Diary of an adult runaway

Here you come again (and here I go)

So we’re only 3 days out from NaNoWriMo 2011 and the excitement’s building! I’ve been pinning one-pot and slow-cooker recipes like mad on Pinterest, and last night I did my shopping for ingredients and, I think it’s fair to say, a truckload of Diet Vanilla Coke to fuel me up. I’ve pretty much eliminated soda from my diet, except for November, when I make up for the rest of the year. Bring it on!

The other thing I’ve been doing is building my playlist. I don’t have it all, but I know the main track is The Heavy’s “How You Like Me Now?” And that could only be settled on once I knew which of the 5 ideas bouncing around my head I'd be working on. Would it be the one set in NYC/Paris? How about Seattle or Oregon or San Francisco? Nope, L.A. got the jump on everyone, and I can see the scene with “How You Like Me Now” just like a movie running in my head, along with tight shots and pans. I can see the hazy purple  light as night falls over the Griffith Observatory, illegal taco stands by the side of the road, the Vista Theater in Los Feliz, those awesome bridges that lead into Pasadena. Apart from that, I only have a rough idea of the first 3 chapters and the end, but that's all I ever really have going in and I seem to find a whole plot every time, so once again: bring it on!

Slight problem: there’s a bit of mystery to this one, but what that is is a mystery to me. Part of the fun, but will require some research—which will have to be done after NaNo, or at least during those times when I don’t have Freedom disabling my internet access. Swear to God, I’m like a bower bird, seeking out shiny pins and Facebook updates. Robyn has already vowed to kick my ass if I try to use her WiFi. To that I say: bring it!

Are you in this year? What are you working on?

Today's list

Listening: to 94.7 The Wave.

Eating:

Drinking: New England Blueberry Cobbler coffee

Wearing: BBW's Pomegranate Citrus body splash

Feeling: that I don't want to go to work tomorrow. Comme normale for a Sunday after a lovely weekend ;)

Wanting: to go to this:

Not just because it's in magical Topanga, but because maybe former local Kyle Chandler will show up with his award-winning chili. Yep, Coach Taylor kicks ass in the chili stakes. But somehow you knew he would, right?

Needing: the people who are moving into the top apartment to shut the hell up!

Thinking: of my friend Lisa and her sister Maria, who are participating in today's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, in honor of their mother, whose birthday it would have been today.

Watching: Person of Interest. Not yet sold on it but, hey, Jim Caviezel... Interesting thing from this week's episode: my parents disagreed over what my name should be. My father wanted "Megan" but obviously my mother won. Years later, she ran into her first serious boyfriend, who had 2 daughters: Megan and Gabrielle. And this week's Person of Interest was about 2 sisters. Yep, Megan and Gabrielle :)

Enjoying: how delicious my kitchen smells after making a batch of themed candles (each layer is a different scent)

From L to R: Breakfast in Paris, Summer Citrus, Island Sunset, Exotic Escape, Café Blend, and Holidazzle. Coming soon to a Christmas near you!

All right, who's with me?!

Awwwww yeaaaaaah, it's that time of year again! Or, will be in 17 days--and November 1st happens to be a holiday here, so...score! Now, the question is: New York/Paris book or Seattle book?

So, who's with me?

The Great Blog Restart!

Hi there. Yes, I've missed you, too! The thing is, I want to blog but I can't think about what, so until my mojo kicks back in, I'm taking the easy way out and use a journaling idea I saw on Pinterest, from whence everything good comes.

Here goes.

1. Listening: to Secrets of the Bestselling Sisterhood, from the RWA 2011 Conference CDs. As usual, JAK & SEP (now known as JAXEP) tell it like it is.

2. Eating: not crab, which is making me cranky--oh wait, crabby (sorry)--because I reaaaalllyyyyy want crab. Crab cakes, crab dip, crab linguine. I can see a trip to Costco in my near future.

3. Drinking: Limeade

4. Wearing: jackets, still! But tomorrow's promising to be warmer. All I'm askin' for is 26C. Enough to bring out the dragonflies and heat up the lavender.

5. Feeling: melancholy over Steve Jobs's death. My first ever computer was an LCII and it--and every other Mac I've had since--helped bring my writing to life, it was so much fun, so easy to use. I loved turning it on and hear a woman's dulcet voice say "Welcome to Macintosh." The creations Jobs helped bring to the world not only sparked my imagination and worked painlessly, they're beautiful pieces of design. I'm going to miss him.

6. Wanting: this poster:

Needing: some kind of contraption that fits around my front door frame and sucks every bit of cat hair off my clothing before I appear in public.

Thinking: of course, now I can't think.

Watching: Season 2 of Mad Men and thinking (a-ha!) there's not one character I really like. Except maybe Sterling.

Enjoying: Mel Scott's debut novel, Shadow Kin:

What about you?