Bored Blog 14: Wanting Adventure

7/31/2021, Saturday

Heeeyyy, I didn't forget about you.

After some thinking, I'm going to write every few days instead of every day. Mostly because I don't want you to keep reading the same topics over and over.

On Monday I was having my usual freak out. Asking myself, "Where am I going in life? Am I happy? What's missing? Am I actually growing as a person?

These questions always lead me to do something I won't usually do, or to say "F**** it, I'm going for it."

I asked my bro's friend's girlfriend to read a script I've been working on for a while. It's called みやざきさんへ...or Dear Mr. Miyazaki (for now?). It follows a shy boy who finds out Miyazaki is retiring. He goes on a magical journey with some new friends, one friend he thought he'd never see again, and his school bully, from NYC to Tokyo. It's live action with some animation.

It has been a looooooong time since I had received a critique of my work. I was nervous. Also, I wasn't sure if she was going to do it because I have never really spoken too much to her before. To my surprise she said she'd love to read it!

She gave me some feedback through email. (;;;*_*)

I was freaking out and didn't want to look at it...but eventually I had to.

She ended up really liking it. She said she used to read spec scripts. There were many she wasn't into, but this scrip was very engaging!

We talked back and forth. She said she'd like to help me in anyway she can with the script!

After talking with her I'm so happy I reached out. And even though we don't know each other very well, I'm very thankful she spent her time to read my script.

Now, the next step...

Right...I still have stuff to do.

I finished working on all the promotional videos for Broken. They will be posted on YoutTube once a week. Today, I was going to go back to editing the Tiny Home Movie, but I ended up editing a trailer for Broken to put on Instagram. I need to figure out when I can edit my Miyazaki script.

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I have no idea how this happened, but I saw online someone mentioning the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, which is something I've never heard of. When I looked it up on Youtube, apparently its a really haunted hotel. I clicked on the first video.

I didn't realize it would be an hour long. Somehow I just sat through it and got really engaged in their adventure. Then I got curious of their next hour long ghost hunt, and their next one.

Watching them made me want to join them on all of the fun. I want to feel the thrill but I don't want to call evil spirits...ha ha...

I did share this website I found with my friends a few years ago of this haunted road trip. It's where you visit haunted places along the road or something like that. After watching these guys, I really wanted to call my friends and say, "Let's do the road trip now!"

But didn't, because they're busy women who probably won't reply in time when I was already so hyped up!

Instead, I went into a rabbit hole of who these ghost guys are. I'm not sure if you already know them, but these guys started on Vine when they were 14 or so and kept going until they went to Youtube.

Man, I just think they have such an exciting life traveling and being financially secure. Like, super secure. I was thinking "Huh, maybe one day we'll bump into each other and I can join them on their trip." But then I saw a video where they said, "We're going to stop ghost hunting and try new things," ･ﾟ･(｡>ω<｡)･ﾟ･

I was also thinking about filming the haunted ghost trip with my friends and what that would be like. One of my friends is camera shy...but I'll still film her.

I tried to think who would be who on the trip as characters. My camera shy friend would be the silly creepy one. My other friend would be...hmmm...she would be the friendly extrovert of the group, and I might be the planner/winging it person of the group. And we'd all be scaredy cats who freak out at every sound we hear.

I should probably get my driver's license before going. It would be cool to do this in late September/early October. Just when the leaves change colors.

Also, I don't know how great of a video it would turn out to be, because none of us would want to call out to any spirits...

I dug a little more into Sam and Colby's show this morning. I'm two years behind on their content. So in their latest video they said they miss going to haunted places and will get back into it. The only thing is, it's just going to be the two of them and not the gang. Which I was really saaaad about :(

It's not going to be the same. And their dynamic as a group is really good. They're funny, serious, and adventures when they're all together.

Obviously it's their lives. They can do what they want. It just felt like a show that I didn't want to end. But these are regular people having fun...

Man, I wish I could have as much fun as they dooooooo!

Man, I wish I had friends I grew up with who are into the same stuff. Then we'd go off on adventures, film it and have an awesome time.

This is why I need to make more friends. Friends who are into the same or similar stuff. And not just that, I'd need to make some more money too.

I'm just whining at this point lol.

Maybe I should do a solo trip....nah it's not going to be as fun.

I feel so stuck at home with all this editing. I want to run around.

It's hard to say where I'm going with all of this. To sum it up, I want my life to be different. I just need to figure out how to do that.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Best,

Emel