Diana's Writing Blog

And I mean that. Sorta. I was pretty productive this weekend. I cleaned the apartment and baked and did dishes. Plus, I was out of bed before noon both days. Oh, and I worked on my story.

It’s kind of begrudgingly dragging to a close. I just have to break the protagonist out of the castle dungeon and get her to the climactic battle between the two armies. Then it’s all denouement from there. I’m not even going to hazard a guess on how many words it’ll take me to do all this. I’d guess somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000 but I’ve been way off before.

Okay, I love my alarm clock. It docks with my iPod video and charges it while playing my sleep mix all night and it has this special LED light to project the time onto the ceiling, so I don’t even have to roll over to see what time it is.

But for some reason the alarm part will just not go off every once in a while. Today, I woke up at 8:30 (right about when I should be arriving at work) to the dog doing the potty dance. Also, my iPod was frozen. I made this face: >< and kicked it into high gear. I made it at 9, so all I have to do is skip lunch and it’s all good, but man that’s annoying.

I got my iPod unfrozen, too, finally. It’s been making worrisome clicking noises periodically which lead me to believe that its hard drive is slowly unseating itself. I may have dropped it a few times, which probably didn’t help. I know how to fix it, I just don’t want to have to crack open my iPod and do surgery until it’s really necessary.

Or, I could just get a new one, I guess. I kind of want the iPod touch, but I really like my 60GBs of storage. Plus, I like not paying $400 for what’s essentially an iPod nano with a cool screen and a web browser. I don’t need a web browser. There’s only like 30 minutes in an average day where I’m conscious and not in front of a computer. But I like the touch screen…

Anyway, I slacked about on my writing again last night, but some progress was made. Namely, the main character is in the city in which the climactic ending will take place. So, maybe another 20 pages to go? Or more. Oh, who the hell knows anymore? Not me.

I kind of dropped out of contact for a while. Last weekend was hectic. I came home expecting to babysit Grandma and my bro Saturday while Mom and Dad ran my sister down to college (in Milwaukee). Instead, I ended up going with my dad and sister while Mom stayed home and caught up on house work.

It was pretty fun. The drive is about 4 hours long each way, so we had a lot of time to talk. Okay, I slept most of the way up, but I talked on the way home. And when we got there I got to see my sister’s kick ass dorm building. She’s so spoiled. She has a store, coffee shop, cafeteria, gym, and theater all IN her dorm building. Also, she’s got one of those suite setups where she and two other girls have their own tiny rooms and share a bathroom. Boy in my day…

Then we braved the Milwaukee streets and went to Nooldes & Co. to eat. It was the best thing ever. You pick from like 15 different kinds of noodles, then you pick what meat you want on top. I sure don’t want to live in the big city (not a fan of large crowds of people or the way they drive), but could we just have all the restaurants they do up here?

Anyway, Sunday it was like 20 below 0 so we didn’t go to church and I got to sleep in. But I figured because of the weather I’d better get an early start. I went out to start up my car around 2 and he was like, “You’re kidding right? Have you experienced how COLD it is?” So, I had to hold down on the starter and flood the engine, but he finally started and sat there trying to idle while I loaded up. Fun times.

It’s been anywhere between 0 and 5 up here this week (it’s warmer here cause of the lake), but with the windchill it’s about 10 below. Plus, as far as I know it hasn’t stopped snowing since…I don’t know, December? But the car has been doing pretty good. I put the dry gas in every time I fill up now and it seems to help.

So, to make a long rambling story short, I’m behind on my story big time, but I’m still making progress. Also, yesterday we got a Mardi Gras cake delivered to the office from our Louisiana sales reps. It was soooo good. And I got the piece with the plastic baby, so lucky me. Anyway, here goes:

Yeah, I’m super late posting an update. Mostly because I was home visiting my sister before she goes back to college. We shopped and I fixed her laptop and we watched tons of crappy scary movies and went to see Juno in the theater.

We had so much fun that it couldn’t be squeezed into one weekend. Round about 3:30 on Sunday it was still snowing heavily and my sister and I hadn’t gone to Juno yet. So, it was either drive through a blizzard for 3 hours or call in sick to work and go see a movie. I chose movie. Turned out to be a good choice. Juno was awesome.

Anyway, I hung around Monday and met my sister and I met Mom and Dad for lunch at KFC. Then I took off and made it home almost before the sun went down, which is good because the only thing worse than driving through the snow is driving through snow in the dark. The weather was pretty good, though. It only snowed really bad for about half an hour of the 2 and a half hour trip.

In other news, I’m still squeeing over the AWESOMENESS of Torchwood. Granted, James Marsters as an omnisexual, morally ambiguous badass is kind of a can’t miss premise for an episode. But the writers also threw in hilarious dialogue and they actually made James’ and John’s characters’ relationships endearing.

Basically, James Marsters plays the classic hot ex who you know is bad for you and you know they bring out the worst in you. But you’ve got so much history and they’re so damn hot that you have to keep reminding yourself that screwing them would be a really bad idea.

So, in writing news, I’ve reached 60,000 words and am nowhere near done. So, I’m jumping the goal up to 100,000 words. Sheesh. I hope it won’t take that long, though.

Oh, and I’m typing it up on Google Docs so I can work on it both at work and at home and it’s gotten so big that I had to split the file in two to avoid Google’s document size limit. Sweet merciful Jesus.