Monday's Lame Updates

[seventhe]

This is a pretty frivolous entry!

+ dumbdailypoll, as always.

+ I think I've officially given up on NaNo. Last week was too busy at work, and this weekend was just too busy overall: I'm at 20,712 and I should be at 38,641 to be "on schedule". I only have 6 days left to write. To get it done I would have to write 4,881 words per day; I've only written that many wpd once, and it was a weekend when I did nothing else.

Le sigh. I was really hoping that this could be the year I'd be able to make 50K WITH the vacation handicap. Turns out that 8 days'-worth of writing is a lot! Dammit all, guys. I hate that I look like a loser. I can't write on the NaNo website "I took an 8-day vacation the past three years" so I just look like I keep failing at it, again and again. Insert unhappy face.

I'm going to keep writing this week; my new goal is to hit 36,667, which is what a "normal NaNo" participant "should" have in 22 days. I don't think I'm going to make that either, but it makes me feel a little better about the whole thing. >.> My REAL goal is going to be just 50% completion, which is only 5,000 words away.

+ The consolation prize for losing at NaNo is that I finally have a spot in the garage! Goldbug is so, so pleased! I WILL FINALLY BE PARKED OUT OF THE SNOW. This is awesome!

+ I GOT PRESENTS! Tons of books (too many!!) from shanaqui, and High School Musical from katmillia! I AM SO EXCITED IT IS LIKE CHRISTMAS HAS COME SUPER EARLY. I can read the books on vacation, and watch the movie when I come home and am uber-depressed! YAYAYAY. You guys rule! ♥!

+ Part of the reason I didn't write was because I went to play Secret of Mana with hilldo on Friday. It was awesome, although certain people were butts and we didn't get to play for as long as I would have liked. That game is really pretty awesome, I'd forgotten. It's funny how much of the story I don't remember (aka all of it) because I was too young to pay attention to shit like that. XD

+ We really got a lot done this weekend, so even though I fail at 50,000 words, I can look back and be proud of how much crap we did. Productive weekends ahoy! We got a lot of errands done, did cleaning, transferred our beer from the primary to the secondary fermenter, worked out twice, and made a lot of tasty food.

+ I have discovered the way to stay warm while sleeping, and it is long johns. If you are safety_caesars, hilldo, or jennyclarinet you should be laughing right now as you should realize where I got the women's longjohns from. If you did not make it to the Halloween Party this year I will merely direct you to this image and let you put the pieces together yourself.

How have I missed out on this?!! I wore pajama pants to bed, but I hate the way they bunch up and ride up your legs and get tangled. So I tried sleeping in girly-boxer shorts, but I WAS SO FREAKING COLD. Longjohns are the solution! I am warm, but they stay on my legs! I WIN.

+ In an update of Sev Vs Her Hair, Round 3: I got a haircut. It isn't anything drastic -- I just got an overall trim, and trimmed my bottom layers short because I am trying to grow out the layers completely: I look like I've got a kind of shaggy bob thing going on. It's alright.

The lady gave me some advice on it: namely, to try to work with my waves. Ever since I declared war on my hair and started using "repairing" products, my hair has picked up a lot of curl, especially on the right hand side (I have one big, fat, pretty ringlet that would be really nice-looking if it weren't the only one). This is okay when my hair is air-drying, but on mornings when I showered the night before because I hit the gym, I don't know what to do with it. Except put it up, but... she also said that wearing ponytails so often is tearing my hair, which contributes to my general frizz and ugly-hair-ness (which is what I am trying to combat with the Strength and Repair stuff in the first place!). Augh. No ponytails? Really?

I look like blech today. THE BATTLE CONTINUES.

+ Work has not calmed down, in the slightest. The consolation prize is that at least I am done making slides. The booby prize is that now that I've presented the slides, I've been given like 50lb MORE work to do. D:

+ It snowed yesterday! There was white on the ground last night! I know eventually I will be hating on the snow, so for right now I want to enjoy how beautiful it is. ♥

So, F-List, how was your weekend?

Comments

[churched.livejournal.com]

My weekend was filled with Sunshine, Silent Hill, and very little else. :)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an excellent weekend, then!

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

LOLLLLLLL @ THE LONG JOHNS. That's being resourceful! That reminds me, I've always wanted footie pajamas. I used to have them when I was little and you could barely get me OUT of them. SO WARM. DO WANT IN ADULT SIZE. (LOL "adult size footie pajamas" sounds creepy, like "adult diapers" or whatever.) I've seen them online, I just haven't... gotten any XD

Hair Solution: Buzz it all off!
Alternately: Mohawk or mullet.
Further Alternate: Wear that gorgeous Rydia wig you just got!
Protip: I am a horrible person to ever take advice from.
Trufax: I know nothing about fixing hair as I too always had horrible hair until I chop-chopped it all off, but I know not everyone wants to go down the Natalie Portman path XD

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I am SO SCARED of short hair becuase my hair is so terrible, and I'm afraid if I cut it short I wouldn't be able to hide its AWFULNESS anymore. Also I am frequently putting face shields and respirators and shit on and off at work, so even if I tried for something with a style I think I would just mess it up.

[salarta.livejournal.com]

HAI SEV!

I have to read up still, BUT I need to know for the ladyfarrell how you want me to represent your stuff! I have the 'rosa' tag from brokenprism and all, but that catches your fanart too, and you said you didn't want me to incorporate that. Want me to just link to the individual stories instead?

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it would probably be better to link to the individual stories. I can compile them if you don't have the time. :)

[salarta.livejournal.com]

Please do. :D

HOW IS WORK GOING TODAY ARE YOU MURDERING THE PH.D YET?

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

NO ACTUALLY I'M PLOTTING THE DEMISE OF ANOTHER COWORKER RIGHT NOW

[salarta.livejournal.com]

OH WELL THEN LET'S INTRODUCE HIM/HER/IT TO SEPHIROTH X BARRET PRON. BEST PLAN OR BEST PLAN?

[astrangerenters.livejournal.com]

Hurray for High School Musical. You have to be in the right mindset to watch - that means you have to be in the mood for mega-cheesy. But that's pretty much MY default setting :)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I am kind of excited~! Although I think I will have to watch it without Jeff; he ruins the mega-cheesy mood. XD

[lassarina]

You need to stop going on vacation in November, baby! :)

I love you. ♥

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

I don't understand what is so horrible about your hair...it always looks fine to me! That's bad news about the ponytail thing...since my hair is so long now, that's about the only way that I wear it (because you know, I have a very bad habit of splitting my split ends when it's down). I'm actually going to continue growing my hair out, since I've gone 13 months already without a haircut, and then I'll donate it to Locks of Love.

Yay for getting cleaning done! Being productive feels good, esp. before a big trip. Now you'll feel like you deserve it!

My weekend was fine, thanks for asking. Clicky clicky on my journal and read all about it!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

As long as it's not a super tight ponytail, I think it should be fine. She told me that since my hair is shorter I must be pulling it in a tighter ponytail to keep it up, and that's what's doing the damage. XD Your hair is so pretty though... I wish I had manageable hair! XD

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I think your hair suits you. It's always a little wild. If it were like, Disney princess hair, I don't think you'd look right. I sometimes wish I had wavy hair that I could just toss around. I guess you always want what you don't have.

And your ears are cute!

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

I bailed someone out of prison! (More correctly, someone else bailed her out, but I was the one making all the phone calls and Joey and I were sleeping in the prison parking lot until 8am).

ALSO, I do so love the drunken progression of Becky's evening.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

OH, CHRIST! WTF, JANA. XDDD

I know! HILARITY ENSUES AT OHAYOCON Y/Y???

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

This is how I roll, Sev. You know this. I am always doing something COMPLETELY RECOCKULOUS.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE SHIT HAPPENED? DO I HAVE TO BEAT SOMEONE DOWN

[shanaqui]

Maybe you should use a different kind of hair tie? I use a scrunchie and it seems not to cause much of a problem.

Also: there is no such thing as too many books! I only sent you, what, eight? If you count each of the books in The Dark Is Rising sequence as one.

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

I'm seconding the scrunchies. As awesome as the elastics are, even when they say "no damage," it's just because there's no little metal bit to tear. They'll still break your hair.

SCRUNCHIES ARE AMAZING NINETIES, WHO DOESN'T LOVE THEM?

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

It is worth trying. I didn't even think my ponytails were that tight! (My ears stick out, so I always try to leave a little looseness in my hair to cover it up. DON'T LAUGH, WORLD)

:) :) I am so very excited. I just hope they all fit in the suitcase!

[kristinmachina.livejournal.com]

I was in Ossening at a family reunion on Saturday. It's like "Hi! Nice to meet you! We're related YAY!"