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Day 1036: Weekend at the Forge
Jul. 8th, 2012 02:33 pmSo...my week has been pretty tame, all things considered. Worked two days after the holiday (much of it spent slamming my head against the proverbial wall over a problem that, in the end, was the result of client-based miscommunication. Again.) and then spent the weekend being pretty lazy.
And by lazy I mean freaking out and trying to get by mini-bang story done and instead staying up till near two in the morning at the shop while Cody forged me a beautiful knife out of a railroad spike. I took some pictures of the excitement, which was a bit weird because during the entire early heating and beating process, the neighbors were watching. By neighbors, I mean the nice Chinese family who runs the Chinese restaurant across the way. I was circling Cody, taking pictures, trying to figure out which was the best angle to catch the really cool glow from the interior of the forge, and then I looked behind me and saw a man standing beneath the awning, smoking a cigarette and staring pretty intently.
As my mini-bang story turned out...it's untitled. A bit crazy. In desperate need of a beta reader and then some. And it's not a mini-bang anymore. I broke 17k words, because I'm a freak and also terribly long-winded. But it's done. I'm excited - I've never done one of these before, and I hope I get a good artist. It was kinda fun, though, hunkered down in the shop with my laptop, Season 4 of the Gilmore Girls playing in the background, classic rock from the jukebox drifting in through the door, and just having a good time. I was hanging out with my husband, but we were each doing our own thing.
One of the other shop owner neighbors came by to visit, and it turns out she's a pretty huge SPN fan, so we sat around fangirling a bit before she had to take off. It took me forever to figure out why she even brought up SPN, and then I looked down and remembered I was wearing a geeky SPN fan shirt ("It's funnier in Enochian").
It's been a while since I've buckled down and written like that, so I'm pretty excited. It's my first time in a new fandom (I've never been prolific in any one fandom, except maybe for a brief stint in a very specific corner of HP), so I'm also kinda nervous. But I'm thinking if I make friends with some of the other writers, I might be able to meet up with them in October.
My parents made it home from Europe safely, which I am super excited for. Now I need to figure out when to go see them. Cody and I are planning on Ed Parker movie night this Friday night, for which I am excited, and I'm going to see about running a WoD campaign sometime before Kieran's girlfriend takes off for the big wide nowhere.
Also, I found a crochet pattern for a full set of D&D dice. Nerding, let's go!
And by lazy I mean freaking out and trying to get by mini-bang story done and instead staying up till near two in the morning at the shop while Cody forged me a beautiful knife out of a railroad spike. I took some pictures of the excitement, which was a bit weird because during the entire early heating and beating process, the neighbors were watching. By neighbors, I mean the nice Chinese family who runs the Chinese restaurant across the way. I was circling Cody, taking pictures, trying to figure out which was the best angle to catch the really cool glow from the interior of the forge, and then I looked behind me and saw a man standing beneath the awning, smoking a cigarette and staring pretty intently.
As my mini-bang story turned out...it's untitled. A bit crazy. In desperate need of a beta reader and then some. And it's not a mini-bang anymore. I broke 17k words, because I'm a freak and also terribly long-winded. But it's done. I'm excited - I've never done one of these before, and I hope I get a good artist. It was kinda fun, though, hunkered down in the shop with my laptop, Season 4 of the Gilmore Girls playing in the background, classic rock from the jukebox drifting in through the door, and just having a good time. I was hanging out with my husband, but we were each doing our own thing.
One of the other shop owner neighbors came by to visit, and it turns out she's a pretty huge SPN fan, so we sat around fangirling a bit before she had to take off. It took me forever to figure out why she even brought up SPN, and then I looked down and remembered I was wearing a geeky SPN fan shirt ("It's funnier in Enochian").
It's been a while since I've buckled down and written like that, so I'm pretty excited. It's my first time in a new fandom (I've never been prolific in any one fandom, except maybe for a brief stint in a very specific corner of HP), so I'm also kinda nervous. But I'm thinking if I make friends with some of the other writers, I might be able to meet up with them in October.
My parents made it home from Europe safely, which I am super excited for. Now I need to figure out when to go see them. Cody and I are planning on Ed Parker movie night this Friday night, for which I am excited, and I'm going to see about running a WoD campaign sometime before Kieran's girlfriend takes off for the big wide nowhere.
Also, I found a crochet pattern for a full set of D&D dice. Nerding, let's go!
