O Hai.

I'm gonna be straight with you, Blogger. I forgot about you. It's just, life gets so busy and all the thoughts I wish I could express in blog form get washed back to the dregs of my mind where I will likely never find them again.

Oh? What's that? I should blog about what's been keeping me so busy? Well, if you want. I at least owe you that.

First is school. Considering I'm only taking two classes, I'm a lot busier than I thought I would be. Novel Writing and Short Fiction Writing, one after the other, is taking a toll on me. While I'm working on an on-going story, I'm also coming up with new plots every week and trying to squeeze them all into 400 words. I'm a novelist, folks. I don't write stories in a page or less. I'm getting better at it, though. :)

The next two things taking over my life all started in December. I skipped a class to go to LA so I could be in a Dave Days music video with Zoie. Filming was supposed to take 3 hours. LIES. We were there from 1 PM to 11 PM. It was worth it, though! I got to know so many awesome youtubers in a way that VidCon didn't really allow. At VidCon, if anyone was even slightly famous, they were being pulled in every direction with little to no time for meeting and getting to know people. At the video shoot, we had HOURS to talk, joke, laugh and eat the pizzas Dave bought us. ;)

During that time, I started talking to this guy named Sammah. I knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about him. And yet, by the time we were all leaving, he and I were twinsies and he had my number. Yeah. Smooth, right? I didn't even know I was flirting with him. I didn't even know he was into me until the next day when we had lunch and a movie with Zoie and I ASKED Zoie if she thought he liked me.

It all went uphill from there. And my gas tank got used to pumping out far too much gas on the weekends.

Simultaneously, there was this little thing called the CoFA Shoot going on in Atlanta. Now, I know very few of you have listened to my wheedling on Youtube, but you seriously need to go read City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I love the series and the way Clare writes. I can't explain it, but no matter what I'm reading by her, I'm immediately sucked into it.

So. CoFA Shoot. CoFA = City of Fallen Angels, AKA the fourth and upcoming book in the Mortal Instrument series (City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass). It all took place over one of the weekends I was up in Riverside. I had my phone tuned into anything and everything CoFA Shoot related. And, of course, by the end of the first day, I had found all the actors' twitters. (Well, all the ones that HAD twitter at that time.) The first one I found was on accident. I just saw Cassie talking to someone on twitter called TegantheTerror and I thought I'd check it out. Lo and behold, it was the girl playing Clary Fray. (For those who don't know, Clary is the main character.) I followed her immediately (on TWITTER, guys. Seriously, I'm not that creepy. Nor do I live on the east coast anymore.). Who could've predicted that Tegan would need assistants?

It was a couple weeks after the CoFA Shoot madness that I saw the tweet that changed my life. That sounds way too melodramatic, but I'm being totally honest here. Tegan posted that she wanted an assistant. I wanted to be that assistant. Like, you have NO idea how badly I wanted to be that assistant. She told us to email her if we were interested. I wrote the email on my phone, in Zoie's bed, at about 10 AM, immediately after waking up and reading all the tweets I'd missed while I'd been sleeping. I must have read and reworded that email at least sixteen times before Zoie and I were satisfied with it.

A week later, I got the response. I was in! I was one of nine girls Tegan 'hired' for the job of being her assistant. We dropped down to eight girls pretty quickly, but that was okay. It took maybe three hours to realize that almost every girl Tegan had gathered reminded me of best friends I have. Obviously, that was a pretty freakin' good sign.

We formed The Troupe of Terrors and began terrorizing in the name of Tegan and her awesomeness.

Before the Terrors, my parents would have to call me to get me on Skype. Now, I check in every day on my computer and sometimes on my phone. I don't wanna miss ANYTHING the Terrors put out there for discussion and we have SO many awesome projects going on! Tegan wrote a movie that they're starting production on in May; Liz, Lorena and I started up a secret Terror/Mortal Instruments project that will debut sometime in early April; we're all managing a Facebook fanpage and starting up a website for Tegan; we even have our own Youtube channel (called Terror TV, if you're interested) where we vlog to each other without schedule or expectation.

If all that wasn't enough, I've still got my day job. I usually work three days a week, nine hours in each day, and sometimes I take on extra days if Mandy has a job or if I need more money. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE those kids, but DAMN if they aren't tiring! Bear's beginning to talk, which means he's also getting one of those boy attitudes. He's entering that 'terrible 2s' stage, in other words. Not looking forward to it. Lily, however, is almost 4 and her moods are totally predictable. Hungry, tired or separated from her dbag dad for too long = temper tantrums over everything and nothing. This morning was actually a record for me. I had both Lily and Bear pissed off at me within an hour of being at work. Goal accomplished...?

I keep taking on side projects, too. Sigh. Not only am I editing my own stuff, I'm editing my classmates' work (for both classes, so about 10 other people) AND Tegan's work. Granted, I wholly enjoy reading Tegan's novel because it's so enrapturing. Problem is, I read it like a reader and not like a writer which means I have to go back through and reread a few times to find something to critique. And to think, I thought I was done with reading like a reader. I guess Lisa Shapiro (novel writing prof) still has some work to do on me. :P

I think that's...it. And no, I'm not going to detail the other side projects. They involve being a youtuber and dating a partnered youtuber. Among other things. Oh God, and I wanted to start up my personal channel again.

I think I'm gonna die. Remember me as I was: a Slytherin with a penchant for being a dick online and a good friend to have IRL when plots of revenge were afoot.

*dies*