Massive Update: Narnia Party, NaNoWriMo, Snow, Etc.

I have been putting off updating for a bit, but now I shall. So, it may be a bit massive.



I made Potato Soup with much difficulty and also with a cementing of if I need to spend over 30-45 minutes making something, it is more than likely not worth it. But hey. Live and learn I guess. :)



My sister threw her first movie night where people came with Narnia: LWW. She made Turkish Delight among a couple other oddities, and I proceeded to bawl my eyes out anytime anything remotely interesting happened. This may or may not be why I was not too fond of the movie (except for the phoenix, which is worth the entire thing). However, I still like it. :)



Food that Joelle prepared and others brought.



People!



This is our home theater. In SV, the entire living room was pretty much designed to accomadate this system. However, here at our new house the basement was most definitely not designed for a theater. My Dad did an amazing job setting it up all the same (though he's been cringing over the wires showing). My picture is crooked, but the screen is straighter than it looks. :)



The following Friday, we had a Prince Caspian movie night (to which, yes the typical jabs at Ben Barnes' accent were made). Now that we've had our build-up, we're just waiting for when VotDT tickets will finally go on sale at Regal. (Due to adventures in the snow and ice and "what's that?" responses to a request for buying a midnight showing ticket. Whole 'nother world here.)

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We had a fun Thanksgiving with my cousin and her family. She had prepared the most delicious turkey ever (this coming from someone who is not a fan of turkey), and overall the meal and company were absolutely delightful. =) Jaiden, Khristian and I played monopoly in the basement for an hour or so, upholding tradition. B) And yes, I believe I was creamed. Again. But hey, old habits die hard.



Also on Thanksgiving, I completed NaNoWriMo. The earliest I have ever finished and after having never gotten behind once this November! I am quite proud of myself. However, although I managed to maintain a. er. semi-flowing story, the story itself is not finished. But it will probably be left forgotten for a while anyways due to the apathy I feel toward it.

My final word count: 50,935--however some of this was written after my word count was verified.

My official final word count: 50,022.

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As for other misc. odds and ends, it is currently snowing so much we can barely see the road from our house. While this is awesome if we don't have to go anywhere, I sincerely hope we...don't have...to...go anywhere...






Otherwise, today's agenda includes potentially throwing the cat in the snow at some point (that's always fun), plotting/writing (*egasp!*) my story I give a hoot about, and vegging. A lot. And justifying my vegging with tv shows by knitting a Christmas present (a phrase I can honestly say I never thought would come from my mouth). Though it might be an "oops I forgot about Christmas and I'm broke, have a scarf" type of thing but who knows. :)

Parting Pic:



Trouble outside while it's snowing for possibly the first time. He can hold on really tight when he wants to.

NaNo Day 12

Maybe I lied when I said this blog would pick up pace during NaNo, but oh well!! Here is my second post. :)

I have, to my utter glee, managed to not get behind all month so far--and we're almost at the half-way mark! We'll see if I manage to, somehow, survive Week 2 with my current track record.

Joelle has her first Narnia party tonight (which people are showing up for right now, so I should probably go downstairs already). Tonight is Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, next week is Prince Caspian, then thanksgiving, then Dawn Treader comes out!! Woot woot!

Anyways, I just did a five minute word war while waiting for the second group to arrive:

Timed Writings

5 Minutes: 296 words.

6 minutes: 277 words

5 minutes: 290 words

5 minutes: 306

5 minutes: 399

10 minutes: 552

With a final word count for the night at 22,051.

A good 3500 words for tonight. Not too shabby! =)