Shirley Temple and my impending novel

Well, I really did it this time. I cut my child's hair, and now she looks like Shirley Temple. And I can't cut curly hair worth crap. This is real honest to goodness truth. So Bella may be paying a visit to Kid's Snips or whatever this weekend to clean up mom's dingbat job...wow.
She LIKES it though, she is so proud of her haircut. I feel horrible. I am afraid to touch it up, thinking that I'll start cutting this and that and then all of a sudden she'll be freaking BALD. So I must resist the urge to fix this. Lord help me.

On to better news. I think. I have officially signed on to write a 50,000 word, yes, fifty THOUSAND word novel by the end of November. It is part of National Novel Writing Month. I have a friend at work who sent me the idea and has been tormenting me on the whys of why I should participate. Then some friends from across the state and country have been giving me the DO it notices on Facebook. So I decided to do it. It will take ALOT of time, but I really want to do it and if I do, it is only for me, but I will feel like I accomplished something big.

I have already started writing a story I got from a dream, but I am not going to use that. I am going to start fresh with an idea I pondered about a week ago when workfriend decided to start telling me about nanowrimo.org.

So I have AN idea. And I think it will work. I am nervous that I will not make the 200 pages it will take to get the 50K words, but my friend out in Connecticut assures me this is for quantity NOT quality; which workfriend also tried explaining to me in other words. So I feel a little better since workfriend has actually won writing contests and almost made a movie (FOR REAL) from one of his screenplays. And CT friend is an avid writer and critic. So with these two in my corner I feel a little better.

Hubby says it is ALL me since he has too much on his plate with school to think about participating. And so I dragged another work BFF in this and she is going to do it too. I have threatened, or vowed to bring my laptop with me everyday to work so I can take lunch and write over lunch, and then I'll write during Bella's shows, and on the weekends. I'll probably have to force myself to stay up late friday nights too so I can finish.

The rules are to not start till 12:01 am on November 1st and then submit by November 30th. So please wish me luck, and if you don't hear from me till December, you know why.

PS, please say a prayer for Bella's hair. Thanks.

Oh the friends we have

So I joined facebook and I find it pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty darn easy to upload photos there. Soooo, I'll still try to post some here but the majority will be over there.

Bella and I went trick or treating this weekend with bella's friend Allyson. They had a great time despite the cold weather, Bella was all warm in her Skunk costume. We did buy her a butterfly stuff, but with the weather, I think she may end up Skunking it out. She tells people she's a STUNK! too cute. She had her first M&Ms. And she LOVED them, now I have to HIDE the candy. All she wants is candy. She went from Zero to sixty in 2.5 seconds there.

Then we went to pumpkin fest. Bella has a parade friend. My friend Kris' daughter Kayleigh goes with us to 99.9% of all the parades we see. So when we say we are going to a parade Isabella, Bella will say, with Kayleigh?? Parade = Kayleigh to my kiddo.
So we went to Kayleigh's grandma's (who I lovingly call my surrogate mom or Bella's surrogate Grandma) and had lots to eat and then we all went to the parade where we even got to meet up with some old friends from both High School and college.

Isabella became more outgoing this weekend too, she went up to several people she did not know and hugged them. And most miraculously, she even let my friend Mike not only roughhouse with her but HOLD her and toss her about! And she went back for more. It was a miracle and it's not even Christmas.

Bella has also taken to not taking naps during the day anymore... it is pretty crazy and I am not liking it. Why? because she then freaking falls asleep on the way home and then is passed out cold for at least 2 hours. I have tried bouncing her to wake her, playing with her hands, sitting her up--you name it, I have tried it. All I have not done is doused her with H2O. So all this turns into her not going to bed at any kind of a decent hour. UGH!

Just got word Grandma G is coming for a visit in 2 weeks, we are excited!! yay!

Experiment

Those of you not on facebook, please click this link and let me know if you can see the photos....
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=1459733314&k=X416Z2USPYYM5DGERA43U3

One for Aunt Jenn

Taaa Daaaa... Bella was so proud of this Carolina outfit. :)
I think she looks about ready to join Riverdance.

I about died when...

Scott and I were at Cheesecake factory this weekend and we were drawing with one of Isabella's little magnadoodles, when I asked her to spell her name, and she said "B-E-L-L-A". On the first try!

I shed a small tear. She is only 2 and a half!!

Pumpkin patch #2

Bella and mommy went to Didiers pumpkin patch yesterday while daddy was at work. It was really fun. Bella did ALOT of poses. I asked her what her favorite thing was and she said washing the pumpkin....soooo
She also liked posing as a "ghostie". That is my girl!

Way more than a geek

So, I am more than a geek about this movie I posted below. It is getting quite sad. I am totally an embarrassment to myself. I have NEVER been this geeked out on a movie or book before. i really don't know what to do. I have never been this big of a nerd. It is really quite amazing for me. I guess my inner geekity will never cease to amaze me. Maybe this is my equivalent of starwars geekdom? Friends, please accept me anyway.

It has become ritual now that every night during the week when Bella becomes engrossed with her Blue’s clues, or Einsteins, or Yo Gabba Gabba, I get on the laptop (oh so convenient—sorry this is my first laptop ever) log in Facebook and then read Stephenie Myers’ site, and IMDb and Youtube then any other sites galore related to the damned movie below.
I hate you Stephenie Myers for turning me into a

GEEK.

Queen of the GEEKS.

Supreme GEEKOLAGEEK.

I think what is most got me doing this nightly tribute is not the Twilight books themselves, and not hot Robert Pattinson, who I did NOT think was good looking at all at first but now has grown on me—(don’t worry Christian B., you are still 1-5… R-pat is now just #6 plus he is pretty young, so I almost feel ashamed—but if Scott could like Lindsay Lohan at one time, I don’t feel THAT bad)…so, the thing that is fun for me is reading the HILARIOUS posts of commentary by fans and haters of the books/movie… I could read thousands of these threads and go back for more. I love the people who can’t spell or who write in gangster rap form, or who I swear to god are 12 or who are the German and French contingent of this fandom that get on to post…its too funny it’s world over.

All I can say is that it is a good distraction from watching the Blue’s Clues about School for the millionth time.

But it is a truly sad state of affairs that people get away with writing this way online… broken words, not to mention sentences commenting on things… though I am strangely compelled to read it. It is so freaking humorous. I seriously laugh out loud at a lot of it. Especially when the illiterate get into fights with other illiterati (yes making up my own words does not count, I have a license) about topics too. They say some pretty nasty stuff about each other and it can get like reading a book just in the threads. SOO entertaining. I repeatedly think—don’t these people have lives? Then I think, damn look at what I am doing…am I really any better? Or can I just type a smidge better? I think one of the more nerdy things about reading all these posts is the new vocab/lingo I pick up. Like OME….instead of OMG.
OME…OME!!!!
E paying homage to the lead hot vamp Edward….too funny… yeah, I am just about the only one who thinks it’s cute. S-A-D. Someone poke a fork through me, I am done.

And how sad is it that I lent my book out and am counting the days till I get it back…?
How sad is it that I can not wait till 11/21?
How sad is it that I can not wait for my designer friend to make our Team Edward shirts? Yes, my geekification has infiltrated other people. MY AGE. And we are planning to document it in shirt form.
How sad is it that after the movie I will be in high anticipation until the dvd comes out? How many months later?? Birthday present Scott?? He might need to buy two as I am sure I will wear out the first dvd.
How sad it is that after the dvd, I will be waiting for the next movie?

How do I know there will be a next movie? You should see the legions of fans this Stephenie Myer has ALONE. We are talking a Teenage ARMY. An all-girl army. And then multiply that by their sucker boyfriends who will be dragged to see this… well, right there alone you have a hit. Not to even mention the factors from anther site I found called, oh yes, TwilightMOMs.com!!!! No, I didn’t sign up. I drew the line there, proving my geekdom does have its boundaries. Although those boundaries are located in a galaxy FAR FAR FAR away.

Oh happy day

The Crew

This reminds me of when Kristin and Tracy and our old high school crew used to go to McDonald's all the time in high school, it was the only thing to do in Sycamore...

blue's clues

For Grandma