Progress Spreadsheet for NaNo and Other

Shall we say I'm amazing?  It took me a morning to make this amazing spreadsheet for NaNoWriMo.

And trust me when I say it's amazing.  I was working on it for 4 hours; perfecting every last formula and testing it half a gazillion times.. and now I absolutely love it!

In case you want to see/use it, you can open it by clicking here or for non-Vista (I hope this works) here, and then for both clicking the link again (needs Excel to work).  It doesn't exactly work as a page because the formulas don't really show. 

Still, I think it's amazing.  I added in comments because I got bored, and didn't want my future self to screw it up.  But the rest of it is pure genius.

Anyways, still on the NaNo note, The Reincarnater is becoming pretty well planned.  I think I might lay off the planning a bit though, and just have one event per day instead of one for every odd paragraph.  That could take the fun out of writing... if that's even possible!

Yesterday and the Friday before that I went skating with my boyfriend - no falling for either of us!  I was proud.

Also, I've discovered a way to wash my dog

Avoidence

Hi, I'm back again.  Sorry for my.. 3-day silence.  I've been really busy.. I'm part of the stage crew for my school's play, filming a movie (about a half hour long) and I have a ton of homework.  I haven't even been able to put aside some time to write - sad, eh?

But here I am, typing to you, so I obviously have some spare time, right?  Well.. I'm in between stuff and taking a break.. with my adorable 7-month-old beagle named Odie sitting on my lap (about 20 pounds... kinda heavy on my legs, but oh well - the cuteness makes up for it). 

The funny thing about my dog is that when he's really comfortable and tired, he make these "old man groans" (no offence to any old groaning men out there) which are really cute and hilarious.  He just did a few now, lol.

That's what he looks like now.. that face is stopping me from working and making me imprisoned sitting in my own chair.  Good excuse, right?

Anyways, back to school and writing... from what I understand, my teacher is making our science report go towards out English mark!  Ahhh!  Say good-bye to that dream of a short-story or poem, and hello to talking about cells for English!

It really sucks.  School really sucks at the moment.. too much work and tension and people being way awesomer than you.  I mean, it's so unfair!  Everywhere I look awesome people are doing awesome things in their awesome lives.. and then there's me, missing peices me. 

But I'm not going to make all you nice people read about my problems.  They're for me to deal with, not you, not anyone but me.  Usually I'm ok too, and next year I think things will be a lot better.

On a happier note, I am glad to announce another country has been added to my list of awesome, amazing countries which read my blog.  Those awesome countries are:  Canda, USA, Germany, Belieze, Ukraine, Greece, and as of today, Turkey!  It feels really, really cool. 

Another thing that feels cool is volunteering.  Currently, I'm trying to find somewhere to volenteer and work over the Summer.  Ideally, I was to volenteer maybe every Saturday for 2 hours in the afternoon or night, and then work every morning (starting at 9!) at some babysitting place.  There's one right beside the library, so I actually might organize it so I can just walk between the two. 

Really, I don't want to waste this Summer.  They say time flies when you're having fun and slows down when your bored, but at the end of the Summer, no matter how long it "seemed", you still look back and it seems short if you didn't do anything.  I wanna do stuff.  (Stuff which also includes biking and shopping - and going on vacation to Vancouver!)

Anyways, have fun in the nice weather (well, around 14 degreees celcius.. which is pretty nice), and I'll be here trying to write a nice excerpt for you - and stop Odie from eating all my pencils!!!  (He really likes them.. and I doubt they're all too good for him).

S a r a h

Currently Nothing..

<-- That is my adorable dog, Odie. I love him. He's about 4 months right now, but that was taken about 2 months ago (do the math yourself). He's adorable, and since no one else in my family is puppy trainer (and my sister screams whenever he licks her) I've solely by myself taught him to Say, Sit, Laydown, and Wag His Tail (the last one was the easiest). He's adorable. I'll get more pics of him soon.

Oh, and in the background, that's me. I'm wearing a really baggy sweater.. so I'm not.. obese.

There hasn't been much going on lately. I finished the script for the movie due in.. may, and my teacher and I talked a little about my story. I ripped out pages from my old sketchbook and glued them in my new one to finish it before it was handed in, and have to draw and life-sized portrait of me for grad.. who I have currently named Sally, because she can't be me, because I'm not that ugly. I hope.

I'm doing Red Maple, which is a reading thing my library has. Important people (old geezers) pick good books they like, and we read them, vote from all over Ontario, and the winner gets an award. This year, the old geezers picked the worst possible books ever. One is even about those standard act-older-than-you-are girls who walk around in malls 3 feet high wearing abercombie and miniskirts. Luckily, most people were warned about the book... unluckily, I was the person warning them, and I'm scarred for life. (She's in love with her teacher, and every single guy she meets!) So far,the winner seems to be a book about a boy becoming obsessed about the make-belive "King Arthur" game. Interesting eh?

Yesterday, on an unexpected snowday, I saw Inkheart with my boyfriend (yeah, I know, but it's the hold-hands-at-recess type of thing, and niether of us wear abercombie or fitch). It was pretty okay, but really, what they need in the movie is some great fight scene. Add Matt Daemon as a blackjacket, and let Mo fight out his life. If they had that, I would've loved it. But no, they didn't have any fighting what-so-ever. If I hadn't read the books... I really don't know what I would have thought about it.

I'm trying to start writing a totally romance story called "A Changed Story" because of how many times I've changed it. I've ran out of names like "Empyrean". The problem is, with ACS, it's more of a learning story. I'm trying third person, multi POV and romance being the main headline of the story. It's hard. I think I'm going to have a really real narrator... something somewhat like that. I'll update you if I get anything, but I don't really have a clue yet.

And, on a sadder more personal note... ahhh!!!! I used to only occasionally get these moments of extreme depression where the sky was falling and I'd fallen into a deep hole with everything crashing down.. now they are happening at least twice a day. I feel like Harry Potter with the whole angsty thing going on, except mine isn't acted.

But hey, that's not your problem. It's mine, and how I seem to have inherited every bad trait from my family.

Sarah