How to make a bad day good.

This last week has been a bit crazy and a lot of EXHAUSTING.

A week ago our fuel pump went out. And had to rely on others for transportation, plus deal with fixing a car-never fun.

Then Joe ended up having a last minute research trip to his fields all across the state this week (his spring break). And since his brother drove a car out to us and was here for a week, we decided to take advantage of the situation and have his brother dog/house sit for us while Sariah and I accompanied Joe.

And oh, I am SO glad we did.
Sariah and I got to hang out with Joe and chill out in a hotel for three days, swimming and watching tv (we miss cable).
We got back home Fri afternoon, exhausted. Driving 400 miles with a toddler is not easy. And then coming home, pregnant, to a visitor in your house- just somehow didn't help.
Plus, the next day we were leaving to drive another 220+ miles to visit family in Iowa. It was exhausting. And I wanted to cry.

But then Joe and his brother went to the store. And when he came back, he made this pregnant lady feel a LOT better :) (with the help of family).

-flowers. YELLOW flowers
-chocolate
-Easter package from family (and who can't help but love Sariahs new dress or things for her to play with?!?)
-The Hobbit

Day=made.

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I want to be like J.K. Rowling

Who doesn't want to be famous?

Or be richer than the Queen of England?

Or go from nothing (well, where we currently are) to SOMETHING, because we can do what we love?

Joe and I have this 'discussion' occasionally about originality. 

Mainly, his argument is that he can't understand J.K. Rowling because she didn't 'create' anything. She didn't define anything. 

She created Hogwarts, he will give her that. Everything related to the school is original (quidditch, for example). But he gets frustrated by her incorporation of elves, wizards, giants, etc. Even the magical world- is just based off of the muggle's world (Ministry of magic, AKA English government).

Then he brings up J.R Tolkien. 

He defined his books.

He defined Hobbits, the elvish language, everything.

He can understand and will stand by this guy.

But really, truly, NOTHING is original.

And that is quit easy to see just watching movies that come out.

I mean, I LOVE Clueless, 10 things I hate about you, and all the movies in between, but really. Originality was hard to come by after like....Shakespeare.

So, in my aspirations to become a writer, an author, someone FAMOUS with accomplishments, someone's whose goals and DREAMS have become reality

HOW DO I STAND OUT?

How do I be original?

I recently heard about this book called Matched. 

It made me sad.

I LOVE apocalyptic books (The Giver, 1984, The Hunger Games, etc).

And I am trying to get one working.

How do I compete?

It's kinda lame when the world is SO big that you have to fight to be noticed,

but SO SMALL that you can still run into your worst nightmare when you are having a bad hair day. 

Also, I found this funny. But I may or may not have had to re-read it to finally get it. Matched By Condie, Allyson Braithwaite (Google Affiliate Ad)

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