From Twitter 10-01-2010

• 04:03:20: have arrived in arizona. i drove the last five hours of the trip cause sis was fried. love middle of the night traffic! now - to bed!
  
• 04:10:56: it's going to take forever for the air conditioning to cool down this place enough for sleep. akkkk!
  
• 13:12:17: sister has plugged coordinates into the gps & we are off on our 1st adventure. i think it involves shopping. she's a master at that sport.
  
• 14:36:11: 2 men in chick-fil-a talking about their youtube videos... about stock market tips. did u know u could find stock market tips on youtube?
  
• 18:55:49: i've got 1500 new words in a new story for #octoberwriting. not anything i can use for other challenges though. #amwriting
  
• 18:56:50: @placesbetween is that someone actually from the show or the claudia crossover from warehouse 3? love claudia but don't like the storyline.
  
• 18:57:19: totally not surprised that the #nanowrimo site isn't up yet but <3 the updates about it on my phone. better than not knowing anything.
  
• 18:58:02: who wants to offer up some good names (male and female) for my #nanowrimo 2010 story? i lose all naming skills the closer to 11/1/10 we get.
  
• 19:02:34: 2690 words and a chapter has emerged. so much for a one shot with just 1000 words. this might be a story i need to tell, though.
  
• 19:03:23: @hhhellcat yes i saw the tweet that said they'd got it up. now to get my sister's internet card away from her!
  
• 19:04:11: my sis, trying to figure out the name of her favorite phoenix mexican place: "it's either juan's or jose's"... cause THAT narrows it down!
  
• 19:12:19: @hhhellcat it's a modern story but you know me and my love of unique and odd names!
  
• 19:20:19: i have forgotten how exhilerating it is to sit down & WRITE for extended periods of time. this is why i <3 the months surrounding #nanowrimo
  
• 21:23:25: RT @DavidBlue: Thinking of deleting my MySpace... because it's not 1998.
  
• 21:24:45: i am perplexed. this new story might end up being my syfybigbang but i originally wrote it for octoberwriting. i can't have it be both!
  
• 21:53:01: @placesbetween you can't pull out! who will i bully?
  
• 22:19:38: total word count for today: 4833
  now i am off to read more from "masques" by patricia briggs. lovely!
  

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Day Three of my Vacation

I am in Phoenix. It's the hottest I've been since... well, since the last time I was here. Of course, that was also a strange stint we did over a few summer days and it was meant to be hot. Was not expecting to be here in October for a string of days well over a hundred degrees. It doesn't matter, though. I'm as close to content as I've been in a long time.

Yesterday, after shopping and eating, I wrote. Just wrote. Well, read a little, too. Finished a book, as a matter of fact. The story was meant to be a one-shot I could use at octoberwriting since I'm supposed to be working on several (read: 10) 1000 word fics. I can't use this for both octoberwriting and syfybigbang because the big bang can't be anywhere else until January! JANUARY! This is one of those reasons that I write at the last minute. I'm crap at waiting for people to read my stuff. But, perhaps, I can write something better if I write it early and have time to have someone check over it for me. Still, I'm not good at waiting.

Perhaps I'll move to other fandoms for my one-shots. I have to write a longer story revolving around Halloween themes for the end of the OW challenge and that is going to be my Alice/Sirius story that I tried to finish for the marauderbigbang and failed. The problem was that I lost momentum and never had time or energy to pick it back up. I think I've fixed the solution to the plotting and the story may be the better for it by being smaller. Only 6-15k instead of 25k. I love that I have a go to werewolf in my fandoms!

Not that I couldn't write something from Broken Wolf but that is for November. Signed up today and am very happy where this plotting is taking me. I have the antagonist lined up much better than I did before I took my time driving here. I get the best plotting done while driving. Have known for some time who the protag was going to be but I think she's more rounded now. Have a love interest (although he gave me fits) but still need to find her support structure - friends, colleagues, family. And, once again, I need NAMES! How strange is it that I can come up with names every day for anyone that needs them but I have the hardest time finding my NaNo names. I think I'm afraid to name them because it cements their personality. Just as I'm afraid to finish because that means it's done. As with every other writer, I'm afraid of failure. Now I just wish I could move past it like so many others.

Okay, I must go eat lunch. Sister is growling because she's hungry. If I don't keep her fed and well-rested, bad things could happen!

Day Three of my Vacation

I am in Phoenix. It's the hottest I've been since... well, since the last time I was here. Of course, that was also a strange stint we did over a few summer days and it was meant to be hot. Was not expecting to be here in October for a string of days well over a hundred degrees. It doesn't matter, though. I'm as close to content as I've been in a long time.

Yesterday, after shopping and eating, I wrote. Just wrote. Well, read a little, too. Finished a book, as a matter of fact. The story was meant to be a one-shot I could use at octoberwriting since I'm supposed to be working on several (read: 10) 1000 word fics. I can't use this for both octoberwriting and syfybigbang because the big bang can't be anywhere else until January! JANUARY! This is one of those reasons that I write at the last minute. I'm crap at waiting for people to read my stuff. But, perhaps, I can write something better if I write it early and have time to have someone check over it for me. Still, I'm not good at waiting.

Perhaps I'll move to other fandoms for my one-shots. I have to write a longer story revolving around Halloween themes for the end of the OW challenge and that is going to be my Alice/Sirius story that I tried to finish for the marauderbigbang and failed. The problem was that I lost momentum and never had time or energy to pick it back up. I think I've fixed the solution to the plotting and the story may be the better for it by being smaller. Only 6-15k instead of 25k. I love that I have a go to werewolf in my fandoms!

Not that I couldn't write something from Broken Wolf but that is for November. Signed up today and am very happy where this plotting is taking me. I have the antagonist lined up much better than I did before I took my time driving here. I get the best plotting done while driving. Have known for some time who the protag was going to be but I think she's more rounded now. Have a love interest (although he gave me fits) but still need to find her support structure - friends, colleagues, family. And, once again, I need NAMES! How strange is it that I can come up with names every day for anyone that needs them but I have the hardest time finding my NaNo names. I think I'm afraid to name them because it cements their personality. Just as I'm afraid to finish because that means it's done. As with every other writer, I'm afraid of failure. Now I just wish I could move past it like so many others.

Okay, I must go eat lunch. Sister is growling because she's hungry. If I don't keep her fed and well-rested, bad things could happen!

Again with this Day Three posting!

I've wanted to write this character for awhile now. This is one of the banners I made for WriteADay May... which you will remember that I didn't do. I'm actually resurrecting one of the starts (a whole paragraph!) for one of my octoberwriting stories because I have a good idea where I'd like to take some of the stories I had planned so it's not like I'm flying completely blind. One more day writing on the Ronon/Amelia story and then I'm going to give it a rest (because I should be at the 7500 I need for the scifiland little bang) and get to other things. I don't know if I'm going to get to the femmefic_2010 because... well, because. I really need to start these stories as soon as I sign up for them. I MUST QUIT WAITING UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT.

My sister dropped me off at a Barnes & Noble while she went with her friend to get a mani/pedi. While I wanted a mani, a chance to spend some time at B&N was too much of a chance to waste! Of course, I didn't bother telling my sister that they don't really have open wifi at B&N but I did remember to grab her internet card so I don't have to worry about, now do I? *grins* Forgot how much wifi ISN'T at the condo. You'd think old people would want open internet connections! Oh, for shame.

While Metro Center isn't the safest place to be (Have you BEEN to Phoenix Metro lately?), I feel quite content for the time being. The sickness has, thankfully, quieted some. I think getting away from the allergies has REALLY helped so now I just have to deal with the gravelly voice (a product of the cough) and the cough itself (which has quieted) and a slight run in my nose. Not anything that requires me to carry a kleenex on my person at all times.

A look at the weather channel shows some relief in sight. Our trip to DisneyLand (we drive to LA tomorrow and will be there until Wednesday) should be pleasant and when we come back to Phoenix, the temperature should be in the relaxing low 90s/high 80s. That's what I'm talking about! Phoenix is such a strange place in the heat. It's like their winter season. Their indoor season, really. In the winter, I hate going outside and I'm always conscious when I'm in the car that I could slide off the road and into a snow drift and I could die of too much cold. Phoenicians, on the other hand, don't like going outside in the summer and are always conscious that their car could break down because of the heat and they could die on the side of the road from too much hot. It has a direct correlation, really. Just... strange.

But I love it. Not enough to live here again but enough to love to visit. And you know the really, really,r really great thing? The new Diamondbacks Spring Training facility (until this point in Tuscan) is only TWO freeway exits from the condo! We won't be making the trip down this coming spring but sister and I are already thinking ahead to April 2012! OH MY GOD! That would be so cool.

It's strange to think that anyone who has just met me in the last two years might never know that I'm a baseball fan. Yep, it's true. I love me some Diamondbacks. Not lately, for some reason. Now, the 1998-2004 seasons were another story altogether. Mostly because of Travis Lee who, sadly, is no longer playing baseball. In his day, he was a hotty and I was one of his biggest fans. It's really hard to find pics of him... probably because he's not playing anymore. I wonder what he's doing now? Laying tile in San Diego, maybe. That's where he's from. Huh...

Again with this Day Three posting!

I've wanted to write this character for awhile now. This is one of the banners I made for WriteADay May... which you will remember that I didn't do. I'm actually resurrecting one of the starts (a whole paragraph!) for one of my octoberwriting stories because I have a good idea where I'd like to take some of the stories I had planned so it's not like I'm flying completely blind. One more day writing on the Ronon/Amelia story and then I'm going to give it a rest (because I should be at the 7500 I need for the scifiland little bang) and get to other things. I don't know if I'm going to get to the femmefic_2010 because... well, because. I really need to start these stories as soon as I sign up for them. I MUST QUIT WAITING UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT.

My sister dropped me off at a Barnes & Noble while she went with her friend to get a mani/pedi. While I wanted a mani, a chance to spend some time at B&N was too much of a chance to waste! Of course, I didn't bother telling my sister that they don't really have open wifi at B&N but I did remember to grab her internet card so I don't have to worry about, now do I? *grins* Forgot how much wifi ISN'T at the condo. You'd think old people would want open internet connections! Oh, for shame.

While Metro Center isn't the safest place to be (Have you BEEN to Phoenix Metro lately?), I feel quite content for the time being. The sickness has, thankfully, quieted some. I think getting away from the allergies has REALLY helped so now I just have to deal with the gravelly voice (a product of the cough) and the cough itself (which has quieted) and a slight run in my nose. Not anything that requires me to carry a kleenex on my person at all times.

A look at the weather channel shows some relief in sight. Our trip to DisneyLand (we drive to LA tomorrow and will be there until Wednesday) should be pleasant and when we come back to Phoenix, the temperature should be in the relaxing low 90s/high 80s. That's what I'm talking about! Phoenix is such a strange place in the heat. It's like their winter season. Their indoor season, really. In the winter, I hate going outside and I'm always conscious when I'm in the car that I could slide off the road and into a snow drift and I could die of too much cold. Phoenicians, on the other hand, don't like going outside in the summer and are always conscious that their car could break down because of the heat and they could die on the side of the road from too much hot. It has a direct correlation, really. Just... strange.

But I love it. Not enough to live here again but enough to love to visit. And you know the really, really,r really great thing? The new Diamondbacks Spring Training facility (until this point in Tuscan) is only TWO freeway exits from the condo! We won't be making the trip down this coming spring but sister and I are already thinking ahead to April 2012! OH MY GOD! That would be so cool.

It's strange to think that anyone who has just met me in the last two years might never know that I'm a baseball fan. Yep, it's true. I love me some Diamondbacks. Not lately, for some reason. Now, the 1998-2004 seasons were another story altogether. Mostly because of Travis Lee who, sadly, is no longer playing baseball. In his day, he was a hotty and I was one of his biggest fans. It's really hard to find pics of him... probably because he's not playing anymore. I wonder what he's doing now? Laying tile in San Diego, maybe. That's where he's from. Huh...