memory bank only has room for soo much and some of it got pushed out with the tire thing. :P Weird how dreams don't stay in your head as long as other memories unless ya really sit down and think about them before ya forget them.

Anywho, I had a dream that proves Mom and I share a brain cell. We were driving home from dropping off Nana and Gabriel and Mom turned to me and asked me if I wanted chicken nuggets (from McDonalds). I never order nuggets. Never ever. SHE's the one who orders nuggets all the time. Now either we're sharing a brain cell or she was sending me a message of her desire for nuggets. But when I told her, she didn't seem amused. Perhaps I still had the nugget loving brain cell still in my head. Hope it leaves before I go to McD's next. :P

And for a bit of color, the other lingering dream was filled with color! Like ALOT of color. Like this much color. I was in some sort of bizarre labyrinth world with Lisa Frank's decorator run amuck all over the walls and ceilings and steps and floors. Weird tubes and tunnels and passageways. It had that same vibe as the Labyrinth stair maze scene near the end of the movie, only in technicolor! Almost makes me wish I was a proper artist so I could draw what I really saw. It was a very cool, if weird, maze, labyrinth thing. Hmm.... Maybe not quite as neon as these colors seem to be though. :P

You've Got Mail

Wouldn't it be funny if our actual mailboxes said that when we came home?  :P

I got a letter today.  :)  Among the weekly mailers and advertisements, there was an envelope from my friend.  :)  I love letters and cards in the mail.  I'll take letter writing any way I can get it, but there's something so special about getting something via snail mail.  :)  Makes me think of older times, when the postal service was the only way people kept in contact.  I mean relationships grew out of what was written in letters.  Family and friends who were too far away could only keep in touch with their letters.  Penpals in school.  The whole idea of it makes me smile.

It's funny. Gilly and I started out as game mates.  Chatting here and there.  Then at some point we became texting friends.  And now?  I think we talk more in our letters.  It's kinda fun that way.  I mean of course I'd like to be able to talk to her "live", but if I can't this is just fine.  While I've sent and recieved cards from other game mates, G's become more of a penpal.  :)

Anywho, just thought I'd share.  Her letter brought a smile to my face, and I had to share.  Sometime this weekend, I'll go through my stationary and pick something out to write back to her.  Until then, I shoooouuuuld be replying to an RP or two I have with some friends of mine.  Oh, and I'll try and put up pics next post, though all I have are pics of my furry bratlings.  :P

Of Wills and Wishes

A comment here. A comment there. Conversations with various people about various things. Thoughts rattling around in my head. I've been thinking maybe I should make some sort of will. No it won't be official or anything. But something, so if anything happens, my loved ones will know what I want and what to do with my stuff.

I watched how badly things could go when grandma (Dad's mom) died and then again when my tata (Mom's dad) died. I'm sure neither one of them would have liked how things had been handled; their kids being of robbed of something I'm sure they would have wnated for them.

Now, I don't know if my Aunt Fita (Mom's aunt) had wishes for her belongs and house, but without a will the family's divi'ing it up amongst themselves. It makes sense, but now and then, you hear complaint of so-and-so taking too much. And then there's the matter of the house. The three remaining siblings own it, but what to do with it. Nana wants it for my Uncle David, her favorite child. And maybe Aunt Fita would have willingly left it for him, who knows. But as put together and smart as Mom says she was, I don't know why she didn't have a will.

With my brother, well obviously he wouldn't have had a will. Who thinks of these things when you're not even 30 and have no real property or possessions of worth? But all the same, there's a room filled with his things that Dad doesn't know what to do with. I mean, I'm sure Josh would want the stuff to be used by someone. As much as he loved games, he'd want someone to enjoy that stuff. Mom wants to go through his things, but we just didn't think she was ready. I keep meaning to suggest to her that we all go through his things together one weekend. But I'm always afraid of setting her off into a sad spell.

Dad comments here and there, "when I'm gone, it'll be left to you," but I dunno if he's ever thought about actually sitting down and writing any sort of will. After seeing the ugly side of a will-less loss, I just hope that doesn't happen later. With Mom, there's no contest. No siblings, no ex's, and Nana or her brothers wouldn't take from me. Not that there's anything to take, apart from her car, which is still not fully paid for (well technically it is, but not really).

I know I don't have much. But still, I wouldn't want my room to be left untouched. I'd want my things to go to people. So I'm thinking, maybe I'll write out a little will of sorts, leave it someplace that I'll tell my loved ones where to find. In it, I can leave my wishes on what to do with me, too. Well, not me. I won't be there, but my body. Something I'll update every year or so as things change.

Kind of a depressing topic, but maybe it's cuz the anniversary is coming up. Yeah, I'm not really looking forward to April this year. Anywho, I hope to have a lighter or maybe even a happier topic for the next post.