Fadedwords

• A combination of far too much on your mind and the first night in a hotel never adds up to good things.
• I slept maybe 2 hours last night… although I think it was more like one.
• I woke up feeling sick, which is fairly typical these days.  I think this goes back to aforementioned too much on my mind.
• I added a NaNo widget to my sidebar that shows my word count.  I’m up to 10,000 words.
• This astonishes me because I really have no clue where this story is taking me.  I’m just writing.
• I’m excited that the hotel has a fitness room; I plan to make very good use of it over the next few days.
• I’m working hard to stay on track with WW, even though my food options are limited while I’m here.
• I got a WW monthly pass, and I’m really liking the eTools.
• Registration starts at noon today for the conference, and I’m kind of dreading the whole process.  There were lots of mix ups and I’m having to go through a whole hassle to get signed up.
• I am incredibly, incredibly glad that Obama was elected.  I don’t get into politics much here, but I am very glad that this country made the wonderful choice that it did.  It makes me proud.
• I’m going to try to focus on getting to 15,000 words today in NaNo.
• This will keep my mind off of other things.

Sometimes the best thing to do is curl up in bed, hope for nice dreams, and the idea that tomorrow couldn’t be as bad as today.

So that’s what I’m off to do.  I’m keeping fingers crossed for the above, and also that Obama will win this election.  We can’t afford more of the same.

Goodnight internet.

I’ve had the kind of day the requires a brownie with chocolate frosting on it, so that’s what I’m having.  I learned months ago that sometimes you just need something, and if you deny yourself you end up feeling bitter about WW and about weight loss and then you make even worse choices than the brownie would have been originally.

I have a conference this week in Greensboro; I thought I had filled out paperwork to get cleared to be out Tuesday-Friday.  Apparently I made a mistake, and I received four phone calls this morning before I was actually near my phone to answer.  It was the secretary at school asking if I was going to be absent today.  Long story short- I had to come in to work for half the day so I wouldn’t lose a whole sick day.  It means I won’t be able to leave for Greensboro until 4ish, which means rush hour traffic and driving after dark.  100% not excited about any of those things.  I really wanted to just get there and deal with registration and all that today.

Brightside of everything is that today is a teacher work day, so no students.  I’m glad about this because I’m just not in the frame of mind to deal with the kiddos today.  I love them and enjoy working with them… but like I said: it’s a frosted brownie day.  That’s no place for small children.

I knew there was something about him that just seemed… devilish.

I really try hard to bring him on the path of good, but he’s committed to being naughty.  Gotta’ love him.

Yesterday my friend Elyssa hosted a costume party at her house.  All of my close friends were there, and we had a really fantastic time.  I dressed as a nun… a devilish nun. 

I was very devout.

I also made some kick ass cupcakes.

Please visit the Halloween Party album, as well as the Me and Jake Halloween album to see some of the fun that was had.  I’ll be adding more as soon as I get photos from Sarah and Elyssa.   And be on the lookout tomorrow for some fun that Merlin had with Halloween.