Vegetable Rights Activist

Final Sunday count: 45, 166. That means I wrote 20k in a weekend :D

Commence the T-rex dance!

*sings It's a Small World*

Our hosts here have the last name of Wigglesworth. I just asked this morning if they had a daughter by the same last name (I wondered last year) because my junior high school music teach was Mrs Wigglesworth, and it turns out that she had married their son. I remember when she was on maternity leave in Grade 9, and Ted says that Jordan is now in grade 12 and his parents have just divorced.

It's a small world after all....

I just wrote nearly 12k today alone. I doubt I'm going to make the 20k weekend goal, as I still have... well no, 20k weekend might be doable yet. I was hoping to hit 50k, but as I'm just creeping up on 41 now, its not looking too likely. Sadface.

However, I have a HUGE chunk of novel to send to Shilo later, including much porn XD

ETA 1:40am: 12,015 words since 9 am this morning, with food breaks and a long hot tub break. Paige and I had to brace our feet against the tub walls, and then our backs together, to keep from floating away. The stars were really, really pretty outside :3 Bedtime!

Something seems wrong about writing porn while listening to Christmas music.

Yeah, I got nothing.

Holy crap, flisters. I just wrote 5k (and change) between 7pm and now (5 hours). My goal was 25k by Thursday nighht so I can hopefully hit 50 after the writing shenanigans this weekend, but I think I will punch that up to 30k :) another 8k in three days, with two write-ins in the mean time... I'm on fire! (Shilo, look for part 3 XD)

I do not understand why people like sweet pickles. Gee-ross!

(this is me procrastinating. Does anyone want to be friends on facebook so we can be neighbours in Farmville and/or Cafe World? :D)

Nanoing has started!

Our awesome MLs ran a fun event last night that involved running around SUB looking for word clues and then writing a story with them. Ours involved a man-eating laptop and Captain Planet. I met some new people (new-to-me, not nano, in some cases lol) and ate some candy and started writing at midnight. I finished today's quota before I came home.

I went to bed at 1am (formerly 2am) and even though I was exhausted, I couldn't sleep right away. I think I might have slept through the night finally... but I woke up way too fsking early. I am le tired.

Today's nag list challenge is to be at 3k before the end of the night. I plan on writing 3k between now and then. So Shilo, expect some words in your inbox fairly soon. ;)

Since 50k is a goal I know I can reach, I might fully take on the challenge of learning to type on a Dvorak keyboard. I won't win any word wars, but I never did, anyway lol. (Goal of 3k before bedtime... challenging.)

I edited my last entry about Candle in the Storm as I didn't quite realize how spoilery it might have been. So browsers, fear not, as there is now a cut and if you choose to click it, you were warned :)

It is T-minus 25 hours and 6 minutes until nano starts. AHHHH not prepared!! I had a flash of brilliance last night regarding my plot outline, which happened as I was laying in bed trying to sleep. I dutifully got up and wrote it down before I could forget it, and I'm glad that I did. A few things fell into place :) I don't think I'm ever ready for nano, lol.

I promised I would post this a couple weeks ago, and today it just occurred to me that since I got this from a free paper which has advertised their recipes on the website before, I could just copy it from the website rather than write it out by hand :)

Veggie Brown Rice Wraps Source
( Posted for posterity )

I am thinking about switching to Dvorak. This will be interesting, since work keyboards will be QWERTY.

I have lots more to write about, but zero interest in actually doing so :/

Wow, just found out that Patrick Swayze died today :( It's kind of ironic that my boss and I were just discussing his impending mortality on like, Friday. I think we were talking about what kinds of organs can be removed from one's body, and how awful cancers are, especially ones of pieces that can't be replaced or at least removed with minimal effect... (like, you can function on one kidney or one lung, but goodness knows you need your liver...)

I made a hat. It's still a little lopsided and it needs a band to protect my skin from the inside edge of the brim. Anything to distract myself...

And now I'm sleepy and going to bed. I SAID GOOD DAY!

AW HELL TODAY IS SAKI'S FOURTH "BIRTHDAY" and I'm just spending the evening being cranky.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAKI <3



Old picture is old...

And sappy owner is sappy and crazy. STFU I need something to cheer myself up today.

We were outside last night, just chillin, when there was a knock upon my door. Oops, I thought, are we being too loud, and someone is coming to tell us to knock it off?

Nope. It was a couple guys. Hi, he said, we got a call about water coming in downstairs. Can we come in and check?

Sure thing! I still have water coming in my bathroom too! :D

(The big bubble continued to drip even after it was popped, and the one over the bathtub had two spots dripping still.)

So now I have holes in my ceiling and a mess to clean up, but no more dripping!

And we weren't being too loud, but the timing was such that the guys came, everyone was starting to pull things in from outside, and then another HUGE MOFO WIND KICKED UP. Mae and Uncle Wes ran off to check on their open windows at their place (like 5 blocks away) and we played Dokapon Kingdom for a bit before the boys left and I went to bed.

I might have picked a new project for some of this linen I have kicking around, but I apparently didn't put all of the pattern pieces away when I made it the first time, so now there's two of the ones I need missing, and all the extras are gone too. I first made it over 4 years ago, I'm not sure where the loose pieces might even BE D:

Mum was over yesterday, too, and we started work on some Regency-era things :) I like the idea of the short-stays, and at Renovation in 2011, there will most likely be a Regency ball which would be fun to attend :D Now I kinda want to watch Pride & Prejudice today. I think I will.

Discovered bubbles in my bathroom wall yesterday O-o; Woke up this morning to a rather large one by the vent in the ceiling, which happens to be over the toilet. I don't know what's in the bubbles, but if its water, I don't want it to burst over my head D: I took some photos of their progress since yesterday morning, and I went to the office about an hour ago to show them. Someone is supposed to come soooooon.

ETA: Maintenance came, and the bubbles were indeed filled with water. It was clean water, at least, aside from the drywall dust mixed in. Now I have big bare patches on the ceiling, but no more bubbles waiting to burst on my head! :D

So, in preparation for workers tromping through here, and the impending patio party invasion this afternoon, I am cleaning :D

Vaccuuming!!!!! This is truly adulthood bliss.

Wind by Fumiko Orikasa as Rukia Kuchiki. It's been played over 300 times :D

(No Rukia icon.. stupid ads... Have an Orihime one instead!)

Picture from Saturday!

( In which we look mighty fab in front of our rail car. )

There's a couple other photos on Facebook that I tagged for myself at least, so if you're friends with me on FB, check 'em out :)

Boss-lady and I got out of work late today. We both caught a bus at the same time. Hers goes right when mine goes left. I get off on a street a little further south than hers, though I think hers goes further west, and she has to walk further than I do. Anyway, I think we both arrived at our respective homes at around the same time.

It has been incredibly hot and dry for the last almost-week. I think it really started last Friday. It's been at least 29C most days (85Fish?) and hit 32C (90F) today, with a forecast of winds picking up, and potential thunderstorms. When we left the mall, the sky was heavily overcast, with lightning playing in the clouds and I could see where it was raining, thought it hadn't started around me yet.

Get off the bus, and it's sprinkling. Stops a minute or two later. Turning around the corner to walk to my building, and all of a sudden, its WINDY AS FUCK. DIRT IS FLYING EVERYWHERE, there are signs being blown clean off their stakes, what looks like a miniature parachute is floating up to what looks like the fourth floor. I hide behind a dumpster for a moment to gather myself and brave the gales bursting down the street and between the buildings. I can't friggin' SEE for all the dirt being blown into my eyes and nose and mouth. It's still in my hair.

Cue EPIC STORM. Okay, maybe it wasn't as epic as the one that ripped through Edmonton in July and brought down part of the CN building, and it probably didn't collapse a stage and kill an innocent concert-goer, but holy heck! I called my boss to make sure she had made it into the house alright lol.

Now its still a little windy, and its not raining, and I can't tell if there's any more clouds. Man, did we ever pick a good time to go home.

Waaaah my paid account expired again ;_; I hate the ads. Boooo ads! Well, at least I have a different selection of icons this time...

Finished the main game part of Professor Layton 2 tonight :D

Made peanut butter marshmallow squares. They shall be nomilicious.

Now, a drink, and clean the cat box!