Good morning friends and
readers!
*raises coffee in salute*
*sips* Ahh. Waking up slowly here and getting the day started. Outside my
window, the dew drops sparkle on the grass. Yesterday, it was cool and rainy
and I even turned the air conditioning off and opened the windows. Looks like
today is bringing bad news for my electric bill! Sunny and bright, temps will probably
soar back up into the nineties by noon. *shrugs* Oh well.
I've been struggling to
get into a new story for The Story Orgy. We're celebrating fall and Halloween
with a thematic approach, a Creature Feature as it were. I say struggling
because the first few chapters of a new story are always a bit of a struggle…
it's awkward writing about people you don't know. After I get through that hump,
get into their heads and find out who they really are, things seem to flow much
better.
So I'm battling the
writer's block with great seventies rock love songs ( Feel Like Making Love)
from some of my favorite bands… and seeking mummy trivia and jokes in the name
of research.
Where
do mummies go for a swim?
Answer: The Dead Sea.
And watching The Walking
Dead.
That's right. Five years
later, I finally get with the program. I'm up to the last four episodes of
season two… we've just discovered that everyone is infected and you don't have
to be bitten or scratched to turn after death. Rick's killed Shane… who was getting
on my nerves anyway, Dale is dead, Andrea is lost, and so am I.
I'm resisting the urge to
buy all 23 volumes of the graphic novels to find out what happens because I
know I'm going to run out of episodes before long. So… some things that have
been bugging me since I started watching:
1. Why
do all the cars that run seem to have been made in the seventies? I mean…
there's some sweet rides in that highway of lost souls… if you had your choice,
wouldn't one of them be better? And more fuel efficient?
2. That
department store in Atlanta? In the middle of the business district? Surrounded
by office buildings and crawling with zombies? Is it really the only one they could
think of? Aren't there probably just as many useful things out in the nearest
convenience store?
3. That
one bag of guns and ammo sure as hell seems to be a bottomless pit of supplies.
They've divided it, passed out weapons and ammunition multiple times and yet
still there's plenty to go around?
Oh… and this morning? As
if we didn't have enough to worry about? I saw this Huffington Post article. Yes. That's right. We have to think now… before the glorious summer weather
has faded and fall set in, about how this coming winter is going to be F*ing
cold and snowy. Time to start preparing for winter. Stock up on supplies, drag
the sweaters and long johns out of the back of the closet… I wasn't ready. I
did not want to think about snow yet. I'll have to start buying bags of
birdseed every time I go into town. Winter's always hard on our feathered
friends when the ground is covered in snow and ice.
Global warming? Meet
Impending Ice Age. Play nicely together you guys.
*refills coffee mug*
Okay- thanks for hanging out with me guys. I'm off to drag Izzy and Owen into
danger. If you think of any cool mummy jokes, I'd love to hear them here or on
my Facebook page. Have a great day!
