If you did it say you did it, if you didn't suck it up and say you did!

Had a lovely 8 days off for my birthday. Only now I'm 25 and that's a little bit daunting. I went to Seattle to go on the Underground Tour, it was pretty great, even though I didn't get the tour guide that I wanted. It's still a really interesting tour of places that you don't often get to see. Also found the coolest toy shop in Pioneer Square with the best coloring books of all time. I got a paisley pattern one and a geometric shapes one and a fairy one. So, I love coloring books ^_^

Other than that I spent the week having super vivid and ridiculous dreams. At least two of them involved zombies (to be expected since I used my B&N gift certificates on some The Walking Dead comic books, they are horribly scary) but those dreams are too far away for me to remember any details.

But then, I had a dream where I was in a camp/school thing with basically everyone I had ever had a class with throughout Kindergarten through high school. And it was a musci class being led by Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione (YAY!) and I was whispering to my friend Lynae that I thought Brian was super attractive, and she thought I should tell him, and I think essentially Brian heard the entire conversation and then I woke up out of embarassment right as we were all about to head off to health class. This also all took place in a barn with a big sliding door that looked back into a field with a tractor in it. I don't know how that fits in.

I also had a dream that I had a flying pirate ship (I am so bad ass in my dreams). I had to park it above a house and climb down (every house was like it's own little world within a world) I had to do something down there with inverse colored tigers that were ghosts of people or something really bizarre like that. When I climbed back up to my Pirate ship it was under attack and Derek had used a special paste he made from kitty litter to patch the hole and was now trying to steer the ship defensively while Whitney was running around crazily firing off small wooden cannons (half of which were missing) and using wooden tennis rackets to lob things at the attacking ships. At that point it was so weird I had to wake up.

So, I have now summed up my very strange dreams, that definitely rate up there with my mythbusters apocalypse dream (that one was awesome). I really do love dreaming vividly.

I go Christmas shopping tomorrow and I've got to find a way to get myself out of bed by 10am...argh, I am not a get up that early person. However, the crowd should be severely less if I can get to the mall that early...oh life is very very hard. :P

There Will Still be no...Air to Breathe

I don't know if I can really comprehend how much I missed Conan O'Brien being on TV. Seriously, him being back is so amazingly awesome that I can't really cause it to make sense in my mind. His humor is so much better than anyone else on late night TV. I don't know why, he makes me laugh much better than anyone else. And the whole he's a red head thing definitely probably helps on some strange subconscious level.

Reached my word goal for today for Nanowrimo. I'm keeping about 3 days ahead. Which is good. I hope to reach about 21,500 be tomorrow sometime, or maybe a little bit more. It's going kind of slow. I'm really good at the beginning and knowing where the story is going to end, but I'm really bad at the whole middle part, and sometimes things don't go the way I think they are going to go.

Mary and I finished watching Fruits Basket today and I really wish there was more of it. Sad Face. I hope that my Sherlock blu-ray gets here before Christmas. Stupid back ordering. Oh well. I got lots of Barnes and Nobles gift cards for my birthday and intend upon hitting B&N tomorrow after dropping off some birthday cake at my grandparents house. I'm hoping my birthdayness doesn't set me back too much in my diet, but I think if I keep up with the exercising and keep track of my calories that I will be fine.

I haven't watched the second episode of The Walking Dead yet. It's kind of a scary show. And I need to find it online.

I think that's all I have to say. Later interweb peeps. I gotta watch Conan.

Unless you have Friends Among Fish

Writing today has been like pulling teeth. Which could be because I really don't know where this characters storyline is going...AGH! Oh well, it's a first draft and I don't need to know anything and incredible long periods of characters monologueing in their heads is perfectly alright...word count, word count, word count!

Um...finally started reading Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman. I may only be reading it because Michael Whelan is the cover artist and I love him...I love him soooooo much. He has done the covers of all my most favorite novels. Which I think says something about his caliber as an artist. And usually it's very clear that he's read an ARC copy of the book before he made the painting that eventually became the books cover. I want my house covered in his paintings. They are awesome.

I really think that's about all I have to say. My brain is awfully blank today...must have been all the sleep I got this morning/last night.

This Ship of Fools I'm on Will Sink

So far I'm keeping up really well with nanowrimo. I'm at 12,000+ words, so that puts me almost 4 days ahead of myself. Which is where I want to be heading into the weekend, since I won't have as much time to write while I'm at work. I don't want to work this weekend...oh well. I feel like I'm not getting out enough, or that I'm supposed to be doing different things. This is probably just all in my head and it's just making me crazy because it's that time of November where I always get kind of crazy and weird emotionally. Blegh. Make it stop please. I like to use nanowrimo as an escape from it and it does seem to keep me from dwelling quite so much. Cuz I'm a big dweller on of things. Le sigh.

I guess it's just an whelming sense of ennui that this time of November brings for me. Because I really don't feel that you can be overwhelmed by ennui, that wouldn't make any sense.

I'm relatively excited to watch the show The Walking Dead. It's a zombie post-apocalypse show. Just what TV needs.

Also had a delicious dinner for my mom's birthday at Sarah's house tonight. Sarah and I spent literally all day making a red wine marinated roast. It was delicious, but I'm not quite sure it was worth all of that work. However delicious it was. The creme brulee was totally worth it however...mmmmm, creme brulee...I loves it.

I really think that's all I have to go on about tonight. I need to organize my bookshelves at some point. I'm thinking by subject and alphabetically. Maybe? I'm not sure.

You're like a buzz, looking for a bee

Nanowrimo is going very well for me so far. My goal is to always be at least a day ahead and this isn't so hard on my days off at all. It's probably going to get harder on my days at work, but hopefully they will decently staffed and I will have some time to write while I'm at work. Because falling behind is what kills me. Also just getting trapped in long inner monologues, and strange conversations between characters. I need more action. Action is a catalyst for stuff! AGH!

Finished a book called The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook...it was a good light reading, smutty, steampunk book. My universe is very flexible so chances are that any book I read this month will somehow bleed into my work. Hopefully in ways that aren't easily recognizable to people who don't either know me really well or have a time line of the books that I am reading.

Also, blew my mom's mind tonight by showing her a clip for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's rally to restore sanity and/or fear. I showed her Cat Stevens on stage with Ozzy Osbourne and both Stewart and Colbert arguing over whether it was a Peace Train or a Crazy Train and finally deciding it was a Love Train (though Stephen just wasn't sure). Mom kept just being like Cat Stevens...I can't believe this is happening. It was kind of hilarious. Then I blew her mind more because a guy who I went to high school with was on a TV show airing on animal planet tonight (how sad that we don't get animal planet, I promised I'd find it online for her somewhere). It's a show called Lost Tapes where they do little stories about supposed 'lost tapes' from people who got attacked by urban myth-ie animals. So, that should be interesting as he will undoubtedly be the WHITEST PERSON ON SCREEN EVER. I'll still watch it and laugh really hard.

That's about all I have for this evening before I'm back to Nano-ing! Good luck for November party people!