Happy birthday drgaellon !! Be Happy, Be Safe, and Rock On!!

It's been a tradition for upteen years to go to the family gathering every Thanksgiving and the huge get-together on Christmas Eve. This year Thanksgiving was canceled, but no real big deal for me since I always make some for myself anyway. (The leftovers are the best for me.) Now the Christmas Eve thing is canceled. Apparenty there's been some family issues and talking of divorce and money problems. Usually everyone grabs a name from a hat for who to buy for the next year. Well, since there's no gathering do I still buy for that person? I never ever see them outside of these things though they live in the same city. I'm holding off. I'm thinking of making some of the glass jars filled with dry ingredients and a recipe attached and giving them away in baskets I bought at GoodWill. I'll probably make a few extras in case and if I don't need them then I'll use them myself.

It actually rained here ALL DAY. That is very rare. Water came from the sky. Wow. WIth my sunroof stuck open at an angle I was nervous to get in my car to pick up Jules at 7:30 tonight. I took four towels with me just in case, but surprisingly there were no leaks so I was lucky. People here don't know how to drive in any kind of weather except sunny. (Okay, I give them windy too since there's a lot of wind through the valley.) But we made it home safely. Yay!

I'm asking for only two gifts this season. I want new underpants and a million dollars. Only two presents. When others are opening their many boxes of socks, sweaters, books, goodies, etc. I will have my two sole presents by my feet and I will hold my chip up. No complaints for only two. Is that too much to ask?

Seriously, currently my tree is being put up, and I will try to post pictures some time when the ornaments have been placed (or thrown) on the tree. I had my eggnog shake and all's right with the world. At least for the next half hour (I hope).

My jury duty has been postponed. I called the phone number and the batch with my number in it will get a new letter for a new date at a later time. Hopefully after the new year begins.

Today is World Aids Day.
My thoughts and prayers go out to those who have the disease and to those who know someone who does.

If the little birdie is correct then acorn_girl had a birthday yesterday. Here's a link to a silly greeting card. Hope you had a good day!


http://www.123greetings.com/aff-bin/card/1/113464

Last night I went roller skating again. I was there for 3 hours and skated on and off. I refused to skate when rap music was on. I ended up with no blisters, but I do have sore feet.

Jules had four girls spend the night. A lot of giggling went on.

I am so full of junk food it's not funny. I need veges and something healthy to eat. I do know what's for dinner. Turkey. What else.

I only have 883 more words to complete my NaNo. OMG!!!! I do want to go over a bit just in case my word count is off though it shouldn't be. Yeah! Go Karla!!!

I haven't read my friend's page yet, but I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving Thursday. Here's a late picture for you:




I cooked and cooked and cooked then ate it in minutes. Normal for us.

Then I went to see New Moon. It was better than I was hoping for, but then I'm a Jacob fan. It was hilarious. There were some teenage girls sitting behind me and when Jacob took off his top they were all "OMG! Squeee!" I was laughing so hard. I did not like his haircut. He needs the long hair back IMO. And the girl needs to lighten up. Did she ever smile in that movie? Anyway, it was pretty good.

I have finished my story. Now I have to go back and write my beginning. I still have about 10,000 words to go, and the few people who glanced at it thought the beginning was too confusing. I liked it,but what do I know. So now I have to write the start while I listen again to last week's Supernatural. It was so sad especially the bit about not having any new shows until January. Come on! January! Really!

Today is:

Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day

I am back. Saturday I spent in the passenger seat and ignored everyone to write on my NaNo. I write in cursive on a yellow legal pad. Usually four pages for me average 1000 words. I wrote 10 pages! yeah me. My hand was so sore though.

Sunday I did my duty at the Junior Olympic Regionals for Cross Country. There were 8-10 year olds running the mile in under 5 minuntes. I kid you not. The course was flat then they had to run up a hill which was pretty steep. I watched the midgets (3 K mile), youths (4 K mile) intermediates (5K), and young adults(5K). The 5K had to run up the hill then down the steep side then turn around and go the opposite way. They flew. It would have taken me maybe 40 minutes to finish haha and they were in the 20's or less.

I had a nice dinner with Lee and Cash Sat at a new buffet syle restaurant then Sun with Paul and Stefanie at Subway. I stuffed myself both times. There was no time for a theme park. The races weren't done until 2:30 and by the time we ate we may have been able to spend a few hours somewhere but most parks are too expensive for just a few hours. It was good to get home though since I wake at 4:45 am.

This week I will get no sleep. I need to clean the house. Shop for dinner Thursday and for Jules birthday presents. I'll be cooking all day Thursday and she's having a party Friday and invited friends to spend the night. Not too mention NaNo of course. I'm tired just thinking about it. I need tea then soda then chocolate. I will gain 80 pounds this week. (Oh, I hope not sheesh.)

I will be in Lake San Marcos, CA tomorrow until Sunday night. I was just informed of this yesterday around 1:30 pm. Thanks for the warning, Idiot. But I'm going to try to get to a theme park Saturday. Maybe SeaWorld or the zoo. We'll see.

I have been reading articles on the overuse of the word "was". Used in their writings, especially by new writers, the word "was" is overdone basically because it's just an easy word to write. So typically, instead of working on my NaNo, I did what you're not suppose to do. I went back through my story and edited. I write on Microsft Word and there's a feature that will highlight any word you ask it to find. OMG. There were a billion "was"'s in my story. I HAD TO fix it. Now I still have a lot, but it's not overwhelming. I even gained 50 words in my word count. So yeah. Yes, I'd have more if I just wrote, but it was bugging me big time. I wasn't able to concentrate. Now I also have a way out for Karla to escape. So, I'm off to write.

Back in October I went to Bite of Las Vegas and heard Blue October.  The band played a song titled Jump Rope.  I have been in love with that song ever since.  I recently rented the cd from the library Approaching Normal and dowloaded the song.  I have it blasting thoughout my house. The video is the music and lyrics.  3:19.  For you listening pleasure ( I hope) here ittis. 

I don't always know if I can get on the computer over the weekend or when so here's the holdiays:

14th
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
National American Teddy Bear Day

15th
American Recycles Day
I Love To Write Day (not sure about this one right now)
World Day of Remembrance For Road Traffic Victims
Transgender Day of Remembrance

Some are for fun and some are serious. The writing one is sort of both. Be good and play safe.

I have reached the point where I don't want to write anymore. I'm tired of these people and their problems. My main character Karla is stupid and has no idea what's she's doing. Since she's sortof a reflection of me then what does that tell me. I can't possibly write enough to finish without going blah blah blah blah blah. I keep finding excuses to stop and look up Latin translations and check the Thesaurus. OMG!!! Enough of these idiots.

Whew. Thank you. That helped. Got it off my chest for now. Back to Karla who now needs to escape but will fail and end up spending time with the bad guy. What fun!

I'm in a silly mood and a procrastinating one.  Here's a blast from my childhood.

Sent by Jules in an email:

I dream of a better tomorrow where chickens can cross the road and not have their motives questioned...

If I had a dollar for every time I had 75 cents, I would be Canada.