Once More With Feeling?

Okay, going to try this 30 Days meme thing again--this time with more interesting topics. I've been really very horrible about keeping up with my personal journal, and the friends I have through it, and I think I need to change this.

*Day 01 - Introduce Yourself:

Hi, I'm Litha, and I'm...

Weird? Complicated? Paradoxical?

*All of the above.

Of late, I am, first and foremost, a gamer, which really isn't a good thing to be first and foremost. (I could say that I'm a writer, first and foremost, but, despite the fact that I'm largely considered very good at what I do, what I write for gargleblasted isn't anything that will ever be published. So, so I don't really feel right claiming the title.)

I work the graveyard shift at a hotel and occasionally write little travel articles about hotels around the world for eHow.com. The drawback to this is that the site I publish these articles through hasn't been posting any assignments for hotel articles for the past couple of months, much to my frustration. What they do want articles about are techie/automotive/law-related things I don't really know anything about. (Seeing about getting on at another site which will give me the opportunity to possibly write more creative things, and even make more money at it, though.)

There's an unfinished short story that hasn't got an ending sitting in my writing journal, and a novel sitting in my head that has everything but a beginning and a main character. Both of these things need to be fixed.

I like to sculpt, sew and make jewelry, among other creative things that take my fancy, and I also enjoy studying Japanese, and hiking. I haven't really done much of any of these except the hiking, lately.

(The other day, I went to the nature preserve, and, despite the hike being along one of the shortest trails, I had a pleasant moment with a cedar tree, an owl, and found a piece of picked-clean bone nestled between two conjoined pine trunks, which is now sitting on my dresser. I'm pretty sure it's part of something's spine, but I'm uncertain as to what animal it came from or how it got there.)

I also daydream about throwing the tea party to end all tea parties (The fun kind, not the political kind), and I'm giving myself until late summer/autumn to plan it all out.

I'd say that's a good start, without. Now, let's see if I can keep this up...