Happy Halloween!

[same_sky]

In addition to coming all the way to our house (ninety miles) last night to help us fix my car, my parents brought us pumpkins, since we couldn't buy them here.

And, in keeping with our Halloween tradition, we made homemade ice cream. I'm not so sure why we do that but it's fun. Strawberry, this time.

Trick or treaters: 0. We bought a little bit of candy but we were pretty sure, based on our location, that we wouldn't have any. I turned the light out half an hour early because I was dying to change back into comfortable clothes, but it's not like anyone would have suddenly showed up. We're kind of on a back road, with no easy access for kids except by car. The good news is that we bought candy accordingly, and are now well-stocked on chocolate we actually like.

The pumpkin seeds are roasting in the oven right now. How Martha Stewart of us!

And, Nanomaybeo starts tomorrow. I must be out of my frickin' mind to even think about doing it again with such a half-assed plan. I can't even decide for sure if I'm going to try it! But I do have half of a plan, which is more than I had on Sunday. The problem with Nanowrimo is that it sounds like So Much Fun... until you actually start writing in November. Then it pretty much sucks. Decisions, decisions...

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[carrieb.livejournal.com]

I was just talking to Mike about Nanomaybo and he is basically forbidding me to do it. Not that he forbids me to do anything, but he has that look that says "if you do this I shall be *very disappointed*." For some reason he thinks I might be a little stressed with Nano and MM stuff. Imagine that. We'll see what I actually decide tomorrow. I have no plan at all.

Love the pumpkins! Now I want to carve one!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I told M that Carrie's husband won't let her do Nanowrimo and why can't he forbid ME? And so he did, but he didn't really seem to mean it because then he started looking sad and saying things like "I'm just afraid that in ten years, you will still never have done this* and you will really regret it." THAT BITCH. I hate it hate it hate it when he is right. So I.. umm. Well, I wrote 120 words on my morning break, with pencil and paper. I guess that's something.. we'll see how it goes. I hate to say I'm going to do it and then drop out, but I'm not sure I'm really going to be able to this year, and yet, if I'm not planning to succeed am I not planning to fail? (I hate that expression.) ARGH. Why do we do it, C? Why do we procrastinate and then get upset about why we don't get important things done? I think it might be our biggest character flaw. And it's just exactly what I said about other things in the past, before I started working... when exactly do I think I'll have more time to do this than now? I totally found out how true THAT one was.. in retrospect.

As for you, missy, for the love of God, please just tell me that Sarah gets out of that darned painting? *tease*

*write, in general, not specifically Nanomaybeo 2006.

And this concludes today's most rambly LJ comment.