7 posts tagged “writing”

I am soooo bad at keeping up with friends lately, I apologize.  Go Ramie!  Way to keep up !  On the bright side, I can blame my body for most of it.  I'm not just slacking.

Then I've been writing, nothing you'd want to see as it's game related.  But, if you are curious you can see my recent short story here.  Keep in mind I'm writing for a game "newspaper".  While this game has some brilliant players, it also has a scary number of players who think that the word "is" is spelled "iz" (for REAL).  So the expectations for me as the editor of our little online paper are only as high I have set them for myself.  I actually get "fan" mail thanking me for such good stories.  It works out.  I impress those who text speak everything with my  real words.  I impress those, who like me get sick of the text speak, with... well... real words.  I'm my own worst critic as I seem to be the only person with real complaints about the stories I write there.

And now, not being a natural writer, I'm pushing myself again!  My mom and I are about to start a joint Blog / website.  We've got the domain.  Now we just need a logo, to tweak the design, etc.  More on that once I put some serious work in.  My only clue for those of you who don't already know what it is = it won't be my usual personal, MS, political, rambling!

And speaking of my political rambling.... My ballot has arrived!  I'm such a political geek!  Ask my mom, she heard me on the phone, you would think it was Christmas Eve and I just KNEW some expensive present I'd wanted for years was under the tree.  Heh.  VOTING TIME HAS ARRIVED IN MY HOME!  EDWARDS!!!!!!!!!

Ugh my head hurts.  I have tingles.  I want to sleep but feel like I can't.  I'm dizzy.  And I'm having a mini-MS flare up.  Nothing really bad just noticing things getting jumbled, forgetting words in stuff I type, it's like someone scrambled my brain, I can't multi-task at all right now.  Waaaaa! 

How's his for a random entry?

~ Smallville was new and I liked it  = good.
~ Headache = not good.
~ Headache not being a migraine anymore = good.
~ Only skimming friends lists while playing with painting programs and/or headachey = bad friend.
~ Friends used to no comments from me + holiday busy season for most = no one will notice.
~ Mijn Favoriet and Bender got the cards and liked them = good.
~ Ego from cards being seen as good even though Brian did the shading which is what made them look pro = good.
~ Compliments on MM story from players who don't "rite lyk dis" = good.
~ People going crazy on MM so I have to write another big story = ok but I'm on strike if they have another war in the game before Christmas.
~ Can't remember if I said it before but cards from Tiggs and Misi arrived = thankie :)

I'm done with my post full of sentences with an = sign in them, but I'm sure this trend will be back someday!
zzzzzzzzzz

PS - I have a Dutchie cat in my lap, trying to get extra attention by sticking her paw straight up towards my face with claws OUT.  eeeeeeeeek! It looks sooo cute the way she does it, but claws showing, she's clearly dangerous!  If you don't hear from me in the next few days either she or pain alien have done me in!  *mental note to self related to pain alien - reorder anti-seizure and migraine meds to pick up this weekend or will be out by end of weekend*

I'm sleepy and not much to say other than headaches suck.  I am having them less since starting the Amitriptyline, but still having aura / floatrers without headpain almost daily and imitrex doesn't work when I get headaches.  Will ask if there's something else I can try next time I go to the doctor.  But that's about it, not very arty or crafty today thanks to said headache, but I wrote this cheesy inner dialogue last night so am posting it as my daily update.  Perhaps Inner Dialogue, Part Two will be a discussion with myself about why spell check thinks "dialogue" is not a word.

Nighty Night World. 

♥ Ik hou van jullie allemaal ♥

Inner Dialogue, Part One
Who are you?
Me?
Yes, you.
I am me.
Anyone can give that answer, are you just like everyone else?
Yes... I mean no... I don't know.
Why don't you know?
I don't know what everyone else is like. Maybe I am like some, or none, or all.
Do you think you're unique?
We all are.
So you are just like everyone else?
I guess.
Do you think you're better than anyone else?
Murderers, rapists, you know the type of people who ruin other people's lives, I am better than them, I hope.
You hope, you're not sure?
Well... I guess I am sure.
You can't guess you're sure, you are or you aren't.
Ok, I am better than those kinds of people.
Is anyone better than you?
Sure, lots of people are.
Does that bother you?
No, not really.
Why not?
If no one were better than me, I'd be perfect, right? Who wants that?
Everyone does.
Not me.
why not?
Too much pressure. No room to grow. Nothing left to aspire to.
Okay. So you're unique just like everyone else, some are better than you, you are better than some, and you're not perfect?
That about sums it up.

TV:
Dear American Idol,
The wrong door scenes are just old already.  As a kid you're taught one door is an entrance and one is an exit.  Honest mistake not worthy of showing us 5000 times.
Love,
Me

Dutch:
Forgot to mention, I got this on Injustice " ben je BTW een nederlander??? ik zit net in tokyo srry maar in de 2e pauze kan ik weer terug naar A'dam"  The 2nd part is game stuff, the first part is asking me if I am Dutch.  I understood it well enough to reply "Nee, ik ben Amerikaanse.  Ik spreek geen Nederlands".  w00t!  Small, but a big improvement from last year.  The guy replied that he thought my Dutch was as good as his English, lol.   I've noticed if you even know a few Dutch words, it impresses the Dutchies.

Art:
Wanted to make something but trying to make a new face wasn't working out, so a basic giant flower for you all:

Brian:
While out in public, I had to ask Brian how old he was... He either answered with 2 1/2 or 3 1/2, my memory is bad.  He decided the reason he's so immature is because his parents told him NO so often as a child.  You know basic things like don't flick that lettuce off of the table onto other tables...  ummm.... I roll my eyes... a lot.  You'd never know he's almost 30.  I'm all for silly, but really someone should have taught that man how to act in public, he was thinking of talking to his parents about this but decided against it. 

Music:
I installed iTunes on this laptop, forgot to before now, but figured I'd sync my iPod with my music + I wanted some podcasts on it updated.  I updated my iPod software, the update said bug fixes, if this goes as well as the last iPod software "upgrade" I should be cursing those bug fixes in no time.  Anyway, yeah... 

I let iTunes start playing my collection of artists from A-Z, I am at D12 now.  I didn't play every song or artist all the way through but then I realized ohh yeah...  I did install last.fm software, so my last.fm charts might actually change some now that I am listened to a little of everything.   What a brilliant piece of software / website, unless you have a large friends list, forget you have it installed, and play something you'd NEVER admit to liking.

Reading and Life:
Still reading My 'Dam Life.  It makes me a) wish I would have had traveled somewhere in my life by now,  somewhere outside of the US  and b) realize if I ever had to write a book about living in LA, I'd not have much to say, so it's a good thing no one would expect me to write such a book.  Then again, you should all be glad I'd never have anything to write a book about, I'd make you all go BUY it, that's right, no freebies except for my mom (of course).  A girl needs to make a living.  I wonder how big of a demand there is for a book that is about 6 years worth of doctor stories + a dysfunctional family + my views on Superman.  No?  hmm... Ok, so writing is out then.

Mijn Favoriet:
He messaged me quick to say he had to go, f00tball match.  He hasn't played in ages because he'd hurt his knee the last time he did play in a match.  He better not get hurt again anytime soon or I'll pout, a lot.  I think all Dutchies (males at least) have some national contest about who can do the most damage to their bodies via f00tball before hitting 30, probably more like before 25.  Hearing about Robbie's injuries, Mijn Favoriet's knee, seeing the pictures of Luur's shoulder blade not quite where it should be, etc, have all convinced me of this 'fact',

I wrote this in August, it seems.  That makes sense, I was trying to write something for the anniversary of CynDee's death but nothing good was coming to me so I just wrote whatever did come to me, in hopes that it would inspire to write something for her.  I still haven't written something new for her but I just opened this and decided to leave it as it is and do nothing else with it since it probably says enough as it is.  I think you can tell I was thinking of her at that time even though it's not really written FOR her.

Blissfully Unaware by Me
Sitting on a couch
Blissfully unaware
As someone somewhere
Gets a call
Changing their life
Forever more

Why me
It's not fair
I never thought
That this could be
No one ever does

But why not them
Why not you
Sitting on the couch
So blissfully unaware

August 27th, 2006
© Ramie

If you could write a book about anything, what would it be about?

Hmm,  I don't know.  My LiveJournal has been probably 90% health related over the last 5 years.  If you write about what you know, it would have to be about the struggles and amusing aspects (there are a few of those if you let yourself keep a sense of humor) of being a "sickie".

I'd like to write poems or a fictional story (preferably something that makes you think like the movie Eternal Sunshine did for me, or some mind fuck story as I like stuff that makes you go "uh, what?"), but just don't seem to have it in me to do that well.