nanowrimo: day 2
2007-11-02 13:01:00
So, it's NaNoWriMo day two. I really really wish I could tell you that my novel is off to a great start.I really wish I could tell you it was off to any kind of start.But...I haven't written a single word. I haven't even opened a new Word document. I don't even know what I'm writing about. I wish I could take the novel I started last year, the one I had to abandon when my computer crashed. I really like that one, and I would love to finish it. But that would be cheating.Maybe I could just wait until day 11 or so--that's when the laptop died last year--and take up my last year's novel from then.Maybe?Nah, still cheating. Tempting, but cheating.This is the third year I have done NaNoWriMo. The first year I was newly pregnant with Bek and spent most of November sleeping. The second year--well, you know. So this year I am determined to finish my 50,000-word novel, if it kills me.And considering the fact that each November the housework goes undone for a month, if the writing doesn'
2007-10-29 22:38:00
I told hubby we should have bought new furniture this year!!!(Go Sox!!! I knew you could do it.)
2007-11-06 11:34:00
Just some random things I'm pulling together and calling a post:It's raining really hard. I just went to drop Devy off at the bus stop and got soaked. It reminds me of when I worked at the local renaissance faire (shut up, like you didn't know I was a dork by now!). When it rained like this, there would be puddles everywhere. But the ground was covered in wood chips, so unlike normal puddles, these puddles would have wood chips floating in them. So you wouldn't know there was a puddle there until you--whoops!--found it the hard way.Bek is quite the escape artist lately with regards to her clothes. You put her in for a nap and before you know it, poof! Two seconds later you check on her and she is completely buck naked, the diaper is on the floor, and she's sleeping in a puddle of pee. She has to wear footy pajamas all the time so we can safety-pin them together so she can't unzip 'em. And even then she manages to get them seriously wrenched out of whack.I just picked up this fre
i'm renaming the blog "the stupid things i do"
2007-11-09 09:04:00
Yesterday I was doing mad crazy laundry. Seriously, the clothes that five people go through! At some point I knocked a box of dryer sheets off the shelf above the washer and dryer. I figured it went behind the washer and dryer, but I couldn't see it anywhere. I thought I'd wait til hubby got home so he could move stuff around a bit and we could grab it, so I continued with the laundry.Much later I came by to unload the dryer and switch out the stuff from the washer.Yeah.As I'm pulling stuff out of the washer and throwing it in the dryer, I notice there are dryer sheets stuck in with the clothes.That's weird, I think. There shouldn't be any dryer sheets in there...Then I notice there are bits of...stuff..in there too.Oh no. Oh no no no no NO!Oh yes. The box of dryer sheets fell into the freakin washer while I wasn't looking. And that washer did a job on that box too. Tore it to shreds.So I had to take all the rest of the clothes out--and they were covered in cardboard box shreds,
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2007-11-07 11:45:00
Do you ever get to feeling like you would like to just tell the entire world to go shove it?!I get like that sometimes.I need a vacation.I need for this school year to be over already.For now I guess I have to settle for more coffee.
two more days, and a contest
2007-11-16 14:25:00
I was supposed to post this on my Zumba/weight-loss blog, but oops. Here ya go.So...two more days until the most-excellent workshop with Tanya in CT. I'm excited!!!! I have to figure out what the heck to wear, since Tanya's email suggested bringing two sets of clothes.Did I mention she sent me an email?!Oh, alright. She sent the same exact email to everyone else who is going to the workshop, but hey, I felt pretty cool anyhow. ;)So yeah--two sets of clothes that I can be comfy sweating in in front of lots of other people and my very favorite Zumba instructor. Hm...I'll definitely be wearing as much Zumba gear as possible--the tee and tank Lee sent me, my bracelets if I get them in time, my jacket...gotta represent! :)Oh and the contest...Get a load of this! All us Zumba instructors have been challenged to a choreography contest. We have to pick a song from the new CD we just got and develop our own choreography to it. Then we videotape ourselves performing the song and send it in. T
2007-11-14 23:16:00
Holy freakin cow, I suck at NaBloPoMo. It's been a week since I posted! Oh well, it's still more than I usually post, right?Now...what was it I came here to write about?Um...Hey, do you get a lot of catalogs in the mail this time of year? I swear, from October to March we must get like 20 a day. First it's "Buy me for Christmas!" Then it's "Buy me while I'm sale! Get your Christmas shopping done early!!" And rather than giving me good ideas on what to buy other people, they only seem to make my own wishlist bigger. ;)Eeesh.I'm thinking of drawing our Christmas cards this year. Just a thought, not sure exactly whether or how I'd do it. We usually do picture cards, but I figure we could just get pictures printed and stick them in the cards. The only thing is it is so EASY to get the picture cards--you just tell them what picture, what design, and what you want printed on the cards so you don't even have to sign them! Which is good, y'know, when you have like 200 cards to send. H
getting ready for christmas
2007-12-12 00:05:00
Just a few random things about this beautiful Christmas season:Our house looks like a little kid designed it. Well, that's kind of true: hubby asked the kids how they wanted the house to be decorated this year, and they told him. So there are purple lights on the swing set, red and white candy cane stripes on the tree, red and green on the front stairs, and I don't know what else. It's very colorful--but part of me wants to rearrange it into something a little more aesthetically appealing. Like, oh, I dunno--all white lights. Boring! I know it! I caved on the Christmas tree this year too. We've had a white light tree forever, but this year the kids begged for colored lights and I said OK. Gag! Good thing the kids are so cute when they beg...I'm wondering how much longer til Jo catches on with the whole jolly big man thing. We keep getting package delivery trucks--FedEx, UPS, DHL--all addressed to daddy, all from places like toycamp.com and discoverytoys.com so I'm just waiting fo
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this would have made college a WHOLE lot easier
2008-01-25 22:50:00
www.easybib.com . You type in all the information for the sources you want to quote in your paper or whatever, and it spits out the citation in MLA format.I could have seriously used that 5 to 10 years ago. Internets! Where were you when I needed you?!
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2008-01-24 13:19:00
I'm sitting here watching A Knight's Tale, one of my all-time favorite movies.I can't freaking believe this kid isn't going to make any more movies.He was a year younger than me.With a daughter.This sucks.
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2007-09-17 22:57:00
Craziness!School is back in session, which means the Tragically Unhip household has been inundated with paperwork.Cuz, y'know, it just wouldn't be school if they weren't sending home requests for volunteers for the school parent association (gag me), the library, the computer room, the school fair, the school store, the fundraisers, and the school walk; reminders to send payments for school lunches, school pictures, book fairs, and student magazine subscriptions (for which the teachers sign up the kids and then demand payment from the parents); memos on a thousand different school policies, and on and on.Then, for parents stupid enough to provide their telephone numbers, there are the twice or three-times-weekly prerecorded telephone calls reminding parents of upcoming events. The upcoming
happy Easter!
2008-03-24 15:07:00
OK so I'm a day late but I couldn't let my favorite day of all year go by without an Easter
greeting so here you go! I tried getting the song to play but all I have for you is the lyrics so if you can, rent VeggieTales--An Easter Carol and hear this beautiful, glorious, joyous song yourself. :)There’s a story that started on ChristmasWhen a baby was born in the nightAnd those who came far, who followed the starWere seeing a heavenly sight ...a heavenly sight.Well the years hurried by, and the boy, now a manCould make the blind see with a touch of his handHe was born to be King -- he was Rabbi and PriestBut the best that he had, he gave to the least ...He gave to the least.He was born and he died, almost 2,000 years agoHe laughed and he cried, he felt all the fears we knowBut what does it
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