1. Despite working only 2 1/2 days this week, it has seemed very long. Hmmmm. But yay FRIDAY!

2. I'm really sad about what happened at Fort Hood. Very glad that my friend machka, who is a civilian employed at the base, is okay.

3. Just watched the new Kris Allen video of his cover of Live Like You're Dying by The Script. THUMBS UP. Great concept and production. Much, much better than the lame LIGHT ON video that David Cook got stuck with last year. (I still want to smack the "writer" upside the head for that one.)

4. Continuing the American Idol theme for a mo, just watched a clip of Syesha Mercado and a couple other singers from the new DREAMGIRLS tour. Syesha is playing Deena, the role Beyonce did in the movie. I think she's probably up to it, even if she doesn't quite have Beyonce's pipes. I love the musical and I've always thought Syesha had "musical theater" written all over her. So it seems like a good match.

5. Our cat, Jakob, gave us a little present last night - a headless mouse. Glad that Darling Daughter was the one that found poor mousie and not me; I might have hurled.

6. Wrote exactly NOTHING for wrisomifu yesterday. Was gone from 7:20 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. and was brain-dead when I got home. MUST MUST MUST write today and every day this weekend. Fortunately the only extra thing on my plate is shopping for some new winter boots for myself.


Have a great weekend, everyone! Anyone got any special plans?

Tags: music, omfg, pets, writing
Current Mood: hungry

But maybe I can fix that somewhat now:

Happy birthday, heather11483!!!

I miss RPing with you, sweetie. Hope you had a wonderful birthday!

Tags: lj: birthdays
Current Mood: embarrassed

When using Write or Die, you MUST copy and paste what you've written to a word processing program or Notepad before clicking DONE.

Oh well, there goes 15 good minutes of work and 463 words. Crap.

Tags: i am so screwed, writing
Current Mood: frustrated

Definitely sick. Probably have some kind of flu. This feels much worse than a fibro flare; I feel like I've been run over by a squadron of Hummers. Obviously did not go to work today. Darling Daughter is still sick and has got up only twice today, for only about 2 minutes each. Best thing for both of us is rest. So, adios. Off to take some TheraFlu and get some rest.

Tags: sick
Current Mood: sick

1. Halloween was pretty quiet. We might have had 20 (or maybe 30) kids come to our door. Turned the light off at 8:30 when we'd not had a trick-or-treater in close to an hour. Ate waaaay too much leftover candy yesterday, resulting in a weird dream last night in which a younger, much less-fat me, in a mid-thigh cheerleader-type skirt, took my DD to a U. of WI baseball game, where we sat near the left-field foul pole. The scene changed and I was in the same outfit, but helping some young men roll out a red carpet on a local street, apparently for the baseball team. Riiight. Must eat less candy next year.

2. DD stayed home from school and after-school stuff today. I came home early in the afternoon and ended up taking a 2-hour nap. I suspect I'm getting whatever she has; mostly I feel really achy all over. Bleh. She's supposed to have a dental checkup AND a flu shot tomorrow, and I'm supposed to visit my chiropractor (went today at 2:00). Might need to cancel all of them :(

3. Am too lazy and unfocused to attempt anything like NaNoWriMo this year, so instead I'm doing wrisomifu, wherein I have to write for at least 10 minutes a day. Good thing there's no expectation of word count. Haven't written today's stuff yet but I did work on an ancient story for 10 minutes yesterday and wrote 336 words. Go, me.

4. I spend a lot more time on Facebook lately than on LJ. Facebook is easy and undemanding and full of wonderful games. I'm feeling disconnected from fandom stuff, which is probably why I'm not on LJ much.

5. Go, Phillies, though that's probably hopeless. And GEAUX, SAINTS!!!

Tags: football, holidays: halloween, mlb: world series, rl: health, writing
Current Location: my desk
Current Mood: achy
Current Music: Hardball with Chris Matthews soon to be HIMYM

I dressed as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Here are my 50 randomly-chosen guests:

annearchy's Halloween party:

abigail89 dressed as a bottle of Taxolog, and it suited them all too well.
aimakichan dressed as a furious witch.
alissomora dressed as a neighbor.
apolla dressed as Lady Godiva without the horse and far too little hair!.
ashleigh713 dressed as a ghost, though it looked more like the Lord of Certaplifex.
blackstalgal dressed as the love child of Dick Cheney and Tonya Harding.
( Read more... ) I just realized I haven't posted in almost a week. I promise to post something substantial later today :)

Tags: halloween, memeage