happiness take 2 xD

This morning I’m happy. Simple as that!

The sun is shining, it’s almost fifty degrees out, and I’m seeing all my friends today in civics class + chorus + band! Two hour band practice! I also rediscovered Lily Allen — who actually is a bit like a british Katy Perry, only Lily Allen is much better in my opinion. I normally steer away from pop, but Lily Allen is more pointed than most pop I’ve heard. So I’m getting her two CD’s from the library.

Yup, life is good.

I finished Supernatural season one, and was actually disappointed. The season finale was the FIRST one that has ever NOT made me cry. However, the first episode of season two did do the job, which was another first. I’ve also finally decided if I’m a Sam gal or a Dean gal … firmly in favor of Dean. He’s just less whiney and scores a bit more on the eye-candy scale. I’m really liking season two, and people tell me things just keep getting better and better.

I think spring should come a few weeks early this year … I mean, we’ve had our obligatory snow, and what’s the point of winter if all it does is make a lot of really cold wind and really cold faces. It’ll be nice to be able to walk the dog first thing in the morning and not have to bundle up like I’m going on an arctic exploration.

I’m really excited for this summer, I’ll probably be involved in a musical, and the family might be going to Canada again. Speaking of which, I miss the place. In particular I miss Nova Scotia + Cape Breton. I miss the laid back feel, I miss the fiddling coming from odd corners, and for goodness sakes, I miss the bagpipes.

Bagpipes. I have to ask myself how sane I am …

The recent bit of productivity in the writing world has also given my mood a boost! Awesomesauce!

Soul Searching on fanfiction.net

So I’m finally done updating Soul Searching. Though it didn’t receive nearly the response it had in the smaller community that I update it in first — I am still convinced that I have the worlds best readers and reviewers.

Thank you to anyone who reviewed, favorited, or put on alert my fic or me. Thank you for trusting me with the story and not flaming the major character deaths (my gosh, they were so hard to write).

This story was, for me, an exploration of humanity and our ability to bounce back from nearly anything. I hope that even though there was a lot of sorrow and heartbreak, you found the hope that I saw very clearly when I was writing it.

Yes, that does sound incredibly corny up there — but it’s true.

There is a sequel in the works, being written and beta-ed completely before I will begin posting it. (This fic was un-edited and hot of the press, unfortunately — something I regret doing.)

The working title for the sequel is “Letters to the Dead”. I hope to have it out in two or three months. It will take that long because I do have to balance a lot of other things in my life as well as writing.

If you care to put me on author-alert, that will be a sure way to tell when the sequel is out.

Once again, thank you to everyone! It’s been a wonderful experience for my first long and chaptered fic.