Day 1069: One week to go...
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nagi_schwarzTill I get to see my parents! I am ridiculously excited. I am also stupidly hungry. I do not quite understand why this is. On Friday night I gorged myself on blue cheese reuben pizza, which sounds weird but was oddly delicious, and last night I had lots of tasty Mexican food. I realize today is fast Sunday, but seriously - I used to have more endurance than this. I was bad and spaced out at church all day, but now I am at least starting to understand why Cody gets all loopy on Fast Sunday.
This week has been a good one. There were stressful moments and hilarious moments. Mostly I'm glad I got the majority of my massive project out of the way. I may have helped a friend find some work that, while temporary, may lead to some more steady work. (Who knew being a grammar freak and beta'ing lots of fanfic online could make you useful in the mortgage industry? Seriously, who knew?) This week my poor coworker Timothy put in a call to Fannie Mae (and calling a federal agency is always obnoxious), and either he so amused or so ticked off the girl who answered the phone that when she finally gave him a number to call so she wouldn't have to deal with him anymore, it was to a phone sex line.
I cannot remember the last time I laughed so hard. Seriously. It was hilarious. And the jokes that ensued were even better.
I also did the terrifyingly grown-up thing of going into my bank and talking to a fellow about pre-qualifying for a home mortgage. It looks like Cody and I will be able to manage, but that really hasn't stopped me from being pretty freaked out by it. I have started round up all the necessary paperwork and am otherwise trying to get it all ready to go before we bust out of the country and visit my parents in Hong Kong (for which I am crazy excited), and I need to call the real estate agent my parents' real estate agent recommended so when Cody and I get back we will have houses to look at.
This week I have been all sad and headachy because the weather has been bloody awful, but most nights I did all right with things like dancing and visiting teaching (stupid snow, stupid weather), and also I've been listening to the radio dramatization of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere on BBC Radio 4, which was amazing (James McAvoy, Tony Head, Christopher Lee). I'd listen to the radio and crochet and feel a bit old-fashioned, but it's been peaceful and relaxing after a long day of dealing with difficult clients. Visiting teaching was good - my comp and I have been assigned a nice new young mother. While we were visiting, her three sons - all three or under - were rampant, but I continue to radiate a certain anti-child field, and none of them bothered me (although today in sacrament meeting the children in front of me kept smiling at me and making fun origami toys, so I made the little girl an origami rose). My visiting teachers came by as well, and they were super sweet and supportive about the big changes Cody and I have coming up.
To my chagrin, I have not managed to beta any of the chapters of my friend's novel that I said I would, but I have managed to go over my first draft with a red pen. It's a bit painful, how much I've crossed out and how much I need to rewrite, but at least I'm fixing all the continuity issues I've had and the second draft ought to be much better and fit for actual human reading. I am also getting geared up to write the first draft of my next novel. (I love my husband. I didn't think it was possible to have a male muse, and I don't think he exactly counts as a muse, but talking to him always manages to clear up my writing issues). I posted a new piece of fanfic to the sad little corner of LJ fandom space I share with my sister. I am pleased with the story. Now that I write fanfic more often and write more often in general, I am less wedded to the original draft of a piece, and I am also more willing to abandon traditional novel formats and try some of the new fandom concepts (five times, timestamps) to tell a story that is otherwise difficult to tell in a conventional narrative form. Still, I crocheted for nearly three hours straight yesterday during D&D (when I'm not rolling dice or taking notes, crocheting is easy) and my wrists are sore, so I will give them the day off today. I reckon I can get writing and beta work done easier today this way (also my parents are calling, so I am super excited).
Yesterday I helped build Cody's friend Aaron a character for a new game. While he was on his mission we got to writing about gaming in the letters we exchanged (one a week - he was the most faithful penpal I've ever had) and we agreed I'd run a game for him when I got home, so we built. I talked to Cody's friend Sean about him joining the game and him also teaching martial arts at my friend Lanae's dance studio, and then Cody's other friend Josh agreed to jump in on the game, so now I am excited. I have built a sketch of a campaign. Once I know all the characters, I can customize it, and we can play when I get back into the country. It's been a long time since I've run a game, and it's going to be fun.
Watching those little kids doing origami sort of made me miss it, and I have this cool origami app on my phone, so I reckoned I'd start sending my friend Liz little origami animals in the letters I write to her - a dragon for luck, a dog for company, a cat for company, an elephant so she never forgets, a rabbit for Easter - because when my friend Chris was on his mission in Japan he'd send me cool animals too. I think so many kids are caught up in the entertainment of modern technology that they miss out on some of the cool things, like origami. Know enough origami and you can make an entire doll house, furniture and all, plus animals for a menagerie/farm. It's awesome.
Today is going to be a good day, and this week is going to be a good week, and I am happy.
This week has been a good one. There were stressful moments and hilarious moments. Mostly I'm glad I got the majority of my massive project out of the way. I may have helped a friend find some work that, while temporary, may lead to some more steady work. (Who knew being a grammar freak and beta'ing lots of fanfic online could make you useful in the mortgage industry? Seriously, who knew?) This week my poor coworker Timothy put in a call to Fannie Mae (and calling a federal agency is always obnoxious), and either he so amused or so ticked off the girl who answered the phone that when she finally gave him a number to call so she wouldn't have to deal with him anymore, it was to a phone sex line.
I cannot remember the last time I laughed so hard. Seriously. It was hilarious. And the jokes that ensued were even better.
I also did the terrifyingly grown-up thing of going into my bank and talking to a fellow about pre-qualifying for a home mortgage. It looks like Cody and I will be able to manage, but that really hasn't stopped me from being pretty freaked out by it. I have started round up all the necessary paperwork and am otherwise trying to get it all ready to go before we bust out of the country and visit my parents in Hong Kong (for which I am crazy excited), and I need to call the real estate agent my parents' real estate agent recommended so when Cody and I get back we will have houses to look at.
This week I have been all sad and headachy because the weather has been bloody awful, but most nights I did all right with things like dancing and visiting teaching (stupid snow, stupid weather), and also I've been listening to the radio dramatization of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere on BBC Radio 4, which was amazing (James McAvoy, Tony Head, Christopher Lee). I'd listen to the radio and crochet and feel a bit old-fashioned, but it's been peaceful and relaxing after a long day of dealing with difficult clients. Visiting teaching was good - my comp and I have been assigned a nice new young mother. While we were visiting, her three sons - all three or under - were rampant, but I continue to radiate a certain anti-child field, and none of them bothered me (although today in sacrament meeting the children in front of me kept smiling at me and making fun origami toys, so I made the little girl an origami rose). My visiting teachers came by as well, and they were super sweet and supportive about the big changes Cody and I have coming up.
To my chagrin, I have not managed to beta any of the chapters of my friend's novel that I said I would, but I have managed to go over my first draft with a red pen. It's a bit painful, how much I've crossed out and how much I need to rewrite, but at least I'm fixing all the continuity issues I've had and the second draft ought to be much better and fit for actual human reading. I am also getting geared up to write the first draft of my next novel. (I love my husband. I didn't think it was possible to have a male muse, and I don't think he exactly counts as a muse, but talking to him always manages to clear up my writing issues). I posted a new piece of fanfic to the sad little corner of LJ fandom space I share with my sister. I am pleased with the story. Now that I write fanfic more often and write more often in general, I am less wedded to the original draft of a piece, and I am also more willing to abandon traditional novel formats and try some of the new fandom concepts (five times, timestamps) to tell a story that is otherwise difficult to tell in a conventional narrative form. Still, I crocheted for nearly three hours straight yesterday during D&D (when I'm not rolling dice or taking notes, crocheting is easy) and my wrists are sore, so I will give them the day off today. I reckon I can get writing and beta work done easier today this way (also my parents are calling, so I am super excited).
Yesterday I helped build Cody's friend Aaron a character for a new game. While he was on his mission we got to writing about gaming in the letters we exchanged (one a week - he was the most faithful penpal I've ever had) and we agreed I'd run a game for him when I got home, so we built. I talked to Cody's friend Sean about him joining the game and him also teaching martial arts at my friend Lanae's dance studio, and then Cody's other friend Josh agreed to jump in on the game, so now I am excited. I have built a sketch of a campaign. Once I know all the characters, I can customize it, and we can play when I get back into the country. It's been a long time since I've run a game, and it's going to be fun.
Watching those little kids doing origami sort of made me miss it, and I have this cool origami app on my phone, so I reckoned I'd start sending my friend Liz little origami animals in the letters I write to her - a dragon for luck, a dog for company, a cat for company, an elephant so she never forgets, a rabbit for Easter - because when my friend Chris was on his mission in Japan he'd send me cool animals too. I think so many kids are caught up in the entertainment of modern technology that they miss out on some of the cool things, like origami. Know enough origami and you can make an entire doll house, furniture and all, plus animals for a menagerie/farm. It's awesome.
Today is going to be a good day, and this week is going to be a good week, and I am happy.
