*** I had a dream about this last night. it's probably not going to be finished, but I wanted to write about it.
It's times like these when I wish I had a real life. I've been single since...... 8th grade? Around there. I'm now 24. I have an awesome job, and get paid a decent wage, but I'm not completely happy Being alone all the time gets to you. I live in a bottom -floor apartment in Philidelphia. I live with Seumas and Jonathan. Seumas is my dog, and Jonathan is my Xbox. I'm a complete gamer girl. My apartment has posters everywhere, for Minecraft, Zelda, one Megaman, A Pac-man, and one giant super mario world that hangs above my bed. Not to mention the Batman, Green Lantern, and Spiderman ones that are everywhere. Yeah, I'm quite weird.
Anyway, I was playing Battleblock Theater on Xbox Live when my phone beeped. I finished the level and reached over to check it. Jovenshire: 1 new video. Awesome. He's on Smoshgames, one of my favorite youtube channels. I don't know why, but he's been my favorite since I first saw him. I guess because he's like me. I tapped the notification and watched the video. Joven's face was lit up, full of excitement. "Hey guys! Today I am very excited because...... I am having a contest!" Cooooooolllll. "The winner of said contest will get to fly out to LA for two weeks to hang out with me and the rest of the smoshgames crew." I heard Sohinki's voice in the background saying, "We're not a crew!" "Yes we are, now shut up. Anyway, to enter all you need to do is make a video of you gaming. You can play anything. I mean, anything. Xbox, Playstation, Wii, PC, whatever. At this point my brain was buzzing. I had to win this. "So yeah. Just make a video and post is with the title, 'Jovenshire Contest Entry' and then your username and the date. That's really it. I look forward to seeing your submissions! Bye!" And with that, the video closed and I was super excited. I already play so many video games, what could be so hard?
After work I took Seumas for a walk, fed him, and then started making a video. I already have a youtube account where I make gaming vids and music videos. (I sing.) I decided to play Arkham Asylum for this video. I got home at 6:00, and played till around 9:45, stopping for food only once. I knew I could edit it out later. Tomorrow would be an editing day. Editing is the worst part of Youtubing. I'm not very big, but I try to make quality videos for my 2,476 subscribers. I try to be funny and make them laugh with my own failures. I get plenty of hate comments, like "Stop messing around!" "You suck! Stop making videos or I'll ban you!" or, my personal favorites, "U r si ogly go die in a hol no guy wil evr luv u!!!111" Such fun.
Editing took a while. I was sitting in my wheely chair at my computer when Seumas started barking. "What are you doing, dog?" I heard a knock at the door and got up. "Shut up, Seumas. You're fine, I promise." I pet his head to calm him down. I grabbed his collar and opened the door.
"Took you long enough." It was Nicholas, one of my best friends from school. He worked with me and lived about 15 minutes away. We hung out alot and played video games. I let go of Seumas's collar and he went over to jump on Nicholas.
"Sorry." I said, dramatically, feigning shame. "I'm just a terrible friend." He chuckled at me, looking down. We were almost the same height. I'm tall for a girl, 5'8 when wearing my converse that I adore so much. He's 6 even, so we're not that far off.
"No need to be snarky about it." He said, grinning. I flipped my hair behind my shoulder, and turned around with a girly "Ehh!" He came in and looked all serious when I turned around. We had a serious staring contest for about 10 seconds until we burst into laughter. "Okay," I said between giggles. "now that that's over, I need to show you something."
"Ooohhh what's she got for me?" I rolled my eyes and pulled him towards my half-finished editing project. I explained everything to him, the contest, my failure at being batman, my need to win. "Sounds cool. I think he'd like having a girl over, if you know what I mean." He raised his eyebrows and gave me a creepy look. I punched him playfully and invited him to sit down and play.
"If you would be so kind as to start it up and sign me in, I want some food. You want anything, water, crackers, Pepsi?"
"You got cheese puffs?" He said, not looking back at me.
"Is that a valid question?" He turned around and his mouth dropped when he saw the cupboard I had opened. It was stocked with Mountain Dew, chips, popcorn, and the all mighty cheesepuffs. I got them out and threw them at him. He caught the bag in his mouth and shookit side to side like a rabid bulldog. "Awww Fido! I wanted some of those!"
"Woof woof." I walked over and took the bag out of his mouth. He licked my hand. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.
"Did.... You..... REALLY just do that?"
" I got into character."
"You licked my hand!"
"Haha.... Yeah."
I walked over to the sink and scrubbed my hand till the skin was pink. "I sorry, Caitie."
"It's okay, Nicky. Just don't do it again."
We played til around 8. "Kay, sorry but I have to get to bed soon. Editing and stuff."
"Yeah, okay. Talk to you later." He turned off my Xbox and got up and left. Well, that wasn't awkward..... It was around 8:30 when I got back up to editing. I added my premade intro at the beginnning: A montage of me laughing, screaming, and occasionally yelling angry nonsense ( curse you you son of a kumquat-eating ostritch!!!) It was silent, but I had little subtitles. In the background was me singing, "Welcome to..... Caitlin sucks at video games!" The video itself was around 11 minutes, enough to see but not too much. I really liked how it turned out. I realized at the end that I didn't do an outro. I normally said something like, "Well, that's enough [game title] murder for today. If you weren't a [something like lamp, hat, frog, human, etc] I would give you a hug. Bye!" Then I make a heart with my hands and spock-five the screen. I recorded it, filling in the blanks with Catwoman and omelettes. Joven will love this! I know how much he loves Batman. After that, I was really tired and decided to go to sleep. Seumas was laying in my spot on my bed again so I slept on the left side. It felt backwards. Oh well, whatever.
