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Good Luck, ‘Wrimos!

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

NaNo is almost upon us!

I hope you have your writing/typing fingers warmed up and are putting plot ideas down on paper so as not to forget them. This is allowed, but remember, no writing anything to go in your novel before Nov 1st!

If you’re still stuck for a plot, check out Adopt-A-Plot in the Nano forums. Maybe add a Nano graphic to your own blog, or make it your avatar/profile pic on Facebook or on forums you frequent.

Tomorrow I’ll be joining the Cape Town Kick Off Party so wish me luck in my adventure!

Although I am left wondering if I’ve bitten off more than I can chew…oh, and Happy Halloween!

(incidently, this post’s word count is a mere…122…eep! :S)

Web “Cupcakes”!

Friday, October 30th, 2009

I made these yesterday for our Halloween Gym party :) I wanted plaastic fake spiders, but couldnt find any, but luckily with a bit of digging and help from my sister, we found these gummy bugs. They were actually chcolate muffins, but I passed them off as cupcakes hehe


Full November

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

November is looking to be a pretty full month for me!

I’ll be receiving news that I’m waiting for, more on that when I know, I’ll be attending the Canon Wild Roadshow and the Lenovo Picnic. Of course, there will also be OC in Nov which I’ll be attending. And last but most definately not least, NaNoWriMo begins this Sunday!

I’m super amped for Nano now that I have a general plot…I’ve also recruited a few people to participate with me, which will be great for moral and encouragement! Among the few are EvilBelgian and PixieDust.

My loaches are starting to be less timid, and I can watch them as I sit here and type at the office. They’re so interesting and quite often I get rather distracted and watch them for ages. I’ve tried taking photos of them, but they’re still too shy for that.

A while back I might have mentioned something about my car being reversed into. Well, after months of waiting for the sheriff to deliver the papers to the defendant, they finally got some results back to me. Apparently, this guy is still a momma’s boy, lives at home and has no attachable assets. In layman’s terms, they cant reposess anything from him to pay for the damages he inflicted on my car. Needless to say I’m not happy with this verdict and will keep fighting it.

I’m also going to start learning the harmonica soon! Going to ye ol’ harmonica shop this week to check out some behbehs! How exciting!

Well that’s about all I can update on at this point. Have a great week! I’m craving sushi, so hopefully will be doing that sometime soon again!

Poll Results: What motherboard brand do YOU own?

Monday, October 26th, 2009

What motherboard brand do YOU own?

ASRock (33%, 2 Votes)
MSI (17%, 1 Votes)
Intel (17%, 1 Votes)
Foxconn (17%, 1 Votes)
Other (17%, 1 Votes)
Asus (0%, 0 Votes)
Gigabyte (0%, 0 Votes)
Soltech (-1%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 6

LOL I forgot to vote haha! I have an Asus motheboard, they’re awesome!

New vote up!! NaNoWriMo related!

Wax on…wax off…

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Last week V expressed an interest in washing and polishing her car, and enquired if I’d like to join. Having never before polished my car, I agreed, and gleefully went out to purchase some supplies!

I stood for a while in the automobile section of Pick ‘n Pay and pondered over the various polishes. Wax or liquid? This brand or that brand? Eventually I found a special for R49 on a liquid polish and a dashboard cleaning spray which I decided to purchase. Now my decisions moved to which dashoard spray smell would be least offensive. I settled on Musk after the Cherry reminded me of when I was 6 and my dad let my sister and I choose a scent from the valet service being done on my mom’s car. We chose strawberry. And oh boy, did we have strawberries. For the next 8 months we had to drive with the windows wide open. It was killer! Right at the end I found a set of 3 microfibre cloths which I also bought. May as well do it right, right?

V brought J (bartender I mentioned in Girls Night: The Aftermath) for some “muscle”, though he was lured under the pretense of being able to sit back and watch us washing cars in bikinis…ha! I was originally going to wash my car at her place, but she ended up coming to me instead cos of my holey exhaust. We got buckets of warm water, added car wash soap and got washing. J & V did her car, I did mine with V coming over to help once hers was done.

As like any time when V and I get together, there was lots of giggling and laughing, and poor J dutifully helped, though I daresay we made it interesting for him. After a spout of girly gossip while doing the rims, we moved on to drying the cars with my “moist chamois”. J showed us an innovative way of using these cloths and now drying will never be boring again!

Having never polished a car before, I looked to V & J for guidance, J being a little more pedantic about being neat than V lol. We all got started on my car, and of course more laughter ensued, ending with V and I attempting to “wax on and wax off” with our boobs, much to J’s delight!

We decided to move on to lunch of hotdogs before tackling V’s car. After lunch, we did V’s car, which due to her paint work was a lot harder than mine and our arms very nearly fell off by the time we were finished. Then we mixed and matched a bit while J sat back and watched (all he needed was a deck chair and a beer haha). I washed windows while V did her dashboard. Of course fumes engulfed us in the car and we giggled and laughed even moreso.

Our extension and vacuum cable wouldnt reach the parking area, so we had to reverse our cars onto my lawn…poor V’s car protested so much and eventually my entire lounge smelt like burnt rings and smoke haha but we managed to get half the car onto the lawn which was juuust enough. I vacuumed her car whilst she cleaned my dashboards. By the time we got to vacuuming my car, it was around 7.30pm so J came in handy again holding the flashlight while I vacummed my car and V cleaned up all the loose papers.

By the end of the evening we were pooped, so we ended up getting some pizza and subs and choc brownies with icecream….and so ended a thoroughly tiring but fun day. Might do it again next month….might. Hehe.

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