I went to the beach with Ted, Dantzel, John and James earlier this month. We grabbed take-out Teriyaki and drove down by the water. The tide was mostly in, but after lunch we found a strip of sand to explore for a bit.


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Guys I am super excited about my garden this summer. Last year my balcony was a little sparse, but my herb garden was a rousing success. This year I'm going all out with the outdoor plants.
 A few weeks ago I mentioned my attempt to replicate the vertical pallet garden that's been making it's rounds across the internet. I'm happy to say that I have ( Read more... )

 A few days ago I was perusing the nearby thrift store when I spotted two nearly new springform pans (the ones with the removable sides used for cheesecakes). I looked up several ideas for what to use them for, and lo.


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My sister asked me why I never update my blog. I think the real answer to that question is that I put too much emphasis on quality posts or something like that. I obsess over wording and what to include or not include, so that I can present the best possible posts about how I wrapped my Christmas presents? My life is not glamorous enough and my ( Read more... )

In one of very few holiday traditions we've manage to retain for several years, during the week after Christmas my family gathers all the magazines in the house and attempt to cobble together posters symbolizing our goals for the upcoming year. Sometimes it's difficult to find pictures specific to the resolutions you've already set, but we often we ( Read more... )

 Hooray! January! The holidays are over! How were yours? Mine were pretty great, to be honest. In addition to a sweet vacation, I learned a lot of deep and important lessons, which I will now dispense.

A) Fog is weird.

If you were to rank bad weather like you rank D&D monsters (as I so often do), slick icy roads would be like a lvl 12+ dragon. Snow a ( Read more... )

Guess what my brother and I bought at Big Lots? A really lush and vibrant faux christmas tree? No, we bought this instead.


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Current Word Count: 52,676

It's been a bumpy road, and a bumpy novel. But I made it! 50,000 words in one month.

I started this project with absolutely zero aspirations towards publication. I didn't even plan on coming up with a bit of prose worth sharing, but truthfully I'm actually kind of proud of my rough draft! I'm taking a break in December, but ( Read more... )

The word count has finally caught up with me. At the halfway point in the month, my novel is 23374 out of an expected 25000 words. I've been doing my best the past few days to catch up, or at least not fall too far behind the curve, but I've had to resort to all kinds of trickery.

I'm finding that what started out as simple narrative is fracturing ( Read more... )

 I know none of you asked me to post more excepts from my terrible NaNoWriMo entry. You're all too nice for that. Not wanting to put pressure on the budding young genius. I appreciate it. But I have heard your silent wishes and have decided to force upon you another selection of raw talent. You can thank me later by asking me to autograph your ( Read more... )