So I've decided lately that music is my bandaid. Not that anything terribly horrendous has happened in my life lately. I've just found that whenever I'm feeling ehh, music picks me up.
I don't have any epic rhetoric for you tonight. I just feel like writing, so here it is: my thoughts thrown up into my blog.
I spent the week writing. All in all I wrote sixty-one pages, and that's single spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point, and on regular sized typing paper. So who knows what that translates into in the book world. I feel like I'm getting close to finishing though it's probably at least a hundred or so pages off. I had seventy-five pages done before Spring Break, and that took me five months. I buckled down and I'm sort of proud. Oh yeah, and I have a short little first chapter that I need someone to read and give me their opinion on. Let me know if you want to, I really need feedback because honestly the beginning is the sketchiest part of the whole story.
I spent most of the week in Dallas with mi padre. I got beat up by the cat. I saw I Am Number Four, which pretty much butchered the book... (Don't you just hate those "the movie was so much different than the book" nerds? I do. But let me tell you: the movie I Am Number Four was so much different than the book! Why?!) I also sat in Dallas traffic snapping pictures with hipstamatic, which I posted in an album on facebook. I had lunch with my aunt and cousins on my mom's side yesterday. I spent today at my cousin and aunt's birthday party, which consisted of sitting at the end of the table with my cousins chatting about whatever. I love them and I loved seeing my family this break. I never realize how much I miss them until I get home after spending hours with them. Like right now. I really miss my family.
I also got a job working with my aunt's party business in Houston. So that's exciting.
I bought two new cds. The first was Mumford and Sons, which I am very much obsessed with. The other bought was Civil Twilight, an alternative band from Cape Town, South Africa (I think). The lead singer sounds like Bono, but everything they write is really soulful and emotional and chill. I love it. Easily my new favorite.
Another song I've been listening to is Coming Home. I don't know why. I guess I've just realized lately that home isn't some distant place in the future. That's always been a delusion of mine. I've found though, that it's right here, right now with the people that you love. I realized that tonight. So I guess my home is where my family and friends are. That's where I'm happiest I suppose and nothing else really matters. And I guess that's what this song means to me.
I'm coming home.
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