Weekly Writing Check-In: Awards! Editing! Yay!

Things have been rather hectic this week - in preparation of moving home I've began packing, and woah, all my stuff doubled since I moved here last year! (And I've been diligently shipping things home once a week, so this is quite a feat) and of course I'm just all in a tizzy because stuff is getting expensive up in hurr. I just keep telling myself that ~everything will be fine~ but you know, moving stress!

On the editing front, I've finally plowed through evil chapter 8 and think I've edited it as much as I can now. There reaches a point where all you can think is "WORDS DON'T MEAN ANYTHING ANYMORE" when you read the same scene over and over again.

Moving on...it's award time! Wow, it's been a while! But the wonderful Yelena Casale has given me not one but TWO awards! Woo hoo! Here's the first one:

Sunshine Award

• Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them.
• Write a post about it.
• Answer the questions below.
• Pass it on to 10 bloggers who you think really deserve it and let them know.

Here are the questions:

Favorite color: Orange. I should hope it's obvious by now.

Favorite animal: Cats. There are no other animals.

Favorite number: Anything except 9.

Favorite non-alcoholic drink: Water.

Facebook or Twitter: Both are pretty good at ruining any day by showing off how awful people can be.

My passion: Writing, cats, and (listening to/writing about) music.

Getting or giving presents: I would say "getting" but then that just means I'm getting more crap.

Favorite pattern: ...what.

Favorite day of the week: On a standard week - Saturday. Because you can sleep in AND stay up late. All other days are wannabe posers.

Favorite flower: Rose, I guess? I'm not really partial to any specific flower. So long as they're orange.

The next award!

Kreative Blogger Award

This award requires giving 7 random facts about oneself. Well, okay....


1. I have lived in Japan three times now for varying lengths and with some time in between - however, I'm moving back to America at the end of this month. See above for my packing woes.

2. Part of my packing woes come from me buying so many cheap Japanese CDs here. I collect CDs, particularly those of Asian artists. I currently own about over 400.

3. I can't imagine a happy life without at least one badass cat in it.

4. Up until I was 20 I had very long hair. So long that I could sit on it. I finally got tired of it and realized it no longer fit the image I had of myself and cut it all off into a "pixie" style I still keep today. It suits me much more.

5. I consider myself a fan of video games but I play very few. My eternal loves will always be Pokemon and The Legend of Zelda. Nintendo 4 lyfe. (Final Fantasy wishes it was so cool.)

6. Soup and chocolate are my favorite foods, but never shall the two meet.

7. I wear fashionable wigs whenever I damn well feel like it. My favorite is a blond pixie style. (Sometimes you just gotta be blond.)

Done! Now it's time to pass these on...hm, who shall it be?

Sarah Pearson 
HR Sinclair 
Aldrea Alien
Danika Dinsmore 
Alessandra Hinlo
Susan Francino 
Angela Cothran 

Sorry if you've already received one or both of these...or am I? ;)

/back to editing
/um i mean packing
/lbr I'm playing sims.

Double the fun, double the web space!

First off, I've received the Versatile Blogger award again today! (I'm wondering, does this mean I should post it twice on the blog awards page? lol.) This time it was from AE Martin over at her blog! Thanks so much!

I guess this means I should "pass it forward" now, eh, considering I finally have the time! So, here's the rules for receiving this award:

"1. Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Pass this Award along to 15 recently discovered blogs and let them know about it!"

Oh, seven things about myself, huh. Well, okay.

1) I majored in Japanese studies during university even though I hated it by the time I graduated. Just to make the irony even bitterer, the first job I finally got out of college (after a whole year in Japan) was teaching English in rural Japan. I've been here since April with the goal of saving up money to move back to the States and self-publish my debut novel.

2) That said, my favorite thing in the world is Pikachu. You don't wanna know about my Pikachu collection. It will scare you (especially when others enable me with Pikachu gifts, haha). I also love Hello Kitty, Sailor Moon, and all forms of J-pop. Sooooo I do enjoy Japanese media if nothing else.

3) Cats are the most perfect beings in the universe. This is undisputed fact, actually. Didn't you get the memo?

4) I LOVE ORANGE. It's my signature everything in life. All my stuff is orange. Most people don't think of orange until they meet me and are surrounded by it. People have this funny habit of handing me their orange things, haha.

5) I write a lot about death. ie: what happens when we die. I didn't even realize this until a couple of years ago when I was comparing notes from my various stories/series. Apparently I am obsessed with death as an overarching plot element.

6) I also have a huge amount of queer (LGBTetc) characters - a lot of this has to do with the fact that I'm not-straight at all myself and, come ON, there is so little good stuff out there in terms of lesbian fiction, let alone characters! Fun fact: I just developed my first prominent gay male relationship and I have no idea what to do with them because that's just...different territory, ha.

7) I wrote my first novel when I was four. It was about my grandmother and a pegasus, hell yeah.

As for passing this on to 15 people...I don't  think I know that many people! Ha. So I'ma make it three because that's way more manageable for me.

SO *~CONGRATS*~ TO:

1. miho li @ miho li - anyone who posts as many fun snippets as she does obviously deserve this award.
2. Dan @ Dangerous Dan's Blog - because he's been following me for quite a while now and is generally a pretty cool guy.
3. Lorelei @ Lorelei's Muse - I'm not really into vampires most of the time, but reading her blog is starting to make me think otherwise!

That's it for today, folks. If you read my last entry you I have my daily dose of Sailor Moon to attend to. Sarabada~