November 2, 2009 | "Whoa whoa I gotta go...back to schoooool...again",Book Three,Draven Atreides,Draven Atreides, Teenage Informant Series,Life in General,School Daze,The 4-1-1 on Me,The Family Jewels,Weekend Wrap-Up,Writer Moment,Writing Movements
So, at my job on Friday, my dept and two other depts had a potluck and costume/food/cubie decoration contest. My co-worker and I dressed up as superheroes: CLICK FOR BIGGER VIEW
Unfortunately, neither one of us one. Highly disappointing, to say the least. Granted, Lisa’s costume was store bought, but mine was custom made! I think Jennie should’ve won first place for her KISS costume: CLICK FOR BIGGER VIEW
But she got second. Instead, we all got beat out by a store bought, black shredded dress and wings costume called Goth Angel. Yeah. Whatev. The reactions we got made up for losing. The Gurl House visit was canceled on Saturday due to the fact that, well, we had no girls. LOL. All of them were spending time with families, and the one girl we would’ve had was moved to another house. So, I have no weekly posting. I’ll actually have two next week as I’ve signed up to volunteer for a Creative Writing Professional Artist Series. It starts this Friday, the 6th, and ends Dec 18th (the next day is our final day at The Gurl House). Christina Hammerton is the Professional Artist in Residence and will be conducting this series. I’ll just be there to lend a helping hand. And possibly do some writing, too. It’s at another group home for girls and the age range of the participating girls is 16-18. Those posts will be titled The Sunny House.
Saturday night, Mr. Maul and I wore different costumes this year. Instead of our usual Darth Maul and Storm, we did Little Sexy Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf: CLICK FOR BIGGER VIEW
No, he’s not wearing a mask. They’re latex pieces glued to his face. Pretty realistic, eh? I could barely look him in the face. Kinda freaked me out a little. LOL. He passed out candy to trick-or-treaters and it was funny to hear their reactions. We walked down Mill Ave with a group of DSG’ers. We’re known (me excluded) for doing Star Wars costumes, but surprisingly, very few did this year. We had a Vader, of course, but we only had a couple of Troopers and Biker Scouts. A few of our people did characters from TRUEBLOOD. They were really hoping I would be Tara, but my scalp needed a break from the braids. Still, we all had a good time and you can see the pics HERE.
School Daze – Since I didn’t have a Gurl House visit on Saturday, I was able to work on my paper. It took me a good part of Saturday and nearly all of Sunday to finish and post, but I did it. Of course, it didn’t help that we didn’t get to bed until 530am, and then slept till 1pm. It is so hard to write non-fiction, let me tell you. Writing fiction is so much easier.
Writing Movement – Saturday afternoon, I took a break from writing the paper and went out to do some research for Book 3: The Family Jewels. Draven is 17 and a junior now (in the first two books she’s 16 and a sophomore). She’s got a new PT job and a new assignment: catching a family of jewel thieves. I basically scoped out her new PT job (working at a gym), the jewel thieves’ home (a very nice affluent area right near my job, actually) and a place of business for the mother (a 39,000 sq foot antique mall. It was freakin’ AWESOME. I can’t wait to write some scenes in that place). As you all may, or may not, know I’m attempting to write Book 3 during NaNoWriMo this month. And I got off to a great start, too….by losing a whole day of writing.
Thanks in part to waking up at 1pm and having to work on a research paper. So, let me break it down for you in the terms of how much this sucks for me. When I write, I don’t go by word count, I go by page count. If I can write at least one page a day, I’m golden. I shoot for 12 chapters, 12 pages per chapter. 50,000 words in 30 days, roughly works out to 7-8 pages a day. Again, 12 pages per chapter. Do you see where I’m going here? So, to make up for yesterday and to get my quota in today, I’m basically going to have to write my ass off. More so than usual. And since I handwrite first (I write mostly at work during breaks and lunch), I’ll need to write more. Sigh. I’ll try to give you guys weekly updates.
So, that’s it for moi. How was your Halloween?
Technorati Tags: Christina Hammerton, TRUEBLOOD, NaNoWriMo
Wendy says:
Wow those are some seriously cool costumes! You make a brilliant little Red. Love the wolf, you are officially the coolest Halloween/ers that I know
Celise says:
Wendy – LOL. Thanks. He spent over $100 on his costume. Well, the make-up stuff anyway. He got the gown at Savers (think Goodwill).
Suzy :) says:
It’s been ages since I visited any blogs! I stopped by yours tonight thanks to the email you sent out about the Halloween festivities.
Reading about and looking at pics of the DSG brought a tear to my eye! It was 8 years ago on Halloween, that Lord Vader and I first met. The next year, by Halloween, we had our very own Sithlet!
I miss the DSG!!!
Peggy says:
OMG these are soooo great! Can’t even recognize L. in her Wonder Women gear…more true than she realizes. Little Red looks so “innocent”; yeah, right. Didn’t do any Halloween this year because they don’t celebrate it in CZ. Love and miss you gals. P.
Celise says:
Suzy – I was surprised we had a Vader. Only two people that I know of have been doing our Vader: one hasn’t done it in a while and the other is now in the Army. I miss seeing you guys, but I love seeing the boys get older in the pics you put up.
mici says:
Hillarious Sis! Bro-in-law so realistic! Love ya!
Stephanie Hale says:
Celise,
The pics are great! I can’t believe how much your friends looked like Lafayette, Sookie, and Eric. How fun!