late nights, bright lights

I've hit my 1500 every day since um, the fourth? Something like that. I'm pretty much awesome.

I'm working on my spn_hetexchange story and I've gotta say, I don't hate it. YAY ME. Not to mention I'm thinking it's about 50% done.

Also been spending all too much time writing zombie fic. It was like a bolt of lightning that came down from the undead heavens and struck me in the brain. Never before felt the need for zombies and yet now it's all I want from life. Weird, right?

It would be really good for me to watch a zombie movie right now, right, to get in the mood, to pick up some tricks... Except we don't own any and even if we did I would probably be too terrified to watch them alone. So I'm starting to watch Red Dwarf instead.

So on day 7 of Write Until We Die July, @ 1500 words a day, we should be at 10,500 words. I had some failtastic days to start, so I'm a little behind. Catch up days, today and tomorrow! 2k a day for the next two days will put me exactly where I need to be (less one word which I will have to find some way to jam in there). I know you don't care about the numbers, but I like being able to math it out. Yes, math can be a verb.




Yeeeeeah, that's groovy.

I'm dyin' here guys.

Well, metaphorically, anyways.

Didn't hit anywhere near my goal yesterday. Like shamefully far from it. Hoping for a better night tonight.

I think one of my biggest problems is the sheer number of partially started projects I have and my inability to decide what to focus on. If I could just finish one thing, I have a feeling my sense 'oh god, I am made of suck' will go away a little. I just need that self esteem boost. So, you know, writing about it in my LJ definitely helps. *facepalm*

My other major problem is my inability to get past the fact that Big Bang #2 doesn't have a map. I guess I'm a visual person when it comes to that kind of thing and I am having mondo trouble working on this story without the city mapped out. epiphanyx7 would be able to fix me. *longs*

Anyways. Back to the drawing board (which is actually a hardcover book and a broken pencil held together with yarn).


(plus half a map!)


Also very important and the reason I have selected that icon for today's update is the fact that I am hungry and yet unable to eat until Katie gets home. SAD DAY.

WRITE UNTIL WE DIE JULY FAQ AND SOME INFORMATION NO ONE ASKED ABOUT

After much deliberation and discussion, TPTB have come up with the following guidelines for Write Until We Die July

~ The challenge is supposed to be challenging. That's what makes it powerful, mean and a little evil fun. If you don't think you can make an honest attempt at the goal of 1500 words a day, perhaps this is not the challenge for you this time around. That's not to say we don't want you, because we do. We want you bad. But we also want everyone striving for the same goal.

~ The official AIM chat of this challenge is WUDJ. Aces! Get yourself into chat or ping me (unavoidedcrisis) for an invite. After your first or second time, you'll probably have a screen name for someone else you can ping if I am not online (I do sleep sometimes, guys).

~ The official Twitter hash tag of Write Until We Die July is #WUDJ. Double aces! Use it, abuse it, lurk it when you can't get on AIM...

~ If you are being a jerkass to someone, you're booted. Lookit Miguel's serious face up there. He means business folks. And yeah, it's just AIM and we're not the police*, but there's no cause to be rude, even if you disagree with someone. I don't think this will be an issue.

~ When you hit your daily goal of 1500 min., you have to tell whomever is around. If someone tells you they have hit their goal, you have to make a big fat hairy deal about it. Streamers and cake and maybe fashion them a crown of daisies. This sort of challenge will fall apart without team spirit. And we're all on team writer. ♥

~ We'd also like to see you get your blog on (more words, egads!). You can keep track of your progress that way, and the rest of us can track it too!

~ You can start at midnight in your time zone and must be finished on July 31st at midnight in your own time zone (Technically, August 1st). a day, however, can be measured by 'midnight to midnight' or from 'wake up to sleeping again'. That's a personal preference.

~ Any further comments or questions can be left here. You can also PM me, IM me or tweet about it. You can post something to your LJ and maybe I'll see it, or hire a skywriter. I am sitting under a window, after all. Basically, don't hesitate to ask or speak up.





* ... yet.

I know that this might be a wildly unpopular opinion, but I have been refraining from saying it for so long that I think it's actually caused me physical pain. bluehippos, I know you're never going to speak to me again for this, but I need to put it out there.

I intensely dislike Wil Wheaton. He drives me up the frickin' wall. He always has.

THERE I SAID IT AND I'M NOT TAKING IT BACK. I feel a lot better now, how about you guys?

Got some awesome postcards in the mail today. They have horses on them. I'm pretty stoked to use them.

Started my story for spnrarepairs sometime between yesterday and today. It's strange and I'm scared. Someone should hold me. Or agree to beta it for me. Or both. Yeah, probably both. It's like, almost 900 words of O.o

Favourite Doctor Who quote of all time: Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.*

And on that note, did anyone else who watched 5x11 kind of want a Doctor Who/Stonehenge Apocalypse crossover? Anybody? Bueller? Just me and my crazy crossover brain again? Alright then. I'll be over here, plotting and stroking my plotting beard. I can see it already. This would be the cover, with clearly what would be the best title of anything ever (Cover mock-up contains vague spoilers for Who and S.A.). I need to stop thinking of crossovers before I get myself in trouble.

epiphanyx7 is moving today. Moving far, far away from me. I am sad and also thirsty. It's pretty much the worst mix of feelings ever.



*Gibbs would not approve.

- The housing board cut down the tree outside my window :(
- I am having nachos for breakfast
- Wrote a measly amount of words last night with cherie_morte, but have at least started my assignment for spn_hetexchange
- Someone remind me never to sign up for anything ever again because all these things are kicking my ass
- I blame epiphanyx7 for making me think writing was fun. YOU LIAR.
- I quite possibly have the dumbest leopard gecko in the world. He tried to crawl under his water dish and then started like... cheeping at me when his foot got stuck and he needed a rescue. Four minutes later, he's trying it again.
- Katie is still under the impression she's allowed to leave me. Which she's not. Ever.

( Thirty Days of Television, Day Four )

( Thirty Days of Television Meme, Day Five )

I think I have an attention span that actually rates in the negatives.

AHHH MOST INSANE WEEKEND OF MY LIFE.

Saturday was the nationwide Rally Day we held in celebration of 100 years of Guiding in Canada. On the bus by 7am with almost 200 girls from North Bay, we headed to Sudbury where we met up with 400-500+ girls and spent the day learning, creating, running, jumping, shouting, singing, talking and getting rained on. Luckily the rain cleared up. Unluckily, the shouting did not. I am definitely feeling the burn today. Fifteen hours is a very long day to spend with that many young girls and even though I was only personally responsible for 7, I do very much think they were a very rambunctious 7.

We had tons of fun though, despite a few instances when I had to snap at them. I am so glad I got to be a part of that. It's nice to feel like a part of something.

We got home around 9 and I was passed out by 9:45 and slept pretty much right through until 9 this morning. It did not feel like enough sleep.

Today, Sparky, Katie and I went to the dog rescue. As per usual, there were a whole bunch of dogs. The love of my life, Sandy, is still there and was in an absolutely foul mood and refused to cuddle me at all. Hear that? That is my heart and soul breaking into tiny pieces. Seriously. Next week, I will win his love.

That's if we go next week, I mean, because this week we did something a little different. We signed up to be foster parents. So we brought home Abby today. She's about 6-7 months old, Dane x Lab cross and she is very quickly learning her name and 'sit' and 'down'. She's even working on 'come' and 'off.' I'm very impressed with her smarts. Mostly though, I am impressed with her giant frickin' paws. Seriously, like dinner plates. She's going to be a huge freaking dog. According to the plan, she'll be with us for 2 weeks and hopefully will learn all her manners by then so she'll find her forever home. Pixie is doing really good with Abby, which is good because we weren't sure how she was going to react. McLovin, of course, is suffering like a mad thing because HOMG DOG.

After Abby, I am going to convince (blackmail? threats of violence?) Katie that we need to foster Sandy and heal his broken heart.

( Sandy - my one true (dog) love )

In short, AHHH TIRED. And AHH SUN BURN. On my arms and the back of my neck and my poor, unfortunate lips.

And then after dinner (aka: just now) I signed up for rpf_big_bang and deancasbigbang. So. Um. AUGH. As if November wasn't already close enough to be breathing down my neck. Wish me luck as I embark on two challenges that involve two things I've never attempted to write before.

I feel like I need to validate my choice. I know in the past I've been all 'pssh, Dean/Castiel as a romantic pairing, dnw.' And to be very honest, I still pretty much feel this way. The story I plan to write does not change it. It does not make me a hypocrite, it makes me a more mature, accepting person who is expanding her horizons. Also, I'm psyched for the plot. Okay, that sounded desperate. Whatever. It's cool, I'll do what I want.

Bean and I finished the draft for our AU Big Bang fic. I can honestly say I have never been more excited for something I helped create in a long time. So it's got to be beta'd and then a few more edits, but then it's going to be DONE and it will have art and awesomeness and man pain.

In other news, I might have strep throat. First time in 2010 and it's April. That's actually a pretty good record. I haven't had any major illness yet this year. Go me and my shitty immune system.

This morning, Katie, Adam and I drove up to Sudbury. And I got a gecko. Yeeeeeah! She is actually a he, so my perfect name was dashed to pieces. And he's not a regular morph; he's actually a lot lighter. I think he is a very handsome fellow. He has a purple tail!

He actually likes being handled, which is cool. And you're holding him, he likes to lick the heck out of you. Right now, he's hunting some crickers. He's very ferocious.

( First Photos )

So I'm super stoked about this. He desperately needs a name, of course. I like Leoben (a la Battlestar Galactica) or Clarence. His middle name will be Pepperoni because that is a kickass middle name. Thoughts?

After almost three weeks apart, Freddy got home this morning. I intend to cuddle him for hours.

I went on a friending spree last night... I wonder what brought that on?

Anyways, hello everyone (except epiphanyx7. You can f.o.) and if you're dying to know more about me than is available in my profile, check out my TOTALLY AWESOME INTRO POST from the other day.

In other news!

1. McLovin bit me hard enough to draw blood. From my eyelid.

2. I have redone my lj layout and I'm still not happy with it. I don't think I'll ever be happy with it.

3. Getting my gecko has been postponed until further notice because the person I am getting her from is in Costa Rica (or somewhere) until further notice.

4. I have decided who my superhero alter ego would be (details and pictures later?).

5. I had a lightning storm in my mind yesterday and I want to sign up for the next round of apocabigbang except I have no idea when/if that would be happening and um, way to miss the boat by a matter of months there. Also, wth, don't you remember the au_bigbang fiasco that you somehow fell into and that is still in progress? (The main problem is a simple lack of boobies. I hope to fix this in upcoming scenes. I'm hoping my partner doesn't notice)

GUYS.

I posted my story for help_haiti.

I actually finished a story.

I actually finished a story and I don't hate it! This hasn't happened since like... '07!

This calls for all sorts of George!



Yessssssssssssssssssssssss.

fic is here, btw, and it's ridiculous.

Days 'o' Blog Count: 29/31

Went to Bean's and watched Newsies and Center Stage. Newsies rocked (as per usual), Center Stage was ridiculously, hilariously bad. I will pretend it was bad on purpose.

Bean's cat makes me miss having a normal cat. My cat is so wicked and bloodthirsty, it's like living with a storybook Viking instead of a fluffy feline.

We're still working on our AU big bang. I would like to say I am awesome and making things fly along at an alarmingly brisk pace, but in truth I have written one sentence, I think, that is still hanging on and hasn't been edited out yet. Fingers crossed, it'll make it to the final draft.

31 Days 'o' Blog Super Special Fun Features
Quote of the Day: Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. [John Esrkine]

Fact of the Day: A person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute.

Pretty Picture of the Day: ( here )

Song of the Day: 'Goin Out West' Tom Waits. This song makes me feel something. I'm not sure what.

The Final Thought: I need to stop hanging out with Bean because she makes bad things happen (in the best way).