Every long day should begin with tea.

Susan Currier invited me to be one of the chosen few people at her table that she set up at the Ladies Christmas Tea event her church was throwing. There were twelve hostesses and each set up a table and invited people they wanted to sit with them. It was all very pretty. I had to drive out to North Pole and back in one morning, BY MYSELF and I like never go out there so I went the wrong way there and back, but I got to the places I needed to be!

That was from 11-1 and I had to be back at the University for choir practice at 2. We stood around a lot and then finally got some serious practicing done and luckily got done a little early before 5 because I had to be downtown at 5 for a dinner thing with the NaNoWriMo people for a “Thank God It’s Over” party. Also… I got a rad cheap plastic “winner” medal. Totally what I worked my ass off for. I had no idea where the restaurant was and it took me about half an hour to find.

After that I went all the way back over to Chena Pump to hang out with Jeremiah and Morgan and Tina and alllllll those kids at Jer’s house. It was for “movie night” but we ended up playing charades for like 3 HOURS. It was awesome. Probably the best game of charades I’ve ever played sans Laurel. (We used to be the charades champions.) So that was a pretty great end to my crazy hectic day. And I just slept until 1. Which I am not pleased about, but apparently my body needed it because I was still sleepy when mom woke me up and probably would have slept longer. It’s alright. I wanted a start on homework before the concert.

BLAST OFF TO BREAKFAST!

Nirvana on a Friday Night

I don’t really know why. But I’m listening to Nirvana. It seemed like a good idea. Nirvana was one of my favorite bands in 9th grade. Now it serves as a strange flash back.

Today: My lab partner ditched on me, so I ended up just hanging out at the University and I found out that KSUA, the college radio station is hiring, so I might get a job there since I’m applying. I don’t know though, I have a lame resume. So after a bit I went home and had dinner. I think it either sat badly with me or I was hungry later, ’cause I was feeling weird during choir. I had choir from 8 to 10:30 or so. Which was absurd. We had to stand around while the other pieces were done, instead of going off the stage, and we have another rehearsal tomorrow from 2-5 apparently. I’m not too enthused, but it’s pretty fun once we’re performing, so it’s all worth it.

After that I caught the end of game night. I watched Morgan and Shan play Left 4 Dead 2 and gave Shan a ride home. That was pretty nice. Tomorrow I’m getting up early to shower in time to get out to North Pole for a tea party. Yes. I’m starting my day with 11 o’clock tea. I love it. It’s like 3:30 and I want to get up at 9 so… GNIGHT!

HUUURCUT. HAIR CUT!

As you may have guessed by the title of the post, I got a HAIR CUT! YAY! I’ve been wanting a hair cut since before NaNoWriMo, so I just chopped off my bangs and decided to wait until after as a reward to myself. I win. Check out these rad before and after pictures:

Pre-Haircut

Post-Haircut

I freaking love getting my hair cut because it feels so foofy and nice on the ends and it smells all pretty. Mostly, I love having someone else washing my hair. It’s kind of awesome. ALSO I love my hair stylist lady, Karrie Ann, because she went out on her own instead of sticking with the salon she was working at previously. Also, she gave me a discount from what it normal was, which was really nice. She’s really great, basically I tell her how short and she makes it look fantastic. I love how that works. Also, she’s really fun to talk to. She has a daughter who is really similar to me. It makes me happy.

Hey ya’ll. You should listen to Danielle Ate the Sandwich. She is pretty fantabulous and really makes me happy. I love a lot of things about the way she sings (Oh shit, rhyming!), but mostly, she’s a pretty fun person and really inspires me. That was a link to her website, you should look at her youtube videos, as well, though.

I have to go read my novel hard core, and then email it to Max. Tomorrow is a brand new day. Gnight all!

I’ll mix your tape.

I’ve watched a ton of videos on youtube and fell in love with christmas music all over again. By the way, I made an album of what I think of as the key christmas songs everyone should have for max. If you would like it shared to you I have it on my dropbox for download. It’s really the ultimate large christmas selection. The only problem is that it’s so large: 144.2 mb. If anyone is interested, comment away, and I will compile you a smaller selection of my personal favorites, or I can send you a link to the shared folder with all of them.

That reminds me: If you ever want an awesome mix cd? I’m the person to talk to. I love making them, and they are only really fun when I can make them for other people. SO! If you want a different kind of mix tape that isn’t holiday oriented, that could also be arranged. -wink- Just leave me a comment or shoot me an email. I may start compiling actual mix cds that would be open for download, but I have to figure all that out first. : )

Other news includes: At the end of psychology tonight the teacher asked us to write down something weve never told anyone else before on a piece of paper and give it to him, so he could read them out loud. It was really hard to think of something, but then after a bit he was like ALIRGHT just write something down. So I did. He turned off the lights and  sat at the front and read them out loud. He wanted it to be a comparison to how therapy works… its hard to tell someone everything youve never said before, but it feels good to be able to do it and have it confidential. Afterward he asked us if we would write something else if we had to do it again, and most of us agreed yes. This also illustrated how therapy takes a few times to really work because you have to build up that trust. It was very interesting, but also nice.

That is exactly what postsecret is all about. People are able to send in their secrets anonymously and have someone else read them. Some are posted on the website every weekend, some end up in books, and some are read at events. People need that chance to share things about themselves because it feels GOOD to get them out. No one has to know it is yours, but knowing someone knows that it is there helps somehow. I’m going to sleep, Buddy fell asleep in my chair across the room and it’s adorable. Go check out postsecret. Maybe someone has your secret. I have a link in that sidebar —->

Procrastination Station

I should be doing math, but I ended up drawing owls out of the vertexes. Vertices?

What can I say, strangely proportioned woman? I love owls.

These owls are fantastically cute and you probably should just admit it.

I started listening to christmas music and looking up videos on youtube about two hours ago and still haven’t any of the copious things I should be doing. AND NOW I’M BLOGGING. Great.

You should probably go draw some owls next time you feel overwhelmed. They have these cute little eyes and funny beaks. Coordinates for a point has never been so inspiring!

I recently bought 50 christmas songs on itunes for 10 dollars. AWESOME DEAL? I THINK SO! And I’m making max the ultimate christmas CD for someone who doesn’t have christmas music. I have about a hundred and eighty christmas songs on my computer and more somewhere in the house. Have I mentioned that I love christmas? Go draw some owls. I gotta work. More later.

READ IT

That is the current Novel step. Read and title it. Max and I are skyping ideas back and forth. He just suggested, “How about the title “I hate children”". It apparently applied to someone he knew and titles for an advertising project. Classy.

I had choir today, which was hard core. I need to do a presentation thursday for english, another next tuesday or thursday for sociology, that thursday i have a lab report due for plant bio, and then another presentation AND research paper due for psychology and a research paper for english the next week. AHHHHHH!!! And theres a concert sunday. HUGE ASS HOLIDAY CONCERT! I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. Tomorrow I’m going to do some research and read my novel through, and go to psych. I’m dying of tired and need to crash and sleep in. Toodles.

30: Days of night.

So, as you saw, I finished last night. My novel is finished. That means that I won! And it also means that you will be getting regular posts again. I’m going to be editing this novel for the rest of the week. I feel alright about it as a whole, and luckily have tons of people waiting to read it. Right now, I need to do a quick read through for shit errors, not content and then give it to people. I really want to print it to edit for real, but… let’s see how many pages…

50,105 words. One Hundred and Two pages.

Mom would not be happy. I may have to buy some paper. It just feels good to physically edit it. That word count is palindromic, which makes me happy. I also need a good title, so if any of you have awesome titles… I’d love to steal them. Peter and I have considered “Coconut pie”, “Pie In A Nameless Town”, “Chasm of Dreams: A novel”, “Your Bottomless Wish”, ”Inter State” (The best so far), and if he had ended up in Montana: “Highway to Helena”. I suck at titles.

Other news: I ate a pomegranate today for my reward, and I was extremely happy with it. I really want to cut my hair. Mom made turkey enchiladas for dinner at my suggestion. It was surprisingly good. I just don’t think I can take it to school with me. Soon mom will make her infamous post-thanksgiving turkey pizzas. Strange? Yes. Delicious? Actually, yes. It’s so past time to sleep. Max is a horrible influence on me. Gnight.

29: NaNoOhNo!

I went to D&D today. That was pretty freaking fun. Sam is a zombie now, because he died and this dick grey elf brought him back and left us with an undead hydra that just followed us around. A big theocratic town was like hey you can’t come in, so we just sent Dalton in and Sam and I rode around in the boat, and tried to teach the hydra to sit. I named it beatrice, but Sam and Dalton wanted it to be named farkle. Wtf. Beatrice is a much nicer hydra name. Then we teleported back to our home base where the grey elf is from and the rest of our buddies killed the hydra and we stopped before the oncoming dinner and discussion about what to do with undead sam and everything. I drove back home so mom could take the car. Now I’m writing my face off for NaNoWriMo since I haven’t made any progress yet today and I have to get it in by midnight tomorrow. AHH DEADLINES! More later.

4:30- My ass is asleep but I have 6,000 words to go! Buddy is being adorable and sleeping on my lap while I work, but that means an extra 25 pounds on my lap and not being able to shift at all. That’s alright. I can man up and deal with it.

6:15- Feeling hungry and it’s only 5,000 words to go. Samwich time? Yes. Yes, I think it is. Turkey leftovers samwich plus delicious sweet potatoes to fuel my awesomeness. LOVE IT! Mom made a turkey last night.

7:00- Back on track from 5,000. Dinner was so yummy. I love sweet potatoes so much.

7:30- Okay, seriously writing now. Damn it.

8:30- 4,000 words to go and going to decorate that tree.

9:30- Dude that tree looks awesome!

10:45- Okay seriously have to write. MORE WORDS WILL SLOUGH AWAY! (ew.)

11:30- People are done distracting me. Almost 500 words written. /deaaaath. After this thousand I’m presenting myself with pie.

12:20- Okay 3,000 to go. Pumpkin pie time!

1:55- 2,400 to go. Peter distracted me with discussion about the xmen character Colossus, who has the coolest name: Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin. Fuck yeah. Plus Colossus is not only the most intensely strong one, he is incredibly sweet and innocent and surprisingly noble. I used to have a huge crush on him. Back to words.

2:25- 2,000 words to go! I need to get some junk done in this novel RIGHT NOW.

3:00- Digging back in… Peter is being rararar about my ending and wanting it to be less happy. I want a happy ending that leaves them in a good place. I think they’re going to be happy for now, kids.

4:00- 1,000 words to go!!!!!! We are almost done!

4:30- I’m DONE!!! I FUCKING FINISHED!  This novel is DONE! I need to sleep now. It’s been fun. This is insane. Seriously. I just wrote a novel. I have to like read it through tomorrow now for grammar. Right now I deserve some sleep… Goodnight everyone!

28: days later…

From last night:

Today was a pretty fun day. I had a write in and apparently I am way ahead of some people who expect to finish. I have officially 42,797 words as of this second. That means about 7,000 words to go until I am DONE and I WIN! That is terrifyingly awesome! I’m kind of nervous about whats going to happen with this book in the next couple days. Adrian has run away and Neil is out looking for her. I’ve almost reached my “finding” scene which is supposed to be full of emotion and love and awesomeness, but I’m not sure I have the skillz necessary to make this happen. I really hope I do. Maybe I should just make them get together and then have Adrian jump off the Grand Canyon. Do people do that? (I won’t have her do that. I put a lot of work into creating her, I don’t really want to take it back.)

At the write in I got to pick my prize second because I was second farthest on my novel. There were four people there and four prizes so everything worked out. Murray showed up later and we laughed ’cause he didn’t get a prize. There were two pomegranates and two chocolate things. I, of course, picked a pomegranate. I LOVE POMEGRANATE! Freeeeeeeee Pomegranaaaaaaaaate! <3

So, then I went to Morgan’s house for his birthday party. We watched The Ring and the first Resident Evil movie, neither of which I had seen previously. The ring was surprisingly well done, atmospherically. It really was quite creepy, but it had almost a nice ending, which was a little stupid. Over all it was kind of cheesy. I was expecting a lot more death and to feel a lot more creeped out. Resident Evil, on the other hand, was awful acting wise and the plot wasn’t awesome, actually the effects weren’t even good. BUT! It was seriously a little terrifying. I was sitting pretty close and I ended up jumping at a TON of things, including when Brian sneezed and I about died of fright. That was hilarious. So, now I have to watch the rest some time. : )

27: Thanksgiving/Black Friday: Recap

Thanksgiving at the Theisen’s was pretty fun. My only complaint was that they didn’t have a big table so half of us, the kids, had to sit at a different table. That was pretty lame, but we infiltrated later on and chatted together. I love talking with the adults. Whenever I was at my parents parties as a kid I would avoid the kids my age and listen to my parents and their family friends talk about insurance and building and jobs and stuff. It was way more interesting to me and if I had something to say I could speak up, and feel important. I loved listening to their stories, and I’m pretty sure it’s because my parents don’t talk about the past much.

Later that night I came home and laid around downstairs and watched some late night television. Apparently Robin Williams and John Travolta got drunk together like 30 years ago and crashed a black wedding. Robin commented that that would make a hilarious movie in and of itself. Then I got in contact with Shannon after her thanksgiving stuff was over. We planned to meet up and go morning shopping. I picked her up and we got to Old Navy by 3am. We looked around and didn’t find anything we wanted, so we left and decided to go to her house and nap until the Magic Carpet sale, which was the only one I really wanted to go to, at 8am. We got to sleep around 4:30 and I woke up and tried to convince Shan to go shopping, but she just wanted to sleep. We ended up sleeping in and watching tv. It was pretty fun anyways, I suppose.

After “dinner” I went up to the U to meet up with Morgan, Jeremiah, and Carl to go to the game night again and play some Left 4 Dead. Everything was locked up, so we went over to Morgan’s and played video games there. After a bit everyone decided to play magic. Morgan and I refuse to play every time, so we went to go play Left 4 Dead on his computer and switch off. It was pretty awesome. I came home and was going to return my movies, but I guess Mom did it for me. I think we’re cooking our own turkey sometime this weekend. That should be interesting. Time for me to sleep. I have a lot of writing to catch up on tomorrow!