Merry Christmas!

So, the carols thing didn't pan out. But at least I can say that I wished the world a Merry Christmas today. My gifts this year were additions to my Tolkien library, the complete Blu-Ray box set of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and a refurbished laptop that is late getting here, but that I'm nonetheless grateful for.

May the light of Christ bless you now and always.

25 Days of Carols: An intro

So Blogtober fizzled out and November was pretty much a ghost town when it came to writing here. But have no fear. The Christmas season is upon us, and I've got a great idea to get me blogging through the holidays: every day starting tomorrow and going through Christmas Day proper, I'll be posting a video of a beloved Christmas carol, along with the carol's history.

Let me be clear on one point. I will only be posting Christmas carols. As in, the kind of Christmas songs one would sing in a church setting. No "Jingle Bells." No Rudolph or Frosty. And definitely no "Santa Baby."

The Christmas season is when I celebrate the birth of my personal Savior, Jesus Christ. His life, death, and resurrection are the most important things to have ever happened in human history. And for me, posting something like "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" would be making those most important things cheap and laughable. And I will not do that.

Blogtober 2019 Day 9: Habits that need breaking

Well, this is a depressing subject. There are so many habits I want to be rid of; binge eating, staying up and sleeping in late, using my parent's money without their permission (often to binge eat). And that's the shortlist. 

Blogtober 2019 Days 7 and 8: Pet peeves and purses

First off, it's pet peeves, not pet hates. But since you asked, it's when people aren't exact with their words. Grammar, incorrect phrases, it all drives me nuts.

As for what's in my purse; wallet, lip balm, perfume, a pencil, and receipts.

Blogtober 2019 Days 5 and 6: Senses and Songs

I'll start with the senses first. Seeing my laptop and desk. Hearing a non-music video on YouTube. Feeling the keys on my keyboard. The lingering taste of an apple. And the smell of sweating from my walk earlier. Sitting upright, leaning slightly to the left if you want to add my sense of body position in there.

Blogtober 2019 Day 4: Face My Fears

Blogtober 2019 Day 3: Too many quotes

Why just post one quote when I have several quotes that I love?

Blogtober 2019 Day 2: Twenty Tasty Tidbits

Blogtober 2019 Day 1: This is me

Blogtober 2019 Prelude

I'm doing the thing! And hopefully by doing this particular thing, I'll be more prepared for the following month's even bigger thing; NaNoWriMo. 

I feel alive again.

I'll be honest, guys. These past two or three years have been a slog to get through. I was oversleeping like crazy, had little energy even when I wasn't, had trouble concentrating, and I was having a hard time getting to church. I felt like a slug.

My mother, the paranormal magnet of the family

My mother is a really cool person. She's undoubtedly the most emotionally healthy out of her sisters (there's a reason she never left me alone with my grandpa), the first in her family to go to college, a pharmacist for over thirty-three years. She's dealt with health problems ranging from infertility to Ménière's disease, not to mention the mental health issues that come from my grandpa's misdeeds against her. She's also the only member of my family that I know of who's had some rather strange encounters of the paranormal kind.

This time. For realsies.

Let's get one thing straight. I am not good with blogs that have a limited scope. Believe me, I've tried. I tried to blog on Chinese myth and folklore (despite not being Chinese), I tried twice blogging reviews on various media. There is only one type of blog that really works for me; the type without any overarching theme.

I guess I should introduce myself now. My name is Jessica Carnes. I am thirty years old, a white woman with autism, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and a big nerd. I also have plans to become an author of novels and such. So I guess if this blog did have an overarching theme, it would be "writer perfecting craft and the various other things that she thinks the internet would find interesting."

Maybe this time, I can keep this blog going for a good long while.