"go on and make a mountain out of it"

so, i discovered i incorrectly wrote out the line of the song i was using for the title. but now it's fixed. everybody makes mistakes...even someone as perfect as me. :) if you haven't noticed already, i like to use song quotes and references in almost everything i do, especially for titles (and it you can name the song and artist that go with the quotes, you'll get lots of extra points in my book. and you just thought i wasn't keeping score). i really enjoy listening to songs that have really ingenious lines and phrases that i hear and they just stick with me. like the title of this post. i heard the line in the song and had to go back a few extra times to make sure i'd heard it right. and then i wrote it as my title. and after i wrote it out, i looked at it and really thought about, and thought, "hey, that's what i like to do." if you didn't know already, i like to write. it's my favorite thing to do, even though i have trouble finishing what i start (you don't even want to know how many story lines i have in the "works" that are all unfinished. in fact, i don't even want to know). i get an idea, and write little snipets from it and map out the plot and the characters (i love coming up with names for my characters. i even have a favorite names list at babynames.com for just this purpose...and helping me have a variety to choose from when the time comes that i actually have children...a thing very very far in the future. but anyways, i love names and i love creating the whole characters' name, not just a first and last, but a middle and thinking about what the names mean and how they fit with the character, etc.) and then, once i've reached the conclusion of the story line in my head, i move on to another idea. or sometimes another idea just invades my head and pushes out all the previous ideas almost against my will. you wouldn't think i'd find being taken hostage by my ideas a fun thing, but i do. i just wish i could buckle down and get one done. i do have a couple of short stories done, mostly thanks to Al Haley's Fiction Workshop class (interesting class if you like creative writing) and treating it more like an assignment that i need to get done, though it was always by far the best assignment i did in any class. i even based two of those pieces on songs i heard (and you just thought i'd abandoned the song concept. don't worry, i always come back around to things...eventually). if the piece was based on a song, i'd usually sit and write while listening to that song on repeat (good thing they were both really good songs, otherwise i'd've gotten really sick of them during the writing process). and i always liked how those pieces just kinda came out of me in a rush. i didn't spend a lot of time planning them; i usually did them, if not the day before, then a few days before they were due. i seemed to work better that way. and i'd usually have three different ideas i thought about pursuing before i discovered this perfect idea hiding beneath them all, like a christmas present at your grandparent's house. in fact, the story that got me my highest rating, was one that came about i think the day before i had to turn it in. and it was a long one, like over 4000 words (i have a problem with writing too much at times, as you can probably see. i don't sum up things well, unless it's short answer stuff for a test and i just want to get it done) and in the end, i loved it. and so did haley (at least, he saw a lot of potential as long as i edited a lot, which i did. and then he thought it was just great. especially when he found out i edited it all, and added about 1000 more words to it in the span of 3 1/2 hours. then he asked me to do some more edits to bring it down to under 5000 words so i could turn it into a short story contest. which i did. i'm still waiting to hear how that all went. then again, i just turned it in in march, so i doubt they're done judging yet. we'll see). so anyways, i really love writing, and i love music. it's not a surprise when one of my characters just happens to be musically inclined and ends up singing for some unrealistic reason. music has just always been such a big part of my life that it comes out in my writing. i love to sing. if you've ever ridden in a car with me, you know i'm not all that shy about singing along with the radio at the top of my lungs without any real regard for who else is in the car with me. you'd think i'd tone it down for people who aren't my really close friends, but if a song i love comes on, i'll be singing along, maybe not with as much verve as i usually give it, but i'll sing anyway. singing in the car is just such a natural thing for me that it feels weird to not sing, or to have a song playing that i don't know, especially on road trips when i'm driving. i need some cd that i know almost every song in the player so that i can sing along to keep myself alert and occupied. where am i going with this post? i don't really know. i just started typing and this was what came out. see i had another post all ready to go last thursday, but something was up with blogger so it got lost. maybe i'll find it again once their recover post thing is up again. or maybe i won't. i won't worry about it. it was kinda a depressing post. and now i don't feel really depressed. i feel happy and a little silly and that's good. i'll need it if i have to put up with my roommate and her boyfriend hanging out at our apartment. i just gotta keep telling myself, "you'll be gone in less than a month. just keep that in mind. in less than a month you'll have your own place all by yourself and won't have to put up with their useless, slovenly, and annoying ways." there's a mantra for ya. anyway, that's about all i've got to say (there's that damn rhyming thing again. geez. i haven't even watching The Princess Bride in forever. maybe that's my subconcious telling me that i should. who knows). And with these last immortal lines, I'm signing off: "'Never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line.' Hahahahaha." [falls over dead]