NaNoWriMo

I WON! I HAVE WRITTEN FIFTY THOUSAND WORDS IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER! It was probably the best month of my life so far. I think I'm addicted to this writing thing- even though compared to my earlier writing this novel stinks, I'm not giving up. I'm keeping up. Which means making goals, and using those goals to keep going when I don't want to.

I'll put up statistics at the end of November, when I (hopefully) will have completed, not just typed fifty thousand words on, my novel.

But, because I love you all, and I've abandoned you for a month, here's November in ten main events.

• Beginning of NaNoWriMo
• Homeschool choir concert
• Got asked to direct Christmas play
• Middle of NaNoWriMo
• Community choir concert
• Babysitting for three young boys
• Played the most fun handbell song ever with mallets
• Thanksgiving dinner with wonderful lemon meringue pie
• Katie's home!
• End of NaNoWriMo!

Thanks for reading. Hopefully more posts will follow soon.

Carrie

Updates, under topic

Facebook- So October.
NaNoWriMo- An hour and fortyseven minutes till! Cheers to last minute plotting and staying up on non-New-Year!
Videos- More important things now.
Room- Two new bulletin boards! Novel planning will be a cinch! Also: collage poster up, two pictures up as well, clean floor, clean desk- what better for writing?
Journal- started one again yesterday.
Electricity- went out for long enough for a nice candle-lit shower yesterday evening. Perfect length.
In short- there's a lot of time in a day! I've done a lot today, and like the pattern.
~Always~

Bedtime Stories

IMDb listing
A pretty imaginative modern family comedy, this 2008 flick starring Adam Sandler is intriguing for its rather unique plot. The guinea pig is frightening but cute, and the jokes are frequently average and occasionally good. Something about Adam Sandler, though, just doesn't sit right with me. His character is much too juvenile to be a grown man, much to kid-like to get the girl in the end. Nice, though, because of its excellently rich special effects and lack of language.
Rates a three in my book. Thoroughly average.

NaNoWriMo

As most of you probably know, I like to write. I cannot honestly say that I love to write, because if I loved to write I would devote more time to it. But I genuinely enjoy it, and want to spend more time on it, and as all of us who have read 1 Corinthians chapter 13 love is not an emotion, but an action.
So, for the month of November, I am choosing to love writing with this awesome site. It is going to be crazy. It is going to be hard. Mostly, it is going to be fun. But it will be good for me.
I've been lately deteriorating into a kind of writing stupor. You might have noticed that I now have trouble writing enough on one subject for a one-paragraph blog post. So, this challenge is to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I have no ideas except a vague notion of a character that might be a major character but will likely remain shrouded in the mysteries of minor-characterism. Which is a word I just made up, btw.
But, at this point, I would like to highly commend and mention one who I greatly respect and hope to call my friend, who is entering this commitment as well. I subscribe to her blogs, am her Goodreads friend, and now her NaNoWriMo buddy. Her insight on this event is her latest post here.
Anyway, hope you have a good weekend. I will be spending the remainder of mine catching up on here, planning characters/plots, and reviewing movies! Oh, and hopefully writing an almost-humorous post about my babysitting adventure today.
~Always~

An update

It's been forever....
Okay, maybe not forever. Maybe that's my tendency to exaggerate, and maybe I'm just insane. I don't know. I know I was crazy busy yesterday, and that I took the PSAT (Preparatory SAT) last Wednesday, went to my first and hopefully last volleyball game Thursday, and that some other stuff happened the past few days, like a brisk wind, and I also know that this sentence is way too long.
So. How about some pictures?

(hist. society sometime this fall)

A train ride at a small canal town.

Four miles. Forty-five minutes.

My friend Katelin went with us. She doesn't know I put this picture of her on here. :) But it's okay, she was trying to get a picture of me the whole time.

So I think I'll write after I clean Leo's cage. Been thinking about getting another hamster, but from how I've procrastinated this weekend cleaning Leo's cage, it might not be a good idea.

The scan of the day seems to be dead. Should I resurrect it? Comment if you think so. Comment if you think not. Comment if you are completely unopinionated. Comment if you haven't commented in a while. Comment if God loves you! Trick question. God loves everybody. Hah! Now you have to comment!

~Always~

You Can't Take It With You

IMDb listing

This was as sweet as the cake I was eating while watching it. Gotta love Netflix online movies.

This one, starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, and James Stewart was made in 1938. It is a sweet, entertaining, refreshing romp. An eccentric family lives "as the lilies of the feild," doing what they love. The beautiful granddaughter works as a secretary for the Kirby bank, and falls in love with the son of the president. This is only the premise, and the plot moves at a perfect speed.

Definetly a five in my book. Very, very good if you're not adverse to a black and white classic.

~Always~

Lyric

07. (Everybody's Gotta) Song To Sing
by Group 1 Crew
Lyrics:
Chorus:
Everybody’s gotta song to sing
So won’t you come now and sing with me
It doesn’t really matter where you’re from or what you’ve done
Everybody’s gotta story to tell
Times we’ve tried and times we failed
So when you feel like hope is gone keep holding on
This is your song
~
I’ve seen days when my life seemed hard and absurd
All of my words died cause they never were heard, like they
Left my mouth then fell to the curb
Got trampled by life and every lesson I’ve learned
Why do good people leave this earth before their time
It hurts to see death get the best of us first
Yet I know a times comin’ when I
Will feel the breeze in my eyes
Dry my tears and fade away in the sky
I see the day my family believes God
And puts away the facade
Of being ok when I know they’re not
But I know You’re gonna take what I write
Bring this story to life for Your people tonight
~
Yo everybody has a story
And it needs to be heard
So let it play and resonate
From the hood to the burbs
Whether your sky is grey
And you, been through it all
There’s somebody on this earth
That is singing the same song.
Some one across the Pacific
Is stressed from hard labor,
Searching desperately
Cause he's in need of Savior,
Barely ever home
Ignores his kids for the paper
And you'll never know
This same tune’s being sung by your neighbor
See age doesn't matter
When life wants to fail you
When your color don't determine
Whether you’re destined for failure
We all run to the sun
And hide from the rainy weather
But we make beautiful music
When we all unite together and…
~
I know it’s been hard
To make it this far
But God knows your heart
And every need