Busy Day

Yesterday was definitly an interesting day. Jammed packed a lot of stuff into one day, because that's how it always works, you never get to spread it out.

First, Mom and I went to Toronto yesterday. We shopped, she showed me where my Dad lived when they first dating and we just walked around, it was cool. Then we went out to dinner and to Stars on Ice, which was amazing.

I love skating, have ever since I was a little girl, and watching it live... I've seen competitions, but competitions and shows aren't the same. Shows are so much more fun and the skating was beautiful. Best of all, Mom and I had a great time watching it together, which was really the whole point. After all, Mom's the one who gave me my love of skating and my favourite part has always been sharing it with her.

After the skating was over, we hurried home because it was the night of the Fishing Party, a Castleton tradition. I know, I get up at 8 a.m, spend the day shopping and walking around, and then I go home and go to a party that started at midnight, I know I'm crazy, but it's one of those parties that couldn't be missed. I've been going since I was a little girl and how could I give it up? It's one of the few time of year when I hang out with everyone around here, so...

It was a good party, but then it usually is. Mom actually went with me, which is interesting since she hasn't been to one of these things in about 10 years, since she decided I was only enough to watch out for myself and not fall in the pond or anything like that. It was never really her thing, always more my dad's and mine. Still, she went and it was cool. I think she might have even had a fairly good time.

There were lots of people, but there always are. It was mostly people I've known forever and feel super comfortable with. These are the people who saw me grow up and have loved me my entire life, as Mom said, these are my people. There's something entirely comforatble about that, about going to the same party you go to every year with people you've known since you were a child.

I had a really good time, thought I felt a little guilty for not being around a lot, since I don't usually do the local party scene. It's not my thing, but I always feel bad about it, since I do like these people, i just... Well, it is how it is.

I can't think of much else to say, given that I had three hours of sleep after being up for 22 straight hours. Yech.

Soundtrack Of My Life

So I did this thing and filled out the soundtrack of my life. Basically, if my life was a movie (thought it'd be a boring one) this is the music that'd be playing in the background.

Your Life: The Soundtrack
Opening credits:	Redneck Woman by Gretchen Wilson
Waking up:	Every Day Is A Winding Road by Sheryl Crow
Average day:	Michelle by The Beatles
First date:	Hello, I Love You by The Doors
Falling in love:	She's In Love With the Boy by Trisha Yearwood
Love scene:	Truly, Madly, Deeply by Savage Garden
Fight scene:	Love Is A Battlefield by Pat Benatar
Breaking up:	Insensitive by Jann Arden
Getting back together:	Love Her Madly by The Doors
Secret love:	Crush by Garbage
Life's okay:	Take It Easy by The Eagles
Mental breakdown:	Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
Driving:	Radar Love by Golden Earring
Learning a lesson:	You Can't Always Get What You Want by The Rolling Stones
Deep thought:	Only Happy When It Rains by Garbage
Flashback:	Ruby Tuesday by The Rolling Stones
Partying:	Here For the Party by Gretchen Wilson
Happy dance:	Summer of '69 by Brian Addams
Regreting:	Everytime It Rains by Ace of Base
Long night alone:	Full of Grace by Sarah McLachlan
Death scene:	I Will Remember You by Sarah McLachlan
Closing credits:	In My Life by The Beatles
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150th Post

This is my 150th post in this blog and I wanted it to be a happy, cheery post, but that turned out to be impossible.

You see, I'm in one of those low-moods, where I don't think I'm ever going to suceed at anything, as a writer, or a person. They come every so often and don't last long, but they're kinda depressing.

First of all, my sleep cycle's totally messed up at the moment. I'm falling asleep at 6 a.m and waking up at 4 p.m, which is not the best thing for me, I must admit.

I'm full of doubts about school. I want to go and I'm going, I'm just terried I'm making a mistake. What if I'm not capable at suceeding at anything? What'll I do then?

I'm even full of doubts about my writing. I write something and I hate it, which is odd because at least I have been writing lately, which for a while I wasn't. In fact, I've been able to update a lot of my fanfics and such, but I stilll hate everything I write and I fear that I'll never progress past writing fanfic. Don't get me wrong, I love fanfic, but I want more. At least, eventaully.

Yeah, this is one of those moods, so hopefully it'll pass soon.

Blogs

I have figured out the one problem with blogs. You never know what's too much to write, what should be disclosed and what shouldn't.

Weirdly enough, my problem isn't with total strangers knowing my personal business, if I've never met you than I really don't care what you know about me. However, there are some things it's not appropriate to disclose on a blog, especially since I'm never sure who will read it.

There are things, I would start to share and then feel bad, because it seemed passive agreesive to write them on my blog instead of just talking to them. Other time, I hesitate because I'm afraid of causing problems. Then there are things that I don't mind some people knowing, but that I just know other people do not want to know.

Sometimes I just forget that this blog isn't my diary. It's tempting to write everything here, but it's not appropriate. I guess there's a fine balance and sometimes it's hard to know just what it is.

Take My Quiz

Since I'm a follower I decided to copy Meg and make a Quiz to find out how much you guys, my friends, really know about me. This time I came up with fairly silly and useless information, but at least it's fun to do.

Scrapbook Finished

I just finished the scrapbook I'd been working on for the last two years. It's full of pictures of all of us, some cards and that sort of stuff.

I've been working on in so long that some of the pictures and captions are out of date, people we no longer talk to, but that's the fun part. We can look back and remember.

I still have to finish some of the cpations and put in a few more stickers, but otherwise it's done nad it's on to the next scrapbook to fill with more memories. Wow.

I think I did a pretty good job of it. It got better half way through, when I started getting more creative, but that's natural. You live and you learn. Besides, it's intereting that my creativity was brought on by wanting to cut someone out of a picture.

All in all, I have lots of great pictures and mementoes, whihc is always good and lots of memories captured, which even better.

Ad Astra

So, I went to my first Ad Astra this past weekend. Can I say that it was amazing?

Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed my six Anime Norths, but I just found Ad Astra more helpful for me. Also, I did more than I ever do at Anime North, I went to a few pannels, I went to a workshop, and I met people and learned some useful things.

I got a few pictures, but not many. I just didn't have time to take lots of random pictures. Though, I got a few good ones of Tara's stomach. Which isn't as odd as it sounds, since Tara got her stomach signed by eight different authors, including Kelley Armstrong.

Which leads me to the highlight of my weekend: I met Kelley Armstrong! Not only that, I got to talk to her one-on-one for about half an hour, about her books and her characters and I was delighted to learn that not only is she an amazing author, she's very nice.

Not only did I get to talk to her, but I also got her to autograph three books for me, two for myself and one for Taela. I didn't want to ask for anymore than that. That leads me to the most exciting part, one of the books I got signed was an advanced reading copy of Broken! It had a few spelling errors, but who cares, I've been dying to read this book!

I also got to participate in a writing workshop with Anne Bishop which was pretty interesting. I got a lot of useful information and tips out of it, which is kind of the point.

All in all, I had an amazing time this weekend. I especially enjoyed getting to hang out with my friends.