The Shattered Prayer

Congrats are in order. Stefficus made her 50K and has completed Nano.
Woohoo!

I had to help KK decorate the tree tonight. Whoopee. But with mom back in the hospital I needed to suppress my holiday scrooginess for a while so this child could have a tree. KK didn’t want to wait, and she was also bored because she was out of school sick today, and you […]

I’ve successfully complete Nanowrimo and I have my 50K words. A little blog button will be going up soon. “I finished Nanowrimo and all I got was this lousy button.”
Oh, and a novel.
Heh.

I have slowly been answering a question for Che on the Shattered Prayer. She asked me to talk about Supergirl. But Supergirl’s history is not as straightforward as you might think. So I talked about the original Supergirl, and about the first post-Crisis Supergirl, and even about Earth-2’s huge-breasted Supergirl, Power […]

Not really.
I have 238 more words to write before I hit 50K, and my mind is a total blank. Someone help me.

We have a new holiday, folks. The Wankening, on Dec 2. There’s a long story about how it came to be, involving steff, t-shirts, sex-dreams, tulpas, google, most of north and south america, the bahamas, and cuba. But I don’t have to time to explain it all, what with a deadline bearing down on me […]

And it prolly will.
I’m what? Five days from the finish line? And I finally have an idea where my story is going. Well, ain’t that somethin’? Or it would be something if the story didn’t keep going off on wild tangents, with the tulpas taking over, rampaging all over the blank page like a […]

After Thanksgiving, we started to talk about religion and people’s differing beliefs and my dad shared this little tidbit with us.

When my dad was very young in the 1940s, he used to dream each night about being a grown man in the early 20th century (around the 19 teens or 20s). And every morning […]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Or asleep. Or on fire. But its Thanksgiving day and I have to be here, and awake, and eating turkey-shaped mystery meat that tastes suspiciously like Worcestershire sauce.
So I’m still clinging to around 35K words. I’m almost there, got alot written. Unfortunately, Jared Brooks has decided he wants a part in my play. Who’s […]

I realize we don’t have an alternative holiday to Thanksgiving here on SP. We really need one, but it should still involve gluttony.
I hope everyone is having a good Thanksgiving.
I’m not.
I heard my first X-mas song of the season today, which brought me down. I really hate the holidays. It’d be nice […]

But am I right? Has this been the crappiest season of TV ever?
Take Heroes, for example. I came late to Heroes, and watched the first season in re-runs. Ended up lurvin’ it. But this season… WTF? Hiro goes back in time, and I don’t care. Claire goes to high-school and tries out for cheerleading. I […]

These words of wisdom came from Sarah somebody in the mail this morning:
I can do this. WE can do this. However far behind you are, take comfort in knowing that there is somebody else out there in the same boat, and look for that next fun scene. And then the next. And if that doesn’t […]

It almost seems criminal that with all the blender recipes we’ve done on SP, we haven’t done one for salsa yet.
4 large ripe tomatoes1 med. onion1/2 green pepper2 jalapeno pepper1 chili pepper1 celery stalk2 tbsp. vegetable oil1 tbsp. white vinegar1 garlic clove, crushed1/2 tsp. black pepper 1 tbsp fresh cilantro
Peel tomatoes and blend in […]

After all the intensive work I did over the weekend, I thought a day off was in order. Then one day became two, and I keep thinking, Meh, I’m way ahead, I can afford a few days off.
So today has been mostly spent re-installing firefox and fiddling around with it to no end. I […]