I hate New Year resolutions!

Ok, so I really do hate them. Let’s be real, how many people do actually stick to them? Every year we are bombarded with tens of thousands of ads, emails, blog entries, websites all telling us that this is the time to make that change we’ve been wanting to for months. Pft! Give me a break. Browsing one of the forums I’m a member of, I saw one of these lists. One girl or guy had, among other things, the following : “learn Chinese, German, French, Spanish” and some other language! I mean come on…We all know you’re not going to do it…there’s no way in hell any normal person would have time to learn 5 different languages to a decent level in a year! And there were 12 or something like other points on that list. I read that people are going to quit smoking, lose 50 billion kilograms, stop drinking, go out more. All crap. Not one of them is going to actually do every damned thing on their list. Most people won’t do one thing on their list. But for at least another week we’ll keep hearing that it’s never to late to start or stop something. Like there’s any point in giving up smoking at 80. Or whatever. I’m pissed. Whomever decided that the New Year(why do we spell it with capital letters anyway?) is a great moment to do something was a moron. It just sets us up for disappointment when another year goes by and we haven’t done any of the things on that list. You might also notice that smart people tend to avoid that by conveniently losing or forgetting the damned resolutions.
I don’t have a list. I don’t have a resolution. I’m perfect?

Why do people think Americans are stupid?

Well, this video doesn't give us any freakin' clues...they all seem pretty bright to me.

Yes,I am particulary bored this fine morning and browsing stupid clips I saw months ago...New Year's spirit I think. I would post something more but nothing I could say could sound the least bit intelligent after those true pearls of wisdom. God bless America...some of them need it!

Merry almost Christmas!

Yeah...so I'm going shopping in about twenty minutes ad by the time I get back I'll probably be grumpy and pissed again so I decided to just wish everybody a Merry almost Christmas now and share a little of the great Christmas music(yup...I'm a sucker for pretty holiday songs):


I hope Santa brings everyone what they wished for a something more!
Merry Christmas!
(Yup...I have enetered the holiday madness in the past two hours. For the past two weeks I've been worse then the Grinch but this morning after watching, ironically enough, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" I'm very cheerful and, dare I say, excited! I love this day!)
Now off to shopping, my darlings, before everything shuts down and I'm left gift-less.

How to decorate the yard and Christmas tree when you live in my world

1.Go out a week before you actually plan on decorating everything and get the tree.
1a. Circle the market and look at every tree until you get tired and grumpy.
1b. Fight like cats and dogs over what tree to get.
1c. Pick a tree, look at the disgusted face the person your with makes (in my case my mother).
1d. Fight some more.
1e. Repeat this dialogue at least 5 times "If you don't like it,we can get another one" "No, this one's fine *sad sigh*"
1f. Go back and get the damned tree.
1g. Pay the man and then carry the tree home all by yourself.
1h. Throw the tree in the garden somewhere where the dog can’t get to it (or piss on it for that matter).
1i. Forget promptly about the tree.

2. A week later go and find every stupid light that’s supposed to go outside.
2a. Get a chair.
2b. Get a stable chair.
2c. Climb on said chair and arrange the lights on a metal rod while the insane dog jumps all over you, trying to get you down to play with him.
2d. Get some metal wire and try to attach the string of lights to the rod.
2e. Scratch and bruise your hands until you remember that it would be a good idea to wear gloves.
2f. Curse under your breath, while the dog is still trying to kill you.
2g. Climb on the chair and then on the table to attach the other string.
2h. Tape it to the other metal rod thingy with duck tape.
2i. Chase the dog all around the yard with a broom until you finally catch him and put him on a chain.
2j. Look at the dog’s big doe-like eyes.
2k. Decide you’re a very mean person for doing that to the poor pooch and then go untie him.
2l. Curse again when the dog tries to jump all over you and bite your hand.
2m. Leave the dog tied up.
2n. Try to explain to your mother that the plug for the lights should be hidden, in case it rains.
2o. Bang your head against a wall repeatedly(or at least imagine you do) when she explains that she’ll put a plastic bag over it.
2p. Prepare for imminent short-circuit and/or fire.

3. Preparing the tree.
3a. Get the tree out of the garden without bothering to open the gate.
3b. Curse when your hair gets tangled in the wire.
3c. Finally get the tree out.
3d. Get the tree stand and try to put the tree in it.
3e. Give up and get the hatchet.
3f. Chop down the bottom of the tree until you think it fits.
3g. Put the tree in the stand again, shake it a little to see if it stands.
3h. Get the tree of the ground, chop some more.
3i. Finally get the tree in the stand.
3j. Grab the tree and then bang it against the ground and/or a wall until it’s not moving from the stand.
3k. Chop down the top of the 10.000 feet tree you got to fit inside the house. During this process, realize that your future career as an axe murderer is probably not the best idea since you almost cut your hands as well.
3l. Move the tree inside.
3m. Scratch the ceiling when you try to get it standing.
3n. Try and get the tree down just enough so you ca cut off some more from the top.
3o. Hold the tree while the other person does the chopping.
3p. Say “Of course I’m careful not to scratch the wall.” then look at the wall and see a big white scratch in the light brown paint.
3q. Put the tree down quickly and hope no one notices.
3r. Turn the tree around a few times and wonder why it looks so weird.
3s. Remember to cut the rope that tied the branches together. Do so, and then pull the branches down, trying to make it look pretty.
3t. Move the tree around again until you’re satisfied.
3u. Take a step back and look at the tree.
3v. Arrange a little more.
3w. Finally smile happily.
3x. Bang your head against the wall when your mother comes in and says “Wow, you were right, it’s such a beautiful tree.”(points 1c,1d and 1e)

4. Get a fiend, get extremly drunk and then decorate the thing while laughing like maniacs and fighting with the plastic ornaments.

Guess who's pregnant!

No, not me! But before we talk about who is the final UK championship update for this year, as the tournament is now officially over *sniff*. O’Sullivan won(dang, why didn’t I bet?) with the score of…wait for this…10-2. In fact at one point the score was actually 8-0. Poor Maguire. But he got two frames, Ronnie got the trophy(and a really nice moment at the end of the game where his girlfriend and their oldest daughter came to congratulate him---the kid is adorable) and everyone went on their merry ways.

Another piece of news before we get to the pregnancy story. The WGA has decided to picket the Golden Globes. No,no,no,no,no!!! *sits on ass and cries her eyes out* It was somewhat predictable but come on, man! You’re taking everything away from me! Because of the protest probably most actors wont even attend the ceremony so this officially sucks! *cries some more*

And now the baby news. Lily Allen is pregnant. No, that’s not that important. Yeah, she’s a good singer and everything but far more important is the other girl that got knocked up. A hint…her last name is Spears! Nope…not Britney(although that wouldn’t be surprising). It’s her 16-year-old sister. I don’t feel like saying anything other then the fact that maybe their mom’s book about how to raise a kid(supposed to be launched sometime next year) probably doesn’t have the best advice in the world.

UK Championship semifinals

So the semifinals are over and the finalists are *drum roll please*:Stephen Maguire and Ronnie O’Sullivan. While the Murphy-Maguire was somewhat boring and uneventful, ending with a 9-5 score, I absolutely loved the Selby-O’Sullivan game. After a great start from Selby, Ronnie finally caught up at 7-7 and then took the lead for the first time at 8-7. Selby won the next frame and the score became 8-8 and then came the final frame! A beautiful game in which Ronnie proved once again why he is considered by many one of the greatest snooker players and managed the magic 147 break, equaling Hendry’s record of most maximum breaks in official competitions(eight). Now, I’m a little bummed that Selby didn’t win but they both deserved the victory and there can only be one winner(oddly enough :P). I’m betting on O’Sullivan to win the final but both he and Maguire are great players so it will be a very interesting game to watch.

The Jared Leto saga continues and other various news

Snooker news and then I’ll skip to some unimportant crap. Mark Selby won yesterday’s game against Marco Fu(9-7 for anyone interested). The last frame broke the record for the longest frame ever televised. The last one was around 74 minutes. They made it to 77. Now he meets Ronnie O’Sullivan. My money’s on O’Sullivan, even though I love both of them. The other semi-final is Shaun Murphy against Stephen Maguire. I’m rooting for Maguire. Murphy annoys me. Done with snooker for now.

Now, onto Jared Leto. Yes, I’ve become quite obsessed with the poor bloke. Don’t ask why, I have no clue. But as it turns out I still haven’t found one person who cares about him. Then who googled him so much that he made it in the top 5? But a piece of useless information: apparently he sings as well. Isn’t that adorable? He is the lead singer of “30 seconds… something”(the something is my way of saying I forgot the rest of the name and not the actual name of the band). And people care so little about his acting career that they mention him as a singer instead of an actor, which from what I remember, he usually claims he is. Not that he isn’t a decent actor or anything…Naaah(note the sarcasm please). It’s just that nobody cares.

Another piece of crappy celeb news: Gillian Anderson, who apparently is still doing movies that no one cares about, will do a sequel to the “X files” movie. Because a sequel after so many years has any chance of being watched. Washed up celebs that have nothing better to do. The guy, whose name I can’t remember at the moment, at least starred in some crappy TV show. I can’t remember the name of that either.

The Golden Globe nominations are in. And there’s no mention of “Heroes” that I could see. Bummer. But Hugh Laurie did get another nomination for best actor in a TV drama. And the show got a nomination as well. Fingers crossed. Cate Blanchett scored nominations for both best actress and best supporting actress. She’s competing with Angelina and Jodie Foster for the best actress(and a couple of others) and with Julia Roberts for the best supporting actress. I’ll be happy if they actually hold the show without any problems from the WGA and SAG. One can hope.

Jessica Alba is pregnant. Nobody cares. It’s not like she is a good actress or anything. And sadly, the news about Pamela Anderson’s reality show was fake. It could have been “Newlyweds” on crack.

That’s it. I’m off to write or do something that requires a minimum amount of effort. I’m tired and sleepy.

In today’s news:

Gillian Anderson got a job! Oh, what do you mean you don’t know who she is? The girl from “X files” and…I’m out. But she must have appeared in something else. Does “X files” the movie count…? Anyway she’ll be doing…something. It’s not an acting job or anything. But anything beats sitting at home starring at reruns of your moment of glory, right?

Paris Hilton will have her on line of champagne. Just thought it might be interesting to know, with her DUI conviction and stuff…but I’m sure she can now handle her drinking and that will never happen again. Yes, I have just written something about Paris Hilton. I think I need to throw up.

Julia Roberts has a new movie out. Yay! I have no clue what the movie’s about and I don’t care enough to check but it’s still good news. It was about time she got something new out.

Not exactly today’s news but still great news: Angelina Jolie will play the role of a spy or something like that in a movie. As long a she kicks ass I don’t quite care if she plays the role of a ballerina.

Hurray for my first celeb blog entry. I don’t feel like writing so I’m procrastinating. Duh. And on a side note…I still can’t think of anything Jared Leto did…he had that movie where he was fat and wore glasses but for the life of me I can’t remember what it’s called. And I don’t quite care to check.

Meh.

I’m on a very weird sleep-wake time lately. Meh. Nothing new here.
Been trying to fill my college application for a week. Meh. It can wait.
According to some article I read somewhere online Jack Nicholson was more googled then Jared Leto. Meh. He is hotter, even at 70. And no one cares about Jared Leto.
The writer strike continues. Meh. I’m still hoping it will end soon. I need my “Heroes” fix.
I’ve started a new fanfic. Meh. Like my insanity is news to anyone.
I’m bored. Meh. Like that’s news.
I saw the “Sex and the city” trailer. Meh. Still don’t think I’ll actually bother to see the movie.
I’m thinking of writing a letter to Santa and ask for Milo. Not meh. Think I’ll get him? *wink*

NaNo is officially over *sniff*

Yup...December is here and that means no more NaNo...sad.
Right now I am waiting for tonight(and Jennifer Lopez is singing in my head …make her stop) when I can finally go out and celebrate. My novel is not over yet but it will be soon enough and then I can take a break and focus on my fanfics( I am so way behind on my Gilmore one is almost painful). I’m guessing I have somewhere around 5000 words(maybe a bit less then that) until I get to write the two magic words and then file the document away and get the characters out of my head(hopefully!).
Seriously, though, I really need to go out more. Last night I dreamt about my characters. Really. It’s almost sad how pathetic I am. But Chris was telling Abby that he’s not afraid of dogs even though one bit him because a crocodile once bit him. Yup. Because everybody knows that there’s a big problem with the crocodile population in Pittsburgh.
I just realized that I’m more worried that my dream of extremely stupid then I am that I dreamt about my characters. I am in serious need of some therapy.
*runs to write the novel hoping she can finish it soon and return to her somewhat normal self*

I won!!!!

I won! I won! I won!
50.000 words, a purple bar and yellow diploma! I won!
I wrote more then 50.000 words in less then a month!
I won!
I am worse then the Cheshire cat right now!

Yeah...so....yeah.

I’m behind. Big shock there, I know. I made it to 36.500 yesterday and today I don’t feel like writing, which is bad…so, so bad. I really doesn’t help that I don’t have the faintest idea about what I should write and my characters are too busy jumping each other(dear God, they’re worse then rabid rabbits). And I cannot write another sex scene because:
1. I just can’t. My brain will explode.
2. They are in a car. A moving car. A moving car that one of them is driving. Which makes sex a bit difficult.
3. I am starting to think it is humanly impossible for two people to have sex as often as these two do.
4. I would like to have some actual plot(as much as one can call this whole thing plot).
5.My brain will explode(did I mention this before?).
I will probably wait twenty minutes and do a one-hour word war against myself, see if I can beat my previous record(set yesterday- 1189 words in an hour). I hope I’ll get at least 1000 words( and get to 40k until I go to sleep).Wish me luck…

4th wall? Puah!

So...I just wrote the following paragraph :"The black walls are covered with [SHAMELESS WORD PADDING ANYONE? MUST REDO THIS PARAGRAPH] yellow and red curtains, and the dim light barely shines through the curtain of smoke that fills the crowded place [STUPID NON-SMOKING LAWS BE DAMNED]."
Sad.
But still fun as hell to write. And I will not have my characters run outside to smoke every five minutes!

I heard a rumor...

…that contrary to what I believe, people actually need sleep once in a while. Amazing, I know…. I also heard that you can’t live of lollipops, chocolate chip cookies and industrial amounts of coffee. But I am going to keep trying because, well, life’s more fun this way. The fact that I can’t seem to turn my mind off for five minutes so that I could actually have a shot at falling asleep might also have something to do with it.
Recap time, kids: I haven’t slept in…oh…quite a number of hours. I haven’t eaten any real food in more then that. I want coffee. My ADD is kicking in big time and it's bringing my dyslexia with it.I am pumped full of pain medication because my damned leg hurts like hell. Conclusions: not in a very chipper mood right now.
At exactly 10 PM I am going to bed and I am going to sleep even if it kills me. I have stopped any caffeine intake (in any shape or form) five hours ago. I figure that by ten my brain will either shut down and allow me to sleep or my eyes will start bleeding. I’m fine with either one. But look on the bright side…I had 30.020 words on the twentieth. Hurray!
On a non sleep-whining related note: today I wanted to kill of Abby. I was writing a scene and I had this impulse to have a truck run over her. I stopped myself...but I do feel bad for wanting to do this.Not having written mysteries or horror in a while is taken it's toll on me.
Sorry for the annoyed post, I needed to vent a little. My happy self will be back tomorrow,fully rested and without wanting to kill any more characters(hopefully).
But apple lollipops do make life so much better. :)

Shoot...I forgot to brag!

One of my personalities(let's jus call it 1): Yey...another post in less then an hour...procrastinating much?
My other personality(obviously 2): I am not procrastinating, I just can't focus on those two.
1:...Sure. And I believe you.
2: You should. What are we going to do with them?
1: Kill them?
2:You're way to violent lately.Anger management classes?
1:They deserve my wrath.
2:Oh, come on...it's cute.
1:It's annoying.
2:Cute.
1:Annoying.
2:Cute. And stop it before we get commited.
1:I was going to say that.
2:Well great minds think alike...wait...something's wrong here.
1:We're just one mind, you moron.
2:Oh,yeah...*blushes*
1:*headdesk*See what I have to put up with every damned day?
2:Not every day...remember that time when you locked me in the besement?
1:Yeah...that was fun. Now let's get back to deciding.
2:Like we'd ever agree on anything...let's just see how it goes. Maybe they just like each other...and that's it.
1:Do you believe yourself?
2:Nope.
1:At least you're not a complete idiot.
2:I think we started this because we wanted to brag about something...what was it?
1:Huh...I don't remember.
2:Me neither.But it was important, I just know it.
1:Or it was just another form of procrastination.
2:Well besides the fact that we can't decide what we're going to do with Abby and Chris,we still haven't decided what's going to happen on the fourth day.
1:Huh...really?*smacks 2 over the head*
2:Auch...that hurt!
1:That was the point.
2:But...why? I'm telling!
1:Cry baby!
2:Am not!
1:Are too. And if you say anything else I'll smack you again.
2:*shudders and runs to hide*
1:So...I'm finally alone. Yeah...I wanted to brag. I still don't have the courage to check the word count but I know for sure that it's over 26k.Hurray!Now please excuse me,I have to find that idiot and get back to work.

What the Hell? I am going to kill this bunch!

So...my characters are stupid! Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid and stupid!
They are falling in love. Well, great! The two morons just shared a moment...adorable if this was romance. But it's not! Only one of them was allowed to fall in love and that was the worse case scenario! But do they listen? Nooo...that would be so nice, simple and easy! Having characters who don't drive you up walls! Hah...what a dream!
And the saddest part of it all is that I can't do anything to prevent it. Now anybody who has tried writing something bigger then a shopping list will tell you that characters sometimes have their own minds. And now my crappy not love story is turning into a crappy love story.Never mind that they've known each other for what...three days?Who cares? Love conqueres all!
I am so pissed that I didn't even check my word count...so I can't tell you if I won my own challenge or not.I hope I did...But for now my biggest concern is what I am going to do with these two idiots.
And I take back what I said earlier...the true sad part of it all is that, with my rant and everything, I am still "aww"-ing in my mind...and think it's adorable.
But please...next time I try to write a novel, please remind me not to listen to sappy music and, if possible, have only one character!
*headdesk*

Uh...sanity...where?

So my favourite word of the day is "uh".Which is not actually a word but that's not important.But I've used it so much it's starting to bug even me,and I love repeating words.The risks of NaNoWriMo.
Anyway, the not daily update: I have hit 20k.Which is...wow!It took me almost 5 months to reach that many words in one of my fanfics and now I've reached it in less then 20 days.I'm still behind but catching up.Which is good.Otherwise I'd have to sit on the floor on my ass and cry.I'm hoping to reach 30k by the 20th.That's 3 days.But what the Hell...Nothing ventured,nothing gained,right?And if I do get there in time I am going to reward myself with...something to be determined as of now.Because seeing as I'm basically broke my choices are rather limited.But I'll figure something out...just have to get there.My 20k reward was a new coffee maker.It's black and shiny and I love it.
And I think I've reached a new level of madness...I relax from my nano by writing my fanfics.Is that crazy?I want a new chapter by the end of this weekend.Which is crazy,I think.Wait...I know it's crazy.But that's never scared me before.
Yup...another random thing that I've decided today:if I finish my nano I'm going to print it so that it's easier to edit.I hate editing on the computer...the red pen works so much better when I'm buchering my own work.
That's about it.I'm going back to writing.
Hurray for the first post this blog not begging anyone to kill me!

Please shoot me now!

This does seem to have become my favorite phrase this month. I am an awful procrastinator. The worst I know. But when I get an idea inside my head it won’t just go away! I’ve tried putting them on the back burner, arranging them in a circle and demanding that they wait until December, begging them to wait, falling on my knees and imploring…No such luck. So as I struggle with a novel on which I am way, way behind, 3 fanfics for 2 different shows, real life and all that crap this whole new fanfic idea is burrowing inside my head, trying to get me to write it. And I am weak…so of course I’ve started writing it. And what does it do? It leaves me in the middle of the first chapter. Now I normally wouldn’t mind this, as the folder filled with unfinished fanfics, one-shots and whatnot, can tell you but this fic was keeping me awake at night! And now, after an amazing paragraph, it leaves me hanging. So now I’m trying to focus on the novel until I get a new wave of inspiration for that particular story, or any of the others that I’m writing at the moment. Thank God I have my NaNo planned out, otherwise I’d be dead right now. Now I just have to get the words written down…Huh…if only it was that easy.
On a side note, I have developped a reward system that will hopefully get me to the end of my Nano...I'm not allowed to watch House until I finish at least my word count for the day...And tomorrow I'm going out and buying a new coffee maker...Ups. It seems the last one has commited suicide. I wonder why?

How do you spell screwed?

Well,you see,before I started NaNo I actually had hope that I was going to make it to the end.But after a week of partying,a test,drinking and oh,yeah,procrastination at it's highest,I am nowhere near where I was supposed to be.But no worries,my darlings,because it will be done even if it kills me(or so I say now...ask me again in a week).
Other then that...pretty much nothing.Now I could spend a few more minutes writing something stupid or I could actually go back to staring at my novel(who's still mocking me).Decisions,decisisons...maybe I'll check a few games sites before...just for inspiration!*Bad,bad Addie*I know...I'll go make some more coffee and then get back to my writing.Yeah...but what about that new game I saw a few minutes ago...?
I take back what I said earlier...it will never be done!

NaNoWriMo has began!

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of my free time. It's officially November and I am...well...offically stuck! 10 hours in to the project and I've written exactly 517 words and now my brain is dead, Billy(my muse) has abandoned me, my main character refuses to understand that Abby sounds to much like Addie and that stupid word document is staring at me and I swear it started mocking me about 5 minutes ago!So everything is going just according to plan.Please shoot me now!