Mhysa

Quick post this morning to prove to myself I haven’t totally forgotten all about this blog.

We just moved in to a loft apartment, yay!  It’s beautiful and fantastic and wonderful.  Boy starts pretty early for work at his new job, so I wake up early too.  This will hopefully give me the motivation to write more.  I remember reading a memoir by Steven King, and one of the things that hit most was that he would wake up super early, take out his Mac to the sunlit porch area, and write for a few hours.  Writing every day was essential.

He also advised writing something and putting it away for a few months before editing, even a year.  So when the boy says to me, “you can just pop out a couple books a year, eh?” I laugh a bit.

Anyways, this apartment has the atmosphere I crave; wood, medium lighting, rich colours, big windows, and that cozy, welcoming feel I’ve long missed. I will post a picture when everything is unpacked and in its place.

A few things on the to do list; reread the Song of Ice and Fire series since season three is over (*bawl*), find out everything that happened at E3 since I go to bed super early now and don’t have cable, and finally get everything organized on my own terms, now that I have my own space.  Life is finally starting to get exciting.

Also, one bitch rant: it is freaking ridiculous trying to play WiiU with nunchucks.  I spent half an hour Saturday trying to get Link to jump across some stupid rocks without falling and almost broke the Wiimotes….  Does anyone else have this problem or am I just…a little handicapped?

A Vacation; A Fakecation

So, been a while.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been posting as frequently as I would have liked.  Weekly quotes are not enough to service an entire blog.  Well, maybe a Tumblr blog. (Speaking of which, they were just purchased by Yahoo!, who I didn’t know really were in the habit of acquiring anything other than more answers to stupid questions….)

I never really got in to Tumblr, I think maybe because it was always more of my little sister’s thing, and I’ll let her have her thing.  I have Twitter 😀

Back to the point.  I am moving soon! To a perfect little (big) loft out in the country.  Super stoked and it’s been eating all my time.  Basically, couple packing and moving and work and sleep and babysitting and Victoria Day long weekend all in one month and it’s not really surprising I find it difficult to sit down and hash out a few words on the keyboard, which is very enjoyable.

One of the things I am most excited for is a fresh start.  Rearrange all my things in a space that is truly my own (and my boyfriend’s), and be able to accomplish things (writing, reading, catching up on Dexter and baking as many things on Pinterest as humanly possible) in my own way.  I’ve finished my Supernatural and Game of Thrones will be over soon too; I need something besides Top Gear UK and Final Fantasy now to fill my spare time.  I need to get a move on.

Here’s the thing.  I recently watched a TED video about not squandering your 20’s, and I am very prone to squandering.  I am excited to get everything organized and on track.

This blog will take quite a few posts before it finally decides what its main focus is going to be, and that’s the best part.

All I know is that I am finally on track.

A degree in being Literate

I am terribly insane.  Which I figure makes me normal.

I’m pretty girly, by some standards.  I like my nails done, I like to write in pastel pink and purple pilot pens, I have an obsession with any Real Housewives franchise (especially Vancouver) and have an attachment to Hello Kitty which is probably unhealthy and makes my boyfriend frequently facepalm.  I am a bit of a princess.

Typical girl, yea?

But when I was young I read The Andromeda Strain, not Sweet Valley High.  I chose Tolkien over Blume and picked The Shining up at the garage sale instead of the Nicholas Sparks romance.

Yes, I read hand-me-down babysitters club as an 8-year-old and I will steadfastly promote Meg Cabot and all the Princess Diaries–but I pine for good writing and thoughtful fiction.  Princess Mia is, after all, much more badass in writing than her Anne Hathaway counterpart (no offense, Disney likes to butcher anything worth producing).

I’m out there.  I subscribe to Quill & Quire and follow Xiaxue.  I watch Sailor Moon in Japanese and read manga.  I read Wikipedia for fun and try to learn 3 languages at a time, trying to fix my terrible French accent.  Sashimi is my vice and I love watching Supernatural with my boyfriend.  I love hashtags and Starbucks and Sephora and Victoria’s Secret.

But my goal here?  Write.  To write and to share my writing journey.  To take my favourite fiction and honour it with my own fiction, and my own opinions.

I am here to fight for the English Degree.  A laughable post-secondary pursuit because it has been sullied by the dirty paws of too many spoiled children wasting their parents’ money.  They never could figure out quite what to do so they’ll wait around here until good connections drop opportune employment in their laps.  Kids who still can’t figure out after 4 years the difference between “your” and “you’re” have made the English Degree synonymous with a Slacker’s Degree.

I’m here to reclaim the meaning for myself.  I’m here to push myself to write.  To edit.  To publish.  To dream.

And occasionally post about the latest Game of Thrones episode, and how it wasn’t long enough.