Fiddle-Dee-Dee, Said Scarlett

I slept in today. I woke up at 9:30, which threw me off completely. I sort of shambled around before turning on the computer, wandered outside before making coffee, and now I'm still having trouble waking up an hour later. I do however have a fresh homemade mocha and a bowl of biscuits and gravy.

Since I've been trying to eat healthy again, Nija leaves me a note every night so when I wake up, I'm reminded to eat a good breakfast. It's been working so far.

I gave dropping Lyta some serious thought last night. I've been trying to get her out there, I've been trying to drum up plot for her, but outside of Fox she just doesn't have anything. And I'm at the point where...I don't miss playing her when I'm not. Sure, the bit of threading I did with her NS was fun and all, but...there's no burning desire to toss her out there at this point. As sad as it seems, I believe she and I are going to have to part ways. Hey, it's been nearly two years. We've had a good run.

And besides...there's another character I've been considering, for January. Oi, I thought I was done with the apping thing! Especially since CU has a three character limit, and I'm at my limit. We'll see how things go. I'm actually torn between two characters, but one has much more backstory than the other and would be easier to write an application for. But the other would be...just so much kick ass. Bah!

We'll see what happens.

I have to write about 3,500 words a day if I want to finish NaNo on time. We'll see what happens there, too.

Go Team Venture!

Oh yeah, this is it, I've hit the halfway mark! November 17th and I'm at 25k! And I couldn't have done it without nijawial, summoneddestiny and enigmablade. Seriously. They have been my sanity and inspiration these last two weeks.

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Yeah, I had to preserve that in screencap format.

At the Hallmark store today, I saw a Johnny Quest ornament. I...kind of want it. A lot.

I just almost walked out of the house to do errands in my PJs and bathrobe.

I wasn't even aware that I hadn't gotten dressed.

Clearly, this is some sort of problem. But as I've managed to go from 16k to over 21k on NaNo just this morning, I'm willing to ignore it and consider it a mark of being really, really into my project.

I'm shooting for 25k today.

I think I might just make it.

There would be no fainting, no drooling, no twitching and no spontaneous giggling. This was the big night. Dean Venture…was going to become a man!

NaNo is still kicking my ass. My little graph should say '16,000'. I was hoping to meet 20k yesterday, but an epic migraine unfortunately got in the way. After I told chat I was going to lie down for a minute or two, I ended up needing to lay perfectly still in the dark with a cold washcloth over my eyes.

Eventually, after many attempts to heal the infuriating headache, ranging from benignly natural to downright bizarre, I was well enough to stumble off to bed. Needless to say, NaNo writing did not happen.

Not much else happened, either. But I worked on it some this morning and got to 16k, which isn't bad. But I really need to be ahead of this.

Nothing else is new in the land of RL. My mother's doing pretty well, but she has some follow up surgery today. There's plenty of food in the house, which is always good. I've got some cleaning to do, but I wanted to hit 16k before I did that. Other than that....

Go Team Venture!

I've spent the morning cleaning, and I'm feeling like I'm back to normal just because of that small thing. My dad's dropping by, so it was an excuse to kick my ass into gear and not just plop myself in front of the computer all morning as I've been doing recently.

I'm feeling...pretty good today, honestly. Despite epic amounts of pain last night - we very nearly got snow - I woke up pretty rested and relaxed and at a very normal pain level. It's nice.

I missed signing up for exchanges, but...I realized that's okay. Because I have a horrible history with exchanges. In all but a couple rare instances, I either never get anything myself, or I get something...um...not so great.

I never did get my cartoon-canon Legend of Zelda pic or fic from the most recent exchange I was in. (Which ended last month.)

Way behind on NaNo, thanks to my computer falling as ill as I usually am. We'll see if I can catch up. I had an epic revelation last night, as I was watching the clouds spiral into a tunnel around the moon.

At least I'm done with the tripping scene.

"I cannot simply idly stand by and watch my little baby toy with that fragile man-boy’s heart!”

I really wish our neighbors would keep it down. I don't know what they're doing, but they've been yelling and playing loud music and possibly welding underneath the living room window for about an hour now. And it's screwing with my focus.

My new routine is apparently: get up, get something to drink, reply to RP posts, write NaNo. And then sometimes possibly shower or clean or whatever.

As for NaNo:

Chapter 1: History Completes Itself - Done
Chapter 2: Not All Mushrooms are Edible - Almost Done
Chapter 3: Electric Cyberella - 0%
Chapter 4: No Title - 0%
Chapter 5: When Spars Collide - 2 pages
Chapter 6: Gentlemen Prefer Microchips - 1 page
Chapter 7: No Title - 0%
Chapter 8: War and Fleece - 0%
Chapter 9: The Monarch's Revenge - 0%
Chapter 10: The Apes of Wrath - 0%
Chapter 11: Whatever Happened to Rusty? - 3 pages

Yeah, I'm doing this entirely out of order. But hey, I've got chapters outlined and whatnot, even if I haven't actually started them. Each chapter is set up like an episode, essentially, and I'm trying to keep with the episode title scheme in the chapter titles. I'm hoping to do 13 chapters, like a season, but we'll see if I can figure something out for two more chapters.

I have been seriously toying with the idea of having Dermott come out as gay. It was one of those silly little ideas I had, but I got to thinking about it, and it can work. I know why he makes himself build up this ultra-macho persona, and why he tries so hard to be a ladies man, but it's clear it's all overcompensation and a desperate attempt to be someone he's not. And besides that, this series is about disappointments and shattered dreams. And to spare those who haven't seen season 3, Dermott being gay would be a disappointment to someone.

It's windy and cold today, and I don't think I want to leave the house. I never did get any meat last night. I really should remedy that today and give my body the stuff it's been craving.

It was like they were basting in their own juices, and contrary to popular cannibal propaganda, people-juices did not smell very appetizing.

Went shopping today! I now has gorgeous little Japanese tea pot, frilly aprons, winter clothes, some Barbies to mod into Venture Bros dolls, and...the Dresden Files graphic novel! It's so shiny and pretty.

I've also got over 5,000 words on my NaNo project. Hence the quote above. I'm still struggling a bit with it, but first 'chapter' is done, and I apparently worked on it some last night which means I've got a lot of ideas for things, just nothing coherently written. Chapter two takes us to the jungle! Where adventure and mystery await in an ancient, lost temple!

I love pulp adventure, I really, really do.

Plus, making up science! Always fun!

“Cyberella?” Hank finally said. “You’re…gonna kill us by cyber-sexing us to death? Awesome!”

I've hit 3,000 words! And this is a hell of a lot harder than I thought it would be, since I decided to do a future-fic. I've got ten years of blank space between canon and what I'm writing, and while I have a general idea of what everyone's been doing in the meantime, making sure to reflect the character changes but keep everyone true and IC is a bit tricky.

On the other hand, I'm having a lot of fun just sort of going nuts with all this open canon. And Kim is one damn sexy super villainess. She gives Dr. Girlfriend a run for her money! I need to buff up on my computer and intarweb knowledge, though, since her entire theme is cyber-punk.

My body hates cheese today. :(

I did remember to have coffee this morning, though, so while I feel drowsy and blah, I have yet to randomly fall asleep today. I've been having a small problem with that lately. I'll lay down on the couch for a minute, and the next thing I know it's two to three hours later and I'm just coming to.

I had my coffee in my Jack mug, since I had it cold.

I have laundry in the washer I need to change over, and I still need to clean the rat cage and get crap off the bathroom floor. I've just sort of been...leaving my clothes there because I can't muster up the oomph to bend over and pick stuff up.