Day after

Well, yesterday was Thanksgiving (or for us just another Thursday)  We're not too big on this holiday, probably because we dont have family nearby.  I wasnt supposed to cook but ended up pulling a chicken and gravy dinner out at the last minute.  I even threw in an apple pie.  So today is BLACK FRIDAY.  What is so tempting about shopping today?  The news showed the stores, people fighting over product, no parking, and serious traffic issues.  No thanks. My shopping will start once people go back to work on Monday.  Actually I may wait this year until around the 15th.  I dread the whole holiday.

I took a night off from BOOK and ended up paying for it big time.  Had to write 3,340 words yesterday just to keep up.  I think I may have to map out my ending, its going to be hard to wind things up on the 30th unless I know where the story ends. Word total is now 38,330!  I rock.

The weather has been crappy for the last 4 days. This morning the sun is out so it looks promising.

Time to get moving! Toodles!

 

Uh.....Tuesday i think

RAIN!

Been raining since yesterday and is supposed to carry on over the weekend. Fabulous, a long weekend stuck in the house with both kids and Joe's working nights.

My research paper is almost done, I have to add a couple more quotes and do my work cited page. Glad I forced myself to work on it last week.

BOOK went over 33,000 words today.  I did the math and I'm supposed to write 1,666 words per day to reach 50,000 by Day 30. No sweat, only 8 more days to go.

Tired.....must sleep now.

Night.

sa-turd-ay

30,080!

Wow, you just dont know how good it feels to see that first number become a 3. Today was a lousy day and I wasnt sure those words were going to get done.

I finished Billions&Billions by the late,great Carl Sagan.  I must say I loved it. Today I started "On Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin. So far its pretty good. Its only 120 pages, I'll be done in a couple of days.

School is going ok. I had a brainfart on my last math test and got a 75.  Sucks. Good thing is, she drops your lowest grade so I'm still golden.  I hate exponents!

Joe shot his deer yesterday. He only shoots one per season now. We dont have anywhere to put all that deer meat. He butchered it himself, ewwww. I hate venison, it stinks. I think its a stupid sport, sitting in a tree till a helpless animal comes by and then BAM!  Yeah, thats fair. He's spent more money on guns, bows, gas, tree-stands, clothing and a million other camoflaged do-hickeys I probably could have bought a years worth of groceries with all that money.  I hate hunting and I hope someday he outgrows it. There, thats my 2 cents.

Did I mention that we got tv? Friggin tv, the scourge of the friggin earth. I swear we were doing just fine without it. They swore they couldnt live without it anymore, I was outvoted. Friggin noiseboxes.

Tomorrow is Sunday and I've sworn to work on my research paper.  Its due on the 30th.  I'm about 3/4 done. Ugh.

Ok, I have to get to bed.

Almost mid-month

22,260.  That doesnt include todays words.  Here's a taste.

      Kelly looked at the clock, 10 am. She had showered, eaten some toast and was now examining the sore injection site. The skin still looked bumpy and now had a purple tint to it. Could just be bruising she thought. Her stomach rolled and she headed for the bathroom. Leaning against the sink she looked into her tired bloodshot eyes. I’m sure if I get some sleep I’ll be good as new when I get up. She brushed her long auburn hair, the repetitive motion soothing her nerves. Her head was suddenly very light, the room had a fuzzy distorted quality and there was a faint buzzing she couldn’t make out. Is that the doorbell? The brush fell from her hand and she gripped the doorscasing for balance but before she could take a step, Kelly collapsed to the floor. Her empty green eyes stared at the wall, one eyeball bulging rhythmically. From the underside of the curved orb a minute black feeler appeared, only to slowly retreat back into Kelly’s skull. Her stomach surrendered her meager breakfast, which now lay in a pool of mucus on the floor. As if on autopilot, Kelly’s body removed her tee shirt and underwear, her eyes staring blankly, she climbed into bed. The oily appendage reappeared, this time from Kelly’s open mouth. There was a sound, like a bee’s hive, muffled by bone and skin, vibrating out of her. As her body temperature rose and the injected intruder worked its magic, Kelly Green became something else. Bone density increased, cellular activity on a sub-atomic level skyrocketed, and her exterior showed no changes as inside she grew and transformed. The nanobots that Dr. Axan had given Kelly were rebuilding her and, in a sense, reprogramming her brain. Over the next 9 hours Kelly Green would become a not-quite-human tool that GenLabs would use to find its most precious and dangerous creation, Pi.

 

I guess you'll have to wait until December 1st to read the whole thing!

 

Update Update Update

I thought I'd give you a writing update.  Its day 11 and I've had a few bad days but mostly good I must say.  I'm doing usually about 1,600 words a day. The best places to write are 1. The computer lab at school (something inspiring about hearing 20 other people typing) 2. In my car, in the parking lot of Sydneys school. 3. Between 10 and 12 pm when everyone is sleeping.  This laptop has logged alot of hours in the last few weeks. I love this damn thing, I carry it everywhere. Anyway, BOOK is up to 19,000 words.  By the 15th of this month I should have 25,000. Half-way mark. I may reward myself with a nap.

Fall is in full swing. Leaves flying and deer everywhere.  My favorite time of year and I'm spending 90% of it inside writing. Oh well, theres always next Fall.

2 weeks until Thanksgiving.  We'll be going out this year, Joe's working the night shift that day.  We have 4 days off for the holiday. I'll be working on BOOK like crazy to try and get ahead so I can coast through to the 30th.  Finals are 2 weeks later so I need to be able to focus on school in December.

Anyway, thats about it. Hope you're well, write me sometime so I know you're alive.

Shell

You're gonna do what?

This guy is a genius!

Well, I bet you're asking yourself what you did to deserve another post so soon huh? Actually you're lucky you're getting anything because I spent 30 minutes typing up an entry and AOL decided to eat it...GONE! Which was a pity too because it was a good one, really funny. I cant promise you that for this one, I'm still pissed off. 

Ok, lets see. Oh yeah. I was sitting in psychology class the other day listening to my professor drone on when he said something that actually caught my attention. Wait wait wait. I have to backtrack first. Ok, everyone knows that I've been working on a novel for about 2 years now ( at least I think they know). Anyway, if you didnt know, you do now. So, I've been having problems with it and didnt know what was going on. Back to the classroom. My proffesor says " We expect perfection in most things we do and it isnt possible so we give up or ....blah blah blah....He was right!!! I couldnt move forward with the novel, I was dead-ended by my own crazy vision of perfection. I kept revising and changing things, never to finish the damn thing. Ok, so now I know whats wrong with me, how do I fix it? It wasnt the answer I wanted. In fact it was terrible. START OVER. Brand new. And write for quantity, not quality. Have a deadline. No editing allowed. No backtracking. What goes onto the paper stays there. I started today and by November 30th midnight I will have written a 50,000 word novel. It may not be good but it will be a novel. Once its finished I can decide if its worth revising. So, there it is. Today I wrote about 1,600 words. I dont mind if people read it while I'm writing it, I have 3 internet friends reading my dailies. They've promised to be gentle and not criticize too much, realizing that it is an EXPERIMENT and also my first real book. Oh, another thing is, I have no plot, no character outlines, no storyline, nothing. Everyday is a surprise. Let me know if you'd like to get the dailies as well.

Sydney as "Queen Of The Darned"

There's no trick or treating out in the bush so she tagged along with a friend of hers that lives closer to town. She made out with about 15 pounds of loot.  Avery stayed home this year, he hates that shit anyway.

The good thing about Fall around here isthe lack of BUGS. No more dive-bombing wasps or huge bumble bees, the grasshoppers have all gone and we haven't seen a black fly in weeks. WooHoo! Trust me, its something to woohoo about. Now its lady bugs, they're everywhere. But at least they don't bite.

I came home today and there were 15 of these things in my house. I have no idea how they got in.

Well, its after 10 so I'm off to bed. I'll write again when I can.

Toodles.