A little inspiration

Yesterday after still feeling a little stuck and overly emotional I decided I needed to get out of my house. So I grabbed my iPod, leashed the dog, pulled on a hoodie and just started walking. Half way through my walk I looked up and saw a tree waving a bit from the bird who just left it's branches. And the voices returned! I've made a new friend named Drake and I can't wait to share his story in May on Once Upon A Distraction!

I also got some much needed awake time with the hubs last night! It feels like I hadn't seen him in weeks! I'm getting the spring fever bug but I'm happily writing for now! And I must get back to it! My last post was very blah so I figured I'd share some happier news:) happy writing to all!

The day of lame and other random stories

I'm having one of those days where everything is lame... You know the days where it seems like everyone hates you (even though it's insanely irrational) so to feel better you go shopping buying the new work pants you've so desperately needed (the others have been stapled together for the past 6 months, add to the list learn to sew) and the sales guy left the security tag on, so now you still have to wear the stupid old pants. (EFF) does anyone remember that kids book the terrible horrible no good very bad day? I just feel like crying.. My whole day wasn't horrible but the end part sucked and for no real reason besides crazy irrational thoughts... Which even though I want to voice them I won't.. But you know the ones. Also I'm intensely bored with one aspect of life *cough* work *cough* which happens to me about every 6 months or so.. And then I get super paranoid I'll get fired, even though even when I'm bored I still work my ass off. It's like I think they can tell I'm bored.. Like they can read my thoughts.. (which i guess they can, yeah i'm a blogger and a part of a generation that must share every thought, blah) Big brother is watching man! But what else am I going to do? Suck it up continue to work my 45+ hours a week and just deal.. That's what. And eventually it'll all be okay again.. I hope. I'm sad because as a writer I dream big and hear voices and see things play out like an on going tv in my head, but the voices have been silent for weeks.. Which leaves me stuck with only me, and geez I'm annoying (no wonder everyone hates you, yup thanks irrational thoughts) I'm not really sure where they've gone but they have. you can tell just check out my April story it was no bueno. Anyway, whine cry boo hoo, I know I need to stop it's annoying!

Positive thought: (because I need one right now) at least the hubs can fall asleep fast? No? Um... I always have music! I do love music! I'll come up with something else soon I promise! These moods don't usually last and getting them out helps. So thanks for letting me vent even if you didn't read the whole thing.

Day of Service and the Boys We Love

For work today we went and did service at a local homeless shelter.  we helped them clean up and put things away for the summer. It was good to get out and do something that great.  Afterwords a few friends and I went to see Jane Eyre.  Which was the best adaptation of Jane Eyre I have ever seen.  I loved it.

Well Jane Eyre (and Stephanie Perkins newest blog post) got me thinking  of all those boys you have crushes on in books. First don't get me wrong the Only guy for me is the hubs. But you can't help but fall for those book guys.  My first book crush was Rochester from Jane Eyre.  My favorite scene is when he sits outside her room all night and pulls her to him as she tries to leave.  It pulls at your heart and you can't help but love him.

I'm not sure who was next. Jacob from the twilight series is who comes to mind.  He saved me from a horrible relationship. I loved New Moon which I know seems to be the least favorite of most but its where I was at.

You can't leave out Dimitri from Vampire Academy he's the most swoon worthy book guy! Even at times when he's not the good guy, which you'll have to read it to know more about. I love the sexual tension in these books and you love Dimitri from the minute you hear his name!

And Seth, Oh Seth! not only does he have the PERFECT name but he's so amazing! I love the succubus stories. I think I know where the last book is going to take us and if I'm right it makes Seth even that much better.  I can't wait for august when the new book comes out!

Daniel from the Dark Divine is simply divine:)

Then there is St. Clair in Anna and the French Kiss.  Let me tell you page 311 is amazing!  I've mentioned this book before, I LOVE it.

My latest is Jace. He is extremely kick ass in the mortal instruments series.

I'm looking forward to more Adrian in Bloodlines. and Cricket in Lola and the boy next door.

But every day I get to go back to my true love and prince.

but I thought I'd share a few of my book loves.  So what are some of yours?

But I've missed you!

It's been a while I know!  Over a week of nothing?  Where have I been? 

Well I've been reading this:

I've been unable to put these books down.  They're brilliant, and yet disturbing.  There were lots of times I wanted to stop reading them but I just couldn't.  By the time I got to CoG I only wanted to read all the time non stop.  I'm totally addicted and wishing I had the 4th book, but I'm scared because I hear it has a major cliff hanger ending and 5 doesn't come out for a while.

And I've been writing my April story which is here.  For some reason April was really hard for me to write. I started about four different stories and this one has been in my brain for a bit and I feel like its no where near good enough.  So I've had some anxiety over which is partly what I've been up to. 

And.... I worked 17 hours yesterday... yup 17! and then I only slept 3 hours and went back today... I'm a bit exhausted, to say the least. 

But I've missed you!  So I'll try to write more just love me k! 

What have you been up to?

These are my confessions

Here are some things you may or may not know about me. Do any of them surprise you?

1. I have never smoked the weed, not even once. But in high school I hung out with the 'stoners' and one of my favorite bands is KottonMouth Kings.
2. My favorite Broadway play is The Secret Garden. I know all the songs. I've seen it 3 times and I wish so so much I could have seen the actual Broadway version with Mandy Patinkin.
3. In association with number 2 I have a bit of a crush on Mandy Patinkin, Mostly because of his voice. I have seen him in concert and it was AMAZING!
4. In High school I had a science teacher I loved, but I hated his class because of the kids in my class. One day the teacher got into a fist fight with one of the students... the student deserved it in my opinion.
5. I like Hansens MMMBOP
6. I have seen the wedding planner more times than I can count.
7. I hated the Office because my EX liked it. Now its all I watch.. well that and How I Met Your Mother.
8. When I first saw my Husband I thought he was Hott. It was earlier than you think. He came to screen Iron Man in May of 2008, way before we actually met:) I tried to find him on Myspace but I couldn't find him. A year later when he found me on facebook I was a bit of a facebook stalker.
9. I always say if you hurt me I'll never forgive you but that's not usually true. I usually end up missing friends if I fight with them.
10. I like kissing in the rain.
11. The grudge scared the trash out me, and yet I went and saw paranormal activity.. I still have nightmares!
12. I smoked a cigarette once, I hated it, and it made me feel sick.
13. I haven't written my April short story yet... but Jenn's is really fantastic! check it out!
14. I have this reoccurring dream that I lived in France and was there during WWII. Its one of 3 of the most vivid dreams I've ever had, next to one where I dreamed my brother cut his feet off, and one where I dreamed I was kidnapped and my mom sang you are the sunshine and the kidnapper gave me back (I was probably about 5 years old.)
15. If I could live in any fantasy world it would be Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy world.

So What Confessions do you have?

Susie Home Maker?

Okay no, not even close! But I am totally loving having a house. I've been doing some decorating. And been trying to cook more, wanna see?!

Decorating:

Well I showed you my painting so far but I've added some vinyl:

On my Family wall I just need to add a parents frame which I'm working on:)

Cooking:

I've only taken a few pictures but I've been trying to cook every night for the past week to help save some money.

On 4/6 I made Chicken Enchiladas. They were super easy and so good!
4/7 was chicken salad with the leftover chicken from the enchiladas.
4/9 Hubs made chicken noodle casserole.
4/10 We had some friends over and I made Beef Stoganoff
4/11 Stuffed ham rolls

4/12 Pulled Pork sandwiches

tonight I'll probably do spaghetti since I got a bit behind schedule and was planning on lasagna So I'll probably do that Sunday instead.

Yeah I know most boring post ever! sorry!

Positive thought: I'm so lucky to have a house to do all this fun stuff in

Glamour me this! and watch out for the shape shifting murderer!

One super Cute and one super creepy! here are my 2 stories for the day!

Everyday my super adorable awesomely perfect husband tells me I'm beautiful.  I love it! I love the way he looks at me and the smile he gets when he tells me.  My usual response is to smile and say 'I'm only beautiful for you!' to which he always says 'that's not even possible, you are beautiful to the world.' And I answer with 'No babe I have a glamour on you.  You see me differently than everybody else does.' I remember when I first gave this response, he looked at me like I was crazy, like I was asking him if he were the brother who liked 311. ;)  And our usual conversation evolved when he answered, 'um, you don't know how to do that!' to which I say 'yes huh I do!'

Yup I'm five years old and still in preschool.  I know!  But I love our conversations and its fun to see the twists and story lines they pick up every time we have one!

Now for the creepy!  I've been having insane dreams the past few days.  I'm somewhat hoping sharing them means I can go back to sleeping through the night and not remembering said dreams.  The first night I dreamed about shark attacks (probably because of Soul Surfer, still an awesome movie though!) The second night I dreamed about being in the middle of a war. And Last night.... well.... I was being murdered by a shape shifting guy who was impossible to kill!  I should know I cut his heart out in my dream and he laughed at me! and then continued to kill. I'm starting to wonder if the ailens have put something in my brain.

Here's hoping for nights filled with happy sleep!

Positive thought: At least I can wake up to the bestest person in the whole world when my nights are filled with evil nightmares.

Inspiration thy name is Bethany Hamilton

I'm sure most of you have seen this billboard:

And heard this story.

I know I had, and I always thought that Bethany was a pretty amazing person.  It's not easy to go through something that horrible and terrifying and just go on with life let alone go right back out in the water and surf again.  But that is the amazing part of her story I already knew and admired.

I just finished screening the movie Soul Surfer Which if you haven't heard is the movie of Bethany's life based off her autobiography of the same title.  I'm in absolute AWE of this girl, for both the already know part of the story and even more so for the parts I didn't know.  It's amazing that she never lost faith in God. It's beautiful that she spends a lot of time serving others.  In Primary I would teach my 9 year olds about charity and good works almost every Sunday.  I would challenge them to find some random act of kindness through out the week and do it.  Yet I'm not very good at doing what I preach.  There are so many people out there who need help, so many good deeds left undone.  Most days I wonder when I'll have time to do anything but this doesn't mean I shouldn't find good to do in the world.  If Bethany can still do great things for the world and not just sit at home and say I don't want to or shouldn't have to after everything I've been through then I have no excuses.

So on top of my Challenge to spread positivity to the blogging world I'm now challenging you to go out and do something good for someone else.

Also go see Soul Surfer!  Its a beautiful movie. But in the mean time get inspired by real life video of Bethany surfing.




Positive thought:  Just like Bethany does you can turn any negative in to a positive. I'm going to borrow her positive thought when she said that she thanked God for giving her the chance to embrace more people than she ever could have with two arms. Bethany you truly are an inspiration and beautiful spirit.

Please meet my MoMmY! and something about Paint.

Apparently I don't mention my mom enough so here it goes.  First of all she now has her own blog you can view it here.  Go Follow her! be awesome! and also I did mention her at least once SEE! But She's pretty great.  She cares about everyone (Sometimes a little too much)  she always makes sure I'm fed. she's super pushy with the when am I going to be a Grandma question (I even got a pregnancy test in my stocking for Christmas!) To which every time she asks I'm adding 2 months on to my plan of when :) hahahahahaha! Well go follow her! enjoy! I love you mom!

We painted our living room this past weekend!  I feel so grown up over it.  I've never had a place of my own to paint.  AWE!! but I think its super pretty! and My mommy thinks so too! she told me! :)

BEFORE

AFTER

Positive thought:  I have a pretty awesome mom!

Well let's just become vampires

Every night lately I'm always dead tired by 9:30. I get so excited when I get tired and I quite often exclaim 'babe let's go to bed!' however with out fail after I get ready for bed and lay down I no longer want to sleep. My mind starts to race, to think about things that just don't matter. Songs start to blare in my ears where only I can hear them (thanks a lot 1990's Celine Dion). And I usually lie there listening to the hubs easy breathing and silent sleeping.. For about oh, 10 minutes before I start getting whiney (this I 100% blame on Celine by the way). So I wake the Hubs up with a 'baby? Pst babe!'
'what love?' he so kindly responds.
'I don't want to go to sleep!' I cry
'why not?' he asks
'it's a waste of time.' I always respond. He usually just grunts back at me and rubs my back for a minute before falling instantly back to sleep. But tonight in his mostly asleep voice he says, 'okay, let's just become vampires.'
'ooohh!' I say thinking seriously about it.
'but not the lame sparkly ones, or the kind that burn in the sun!' he states pretty boldly.
'um, I'm not sure that leaves much else,' I say 'oh except the Moroi! But no, they were born vampires.'
To which he answers, 'yup whatever you say.' and is instantly back asleep. I'm so jealous that Celine doesn't haunt his brain and he can sleep so quick. But now I know he'd become a vampire for me;) just so long as he doesn't burn in the sun or sparkle at least.

Positive thought: at least my alien battle is behind me. And I know the hubs is happy spending forever with me:)

Battle of the cardboard boxes

So this morning I'm leaving for work.  I walk into my fancy new garage and I get attacked!  This evil creature jumps out at me and punches me right in the face. and I strike back.  Next thing I know I'm tangled up in this battle and I'm thinking to myself, here it goes Andrea, the creatures from Gogamock are here.  They've come to destroy your planet!  Its up to you to save the human race!  So I punch and I kick and beat the crap out of some aliens!  and the crowd goes wild! *Cheers*  and I walk around my front yard throwing my arms in the air.  The boy across the street starts doing the Macarana in sheer Joy!  You can thank me now planet Earth!   

Except that's not the true story.  I do like it a little better.  The truth is I tripped over a pile of boxes from our move. and fell flat on my face.  And hit my head.  My first thought was, oh thank the heavens no one saw that (Yet here I go sharing it with the world! Good thing I only have 14 followers:))  followed by Ouch I hit my head!   and then add oh my Mountain Dew is spilled all over.  Concluded with I think I'll just lay here all day!  My everything hurts! I know now how Jambot felt the day she fell on the ice.

My morning started out okay.  I sat and talked with the Hubs for a bit watched the strange kid across the street do the Macarana in his front yard. (Kids today don't know how to the Macarana by the way)  and then it was time to leave.  AND I forgot my headphones today. I think I'll just be sad for a minute.

If anyone asks can we just tell them the alien story?



If you think this is bad you should see the other guy!

Okay I know I'm being a baby over nothing but my arm hurts and my leg hurts too! OKAY!  :)  Thanks for sticking with the good story!

Positive thought:  I'm so happy I have mad fighting skills! And a husband who kisses all my battle wounds better.