Vanilla Twilight

I've been listening to Owl City for about a week now and I have to say, I love it. Hello, Seattle and Vanilla Twilight especially. Even if you roll your eyes and think it's all a passing fad [which it might very well be], you should give Vanilla Twilight a listen. It's sweet.

I've been trying to write poetry for weeks. Nothing's working. I stare at the blank screen, or scribble on my note pad, and there's just nothing in there, even though I have songs that are inspiring feelings that I want to communicate. Vanilla Twilight is the perfect song to write poetry to and I cannot come up with ANYTHING. It's aggravating.

I've been trying to work on other things too, and I'm very unfocused at this point. I'm just waiting around until I get feedback for Violet's Monster: Volume I so I can do my own edits and start pumping out drafts. Sigh. I feel like I'm floating in the midst of a large expanse of water with nothing to do but sit and stare at my toes. There's a creativity blockage somewhere in my brain and I'm not exactly sure what to do about it. Perhaps Violet and Max are holding everything else at gunpoint until I finish their story...

I should probably sit down and make some goals for today. For this weekend. For next week. So I don't go stir crazy. Maybe if I met one small goal a day it would keep me focused. And then I would have a poem, a song, a drawing, or the beginnings of a story to put in my sundry portfolios.

Also, I've been reading through the last few books of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket again and realized just how much of a genius he is. I'm learning words like xenial [giving gifts to strangers] and his writing style is just brilliant...The Slippery Slope [book 10] has one of my favorite moments of the whole series in it. And the overall message of the books is just...wonderful. If you read the first few and didn't really get into it, I suggest skipping ahead and plowing through the last three books. They're really amazing.

We picked up Treasure Planet for $6 at Manifest the other night because I've never seen it and wanted a new animated movie to watch [I ADORE animation]. I've watched part of it now and LOVE it. Wow! It was a failure in the box office, but it won an Academy Award [it came out in 2002]...and it's a super adaptation of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. How can you NOT love a feline captain voiced by Emma Thompson? It's witty, sad, and breathtaking. I'm excited about finishing it.

Also, we got to see Leverage last night!!! It's back on T.V. for the last few episodes of season 2 and then it has a season 3...I'm really hoping this isn't one of those great shows that gets canceled after 3 seasons...*cough cough*

Stu and I were talking the other day [not too seriously, I hope] about getting a little pot-bellied pig as a friend for Parker. Of course, I told him I had to name it something ridiculous...like Hamlet. Except I think I would just start laughing every time I said its name so it wouldn't actually KNOW its name, it would just feel sad that I was laughing at it. :P It also made me laugh that getting a pig was Stu's suggestion. He always surprises me. Like when he wanted to get a hamster and name it Bruce Wayne.

I am so tired...I always talk too much when I'm tired. I think I got maybe 4 hours of sleep last night. Maybe it's time to try that melatonin. :P