Wednesday, October 30, 2002

 

Been busy with Xander's birthday and all. We had a great birthday party with family. Xander ate cake for the first time in his life and enjoyed tearing open the packages. He kept signing his equivalent for "more". Can you believe he's a year already? It boggles the mind.

I've been writing lots for the library. In one week I wrote 3 articles for the paper. I've been writing some book reviews to encourage people to come check out some books, our check-out rate has been slow lately.

Right now I'm trying to write a puppet show. I'll be putting it on for the children on halloween. I'm trying to make it funny, but chances are it'll turn out lame.

I've also joined NaNoWriMo. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write 60,000 words during the month of November. I doubt I'll write that much, but I'm aiming to write everyday during Nov and maybe I'll reach 30,000. I'm re-writing the only novel I ever wrote. I'm going to be adding to it. Before it was only from one characters perspective but now I'm adding more perspectives in and it's adding some sub plots. I hope it will be much much better. The book, "You Can Write a Novel" has been so helpful with organizational tips. It has really helped a lot.

With the tips I learned in there I'm going to definately reach my goal: To be published before I'm 30. Less than two years to go...

Dawn posted this at 12:37 PM.

Saturday, October 12, 2002

 

Whew! Glad that's fixed. It had lost my template and I just picked a new one. I wanted to do that anyway.

Yesterday was my 28th birthday. I had a good but tiring day. My mom came over and brought me presents from her and my cousin. I got a 3 1/2 ft tall scarecrow, a scarecrow doll and two yard signs for fall/thanksgiving. She also gave me $20 to buy a silk scarf. This is in addition to the shirt she bought me earlier in the week.

We left around 12 to go to a funeral of a friend's daughter (she was 23 :( ). After the funeral, I went to Wal-mart to pick out my scarf (a black and silver one with a tiger). Then we took family portraits (they came out great). It seemed to take forever because the girl working there was stuck alone cause the manager had an emergency that morning. Then I went to blow the rest of the $20 at books-a-Million and got two books: The Celtic Book of Names and You Can Write a Novel by James V. Smith, Jr. I got the latter because he offers a unique system to keep up with characters and the plot. That's one of my main trobles is that I get confused with everything. I got the first one to help me with my novel.

Then, last night we went out to eat at Outback Steakhouse. Poor Xander didn't have any dinner because we didn't plan on being out that long. I ordered a sweet potato with my steak and shared the potato with him. We also ordered a side of steamed veggies and he had some carrots, squash and brocolli. We also gave him small bites of bread and James shared some of his chicken. Xander really seemed to enjoy all of it. I think he loves food like we do...poor guy ;).

After we got home around 10 PM, Xander was extremely tired 'cause he had missed his nap. Once he was in bed, James gave me two presents: a great bible study book and set of mirrors to see Xander in his seat while I'm driving (I promised I wouldn't drive off the road while watching him, hehe). We relaxed awhile, it was nearly 12 when we decided to go to bed. Then we finally got a hold of my in-laws who'd been trying to call us all day and when we tried to call the phone was busy. They both sang me "Happy Birthday" and said they would be bringing me a present when they come for Xander's b-day.

Before going to bed, I got on-line and found an e-card from Amy (Hi, Amy!). It was the only e-card I got which means my sister forgot my b-day again. She and I are both forgetful about b-days so I don't blame her. In fact- I forgot her new hubby's b-day on the 8th, er, rather not forgot, but I didn't do anything about it ::ducks::.

So, even though I was tired last night, I think I had a very good b-day.

Dawn posted this at 10:32 AM.

 

Grr...I've tried to post here several times but Blogger was having trouble. I think it's fixed now...

Dawn posted this at 10:13 AM.