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Silent, Quiet, Blissful Silence

30 Jul 2010 No Comments

by Brittneyin Family Tags: Family, family: allyson, Family: Tori, family: trae

Today, the house is quiet.

Normally, quiet bothers me. I usually have to turn on some music, even if only just as background noise.

Today, I’m basking in it.

I know I touched briefly on this, but I really didn’t go into much detail about the situation, but my sister has been staying with us for the last month. She had only planned to be here a couple of weeks because she had to be out of her old place and her new one wouldn’t be available right away.

When she went to see about getting into the new one, she was told it would be another week because they were still working on getting things ready for her to move in. Then, this week she went to see about getting in and she was told it would be another week, after she made the down payment.

Now, she’s reluctant to hand over somewhere around $500 when she isn’t sure that come next Friday the place will actually be ready. I understand her hesitation. I would be wary as well.

However, there is a part of me that is just ready for her to move out. I love my sister, niece and nephew. Truly, I do. But I just really want my home back.

Since my sister has been here, her stuff seems to have taken over the living room and kitchen. The living room looks like a baby’s nursery threw up all over it. The baby’s pack and play takes up most of the room, which was small to begin with, and there’s really nowhere to sit in the living room, so I’ve essentially exiled myself to my bedroom because if I wasn’t claustrophobic before, I may very well be now.

It’s just a frustrating situation and made moreso by the fact that there’s really nowhere to place the blame.

Regardless, today, my mom had the day off from work, and she is watching my niece and nephew while my sister is a work. It’s been a nice reprieve because nephew is almost seven months old. As of yesterday, he started crawling and got his first tooth. While these are both exciting developments, the teething has been anything but fun. I’ve heard my nephew cry and throw more fits this week than I have in the seven month since he was born.

So, for now, I shall enjoy the blissfulness of the quietude; at least, until the young ones return.

Major Update

13 Jul 2010 No Comments

by Brittneyin Family, Friends, Holidays, Movies Tags: family: allyson, family: blaine, Family: Mom, Family: Tori, friends: nikki, holiday: fourth of july, Misc, movies: eclipse, movies: the last airbender, movies: the twilight saga, movies: toy story 3, tv: avatar

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve made a decent update. My only real excuse is that, in between all of the hecticness, I’ve been lazy.

I really don’t even know where to begin, but I guess I’ll start with the awesome stuff. My brother and I went to a midnight showing of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Aside from the massive crowd, really long wait and crappy seats, the movie was absolutely amazing. By far my favorite so far, and they really have their work cut out for them if they want Breaking Dawn to meet my new, very high expectations.

The Eclipse premiere was on late Tuesday/early Wednesday. On Thursday, I went with my mom, Blaine, and Tori to see Toy Story 3. I thought it was really great. I think it was a very nostalgic experience. My brother watched the first movie so many times when he was little, and by proximity, so did I. It came be a bit worrisome when they decide to do a sequel to something like that, especially since it had been quite a few years since Toy Story 2 as well, but the movie was excellent. I could have done without watching it in 3D. I’ve found I’m really not a fan of it. Doesn’t seem to do much for me. Maybe because I don’t like wearing the 3D glasses over my regular glasses. Who knows.

Then that Friday, my best friend, Nikki, came to visit. She’s been living in California for the last three years, but she’s originally from Ohio. Right now she’s back in Ohio for the first time since moving, visiting with friends and family for a month. Since she was so close, we made really quick plans for her to come and visit for a few days. We met basically smack dab in the middle at a McDonald’s. I drove, which was kind of nerve wracking, yet exciting. I might have something of a lead foot. ;)

While she was here, we went to see Eclipse because she hadn’t got to see it yet, and I was just happy to watch from a seat that wasn’t the second row. It was just as awesome the second time around. We had a fourth of July party as well. We cooked out, stuffed ourselves and had an all around good time. We didn’t really see any fireworks. We lost our prime spot when mom moved back in with Bart, and we didn’t really feel like fussy around, finding a good place to park since we’ve likely have to go at least a couple of hours in advance. Plus, the fireworks were only set to last a couple of hours.

Nikki and I also went to see The Last Airbender. I will admit that my motivation was mostly just to see Jackson Rathbone, but the movie turned out to be pretty awesome. I think there are supposed to be two more movies in the series, and I’m really looking forward to them. I’d really like to watch the television series the movie was based on. I’ll just have to find the time.

And since Nikki had never had Panera Bread, and I tend to go on and on about it, we went there for a late lunch/early dinner so she could see what I was always going on and on about. I think she liked it. If not, her taste just sucks. ;)

We met back up with Nikki’s dad halfway again on Wednesday, so she could go back home and visit with her family and friends. It was a short visit but still really nice. It just happened to be one of those lucky sort of times where setting up a visit here was convenient. We’ve been talking on the phone a lot more lately, though, which helps because sometimes life just has a way of getting away from you and friendships don’t necessarily deteriorate but you can miss out on a lot of stuff that’s going on.

Now for the kind of blah stuff.

My sister got kicked out of her apartment. She apparently didn’t pay her rent. She’s been staying here for about a week. It’s fine but crowded and makes things a little hectic. I feel kind of claustraphobic walking through the living room and kitchen sometimes because a lot of hers and baby’s stuff is sitting around there. She’s supposedly getting a trailer, and should be able to get in by the end of the week. We’ll see what happens. I don’t even know what to think or say about it.

Then my mom and her boyfriend have been fighting. I won’t go into the details of that, but it’s all pretty ridiculous. My mom’s boyfriend called me yesterday, wanting to vent about it, but what am I going to say? I mean, it’s not my fight and none of my business. My answers were a lot of ‘uh huh’s and ‘yeah’s. I don’t know what’s going to become of them.

She lives and Updates

07 May 2010 No Comments

by Brittneyin Uncategorized Tags: awards: wtf hanfic roast, challenges: hanfic genre challenge, family: allyson, health: excercise, health: weight watchers, Music: Hanson, writing: aftertaste, writing: nanowrimo, writing: shelter, www: nanowrimo

First, I’m still alive. See, this is me updating. I guess just, generally, don’t have much to say about anything these days.

Second, so if you know me, I was kind of hanging around on the fringe with the Hanson love lately. I guess sometimes as you grow up, your interests tend to stray, and I think that was the case with me about Hanson, but then last week, my love for the band was totally restored. 5 of 5 was amazing. Each night I hung out with the usual crowd from hanficsprints and we watched and listened together and basically fangirled and flailed about. It was so much fun, and it really made me remember why I loved Hanson so much in the first place. Sometimes I think you just need a reminder like that. I’m really excited to get Shout It Out now. I’d already pre-ordered, but I was feeling a bit apathetic about the whole thing, but after hearing the music, I’m really looking forward to the studio version of everything because all of the songs sounded so great live.

Last year I completely failed at writing, but since NaNoWriMo back in November, I’ve been writing pretty steadily. I’ve been editing my NaNoWriMo novel – Shelter – and I’ve been working on a few other things off and on. Right now, I’m focusing on Aftertaste, which I started last year and am working on again, for the Hanfic Genre Challenge. It’s coming easier than I expected considering I hadn’t really looked at it in months. Also, Renee C. and Renee P. hosted the WTF?! Hanfic Roast recently. It was a ton of fun with a lot of silly categories. The winners were announced last night. I wasn’t expecting to win much, if any, so I was really kind of shocked and still pretty awed over how things went, so if you happened to vote for me THANK YOU! And if you also picked up some awards, CONGRATS! :)

My sister is about to drive me nuts. As usual, she’s got things all screwed up in her life. Her electricity was turned off a week ago at her apartment, and she’s been staying here. I really don’t know what she’s going to do. I think as long as she’s with her useless boyfriend, she’s never going to get anywhere in life, but she’s so hard headed. You can’t tell her anything, or through to her. It’s been nice having my nephew around to see pretty much every day, but this place really isn’t big enough for everyone. Thankfully, tonight Allyson’s working and our mom took both Trae and Tori. I’m enjoying the quiet while I can.

I’ve also gone back on Weight Watchers. I’m 5 days in, and so far so good. Last time I felt like I was pretty much starving all the time, but I’ve been okay this time around. I’ve been walking down the back road. It’s 3/4 of a mile going one way, and I’ve been walking to the end and back. So far I’ve walked 3 miles this week. Considering how out of shape and generally lazy I can be, I’m pretty proud of myself because I’ve done it without feeling exhausted. The weather kind of interfered with today’s walk, but I’m going to try tomorrow. If the weather is still bad, I’m going to my mom’s to use her treadmill to get my walk in. rachie_grl6@lj started a new community earlier in the week called fanson_losers. It’s also been really helpful to have a community to visit and help keep myself accountable. If you’re looking to lose weight or just get in shape, you should join the community!

I’m sure I’m forgetting something, but I can’t think of it right now. I’ll try not to go so long without making a real update because it gets way too hard to catch up/remember everything I wanted to write about.

Oops?

08 Jan 2010 No Comments

by Brittneyin Family Tags: family: allyson, Family: Tori, family: traevion

It’s been a while since I’ve wrote a decent entry. A lot has happened, or so it seems. Christmas and New Years were good. My sister had the baby on January 1st around 4:30 in the afternoon. She had a boy, as expected, and named him Traevion Alexander. We’ve been calling him Trae. He had an infection in his lungs that spread to his lungs, so he was on oxygen and had to take antibiotics and stay in the hospital for about a week. He got to go home tonight, though. So far we’ve only got to see pictures, but I’m hoping this weekend I’ll get to see him and hold him. Tori’s sick, so she probably won’t be able to see him for a while longer. Either way, it’s exciting to have a nephew. I just can’t wait to meet him.

Wow. Time Flies.

10 Aug 2009 No Comments

by Brittneyin Uncategorized Tags: Domain: Glimmering-Girl.org, family: allyson, Family: Reunion, Family: Tori, Friends: Taye, TV: The Closer, Websites: Fanlistings, Websites: Lost Realit, Work, Writing, Writing: Strangers Among Us

Has it really been a month since I last posted? Wow. Time flies. I can’t believe it’s August already. The kiddies will be going back to school soon, which means school sports, which means uniforms and suck, which basically means things will be picking up at work.

The last month has been fairly steady. Not overly busy, but busy enough. I’ve been getting pretty decent hours, usually about days a week. So long as I can cover my bills, I’m pretty much happy.

We had a family reunion yesterday and another one next Sunday. Then those will be done for the year. I’d say I’m looking forward to being done with those, but next Sunday we’ll have two new additions staying here – Tori and my sister. Tori’s here often enough that it won’t be anything out of the usual. Besides, I like having her around. My sister – not so much. She’s between places. She has to be out of the old by Sunday, and she can’t get into the new one for a couple of weeks. Needless to say, I’m not thrilled.

I love my sister. I really do. But in the grand scheme of things, I really don’t like her that much. Maybe that’s a horrible thing to say, but she just makes really poor decisions. If it were just her, that would be fine, but she has Tori and another baby on the way, so she really needs to get her crap together and grow up.

On a completely different note, I’ve opened up several new fanlistings over at Lost Realist, my fanlisting collective. The new ones are for Eisley’s album, Combinations, and the songs Try by Nelly Furtado, You Picked Me by A Fine Frenzy, So Contagious by Acceptance, Paperthing Hymn by Anberlin and Use Somebody by Kings of Leon. I have 60 fanlistings now, and I still have a few that I need to do some updates on – be it layouts, affiliates or other random stuff. It’s probably taken me over a year to get to this point, but I’ve almost got them all up to date and the way I want them.

My next plan is to work on glimmering-girl.org. Right now it’s pretty bare, but I’ve had a hard time deciding what to do with it. For a while it was my main blog. Now it’s pretty much a placeholder. I’ve thought about turning it into my collective. I want to do something really cool with it, but I haven’t decided how yet. Hopefully, I can come up with something. I’ve basically let it just sit for the last couple of years. If it weren’t for all of my fanlistings being hosted there, I probably would have closed it, but I just don’t have the time or energy to move them all – especially after almost having all of the fanlistings up to date.

I’ve also been trying to get back into writing. It’s slow going. I’ve started a collaboration with my friend, Taye, and I wrote the first chapter. That went pretty well. It took me a few days to get my head into the game, and she seems to be having the same trouble. It’s just hard to jump back into things after being so out of practice for so long. I hate it because I miss writing. I have most of the ideas in my head but the trouble lies in getting them out out paper.

It probably doesn’t help my productivity that I’ve done nothing but watch The Closer most nights for the last week or so. I started rewatching from the beginning, and I remembered how much I loved the show. I’m up to season 4 now, and I’m current with what’s out of season 5 as well, so I guess my lazy TV watching is almost over since I don’t have much of it left to watch now. I guess that’s a good thing?