30-day writing challenge: Day 19

20 Saturday Jun 2015

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Day 19: Discuss your first love

Stuart Townsend as Lestat.

Your first love doesn’t always have to be a real person. It could be a character in a movie that changed you, made you snap or opened your eyes.

I’ve stated before in a previous post that “Queen of the Damned” was a wake-up call for me. I had always been terrified of horror movies and was nowhere near excited to watch the latest book-to-film adaptation seeing as “Interview with the Vampire,” Anne Rice’s first book in The Vampire Chronicles, had scared the bejesus out of me. When the opening credits faded in with statues and violins easing my fears, I was hooked into watching the film with my mom.

I’ve never looked back.

At the time, I hadn’t read the books and seeing as I was only nine I didn’t have high expectations for films that didn’t have animation involved. I know now that many of the fans of The Vampire Chronicles hated “Queen of the Damned” but it will always have a special place in my heart.

Scratch that, Lestat will always have a special place in my heart.

One of the smirks I still swoon over.

A while back on my private Instagram account I had posted a picture of Stuart Townsend as Lestat with the caption “seriously have been in love with him since I was 10.” I’m 22 and still hopelessly in love with that character.

Don’t ask me why either because it’s not as if he’s a knight in shining armor. I think it’s the combination of arrogance, mystery and self-loathing all in one and I was too young to understand what many have described as the erotic element of vampires. What I saw was a historic and handsome individual who survived from other’s life forces. I absolutely love the vampire turned rock star who makes makes music look good.

Stuart Townsend’s Lestat will always have a special place in my heart because I still sign like a schoolgirl when he comes on the screen and I still nearly swoon when he smirks. I love vampire movies and have seen many but my heart always goes back to Lestat.

Lestat playing the violin in a flashback.

30-day writing challenge: Day 18

19 Friday Jun 2015

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Day 18: Post 30 facts about you

I’m going to treat this as a “meet to admin” type situation. Every year in the “Notes” section of my Facebook page, I post a “30 things about me part…” since my senior year of high school. The reason I have continued to do it is because it’s funny to see how things change and how I’ve grown from senior in high school to fourth year college student. I recommend doing it because it’s a nice thing to look back on after a few years and it provides a little flashback to who you were years before.

1.I used to want to be a vampire

2.I name my technologies

3.My iPod, Vlad, is like a lifeline, pacifier and addiction all wrapped in one

4.I love to travel and have visited most of continental United States and Hawaii along with Cozamel

5.I have a dream of visiting London, Ireland and Paris

6.I identify as Goth

7.I am a literature nerd

8.My favorite Shakespeare play is Richard III followed by Coriolanus

9.My nephew and I almost share a birthday

10.I love to cook but rarely do so

A blanket I made as a baby shower gift for a close friend.

11.I knit to relax

12.I think I’m a 70-year-old trapped in a 22-year-old’s body

13.I have a coffee problem

14.I consider myself a straight ally

15.My bedroom looks like a crypt complete with black-out curtains, black bedding and enough skulls to rival the Paris Catacombs

16.My favorite Edgar Allen Poe work is “The Tell-Tale Heart”

17.I am a huge Game of Thrones fan and, spoiler alert, am still a bit emotional at Jon Snow’s death

18.My favorite artist is Kevin Llewellyn

19.I love my Nikon I bought for my digital photojournalism class, even though I struggle with the manual setting, and love to take pictures of just about anything

20.My mom and I, even though we are incredibly close, are like Doris Day and Wednesday Addams…guess which one’s Wednesday?

21.My alarm clock is my foe

22.My favorite composer is either Thomas Newman or Danny Elfman

23.My favorite director is Tim Burton

24.My iPod has 2,220 songs and counting

25.I love thunderstorms

26.I prefer nighttime and avoid the sun like the plague

27.I have my mother’s Irish skin until I venture into the sun where I burn once and my father’s Native American heritage holds my tan for at least six months. No, I’m not happy about that

28.Our Yorkie, Kitty, and I used to have a severe case of sibling rivalry until Jules passed and we mended the fence because we lost our friend

29.My favorite book is Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

My Chemical Romance in the music video for “Teenagers.”

30.My all-time favorite band is My Chemical Romance

30-day writing challenge: Day 17

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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Day 17: Post about your zodiac sign and whether or not it fits you

I’m guilty of being one of those people who will click on the Facebook posts boasting “What does your sign say about you?” and “Are you the correct sign?” mostly because I laugh at how I usually can fit into more than one zodiac’s description. I was born in the beginning of February therefore am an Aquarius. I looked through a few different zodiac sites and settles on Zodiac Signs Meanings (real original, huh?) and have screenshot the breakdown of “Aquarius Sun,” “General Behavior” and “Physical Features.”

Simple? More like complex.
Honest and loyal? I would say so.
Artistic and poetic? Please refer to a previous post about wanting to originally going to art school.
Highly intelligent and unhappy? Well, I belong to a few honor societies, have a drawer of academic certificates and am gloomy rather than unhappy.
Unlucky and unsuccessful? Hm, my “luck of the Irish” seems to be null and I wouldn’t say unsuccessful seeing as I’m a great student.
Medium height and rare faculties? I am a bit vertically challenged and definitely go to the beat of my own drum.

I’d say I’m a strong-willed, honest and systematic. Orderly? Please, I have folders for my folders. I do have a dry sense of humor and tend to try and see things from other’s perspectives. People don’t think I’m a loner; I am a loner, no thinking required. Yes, I also stay far away from the crowd but I don’t think I’m egotistical, if anything I have a low self-esteem.

My Facebook photo, taken just under a year ago.

Yes, I have a high forehead (thanks dad) but there is nothing “chiseled” about my features. Oval face and average height but far from a slender figure. My eyes are a light blue but I wouldn’t say they have a dreamy quality and my nose is not exactly what I would call average. I don’t have dimples or inflated eyelids.

At the end of my assessment of the qualities/traits of being an Aquarius I’d say zodiac signs are worth a grain of salt. I know some people put a lot into it and that’s fine but I don’t think I’ll be checking my horoscope daily and living by what it tells me.