Writing It Out

January 29th
2:10 PM

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So I went grocery shopping last night.

I like to go in the middle of the night to avoid the screaming brats and their equally bratty parents. I hate waiting in line and listening to them bitch that they have to wait in line. Grocery stores are so much more shoppable at midnight even when they have the aisles packed with stock to be shelved.

So I was shopping and passed this guy in the pickle aisle who apparently followed me all the way to the milk aisle where he approached me.

“Excuse me, I felt compelled to come to you and ask if you needed me to pray for you,” he said from the other side of my shopping cart.

“Um, I’m good, thanks,” I answered.

“Well, I just wanted you to know we have a healing group that meets in Marysville on Wednesdays, if you’d like to come.”

“Thanks, but I’m fine. Really, I’m good.”

“Well, if you change your mind it’s at…(some address I made no effort to remember). Bye.”

“Yeah, bye.”

Well, that was weird.

Now don’t get me wrong, I have all kinds of New Age beliefs and all, but some random guy approaching me in the middle of the night…creepy. Maybe he really did have that “I should pray” feeling, or maybe he was some serial killer who thought I looked like an easy target dressed in my plaid flannel and shopping alone in the middle of the night (yes, I watch waaaaay to much Criminal Minds and true crime shows). Either way, I was shopping alone in the middle of the night, so no, I’m not taking you up on your offer.

Also, I found myself keeping an eye on my rearview for lights following me home. May sound paranoid, but it’s only paranoia until some psycho decides to slice you up.

Just sayin…

January 27th
8:38 PM

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January 21st
1:32 PM

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What am I going to do?

I just received a letter about my financial aid. It says I am no longer eligible for aid because I have over 90 units, but doesn’t specify if they are taking away this semester’s aid that I was told I was going to get or if I just can’t get any more later. It says it’s on a TERMINATIONS status, so I think it means they’ve taken it away. I won’t be able to go to school and finish my AA if they have taken it away. I don’t understand. Of course I have over 90 units, I had over 80 when I applied for the aid last semester. I have no other way of finishing this degree. If they take the aid away I am back to sitting around the house with no reason to get up in the morning. I was finally happy again.

**I should probably add that I am hormonal and particularly dramatic, but this is devastating even without the hormones.**

1:58 AM

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School started this week on Tuesday. We had Monday off for Martin Luther King Day, so I still have one more class I haven’t gone too yet (But it’s drawing and comp, part b to the a I took in the fall, so I already know what to expect). I have three Mass Comm classes for my major: electronic movie making, sound recording and adv studio/video recording (a total of 9 units). I have to have 12 units to keep my grant money and there were no more mass comm classes available for me to take this semester, so I took drawing again (only 2 units) and decided to take beginning guitar. I have a guitar, it was my mom’s and it has a funky 60’s case with yellow, green and white pop-style flowers. I need to buy a capo later, but the book at least was only $6. I am taking a break from practicing the guitar right now because my fingertips hurt :( Apparently they should start to callous in 2 weeks and it won’t hurt as much so I can practice for longer intervals. I’ve wanted to learn to play guitar for a long time: my parents bought me a child’s guitar years ago, but no classes. Having a class means I have to practice, so maybe I’ll learn enough to keep it up after the semester ends.

The biggest problem I have had is my sleep schedule. My body does not want to sleep at night, so I end up napping in the car between classes. However the napping means I ma not writing between classes like I want. Gotta stop napping so much, maybe I’ll sleep at night.

January 16th
1:58 AM

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I have been incredibly lazy this school break. I meant to do all kinds of writing and failed miserably, only getting some stuff done the past couple days. I did lots of crochet, though. And emptied out my storage unit—so much junk. I went through it as I brought it home, but I need to get rid of more than I did. Plus it turns out I overpaid a bunch because they told me they were raising the price and never let me know they hadn’t. So I should get about $400 back. Awesome.

Now, because I’ve stayed up late every night, I have to rewire the internal clock because the first class on Tuesday is at 8am, yuck. At least it’s only guitar. Hope my hands can hold up. So I am only going to take a short nap early in the morning and be up by 8am so I can be in bed earlier tomorrow night.

January 14th
4:35 AM

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So I discovered the means to be instantly reblogged. Post kitty pictures, lol.

4:18 AM

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Don’t be fooled by the sleepy adorableness, he doesn’t let me clip his claws. But he is adorable when sleepy, isn’t he?

January 11th
12:47 PM

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Here’s a silly idea…

wilwheaton:

Maybe instead of using FUD to terrify Tumblr users into uninstalling Missing E, Tumblr could use that time and energy to give Tumblr users the functionality they installed Missing E to get in the first place.

So tired of that form popping up on my screen EVERYDAY. I mean really, how many times is it necessary for me to say I’m not uninstalling. Annoying me is not the best method of getting me to do something you want. It is however a good way of making me walk away and find a different mode of internet time-wasting.

January 6th
3:41 PM

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I can see the circles, but now I can’t refocus my eyes. Cool and annoying at the same time.

January 5th
12:27 PM

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lol

Heh

12:46 AM

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January 1st
12:00 AM

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Happy New Year!

December 31st
9:08 PM

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2011 - A year to heal

It’s a year that I expected would be awful, especially after losing my mom in November of 2010 and not having a job. But a weird thing happened. 2011 became a year of healing. I did spend most of the first half of the year sitting on the couch depressed and watching every single episode of Criminal Minds made until that point, but I guess I needed to do that.

For a little more than a decade I have been struggling with depression. Whether complicated with family being ill and dying or having jobs where I was often treated as less than human (case in point: I actually had a boss who got mad at me for taking an on duty lunch break every night during my 9-12 hour graveyard shift. Apparently I was wasting his money taking a working lunch.) I have more than once contemplated driving my car into a tree at 65 miles per hour.

This year, however, I did not have a job and was able to take the time I needed to grieve and decide what to do next with my life.

I decided I wanted to write for television. It is not an new idea, I’ve written scripts off and on since middle school and have always preferred TV to movies. Plus I love writing dialogue and action, but not so much description: scripts require less description. I am excited at the prospect of pursuing this goal.

I also went back to school. When I first started college back in ‘92 I wanted to major in Mass Communications, but for reasons even I don’t remember it never happened. By this June I should have an AA in Mass Comm. (This means a lot more movie making and tech work than I am interested in, but oh well). I also discovered that I am a decent artist, especially with landscapes. That’s cool.

I feel a lot more optimistic for the upcoming year, than I did last year as I sat here on Tumblr trying to be ‘not miserable’. I am still concerned that I do not have a job, yet this is the first time I have attended college without working full time and I’ve really enjoyed the experience.

For the upcoming year there are a few things I’d like to accomplish.

Get my AA in Mass Comm

Write a lot more

Walk more (harder now that I do not have a class where I have to…so not an exerciser

Try for the Disney Fellowship for Writers

do ScriptFrenzy

Be a little better at housekeeping (don’t have to be spotless, just cleaner, less lazy)

Watch less TV

Crochet a granny square a day (Erica wants an aphgan)

Actually sell things from my Etsy Store (Never happened on the Artfire site)

And find a way to make a living

So there are some of my goals for the new year, there are probably more, I am always thinking up new things I want to try or do.

Have a happy new year to all my tumblr-mates!

December 30th
10:54 PM

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Hey Tumblr

Yes, I use Missing E. Yes, I intend to keep using it. Please stop interrupting my Tumblr experience multiple times a day to clarify that. So far, the only problem I have had since using Missing E, is your interruptions.

Thank You,

Mindy

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