Gwah~

Well, it snowed last night and is still snowing - or was, the last time I checked. Not a ton of the stuff, but school was canceled. And it's really freaking cold. This is Michigan weather, not Kansas weather.

After my alarm went off for the first time this morning, I dozed back off for about 10 minutes. I had a horrible dream. I was almost crying when I woke up again. I shouldn't have finished watching that J-drama, I don't think. I'm pretty sure that's what caused it. I was so unnerved that I just got up even though I didn't have to be up for another half hour. I'm still a little bothered. Maybe I'm just too sensitive. I don't know. But I feel more tired than when I had dozed back off. Stupid dream.

I wrote some more last night. I wanna write some more right now, too, actually. I'm determined to get something finished by the end of March. In fact, I am going to finish something by the end of March. Either the one I was working on before, or the new one. Neither has a title yet, but I'll work on that later. One of them will get done.

8D

I went through a bunch of my old stories and amused myself for the evening. Jeez, my writing...I really am crazy 8D

But there was nothing I wanted to work on. Then just now I kind of felt like working on my newest idea. So I started to. Part of it, I think, is that I want to write in a notebook. Not just type. I don't know why, but sometimes I just itch to write by hand. So, I think I will for a little while. Especially since it's hard to type very well when my fingers feel stiff and cold. Which they are right now, because it's like 10 degrees Fahrenheit outside (and apparently feels like below 0). My body must be really in tune with the weather, because even if I'm sitting in front of a heater it takes a long time for my hands and feet to stop being cold when it's cold outside.

That's why I don't like the cold. It makes it difficult to function. As soon as the temperatures start dropping, my hands and feet get cold. Never fails. I spend the majority of the late fall/winter/early spring with cold hands and feet. I don't remember if it was worse when I was in Michigan, but I think it might have been.

Anyway, my fingers are frozen and it's getting late, so I'm going to go write.

On pretty much nothing. Again.

I'm feeling kind of bloggy today. Like, I really want to blog about things, even though there really isn't anything to blog about besides the weather. Which is cold. And will get snowy later.

And my coffee got kinda cold because I forgot about it. Damn it.

I got another story idea last night...or the night before...or something. But I haven't even finished the one I was working on. I hate that. I'm pretty good at switching gears between stories, but it's still annoying, because this one requires some world-building, which I don't particularly enjoy. But at the same time, I do.

I didn't get a lot of sleep last night if anyone is wondering.

And I still have some stories that need to be finished that I started a few years ago. Actually one of the ones I've been working on is from...5 years ago? Or so. Then I have the couple I had started back when I was in high school taking Creative Writing. I miss Creative Writing...I still need to finish my English Comp essay. I meant to do that and then didn't. I'll do that sometime today or this evening...

But I have probably half a dozen composition notebooks lying around that have half finished stories in them. I need to get more composition notebooks...not that I'm in any great need for them at the moment, but I really, really like them. And I want more. Composition notebooks are my favorite kind. I used to like the spiral notebooks - the thick 3 subject ones that you would get for school - but then I had grabbed a composition notebook one day because I wanted something that wasn't so big and wouldn't get caught on everything. And lose pages so easily. Now I have a few mostly empty spirals I'm going to use for class. Otherwise, they won't get used, because I don't like them anymore. Composition notebooks are much better.

They're just so wonderful, and they fit perfectly in my purse. Well, one or two at a time will, so long as my billfold and DS are the only other things in there. But it makes it so easy to carry one wherever I go. I love it. I just wish it was easier to find the ones that are college ruled. I hate wide ruled paper. You can't fit as much on a page, and I write small - even when I'm writing fast and my handwriting gets messy - so the pages doesn't look as full as they should. And then you end up going through more paper, because you need more pages to say what you're trying to say, than if you used college ruled.

I want to go to a stationery store now and get more notebooks. But I can't because I have to be here if work comes over and we're supposed to get some nasty weather. I might go this weekend. If I can find a store nearby that carries them. I'd just order them online, but I have to make sure I like the paper. I need to find some good pens, too...

And it's Saturday

I didn't spend my day at the library studying after all. I did go in this morning, though. It felt so nice to drive again. I love driving. So long as everyone else on the road isn't being stupid. I'm always worried I'm going to get rear-ended because everyone around here tailgates. But Saturday mornings aren't so bad in the middle of January.

My car sounded like she didn't want to start, but I think that's because I recently accidentally killed the battery (had to use my air compressor, which plugs into the cigarette lighter and my car hadn't been started since November, so the battery wasn't very happy) and haven't driven since I jumped it a week ago. She sounded fine when I left the library.

And I've gotten most of my CJ stuff done. But it was hard to concentrate.

It's a gorgeous day out so I actually have a window open. And I could hear one of my neighbors screaming (they were swearing their heads off about something; I caught the word "fu*k" several times.) Then I could hear some kids up the block screaming their heads off. I know they're kids and kids are loud - and it's a good thing they're not lazing around in front of the TV - but I'm pretty sure they didn't need to be screaming the rules of whatever game they were playing loud enough for the entire neighborhood to hear. I listened to the neighbor for a good 10 or 15 minutes, and the kids for probably about an hour after that. It was ridiculous.

When I was growing up, we kids were expected to be considerate to our neighbors - especially when the weather was nice enough to open windows - and not be outside shrieking and carrying on at the top of our lungs. We could be loud, but within reason. Screaming loud enough for someone several houses down to hear us, and carrying on like that for an extended period of time, was not within reason.

And I know they must have been several houses down, because I see kids congregating on a cross street at the end of the block all the time, because of the lack of traffic over there.

Stupid kids...

But I'm enjoying getting the fresh air in here...there are cats outside fighting. I just heard them trying to kill each other. Great...

But the sun feels really nice. And so does the fresh air. I'd be happy if we had weather like this all the time. It's supposed to get cold again, though. Cold enough for snow.

I was disappointed by a book I checked out last week. I finally got around to reading Howl's Moving Castle (I love Ghibli and loved the movie, so I had to read the book, which I liked even more than the movie) and the library also had the sequel, The House of Many Ways. I was ecstatic.

But Sophie and Howl apparently had a child in the time between the end of the first book and the end of the sequel. And I was immediately annoyed by the presence of said child. It sounded like your typical toddler, and I assume Miss Jones meant for him to sound cute, but he annoyed the hell out of me from the moment he appeared. I couldn't even finish the book. I was upset, because I really like Sophie and Howl, but them having a child kinda ruins them for me.

That always seems to happen, though, when there's a sequel and the main characters end up having a kid. It happened in one of Dean Koontz's books, too. The fourth book in the Frankenstein series, the two main characters had a baby. He managed to keep them decent, but throwing the kid in threw a wrench in the characters, I think. Suddenly, they were all worried about their kid and talking diapers and kid stuff, instead of the way they had talked in the first three books. Suddenly, they weren't the sarcastic, New Orleans detectives, the reluctant heroes - they were still the heroes, and there was still sarcasm and humor but now they were parents. It changed the characters, and not in a good way. I finished the book, but I don't think I'm going to read any more of the series if he writes another book after that.

*sigh*

Ugh....

I am getting sick again. I am not nearly as sick as I was last time, but I am most definitely sick. The entire family has been sick since last week. Is this ever going to stop? I'm starting to think not.

And this would have to get worse the morning I have class. Or classes, rather. If it were one class I would tough it out and go in, but I have two, one right after the other and I would not get home until after noon. And then I have to work, until 8 in the evening. I cannot do long days like that when I'm sick.

I can't believe I've gotten sick twice in less than a month. I haven't been sick in forever. Okay, not that long. I had one hell of a year my...I think it was sophomore year of high school. I was sick for midterms and finals but had to go in anyway; that wasn't even that bad, though. Nasty cold that stole my voice for several days, but I could function. I haven't been sick since. Especially not sick enough that I can scarcely function.

I don't like this, at all. I want to crawl back into bed and go to sleep. But since I'm not going to class I have to start work at my usual time. Which is in about half an hour. Ugh...

This royally sucks - it really does. And why is that they canceled schools for cold weather a couple of weeks ago (because they're sissies here) and yet today, when the roads are slick and it's just as cold, they decide "Oh, hey, school is open today! Hooray!"?

No, not freaking hooray! You guys are a bunch of freaking sissies about winter weather around here and before, you were closing school at the slightest chance of a little bit of snow/ice/freezing cold, and now - when I could really use a school closing - you decide that even though it is freezing cold, there is snow on the ground, and the roads are a freaking ice rink (because you also don't know how to properly salt and plow the roads), there's going to be class.

Seriously, back in Michigan - at least in my school district - there had to be more than a foot of snow on the ground and below-zero temperatures before they would even consider closing schools. And the snow would have had to have just been dumped on us, because at the first signs of snow they had the plows on the roads. Granted, the private school kids had a lot of snow days, and so did a couple of the other districts, but they didn't get snow days for 10 or 15 degree weather and a dusting of snow.

...Ugh, okay. I think I might say to hell with it for work for a couple hours and take a nap. I really don't feel good...