What a fucking waste of a day. :/

So, an entry! I got a little behind on posting...

imthelobster's surgery went well, as most of you already know from either his journal or twitter, but it seemed strange not to mention it. We've been watching a looot of tv since we got back home haha



I finished reading Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch yesterday. cndjcvbjbj I LOVED IT. I don't know why I continue to doubt barbed_whispers when it comes to books, because she very, very rarely fails me. I almost wanted to read it over again as soon as I'd finished it, but I figured that might be a little much, so instead I've started Graceling, by Kristin Cashore. By 'started' I mean I read 200 pages last night when I should have been going to bed and then had to physically stop myself from reading more and force myself to go to sleep.

I need some sort of icon from Lies of Locke Lamora. barbed_whispers should get on that for me. >.>





I had a bit of a breakthrough in the original novel I'm writing. Now I just need to figure out where I'm going with it... and, again, type it all up. I wish I wasn't doing so much of the writing by hand, because I soooo prefer typing in the first place, but writing at work is way too convenient to pass up. :/

So today, our cat found her old lobster toy, which must have gone missing under the couch or something.

She is now carrying it around with her everywhere, and talking to it. It's pretty adorable.

I've decided not to set a goal for movies or tv.
Book goal: 50 (I'm not setting a specific goal on new vs reread, but I am marking new as bold)
Writing goal: 200k

( Books read )
Total new:
Total reread:

Writing:

16920 / 200000

So, happy 2010 guys! I hope everyone had a good New Year. Ours was pretty quiet at home, with a sickly imthelobster, but we did manage to stay up until midnight, so that was something.

I'm trying to decide if I want to set book and movie goals for 2010. I already have my big writing goal, but my reading has been up and down as of late, so I'd kind of like to have something to strive for. I was thinking like 50 books, but then I think maybe that's too low... opinions?

Merry Christmas guys! I hope all of you are having a great one ♥

Mine's been good... and I have the best boyfriend in the world. I love imthelobster a whole hell of a lot, and he is very good to me. :)

We went to my Dad's last night to do Christmas with him. They made me happy just because they did things like buy a new stocking so that James had one, too, and putting both our names on some of the gifts, as well as giving him a couple of things just for him. I'm so glad they're actually acknowledging how important this relationship is to me.
For me, they gave me a Wii Fit, so I'm really happy about that. I've been wanting it, and hopefully I'll actually use it regularly, since I could stand to lose some weight, for sure.

Today we had our Christmas morning together, and we're going to go to my Mom's for dinner tonight. So a pretty relaxed Christmas all in all, but I like that it's not been stressful or too overly crazy.

Hopefully next year we'll be going up to Vermont and spending Christmas with his family. Somehow we're going to manage to make that happen.

imthelobster and I just got around to watching the finale of So You Think You Can Dance. I'm happy with the winner, but disappointed with the season overall; I just really hope that next season will be better. It was all just sort of blah for me most of the way through. Also, I miss Mia as a choreographer, a LOT. :(

We've also been watching Chuck... do any of you watch? We aren't caught up yet, but I am enjoying it a LOT. We're on epsidoe 4, I think, of season 2. It's a lot better than I thought it was going to be when we started.

Good lord I watch a lot of tv. lol


In other news, I did end up pledging for getyourwordsout. I ended up going for the 200k multi-project. I actually hope that I can make myself focus mostly on one thing, but at least this way if I get distracted by something I won't completely screw myself over, word count wise. I'm getting really excited to start writing again...

ugh, posting from my phone is annoying...just lost my post so starting over.

I'm thinking about doing getyourwordsout this year. Recently I've been really wanting to start writing again, and I think this would be a good push. I just can't decide between 100k for a single story or 250k for multiple things. Despite the lower word count I think the 100k would be more difficult, but I dunno. Opinions, anyone?

Also, I am clearly VERY busy at work right now. So is there anything interesting going on with you guys?

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ah, crap.

HI GUYS.

My nails are sparkly gold and pretty right now. I've become halfway obsessed with painting my nails... oops? It's good, though, because it keeps me from biting my nails, which is a habit I've needed to kick for a long time. My nails are long right now for the first time in a looooong time. :)

imthelobster and I got our Christmas tree up! This makes me ridiculously happy, you don't even know. It has twinkly lights and the ornaments are really pretty, and it really does a lot to get me into the mood for this freaking month. Heh. I took pictures of it on my phone, so I may or may not try to post them up if I can figure out how to get them off my phone and onto my comp >.>

So. My inbox was exploded this morning.

Huge image under the cut! ( cut. )

I started to post an entry that was entirely wow-related, but really, almost no one on my flist gets it. So instead:

( a small rant will go under this cut text )

Aaaaaanyway.

So, elleren arrives tomorrow. For those of you that don't know, that's imthelobster's dad. Ahh! I keep thinking that the house is not nearly ready enough :( Which is probably dumb, but WHATEVS I am allowed to be worried about this sort of thing!

I didn't post yesterday. :/ I kind of suck? But I was enjoying my first real opportunity to spend time with imthelobster in like.. I dunno.. a week? So I don't feel too badly about it, tbqh.

On that note, it is AMAZING to know that I'm on vacation right now!! Mostly we've just been sitting around doing nothing, and you know what? Sometimes that is all you need. Though we are going to do dinner tonight with fluffymaru, which should be fun. :D

Goals for tomorrow: go to the gym, clean out my car, and possibly finish "The Keymaster" achievement.

Urgh, I hate PvP. (sffl I don't know how you do it)
At least, I hate it on my mage... I'm tempted to start taking my priest through and being all healy in BGs and see how I feel about that. But first... enough marks for my first war mount vbnjsnlkv. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHICH ONE I WILL GET! Either the horse or the kitty, but I can't decide.
HERE HELP ME: this or this?
Also I used to love Arathi Basin and now I hate it, whyyyyyyyyyyy. (But strangely enough, I like Warsong Gulch. DO NOT JUDGE ME.)

Okay. More PvP nao.

My morning thus far:

* buildyourwalls totally burned herself. You guys, I am not the person to have help you with injuries. I have nothing, I know nothing, I am useless.
* Watching the end of Love Actually. NFCNLKNLK THAT MOVIE MAKES ME HAPPY.
* Half-ass watching Donnie Darko. It's on in the background, and I've never seen it before. I really should actually watch it at some point, though. I have NO IDEA what it going on right now, heh.
* Working on Loremaster in WoW. Blegh. Getting bored, and kind of frustrated, with that.

Why do I like such shitty television sometimes? LOL. I've been watching Dancing with the Stars, and I have no idea why. The dancing really is kind of sub-par haha. But whatever, it gives me something to watch in the background.

So, for the next three days, imthelobster is opening at work, and I'm closing. :( I haaate days like that, especially when they come in stretches, because we basically don't see each other at all. I wish it didn't happen so freaking often. Sigh.

ARGH I CAN'T WAIT FOR VACATION. hahaha. The closer it gets the more impatient I feel, though.

I don't like daylight savings. I feel all weird right now because the time isn't what it should be. >.> It gets dark so early!

Why does LJ still have Halloween art up? It is past Halloween. :/ It's the little things, people.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY! I found Fade Out (by rachelcaine♥) in B&N today! YAAAAY. I know how I'll be passing the boring hours at work tomorrow ;)

So, barbed_whispers wants me to do National Blog Posting Month, where I post every day in the month of November. I still feel like my life is too boring for this, and I'm still not sure I'm committed to it 100%, but it seemed stupid to ruin my chances on the first day. SO.

NaNo starts today... I still feel slightly weird that I don't do it. I dunno. Good luck to everyone participating, though!

Okay, back to work now. Blegh.

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I meant to post about this earlier, but I'll post about it now!

This past Saturday imthelobster and I went to see Hanson at House of Blues. I CONTINUE TO LOVE THEM FOR ALL TIME. I don't even care that I get made fun of by some people for liking them so much, because they are sosososo good. They put on a great show and I love their music and just UNF. I'd put a set list in this post, but James put it in his phone and he's at work and I don't remember without seeing it >.>

Also, apparently Taylor decided to trade out his usual scarf for suspenders LOL. High-larious.

In the line before the show, I ran into an old friend, which was pretty cool and kind of strange at the same time. But I haven't seen her in a long time and it was nice to see her again, anyway. Not that a concert is the easiest of places to catch up... but you know.

So, does anyone else on my flist watch Bones? Other than imthelobster, clearly. I just finally saw the end of season 3, and.... OMGWTFWTFWTFWTF. I am still not okay, grrrr.

( In case anyone wants to avoid spoilers about Bones )

In other TV news:
* I doubt I'll be going back to Gossip Girl, but we'll see, since it is Crack.
* I can't decide what I think of Vampire Diaries. It's not lulzy like I expected. It's not really good, but it's not really bad, and it's not like the book. So I don't know what keeps me watching.
* I LOVE GLEE. I LOVE GLEE SO RIDICULOUSLY I DO NOT EVEN KNOW.
* I'm an episode behind on Project Runway. I care, but I'm also bored. Bored, bored bored... I wish this season would spice up a little. I mean, I'll definitely catch up and finish the season, but still.
* I am behind on Supernatural, too. It's like a theme, huh? BUT I DON'T MEAN TO BE WITH THIS ONE. I don't even know, the show is SO GOOD. bjsdbjvsblvbsjvb ♥ the Winchesters.
* And SYTYCD! ...not that I have anything to really say about that right now, but since I'm going through the list of shows I'm watching... I have high hopes for this season to be better than last, though.