Happy Belated Easter!

So... what's new here...

Well, so much for posting every day. How about every weekday? That sounds good to me. :)

Anyways, how was your easter everyone? Happy belated Easter! Easter's always a wonderful time for me because I get to see all my wonderful cousins that I never see, the only cousins that I have. A lot of people talk about seeing their cousins all the time, they fight like siblings or are freakishly close. But I never get to see mine, so we're not like that. It's actually kinda awkward sometimes.

For one, I only have cousins on one side of the family, my aunt on the other side has no kids. So I'm extra attached to the ones I have. I'm the second oldest when it comes to people relatively close to my own age. So it's nice when there's someone older than me around, you know what I mean? Well, if you're not the oldest child, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. It sort of means that you get to be right hand man for once rather than bossy dictator. Mind, my older cousin deals with things a lot better than me.

So Easter is wonderful because I get to actually see my family. That's why we celebrate it. It's an excuse to get together. But as my one cousin pointed out, why do we say Happy Easter? There's nothing happy about it for people who see each other all the time. And if you're going to take a religious view on things... Jesus died. How is that happy exactly?

That brings me to something else I did this weekend, I watched a really low budget 60s version of Jesus Christ Superstar on TV with my dad. It was rather comical really. You can't take the bible seriously when it's performed in 60s costumes. Plus my dad said he first saw this particular version when he was my age. Which makes it creepy and awkward.

Hmmm... what else is new? I went to go see How to Train your Dragon in 3D, which was more amusing than I thought it would be. Mind, what I had to choose between was that or Clash of the Titans, and as much as I wanted to side with my Dad and go watch awesome Greek deities tear each other to shreds, it had a really crappy rating on the Internet, so I sided with my Mother and sis this time. My dad wasn't too happy.

I got a kick out of the line where the one chick punches the main character for scaring her and then he goes: "What is this? Is it always going to be like this?" Then the chick kisses him and he goes: "'Cause I could get used to that." :) Plus the characters were Vikings, which was almost as good as Greek deities.

Also, for once this year, our parents took us shopping instead of buying us stuff for Easter. So I ended up on the ride home with a new duffel bag (which I needed), a new Owl City CD, a copy of Lord Sunday, and a copy of the sixth Maximum Ride novel: FANG. Which I'm extremely thrilled about. And most of you who actually read this will be sharing this excitement I think, because it means there's a copy you can borrow if you haven't read it already. ;)

Which reminds me, I've taken a recent particular interest in Owl City. This guy writes incredible music, it actually has a decent melody, and he can actually sing. Plus the lyrics are so random, but make perfect sense. If this guy was like remotely close to my age and wrote these songs for me, I'd be madly in love. But sadly they are not for me, and he is not remotely close to my age.

But they've also inspired a lot of the next bit of Dream Catcher. In fact, so much so, that if I do ever get published with it, I will have to give him serious acknowledgement at the end of the book.

Which also reminds me, I need to churn out a Dream Catcher chapter before I start FANG, otherwise I may entirely forget where I was going with the plot from being so totally engrossed in the awesomeness that is James Patterson literature.

So, with that in conclusion, I'm off to finish my stupid homework so I can get that chapter out tonight and finish Earth: Mostly Harmless.

Happy Easter!

Read on, write on ladies and gentlemen.

Sweet Dreams! May Nightmare spare you!

Amanda Out.