Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween every one!

I missed out on the Halloween fun this weekend because I have been sick most of the week. Total bummerface. I feel a little better today, but since the party was last night, that matters little.  Glad I was planning to recycle a costume this year, otherwise I'd be upset I spent money on something I couldn't use.

I was going to dress up as Hermione Granger, I wore that costume in 2007, and the ex was dressed as Ron Weasley.  The more I read the Harry Potter books the more I feel like I am Hermione.  She's very awkward and opinionated and not a lot of people outside her really close friends like her.  I know how that goes, plus, I can very easily make my hair bushy so he is an easy costume for me to pull off.

So since I just decided on the fly to write a post today - mostly because I was super excited to find my 5th follower! Thanks Amy, you rock!  Seriously I'd post a lot more if I knew more people were reading this, not that I don't value my few followers, I just like greater benefits for my efforts.

Anyway, I decided that I would chronicle some of the Halloween Costumes I remember having through the years.  So here you have it, in not so chronological order:

• I was a ballerina for too many years to count.
• In second grade I dressed up as Barbie (I happened to have a pixie haircut at that time which made that costume SUPER obvious, NOT).
• One year I dressed up as a book - I made a book costume out of a cardboard box, how's that for the most uncomfortable costume ever.
• I dressed up as a Renaissance Fairy Princess one year.
•  Year before last I was a little girl playing dress-up/
• And, last year I was the prom queen - it was supposed to be a zombie prom queen, but I got lazy and did not do the make-up.

I might edit this later and add pictures, if I can find some.

I need some inspiration, please!

I am all out of inspiration.  I need a muse, stat.  I have been trying to write a post for like a week now, and I just can't seem to find the words. Or rather figure out how it is I want to convey it.

That's why I haven't been posting a lot lately. Ideally I want to post at least every other day, if not daily, and have the post be of some substance, not like yesterday's.  But I have been so distracted by not being able to write the other post, I have been unmotivated to wrote anything.

I thought I was reluctant to write it because I needed to do my Annulment questionnaire, but I finished that Sunday.  I could blame the fact that now that the annulment paperwork is mailed, I need to work on my CV and letter of intent, but I am not really motivated for that either. You can add to all this I have felt like crap.

But really, it may be a combination of these things, or it could be that I am pretty sure Persch is just the German word for lazy-ass procrastinator.  Procrastination is a plague on pretty much the entire family. Even my mom, and she is not a real Persch, at least not by blood.  I never can seem to do anything until the last minute.  Like the  annulment stuff, I had 60 days to do it.  I put it in the mail 3 days before it was due.

I don't know why I am so unmotivated. Like the stuff for grad school, most of me wants to go to grad school.  I am excited about it. I have been thinking about it for seven and a half years. I put it aside and decided that wasn't wear I was being led, only to be drawn back to it, time and again.  And, finally, everything seems to be falling into place so that I can actually go (assuming I get in). The only part of me that doesn't want to go is that part that hates everything new and unfamiliar, the part that hates change and wants to keep everything the same, even if I hate the situation and I am absolutely miserable.

But, by the end of next week, I want to have my CV done, and get prepared to meet with professors regarding my recommendations, and getting my letter of intent written.  I have until December 1st before the application fee goes up.

I can do this, but I need a little motivation.

Wow, this post kind of segues a lot, or I just like tangents.  Maybe a little of both. :)

7 words

Prompts: Write a story in 7 words. From: http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/imagination.prompt.html

Augie stepped on a tack and limped.

Reasons I wish I was my cat

•  He is always getting loved on, lots of hugs and kisses.
•  Full body massage – EVERY day! All that petting. J
• No work
• No cleaning.Sleeping 20ish hours a day
• No clothes to worry about
• No worries
•  Awesome fur coat
•  He has lots and lots of toys
• Lots of cuddles, ok, I know that goes with number 1, but seriously, it must be pretty awesome to get cradled and stuff multiple times per day
• He's small, so he fits in a lot of places I can't
• He lays in some positions, I could never could

I Deserve a ______

Prompt #219 From: http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/#

Vacation!

I deserve a vacation. I had to help plan 4 trips I did not get to go on this year.  That really sucks.  But, I can't afford to go anywhere.

Here are some places I have been before I wouldn't mind going back to:

Washington D.C.

Disney World

The Disney Wonder

Roma, Italia

Of course, there are lots of places I have never been that I would love to visit: Seattle, Alaska, California, the dessert, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Greece, Germany, Ireland, New York, Savannah, etc.

Wanderlust rears its ugly head.

Back to Square One

Today's blog is brought to you by http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/# Prompt # 164.

"Back to square one," she thought, as she placed the last frame in the box, picked it up and headed out the door.  She was just fired from her third job this year.

The first was the pizza place, she was doing really well there, that is until that woman who changed her order six times was seated in her section, and she snapped after the sixth order change and yelled at the woman, "This isn't Burger King, you can't have it your fucking way." Of course, the woman complained and she was let go immediately.

The next job was at a small coffee shop.  She kept that one for a while even though she constantly got the customers' orders wrong.

This job though, she had thought was perfect and a great fit for her, it was a small internet firm that helped people find green building products.  She worked as a customer service representative and loved the job.  It had great hours and she felt good about what she was doing.  She was let go because she apparently processed one too many orders incorrectly.

"What am I going to do now?" she didn't even know what she was good out to go and find another job.

So she went home to figure out what she was good at and what she wanted to do with her life.

Stuff I Love

Here is a smattering of things I love, in no particular order. :)

Augie:

Arrg I'm a pirate! Cheese is my Booty!

Singing

Music in general

The Beach

This is Disney's Castaway Cay! I wanted to live there.

Food

Chocolate Soufflé, yummy!

The color pink

Lists

Glee

Photography

Crafty things

An Advent wreath I made. It hold voltive candles or tea lights.

A blanket I crocheted for a friend's baby.

A scarf for my youngest niece.

A scarf for my oldest niece, with her name on it! and in the top left corner,
is one of the Gryffindor scarves I made for my ex-sisters-in-law.

These are just a few of my favorite things

Pictures I Drew

This is me by a pond with a Duck.

I apparently have freakishly long fingers, and someone told me it looked like the duck wanted to bite me.

 I think this one is self explanatory.

I drew this to be my LJ default picture.  I think it suits me rather well.

I had the song from Nightmare Before Christmas Stuck in my head, and I was bored, you do the math. 

New Blog!

Hi All,

Well there is no one reading this.  I imported my old blogger blog, well the best posts anyway.  I haven't used it in a while, that is why the post are all from like 2008 or before.  I have been blogging on Live Journal, but no one is really there anymore, so I abandoned ship and came back to blogger.  Google really will rule the world one day.  Consequently, anyone know how to import LJ posts to blogger?

I don't have anything really interesting to say today, not feeling very inspired.

I like the blogs that use MS paint, but really, I am lazy and that isn't going to happen often.  I do need to find a creative outlet though, I am feeling restless.