I just finished my NaNo novel, and at 50,247 words according to their word counter, I'm a winner! Here's the "winner" icon I cooked up earlier (i'll show the loser one if anyone's really interested)

I'm happy!

I'm exhausted!

I'm going to bed now!

Started off the morning hitting 40,000 words on the NaNo thing. Whoo-fucking hoo, and with an extended weekend that is mostly free, I have all kinds of time to write.

Spent about 2 and a half hours getting the apartment to something like clean (benefit of having an mostly empty place-you can clean the tub sans clothing with the door open as not to get your favorite jammies all bleached up or dying from the fumes of mistakingly combined chemicals) while getting my laundry taken care of. I've got to score some more light colored stuff, if just to make washing the bits I own make more sense. Tommorrow's NaNo break is cleaning my own room, that should take about 45 of so minutes, I hope.

Then I cooked. Roasted herbed turkey breasts, basic bread stuffing, poultry gravy (using chicken boullion and turkey drippings from the roast). Tried whole berry cranberry sauce for the first time-my family's always been a jellied sauce kind of people. The meal itself wasn't too bad, though I forgot to finely chop the thyme...I'll be picking those leaves out every bite I take until it's gone. Red wine (pinot noir, if anyone cares to know) to finish it off, though I was sipping on rum-ed eggnog while I was cooking.

Now I'm all done with that and am about to continue on the novel. In other news, I'm addicted to Depeche Mode's Playing the Angel. I score the CD for 8 bucks from the Book Nook-talk about fucking lucky. I've been John the Revelatin' all over the place-including now.

Happy T-day, y'all!

...to go to Target, but it's still a break...

but here's a linky to my Author Profile page, with an except (don't worry, it's everybody friendly!)

Five Town

Warning, it's Flash-y, but there's a link right at the bottom that you can click to get the non-Flash version.

cause I'm not a fangirl...at all...not me...

But I've been thinking about this one for a while. Mainly, what wording should I add to it. I wanted a mood pic to express when I was pissed off, which given the number of mewling twits that make their presence known to me on a daily basis (mostly on public transportation and at work), happens more often than not. Or just when life annoys me.

So, yeah...I got my favorite doc looking like he could just rip someone's head off and shit down their quivering neck hole, and I literally spent minutes not noveling looking at the pic brainstorming lines to go with it for about a week (I first start working on this one after I discovered that I'd been looking at the character count of my Nano novel instead of the word count and was in the middle of Week Two at a little over 5000 words, so I wanted to share my pissed off-ness).

Lines I've thought of:

"Why won't you just die!?!"

"It's been lovely, but I have to go scream/kill now"

"DON'T FUCK WITH ME, QUEEN!!!"

"What *eesss* it, man?" (Or however you'd spell it if Ren was saying it)

"I am surrounded by idiots" (I thought this one was kinda cute. Scar from Lion King-where the quote is from-was my favorite swishy villian ten years ago, and Muraki's my favorite swishy villian now, so...)

*pissed off attention whore*

or, I could just leave it sans words...I think it pretty much says enough as is.

My point...dear creative friends, share with me your witty lines that would match this icon? Here's a larger version of the pic I used.


Any suggestions that I cold turkey off my obession, or at least stop iconing him, will be cheerfully ignored, at least until I've finished out with Nano--since already have two icons made for the end of the month, one if I make it and one if I don't.

In other news, I'm at the halfway mark in Nano, for real this time.

after playing two Cruxshadows songs in a row, I get the fucking point

*stops Nano-ing for a sec to send off a long delayed email to Cole*

for fucks sake...even my computer nags me...

I'm at 13,545 words as of now! According to the site, I'm doing pretty good!

I sleep now!

I begin my novel....NOW!


bye bye, life...see you in December!

I'll keep you all posted on my word count...and if I feel vaugely sadistic, will share bits