Perfectly Imperfect Obsession

  Anyone who knows me knows that I’m random and slightly chaotic. I’ve been accused of living in a fantasy world most of my life. I don’t believe that’s accurate. Trust me, I know what is real or not. But there is something to that comment. There is always some story, some idea running through my head. I know my family and friends (talking about you, Heather, lol) get exasperated with me for always having new ideas. Everyone is like, finish this one first. Believe me, I want to; I truly do. My mind is just a jumbled, chaotic mess of ideas, though. I try to write bits and pieces down, so I won’t forget them. Plus, that helps so I can continue on with what I need to be working on. While working on the Dark Series, with Dark Secrets and Dark Whispers, one day in the summer, an idea came to me. And while I just was going to write a bit so I could keep it in my folder of ideas, it turned out to be something more. During that summer, I completed the entire book. It’s a completely differ...

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I’m so…   I honestly don’t know how to feel. I should be excited as I finally have the second book of my series ready to print. Plus, I hired this amazing person to create a cover for it and for the older Dark Secrets . They look amazing! I’m really excited about this.   But at the same time, with what is going on in Ukraine…I just can’t get excited.   I’m from an area where some of the people are like, “Oh, that’s so sad,” and that’s it. Others have no clue what is even going on and have never heard of it.   Once again, I’m struck by the idea that I really don’t belong in this area. I’m just too different, always have been.   I remember when I was in high school, I became a vegetarian. People looked at me as if I had grown two heads. It was such an outlandish idea for the tiny rural area. One of my fellow classmates said something that has stuck with me all this time. She said, “I’m jealous of you. You really believe in something enough to do this, and I don’t ...

Why? How? What? Seriously, how do I get sucked into these games? I have too many other things to do. Besides being a productive member of society (sort of), a parent, and having a full-time job, I have to carve out time to write. And then there are the games. I don’t have the time for this. I really don’t. And yet, here I am, playing games when I should be doing other things. Sometimes I want to scream, sometimes pull out my hair. I know I need to just stop, so instead, I add another game to the mix. I shake my head at myself. I really do, but I have become nearly obsessed (explains the title of this blog) with these games. It’s insane. Wannabe Challenge Obey Me! Disney Twisted-Wonderland Ikémen Prince   My daughter’s trying to get me into Genshin Impact, but I think I ended up corrupting her and getting her into Obey Me!  (Sidenote: I find it hilarious that spellcheck wanted to change Genshin to Kenshin. It knows how much I adore that man in Ikémen Sengoku. )   It sounds...

  Have I neglected my blog? Yes.   Horribly so? Double yes.   Do I swear I will update once a week from now on? No.   I don’t like to make promises that I don’t know if I’ll keep. And let’s be honest here. I get distracted, easily.   I had big plans for this blog. Then things started getting busy at work, but then in November 2019, I had the BEST day ever!!!!!!!! There are not enough exclamation points for how wonderful this day was.   November 11, 2019 in Fort Worth, Texas at Dickies Arena. That was the first day of SuperM’s first ever concert tour. It was their FIRST concert! And I was there!   You guys, you know how you have a goal that you really want to achieve but you just know you won’t. Well, my goal was to see Baekhyun. I wanted to breathe the same air as that man. And that happened that night. The concert was amazing. Baekhyun, Taemin, Kai, Taeyong, Ten, Lucas, Mark, they were amazing, perfect, and so talented, and so ...

I think the first step to fixing any problem is admitting to said problem. A person can’t move forward until they address the issues. I have a problem. I am a procrastinator. I have always lived by the mantra of “Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.” But there is a problem with that. Finally, you just get to the part where you’re so bogged down that you can never seem to find your way back up. It would be easy to blame my lack of writing on stress from this COVID, and while I have had stress, I don’t’ think it’s from that. I don’t know about you, but when we’re self-isolating up here it seems that the world is “normal.” When you stay to yourself, you get complacent. And while the news was filled with reports on new cases, supply shortages, and deaths, being in my home, I could put it all out of my mind and focus—dwell—on what was my main source of stress—my daughter’s high school graduation. But it doesn’t matter. I still keep putting things off, and ...