8:23 pmYay!
Alrighty, folks. Here I am. Back. And not dead. While everyone else has been excitedly sucked up into the posting frenzy that is “NaBloPoMo”, I have been staunchly ignoring my blog altogether. What? I have a blog? Are you sure?
Oh yeah, I guess I do. And what have I been doing in the last 10 days (not that I just counted or anything) of non-posting? Well, first I decided to take part in the lesser-known “NaNoWriMo”, which is National Novel Writing Month. November 1st thru the 30th. 30 days to crank out 175 pages of the great American novel… or in my case, the great American YA/Fantasy novel. So I did that for a couple of days. Outlining, brainstorming, character profiles, the works. And now I have 7 great , awesome, average pages of incomprehensible YA fantasy drivel. The 12-18 year old demographic is cheering everywhere… or maybe that’s just in my mind. Probably.
And as if beginning to realize my dream of becoming the next JK Rowling weren’t enough (interject insane laughing here), Jon and I left on Wednesday for a kid-free vacation to St. George. It. Was. Great. And yes, it is fun to put periods. after. every. single. word. to. stress. an. idea.
Jon and I hung out by the pool and worked out in the resort gym (next to the 70 year olds, because, hello, it’s St. George; Utah’s premier retirement city… in the freakin dry, dead desert, where geriatric joints don’t ache as much). We also: played laser tag with a group of 10 year olds, saw an improv comedy show, went to four movies (more on those later, for sure), shopped at the outlet malls, visited an old historic house that was set up for a polygamist family, ate some World Famous pie, ate some World Famous frozen yogurt (there’s a lot of “World Famous” stuff in this little town you’ve never heard of), played pool, watched the BYU game in a sweet sports grill called Iggy’s, and a few other things. I collected enough blog fodder in that one trip to last me for months. For right now, though, I kind of just want to crash in my own bed.
But to recap: wrote 7 pages of crap, went on a kid-free trip, saw 4 movies (just a hint: I love Lars), went shopping, got schooled at laser tag by a bunch of punk 10 year olds, got schooled at pool by my husband. There was a lot of “schooling” going on. And shopping.
More tomorrow.
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I’ve been wondering about you! Glad to hear you’re doing well.
NaNoWriMo? Awesome! I think writing fiction is the hardest thing. You go!
I can’t wait to hear about your trip! And Lars? As in Lars and The Real Girl? I’d LOVE to see that movie. I showed Dave a preview and he was like, “Really?” I’ll go myself if I have to.
Comment by Leslie — November 11, 2007 @ 9:27 pm
P.S. Without sounding all creepy internet, I missed you!
Comment by Leslie — November 11, 2007 @ 9:27 pm
Yay, you’re back! I.missed.you.a.tons! I have something brewing up my sleeve(does that even make sense?)for you….I’m not tellin’, so don’t even ask. You’ll just have to wait for a little bit.I’m glad you could have some nice kid free time with your hubby.I can’t wait to hear what movies you saw, and liked. We went to the movies the other day and couldn’t figure out what to see, so we didn’t see anything
Comment by Cassie — November 12, 2007 @ 5:05 am
Congratulations on the good times, even though I thought at first that St. George was a little-known Caribbean island (so your vacation was more exotic and I was more jealous until you clarified - although I am still jealous that you were kid-free watching movies for days…).
Welcome back to reality! I mean that in a nice way
Comment by stephanie — November 12, 2007 @ 8:34 am
@Leslie- Yeah, it’s Lars and the Real Girl. I loved it. It was funny and touching. The ending was a little drawn out so it felt a little long, but all in all, I thought it was fantastic. Ryan Gosling deserves some kind of award.
@Cassie- Something secret? Did you schedule me for a perm? Cuz I tried that last year, and it turned out really badly. Really, really badly.
@Stephanie- Yeah, it wasn’t exotic at all. Mostly old people in tennis wear. But it was very fun and relaxing. Now to catch up on laundry…
Comment by admin — November 12, 2007 @ 11:14 am
So you’re not MIA…I forgot you were pursuing your writing dream/November nightmare. Good for you. Keep going. (It’s what I tell myself all the time.)
Comment by Mama Milton — November 12, 2007 @ 6:02 pm
i would like to know more about how one sets up a house for polygamy, that seems challenging. glad you had fun!
Comment by kate — November 16, 2007 @ 8:03 am
@Kate- It was a little strange… and interesting. The house was built in 1863, and the man built a separate bedroom for each of his two wives; each room had it’s own fireplace with cooking capabilities. The second floor was one huge room to house all of the children. It was pretty neat, but it was really hard to imagine living like that. I don’t know, man… that was just a different time…
Comment by admin — November 16, 2007 @ 11:29 am