Someone beat me too it. Besides, honestly, I really don’t care anymore about that show. I still watch it, but I don’t nearly remember as much of it as I once did by the next day.
Howdy kai! Ain’t remodeling fun!
Snakes it’s been drizzling rain on and off all day today. It’s warm though. 75 Amurrkin as I post.
I wimped out at work and came home. I took some Benadryl[sup]TM[/sup] and snoozed for a while. I feel some better now.
All you [del]sickos[/del] sickies feel better soon.
Sean I hear ya. Though Richard and Emily were in rare form at the beginning of the show last night.
And that was it! Nothing else! Damn teases, they are.
So, we’ve had three days now where the siding company was supposed to be working. In the first two days, we had two guys out there for an hour tearing down the existing siding. Today one guy showed up at 9:30, and two more shortly before lunch. Then it rained. So when I go home tonight, I’ll be trying to find where all the water is now that at least half of my house is no longer water repellant. Grrrr.
:eek: I missed that part! I didn’t get home until 7:15. 
The chickies that come on after the show is over to “discuss” it just piss me off. What is up with them??
As of ten minutes ago, I am a winner for this year’s National Novel Writing Month. I will now once again begin to actually pay attention to what goes on around here. I know I’ve been posting, but I can barely remember most of it. 
Are you guys talking about Gilmore Girls? I’m just asking. I’ve never watched it.
Drae, so where can we get copies of the winning novel? Hmmmm?
And my 2-month-old 19" flat panel LCD monitor died this morning. Fortunately the old 15" CRT was still in the closet, so at least I can squint at you guys. No I’m not winking!
Sean, I think you should whack the siding company upside their collective heads with a lawyer.
Wow! Congratulations!! ::sends champagne thru cd drive::
Just got back from some errands(post office, gas, lunch). I think I’ll take a nap before dinner.
kai, Maggie is 35lbs, Lucretia is 5lbs. Good thing too, as the cat occasionaly tries to kill and eat the dog.
SCL, so how ya doin’?
Congratulations Drae! Now you can put “Award winning author” in your sig!
Good job, Drae! I have enough trtouble getting through 200 word reviews. I know how tough it must be to knock out a novel.
Bumba I think that they’re just pissed because we haggled almost $10K out of them on the job. But they shouldn’t have agreed to the amount we offered if they weren’t happy about accepting it. We’re still paying $25,000 for the job. But if’n it keeps up, there will definitely be some words with them and possibly the BBB. This isn’t Joe’s Siding and Driveway Repair Company we’re dealing with. They’re the top-rated company in this area for this type of work, and the only ones that offered 100% PVC cedar shake appearing siding that we wanted.
taxi check out my explanation in the Cafe Society thread. I don’t feel like screwing up the coding to provide a link. I have my pride.
Good insight there - lint-covered M&Ms don’t really qualify as chocolates. As others have said, no rules, no requirements, feel free to start the MMP any time you’d like - just volunteer (speaking of which, do we have a volunteer for Monday yet?), and that’s pretty much it. You are now officially a Cool Kid. YAY!
I don’t recall ever getting chocolates from you, you old fart! I will concede the scallop dinner, but even you admit that was a cheap date. * YOU OWE ME, OLD MAN!!! * 
As for me, I’m all hot and sweaty. It’s very mild here today, so I decided to bring firewood up to the rack outside the garage. I discovered 2 trailerloads behind the riding mower will fill it to the top. I also grabbed some kindling, but I think I’m going to buy a laundry basket for that and keep it in the garage. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow night, so I’ll let the wood dry out a bit till then (we’ve had a lot of rain lately) and cover it with plastic before bedtime. **FCD ** will be late again today, and I may just meet him at Bert’s for dinner, if he’s up to it.
All in all, it’s been a good day. 
Thank you, everybody! This is the third year in a row I’ve tried, and the third year I’ve won. If I hadn’t won the last two years, I’d probably have given up a week ago, but I couldn’t let myself quit.
Of course, the only thing you win is the privelege of saying you wrote a novel in thirty days. This one, nobody’s ever going to read, because I’m totally disappointed in myself. I’m so much better than the crap that I’ve been putting down on paper for the last month. 
Oh, and Doggie, both Roomie and I are redheads, but you’d have to be willing to settle for ladies who are a little more full-figured than the skinny bit that’s crushing on Busman. And willing to travel to New Jersey, because we’re totally lazy. Hence the full-figured part.
Bumba was definitely winking.
Do I want to go to Folklore as well as Intermediate 2 tonight? I don’t know what we’ll be doing in Folklore, but it won’t be Mohammed Ali Street, because they just did that for the fall gala.
Who do I still have to Christmas present shop for?
Dad (who is impossible)
FIL
BIL
Mr. Lissar’s godparents
Mr. Lissar (got him partly covered)
Driving Husband
Attacks Husband
That’s a pretty manageable list, really.
Sweetie’s on his way - he’ll call so I can meet him at Bert’s - someone else is cooking dinner and cleaning up - YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!
Incidentally, I’ve read every post in this thread but my brain is now too fried to respond. So just pretend I’ve made the appropriate posts. You’re welcome.
I’ve been making suggestions to Wifey for a couple of weeks about Xmas shopping. She just snarls at me.
See, we have two different approaches to Xmas shopping, I like to make a list of everyone I’m shopping for and what I want to get them, or alt least possible presents. I’ve also been known to buy presents in July, and hide them until Christmas.
Wifey tends to ignore the whole thing until she can’t anymore, usually around Dec. 24th, when she races out to the stores and [del]pillages and burns[/del] shops like crazy.
Not my idea of fun.
I even offer to go get the swag if she’ll just help me make out the list. No deal.
I’m a Planner married to an Avoider. Helllllpppppppp Meeeeeeeee!
Quasi-Daughter gets to buy and wrap her own Christmas presents. It could be worse, Bumba. Imagine the joy of wrapping a pair of socks for yourself, and opening them on Christmas.
Congrats! Draelin
But --how does one win? Do you have to finish? Does the plot have to hang together in some way? What about spelling? Foreshadowing? Symbolism? I want to KNOW.
Off to class soon-after making dinner for the [del]masses[/del] kids.
Yay Draelin!
You have to write fifty thousand words between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. That’s it. It doesn’t have to be good (mine isn’t), it doesn’t have to be finished (mine isn’t), it just has to be 50,000 words (last time I checked, I was at 50,438). You’re more or less on the honor system. The website has a word counter, so you can submit your work (fudged up with letter replacements and the like so as to avoid anybody stealing it just in case), but in the end, only you say whether you started at the right time, or even if your novel is a novel and not just a bunch of unrelated short stories–or even the lyrics to “Stairway to Heaven” typed over and over.
My first year, I decided to finally write a book I’d been thinking about for a decade, and ended up with 64,000 words because I knew what I was doing and where the story was going. It was even pretty good, and someday I might try to get it published. Second year, I had a pretty good idea, and I think I tapped out at 52K, when I just couldn’t write anymore because even though it wasn’t on paper yet, I knew who the murderer was, and had long since ceased to care if anybody else ever found out. This year, I started writing a story in August, and then decided to scrap the whole thing and save the characters for November. I still love the characters. But I can’t stand the sight of their names on my screen anymore. Thirty-five chapters, ninety or so typed pages, fifty thousand words, and they did nothing, it seems. Eight different main characters and chapters told from eight different points of view. It was ambitious, and I’m never trying that again. Next year, I’m writing some easy-to-finish bodice ripper, maybe with vampires. A good sex scene can use three to four thousand words, and I made the mistake of trying to get through this year’s novel without one. :eek:
Well, dang, Drae whatever made you think a novel without a sex scene would be worth reading?
[del]Old Broad[/del]FCM you did have the pleasure of my company [sub]you cheap date[/sub]. That’s worth way more than chocolate. Just ask Bumba, Taters and [sub]should he ever make another appearance here[/sub] Shibb. So There!
Hi all!
I went to work today to turn in the benny stuff. Lunch with friends was fun! Then I stopped by the store and got a few things - new toothbrushes being one of them. Yay for new toothbrushes! This time I got two different styles so hubby won’t bitch about not being able to tell blue and green apart in the early morning in the dark.
And I went to Big Lots looking for something to set my big plants on. We are having a blue norther tomorrow afternoon, and we have to bring in all the potted plants. I bought a set of 4 charger plates for $5. I think they will work.
Congrats on the NaNoWriMo award, Drae! I can barely string two sentences together, so I’m very impressed!
Welcome, Sweetums2K! Isn’t “Sweetums” the name of the big monster thing in Warner Brothers cartoons? 
Y’all might be icked out to know that we are having sauteed chicken livers and spinach and noodles for din-din! :: drool::