Moonstone Inn

Oh my goodness! My dragon eggs have hatched! I've got the cutest little dragon babies!
They are so friggin cute! I especially love my pink baby. Now I have to hope that they can grow up within the next seven days. Click on my babies to help them grow! At least I won't have to worry about them dying once they've matured into adults. I was so worried that I'd end up killing them. Some how they've gained a butt load of views within the last day. I guess putting them on that one forum and asking for help really did them good! I don't know if I'll keep getting more of these things, I hate the idea of killing them, but every once in a while I might pick up a new egg if it looks strange and different. I like the weird-looking eggs. I want one of the eggs floating on a cloud.

Now I need to name them! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I want to make sure they have the perfect names. I also want to make sure their name is appropriate to their sex. I think I heard that pink ones are always girls, so that should make life easier. I'll have to check out their genders. ...Hmm, they don't seem to have genders yet. Ah well. In any case, yay for baby dragons!

Even though it's ended up being more trouble than I've been expecting, I've finally got all my little trees up and lit for Christmas! Yeah, I know I'm a bit crazy, but I have four Christmas trees sitting on the coffee table downstairs in our family room. I have a four foot tall tree from when I lived at the appartment with Alissa two years ago. I couldn't not have a tree. Then last year, I went searching everywhere for more doll apropriately sized trees. I found, after the end of the season no less, a three footer and a two footer. The three foot tree is decent for the SDs and taller. The two foot is good for the minis. Then in January, I got a bunch of decorations, plus a one foot tall tree, from Jackie_NJ. This is good for most of my tinies.

My four foot tree came with lights already strung. My two foot tree was a kit, coming with lights, decorations and tinsel garland. The poor three and one foot trees had no lights. So I checked out Michaels. They had a little battery operated 10 light strand. This is perfect for my little one foot tree! They had nothing for my three foot tree, however. This depressed me, as now all my trees needed to be lit, if three of them were.

I'm sure you're seeing my crazy emerging.

After finding nothing in Walmart, Walgreens, Party City and Sears Essentials, I began to feel like giving up. Either that, or give in and deal with 50 lights and 12.5 feet. That seemed a bit exessive.

Malinda then found small strands of lights at CVS! 20 lights! Granted, I had to get two of them to fit (okay, so maybe that 50 light strand wasn't so long a thing after all...), but now all my trees are lit! All I have to do is decorate them now with the plethora of tiny ornaments I've picked up over the last two years. The trees even have little tree skirts! I had to make one for the one footer, as it was so small, but the point is, it has one. I even found a little battery operated train to go around it!

Once everything is decorated, I plan to go crazy taking pictures of it with the kids. I'll probably post them when I'm done. Then you can witness first hand my craziness.

I love Christmas. *dances off*

So trying to find new stuff to do in the wake of Nano. I've been looking through the sewing forum section of DoA, checking out all the tutorials for outfits to make for the kids. I've been trying my hand at the sock hoodies, though with the current pair of socks I'm using, it's actually going to be a long sweater jacket for Effie, my Lft Ante. And since it's stretchy, I've made the arms long enough to be decent for a shorter sweater for my minifees. I love versitility.

I found this cute little site with these baby dragon hatchlings that you can adopt. So far I have this little egg. Still trying to figure out how to work it so the little guy can get hatched. Unfortunately I'd have to completely rework my signature on DoA to add him, as I have a lot of dollies there, taking up most of my 400 character count. Not sure if there's a better way to up load him. I'm hoping he won't die! He needs views or something to be able to hatch - apparently that's what he eats. Let's see how long it takes me to kill the poor thing. (I am so bad at keeping these kinds of things alive. *guilty*)

Besides that, I've been checking out "I Wrote a Novel, Now What?" on the NaNo site. They have a list on the bottom of the page talking about other NaNo-like events that happen throughout the year, though only Script Frenzy is actually associated with NaNo. The month of December has NaNoFiMo - National Novel Finishing Month. For those of us - and let's see a show of hands, 'cause I know it's most of you - who have not finished our novel in NaNoWriMo, this month gives us the challenge of actually finishing the novel with writing at least another 30k words. If figured it was worth a try, to see if, during the crazy Yule Tide season, I can actually get anything done.

'Cause then in March is NaNoEdMo - National Novel Editing Month. Hopefully by then, I'll at least be fully done, beginning to end, with my first draft. I can take the month to at least start my editing.

I need to finish the complete book and have it somewhat decent as a manuscript before July 1, 2010. For that is the dead line to be able to use my special winner promo code and get a free paperback published copy of my book! I'm sure that even by then it won't be in any form I'd wishe to actually send to a publisher to get published for real, but a copy of my book! How cool is that!

In other BJD news, I am now the proud owner of a Iplehouse Luna Trainer human head!!! I absolutely fell in love with this girl like a week and a half ago when Malinda found out about it. Of course the ordering period for it had been over for a little bit already, but she doggedly pursued her dream of owning a kitty girl and put up a WTB for the Luna Trainer. On Wednesday, her girl came in and she is gorgeous! Sexy cat girl. However, to my luck, she had no interest in the human head, so I got to buy her! Or rather, now Malinda owes me less money from previous orders. *dances* She's gonna be my Tantenari, my Kalashtar psionic monk. I'll need to find her a body eventually. I wonder if the Bobobie/Resin Soul girl body in gray would look okay with her. Maybe when I get the Lady Sayuki gray body in for my Bygg head I can compare the resin matches.

Yes, I have officially ordered a body for my Bygg head that is part of my Christmas/Birthday present from Malinda. Of course, the little unicorns won't be getting here for a while, they haven't been paid off yet, so I probably won't see them until March or so. It'll just be a late Christmas/Birthday. No biggie.

And I might be getting an interview for a job soon! *dances* If I can just get back to being employed, I can feel less guilty about buying doll bits. Then some of my floating heads can have bodies again!

Speaking about bits, if you are old enough for adult material and don't find pervy things disgusting, take a look at this: http://www.buffdolls.net/. Look under "Optional Parts". When I saw this, I nearly snorted myself to death. If you don't like what you see, don't say I didn't warn you.

Yay! I finally got to Iris! I still might be missing sections that should be written before this section, but eh. I can write them in later.

Thanksgiving day was obviously a bust in terms of writing. I never really expected to get anything done. But I've been keeping it up the last two days and managed to finish yet another chapter plus a little bit. Here's that next chapter, the introduction to Iris.



( Chapter 12 )

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Pray my mother doesn't kill me with her craziness.

And for those interested, I've posted my last chapter for my nano story. Anyone interested, I can put you on my filter. I just didn't feel comfortable posting the section to everyone.

I knew I could do it! I've just reached the fabled 50k mark for NaNo! Of course, like so many, I'm no where near finished with this thing. I still haven't written Iris yet!!! I'll get to her before the end of the week, I'm sure. It's the next section.

I don't have a finished section yet, but I may put up the first part of the next chapter later. I think I'm going to have to lock it, as it's got stuff I don't think I want read by most people, but if anyone is interested in reading it, I can unlock it for certain people.

I'm going to keep on writing this until the end of NaNo, see how far I can get. After that...well, I might end up taking a break from it for a while. I have Christmas shopping to do, and I should be finishing my brother and sister-in-law's blanket I've been making for their wedding last May. Plus, I still need to find a job. And there's outfit sewing for the kids! So much to do. I'll probably limit my writing to smaller bursts for a while.

I've loved doing this. I'll think of something to write for next year and do it again. Maybe a sequel?

I can see the finish line! Only another two thousand two hundred fifty words to go! Give or take. I hope to do a bit more writing before I go to bed tonight, but if not, I'm sure I can hit that 50k mark tomorrow! Then it's all gravy from then on. All that writing and I still haven't gotten to Iris! Damn. I guess Konnel talks too much, lol.

I like what I wrote in this section for the most part, although I'm a bit disappointed by the end of the section. I can make it prettier later.

word count today so far: 2382

I found Poppy's ear!

My little puki was all set to go to the meet today, until I noticed she only had one of her kitty ears on her head. I had no idea she'd even been wearing them, they blend in with her wig, so I didn't notice it was missing until I saw the one and checked for the other. I thought I looked all over the area, on my bed, near her chair where she sits. I couldn't find it. She had to go to the meet without her ears, and had to borrow Malinda's ws calico painted ears.

I was just about to go to bed, pulled up the covers to slide my feet under, when there I saw Poppy's other ear! I could have cheered out loud - but I would have woken up Mom.

Now if only I can find Nardakk's wedding band.

Not like it was a huge surprise, but no gaming occurred again tonight. And next week Alissa is off to her family for the holiday. Bummer. Now it'll be another two weeks before we can give it another go. At least by that point, the NaNoWriMo will be over. I doubt the novel will be finished, but the month of crazy writing will be behind me. I'll take some time for going over the adventure a little more, maybe coming up with some stuff for the Demon Slayer's campaign.

As for nano, the meet kind of squashed any posibility of writing today. I'm at 41,224 words, and even though I wanted to be at 42,000 by today, that's not too bad. Tomorrow I want to get to 44,000 - we'll see how much I can get done before I go to the gym with Malinda. I'm so exhausted, so I don't think I can take trying to do anything tonight. I probably won't even try to get up early in the moring. Or maybe I will.

So, good-night.

I've only finished part of this chapter. Oddly enough, I actually had a lot of fun writing this part, and it wasn't a depressed Konnel section! Amazing!

Oh, be aware, there's drug use in this section.

word count today: 2550

Obviously we fail at trying to game.

I guess there's always tomorrow. Here's to hoping.

*smacks hand* Bad me. I've written nothing as of yet for today. Been procrastinating like crazy! My "errand" didn't help. In fact, it made it much worse as it gave me fuel for my procrastination.


Hello!

She may be cute, but she's horrible for keeping focus. I just had to take her out for a quick photoshoot. I told myself it was just to check to make sure she fit in it all right...and she does...

( Four more pictures )

Over on DoA as well: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337538

...It looks like we're finally gaming tonight. Technically we were supposed to game last weekend. And the Friday the weekend before that... Obviously we've slacked off. It's always so hard to get back into the swing of things when we've had such a long hiatus. And if we're gaming tonight, it's got to be one of my games, as Malinda refuses to game on Fridays now. We used to switch off. I liked it better. 'Course, we also used to have a reasonably set schedule, changeable should a new idea occur for a non-sched campaign, but stuck to pretty successfully. No idea what the heck happend.

I would like to do the Shackled City campaign tonight, as we haven't done it in ages. Of my two campaigns, we've spend more time on the Demon Slayer campaign. Not that I haven't been enjoying playing Tag - I love that boy. But I miss Zip and Dip. And everyone's married! Lots of stuff is going to happen. Plus, I got ziltch for the other campaign. At least Shackled City has a campaign book that I get to cheat off of. I just need to read up on what the hell is supposed to be happening. Urgh. Do I have enough time to read up the adventure, get bad guys prepared, make sure my character sheets are up-to-date ('cause I know they're not), and still have enough time to write another 1200 words on my nanowrimo for today? I should be at 40,000. Plus, seeing as how we're going to a doll meet tomorrow, it would be better if I wrote more than 1200 to help accomodate for the fact I won't have time to write tomorrow.

My head's spinning from all that.

Okay, gonna buckle down. Get stuff done. No slacking off. There's only so much time in the day, and I need to utilize all of it. And at some point I need to figure out who the hell is going tomorrow and dress them in something cute. Oh boy.

*collapse*

So I apparently I need to write more often at one in the morning. I seemed to hit my stride last night. Maybe my muse was really happy last night. Maybe leaving him with his kid, as well as his woman, has left him with enough energy to inspire me. Or maybe I was just so loopy from lack of sleep I just wrote any old thing. Whatever it was, I think this section is way better than several of my previous sections.

word count today: 2665
final word count from yesterday: 2172

Bleh. I haven't exactly felt overly inspired lately. Maybe my muse has been getting too much nookie lately; leaves him too tired to to give me inspiration. My writing isn't exactly good. Maybe I just need to skip sections that suck and get on to the stuff I've been looking forward to writing. I really want to write his meeting with Iris. I don't think I was really feeling it this section. Bleh bleh bleh. Anyway, whatever. Here's the second section of Chapter 7.

word count today so far: 1182
And for some reason my story has not had its customary paragraph indent. I guess leaving a space in between the paragraphs is working, but not exactly what I had in mind.

Where did I leave off? Seven sounds as good a chapter number as any. This is only part one. I didn't get as much written today as I would have liked. I kind of slacked off. Bad me. Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit better.

Naughty words continue.

word count today: 1817

This is the last little bit of this section of flashbacks. A bit of this was done on Saturday while the rest of it got finished today. I did practically ziltch yesterday due to seeing my brother's play. It was fantatic, by the way, my brother makes an awesome Mr. Smee. If you know anything about my brother, you are forced to watch him every time he's on stage, regardless if he's the main focus of the scene, just because he's always doing something to entertain you, even if he's positive no one is ever going to pay him any attention. Tommy, trust me - we are.

So even after my horrid weekend in terms of writing (why are my weekends less productive than weekdays?), I have managed to stay on track with today's bit.

word count today: 3210
word count for this weekend: 1756 (not including today)

I finished this section yesterday. I got the idea that I might do some kind of break where the flashback sections wouldn't be in chapter form, then when it goes back into the story, it would pick up from the last chapter. Dunno if that works for me or not, just a thought. Konnel's been giving me some good dreams, so he must be very happy with our current visitor. So here's yesterday's endeavors.

word count yesterday: 2017

Chapters are beginning to become meaningless, so I've no idea what the heck to classify this, so whatever. I had hoped to put all the flashback stuff into one chapter, but that seems like too much stuff to stick into one chapter. Separating it into multiple chapters seems like too many chapters devoted to a flashback. Blah. So this is going to now officially be Chapter Flashback. *nod*

words yesterday: 2265

I nearly had a heartattack this morning.  I was writing my nano story - the muse is working again, thanks to his recent nookie time with his woman - and I'd written quite a bit after an hours worth of work.

Then my computer goes blue screen.

"There has been an error on your computer and windows needs to shut down."

Nooooooo!  I didn't save!  I nearly cried.  Sure, I remembered what I wrote, but not all the words of what I wrote.  It had to have been over 1000 words, how was I going to get all that back?

So praying for a miracle, I shut off my computer and rebooted.  I clicked the little Word icon to bring up the program and pray it had done it's little autosave magic.

Lo and behold my Word had a recovered document from minutes before the crash!  I could just hug my computer!  All that was missing was a sentence or two.  Not bad!  I quickly saved the document, wrote in what had been missed and saved again.  And like I've been doing since this whole nano month started, I then copied the file into two other locations.  I recently had an issue where my external harddrive tried to eat my file (I work on a laptop, and the storage space sucks royally) and I had to do a clean disk to even delete the file.  Had I not saved it in multiple locations (including here on LJ), I would have lost my entire story.

Well, you can bet I'll be saving a little more often now.  That kind of stress I just do not want to deal with.

So it's back to writing, to see if I can finish this flashback section.  Oddly enough, happy Konnel isn't as much fun to write as depressed, drugged out Konnel.  Er, I hope my muse didn't just hear that...