3/7/17

Meet Messi

(I wrote this in 2015 and was too embarrassed to post it, but now I can just say "I wrote this when I was sixteen, so don't hate me" if anyone dislikes it, so I'm posting it. And you've never had an introduction to my pets, so why not, right?)


This is our cat Messi. She is one year old and loves plastic bags. One of her many passions is climbing out of my window and sitting on the windowsill. It makes the whole family freak out. (Except me. I know she isn't stupid. She's a cat. She won't jump. I just know.)

Messi came to our family a little less than one year ago, and her mommy lives with our cousins. She has two brothers and two sisters, and is very tiny compared to her siblings. She is also the wildest, I would say, because whenever she meets her brothers, she is the one beating them in playwrestling.

Messi loves to sleep on her back, and has done that since she was as small as my palm. And she also enjoys getting rubbed on her tummy, which I've heard other cats hate. Messi is special. But as any other cat, she also loves laying in the sunlight streaming in from the window.

The most annoying thing that Messi does is jumping up on tables and bookshelves, and then drops everything down to the floor. Another thing she does is walking on my keyboard, which you can imagine is super distracting. Actually, when she was smaller, she would lay down on my keyboard and sleep there. And I didn't have the heart to move her because she was too adorable.

I enjoy taking walks with Messi. She isn't exactly like a dog... She walks where she wants and couldn't care less where I want to go, but occasionally we run along the mud roads together, and a passer-by could mistake her for a dog. But no, that is a cat I'm walking.

But who would name a cat--a female cat--after a football player? As you may know, we already had two guinea piggies before Messi came along, and my dad said that we would have no other animals than them. But Messi was such a cute little kitten, so we made a deal that if we got a cat, he would get to choose its name. And that was how Messi became Messi.

What else can I say... Messi is awesome and annoying, not to even mention adorable. And I love her.

3/2/17

Tumblr

I've never understood Tumblr. Everybody loves Tumblr, and it's the place where fangirls and fanboys stay up every night when they should be studying. I've tried many times, but I've never got the appeal. There's just enough social media in my life already. I can't have Tumblr too.

Well, surprise.

I have Tumblr.

Nuff said. Here's the link: My book inspiration or something like that.

But if you know me, you know that this Tumblr-thing won't last long. I mean, have you seen how often I update this blog? Like seriously. I suck at the internet.

Also, I don't even know how to use Tumblr. I hope face palm is still a thing because:



Anyway... I hope no one actually looks at my tumblr because it's actually empty and a waste of your time. But have a nice day nevertheless!

/Em

PS: Don't you just hate it when you eat orange and it gets stuck between your teeth? I can't get it out and it feels so weird! Now I can't focus on anything because all I can think about is a piece of orange between my teeth! UGH!

Life update

It's been a while...

Since last time, I've turned eighteen (yay, adulting is so much fun... Ugh why... D:), finished the first draft of my zombie story, completely dropped the zombie story because I started hating it way too much, and started rewrites on my fantasy novel.

Writing is going well. I'm currently at 40K words for 2017, which is better than I've ever done in the beginning of a new year. I'm proud of myself.

I'm going to graduate in a few months, so school is just really stressful right now. I have my matriculation exams this month, and after that I'll finally be free from school for good! Yay! Except if I go to uni, because then it'll be far from over... But I refuse to think about that yet.

What else...

I'm just really happy right now. I think I have my life in order. Everything's good, even though I'm SO DONE with studying now. Graduating is super fun but it also sucks a lot. So many things to worry about and stay up at night for... But I'm happy. Usually. So it's all right.

All right... Yep.

Camp Nanowrimo is coming soon! :D I'm so excited about that! I hope to finish my current manuscript then, so that I can go on to even more edits and maybe have it completely done before this year ends. It's kind of strange to think about 2018 in 2017, but now that I'm legally an adult, I've got to think about the future. Sigh.

No, but really. Even though I wished that Peter Pan would just come and take me to Neverland the day before my birthday, being an adult isn't entirely bad. I mean, it was a lot more fun not to worry about adult things, but I also feel like my life has begun now. I'm responsible for myself now and am the writer of my own fairy tale. And that's an amazing power to have. Muwahhahaa.

I'm really happy that 2017 is here. Last year wasn't a bad year for me, but I just look back and can't remember much anything that I accomplished, and I procrastinated on everything. 2017 will be different. I just know it. It already is different.

Keep writing, lovely people! I hope to be back soon (maybe).

/Em