What I'm Listening To: Freaks Come Out At Night-Whodini
Literally they do.
While on my nocturnal musings, around 1:30 am, two centipedes came out and sat there staring at me. One of the things that you have to know about me is that bugs give me the heebie-jeebies. Seriously, I tell people that I hate nature, but in reality I love sunsets, playing on beaches, hiking, and scouring mountain ranges if our fuzzy friends would take a hiatus when I'm there. That's the other thing as well; if I see a bug, I can't rest until it's dead. I feel like an axe murderer planning intricate ways to kill people when I see bugs in my house. It makes me go into hyper mode. So naturally, I woke my brother up. I could take on one, but two of them were uneven odds and one happened to be high on the wall while the other was lower. Also, if you've ever seen a centipede move, PHEW. They are like the Nascar of the insects or something. I had on flip flops, but even so, it was crazy. To make an uninteresting story short, my brother proceeded to try and kill the higher centipede with a towel, it fell to the floor and scampered into his room and then he eventually triumphed over evil. I faced down the other centipede and smashed it to bits with a wedge heel that I retrieved from my room. And then I yelled at the dead centipede. No, I actually did this after I eventually killed it and said, "Take that. I wish you would get up and see what I do. You better stay dead!" Then once I fully realized that it wasn't going to resurrect itself, I sheepishly went to my room.
Now that my gladiator battle with the centipedes has been thoroughly related to the masses, I wanted to recap what I've been up to for the past few days. First of all, something is seriously wrong with my hands. Seriously bad carpal tunnel. Or arthritis. But if I have arthritis before I turn 21, then I will know for sure that the world is a cruel and unfeeling place. Even so, I've had to tone it down a bit and take drugs (I feel as though I need to elaborate here: I call every and all of my meds drugs, so please don't go calling the cops on me, especially because I feel like we can be awesome friends). It's helping a little bit. But even so, I've had to figure out another way to keep blogging, so in honor of my blogoversary, which was a few days ago, I am slightly transitioning into a video blog. Oh there will still be writing, I can't live without that, but mostly video. Although I do hope you'll excuse my awful video camera/editing skills (I am so not tech savvy).
The last reason why I haven't been updating as much is because I'm prepping for my free ebook release. It will definitely be by Christmas. The book is almost done, but as any writer knows, you have to go through tons of editing and revisions, etc. I've also switched over to a voice activated program to save my hands. It's awesome and creepy at the same time when your computer listens to you. I feel so high-tech. I even contemplated speaking in a Darth Vader voice to my computer to make it listen better but decided that maybe that was taking it too far. My cousin designed the book cover, and I'll probably post it up here soon, I've gotten proofs for the logo designs for my new website and feedback on that, and I'm gearing up to head Prime Magazine again this year. Well, the ten digits are screaming out in pain, so I'd better stop for today and bid you all adieu for now ;)
