creativity and such grand plans

When Sophie turns four I want to give her an amazing birthday. I want to make her things that she will remember fondly all of her life. I want her to look back on the days she spent playing with these things and smile. I want her to give them to her children (when she finally has them when she's in her mid to late 20s and has a good career and a good man. Or woman. As long as she's happy!)

I am going to start crocheting all sorts of food sets, as well as dishes, pans, and other kitchen things. She loves playing with her toy food and the sets I plan on making are going to be much more involved than the plastic garbage she has now. (I got her a set of about 100 play food pieces from WalMart for five dollars last year-obviously not the greatest quality) I also want to sew some stuffed animals and food items like the things this woman makes. She's such an inspiration.

(edit: Not a) Disappointment.

So far, we haven't heard anything from the prospective landlord, which leads me to believe we didn't get the apartment. As much as I tried not to, I had my hopes up for that place. It is probably a lot better than anything we're going to end up with... with our credit and (probably) bad reference from Jennifer.

And our landlord does want us out because supposedly people have refused to buy this shit hole because of the cat smell. Oh, really? It's not the Kool-Aid man shaped hole in the basement wall... aka FOUNDATION? It's not the mountain range that has formed in the bottom floor apartment due to how much the house shifts? The fact that all of the windows need replacing? The doors on the upstairs apartment don't shut or lock properly (and the bottom door doesn't even have a door knob?) No? It's the cat smell? The least expensive thing to fix? Congratulations. You're an idiot. And if anyone did say that, they were lying. This place is a garbage dump and is only worth the land its built on. AND SWEET BABY JESUS 174,900??? Are you serious? I'm actually shocked the price tag is that high. I thought for sure it'd have gone down by now. It can't possibly be worth this much.

Back to Craigslist I go, I suppose. I'll give him til tomorrow night to fully give up on him but once again... I am assuming it's a no.


ETA WE GOT IT!!!!!!!!!

When life hands you lemons, cry until someone makes you lemonade.

It really pays to know your favorite band personally...
 I was having a freak out and my friend, Christopher Pappas of The Everyday Visuals promised me he was about to ease my pain.
10 minutes later he sends me this link. What a great guy, huh? And cute too!

Getting Sickly

I believe I've officially spent too much time with my sick friend. My nose is sniffly, my back hurts and I have a headache.
Hmm... or it could be the stupid fabric softener my daughter came home with her clothes reeking of. Seriously, why do they all smell so strongly.
I'm also really effing tired and despite having another day off where I should be writing, especially because I have no real plans today, I am so not in the mood. Although come to think of it, this is really all I am in the mood for... pretending to talk to people about every single little pointless thought I have. How very self involved of me.

I was supposed to make lasagna this weekend, and I completely forgot, so now there is a lb of bad burger in my fridge. I am awesome. I'll make it today with the sausage, I guess.

Holy shit, I am so dull.

ugh, i've even lost interest in doing this...

Not Quite a Book Club, but almost...

The Year of Steven King Reading List

(beginning with a selection of stand-alone books and short story compilations, then moving to books related to The Dark Tower Series)

Key:

* important

#1-7 Dark Tower Series

+mild importance

Stand-Alone Books
•    The Shining
•    Misery
•    Needful Things
•    The Green Mile
•    Carrie
•    Tommyknockers
Collections
•    Night Shift
•    Different Seasons
•    Four Past Midnight
•    Nightmares and Dreamscapes
•    Just After Sunset
The Dark Tower (The Epic Version)
•    Eyes of the Dragon *
•    The Gunslinger #1
•    The Talisman *
•    The Drawing of the Three #2
•    The Regulators + (Richard Bachman)
•    Bag of Bones +
•    The Wasteland #3
•    The Stand *
•    Wizard and Glass #4
•    Desperation +
•    Skeleton Crew +
•    Salems Lot *
•    Wolves of the Calla #5
•    Rose Madder +
•    Everything Eventual +
•    IT *
•    Song of Susannah #6
•    View from a Buick 8 ( I don’t know… ask Matt)
•    Hearts in Atlantis *
•    Insomnia *
•    Black House (sequel to The Talisman)
•    The Dark Tower #7

Note: We will begin in January, and other than the Dark Tower Series (The EpicVersion) the books wont be read in order. I'll take suggestions for which should be read first, but I'm leaning toward Misery or The Shining.

Day 3 Blog- In which the author rambles too much out of exhaustion.

NaNoWriMo. 50,000 words. Thirty days. One Novel. I can do this.

My first couple days were a bit of a bust. As of yesterday, I'd had less than half of what I'd written by then the year before. Although day 3, 2008, I didn't write anything, and today was my most productive day so far, and as of right now, I have last years word count beaten by almost five hundred words, so I guess I'm doing OK.

I am going to take a picture of myself at the end of the day, every day, this month to track what this work is doing to me. Honestly, I expect to gain a little weight this month as I'll be drinking caffeinated beverages and sitting on my ass, although how different that is from my daily routine, well... we'll see.