November 2008
34 posts
faith
It’s really hard to write a comedy when you can’t even bring yourself to smile. As a result, I’m afraid I won’t be able to finish my nanowrimo novel. I wonder what’s wrong with me. I’ve had months to prepare for this, it was not a surprise. I guess a part of me was still hoping for a miracle.
I’ve been struggling with this lately. Especially since...
death
my nephew died tonight. he was six.
sometimes, I hate life.
thanksgiving
You know, today didn’t seem like thanksgiving. Not really.
I was at my sisters house, but we did nothing special. There was turkey, but it was sliced to go on sandwiches. There was no gravy, potatoes, stuffing, etc.
And I’m sad. I wanted there to be something special about today. Something to make it stand out from the rest of the year. On twitter, everyone’s been talking about...
writers block
I heard that once you pass 35,000 words, it gets much easier.
I say they lie. It’s almost harder.
I know how I want my story to end. I see it in my mind, I know what happens.
I just can’t write it. The words won’t come out. I can’t make it right. I just don’t know how to do it.
But, I know it’s just supposed to be a first draft, so I am trying to ignore the...
sorry
I try not to be down in this blog. I try to be optimistic. But not today.
Sometimes, I just want to give up.
Somedays, I don’t want try.
I just want to cry. And ignore everything.
I know it’s not right. I know I need to fight.
But right now I don’t care.
I don’t get it.
And right now I don’t want to.
I wish I could give up.
I don’t want to do hard...
where I have a super lazy day and don't feel...
Yeah, my title says it all. I had one class today, and I think I fell asleep in the middle of it. Then I wrote almost 3,000 words. It was great fun.
I’m really excited because I bought a Welsh Book of Mormon. We’ll see how much I can actually read. Or if I read it at all. At least it’ll look cool next to my French one!
Then I went to a LAN party tonight. Really fun, especially...
thankfullness
In honor of this thurday, I have put together a list of some things I am thankful for.
family friends the Gospel school my laptop music clothes my backpack my sweatshirts the rain twitter blogs furniture the internet cell phones my bed tears laughter eyes/sight hearing touch taste smell cars/transportation a job money food chocolate medical advances nature blankets pillows movies excuses to meet...
am I female?
I’m a girl, right?
Well, GenderAnalizer was right, barely.
“We guess http://www.accountingchick.blogspot.com is written by a woman (53%), however it’s quite gender neutral.”
Yeah, I don’t get it either.
'tis friday!
1. The last band I saw live was going to be coldplay. But no one wanted to go with me and I couldn’t get it off work. I’ve actually never seen a band live…
2. What I look forward to most on Thanksgiving is no work. and no schoolish. (if you don’t celebrate thanksgiving, insert your favorite holiday)
3. My Christmas/holiday shopping is a WIP
4. Thoughts of where is bob fill...
alive
I surived. Test is taken. Projects turned in. And I’m actually going to bed early.
I’m a surviver. Especially when friends are around to make things better.
I’d like to thank all of my friends out there. Especially Sam. Thanks for being there when I need you. I’m there for you, too.
Now I’m going to bed.
slowly dying
Even though I claim that I never get sick, I’m wrong. Of course I’m often wrong about other things, too. The point being I am sick now. Why it couldn’t have waiting until next week, when I had no project, no test, and time to actually sleep I know not.
At least I’m feeling better now than I was earlier, but that could be due to the fact that my project stress is now over,...
forgiveness
Some back story here: for my New Testament class, I had to chose a topic and spend 5 hours researching it, then 5 hours of application. I choose forgiveness. I’m still in the middle of the application part, so I decided to write this.
forgiveness
We were good friends. I trusted you.
Chatting, talking hanging out.
Sharing, caring, being together.
Happy.
But you lied. Deceived us all.
We...
tears
I don’t cry a lot. I probably should cry more often, but whenever I start crying a part of me says “Why cry? That doesn’t change anything?”
That part of me has been silent today.
It started out as a good enough day: classes, homework, I wrote a little, then I got home.
My dad left yesterday again, so it’s just Anarchist and I. And we don’t mix. I guess he has...
tagged?
I think I was tagged by chilly. If not, I’m doing this anyway since it sounds super fun.
1. I have technically been to England three times.
2. I randomly get nauteous going up and down stairs.
3. I’m 5’1 and feel tall next to certain relatives
4. I’ve written over 20,000 words on...
lyrics
Today is gonna be the day
That they’re gonna throw it back to you
By now you should’ve somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now
Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I’m sure you’ve heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don’t believe that anybody feels
The...
an adventure
Yesterday was an adventure. Here it is!
It started out with my waking up at 8 after going to bed at 2:30 (yes, I’m still blaming you Sam). That was probably the least fun part. I like sleep. Maybe. I found out that my sister and brother-in-law along with their sonwere going up to Salt Lake to do some running around, and they asked if I wanted to go with them. Of course I said yes. This is...
kitty litter
There is kitty litter in my shoes.
No joke.
Let me tell you how it got there. (yay!)
I worked tonight. I got to work in the back (this means I got to clean instead of help customers in the front). When I got there, my manager said to go ahead and drain the fryers, we wouldn’t be doing any more frying that night. So, I drained them. A couple minutes later I looked over at one of the fryers...
-ology of me
So, this has been going around. I don’t really want to keep complaining about my novel, so you get this today instead. enjoy.
*FOODOLOGY*
What is your salad dressing of choice? Used to be Ranch. I think it’s now Honey Mustard.
What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? Los Hermanos
What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? chicken
What are your...
more about my novel
Yes, I am two thousand words behind. Yes, I’m still working on it. Yes, I got past yesterday.
I was able to figure it out. It has moved on. Now on to my next challenge: how mean do I want to be to my characters?
I’ve read books where the hardest thing that happened to characters was their boyfriend/girlfriend breaking up with them. But I’ve also read books that put their...
whoops
So as some of you know, I’m writing a romance novel. It’s also an action novel. Wahoo!
My problem is rather a silly one actually. Immature, I’m sure.
I’m jealous of the main character.
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. I was supposed to get all of my romantic daydreams into this silly novel (which I might very well burn after this month), so I could not think...
meh
NaNoWriMo is getting tough. Stupid plot isn’t working, my charactors aren’t behaving and I don’t know how to write romance. Go figures, since I haven’t had any in my life.
Other than that, well, there is nothing other than that. I’m ignoring homework, skipping sleep, and basically setting my life aside to write this thing. I knew it would be hard, 50,000 words is a...
quick, what should I write?
I’ve been increasing my word count. I think I wrote 3,000 words today. (Of course, I’m still 3,000 words behind, but I’m working on it) I’m in the middle of the action, and am not quite sure where to go from here. I’m only 33 pages into this, and I’m afraid I’m in the middle of my story. Whoops!
In other news, my firefox is possessed. Hint: twitter does...
birthdays!
Today didn’t start out happy. Really.
I was up way too late last night, then had to get up early for church. Which I slept through. Which I feel bad about. I went to choir, where they sang to me, then to a luncheon where they also sang to me and gave me a special dessert.
But still I felt meh. Like it wasn’t my birthday or something. It was just another day.
Then I logged on and saw...
and the winner is...
alishka babushka!
So I used random.org to do this. If you have any problems, it’s not my fault.
I also don’t know why you’re auctioning off bob. It’s not an auction.
So, claim your prize! bob and cookies!
Thanks to everyone who commented and did a shout-out!
toothbrush
I bought my first electric toothbrush today.
It’s pretty sweet.
balderdash
Ahh, four minutes and counting! Can I come up with another blog post? We’ll see.
I think it’s been forever since yesterday. Even with sleeping in, my day has been long. Yet, oddly satisfying. I won’t bore you with all the details, but it included a trip to the eye doctor, going to the airport, a write-in for nanowrimo (where all I did was homework), a 10/10 on a quiz, and work....
worst dates
Alishka Babushka suggested a blog about my worst date ever. Now, I haven’t been on too many dates, but here are two that I think are pretty bad.
number one:
I was in High School, which is usually bad news when it comes to dates. I had a crush on a boy in my seminary class, and I decided to ask him to go to Preference with me. In true Utah style I pulled together a group (which was a huge...
halloween
Edit: don’t forget to enter into my giveaway! You have until Saturday!
Yes, it has taken this long for me to get back to Halloween. But since Gio did say I should talk about, and I’m thinking it would be good for me to do before Thanksgiving, I might as well do it now.
The night before Halloween I stayed up really late (well, I guess it wasn’t too late - slightly after...
just another tag
So this was done by alishka babushka, and she said if I wanted to do it, I should. So I am. :^D
1. Where is your cell phone? In my front pocket
2. Where is your significant other? Somewhere over the rainbow
3. Your hair color? Brown.
4. Your mother? in Texas
5. Your father? in Germany
6. Your favorite thing? right now? Sleep.
7. Your dream last night? i don’t remember. I didn’t sleep...
keywords
So since nanti tagged me, I guess I better do this (plus I didn’t have a post starting with K)
Google analytics is a cool feature where you can see statistics about your blog. This can be quite facinating, or depressing (you can see where people come from who read your blog, and how many people read your blog).
Well, one of the cool things you can view is how people found your blog through...
100!
So I’ve finally made it. 100 posts. What have I accomplished? Nothing much, but you guys do know more about me now. You know I work at a Deli and make ice cream cones. You know that I want to go to Wales. You know I’m preparing to serve a mission. You know I’m thinking about changing my major.
In honor of my 100th post, I’m doing a give-a-way. I’m giving away my very...
elephants
so I was tagged again. by someone who will not be named. to take this one quiz. here are the results:
I feel loved when…The Five Love Languages My Primary Love Language is Physical TouchMy Detailed Results:Physical Touch: 11Quality Time: 8Receiving Gifts: 5Words of Affirmation: 4Acts of Service: 2About this quiz Unhappiness in relationships is often due to the fact that we speak different...
xylophone
Because I don’t have a title begining with x yet…
So addition to NaNoWriMo, there’s something called NaBloPoMo, where you post every day for a month. I think I might try that, too. Am I crazy? Sure, why not?
I have over 3,000 words so far. I’m not going to be trying to get onto nanowrimo’s website yet, I hear it’s crazy right now. Otherwise, I’d upload...
hockey and nanowrimo
So, the game was awesome. We won (of course). And now I remember why I love staying up past midnight, but the next day I was reminded of why I hate staying up past midnight. My body does not like less than 6 or 7 hours of sleep. Really. So, here are some pictures from the game:
Trying to score (we blocked them of course)
Us trying to score (can’t remember if we got this one or...
