Sarah's Life

    Okay, so everybody has that one special someone who inspires them, right? Well I've got a LONG list of folks who keep me going. I can't think of a better way to say "Hey dude, thanks a million," or if I were Dean Winchester I'd let them drive the Impala but as I'm not Dean and don't have an Impala we're going to have to settle for a shout out here. So whose first....


    Mommy of course. My mom has about a million different diseases/disorders/syndromes/whatever and every time a doctor has set limitations based on what the rest of his/her patients can do Mom has pretty much said "Watch me". She takes everything with a joke and though I know it kills her to roll out of bed some days she still does it. Her sheer determination not to let ANYTHING keep her from living the life she wants to live is enough to make any daughter proud (even if they rip their hair out trying to tolerate the madness of it). Mom has never once told me there is something I can't do. When the doctors said I wouldn't learn to read or write she taught me. They had the same idea about me and riding a bike and though my knees were bloody and I had pebbles embedded in my palms she never once said "Sarah, this is something you just can't do" and I did it. Everyone else in the world can let me down but Mom is the only one who will never disappoint.

    While my dad and little brother are amazing too (in their own ways and I'll kill you if you tell Robby I said so), my little sister, Katie is truly my idol. Sort of. She's fiery, mouthy, and talented beyond belief. There are days she drives me up the wall but she knows me better than anyone else on the face of the earth. I can honestly say she's the only person who can make me laugh until my sides split when I feel like beating my brains out.  She's my baby sister sure but she's also one of my best friends.

    Kay, though you'll always be Tiger to me, you are the person who prompted me to post on fanfiction.net and introduced me to the world of writing itself.  Your randomness often sparks conversations and scenes that lighten not just my day but entire stories. I love you like a sister, and my life just would be too normal without you and the evil pineapples.

    Sammie! Notice that Sammie! gets and "!" after her name. She's just that great. Sammie! is my yuppy puppy. The girl I talk to when I've got boy issues or just need a pick-me up. As far as city girls go she's the best.  Sammie! is the girl who got me through those long nights when nothing in the fandom couldn't feed the addiction to Harry Potter and when I couldn't admit that Sirius Black had actually died. Sammie! reads everything I write and is never short of something constructive to say even if its surrounded by all those wonderful little words that make me not want to smack her upside the head.  She tolerates my rants about SPN despite having left the delicious fandom.

    Patience...I don't know what to say about her. She can confuse the life out of me with some of the guys she'll admit to liking and send me into giggle fits with her insane logic to them. She was the first person I know to declare Severus Snape innocent and simply misunderstood. She has a way of seeing a little bit of good in everything and the innocence in her often baffles me for her to be little more than a year younger than me. She is one of those amazing people who can both write and draw. Much to her credit my bedroom walls are covered in her work.

    Then there's Patience's lil bro Ben. Ben's that great guy friend every girl has (so I'm told). I know I take advantage of him calling to rant about various guys in my life, usually fictional but that doesn't make them any less important to me. He called me the day I finished reading OotP just to see if I was alright knowing that I was in love with Sirius Black. Living states away hardly prevents him from trying to act like my great protector insisting that he stay on the phone with me if I'm out in the field after dark when we talk or like one year at fair when he wanted me to keep talking to him while Katie and I were in the camper and some other boys were trying to rock it from the outside. He's a talented artist though he rarely gives himself the credit he deserves. More often than I'd like to admit he's my shoulder to cry on and the guy who can make the lamest jokes hysterical.

    Okay who is next? Of course Deidre who has read my Supernatural fics from the very beginning and been a constant source of support and ideas even when she doesn't mean to be. Alyce who understands all the GLOSS in my life and has been amazing since I met her.  Seer who is hilarious. Her clever wit keeps me rolling long past three AM. Nicole who is sweet and always has a funny mishap to tell me about. Finally Carly Jo, whose vampire love surpasses my own and I adore her for it. Kay, Sammie!, Nicole, Alyce, Carly Jo, Katie, Seer, and Deidre are all wonderful writers!

I don't think anything puts me in a better mood than my books, comics, or that rare good movie. Of course you spend any amount of time with Hugh Jackman in your head with that leather jacket astride a motorcycle and tell me you're not in a good mood. Or if Wolverine isn't  your flavor lets try Sirius Black on his flying motorcycle, or Jacob Black on his motorcycle....is there a pattern here? Do I need to make a "paragraph" about the hot rides that make me giddy? It'd be a short one I promise you that.
    When it comes down to those books that have inspired me to write or be nice or commit murder *shrugs* whatever aren't as few and far between as I'd like to admit. Narnia instantly sparked my imagination taking me to a world that I still catch myself drifting toward years after having read the books. You wouldn't believe the number of afternoons I've walked through my woods pretending I was in the forbidden forest (and I didn't read the first four books until I was 14!), or the times I've been disappointed to wake up and discover I'm not really attending Hogwarts. But its not just those books that provoke child's play, though most of them do at some point. The Twilight Series by Stephine Meyer that hooked me on the vampires, or Blood and Chocolate by Annette something-Krause that gave me a whole knew look on werewolves have sparked several story ideas and debates with my siblings that keep my life from ever being boring.
    The sappy stories by Lurene McDaniel often make me bite back tears and look at the world with a new respect.  Historical Fiction that forces me, even though I hate it, to be glad we've got so many freedoms we do. I could not live in a corset people or dresses *shudders*. The Young Wizard series by Diane Duane that if nothing else gives me a respect for life and a version of powers that be that makes sense to me. Mythology is amazing too and I never walk away from a myth without a smirk and a new topic.
    Nearly all the movies I watch have been books first but that hardly means I've covered them. Thief Lord, X-Men, Harry Potter, hell even Lord of the Rings has had me so spell bound that for a few minutes the rest of the world doesn't exist or at least there are hobbits living in that big hill down the road with the house built into it, elves live in the woods among large spiders and a three headed dog, and somewhere out there is a castle called Hogwarts that to us muggles just looks like an old tumble down castle but if you could see past the spells you'd fall in love with it at once!
    I know I didn't really say much did I? But my books, movies, and comics put me in such a mood that nothing can stop me. When I get sucked in to a story I come out with a little bit of those characters in me. I've learned from them and things I'll never experience  because its impossible for our reality or I'm just that nadless. This is their job right?  What I'm trying to say is these are some of the things that have inspired me. Made me who and what I am, just as much as the people in the section above. Believe me I've spent just as much time with Harry, Ron, and Hermione as I have with my family in the past five years. Scary isn't it?