I Love Libraries meme
Well don't I royally suck? Seems, way back in the spring I replied to a meme from shanachie_quill and while I wrote my answers down in one of my notebooks, seems I never actually posted it to the world! LOL I guess I did it when I wasn't on any computer and annoyed with typing on my Fire! So, here it is!
Comment on this post with ‘I love libraries’ and I’ll give you seven things I want you to talk about. They may make sense or they may be totally random. Then post that list to your journal with your commentary. Other people can get lists from you and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
Words
I read, write, sing, and speak tons of words every day. I do need to write more words daily if only just to catch up on all of my writing! Hmm, the words I hate...the words that break my heart are the ones I hear from the family that cut my heart wide open and crush my soul. Those are words I never want to hear again. Those words however lead me to the words that I write so maybe in the end as much as they hurt, they just might be needed.
Muses
Ya know, people I know that write or draw or create anything really will talk about their muse or muses as the case may be. Me? I don't know if I have a muse exactly. I have dreams that I must write. I have gut feelings that won't go away until I write what it needs me to write. I will catch a scent of something and inspiration hits. Certain candles inspire me and get my mind in gear...like anything peppermint. Weather...snow and rain especially.
Then there's music...lyrics mainly. I hear a song and BOOM a story is in my head for a character, a couple, or a show.
I must not forget the voices in my head. I type anything and then they're just there. I hear songs, lyrics, certain words, sounds, my kids, news, history...it all inspires me. If it is too quiet I cannot write...there's just nothing there.
Are those things muses? I dunno. If so I have a good many...if not, I just have bunches of inspiration!
Dreams
First, I have these dreams that happen. Yeah, kinda bizarre but it has happened to me so many times in my life for as long as I can remember that it is just a normal sort of thing in my life. It is never easy and some are difficult still to deal with but it is a fact of my life I've had to accept.
There's another sort of dream of course. The dreams you have as a kid that someday you hope come true. My dreams? Ehh, none have really come true yet. Sort of I suppose and I guess my dreams have changed...altered somewhat...so I haven't completely given up even though I'm forty now. There's still that voice in the back of my mind saying 'someday'....
Favorite Fandom
Wow, I don't know. Well, favorite current fandom I guess is Hawaii Five-0 with Leverage right behind I think. I love H50. Seems like everything I come across reminds me of Danny and Steve...or Chin, Kono, Gracie, Rachel. Seems everything makes me want to write or watch! *giggles*
My all time favorite show ever...the one that got me writing fanfiction in the first place was Once and Again. It was a brilliant show that was gone much too soon. It was a show where everyone could relate to at least one if not more of the characters. It was real. I always felt like they were real people that could actually exist which is probably what made me sit down and write that first story ages ago.
Libraries
*smiles* There is this smell...this feeling that envelops you when you open the door to a library. The books...new and old...taking them off the selves and holding them in your hands...it is this feeling that just makes me giddy and all warm inside. Sure, I have a Kindle Fire now and I have all sorts of books on it which, yes, is much more convenient to carry than an armload of books. But I tell ya, nothing brings more joy to me than having an armload of books in a library!
Traveling
A question I asked so much as a kid was "can we go riding around?" I didn't care where we went, how long we were gone...I just loved riding in a car and taking a country road to get there. Luckily my Daddy loves back roads as much as I do!
I used to convince my boyfriends that a perfect date for me is packing picnic foods and riding around...eating at some lookout or roadside table somewhere and sometimes we'd even go! The picnics were rare but a couple of boyfriends like takin' back roads and riding around!
The husband likes a destination. Sometimes we might take a back way there but usually only if it is shorter or quicker. *sigh* I used to take the kids riding around when they were little and the gas was a lot cheaper! We never went anywhere really so that would be our traveling.
Then of course the boys started playing baseball which led to all stars. All stars began when the oldest son was 8 (now 15) and we're still traveling for baseball because he made the Jr. American Legion team this summer. Used to get tough when each boy had to be in a different place because they were on different teams because of their ages. We didn't do any vacations other than Baseball tournaments. Well, except Disney a few years ago and then the daughter and I went to St. Louis to visit my sister before that. This month the rest of the family has been gone on a cross country RV trip. They're in Denver tonight, heading to Mt. Rushmore/Crazy Horse tomorrow and then heading on home. I would have loved to have gone to see the country but well, I kinda like my sanity and it has been such a peaceful quiet month!
Friends
Growing up I was painfully shy. I mean so shy I rarely spoke to anyone...not anyone new ever...and I really just had my core group of friends from elementary school that would sorta get a smidge bigger every year. I was too shy to be voted shyest my senior year in high school if that tells ya anything! I went to college though and made a decision right then and there to at least smile and say hey to everyone. And I did! Still not all that certain everyone knew or remembered my name but I actually ended up talking to two boys in college that I had huge crushes on in high school that never looked at me twice way back then!
Then I got married and moved to the middle of absolute nowhere, lost touch with my real life friends and that was how I found the internet and all of my friends online! Someday I'll meet everyone in person...or that is one of my goals. I guess it'd be part of my bucket list. I have to say, most importantly, without my friends online I would literally have gone insane years ago. Without a doubt, out here in the middle of nowhere with them I tell ya, I'd be completely, totally insane. *hugs* Y'all really are my lifeline so thank you bunches and bunches even though I royally suck keeping in touch the last few years. Y'all are always on my mind and in my thoughts though.
tis all...
Now I'm off so I can get some writing done since I've only got a couple more days of peace. *sigh* I've totally been spoiled this month. No idea what I'll do when they return and I am back to the computer out in the garage...with all the spiders and ickies. *shudders* Have fun!! *waves*
Peace, Love, and Giggles,
Deanna
Comment on this post with ‘I love libraries’ and I’ll give you seven things I want you to talk about. They may make sense or they may be totally random. Then post that list to your journal with your commentary. Other people can get lists from you and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
Words
I read, write, sing, and speak tons of words every day. I do need to write more words daily if only just to catch up on all of my writing! Hmm, the words I hate...the words that break my heart are the ones I hear from the family that cut my heart wide open and crush my soul. Those are words I never want to hear again. Those words however lead me to the words that I write so maybe in the end as much as they hurt, they just might be needed.
Muses
Ya know, people I know that write or draw or create anything really will talk about their muse or muses as the case may be. Me? I don't know if I have a muse exactly. I have dreams that I must write. I have gut feelings that won't go away until I write what it needs me to write. I will catch a scent of something and inspiration hits. Certain candles inspire me and get my mind in gear...like anything peppermint. Weather...snow and rain especially.
Then there's music...lyrics mainly. I hear a song and BOOM a story is in my head for a character, a couple, or a show.
I must not forget the voices in my head. I type anything and then they're just there. I hear songs, lyrics, certain words, sounds, my kids, news, history...it all inspires me. If it is too quiet I cannot write...there's just nothing there.
Are those things muses? I dunno. If so I have a good many...if not, I just have bunches of inspiration!
Dreams
First, I have these dreams that happen. Yeah, kinda bizarre but it has happened to me so many times in my life for as long as I can remember that it is just a normal sort of thing in my life. It is never easy and some are difficult still to deal with but it is a fact of my life I've had to accept.
There's another sort of dream of course. The dreams you have as a kid that someday you hope come true. My dreams? Ehh, none have really come true yet. Sort of I suppose and I guess my dreams have changed...altered somewhat...so I haven't completely given up even though I'm forty now. There's still that voice in the back of my mind saying 'someday'....
Favorite Fandom
Wow, I don't know. Well, favorite current fandom I guess is Hawaii Five-0 with Leverage right behind I think. I love H50. Seems like everything I come across reminds me of Danny and Steve...or Chin, Kono, Gracie, Rachel. Seems everything makes me want to write or watch! *giggles*
My all time favorite show ever...the one that got me writing fanfiction in the first place was Once and Again. It was a brilliant show that was gone much too soon. It was a show where everyone could relate to at least one if not more of the characters. It was real. I always felt like they were real people that could actually exist which is probably what made me sit down and write that first story ages ago.
Libraries
*smiles* There is this smell...this feeling that envelops you when you open the door to a library. The books...new and old...taking them off the selves and holding them in your hands...it is this feeling that just makes me giddy and all warm inside. Sure, I have a Kindle Fire now and I have all sorts of books on it which, yes, is much more convenient to carry than an armload of books. But I tell ya, nothing brings more joy to me than having an armload of books in a library!
Traveling
A question I asked so much as a kid was "can we go riding around?" I didn't care where we went, how long we were gone...I just loved riding in a car and taking a country road to get there. Luckily my Daddy loves back roads as much as I do!
I used to convince my boyfriends that a perfect date for me is packing picnic foods and riding around...eating at some lookout or roadside table somewhere and sometimes we'd even go! The picnics were rare but a couple of boyfriends like takin' back roads and riding around!
The husband likes a destination. Sometimes we might take a back way there but usually only if it is shorter or quicker. *sigh* I used to take the kids riding around when they were little and the gas was a lot cheaper! We never went anywhere really so that would be our traveling.
Then of course the boys started playing baseball which led to all stars. All stars began when the oldest son was 8 (now 15) and we're still traveling for baseball because he made the Jr. American Legion team this summer. Used to get tough when each boy had to be in a different place because they were on different teams because of their ages. We didn't do any vacations other than Baseball tournaments. Well, except Disney a few years ago and then the daughter and I went to St. Louis to visit my sister before that. This month the rest of the family has been gone on a cross country RV trip. They're in Denver tonight, heading to Mt. Rushmore/Crazy Horse tomorrow and then heading on home. I would have loved to have gone to see the country but well, I kinda like my sanity and it has been such a peaceful quiet month!
Friends
Growing up I was painfully shy. I mean so shy I rarely spoke to anyone...not anyone new ever...and I really just had my core group of friends from elementary school that would sorta get a smidge bigger every year. I was too shy to be voted shyest my senior year in high school if that tells ya anything! I went to college though and made a decision right then and there to at least smile and say hey to everyone. And I did! Still not all that certain everyone knew or remembered my name but I actually ended up talking to two boys in college that I had huge crushes on in high school that never looked at me twice way back then!
Then I got married and moved to the middle of absolute nowhere, lost touch with my real life friends and that was how I found the internet and all of my friends online! Someday I'll meet everyone in person...or that is one of my goals. I guess it'd be part of my bucket list. I have to say, most importantly, without my friends online I would literally have gone insane years ago. Without a doubt, out here in the middle of nowhere with them I tell ya, I'd be completely, totally insane. *hugs* Y'all really are my lifeline so thank you bunches and bunches even though I royally suck keeping in touch the last few years. Y'all are always on my mind and in my thoughts though.
tis all...
Now I'm off so I can get some writing done since I've only got a couple more days of peace. *sigh* I've totally been spoiled this month. No idea what I'll do when they return and I am back to the computer out in the garage...with all the spiders and ickies. *shudders* Have fun!! *waves*
Peace, Love, and Giggles,
Deanna