A Newbie
Hi guys! I created this post as my first post so I could formally introduce myself to the community and who I am and such.
For starters, my name is Hali, many people refer to me as Pixie from my Cosplay page I ran once upon a time and from my Playstation Gamer Tag. So you can call me either of those if you wish! :)
Oh yeah, did I mention I cosplay?
I'll attach a picture down below, but yes I occasionally make cosplays and go to local conventions around my area.
(My D.va cosplay I were last year at Fanboy Expo, it was super hot outside and I was miserably sweating lol).
Cosplay used to be a very huge part of my life, up until a few weeks ago I ran an instagram page to showcase all the work that I had done, but I recently fell out of love with cosplay so to speak. It's nothing personal against the community or the hobby itself, it's just not something I want to invest all of my time doing anymore.
With that being said! I still will continue to cosplay and attend cons, just not to the extent I used to because it's simply not my main passion.
So let's move on to the real reason I'm here shall we?
My passion in life has always been and always will be reading and writing. I remember when I read the first series I was extremely passionate about, Junie B. Jones, and reading Junie's adventure of being in love with the incredibly handsome Warren, I recall running home and begging my Mom to buy me the whole entire series at our local Books - A - Million. She didn't necessarily up and by me the whole series, but she along with my Father continued to feed my desire to read and invest myself into new worlds and let those worlds become my reality.
Fast forward to high school. My Dad was sick and disabled, and I had convinced myself that once I graduated high school I was going to go into nursing school at my local community college and get licensed to be a nurse so I could make good money and take care of my Dad and Mom. You see, my high school had core classes and we were allowed to take 1-2 electives a semester of what we were interested in so we could have a better idea of who we were as a person and what we might wish to pursue after graduation. I didn't realize it at the time, but I had centered my electives around classes about writing, art, and world history (I love studying different mythologies). So I'm taking all these art and writing classes, yet I had convinced myself I was going to be this awesome nurse who works and makes lots of money (wow Hali, you really were dense).
So it's my Freshman year of college, life is good, except for the fact I'm taking that awesome class all nursing majors are required to take *Drumroll* Anatomy and Physiology. I was working part time at my local food mart, but I took three days off a week to dedicate to studying all day for this sole class, as well as attended tutoring twice a week, but I still failed the class miserably. At that point I had hit a slump in my life. I was on academic probation and on my way to losing my scholarship due to failing Anatomy, not to mention that being in the class alone made me miserable. At the time my Dad admitted to cheating on my Mom, so they were fighting and both decided to follow through with a divorce, and then included me in the middle of it via court battles and using my eye witness accounts to each others advantages. My brother who was living with us was also heavily addicted to drugs and actually overdosed and nearly died at one point. My boyfriend/fiance at the time was abusive on top of all this, mentally and physically. So to sum it all up, my life sucked and I was heavily depressed and miserable with myself for a solid year. My friends at the time, Kayla, Casey, and Megan, decided to take me out to one of the local bookstores in town on one of my days off, and I proceeded to buy roughly 20 books. I hadn't read for my own entertainment in roughly a year, so I figured I would read in my down time during the summer as a way to de-stress from all the events in my life. After reading my first novel (The Trials of Apollo: Book One, by Rick Riordan, 10/10 and I highly recommend). I realized how much I missed reading, so I wiped the dust off my bookshelf and reread the whole Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series withing a month. I took a step back and reexamined my life, and I realized that I was doing my life all wrong, and that life is all about making myself happy. So I did what any logical college kid would do (kind of). I changed my major to English with an emphasis in films (I get to write most of my papers on movies, yay!), I packed my things along with my lifelong companion, Starfire, and drove 2 hours from the negativity of my home, moved into a shitty apartment (another story for another time), enrolled at my local University as an English Major, met the man of my dreams, a quirky odd Computer Science Major who is obsessed with D&D and RPG videogames, and got a job at my localHell Wal-Mart to pay bills at said shitty place until I move to a nicer apartment.
And you know what? I've never been happier.
So that brings me to where I am now, a girl who goes to school and work full time, but has a deep desire to read and write. So if you have made it this far, thank you for sticking it out, I hope my book reviews aren't this boring! :) Much love to the community,
- Hali Paige
For starters, my name is Hali, many people refer to me as Pixie from my Cosplay page I ran once upon a time and from my Playstation Gamer Tag. So you can call me either of those if you wish! :)
Oh yeah, did I mention I cosplay?
I'll attach a picture down below, but yes I occasionally make cosplays and go to local conventions around my area.
Cosplay used to be a very huge part of my life, up until a few weeks ago I ran an instagram page to showcase all the work that I had done, but I recently fell out of love with cosplay so to speak. It's nothing personal against the community or the hobby itself, it's just not something I want to invest all of my time doing anymore.
With that being said! I still will continue to cosplay and attend cons, just not to the extent I used to because it's simply not my main passion.
So let's move on to the real reason I'm here shall we?
My passion in life has always been and always will be reading and writing. I remember when I read the first series I was extremely passionate about, Junie B. Jones, and reading Junie's adventure of being in love with the incredibly handsome Warren, I recall running home and begging my Mom to buy me the whole entire series at our local Books - A - Million. She didn't necessarily up and by me the whole series, but she along with my Father continued to feed my desire to read and invest myself into new worlds and let those worlds become my reality.
Fast forward to high school. My Dad was sick and disabled, and I had convinced myself that once I graduated high school I was going to go into nursing school at my local community college and get licensed to be a nurse so I could make good money and take care of my Dad and Mom. You see, my high school had core classes and we were allowed to take 1-2 electives a semester of what we were interested in so we could have a better idea of who we were as a person and what we might wish to pursue after graduation. I didn't realize it at the time, but I had centered my electives around classes about writing, art, and world history (I love studying different mythologies). So I'm taking all these art and writing classes, yet I had convinced myself I was going to be this awesome nurse who works and makes lots of money (wow Hali, you really were dense).
So it's my Freshman year of college, life is good, except for the fact I'm taking that awesome class all nursing majors are required to take *Drumroll* Anatomy and Physiology. I was working part time at my local food mart, but I took three days off a week to dedicate to studying all day for this sole class, as well as attended tutoring twice a week, but I still failed the class miserably. At that point I had hit a slump in my life. I was on academic probation and on my way to losing my scholarship due to failing Anatomy, not to mention that being in the class alone made me miserable. At the time my Dad admitted to cheating on my Mom, so they were fighting and both decided to follow through with a divorce, and then included me in the middle of it via court battles and using my eye witness accounts to each others advantages. My brother who was living with us was also heavily addicted to drugs and actually overdosed and nearly died at one point. My boyfriend/fiance at the time was abusive on top of all this, mentally and physically. So to sum it all up, my life sucked and I was heavily depressed and miserable with myself for a solid year. My friends at the time, Kayla, Casey, and Megan, decided to take me out to one of the local bookstores in town on one of my days off, and I proceeded to buy roughly 20 books. I hadn't read for my own entertainment in roughly a year, so I figured I would read in my down time during the summer as a way to de-stress from all the events in my life. After reading my first novel (The Trials of Apollo: Book One, by Rick Riordan, 10/10 and I highly recommend). I realized how much I missed reading, so I wiped the dust off my bookshelf and reread the whole Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series withing a month. I took a step back and reexamined my life, and I realized that I was doing my life all wrong, and that life is all about making myself happy. So I did what any logical college kid would do (kind of). I changed my major to English with an emphasis in films (I get to write most of my papers on movies, yay!), I packed my things along with my lifelong companion, Starfire, and drove 2 hours from the negativity of my home, moved into a shitty apartment (another story for another time), enrolled at my local University as an English Major, met the man of my dreams, a quirky odd Computer Science Major who is obsessed with D&D and RPG videogames, and got a job at my local
And you know what? I've never been happier.
So that brings me to where I am now, a girl who goes to school and work full time, but has a deep desire to read and write. So if you have made it this far, thank you for sticking it out, I hope my book reviews aren't this boring! :) Much love to the community,
- Hali Paige
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