Dick Smith passed away yesterday. I am filled with sadness. He was truly a legend. So many of the techniques that are used in the world of practical effects today, were developed by him. And he dedicated so much of his life to passing his secrets on.
Well, I've decided I'm going to do NaNoWriMo again this year. Despite the fact that I've got plans to be out of state for half the month. Good thing I just had a new laptop arrive!!
Which pretty much means that my plans for the foreseeable future are something like this: Read. Write. Repeat.
Man, I really do love it, though!
Man, SG looks crazy weird now. Guess that's what happens when you go away for a few years!!
Solution? 2nd PS3!!!
I am beyond excited!! Let the gaming addiction deepen!!!
God, some days, I really, really, really love being a nerd.
Stupid the Valley.
On the plus side Christian and I took a 3 day weekend together!!
I'd kill to have Californian weather. Just saying.
I am beyond excitement. And suddenly craving cake.
Also, Scream 4 last weekend was the shiznitch.
And my cousin Sean who's been in Afghanistan for the...
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You deserve it all
And now for my list of things:
Counter Productive Thing: Buying your boyfriend Final Draft 8 to...
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Work can be, how should we say, exhilarating sometimes.
Still waiting for the Great Lakes order to get here. I think they are floating it by raft.
I already mentioned that I was just recently promoted again at work, which is pretty cool. And that for the first time in my entire life, I'm actively trying to get published, which is also awesome.
My current little project (and I've talked about...
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Oh, thanks, it will work out. Just need to be patient and let the pieces fall in place. I have had to deal with this a couple of times before and there are always people who can't accept the change.
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I suppose I owe you all a bit more of a blog than that....
in the last year, I've gotten two promotions, continued to fall madly in love with my boyfriend, worked on getting things into publishable spots and actually started sending off to publishers!! Watched Christian become a better sculptor and work on an amazing movie script!!
I've fallen more in love...
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so glad to hear about all the good things in your world -- you deserve it!
edit: If any of you have one... or a before 40, etc, please let me know what's on it! Maybe I'll feel inspired!