Work Work Work Work Work

I'm exhausted ya'll! I've been working a lot. Definitely the opposite of my desired position as Lady of Leisure.

Plus side, this week's check is gonna be nice. I have 23 hours of OT. 👯 I already have most of the paycheck planned, and I should have enough left over to maybe get my hair dyed. Finally getting around to it. I've been saying for over a year that I want my hair rose brown. I can't wait to get it done. I also can't wait to get rid of all these grays. Something I thought I'd never say. #hypocrite

Anyway, because of all the hours I've been working, I haven't had a chance to write. I wanted to try to get some writing in on Sunday morning, but there were technical difficulties with the printer at work and so I couldn't print my WIP out.

I need a break...LOL.

The ruling attendant steams before the infinite disguise.

So I'm thinking about posting multiple entries a day. Not everyday, but whenever it does happen, I hope that no one minds, lol. This blog entry is a "test" of sorts, so it's ok if you found this post weird. :)

Anastasia

I know, I'm random.

This is what goes on in my brain and how I easily segway into different things.

For those who don't follow me on Twitter, I posted a twit about going to write and how it was late at night but it was ok because I do my best writing "in the dark of the night".

Well that phrase was awfully familiar and then it hit me! In the dark of the night is a song from Anastasia (which contrary to popular belief is NOT a Disney movie). It's one of my favorite animated films.

I haven't seen the movie or heard the songs in years.

I suddenly had the urge to watch the movie. Too bad I don't own it, or the soundtrack.

Anyway, I blipped a few of the songs and I was listening to them and thinking of the movie and of the story. It's a great story.

The movie is loosely based on the urban legend that Anastasia, youngest daughter of the last monarch of imperial Russia, survived the execution of her family.

This is what I know (which isn't much, lol) and correct me if I'm wrong: The reason for the urban legend is that when they took the family to execute, everyone was present, including Anastasia. But after everything was said and done, Anastasia's body was nowhere to be found. So it was believed that she escaped. And I think one of her siblings was said to have escaped too.

False reports of survival began to appear and women were saying they were the long lost Anastasia. I don't know her name, but I heard about one woman in particular that assured everyone she really was Anastasia and that she had faked her death and then escaped with help from a servant that saw she was still breathing. She had a legal battle for recognition which she never won but she never admitted to her lie. She died in her 80's and up until her death she still told people she was Anastasia.

Back in the 90's the grave site of the family was discovered with 9 bodies instead of the expected 11, giving more credence to the myth.

I read a report last year that said that the two missing family members were found. From what I remember of the article, a bunch of amateur archeologists found bone fragments close to the main burial site. They had re-read reports of the execution that said that two of the bodies were separated from the rest of the family and buried elsewhere.

DNA testing showed that the bones belonged to a young boy of around 13 and a girl age 16-18 which could either have been Anastasia or her sister. Either way, that's 11 out of 11. Anastasia never escaped, she was dead all along.

It's sad. It was a really romantic idea. A great urban legend.

Sorry, like I said, totally random. I'm like that. Randomly inquisitive. Don't get me started on the Lochness monster!

Over already???

Where did the weekend go? Man I swear yesterday was Friday. I wanted to do some writing, more than 500 words, but that didn't happen. Yesterday after my scare (read the post before this one if you don't know what I'm talking about) my brain had turned to mush and I ended up not writing anything. Heck, I didn't even Sim this weekend! What the heck did I do!?

Oh well, that's the life of the working man...err...woman.

I would also like to apologize for my absence. I've been somewhat reclusive these last couple of weeks, thanks to the Darnell drama that ensued. Of course by the end of this last week I was feeling better (meaning I was able to suppress the pain to continue my life of numbing heartache--melodramatic, I know.) Then Thursday night when I was in bed my cell rang. I picked it up not bothering to see who it was, and who do you THINK it was? Of course, it was Darnell. He called to invite me to a "small party" he's throwing this upcoming weekend. Why does he torment me so!!!? I of course declined, but he did his damage. I spent the night crying my eyes out and spent most of my work day doing the same. Thankfully none of my costumers commented on the puffy eyes...or the tears running down my cheeks. But I'm "better" now.

Can't wait for Gossip Girl tomorrow, finally! And OMG did you guys see last week's episode of Bones!? SUPER AWESOME. And my baby, David Boreanaz directed it. BRAVO!!! And congrats on the baby news. I hope it's a girl this time. :)

Ok, that's it for tonight. Until next time, which will hopefully be tomorrow, hehe.

A Very Horrible Experience

It was a weird feeling. An emotion unlike I had ever experienced. My breathing ceased, my lungs did not care. My heart felt as though it stopped beating. Time stood still. I could not move, I dared not. Because if I did then what just happened really did happen, and it wasn't my imagination playing tricks on me, coming up with the worst possible thing it could think of.

Finally I began to move, slowly. I forced my lungs to take in some air as I needed to breath to be able to think. My limbs felt heavy, panic had gripped them. I forced them to move. I forced my panic back a bit, anything to think of a logical explanation. Anything to fix this problem...

I realized then that I had been mistaken. It was all a big, horrible mistake. THANK GOODNESS!!! My limbs slacked, they felt like jelly. I was super relieved.

What happened, exactly? Well I popped my flash drive into the laptop, tried to open my NaNo story and I couldn't find it! Not only that, I couldn't find the additional chapters I had saved there as well. Or the brainstorming for other stories. Everything was gone...or so I thought. Turns out I was looking at my MP3 player's folder (which is also plugged into my laptop). Of course there isn't going to be anything saved under doc. But I learned a very important thing out of this incident. How important, and how special my work is to me. I hadn't realized how much it meant to me until now. When I thought about the 25,000+ words that I had thought lost...I wanted to cry, just weep. I felt so useless, and indescribable really. There isn't a single word to describe how horrible I felt.

No Blogging Tonight!

Oops, sorry. I was watching I Love Money 2 (I know, it's reality crap, but it's mucho entertaining) and I forgot to think about what to blog about tonight. Unfortunately it's my bedtime so I don't have the time to think. So here's some random stuff....

1. I did a lil bit of writing today. YAY. I'm now at 28,228 words on my main WIP. I'm a lil sad cuz I thought it would be more than that. But I'm still writing and I haven't quit, so that's good enough for me!

2. You guys should go over to the Romance Magicians' blog and do the challenge. It was fun! And I want to know what fun stuff people come up with.

3. Aaaand finally, here's one of my fav. YouTube videos. Enjoy.

End of Ze World

Before I start, I want to say that I don’t know exactly what the segment was about, I only saw about 30 seconds worth. That being said, last night there was something on the news about some lights in the sky, I think in New York. They were saying that no one seemed to know what the lights were and that airplane passengers were a little afraid. They then showed a picture of the sky with two sets of lights next to eachother, each set had 3 separate orange-y lights and they looked to be forming a triangle. I left the room after that, I had enough information to mess around with my roommate ( :D ). I ran to the kitchen where she was and told her, “Ashley, you ready for this? There’s UFOs in our area! It’s freaking Independence Day, call Will Smith! Hell, have him on speed dial, he knows about this shit. Independence Day, Men in Black (1 AND 2), I Robot, I am Legend.”

We had a nice laugh fest. Then we decided to throw off the aliens by calling in Tom Cruise (War of the Worlds) and if there were crop circles involved we could call Mel Gibson. But then we figured he’d either offend them and make things worse and if he didn’t, well he didn’t really do anything in Signs ‘cept piss the aliens by chopping some extraterrestrial’s finger off. So we calling Joaquin Phoenix! Though I don’t know how much good he’ll be to us now that he retired from acting, became a rapper, and is bugging out on the late show.

All this talking about UFOs and aliens had me thinking about life outside of earth. A part of me, the part who likes astronomy and has taken classes, is educated enough to say that there has to be life outside of our planet. It’s an egotistical thing to think that out of billions of billions of billions of solar systems, stars, and planets, that earth is the only place with life. But do I believe in intelligent life being out there? I’m not too sure, you would think we would have found something by now. With so many satellites up there, we would have spotted something. Then there’s the other part of me. The part that believes in love at first sight, and ghosts and vampires, and the Loch Ness monster, and the Chupacabra. Why can’t there be aliens? Because we haven’t seen them? Well how do we know we haven’t? Why can’t they be smarter than us, and more advanced? They can be disguised as humans, or have invisible UFOs. We don’t know.

So that’s my opinion, obviously I’m indecisive. How about you guys? What do you believe?

Here’s one of my favorite videos of all time. I figured I’d post it because when we think of aliens we think of destruction, of the end of the world. But there are other ways for the world to end. ;-)

A little bit of writing

I hope I’m not shooting myself in the foot here by saying this, but, I think I need to start working on my discipline a little bit more and write on here daily. *Gasp* I know, I hardly ever blog, and if I do it’s usually about Bones, but I want to prove to the world that I’m serious about becoming an author. So I’ve decided to write on this blog every day. Let’s see how long this lasts, hehe.

Why the sudden determination? I dunno! It’s something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while and I’ve just been too lazy to. And that’s actually the problem. I love to write, and I love to blog, not a day goes by that I say to myself, ‘hmm, I should blog about this.’ And then I don’t. Why? Because I always put it off till later, and when later arrives, I no longer feel like writing.

So this is what I’m going to do: Whenever I get the urge to write/blog, I’m going to do it. No matter where I am, or what I’m doing, I will write. I’m actually writing this entry at work. I have no internet access and I really wanted to do this, and I know that if I wait till I get home that I’m no longer going to be inspired. So from now on, I’ll write at work, or wherever I am. I have plenty of journals to write in so it shouldn’t be that hard.

Now the harder part is figuring out what I’m going to write about everyday, because I doubt that anyone (besides me) is going to be entertained by discussions of Bones or Gossip Girl. :P But that’s ok, I’m up for the challenge. It just strengthens my creative brain muscles. :D

Thankfully, today, I don’t have to come up with something because, well, this is it! Do you like it? HAHA. Hopefully people read this, and enjoy themselves somewhat. And if anybody does read this and has any questions for me or wants me to blog about something specific, ask me. I’ll try my best to accommodate you. All I ask in return is that you bring people here.

Getting ready...

For a few things...lets see...


Halloween is tomorrow and I still haven't gotten my fangs or fake blood, or the black face crayon so I can draw my whiskers for my day costume. I have about an hour and forty-five minutes worth of music on my NaNo playlist, but I'm thinking I may need to add more songs...I don't know, it's a whole month of listening to the same songs, I may get tired of them, and they may get desensitized. We'll see...I finished a book last night (Death Perception by Victoria Laurie) you can read my review here if you like.


I think that's about it, I also want to make a quick comment about my glasses. I've had them for about 3 years now and I've worn them hundreds of times. But for some reason everyone has decided to compliment me on them these last couple of weeks. What's up with that? Did you just notice them, because that's just crazy, what were you looking at when you people talked to me?