We are about to embark on the holiday season. The thought fills me with excitement and exhaustion.
There will be shopping and eating and company parties (will my date pull through?) and parties with friends and receiving gifts I love and gifts I hate and more shopping and much more eating. I'll try my hardest not to gain the requisite five holiday pounds. Put down that second chocolate chipl cookie. Step away from the crab balls and the mashed potatos.
Alright, now I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.
I know I'm going to dig myself further in the hole financially- which is especially bad considering I am dropping down to part time hours in January. The idea behind the madness? Work less, write more. We'll have to see how that goes.
In non-holiday related news, I saw the new Harry Potter film this weekend. Twice (once with each sister). Over lunch afterwards, my friend plyed me with questions about the relationships between the characters. She doesn't read the books but she loves the movies and wants to know- who will Hermione end up with? Ron or Harry? It's funny but as an avid fan of the books, I can't remember ever wondering about this. In the beginning, relationships weren't important: just magic and defeating evil. And then suddenly the hormones kicked in and it was always very apparent who was going to end up with who. I just had (and still have, in some cases) no idea how they would get there.
Sigh. I want to be JK Rowling when I grow up.
I have 7 days and 13,000 words to complete for my NaNoWriMo Novel. I'm starting to get worried that the characters are not going to end up where I want them. Also, I'm getting a little too attached to some of the characters, a fact that was brought home to me when I woke up yesterday morning, thinking: "Why am I so worried about having a date for my office Christmas party? I'll just bring Will."
Will does not actually exist. He is a twenty year old actor in love with my main character and dating her best friend/roommate.
Awesome.
And now that we've discussed the holidays and my psychosis, I'm getting back to work.
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