kathy_fraggle

Well, I'm about to try a novel concept, and actually post here about myself, lol! The motivation for this may be related to my good feelings in the past day or so. Let me recount exactly what has happened.

My day yesterday started approximately at 5 AM. This was because, as I often do unfortunately, I had gone to sleep with my computer on and playing an online radio station, (can't remember which one this time), and with my sweater on. Normally when this happens, I am pulled, groggy and grumpy from my sleep, kicking myself for being such a bum. Yesterday however, I didn't mind. This may have been because I had wanted to catch the Bonnie and Clide episode of Lilo and Stich on the Disney Channel, although I had all but resigned myself to the fact that there was little chance of me being up that early, but I was okay with it. When I first woke up, I hit my talking clock, but I didn't regester that I still had time. When I did, I jumped out of bed, got freshend up, and was able to watch the episode. The fact that I ate breakfast yesterday could have also had something to do with my good mood, as I usually don't. Anyway, I was also able to catch Sesame Street, another rare occurance as it comes on at 7 in the morning here in New York. I thought it did everywhere, but I've got a friend in Florida who says it comes on at ten on his station. Anyway, after that I just hung out online for a bit, spending time on Muppet Central, and checking out some of my other favorite haunts. Then I had a bowl of left-over Hamburger Helper for lunch; there was actually quite a bit left over! While eating, I watched Peter Pan on DVD. It was funny, and only very slightly irritating, that it was my second try at finding a DVD to watch. I was actually going for the Little Mermaid II, but the first DVD I opened, (I have, or had, a bunch of unopened DVDs, and they're all pretty much packaged the same way), was Elmo's Christmas Countdown. Not wanting to watch that 'til next Christmas season, I unwrapped another one, which looked more like a Disney DVD. I got through all the previews, before realizing it was, in fact, Peter Pan, which I didn't even know I owned! I decided to stick with it, both because it's a good movie that I only somewhat remembered from my childhood, and because I actually wanted to eat lunch while it was still warm. So that was that, and I enjoyed both the food and the movie, although, let me tell you, I found the movie somewhat odd! It had somewhat the feel of 1950's Disney movies, as well it should have since that's the era in which it was made, but I also saw it as being a bit darker as well. Possibly, now that I think of it, something I could invision the Creature Shop doing, right up there with Monster Maker, Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal, Jim Henson's adaptation of Peter Pan.
Moving right along, right after the movie ended, I had a nice conversation with

sifukatara
We talked some about the stories we're writing together. Then my mom came home, and we had dinner together. A little later, my cousin came over, and brought us doughnuts, with coffie for mom, and hot chocolate for herself and I. She had just gotten back from visiting our great aunt in Delaware, and she had pictures. Also, we hadn't seen her since Christmas, so my uncle who lives with us had a couple of presents for her as we didn't spend Christmas together, (long story). We sat around for a while talking and laughing. My mom bought a coat rack a while ago, and my cousin put it together. All in all, we had a great time. Even though I love my family and it was great being together like that, I'm afraid to say that it lost some of its charm for me after a while, so I was glad when Lauren called back, and I could leave without being rude. This time, as planned, Lauren sent me the main story that we're working on, and I wrote up a section of it. I wanted to do this because as I've told her on a few occasions, and as anyone who knows me well knows, I don't really like to write that much. Yet, with all the great ideas I have, and as good as I'm told and I feel I am at it, I want to try to get in the habit of writing more steadily. I actually did better than I thought I would last night, and I had a great time doing it! We worked on that and talked for at least a couple of hours.
After that, I attempted to read one or two of Lauren's stories on Fanfiction.net. I say attempted because appearently my computer doesn't like Lauren's profile page or something, (no offense Lauren!) It's just whenever I click on it, my computer either freezes, or slows down to a crawl. Anyway, I then hung out on MC for another little while, and listened to the Les Miserables cast recording. Even though the story is sad and kind of depressing, the music is just so stirringly beautiful! Anyway, then my friend John from Florida called, and that just made the perfect happy ending to my perfect day!

Sorry that was so long and rambly in places.