Pink is the New Black

“Anyways, why are you here so early?”
“Anyways,” he parroted. “Did you really just say ‘anyways’?”
“What is wrong with anyways?”
“Nothing, I just found it a little …” his voice trailed off.
“It’s a Midwestern thing. Deal with it,” she told him.
He held his hands up in surrender. “Don’t get your gills in a tizzy,” he told her.
“Gills in a tizzy?” she questioned. “What does that even mean?”
“It’s a West Coast thing,” he told her.
“Next thing I know, you’re going to tell me to ignore the invisible pink unicorn in the room, or something.”
Trevor lifted his hand to his mouth, in mock horror. He looked around, pretending to be making sure the coast was clear. “How did you know about the invisible pink unicorn? That’s a trade secret. No one is to know of it. No one, do you hear me,” he told her, a broad smile lighting up his face.
Alexandria let out a laugh. If even only half the people she was going to be working with had this sense of humor, she was going to have absolutely no problem fitting in. Trevor’s sense of humor reminded her of her brother Stephen, who had just graduated high school. He was the baby of the family, and the one always getting into trouble. He was also the one most likely to talk himself out of trouble, so it usually evened out in the end.

jupitersings

The time. Where has it gone?

This time tomorrow? I will need 1667 words. Written. Committed. Saved. Back-up.

Where will I be? What will I accomplish? I have no idea.

I will try. I will attempt.

But as Yoda put it best:

There is no try. Only do.

So, I will do. I will do. I will do.

To see her, you would know that she is used to having things easier in life. It is more than that she is beautiful. Her green eyes shone with a shrewdness, that spoke of the ability to argue a point until the other party gave up.

I can’t turn off my brain. It wanted to write. It’s not long, but I’m slowly seeing my main female character of the #NaNoWriMo :D

I’m excited for this November. I’ve got a “planning” write-in on the 10th, that evening. Josh is off, THANK GOD, so I can go and not have to worry about the kids.

There’s another the 24th, the Kick-Off Hopefully Josh can get off on time for that Or else I’ll be taking the kids and he’ll be sneaking in to get them .

I also see there are TWO write-in sessions for my local region! YAY! That’s one more than last year

Besides local stuff, I’m going to be hosting sprints on AIM, through . I'm a new mod there ... for November allyear_sprints

So, I was discussing a NaNo idea with Josh. I LOVE the idea of doing a DnD one, but I want a modern twist on it. He helped me semi-flesh out an idea:
IDEA A : The MC is in the "modern" world, and is a gamer, and gets knocked unconscious living out a DnD fantasy "dream".
IDEA B : The MC is asked out by the resident "geek" (who isn't the stereotypical geek, I swear. He doesn't live in his mom's basement ;)). She turns him down, and somehow she ends up in the DnD fantasy world, and the only way to get out/wake-up is with the help of the "geek". She learns a lot about herself, and finds she actually knew more than she thought she did. Or something.

The idea better happen. I just bought TWO books on Amazon to support the idea.
Oh well, if not, Josh wanted them anyways :D

I’m getting good responses:

From @Cylithria: “you know what I Love, love, love the Idea B, but then again I love Idea A too. These are brilliant Sarah (and Josh) now I am all excited to read these. Hurry up and write it already will you? ;)”

From @daisysmiles4you: “I think I like the 2nd one...I always feel kinda of cheated at the end by the first type of plot. They can be very good but to find out that it's all "just a dream"....Ie sigh. shrug … Plus w/the 2nd you could do a bunch with misunderstandings due to jargon and the like real world vs gaming...”

My response to @daisysmiles4you: “I was already coming up with quotes. I can bring in Star Trek, Lord of the Ring, Star Wars, etc into it :-D Alternate universe sounds more fun. :-P”

The kids were able to wear their Halloween costumes to school today.

Ethan, obviously, is going as Woody. His costume is a little short. Good thing he has the boots, right? *LOL*

Madison is going as Astrid, from How to Train Your Dragon. She was going to go as Tinkerbell but the costume totally didn’t fit. It said it fit 4-6x. 6x must have REALLY changed because Madi’s in 6s now, and good god, her clothes aren’t THAT baggy. Its like its designed for someone 2-3x her size, around, but her height. That’s kind of scary, honestly. Yeah, I know she’s on the small size for her age, but good LORD. That would be a 65-80lb 7-year-old. We didn’t, all 3 of us in my family, didn’t hit that weight until we were at least 9 or 10. Heck, my brother, until he was SIXTEEN was 4’8” and 65lb, LMAO. He technically should have been in a booster until he was 13, ROFL.

In other news, I’m playing with Scrivener for Windows. Its in BETA. BETA runs out Dec. 12, and the new one comes out. So, yeah. Not sure what I’m gonna write NaNo with, but eh, I’m enjoying trying out new programs!

• NaNoWriMo
  
  1. An official plot
  
  
  2. A few more calendars, for rotating via Windows 7
  
  
  3. Some more plotting
  
  
  4. Take part in a few more chats ;)


• Digital Scrapbooking
  
  1. Get a few ideas for guest blogging w/ Ramona
  
  
  2. P52 layouts
  
  
  3. A few more challenge layouts
     
     • The HeART of It
     
     
     • Lyric challenge
     
     
     • Font challenge
     
     
     • Indulgence
     
     
     • Word Lovers
     
     
  4. June, July, August layouts for calendar


• Parent Teacher conferences @ 5:45pm and 6:05pm


• Watch some Glee on Wednesday because NCIS rocks harder for me