happy list - November, part 1

• The beautiful colors of fall: maroon, orange, and yellow
• A brand new bar of soap
  
• Starbucks' winter seasonal mint chocolate brownie
• The moment the plane's wheels leave the ground
• Flight attendants who make funny jokes that are actually funny
• The millions of tiny points of light created by my engagement ring in just the properly angled ray of the sun
• Tuna sashimi
• Alex O'Loughlin , actor
• College a Cappella groups
• Being nominated for an award
• Being nominated for an award when the nomination involves the nominator writing something nice about the nominee
• Discovering birds live in the bush in front of your house
• Fresh air - particularly the smell - after being trapped indoors all day.
• Frappe Friday
• The smell of winter in the air
• The way " Gormogon iconography" rolls off the tongue
• The first holiday light spotting of the season
• Writing 108,506 words during your first NaNoWriMo
• Guittard Green Mint Chips
• Cherimoyas
• Nanoisms : a typo made while writing that results in something particularly funny. For example: "He watched the frost fork on the ground." (Where "fork" should have been "form.")
• Flavored hot cocoa, mint and raspberry in particular
• Online Christmas shopping

(Posted 12/10/2007)

haiku 11/30/2007

Today's the last day.
Vacation, so I can just
write. Lots to still write.

Will never finish
the story today, but I'll
still get pretty far.

Starting with ninety-
four. Can I make one-hundred?
I will really try.

Okay, it's almost
over! Up to one-oh-eight!
Still lots left to write.

Can't believe the whole
month is gone. It flew in a
haze of written words.

haiku 11/29/2007

Only one day left.
Thirty-two thousand words in
the past seven days.

My goal is one-oh-
seven (thousand) - the length of
H.P. Azkaban.

Ambitious. Crazy?
Both, for sure. Unreachable?
It's yet to be seen.

haiku 11/28/2007

Ninety-thousand! That's
where I'm at after twenty-
eight days. Two to go.

haiku 11/27/2007

Happy birthday, mom!
Writing, writing, only three
days after today!

Up to seventy-
nine thou', just short of eighty.
Time is ticking down.

haiku 11/26/2007

I have a few goal.
Seventy-three three-hundred
and thirty-six words.

That's the length of the
book Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone. Yeah!

Can't write much today.
A little at lunch, but that's
going to be it.

haiku 11/25/2007

Got my purple bar
last night! HURRAY! PURPLE BAR!
I do love my blog.

It's so great. I can
just yap and yap and no one
cares! It's all for me.

Article in the
Herald today re: NaNo.
It's by a Wrimo.

My arms and hands are
sore today! So much typing.
I could use a break.

haiku 11/24/2007

Reached sixty-nine thou'
today! Now, just waiting for
my purple bar. Yay!

Purple bars are for
Winners. I'm a winner! I
want my purple bar.

haiku 11/23/2007

~ for Haiku Friday ~

Stuck at work? Me, too.
Weather so strange. Yesterday
warm, today chilly.

Less than half of my
twenty-person office is
here today.

Hmm, have headache. Don't
know why. No wine yesterday!
All Aleve at home :(

haiku 11/22/2007

Thanksgiving today!
A very "us" dinner. Shrimp,
meatballs, stuff like that.

Lots of writing! While
T watches football, I can
write 'til I get bored.

haiku 11/21/2007

Slow Wednesday, day
before a holiday. Glad
we'll be staying home.

haiku 11/20/2007

Fifty-thousand! I
can smell it! It will be mine
tonight. Wait and see.

Twenty days in, and
I'm going to win! Yay! I'm
a lucky newbie!

Day Twenty over!
Fifty-one thousand fourteen
words with ten days left.

haiku 11/19/2007

Five thousand more words
today. Second best day so
far. Eleven left.

haiku 11/18/2007

Over four thousand
words today. Not too bad. Not
working tomorrow.

House to myself as
T will be at work. I can
run around naked!

haiku 11/17/2007

Maintenance tonight!
Wrote in the morning to get
something done today.

At work late. After
four in the morning. Will be
so tired tomorrow.

haiku 11/16/2007

Watching Buffy while
writing. Moonlight on tonight.
I heart Mick St. John.

haiku 11/15/2007

This weekend I will
catch up, I swear. Today is
halfway for NaNo!

I can't believe it's
half done. I have just over
thirty-thousand words.

That's over sixty
percent! That's a pretty good
pace, if you ask me.

Still pretty tired
from my trip. To bed early
again? Probably.

RDO for T
tomorrow. I will have mine
Monday: work reasons.

haiku 11/14/2007

Typed out more of what
I wrote while gone. Started some
cool flashback scenes.

Not sure where they should
go, but I think they're neat. I
will find a good place!

haiku 11/13/2007

So far behind on
my haiku! Need to catch up
soon, or I am doomed.

So tired today at
work - left just a little bit
early. Napped at home.

Write six hundred words
or so. Also, typed in what
I wrote yesterday.

So sleepy now. Must
go to bed before I end
up asleep right here.

haiku 11/12/2007

Bellagio this
morning. Blue, blue sky, windy.
Found some cute clothing.

Pad thai for breakfast.
Heading to airport early.
Will write while I can.

Flying home with Phil.
Hogging center seat for us.
Writing lots on flight.

haiku 11/11/2007

Fun With Family
Day! M&M World with Mom, and
then Dan joined us.

Lunch, wandering, then
back to the hotel to change
for our fun night out.

Roamed the Venetian.
Saw photos by Peter Lik.
Amazing, vibrant.

Saw women dressed like
statues. So neat! Must be tough
to keep a stone face.

Dinner at Tao. Soooo
good. Had the awesome tuna
again! And pad thai.

Awesome sampler for
dessert. Tiny buddhas and
huge fortune cookie!

Then, to the fountains
for a show. Love the fountains
at night - beautiful.

To top off the night,
we went to see "Fantasy,"
a topless show! Woo!

It was classy for
a bunch of naked, dancing
ladies. Lots of fun!

We had a very
nice evening. Fun to hang
with my peeps. Missed Dad!

haiku 11/10/2007

Wedding day! Not mine,
but Priti and Lou's! Great view
from the hotel's roof.

Hair done - nice and straight.
Pink dress with black bow. Taking
lots of photos, too.

Fun reception and
the after-party was in
a super cool room.

Fuzzy white walls, blue
lights in the bathroom. But the
stripper pole was gone. :(

haiku 11/09/2007

Two sets:

~ On plane ~

Nearly touching the
houses below as we come
in to land. So close!

Mehndi on my hands.
Fun start to wedding weekend.
Just one of the girls.

~ second set ~

Flying to Vegas!
Meeting Kevin after we
land. Then, sights to see!

Lunch at Pink Taco.
with Kevin. Lots of walking.
Drinks at the bar, too.

Hands decorated
from Priti's Mehndi party.
So fun and fancy!

Mom arrives on a
late flight. Fun family time -
Dan will be here, too.

haiku 11/08/2007

Up early again!
Leaving for Vegas in the
morning. Writing now.

Happy birthday to
Debbie! Now she's thirty-two
just like I am. Yay :)

haiku 11/07/2007

Passed twenty thousand
today! It took just a week.
Good for a newbie :)

haiku 11/06/2007

Three A.M.! Hello!
So early, so dark. But an
awesome time to write!

Tired later on?
Probably asleep by noon.
Fifteen hundred done!

happy list 11/2/2007

11/2/2007

• Writing with pen and paper
• Babies in chick costumes

I'm sorry!

I'm waaaaay behind!! I will try to catch up soon =)

haiku 11/05/2007

All day at work
wanted to write! And now I'm
ready, but tired.

Have decided to
hit the hay early, and then
get up early! Whee!

haiku 11/04/2007

Fifteen-thousand words!
That's what I managed in four
days! That's a great start.

I hope I can keep
up my momentum. Can I
stay ahead of it?

Elle has met Eric,
although she doesn't know it
yet. He healed her head.

haiku 11/03/2007

On our way to Sue's
wedding. The sky is gorgeous
blue, the air is nice.

A very nice day
for a November wedding.
Should be a good time!

Had hair cut and dried.
Found cute shoes. Wrote a day's worth
of words. Productive!

Hope to be awake
when we get home, so that I
can write a bit more.

written 11/04/2007

Managed to stay up
for awhile after we
got home, and wrote more.

The wedding was quite
nice. Sue looked lovely. There was
a lot of dancing.

haiku 11/02/2007

written 11/03/2007

RDO: perfect
timing. Wrote all day, off and
on. Some on paper.

Ended the day with
seventy-seven hundred
words. Awesome output!

That pace puts me on
track for 100k. Ah,
for more RDOs.

happy list 11/01/2007

11/1/2007

• Rewarding yourself with smiley face stickers
• Writing 2,325 words on the first day of NaNoWriMo (and knowing you could have written more if you hadn't decided to "rest" on the couch for a bit)

haiku 11/01/2007

NaNoWriMo is
here! Waited until after work
and the gym to start.

Started strong. Managed
twenty-three hundred words. Great
way to start the month.

happy list 10/31/2007

10/31/2007

• Overnight visits from dad
• Post-it (tm) Self-Stick Table Top Pads
• After using the oven and turning it off, opening it just a few inches and standing above the rushing heat - particularly nice when it's chilly!

happy list 10/30/2007

10/30/2007

• Red Sox decals, sent from dad
• sybarite: a person devoted to luxury and pleasure
• italics