Look at him, just look, and here is his icon too:
Come on, I dare ya, tell him what hot stuff he is. Because this is HUGE. HUGE, I tell you--for a kid with LD's this is MONSTERNORANTIC
It is, seriously.
Go ahead. Look it up. It'll have this picture next to it. And yes, you may use it next time you play scrabble. I swear.
Now, for the kids...
The kids have destroyed the pristine whiteness with snow bunnies, and a snow fight, but if it snows again overnight I'll take pics
oh, the tryptofan curse...
My word count sucks. Just a few days ago I believed I might finish early--but now I spent the day sleeping, researching, and discovering just how wrong I was about the Vinland landscape. Curses!
The kids aren't going to "win" I don't think. I don't have time to do theirs and mine, and neither of them will actually get it together and write it themselves. Bad, bad mommy. :=( Still, they should be commended for making a hearty attempt, and I hope they will let me put excerpts here.
Yay, crap!
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Seriously, word wars are the best inspiration EVAH.
Try one, you'll like it!
Click here to find out your viking name
I'm _insertmyname_ the ruthless.
Sorry, internet privacy act. I can't admit my true identity (see spidey post)
18666
hehehehe
I may leave that wordcount... I'm getting left in the dust by snarktarget and tinybites. Sigh. MUST KICK ASS...
Since clearly there is no writing superhero. Why is that, anyway?
Looks like another late night. The kids didn't do their nanos for the second day in a row, but then again we never could get the hang of thursdays...
I am caught up in viking research, and just PISSED that I can't find more detailed info/drawings/descriptions of life in 1820 in New Orleans. Grr. Oh, and once again, the library let me know that a couple books I reserved were in. 20 minutes after the library closed. Double g-rr
Your results:
You are Spider-Man
| You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.  |
Little known but true fact: dh is also spidey. That seems altogether creepy and almost incestuous. That's what he said--can it be incest if it's yourself?
zeldaguy wrote to his quota (nine words over, mom!) and princess started, but didn't finish (but it wasn't her fault, there is flooding in a good friend's town, and we got worried about my friend and started calling and trying to get ahold of her--no word yet).
In other news, we met lovely author T.A. Barron. Zeldaguy loves his Merlin books, I bought him the first book in the Avalon series and he got it signed, and princess got a picture book signed... he was everything a role model should be, engaging, magical, interesting to children without being pedantic, and he was SO encouraging when we told him we were doing nanowrimo... it was lovely. Zeldaguy just couldn't manage a word to him, and when we left, I said "If you ever would get to meet Einstein (never mind the time travel issue) what would you do?" Zeldaguy said "Probably faint!"
Best of all, Mr. Barron promised to read emails they sent (personally even!) and wants to see zeldaguy's map of his nano world. Yay! Yay for our heroes, literary or otherwise! He apparently is friends with Madeline L'Engle (lucky man!) and she helped him get pubbed all those years ago. If you can go see him speak, I highly recommend it. Check out
T.A. Barron's website
Ok so I am off to bed at 2:48 am. Yes, you read that right. Sigh. I cranked out the words, though... I'm at 11,861 by my count, and by nano's, it's 12,259.
I hope I get some sleep tonight but since my friend Alyssa lives in flooded-out Sultan, I may be on alert or driving out there to try to help. I think it's taken me a couple of hours longer than it should have to write tonight because I keep checking online to see if I can figure out if her house is flooded. It seems very likely, because the pictures are of downtown, and she lives next to one of the two rivers. Think positive thoughts for her, she's had a very rough year, and this certainly won't help. I hope she got her horses and animals out.
I hit over 10K now... it's 8:47 pm and my word count is 10095. I don't think I wrote anything good today but I wrote some words that made sense. Mostly.
The kids went to their first write-in. Mr. Spot's is a bit curry-ish for me. They made an *awesome* mocha though--so yay on that front! Zeldaguy thought the cider sucked though.
We had some fabulous prizes--too bad not many nanoers came. I gave up two devil duckie pencil toppers, and the kids got sparkly ninja gum and unicorn power gum. Zeldaguy won their word war, but Princess is still ahead of him. His word count is now 779 and princess is at 902. Hopefully their writing buddy (son of my writing buddy) will get his paperwork through soon and they can add him "offically."
I had to warn princess about being cyber-stalky. She decided to post that she loved someone on the homeschool board. I asked her what it was she liked and she said it was his name (hey she is not even 6, so okaaayyy) so I told her we should edit it to say she loved his name, so she didn't look creepy. Poor kid, I can totally see her first heartbreak and the boy will be smashed to bits (perhaps literally) when she finishes with him. Woe to the boy who doesn't love her back, as we say.
Anywhoo, here we stand. Hopefully I can even get more done before I crash. Then again, there's knitting to be done...
The kids didn't write a word today but they did their chores, so that's good. zeldaguy's got a bit of word count envy. As have I. Look at my good buddies:
and
Now don't get me wrong, my talented and lovely writing buddies, I've "known" you both for years now... but *sob* how did you both get over 1K today? I couldn't get a thing done. Some of it was my fault (hello, I have a DPN blister on my thumb from cabling) and some was those evil vile--er, I mean joys of my life. Hee. Did I mention they did their chores? That involves threats, bribery, or, as I like to call it, network support.
Oh, and three kids plus one dirty dog=mom who realizes the bathtub should be cleaned *after* the dog. Oops.
Judging from the gas emitting from that dog's butt, I should have the kids standing, aiming it at me and telling me WORD COUNT OR WE FIRE!
Speaking of that, anyone catch SNL last week? I laughed so hard I was crying over the ghost hunters sketch. Classic comedy, that. You can never go wrong with a good fart joke.
Edit: 3:21 am. I plugged on. I just couldn't stand it... so JL, I caught ya, and L, maybe tomorrow? Man, I am pathetically competitive. I should post word counts so y'all can see what I was whining about...
mine is 8855 now at bedtime.
Day 1 I did 2668. Day 2, I was at 4667. Day 3, 7246. Day 4, 7334 (hence the whine). Now it's technically day 5, so my gain has been mostly since midnight.
Off to sleep. Or something.
Whoever wins word count today gets a sticker of his or her choice on the calendar. Mom not included :-P
princess "won" at 788 words. There is a cinderella sticker on the calendar. There is a sulking 10 year old... at 559
Day two, princess has 539 words, zeldaguy has 371. Bravo to both, since quota for day two was 167 + 167 = 334 (princess's first triple digit addition)
Nanowrimo is where we are at. Here are some stats for ya:
zeldaguy has 250 words on day 1, princess has 290. She's kicking butt! (not bad for a 5 year old)
