Words and teeth.

[same_sky]

I've been hacking at my NanoNovel one word at a time this afternoon, while keeping an eye on other things in the background. I'm having a very hard time with it today.. my back is killing me. I've tried sitting in a thousand different ways, including on the couch in the livingroom. (Dismal failure.) I laid down for a few minutes and it still didn't help, so I finally decided I couldn't wait until it got done before I started applying myself to the task at hand. I've now written 439 very painful words.. the flow isn't there. I'm a little bit behind, but not majorly so. I need to write just a little over 2000 words a day from now until the end of the month to get it done, and that's the goal I've had all along. I took off three full days and didn't make it to the right number on a few more occasions. It shouldn't be a problem, really. I'm just about to get to the point where a bunch of stuff will happen pretty quickly, and that should help. I can stop writing filler scenes then. I just don't want to end the story too quickly, for once they admit their love to each other, the book is essentially over, and I have too many words left for that to happen yet. ;)

What do you know? After I wrote that paragraph, I actually got back to work, and tonight I wrote like mad for half an hour. I'm now at 38,018 words, which leaves me needing to write 1,997 per day for the next six days. This is do-able, I think. :) My back also stopped hurting sometime in the afternoon, so basically what I've said is that the first paragraph is a worthless piece of crap that I should delete. Oh, well.

We walked up to the parents and had dinner and played with my niece a little while. It is freaking cold outside. Yesterday, we took a walk up the road when we went off to visit family. It was about 72 degrees, brilliantly sunny. Today, it's hovering around freezing. There were snow flurries when M took his morning break, there was sleet here at about the same time. It's crazy. It dropped forty degrees overnight and will be even colder tonight. Completely unreal.

A certain special friend had her first tooth filling today, so I created the following to commemorate the occasion. Please remember that I'm not an artist. I just play one on the internet.

Comments

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I'm glad you posted it where everyone can see it - it's such a cute picture!! I'm feeling fine, no pain at all, although I really wish I'd gotten a bit red bow wrapped around my head and a lollypop for being such a brave girl. I think I have to have another one next week but he said it'd be a breeze ... famous last words .... ;)

You're sweet, thanks!! :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

You should have seen M's reaction when I finished it and said, "Hey, what do you think?" He didn't even know what it was I was working on, so he was understandably confused. :) I'm glad you're feeling okay!

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

aaawww! You gave it a cute nose!

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Ironic considering people call me ski-jump nose - its kind of like the picture in real life :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

What color are your eyes? I didn't know. I used blue, but then I thought maybe they were green but decided that I shouldn't worry about it since I was drawing a tooth, for goodness sake. Probably brown, with the way I've been thinking lately.. :)

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They're green, but they do get murky with grey or blue from time to time. A pool of nothingness, I like to to think :) Yours? I went to double check in your gallery but it won't let me in :(

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Good. I was leaning toward green, but I'd already made the tooth's eyes blue so I decided I'd just leave it alone. Anyway, mine are blue. M's are very blue. Both of my parents and both of his parents have blue eyes. His sister has em and so did my brother. What color do you think our kids will have? *giggle* Mine turn green sometimes, two people have said, but I've never seen it myself.

The hosting company put our server in safe mode after the hackers did their thing. I've mailed them about it tonight and they're going to fix it. It's vastly annoying.

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Vastly - cute! Very 'english' :)

Green with jealousy? Or rage?

I'm guessing you'll have blue-eyed kids... cute! At this point I'd love to outline what colour eyes various people are but I'll stop short before sounding as unstable as I am ;)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I thought it looked like a toe from the side. I slapped the nose on as an afterthought and then decided to leave it as it was. Hehe. :)