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January 2023

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Today was the first day I've had without ANY caffeine in ages, years, decades... okay not really true but close? I love me my ice tea (but with sweetnlow only, apparently). So today I drank water, La Croix bubbly water, and one Kombucha Gingerade (mmmm). Breakfast was... NOT THERE! I woke up late, dragged out of bed, and ended up grabbing a Lara bar (allowed! but not to be eaten every day) and some nuts for breakfast. HORRIBLE!! SO BAD!!!

Lunch: lunch was a repeat of yesterday except an apple instead of an orange. Except it was a warm apple, not a cold apple, and I like my apples cold. LOL.

Dinner: Salmon and eggs! I first had this in Cardiff at our beloved Ty Rosa (will I ever get there again? I feel so far away from there anymore). Such great memories though, yeah. That was dinner with a touch of ghee and I also had some oven-fried cubed sweet potato.

Today was pretty good, honestly. Work was good, eating was easy, I wasn't hungry at all and I felt good all day. No severe toe-stabbities today. Who knows why? Not sure. We'll see how it goes.

So, day four is done, and my sister started today. I do feel a bit dragged down but I know that I am going through a detox stage a lot of people experience 'flu-like' symptoms. Or just the blahs, lack of energy, etc. It will pass. Quickly, I hope.

Onward and upward! It is October! I have a very small writing goal to meet this month, with Nano just around the corner. I've signed up here for the [livejournal.com profile] mini_wrimo, setting my goal at 25k. That would be 25k more than I have the last six months put together, so I think it is a good goal.

Stepped away a bit as I had a headache - lack of caffeine, yes? SO I cleaned the kitchen and made a fabulous lunch for tomorrow. I should've taken a picture. LOL I will tomorrow.
My Nano novel is going to be my fantasy novel - not THE fantasy novel but the prequel that that Tor editor suggested in an offhand way (oh so many years ago) that she thought I should write. It is outlined like a big boss, beautifully-scrivenerized, and though I intend to start from scratch with it, I was a bit bored at work and since I have to at least pretend like I am working I decided to poke around on my dropbox and see what I had out there already written on it. To my amusement (and dismay), I found no less than seven different openings to this story. SEVEN!!!

Obviously, I didn't know what to do with this story, just a vague idea of the issues I wanted to explore. I changed my mind soooo many times on how to approach the opening to the story. Soft opening, with KAPOW after a few paragraphs? Starting with high action? I could not (for the longest time) figure out who the MC should be - male or female, Jax or Maiya, or sometimes Naiya. I also changed POV several times. The result of that is a gem like this:

Naiya came to, bound and gagged. Naiyan a cramped cart, alone, on his side. My face
hurt where She’d been struck, his ribs stabbed him with each breath.


Search and replace disasters!!! BWA HA HA HA HA.... OMG.

Oh, me....

This evening while watching the rest of Firefly (damn them for cancelling that show way before its time!) I decided I needed to organized all my little tidbits of writing, and my messy dropbox which was way too full. I now have a nice little list of books I want to write, have wanted to write for ages, and found some things I'd forgotten about, too - old bits and bobs of short stories (Caeru! I forgot about him! there is another one I need to find too from that world), LOL two Torchwood fics, the start of Drake's Island I'd totally forgotten that I'd started.

I am so looking forward to this Nano!! Mostly I think because I have so many friends here locally now who are also doing it, but also because I am so looking forward to writing this story finally. I love having a writing community (even though I honestly could invest more physical time to it). Hopefully my desk of awesome will make it easier to be productive. The only bad thing about it is I keep hurting myself on it. My toes hit the ends, my knees the pull out drawer that I am not using. I may end up pulling the drawer off. Ouch.


List of Books I Want to Write/Finish:
(this list is too long)

1. Wayward (the sci fi - still haven't decided whether to expand this or make it three separate parts - working on it)
2. Wild Magic - the Nano novel - multiple POV
3. Blackthumb - spinoff, after a fashion - takes place in same world as Wild Magic but is in first - can I do that? (the book I am currently reading is Very Much Inspiring me to tackle this story soon) - have had plans for this story for a good six, seven years
4. Altered Fates - sequel to the Nano novel (and there are 2 more parts - these 3 are my 'omg have had forever like 15 yrs' novels) (hopefully it won't be another 15 years before they are finished)
5. Wolfhunter - sort of an urban fantasy except it is rural - another one I've had floating around forever, since about 2008
6. Drake's Island - m/m, found the start to it buried in my dropbox. I liked the opening. This one will get written eventually - been hovering around since 2011
7. Tattered Leaves - m/m, 'older/younger' love, inspired by Cheese.

Too long, too many, most of which should've been written already! Dang it!
Yes I am at work and should be working but *looks over shoulder* I am being super bad today because we are rather slow, and don't want to work on this affidavit thingy until tomorrow morning. So!

Swiped gleefully from [livejournal.com profile] pir8fancier, I have bolded the ones I have done, italicized the ones I want to do, and struck out those I would never even consider in a trillion billion years!

Here 'tis!!!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band.
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyworld
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped (so keeping [livejournal.com profile] pir8fancier's response because she is SMART: "Did you see that YouTube video of that guy who bungee jumped and was crushed against the rocks? No thank you."
12. Visited Paris (No, but I have been to Berlin! MUCH COOLER)
13. Watched a lightning storm
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child (my daughter wants to and I hope she does)
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train bus
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked: The Serial killer thing
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb - I have a baby cow!!!! So cute!
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse Um not supposed to look at those!!!!
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise - Not a cruise girl except maybe in Alaska?
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community There was one for a few years in Stephenville, Texas
36. Taught yourself a new language I suck. Tried to learn German but just SUCKED.
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied - At times...not currently! But will again if I can ever get the kids situated!
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt Yellowstone
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling:
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre
55. Been in a movie (student production - so wish I still had a copy of it! I wrote it too)
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a cheque
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favourite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square / Stood in Trafalgar Square/Piccadilly
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job HA HA RAT BASTARD I AM SO BETTER OFF NOW YOU RAT!! HA HA HA!!!!! (though I also WON my Texas Employment Commission against them so as far as Texas is concerned I was NOT fired)
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London - No, but saw them from a distance.....
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House - close! But this was one week after 9-11 so yeah, not getting too close
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chicken pox
89. Saved someone's life (lifeguard in high school - little girl saw daddy, ran for the water and sunk to the bottom - instinct kicked in and I swooped down and got her out and did I get a thank you? No, except from my boss.)
90. Sat on a jury Would LOVE to see what happens after all the hard work we put into cases!
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit I am a legal assistant and I hope to hell I am never sued!!!
98. Owned a mobile phone - good grief when was this meme originated?
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day Surely, you're joking! (kept [livejournal.com profile] pir8fancier's answer here!)

Clearly I should do more exciting things but my definition of 'exciting things' is not quite what is left on this list.
I have signed up to be a beta. Holler if you need help! The more obscure the fandom the better... :)

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