Children still stereo-type.. sigh

About 2-3 days a week I stand on a corner sidewalk around 8:30 am to make sure all the clients from the housing facility down the hill make it up to the campus safe and sound. (I work for an Adult Day Training facility fyi.)

Normally it's pretty uneventful, but lately there is this 8 year old girl who has been going to work with her Grandmother and has been starting to pick the bus up at the group home her grandmother works in. Normally we'd give each other a small wave, but today she decided that she wanted to come up and talk to me.

I of course didn't mind. She was a fairly nice girl from what I've seen. So she walked up to the fence, gave me a quizzical look and asked, "Do you have short hair?" At the time I was wearing my hoodie, so I slipped it back and showed her my hair, saying yep. She tilted her head to the side and then said, "Are you a girl?" I let out a laugh and nodded, "Yes, I'm a girl." she then gave a "Huh.." look and said, "I thought girls only had long hair and boys only had short." And I'm like "My hair's not that short, it's down to my chin! see? Girl's can have short hair too."

Yes, I was trying to justify my haircut to an 8 year old girl. Go me. It's not a manly haircut! It's very girly.. ugh..

Well, the conversation didn't last much longer than that since she had to run and catch the bus, but I found her curiosity fairly amusing.

Yep, that was my day. Nothing exciting. Scampering off now.

I need to write more music..

...Yeah..

So one of my "new years resolutions" is to write a full length album before the year is out. Twenty-four days into the new year and I haven't even began to think up of any lyrics or chords or anything. Fail. I think it's mostly because I'm way to self conscious about what people will think about my music. I've only written one song out of the entire ten years since I've had my guitar (ClickClick) and even though I'm proud of it, I'm still unsure, and I don't even know if I want that to go on my album..

I really need to start brain storming more.

A large part of me (Okay, every single inch of me) wished I had friends in the area with musical talent (actually, friends of any kind in the area at all..) so I could drag them to my house and bounce ideas off them. Hopefully come by March/April that'll change since Jeff and I are planning on moving closer to Orlando.

Uggh.. Someone kick start my brain so I can just write and write till I can produce something worthy.

Monthly YouTube Memes?

I'm aware there is a Vlog Everyday in April, and a No Editing in May (aiight?) but this got me wondering. Is there any other random month where you're supposed to put a certain spin on your youtube videos?

I'm extremely tempted to take part in both. The VEA will be a little hard, but I can somewhat get away with no editing.. I'll just have to plan my videos out in advance and just.. go..

If you guys know of any other fun things to do during x month on youtube, let me know!

In other news, I have a very important event tomorrow, and I'm extremely excited/nervous about it. Hopefully things go well! Wish me luck!

Bloggity blog blog..

Oi, so this whole "blogging more" isn't going as well as I'd like. It's been, well.. it's been a few days since my last post. Whoops? It's not really my fault.There were many times where I've opened up my blog, sit there and then everything goes "Vompf!" out the window.

Vompf.. huh..

Well, in other news, it's been cold here in Florida, and I'm not saying "Omg, 50...brr" No, what I'm saying is.. "Oh my God, it's 20 degrees (got down to 14 earlier this week at night...) out and there are insanely tiny snowflakes! Grab the kids, we're hittin the bomb shelter."

Well, that's how the Floridians around here were reacting. Myself? I'm used to -40 where almost every morning last winter I sat in my car and prayed it'd turn over. I find it amusing though how people around here who aren't used to the cold are reacting like it's the end of the world. Though I will say, this is very unusual weather for Florida and the citrus farmers are taking a hard hit...tear.

But! On the bright side, it's starting to warm up again! Today it reached close to 70 which was a very nice change from the past few days. Yesterday I had to wear my winter jacket + sweatshirt. Today I was leaving work in a tank top. Love it. Though I am a bit nervous to see what our electricity bill is going to be like this month with all the extra heat we had to run. Bah..

Alright, I'm done blabbing about the weather.. and my brain hit a brick wall, so I'm signing off. Night!

2010

It's 2010. Where are the flying cars? Sigh..

For those who don't know me, my name is Erica and I tend to go by the nickname Eeks (which, honestly, I prefer). I'd go into a whole summary of who I am, but I'd much prefer if you just came back every once in a while and learn over time about what makes me, me. It'll spare me some time.

So onto the blog!

Normally I'm not the type of person that makes New Years resolutions. Reason being is because they always last for a week if that, so why bother?

But this year I would like it to be different. This year I set up a few goals for myself that hopefully can be accomplished before the end of the year is out.

Super Serious Goals:

- Blog more often. I used to (well, still have) a Livejournal account, and I've had it for nearly 6 years, but I feel that I've grown out of it. Plus, since I started using Twitter, it feels like I've become more ADD on the blogging. So it's something I need to get back into.

- Create an album's worth of original music and maybe release it on CD. One of my dreams is to also do a collab with someone, but we'll see. Of course, before any of this really happens I have to purchase the proper recording equipment, which brings me to...

- Find a better paying job that doesn't pay once a month and get myself financially stable. Don't get me wrong, the place I'm working at is wonderful, just the pay isn't enough to keep me afloat.

- Trade in my car for a better, none rusted to crap POS. I love my car, it's cute and awesome, but the rust is killing me. Stupid Maine...

Fun Goals:

-Successfully stalk AlanDistro! Well, to be less creepy, help organize a youtube/nerdfighter gathering in his home state sometime in the summer/fall.

- Find more Nerdfighter/Harry Potter friends in the area.

- Become a ventriloquist. For Christmas, my brother gave me a WhatNot muppet (which made me revert back to my 5 year old self). I've always wanted to learn since I was in middle school and read those "Night of the Living Dummy" series by R.L Stine. Oddly enough, reading those books didn't scare me away from wanting a dummy.. I was a creepy kid. So now that I have an actual muppet, I can now start to learn puppeteering and ventriloquism.

- Audition and win a role in a play/commercial/film/etc. A very very very high goal, but something that would be cool to do. I miss acting (on stage), and it'd be fun to get back into.

So that's that. Some are realistic, some not so much, but it's nice to have some goals set.

I hope everybody has an awesome New Year!