“You know there’s a really good hangover remedy, it’s a greasy pork sandwich served up in a dirty ashtray.”

Quote brought to you by episode 11 of season 2 of Supernatural: “Playthings.”

Onto my Friday night

Friday night, two friends came to my place and slept over. We stayed up until 6 am, watched Rocky Horror and Dogma (both fantastic movies I highly recommend) and I dyed my hair a color the hair dye calls “chocolat noir” = black chocolate. When the dye was in my hair it looked very light, so my friends teased me, saying I’d go blonde. (I didn’t.)

HOLIDAY!

Oh, and did I mention: I’m on holiday! (In case the title above wasn’t enough.) No school ’till the 22nd, baby! Can ya tell it gives me a happy? (That’s Buffy slanguage btw.) Now, because of it being the holidays, my room has turned into a shithole. Let’s see: clothing dumped on chair #1 (because I have 3 chairs in my room), chair #2 is actually absent at the moment and chair #3 only has my dressing gown; for desk #1 (mine), I can’t even see its surface, and desk #2 (my dad’s)… kinda the same.

Wondering why my dad’s desk lives in MY room? Yeah, so am I. See, there’s no 5th bedroom that could double as his study, and there’s no place downstairs for his desk… Result=my room is cramped. I have 3 chairs (2 of which are mine), 2 desks, a little step stool, my bookcase, my chest of drawers/dresser, built-in cupboard, 2 bins, my bed, my “bedside table” (it’s actually a small wicker thing that might have been a drawer once upon a time) and then…

Then you have the furniture on TOP or underneath all this crap.

On my desk alone I have two add-ons. Seriously. One thing on my desk, and then something else on THAT. On top of my bookcase, there’s one add-on for my books. On top of my dad’s desk… 3 add-ons. Under it: 2 add-ons.

Laughing your ass off yet? Cuz under my desk, I have a box of crap. Under my dad’s desk? Yeah, you guessed: a box of two or crap. And let’s not even look inside the cupboard. Oh, and I have a fan living behind my door. All the time.

Yeah, my room’s a dump.

BB guns and why they shouldn’t be sold to little @#$%

See, yesterday my sister had a friend over, and the weather was good. So my little sis and her friend go outside to play on the trampoline. My little brother goes out too. At some point, T, who lives nearby, and his friend L (two boys from my sister’s school) show up. With a BB gun.

I don’t know all the details, but I do the know the result: my brother got hit in the THROAT once and hand twice and my sister got hit in the leg.

I was sitting on the couch, with a coffee table in front of me, when I heard what happened. Furious, I stood up and banged my leg against the table. I wanted to punch those little jerks. (It took a lot of self-control to use the word “jerks”.) My dad went to T’s house, told his mother what had happened and came back.

Because nobody’s seriously harmed, my dad didn’t do anything more, but I hope that those two kids are grounded for the next two weeks.

Movies:

• Saturday Night Fever: 7/10 John Travolta, dancing, 70’s songs… You know what, I don’t think I need to say more.
• Sin City: 10/10 Marv says you have to see this movie, otherwise, he’ll ask you for your coat (if he likes it) and torture you. And when your eyes go dead the hell he sends you to will seem like heaven after what he’s done to you.
• The Other Boleyn Girl: 6/10 Made me cry, but nothing extraordinary.
• Pan’s Labyrinth: 7/10 Wow. All I can say is, go watch it if you like horror movies, fantasy and WWII. (BTW: I watched it in Spanish with French subtitles.)
  
• Death Proof: 9/10 Maybe I should give it an 8, because compared to Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill 1&2, it’s not that great. But still, it’s a Tarantino movie… Side note: You know that rule that in novels and movies, all the dialogue has to go somewhere, lead to something. Pointless dialogue has to be murdered (“murder your darlings”), you know? Well I love how Tarantino just ignores that rule and it works. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction and Death Proof all started with more or less pointless dialogue. But it was awesome dialogue that I was willing to listen to. (Btw, anyone else absolutely love Michael Madsen as Mr Blonde? I know he’s a psychopath but damn is he sexy.)
• Sweeney Todd: 8/10 Tim Burton + Songs + Gore/Blood + Johnny Depp + Helena Bonham Carter + Alan Rickman =  Go watch it. I don’t know why though, but I’m feeling pretty “meh” about it right now, but I think I liked it. Maybe it’s because I’m overdosing on movies. But if you’re a Burton fan and haven’t seen it, for some reason, go and rent it right now.
• Happy Feet: 7/10 This is a feel good family movie that I recommend. You won’t regret watching it. Trust me.

The Over The Top Award

Kelly from “Rants, Observations, and other Remarks” gave me this award:

Rules: Answer the following questions with Single Word answers then pass this along to 5 other bloggers. Make sure you let them know about it though.
Your Cell Phone? Awesome
Your Hair? Dyed
Your Mother? Caring
Your Father? Amazing
Your Favorite Food? Sugar!
Your Dream Last Night? Blank
Your Favourite Drink? Hot chocolate
Your Dream/Goal? Happy
What Room Are You In? Bedroom
Your Hobby? Writing
Your Fear? Choking
Where Do You See Yourself In Six Years? University
Where Were You Last Night? Home
Something That You Aren’t? Outgoing
Muffins? Yes!
Wish List Item? Books
Where Did You Grow Up? Netherlands
Last Thing You Did? TV
What Are You Wearing? Hoodie
Your TV? None
Your Pets? Dog-like
Friends? Awesome
Your Life? Eh…
Your Mood? Happy
Missing Someone? Yes
Vehicle? None
Something You Aren’t Wearing? Socks
Your Favourite Store? Bookstore
Your Favourite Colour? Green
When Was The Last Time You Laughed? Today
Last Time You Cried? Friday
Your Best Friend? Netherlands
One Place You Go To Over And Over Again? Imagination
Facebook? Mmyeah…
Favourite Place To Eat? Bed

Wow… It took a lot of self-control not to use more than one word.

(Okay, I know I often used two words with a hyphen between, but it could have been a lot worse. There’s so much I want to explain. Like my pet… Please? Let me explain why I said dog-like. See, Rex is the family dwarf hamster, but he acts so much like a dog: lies on his back to have his belly rubbed, very loyal… That’s kind of it for the dog part, but here’s where he’s not like a hamster, or at least not like the one we had before: we once left him home for 12 days (we had no other choice) and when we came back, he was still tame. He didn’t try to bite us.)

Okay, I think that’s it. That’s everything I wanted to blog about. Oh! Wait.

Novel editing

I plan to edit my novel (Kenna’s Choice) for spelling mistakes and the like during this holiday. Small stuff. Then in April I’ll tackle the big stuff and in July I’ll get my CreateSpace proof copy. I was gonna start editing on Monday, then I was gonna do it today, but I need to print 200 pages, and our printer can’t handle that. So it’s gonna have to wait. Or I could just print the first three chapters… Uh oh. I’m considering putting it off until tomorrow.

No. I’m gonna post this, get off my ass and print 3 chapters and then edit them using my fantastic editing websites:

http://www.autocrit.com/websitepublisher/articles/6/1/Edit-Your-Novel-In-Three-Steps/Page1.html

http://hubpages.com/hub/Editing-that-Mess-of-a-Novel

http://bethestory.com/2008/08/08/editing-your-first-novel-7-things-you-must-know

http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com/2005/04/novel-vii-edit.html

http://writinghood.com/writing/basic-tips-for-editing-your-novel/

http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/admin/craft/line-editing/

Sorry for not making them clickable links but I’m too lazy.

Supernatural: *scream of despair* The first two episodes of season 5 are gonna be on Living, a channel I DON’T have. *screams again* Kill me. Kill me now.

*bows* Until I blog again.

-Kayleigh

“Our room’s on the fourth floor. It’s… it’s high.”

Quote brought to you by Supernatural, episode 6 of season 4.

Movies I’ve seen recently:

• The Job Just once, I’d like to see a female assassin who kills without mercy and doesn’t change over the course of the movie. You notice those tough, female, merciless assassins always soften up? Oh, and if you’re pregnant and shot in the stomach, wouldn’t you die/lose the baby?
  
• UP Wow. I’d heard so much about it, but it’s only yesterday that I finally saw it. And I’ve never seen such a dark Disney movie… Made me tear up once or twice, and I loved when *KIND OF SPOILER* Carl lifted his house with those balloons. That was just pure awesome right there. I definitely recommend it.
  
• Dead Poets Society If you haven’t seen it yet, may I ask you: Why the hell not? Go watch it right this instance if you like poetry, enjoyed the movie “Freedom Writers”, and like seeing kids rise up. Highly recommended.
• Yours, Mine & Ours A great family comedy, kind of like “Cheaper by the Dozen”. In this movie, however, it’s 18 kids, not 12. I’d seen it before, but that was so long ago, so we rented it to see it again. I’d forgotten so much of it. Anyway, even if you have seen, go watch it again. I’m sure you’ve forgotten what a fun and funny movie it is.
• [Side note: I'm not creating a new blog post because a)I'm too lazy and b)I have seen these movies recently.]
• The Interpreter Once again, because I’m lazy I’ll only say that I loved this movie and highly recommend it.
• Vacancy It was okay.
• The Royal Tennenbaums I LOVED it. Go watch it now!

Hives

So, for the past year or so, I’ve been getting hives when I shower. According to Wikipedia, this is “aquagenic urticaria”. But maybe that’s not what it is for me, ’cause Wikipedia says it’s very rare and what I get is kind of common. Anyway, it’s not that annoying, it just mean that for up to an hour, I have red blotches on my chest with welts in the center. It doesn’t hurt or itch.

The other day, however, I got home, changed into my pajamas and noticed that I had those red blotches, without the welts though, on my stomach. I told my mom and she said to wait for it to go away. Some time later, I find some on my legs. This time, with welts. So I take an antihistamine (little story: I have never in my entire life managed to swallow a pill. That antihistamine pill is the first one I’ve swallowed in my life. And I’m almost 16. Sad, I know, but I’m terrified of choking on pills.) and my mom looks up what could be causing it. Later on, I see some on my arms and my back.

Turns out, the weather and stress can cause hives and it’s nothing major to worry about. Next morning, it’s all gone.

Oh, and my mom told me that when I was a kid, whenever I got upset, I’d get hives.

A Weird Dream

Now I’ve had some strange dreams in my life, but last night’s dream is the winner.

I dreamt that I was in heaven, except it was underground, where hell is supposed to be. And heaven was inside God’s head. But the strangest part of that dream is that people were cutting through God’s brain and they found insects.

Have you had a stranger dream?

Writing

Okay, I’m ashamed… I haven’t worked on “Playing with Darts” in a little over two weeks now. Most of that time was taken up with Supernatural, but that’s been finished since the 27th. It’s now the 31st and I still haven’t worked on my novel. I keep telling myself that I’m only 15 and that I’m not trying to get published yet and I shouldn’t feel so bad about putting it off. But the longer I avoid it, the worse it’s gonna get, and then I’ll probably never finish it.

So I should just start writing, right? Even if it’s crap, I need to write something.

Problem is… Now I have a new excuse: I’m sick. And I really am. I woke up yesterday and I felt like crap. I ended up spending 2 hours in bed and the rest of the day on the couch. I haven’t done anything I enjoy doing because I’m too sick to enjoy it.

Okay. I’m just gonna post this and finish writing chapter 7!

Right after I make myself a hot chocolate.

(Oh, proscrastination, how I hate you so…)

“Can I shoot her?”

“Not in public.” And that’s my Supernatural quote for this post. Moving on to…

My goals and what’s going on

These are my 2010 goals:

Writing goals:

• Finish NaNo novel “Kenna’s Choice” DONE
• Write another novel “Playing with Darts” I’m working on it, but I’m behind schedule…
• Edit NaNo novel Will start during the February holidays.
• Rewrite script Hasn’t happened yet. Will start someday…
• Plot NaNo novel for NaNo ‘10 I’ve got time.
• Participate in NaNoWriMo ‘10 Do I even need to explain what’s going on with this goal?

Additional goals:

• Shoot movie Will happen during the summer holidays.
• Write 12 poems Haven’t written one this month. I’ve been wanting to though, so maybe there’ll be one on here soon.
• Write 3 short stories Started but I’m not liking it that much…

Youtube

My best friend Rosaleen suggested that I watch Communitychannel’s videos and that she was our kind of funny. Let’s put it this way: I’d stay up ’till 2 in the morning watching her videos. (I won’t because I do have some willpower. Even if it doesn’t seem like it when it comes to certain TV shows.) So go watch her videos: http://www.youtube.com/communitychannel

Writing

I used my willpower to stop watching her videos and do some writing. Right now I’m working on chapter 7 which introduces William. So far there’s only dialogue, but that’s fine: I’ll add the stuff that goes between dialogue later.

(Also, I’m ashamed to say that because I’ve been watching Supernatural and not writing, my typing has been affected. I’d like to partially blame it on the cold that’s making my fingers numb, but mostly it’s because I’ve done almost no writing whatsoever.)

My life

Pff! Like I have one. By this, I just mean what goes on with me besides writing and TV shows and school… I was going to get my hair cut and dyed yesterday, but this is reported to Tuesday 2nd of February. And no, I’m not explaining why.

Musicals and me

If you’ve been reading my blog for some time, maybe you know that I love musicals. If not, then: I LOVE MUSICALS.

Example: The Sound of Music (which I really want to see again), Grease, Rent, Chicago, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, West Side Story.

I probably forgot some there. Anyway, I brought up this subject to say this: I love musicals, but it’s only recently that I realized how much. Isn’t it great singing along to the songs? The energy that musicals have, and the dancing! And the songs are so catchy.

*starts singing Sweet Transvestite*

Have I mentioned that Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter is so goddamn sexy? I never thought in a million years that I’d think of a guy in tights, heels, make-up and a wig as sexy, but Tim Curry made it happen with his confidence. (His smooth voice and sexy accent are major factors, too.)

And now… Something I’ve never done before!

I thinking of going to bed before 11.30 p.m.

Cue to the gasps and the laughter.

And cue me saying “Who am I kidding? It’s me for God’s sake!”

Good Kayleigh: No! You should go to bed early. You’ll be nice and rested tomorrow.

Evil Kayleigh: Ha! Remember that one time you did go to bed early? You were more tired than when you go to bed at 1 in the morning.

Normal Kayleigh: So what do I do?

GK: Oh come on, you know you want to go to your nice, warm, comfy bed and listen to music as you fall asleep…

EK: Just stay up and–

GK: Do what? She has nothing left to do but to post one last thing on her blog and then what?

EK: She can write! Go write Kayleigh, you owe it to your book. You know you do. You’ve abandoned your baby for Supernatural, but has it been crying? No. It patiently waited for your return, like a loyal friend. It had faith that you’d return to it, so don’t you go to bed now.

GK: But now it’s twenty to midnight.

K *whispers*: I think I’ll go to bed now and leave those two to their fighting…

Okay, that’s all the insanity for today. Goodbye folks!

Eye of the tiger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QW4lgzzv-E

Yes, my sister and I finally got to see that famous episode “Yellow Fever” from season 4 where Jensen Ackles lip-syncs to Eye of the tiger. I heard about it while we were watching season 2. That’s why we watched 3 seasons and 5 episodes of season 4 in exactly two weeks. It’s crazy, I know, but I had to see what was so funny about this screenshot:

Risin' up to the challenge of our rival

Now, I should really go do my italian and spanish homework so that my sister and I can watch more Supernatural. I’m not addicted. No. Not at all.

“You’re the short bus, short bus.”

I finished season 3 today and saw ep 1 of season 4. Writing hasn’t gone anywhere and my life for the past week and a half has mainly consisted of school and Supernatural. That’s not good, is it? Anyway, midweek next week I’ll probably be done season 4 and will finally get back to writing.

For now, my new drug is Supernatural and I NEED IT!

Friday night, my sister is having a sleepover, so I won’t be able to watch Supernatural. This means writing time. I’d also like to see Invictus sometime this weekend. (Politics+South Africa+Rugby=most perfect movie ever for my dad.) And Saturday I’m thinking of getting a hair cut and then dyeing my hair at home: dark/chocolate brown.

Now I’m going to shower. (I wanted to shower at 11, or even before, and get a good night’s sleep. Because of my sister, this is now impossible. Thanks a lot.) (I love my sister, but does she really need half an hour to prep herself before getting in the damn shower?) (Also, we had the exact same thought today about Supernatural. I didn’t say anything because I was eating/too lazy. Not five seconds later, she says what I was thinking.)

(It’s pretty damn cool when this happens.)

(Also, it makes us feel like the younger, female, non-hunter equivalent of Dean and Sam. Witty banter, fighting and sisterly bond included.)

(Last thing: if we were a)hunter, b)10 years older and c)guys, we’d be a lot like Dean and Sam.)

(Sorry about all the brackets.)