The Spete Blog

Not that I'm complaining that winter's almost over. If I had things my way (aka if I could control weather) winter would never extend past March 20th. Snowstorm last week, I'm looking at you. Obviously my goal to write more on this blog went really well. I am a devoted blogger. Uhhhh.... truth be told I'm only starting back up because Camp NaNoWriMo is coming close and I once again feel the need to procrastinate by blogging. I've been throwing around a few ideas for Camp NaNo this April... I've been trying to convince myself that it's time to sit down and write a delightful science fiction planetary romance (or a good ol' fashioned space opera), but so far I'm not dedicated to it. That is, I have no ideas for a planetary romance. Plus, ugh, what if it takes place on this world that has life forms? I know I'd get way too caught up banging out the evolutionary details and no one has time for that during Camp NaNoWriMo. (AKA I am making excuses ...

There will come a day when I realize I can't sing. It is not this day.

This is probably the most nonsensical blog that is not written by a teenager. I read other blogs by young adults and I'm always impressed by their Deep Thoughts and Introspection. Caps are necessary. I assure you I mull over made-up and real adult problems too (sometimes) (rarely) but.. but... Cats. And yes, this is the internet, which is full of cats, but I was looking at my own cat, Francis P. Cat, and I was suddenly overcome by how adorable he is and I knew I had to blog about it. Francis P. Cat is 4 1/2 years old and is a fluffy ginger disaster. The P stands for Pickle Princess Potato Pumpkin Pumpkinbutt Pumpkinutter Princess Buttercup Princess Butterbutt Picklebutt Poophead He puts up with me most of the time, except for when he is hungry, and then he is my bff. I assume this is how most cats are. Francis is my French Roommate. Francis is not good at eating things that aren't cat kibble. This is how most of his encounters with non-kibble go: ...

Well, so it's Wednesday. Surprise. I've decided to try and be better at blogging? I am wishing myself luck with that one. Yeeeah I'm going to blog more... suuuuure I'm currently watching the pilot of Helix . I forgot that I hate stressful, mysterious, tv shows. Also, the Pretty One just found a field of dead monkeys who were bursting out of the ground???? In other news, I don't know any of the characters' names.  Hmm. Yeah, not much is new since yesterday. Read a nice, Herald of the People article today. You know, communist propaganda sort of thing. For all interested: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=3614885 Currently on Helix the CDC peeps are looking into a microscope that has ScienceVision. Wow. Ok. This is a really boring post! Sorry dudes! To make up for it, go and read Grimm's Fairy Tale "The Blue Light".  And don...

So, I guess it's January now? Where did that come from? Time moves too fast when you're not in school, let me tell you. In other, completely unrelated news, for a while there was this one ad on youtube that would play in which some person would say, "I recently got married not too long ago" and every time I heard her say that I flipped tables. In my head. Metaphorical tables. Well, to catch up on the gossip from two months ago (why am I so bad at blogging???) I DID finish NaNoWriMo, met my word count goal, and came out with a truly awful novel. It's hard for me to say if it's worse than 2012's novel. On one hand, I actually had a plot this time. On the other hand, it is a horrible, horrible plot. None of my characters ended up the way I wanted them to, and I think that it just sort of fell apart and couldn't redeem itself. Maye I'll rewrite it someday. Maybe. In other news, this is me all week. (how can I say 'all week'? It...

Heeeyoooo it's Friday! And a three day weekend. Bring on the excellence. Also, for some reason... I love this?!  exactly the way I drink milk. Always. Umm let's see. In other news, my cat is psycho? Nothing new there. Uhhhhh oh yes. NaNoBlog. The novel is going... not bad... so far. The plot is getting going, and I'm so sorry but as I'm typing this I can still see the gif up there and I really can't concentrate on anything because serious wtf is happening in that infomercial hahahaha. ANYWAY. My main character has met her Mentor, her First Love Interest, and is soon going to be dragged away from everything she knows into a strange and dangerous world *cue dramatic music?* Ummmmmmmmmmm I decided last night that I love Justin Long and that the main character's Second Love Interest should basically just look like Justin Long. True story, tried looking for Justin Long pictures on Google and all i got were JBiebs. Not what I wanted. ...

My cat and I could not handle the end of Daylight Savings this morning. (not a surprise). He woke up at 4am hungry for breakfast, I woke up either at 7 or 8 and I'm still not sure which one it was. In other news, we didn't get snow last night! Sure, it's November, this is Maine, and if it's anything like Minnesota in the early winter, it's going to snow in November. I should probably find my winter clothes...? Yeah, that's a good plan. Oh yes, NaNoWriMo! I'm slugging along, not doing too badly considering that I've been busy the first two days of the month. I really can't wait until the plot gets going but I'm close to that point! So close! so close. The grating protagonist is paragraphs away from meeting her Wise Mentor, who is named Phoebe. They don't like each other. Who am I kidding, Sin doesn't like anyone. Phoebe is still stuck in that post-college "wtf am I doing with my life" phase, and she meets Sin in...