Perfectly Imperfect Obsession

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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 ...

I know, I've been a slacker and haven't wrote anything in quite a while. I was thinking today about a topic to write about. Summer, my experience at the Chicago BTS concert, which I will do as it was amazing, or something else entirely. I ended up thinking about the games I play and decided to do an assessment on them. I'm going to start with the first one I started. My assessment (Spoilerish?): Ikémen Sengoku: Romances Across Time by CYBIRD Co., Ltd. Honestly, I don’t know why I started playing these games last summer, but for some reason, I stumbled upon them in the app store. The rest is history. This story, like others, is written as you are the female protagonist. You put in the name you want, and then it’s like a first-person story, with your pick of a romantic or dramatic end. On the second run through, you get the option of reading parts from the guy’s prospective, which I love . I like the storyline, no matter how unbelievable it is, and that co...