stupidity

I wonder if it's hereditary because I tend to run into a lot of stupid people. Not stupid in school kinds of people but the people who think jumping off roofs of a 3 or 4 story high building, to see if they can land on the ground below and not die, kind of stupid. Or the kind of people who harass you for no good reason kind of stupid. I seem to be running into a lot of these kinds of people. So is stupidity a genetic anomaly or did these people just get dropped on their heads as babies. Either way, I wish they would stay away from me and make believe they are quarantined from the rest of the world so they do not infect others.

sleep

I loathe having my sleeping schedule messed up, even by an hour. Minutes are fine but up to an hour I am overly groggy(if still sleeping for that long) or under an hour I am tired (if I wake up early). My schedule has been so messed up since Christmas Eve. I've been on and off sleeping through the night and some nights I will go to bed on my normal sleep schedule and either stay to that schedule or sleep in way late, and other nights I don't sleep at all during the night and sleep during the day. I think it might have something to due with the recent stress in my life (which is more or less the cause) but maybe also my change in diet. I have reduced my sugar intake (since I stopped eating so much chocolate). No matter how hard I try to get my schedule back to normal it seems to work for a day or two then go way out of whack. It makes me feel off-balance. Then again I never was someone to like change to my routine. I get anxiety attacks.

A realization

I've had an idea today, well not just one but many. And as I go to write or commit to the idea--like if it's one about drawing a design about how to better the world--it flies out of my mind just as fast as it comes. Trying to get the idea back is just as hard as trying to write it down before it leaves the forefront of my mind. So my realization is that any other revelations I have about anything will soon be gone and therefore must not of been good ideas for my mind to quickly to dismiss them...or the other alternative is that my mind thinks too fast...which more often than not is the case.

Wow-ee, that's a lot of stuff...

Hi~ya!! Wanted to give everyone a small update on things since I haven't really been on in a while. Been really sick (that's not really an update...that seems almost normal to me now, always being sick) I have been super sick, it seems, as of Thursday night. Since I have been almost constantly sick, there is no reason for me not to go to work. Yeah I know, health is important, but what do you do when being sick is 'normal'? Stayed at my sister's house because I had to work close to where she lived. Plus I helped out with stuff around the house and with her Christmas shopping. My head hurts and my feet ache from the constant working but I am happy because with the money I got from working, I splurged a tid bit ... and I do mean a tid bit...I bought the cat I've been taking care of (Sylvester) a special collar. It's made for active outdoor cats and is designed to breakway if it gets caught on something. Plus it has this mouse decal on it which is made of reflective material (like the ones they use on cross walk uniforms and suck) that way if light from a car or something hits the decal, it will shine. Which is good because he mainly has black fur. It didn't cost that much but even if it costed more, it would be well worth it. Especially since one of my neighbors has been feeding him (not that I am really mad about anyone else feeding a cat I take care of) BUT if it's human food that can severely damage his system...then yeah. I want a collar on him to show that he BELONGS to someone or that he is fed a healthy diet....hopefully I get the point across in some way. I forgot to add that it has a bell on it. XD I just love bells for cats collars, they are so cute! and I like the jingling sound, it helps to find him.

I am upset though because upon returning home, the weather became quite feirce. Wind and rain so bad that it shakes the windows. I am upset about this because before I went to my sisters house, I had just spent 2 days clearing up the back yard of: cleaning up garbage that my really rude neighbors feel the need to through into our yard (isn't that illegal or something? because I am tired of having beer cans thrown in my yard and they stuff them into our cactuses out front too. No one in my house drinks...wait, my step-dad does but he only drinks beer out of bottle, never cans); weeds (that I had to wait to grow back, if you read my previous journal about step-dad and the weedwhacker); a lot of leaves (from my neighbors tree that hangs over the fence); digging up some dead trees (one wasn't dead but I really dislike boganvia's [sp?] and their thorns); trimming other trees and bushes (got attacked by the branches a couple of times); resetting decor stones and stone borders around yard (somehow they got moved and I know who did it but I am trying to be on a happy note); trimming a vine plant and removing parts of it from the house and resetting it onto a designated gate...and some other stuff...the list goes on but I am not getting to the point I need to. I didn't have enough room in my garbage can, especially after spending a couple of days before that trimming the palms tree fur bark from our two palm trees (it reduces bugs and scorpions around winter time). So, since I didn't have the extra room in the garbage can (and my step-dad refused to load the bed of his truck with this stuff to an appropriate dump site) I just left them in suitable sized piles to remove every so often as the garbage can gets more room. Now that the weather is so bad...the yard and those piles I worked so hard on are now ruined...And ontop of it, all the recycle bins and most of the garbage bins in my neighborhood are tipped over from the wind and stuff is flying around...So there is a lot of added cleaning up to do. But I always say, Clean up the front yard first (because some places have high fines if it's nto a certain status) then clean up the back yard. Especially since the front yard is what people see most.

hmmm, anything else...? I am pretty sure there was another thing I wanted to state (as per usual according to some private messages and emails; I realize I write a lot, but I do love writing and I was raised to explain everything thoroughly so I don't really care one way or another *sorry for the tiny rant/vent/explosion of emotion*) but I can't seem to remember it at the moment.
For now, I will wish you all an early Merry Christmas. I hope you have a great holiday filled with great food, good company, lots of family and friends, and some presents. I am more for the family and food aspect of the holiday but the presents are a nice bonus. =^.^=

Yes, I did say Merry Christmas instead of 'happy holidays.' That is the holiday I celebrate and I will not give it another name because of political or religious restraints. Just because I don't rename it to 'happy holidays' in no way means that I do not respect others celebrations during this period; I do indeed wish that you all have a very happy and enjoyful holiday no matter what it is. I am just getting tired of people snapping at me and correcting me on something that really doesn't need to be corrected. I understand Christmas is a pagan holiday, but who doesn't LOVE free gifts and good tidings at the end of the long year? I LOVE the idea of Saint Nicolas and gift giving--not because I am greedy, oh no I am not very greedy at all--the joy it brings to others as you give them a gift is so....fullfilling and heartwarming.

I got a bit more flowing in text and wanting a bit of diversity in my wording towards the end. Too tired to worry about the rest of it but oh well. It's mostly fun. =^.^=

Plans for the future.

I love orating and voice acting literature and reading aspiring writers works. I have several voice acting parts for people's fanime's and sims movies. I am always auditioning and am part of an online group called the voice acting company, they do the searching for a lot of the open casting calls and auditions and send them to your based on your preferences for roles to play. Some people won't cuss and some people won't say certain things so I think that is a great thing to do. I will be putting up a new feature on my youtube account as far as orations go, I was given persmission to orate some historical documents and speeches so I will hopefully have at least one or two new ones up each week. I also plan to orate a book that is composed of poems from teens to parents and vis versa to help people connect with their feelings and how to communicate better with eachother, from teens communicating to their parents and vis versa....Being a teenager is a hard thing and sometimes it's hard to find the words to express what you want to say. Hopefully it will help some people have a better relationship with their parents and a more open on.
Besides my orating and voice acting, I am also an artist and am doing a bit of freelance work for some people. I am currently working on several banner requests for people and a couple of other goodies.

That's all I really have to report right now. I do have a very special something else to tell but I am waiting till I am almost finished with the first portion of it...so just a hint, if you are a johnny cash fan, you will like this.

Mandy Patinkin

I so so hope one day that I can meet him. He is such a great actor and performer. I love his roles as "Gideon" in Criminal Minds, "Inigo" in The Princess Bride, "Rube" in the TV series Dead Like Me, and much much more. Not only has he performed on broadway, he acts on TV on a variety of different shows and can sing wonderfully. If you don't know who I am talking about then here's one of his awesome pics.

(Picture courtesy of mandypatinkin.org)

I got a copy of a zombie book in a giveaway

I won a copy of Send more cops, Z.E.O. A Zombie's Guide to Getting A(head) in Business by Scott Kenemore. I just got it in the mail yesterday and so far I am loving just the make of the book. It's produced on cardstock and high quality gloss material with great graphic art in it. When I finish reading it I will put a review up of it but honestly it looks worth the money. You may not be into the humor of zombie attacks but I am. So if you are interested then come check back for the book review to see if it's something you would like.

giving in..

I caved and actually got myself a twitter profile.. -.- Still working out how to "tweet" but pretty much understanding it so far. I was so bent on not following everyone else with it, I wanted to be different but forth sooth I am the same...well almost anyways..I am still weird and I already successfully creeped someone out (didn't mean to, thought I was being helpful and giving good advice, apparently I am just a wierd creepy person for doing that...oh well) Here's my twitter: http://www.twitter.com/erica_ryoko.
If you have a twitter, post yours down in the comment that way we can be twitter pals!!

ZOMBIFIED!!

What happens to someone when they get attacked by a zombie?...well this is what happned to me (editing picture courtesy of Zombify-Yourself.net)

BEFORE ZOMBIE ATTACK

AFTER ZOMBIE RECRUITMENT

Fin-a-lly!

i didn't want to post a blog about it until after things kind of settled, because knowing my luck writing about it would only make stuff backfire. So here it is. After 6 years of pain, malnutrition, doctors in disbelief, and much more...we found a doctor who found out that the surgery my mom had (6 years ago) was done INCORRECTLY and was done too fast. My mom has been sick due to a mechanical problem from her surgery and that it truly is not in her head. What's odd is every doctor before this one (who's actually helping), even though they only thought that my mom's pain was in her head, they still prescribed and I should say over medicated my mother on heavy narcotics, then they have the audacity to put in my mother's charts that she was drug seeking. No one and I mean NO ON, in my family ever takes any medicine, like Tylenol, Aleve, Ibuprofen, etc..Unless they absolutely have to. That's just how we are. Plus there are just other factors that have occurred through these last 6 years that have made me very upset at how doctors treat people. In this case, it is the doctors' faults for not finding anything since they weren't doing accurate tests to begin with. That's not the case with everyone. Anyways, yesterday there was a doctors appointment and I haven't gotten a call yet from the doctor but I am hoping they found something in the endoscopy they did. One of those cases where you want them to find something. I am glad that we found a doctor that would listen to what my mom would have to say without making a judgement until he listened to it all. Our health care shouldn't be this way and people who are learning to be doctors shouldn't have god complexes and just honestly say if they don't know something. Yeah some people expect doctors to have all the answers to everything but the truth is THEY DON'T! They're human too.

Other updates happening, I am no longer sick with sore throat...it finally went away, YEAH!! The cat I took in is doing wonderful, I hope to have some before and after pics to show you how much he has improved within this last month and a half or so. He is honorary as heck but that's a cat for you. My mom thinks I'm crazy for taking care of a stray cat when I am allergic to cats but I couldn't help it. How can I just sit back and let a living thing die on the street, knowing that I could've helped it, whether I am allergic or not. I couldn't allow myself to let something suffer like that.

As per a previous post I am doing orations (speeches or reading of texts) and voice acting. I do have several voice acting parts and am co-working on the anime: Destinys Battle. The link is in the side bar if you would like to see what it's about. If you see a picture on the sidebar, it is a link and sometimes for the caption I will add the alternative link to a coinciding website of theirs as well as posting the link in my "friends blogs and links" section.

I am finished writing 2 chapters of one of my books as well as completing the writing portion of a children's book..now all I need to do is the illustrating then off to a publisher we go. Still haven't chosen exactly which publishing group I want to send the children's book to but it will be sent. I am trying to be very pro-active and finish some stuff that I have been procrastinating on. I am still doing tutoring and will hopefully start doing it online and once I figure out how to convert certain movie files to work with certain programs I hope to have on my YouTube some cooking tips and tricks. Plus subscribers will be the first to get videos about secret family recipes that I will be posting up there just for a few days at a time, but they will get them none-the-less....

That's pretty much it that I can think of....oh yeah I will be designing a line of clothing for the breast cancer foundation, I don't know how public it will go or if it will stay localized to their catalogues or auctions and I am not sure when the line itself will air, but I am working on it. I hope most of the process for that is finalized before Christmas (which means prototypes of the dresses and meeting with the head of the breast cancer foundation administration in that area); hopefully it all pans out the way it's supposed to.

So now I am pretty sure that's it for the updates on things happening now. Have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.