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An Un-Gloomy Sunday

05 Sep

Finally finished my read-through of 10-9 last night. While I came to the conclusion all too soon my final draft is actually my next to final draft I still feel like such a giddy dork for my own book. There’s issues that need a little tweaking but overall I’m pretty proud of myself for not giving up on it.

My current goal is have my first submission packet out by the 18th. Five minutes after I click send on my submission email I am immediately going to quell my nerves with Starbucks.  The day I receive word of my submission receipt I think it will be ice cream. When the first rejection arrives, I think I’ll throw my own Renegade Baker whoopie pie party, where I’ll likely be baking my own flavors. When I get my first acceptance, I think I may need to go all out and invade Oh Snap! Cupcakes.

Do we sense a trend that it all revolves around sugar? I’m better at it than I was in the past but damn I am one Grade A emotional eater. *laughs*

I’m pretty psyched about the whole process but I’m also an equal measure of freakin’ out maaaaan~ Game over! Game over! I think the first one is always the hardest, because it’s your baby, and 10-9 is a deeply personal story for me. It’s always tough to send it off in the world for other people to see. Perhaps it gets easier? I’m not so sure. Possibly not at all.

While I have been fantastically terrible about broadcasting my Weight Watchers progress (because for a while there wasn’t any.) I am happy to report a miracle has somehow occurred. For weeks I was bouncing back and forth between 250 and 248. I would get to 248, celebrate, and then sabotage myself back into 250. To my knowledge I haven’t exactly done anything terribly different, but college did start up two weeks ago. Somehow my body decided to get with the program and as of this morning I am officially 244! AHMAHGAH. I’ve lost 11 pounds since starting the program! YAY! I have two pounds to go until I am at my 5% weight loss goal and it’s all so terribly exciting for the chance to set a new goal.

Things are looking bright on this end of things. I’ve also discovered the Nook App a couple days ago (I’m late to the game okay?) I can’t imagine how I lived without it for so long. It’s totally a gateway drug into buying an actual Nook. Soon… Soon my beloved… Soooooon…

 
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The Sketchbook Project

10 Jul

So I’ve recently signed up for The Sketchbook Project which in hopefully less than 25 words is a communal project open to anyone held by the Art House Co-Op and the Brooklyn Art Library. Sign up, pick a theme from the list, and they will send you a 8.5 x 5.5 Moleskine Cashier sketchbook for you to draw in and mail back in time for the gallery tour. It looked kinda fun and I thought I’d give it a go.

Last weekend I got my sketchbook in the mail and despite being a teeny little cashier there are a LOT more pages than I originally thought. Also the paper is kinda of that iffy Moleskine quality. Great for writing, not so much for drawing. In searching around about the project, the trick some people do is make works on their normal stock and glue it into the pages in a pretty fashion with origami papers or other things.  Some people get super creative and take the book all apart and rebind it with new stock all together. In looking at the binding technique used on the book I’m not so bold enough to try it for fear of ruining it. Some people even arrange the pages to fold out into giant posters! Or form other kinds of art like accordion folds! It’s pretty cool. :3

The theme I picked was ‘Happy Thoughts’ and initially while I hit a total roadblock called Intimidation I started making a list of things that make me happy and asking others what make them happy. And soon I had a good number of thumbnails as a starting point. Some really promising and some that need a little more development. It’s going to be my challenge to draw a lot of ‘cute’ kind of art with bunches of chibis, kittens, puppies, cupcakes, and on and on. I also have a few ideas for sections of the book that fold out into larger works. Pretty much all of it is pretty literal of happy things because I’m that kind of artist. While there’s bits of expecting people to roll with some of the details, people still look like people and cats are cats.

I’m looking forward to what comes of it. :3

In other news I had a fantastically TERRIBLE day for Weight Watchers. I just didn’t feel good today and while I started out on a good note it had quickly spiraled out of control by lunchtime. I kind of feel a depression creeping in since I’ve been sitting and doing nothing for too long. I need something to occupy my time again with deadlines to meet. I need to get back writing. I can feel it kind of slip from me and I need to keep busy. For me not to be busy it’s the kiss of death and results in me raiding the fridge. D:

 
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Details, Details…

22 Jun

Guess who hit a rather sizable editing snafu because somebody (me) didn’t spend the five seconds to obtain an easy to locate little fact. Word to the wise: If someone were to take a redeye flight from the US to the farthest reaches of Eastern Europe there is no amount of magic pixie dust that will make the arrival in late afternoon. Just not happening. The word of the day is oops~ Pretty much it sets a chain of events that affects the first 10k or so of 10-9 because I basically have 24 hours of story events I need to make up. Because I got the time wrong. D:

I can work with this. But damn. D: Way to go me for the blunder. D:

In Nomnom Foodie News I managed to actually be really mindful of my eating today and it all worked out! :D And I’m not snacky! I get the cravings sometimes but I reach for like a piece of string cheese or something. Even did cardio for 30 minutes today. :D

 
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Keepin’ Em Honest

18 Jun

Point Totals For 6/17/10

(Way to go me for jacking the slim format of this blog.)

Anyway. There you have it. The totals for today.

For those of you that don’t really grok what you’re looking at allow me to elaborate. In the Weight Watchers plan everything is assigned a ‘Points Value’ and due to your personal statistics — Height, Weight, Activity Level — you are assigned a ‘Points Allowance’ you can eat in a day. However you have 35 extra points a week for special occasions, like say a birthday, wedding, holiday or whatever though you can use them whenever really. And they totally don’t roll over week to week. XD As you can see I consumed half a point of my weekly bonus allowance today.

The cool thing about Weight Watchers is you can really, truly, and seriously eat whatever the hell you want. The object is just being smart about it with portion control or choosing a healthier option with more filling foods or yeah… you can even eat that triple decker overstuffed burrito if you want, just be prepared that’s likely all you’re going to HAVE that day because it might take away a huge chunk of your points.

For me personally this week I signed up for singer and Weight Watchers spokesperson Jennifer Hudson’s Weekly Challenge where you sign up to do one thing good for yourself and then come back in week and report if you made it or not. Totally one of those honor system things but at least I react well to seeing things in front of my face all the time. My challenge is very simple. To drink more plain water as I drink a ton of water already, it’s just flavored with Crystal Light. While yeah I guzzle water when Crystal Light’s in it, it’s also a hidden minefield of sodium that makes you retain the poundage.

My next mission is to set the goddamned Wii back up and get back into Wii Fit. The sequel’s been out for a million years, it’s dirt cheap, and yet I can’t justify buying it until I get back into it and do some serious work on it. I also have the EA Active game and I am such a chump because that thing kicks my ass even on the easiest setting. I think I’ve gotten through a round once. D: It’s really fun though! Just… ass kicking. T_T

Finally, on the Gettin’ Sum Gnawlidge Front I’m halfway through Bullies, Bastards, and Bitches now and I have safely determined in the context of 10-9 we have an Unlikeable Protagonist of the Tarnished Knight archetype (Ahimsa), A Bad Boy (John, really was there any doubt?), and Seik is arguably at current not a villain at all but a Dark Hero. Which I suppose makes somewhat sense since the whole story is built on there’s no real clear good or evil, just two forces with differing views and similar motivations to act. Because that’s how I roll, yo. XD

I still need to make Seik clearly freakier and scarier. *sticks up Post-It reminder*

Anyway. This stupid book is eating my brain since there’s a lot to learn and it’s kinda a surprisingly dense read. A lot of it is built on the concept of You Think You Know This Stuff Let Me Tell You Otherwise so a lot of it has been learning stuff I mostly knew but also details I had in the wrong categories. I haven’t even been thinking in context of The Promise and maybe I should. And maybe I should just take a jackhammer and a chainsaw to it instead. D: Not a day goes by I don’t get my daily quota in of mentioning my lament over the thing. D: *checks it off the to do list*

 
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