scraps heap
* last night, i had my inaugural mini-mint brownie from starbucks. it's a seasonal snack that appears in november -- alongside the eggnog lattés and peppermint mochas -- but only sticks around until new year's. they are delicious and the first couple of starbucks locations i hit had sold out. then i found one that had a tray full in their display window, so i bought two (because it's cheaper that way). i was SO excited! i carried them home, and planned to savour them after i finished my leftover chili and rice for dinner. well, i took my first bite, waited to feel lightheaded as a result of the brownie's fabulousness and then... realized it was STALE! dry and tasting ever-so-slightly of cinnamon. so disappointing.
* yesterday was a perfectly cold and blustery november day. big, chunky, dark clouds sprinkled against a crisp blue sky. nearly bare trees. sidewalks covered in damp, packed-down leaves. a wind chill. YB reports she saw snowflakes earlier in the evening (i did not). and yet, come sunday, the temperature will rise back up to the high-50s for a few days. that, too, is disappointing. i'm ready for winter!
* i can't remember if i mentioned it already, so just in case i haven't: NBC had given my favourite new show, Mercy, a full-season pick-up. yay!
* in less exciting entertainment news, i saw Gentlemen Broncos this week and it was really gross. also: not very funny and kind of disturbingly unpleasant to watch. boo!
* this weekend, my mom will be baking cookies for a bazaar at one of the churches she attends. this means delicious, homemade, german-cookie dough for breakfast if i go sleep over in the newly painted room. but staying there will cut into my writing. speaking of...
* yesterday i hit 10,368 words in my NaNoWriMomfg project. but i feel like i'm losing steam and kind of losing direction. it was a tough slog to get to today's finish line. i'm about to throw a whole slew of characters together and i have only the vaguest idea of what i'm going to do with them. it's likely that my per-day word tally will fall considerably over the next while. maybe it won't, though, because sometimes unexpected inspiration springs up all the time.
* television stations have officially begun airing christmas commercials. for some reason, i find this weirdly comforting and nice.
* watching the news, and seeing the hysteria over H1N1, is embarrassing. i wish people would just calm the f**k down.
7 comments:
A month is a long stretch, so there will be peaks and valleys. Yep, the old peak and valley chestnut.
You've developed the characters now, so let them respond to one another accordingly. Just be there to take notes for them.
Let's see . . . cookie dough, nano . . . cookie dough, nano . . . hmm
my concern is that i haven't developed the octogenarian properly or fully. the oddballs are all unique and defined, but she's kind of neutral... too neutral.
I mint to also say that I am sorry about your holiday brownie. I hope it wasn't left over from last year.
it tasted like it probably could be. :-X
I am ignoring that whole "i'm ready for winter" remark.
Pick the cookies road!
*If you tell Starbucks their last brownies were stinky, they'll probably give you something for free. At least that's what they do out here.
*Doesn't it seem like standing in the cold at one of those flu shot cattle calls, surrounded by random people for hours on end, would be a really awesome place to catch something like...oh...say...SWINE FLU?
ooh, i'll try that starbucks thing! thanks!
moob: cookies won! :-D
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