Where have I been? - Update - 11/14/2016

Well, this has been a long time coming. Let's start off by saying one thing. All in all, I am okay. The past few months have been crazy, but I am finally starting to pull it all together and it is starting to work out.

A quick overview, because the whole thing would be a major TLDR: I quit my job at that horrid factory that I have been working for nearly four years. This has lifted on strain off of me that has been slowly decaying my health for several years. I have been away for nearly a month, and so far, I feel amazing. I have also realized what field of work that I want to enter, and I have been steadily working on getting there.

I want to work in the security field. I wanna start out on the bottom as a starting patroller or hell, even a mall cop. I want to work into either the police field, or if everything works out good, I want to get into the field of counter terror.

I'll keep this short, cause I have things to do but thank you for reading and I will see you in the next one.

Life Post #15 - September 18th, 2016

Well, here we are. Today was kinda screwed up but yeah, it went pretty good. I woke up later this morning, meaning that I was actually able to get some sleep. After that, I played games for a little bit before going out with Kaci.

We had some alone time, then we went downtown. This is when we started to fight a little bit. But it was a sudden things she said and worded wrong, and I overreacted, so I am not worrying that much about it. After that, we went somewhere that made me very happy.

I love Halloween stores, and around this time of year, I get to go to them all of the time. We settled on what we are going to be this year. Kiddo will be Alice, Kaci will be the Cheshire Cat, and I am going to be the Mad Hatter. I did find a Tokyo Ghoul mask, and I have to say that I will be going back for a few things in a week or so. (I found a Vault Suit, I need it)

After that I went home and slept. Literally I have done nothing. But I will be working on stuff and will hopefully finally start posting stuff soon.

Life Post #14 - September 16th and 17th 2016

Hello everyone and welcome to my day late update. I was so worn out last night that I got to my girlfriend's place and passed out, so I do apologize if by chance you read this cluster of a blog. Anyway, all things aside let's get right into the blog post.

I won't talk about work yesterday. It was the same, and it always is. Boring and repetitive, but something did happen. I finally hit my limit with my job, so I do plan to start looking for a new one within the following weeks (I want to be out by inventory, I don't know if I can do 10+ hour days around some of the people out there).

After work Kaci came and got me and she took me home to get my stuff. While there, found out the roof was leaking, so that was a plus. (Sarcasm, in case you couldn't tell). After that, she dropped me off at the bus stop and I rode the metal tank of a vehicle all of the way to downtown land.

I was there for one reason that quickly turned into four. I was down there to see The Blair Witch, but the showing that I could make didn't start for an hour, so I decided to do a little running around. This was my list.

Go to the Mud House and get a peanut butter frappe thing that I forgot the name of but is so amazing. Then to Hurts Doughnuts for two Slim Shady (It's a chocolate cake doughnut with white icing and M&Ms on top. It is amazing.). After that, I finally went in, and due to the rain, I had to buy tickets inside. Waited around for roughly thirty minutes playing arcade games until it was time to be seated.

I won't go into the movie here, as I plan to make a second blog that is all rants and talking about various movie things, but it was amazingly good in my opinion. The original was the scariest thing I had ever seen as a kid, and this one had me glued to my seat. Honestly, I plan to see it again before it comes out with Kaci, I think she will love it.

After that, my dumb self-had to walk from the transfer station a full mile to a gas station to get bus money. Tho the people were nice and all, so that was a plus. After that rode the bus home and then went to sleep.

Today was a rare day at work, one where I actually did a supervisor's job cause someone doesn't know how to do it. I won't go into detail here should anyone read, but I was frustrated and bored cause I had to watch the machine and I would have rather been out working. But yeah, it went by slow and then I got off.

So here I am, I am gonna start reading a lot more tomorrow, cause I wanna start writing more tomorrow as well. Gotta practice the craft in all ways. Gonna be binge reading the Tracy Crosswhite series by Robert Dugoni. The guy is a damned mad man with legal thrillers. Also, might slip in a little Shadowhunters for good measure. Anyone, goodnight and I will see you in the next one.

Life Post #13 - September 15th, 2016

Alright, well today was officially the best day in recent memory. It started in the normal way, minus the fact that it was payday. I woke up a lot earlier due to storms and stuff just feeling off. Like something was very wrong and I couldn't realize what it was. Besides that, I got to work and I actually made goal today, which makes me the only one to do so.

Outside of work, it was run of the normal until tonight when things got interesting. I love horror, and I love heavy music. So I have decided to work towards doing both writing horror/crime stories and making videos about music and such as a goal. This means that I am going to be hoarding money and such, and after my teeth get fixed, I am going to start working towards a professional setup to make horror sketches and live band performances.

I am also going to start up the second blog that I have talked about in a week. This means that I am going to be making rants, reviews, and other awesome stuff. Hopefully, it works. I am really excited for this, and I cannot wait.

Anyway, keeping it short and sweet because I gotta power through tomorrow because I am going to see the #BlairWitch tomorrow. So excited!

Life Post #12 - September 14th, 2016

Do you ever just sit back and laugh about the stuff that is going on around you? That was pretty much what today was for me. Work was the same old stuff that it is every day, minus the fact that they are trying to make us work Sunday. This happened before, and I do not want to be stuck working 7 days a week like I was before. In fact, I refuse. I have worked there for 4 years, and I cannot really find the want to do it.

Complaining aside, I got home from riding the bus and talked with Mom like usual. I have to admit, 3 days of family feud kinda wears off on you. I like the show, and it is very interesting. After that I went in and wrote, making sure to pass the 1,000-word lock on my writing before I can play games. This was also helped with the 4.00 update to PS4 that adds HDR gaming. It's amazing.

After that, I wrote more and actually passed 2,000-words. If I keep this up in a week I may have half the thing done. It is going well so far, and I cannot wait to show people what I have been working like mad on.

Outside of that, kiddo is sick. Hope it is just a fever. Thank you for reading and I will see you next time.

Life post #11 - September 13th, 2016

Well well well, things were quite different today, weren't they. I awoke in the room where I usually sleep and actually felt the energy. I am making it a point to cut my soda intake to keep from gaining a lot of weight during the winter, and I decided to start earlier this year. This energy lasted long enough for me to get to work, and then it died.

I got in, and my first job of the day was literally 4 cases of product, and it took me all of three minutes to finish. After this, I was down for a while until I got my next line, which took me all day to do almost half a day's goal. Go me, yay!

The rest of the day was pretty normal outside of one thing that I am going to try and do. I am addicted to Fallout 4, and I need to break that. So I am forcing myself to only play after I have written 1,000 words. This is the minimum, and if I get more, I get more. If not I don't. This is allowing me to get more done, and worked amazingly today.

Besides that, I had to help fix a washer. It was such bull hockey with it, but hey, nothing is easy. Also, grime looks like nasty crap, and I want nothing to do with it. Anyway, thank you for reading and I will see you in the next one. Bye Bye

Life Post #10 - September 12th, 2016

Woohoo! I am finally back at my desktop! After a little break from the whole keyboard thing, I think I have finally broken my writer's block and will now try and get back into my groove. Today was boring, and I spent most of the day asleep in the team room on breaks. It helps to get more sleep when Things tend to happen. It makes it easier. After that, I got home and started to work on writing. I am forcing myself off of fallout 4, and it seems to work. Outside of that, I am working on a story I will talk about more in depth shortly. Thank you for reading and sorry this is shorter, just nothing really happened today.

Life Post #9 - September 11th 2016

Hello everyone! I've gotta say, when I got this app, I figured I wouldn't use it much, but here we are on the third day of using it. Anyway, off to the day. It started off normal for a Sunday, I woke up, had breakfast, and gamed for a little bit (I seriously need to stop playing so much. It eats all my free time), caught up with my little data thing I do to keep my life on track, and got dressed. After that I helped do a few things around home before going back to gaming (told you. I need to stop, I need to stop). A cool thing happened tho, I remembered everything from my original story when I decided to restart life is strange. I got the family tree for the book done, and now I just need to figure characters. After that we went to the stroll garden (no pics due to kiddo being fussy) where Kaci got to see cosplay for the first time. After that we had dinner and I went home and, you guessed it, gamed. Now I am sitting here, watching a deep web browsing video while I dread the morning. Thank you for reading and I will see you in the next one.

Life Post #8 September 10th, 2016

Well, I have to admit I do enjoy the ease of uploading using my phone, but I do not intend to make this a hobby. Just haven't had time to get to my desktop today. But I didn't wanna break my routine I have here. Anyway, the day was good just long. I had to work today like I do most Saturday's. Nothing fun happened, spent most of the day bored out of my mind. After that I went home and gamed for a while. Had Chinese and then spent time with my parents. I plan to go to the stroll garden tomorrow. So I may have more to talk about tomorrow. Anyone much love and see you next time.

Life Post #7 - September 9th, 2016

So, as I sit here, cutting the plastic from the large amount of LPS toys I have realized a few things. First, there is an app for blogger, which means I won't miss posting. Second, this is my parents way of getting me back for when I was a kid, and finally, I got old at some point, and I am exhausted. Anyway, I'll elaborate more in an edit I will make tomorrow, but for now I will see you in the next one 

Life Post #6 - September 8th, 2016

Well, welcome to what may be the final life post for the week! Today was actually productive, even tho it started out in a horrible way. I awoke to intense stomach pain, and spent most of the morning both at home and at work in the bathroom, to the point my supervisor sent me home. What made that worse was I had zero way home and had to walk a mile and a half to Kum n Go to get bus money and then walk half the way back to get to the bus stop. Needless to say, I think I cured myself of my problems.

After that, I had to run by Verizon to pay my phone bill, only to find out the blasted place does not open until roughly ten in the morning. This meant that I had to find a place to wait, and I decided that there would be no better place to wait than Walmart.

You may be asking yourself why in all things holy was I not home and resting. One main reason behind this my dear Watson, my mother has a compromised immune system and Kaci was not off, so I literally had nowhere to go to rest. The positive side of this is my stomach finally finished emptying itself around ten, and I was able to keep food down shortly after.

After I paid the bill I did the much-dreaded thing that I discussed with Kaci over I-Hop, I went to Toys R Us. Dear god, I have never heard that many children screaming at one time before. My daughter turns five tomorrow, and I hadn't had time with work and everything else (minus over the last weekend but alas, ride), and I also needed to tag in my help on it.

I never realized I became old. Literally, everything she is into is so foreign to me that I cannot comprehend the slightest detail. This, and the fact that my stomach decided to strike again, which made the whole enterprise quite a disaster. But I got her something that I hope she will enjoy, and that is all I want from it.

After that I finally decided to go home, the sickness winning out. I quarantined myself in my room and fell asleep, and I had the nightmares again. I have been having recurring nightmares since I was ten, and they seem to repeat themselves when I am sick, stressed, or exhausted. I wish I could remember more, but I wake up with the feeling that I have been in the dream before.

After that, I sat down and played Fallout 4 for roughly 6 hours. I need to break myself of the want to play that game, but something compels me to finish it. To explore everything in the hopes of finding something new.

After that, I came to the realization that I have no drive to finish writing anymore, and went to the writing Reddit to ask for help. I am going to take their advice, step back, load up some horror movies, and try and regain my muse again.

I am exhausted, and I will not sleep until I go to work. With all luck, I will not work Saturday, tho that is very unlikely. Thank you for reading if you have, and I will see you in the next one.

Life Post #5 - September 7th, 2016

Well, today was another boring day. I wish I had something more interesting to write about here, but I need to keep this life post thing up to really set it into action. I may miss days over the weekend due to the fact I usually stay Friday nights with Kaci, but I will try and make longer posts those days.

Let's start with the work day. It was boring. Literally, nothing to do the first part, and then a job that took me two hours to complete. For about four hours I literally did little crap jobs to stay busy, while watching the clock in hopes that it would move faster. I can honestly say, It was the most boring yet easy day I have had in a long time, minus a few moments of being attacked for various things on the religious side of the spectrum. I mean seriously, I have the start of David on my clipboard a friend of mine put there, and some dude thinks I needed Jesus.

Anyway, after work, I got home and nearly passed out several times while watching the news. I have to say, good job US media for what they did to Hilary tonight and the fact that Laur interrupted her every five seconds yet Trump went uninterrupted the entire time. It just shows where his loyalty lies, giving up fair journalism for biased questions.

After this, I plan to game for a little bit and then sleep. I am going to be working towards a good schedule again, and I have started to keep totals each night for what I have done. I will post it at some point. Thank you for reading, and tomorrow I hope will be more interesting.

Life Post #4 - September 6th, 2016

Of any day that feels like a Monday, it was today. Honestly, I haven't had a day like this in a long time, and I have never been so glad to be home as I am now. Where do I start? Well, I woke up on time for once, at a bright and early 0430, and drowsily got around for work. I remember making breakfast and taking a moment to look through everything before I got my ride to work.

One sign that my work is amazing is the fact that I had to wait outside for well over twenty minutes to be let in. The average worker where I am at doesn't have a keycard, so you would figure that a lead like myself would. Wouldn't you? Well, the answer is no, and the answer is I got stuck with a crap job all day.

I won't go into much detail here, due to my work being proactive with stuff, but my day consisted of one mistake after the other, and people finding out how resilient that I am under stress. I contribute that to stress management and the fact I have games to take the stress out on. But I managed to power through the day. It took everything I had, but it worked, and I am happy about that.

One interesting thing that did happen was one of the fellow leads out there gave me an amazing idea. I am going to work on starting a online metal/horror blog or magazine and work steadily on that and see where it leads me. Might be a fun change of pace

Got home and had a conversation with my parents about stuff, mostly my want to get back into school. I turned 24 here recently, and FAFSA here in town requires you to be that age to file for yourself, and not under mom and dad. Gonna aim for Creative Writing, Journalism, and English. May not be exciting but I love to write, and the therapy it is for me is what keeps me sane on days like this.

I long for colder weather to get here so I can go and get a coffee from the local gas station and drink it on off days when writing. That was how I got most of my work done on my original manuscript, and I hope that it will follow suit on this one. I started out copying it, but hindsight showed me what was wrong the first time, and I know better what to do now.

Also, I had Taco Bell, and now I feel like I am going to die. I'm gonna go collapse after writing for a bit longer. If you need me message me on here, and I will see you in the next one.

Life Post #3 - September 5th, 2016

Well, I will keep this one short and sweet, but it is the thing that has taken up my full day. I was cleaning out a box of old things that I had written back from the time I was in high school to now, and I found an old manuscript that I had done about a year ago. I was in a dark time, and it was around the time that me and Kaci, my fiance, had decided to take a break. It was also around the time that I go hardcore hooked on Life is Strange and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I loved everything about the two series, and I also became infatuated with the themes that I decided to write my own twist on the series, and so: The Ripper came to be.

It is not that good by any stretch of the imagination. I wrote the entire thing in a week, and it totals in roughly 100 pages that ended suddenly when I lost interest in it. I intended to rework it, but at the time it just didn't feel like I was ready to do it until now. So, I have roughly half of the first chapter done, and I feel very accomplished by it. Besides that, as you can guess, I played a ton of fallout 4. Yeah, that is literally all I have done today.

Tomorrow, I get to wake up early to go to work, so I may have more to write, or complain, about when I get back. As for tonight, I may write a little closer to bed (My best thinking happens around 9-10pm, and I am trying to get myself to stay up later for that reason). But for right now, fallout and chill solo for me. I may actually stream just to add some validity to it. Never know. Anyway, thank you for watching.

Life Post #2 - September 4th, 2016

Well, today was boring. I woke up at roughly eight in the morning and had breakfast, and downed soda to try and wake myself up. I played fallout 4 for roughly three hours, grinding my newest build up to level 20. Gotta say, I love playing a stealth character. It is so much fun to sneak around and blast people.

Besides that I finished a short story today, that totaled in roughly 2,500 words. It is nothing special by any means, but it took a life of it's own towards the end of it. I have been playing with the idea of a mad scientist zombie story, and it worked itself into a sort of prologue for it. Gotta love it when things work out that way.

After that I helped my father with some things outside. We had to redo the mailbox post again because some jackass decided that it was a good idea to slam into it with a ball bat, again. I don't see why people still do that, but it happened so there is really no changing it. After that I helped with painting a headboard for my daughter's soon to be bed. This is literally all I did to be productive today. I am lazy, and I accept that.

Had grilled goodness for dinner tonight (Cannot spell what it was for some reason, so just know it tasted amazing), and put a few hours into Resident Evil 6, which I have to say is pretty bad but in the good way. I love the zombie damage models in the PS4 version vs the PS3 version. Alongside that I finished the damned MILA quest line in Fallout 4, you know the damned one Tinker Tom gives you to do. Yeah, it's annoying but with Idiot Savant kicking in a few times, it makes leveling a breeze.

After all that I am here. I did my goal sheet for today, and now I am probably going to watch the Deep Web Episode 63 and then grind out some more Fallout 4. Yeah. Again, thank you for reading and I will see you in the next one.

Life Post #1 - September 3rd, 2016

I went out into nature today and didn't die. All jokes aside I am deciding to do a life post thing every day if my brain will let me. So, I don't know what else to say so I'm just gonna get right into it.

First off, I spent the night with my fiance and didn't wake up until roughly nine in the morning, which was nice but it also meant that I had slept nearly eleven hours. Once awake and all of us where ready to go (child also), we made our way to get doughnuts and snacks for the trip of the day. 

There is a little doughnut shop by where she lives called Daylight Doughnuts, and my god I love their twists. After getting those and downing a monster to fully wake myself while my fiance went into the store, we made our way to the nature center here in town.

Fun drive, much love, will never do again. I am an easy to agitate person, and a few times there I was snappy, mostly due to talking with her about plans that I am not fully okay with, but hey we worked it out. But yeah, we walked all of the nature center, and here is me in nature:

But after spending nearly two hours with a small child on my shoulders after she became to tired to walk, we made our way towards the safety of the city and the Taco Bell the little one so desperately wanted. Shortly after she was sound asleep as me and my fiance started to fight about various things that boiled over.

On a positive note, I got rid of my final bill for the time being and can now finally start to build up money again. Yay. Also I am learning to use this damned ChromeBox thing and I have to say, outside of some bogging down I get when trying to watch videos above 480p, it is very solid.

The day ended up with us making up and me going home, where I started to grind Fallout 4 for a few hours and then I finally played the Resident Evil 7 demo. In a short fashion, I am excited as hell for the game and cannot wait. 

I am currently sitting here, barely awake and not wanting to give up the ghost and go to bed just yet. So I will probably watch some YouTube or read until sleep overtakes me. Thank you for reading and I will see you in the next one.

So Here I Am

Hello everyone and welcome to my little blog here. I have a few plans for this blog and what I will be doing with it, but I wanted to make a new post as a legitimate getting to know me post. I guess I will start with my name. Hello, my name is Ethan Dale Campbell and I am a 24 year old aspiring writer, live streamer (From the comfort of my Playstation), horror nut, heavy music nut, and all around weirdo. I have tried several times to do a blog on here, but most have failed and I have ended up deleting the accounts to save myself the embarrassment of having to go through with the ideas. So, on this one, I plan to just post life stuff, music stuff, horror stuff, and some gaming things that I find interesting. I hope that you enjoy whatever I decide to put on here and I hope it goes well.

Now a little about my if you are interested. I am a factory worker, meaning I work long hours for little to no thanks. I love my job for the people but even then it is getting pretty ridiculous. I used to want to do gaming Youtube content, but luckily I never did (New guidelines are making me thankful I never did). I am engaged to the love of my life and have a daughter that is my world. I have been in three bands, and one of them I even go to tour with, and it was one of the best things in my life. I love writing, and have been constantly doing it for a little over eight years, since I wrote a crap cheesy horror story in summer school my junior year.

I have been around the Youtube sphere for a little over six years, starting out with trying to get gud at call of duty with channels that where at the time just starting (TMARTN, TheSyndicateProject, Nadeshot, WoodyGamerTag, Etc..) but later going towards the horror spectrum and latching onto Markiplier finally. I plan to do streaming from time to time on a twitch I may make live at some point, and I plan to do charity work with it in hopes of helping people out.

But yeah that was a horribly written intro from me. Thank you so much for putting up with it if you did and I will see you in the next one.