It begins again; I am unable to sleep at night because there is just so much going on.

Today was especially eventful, but we'll get to that later.

First, I gotta take the time to say we're going on vacation from Friday through next Monday, so I won't be online at all this weekend. Take care of the internets for me while I'm gone. ;)

Alright, so... I was really spoilerphobic during the finale. That tactic failed miserably, so... I think I'm taking things the exact opposite direction. This means I've read the sides, something I've never done for anything before (except Dollhouse, but that's different. Totally, totally different.).

Anyways, I'm really delving into this spoiler thing for the first episode because October is way too far away. I'm thinking about making a filter, so if you'd like to be put on a spoiler-tastic filter, let me know. :)

( Obviously, spoilers follow. Great, big, honkin' ones. )

So, yeah. Let me know about that filter, and any other spoilers you might find. I'll be up all night!

Ah, snow.

This is probably the earliest we've gotten it in a long while. We had some on the 23rd, but it didn't stick. In Kentucky, this tiny bit here is enough to keep kids out of school, and thereby, make everyone happy. :)

Last night, I grabbed my brother and drug him out there while it was still coming down and we danced in the middle of that court in the torrential downpour that was the five or six flakes of snow falling at the time. I felt five years old again, which is not to say that I don't feel that old all the time lately. Being at home from school for over a month sounds good in theory, and in reality, my house is about 20 minutes from my school, but it's stressful. Very, very stressful.

My father is never happy with the way I go about finishing work for people, my mom treats me like I'm 12, and my brother is intensely selfish. I only had a full-blown shouting match with one of them yesterday (consider that yesterday I was working on that logo for the Sheriff, and you may discover who. ;P), but I've had one with each over the course of this month.

But last night, we had a good time. We sat down and watched Mythbusters and Die Hard, and the snow. And that's when me and Nick danced in the court like we were idiots, him in a short sleeve t-shirt, even. It was the most fun I've ever had this year, and I intend to repeat it.

Take for instance, the fact I can hear kids screaming all the way from the hill I intend to sled down once today. A rather busy main road might go by the top of that hill, but peh! We were 12! We were awesome! We were invincible! And we had a little cracked plastic sled. Once, we even tried to build a ramp on the already-kind-of-steep hill. With food coloring stripes on the sides to make it look like a video game. It might've broken in half the first time we tried to sled down it, but the fun of putting it together combined with the resulting crash made it all worth it.

An inch of snow brings out a lot in our city: excitedly screaming kids who aren't going to school, people who don't know their way around a patch of ice out doing 55 down said road behind the hill, and a quiet, clean-slate sort of feeling. The kind of feeling that maybe, with a little effort, I can make things go much more smoothly with my family. For starters, I'm going to run back out into that snow. :)

What a fantastic way to start off the year.

Oh, I'm done, baby. With two of my finals, anyway. Only one left, and I'll be damned if I can actually work up enough motivation to study. Help me, I'm falling into a pit of bottomless Christmas Break.

I'm just so incredibly ready for Wednesday afternoon that I don't know how I'll get through tomorrow. I may work on character sketches for what now appears to be a Supernatural version of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", starring the PowerPuff Supernatural Cast, with the Crossroads Demon as the titular devil, and Dean as Johnny. Oh, it's gonna be swell. I'm resurrecting ol' Yellow Eyes so he can play keyboards. I'm hoping if I unleash this monstrosity onto fandom, I can get into making up for whatever episodes we're going to lose by finding some interested parties to do voice-overs. I need guys. Or at least more deep-manly-voiced people like myself.

Honestly, though. I can't settle on a name. (Win-Puffs? Puffchesters? Puffernatural? Super-power-natural-puffs?) Potter Puffs had things easy with their alliteration. Heh... I don't want to be a total rip-off of that idea, so I'm going the animation route. Actually, that's the only reason I draw PowerPuff style now. It'll be easy to animate in flash, so I can make little webisodes to fill the hole in my heart that's being left by this writer's strike. Don't worry, though. I'm not going to be trying to make serious episodes with little bobble-headed characters; it's gonna be total crack.

I just don't know how much of the cast I should put in. I mean, Gordon is complete and total <3, but I don't know if I can/should bring him and Crazy-Jesus-Guy back from the dead. Also, John? I just don't know. I have evil plans, but I don't know how cracky I should get. I might need a check-and-balance system in place. I can go off the deep end. :S

So, yeah. Just been waxing philosophical about little munchkin drawings all night. I so need to get to work on my comic. I totally forgot about it. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow, too? HOORAY FOR TAKING ON TOO MANY FANDOM THINGS!

And also capslock.

And caffeine.

*finally gets some sleep*