Kick Off Party

No, I didn't ditch the blog. Good grief, it's only been a few days. :) The pace of my blogging will pick up during November as I make extreme efforts to procrastinate (then get behind, then write the last 20k in a week. it's a system that works, okay?)

On Sunday, Heidi aquiesced to taking me to the Swordsmanship class taught by our NaNo ML, and then afterwards the Kick-Off Party.

The Swordsmanship class was awesome, as is our ML. As a general rule I begin to get distracted after 30-45 minutes of things, but I didn't get bored once during her lecture! It was really quite interesting and I have the handout stuffed with notes for future reference. Although I have never been one to write about swordfights, it is good to have, and it's fun to know. Who knows, maybe this NaNo year will be the year I get over my loathing of writing fight scenes. Especially since quick = accurate.

*NOTE* If, for some reason, any of the people in these pictures do not want your picture up? Just let me know and I'll take it down. =) Please contact me over the NaNo site though.




After the class, Heidi and I braved trying to navigate the creepier part of town, and got to the Dairy Queen. Everyone seemed to be really nice, and despite the lack of too, too much chit-chat on my part, it was very fun.

The goody bags were also made of total and utter awesome:




*left to right*
- The Magic Golden Paperclip
- The Writer's Block Rock
- Toy Soldiers for Fight Scene Planning
- Peppermint Aroma Therapy (<3)
- Power Outage Emergency NaNo Kit.

The night ended well, though tiredly. It's starting to get cold here, which would be awesome if I could keep my blasted feet warm. :/

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Yesterday I made Red Bean Vegetable Soup with some minor alterations. Such as no red peppers due to lack of them being in stock (but I'm totally fine with that, I don't like peppers. Or things that are hot. Or have too much flavor at all.). We also only had two cans of kidney beans, therefore there were two cans of kidney beans and two cans of black beans, and it tasted great. There was also no hot sauce, and it was just fine. This was probably my favorite thing that I've made so far. =) Definitely one to remember.




I was also able to get my desk re-organized with the new drawers.



Due to the funky shape of my walls, the metal crate on the right is at a weird angle against my book wall. However it works because the crate is far enough from the book wall that it doesn't look too cramped. =)

Mom and I also hit Wal-Mart, and I found one thin that's been on my wishlist for a long time, and another awesome deal in the $5 Bin of Awesome.



I have been wanting Some Like it Hot for a long while, because it's hilarious and terrible that I find it hilarious but it's old and a classic and therefore justifiable in its hilarious terribleness and I will stop this long run-on sentence now. Honey and Clover I just decided to get due to it being only $5, and I haven't heard anything negative about it...if it's horrible though, I'll send it to Miruial. :)

Parting Shot: