Monster Mash!

Since today was Halloween yesterday my bowling class/school league was a fun day. We were allowed to wear costumes (which only two girls did and my partner won the contest!) and we had Cosmic Bowling. I sucked. Yeah… it was terrible, but only because I couldn’t see the lane very well. Luckily the scores won’t count on the league play so I’m good. It’s not like we are in the top ranked teams, there’s 12 teams and last week we were in 8th, it’s not bad but definitely not great.

Tonight Mrs Fireshaper and me had three trick-or-treaters! I don’t even know if they count though — it was my cousins. We then dresed up in the costumes we wore last year and headed out to one of my grandmother’s friend’s house to help hand out candy and just hang out with my cousins. It was fun, we sat and talked most of the night, and then came back home.

Right now the cat is eating the cowtail that Mrs Fireshaper WAS eating. Anyway, a couple more hours and NaNoWriMo 08 starts. I got an email for a write in tomorrow night but I probably won’t go, just because I got things to do tonight and I’m hoping that I get my 1667 words in right after midnight.

Do not pass go, do not collect free taco.

Oh, I meant to add this to my previous post, but I’ll just do another post.

Yesterday was Free Taco Day at Taco Bell and I had intended on getting a free taco but I couldn’t. Not becuase the lines were too long or I arrived after the time period (between 2-4 pm), nope for an entirely different reason. What was that reason? Well the power was out. Yup, a whole 3-mile stretch of road, and the businesses along that road, was without power yesterday. I’m not sure how long they were without power but when I was leaving work a coworker said something about it and 20 minutes later, when I got to that part of town, the power was still out and police officers were directing traffic at the 8 or so traffic lights along that stretch of road. So, no free taco for me.

NaNoWriMo 08

So I guess the only way to get people to read my blog would be to actually write on it periodically. I’ve been doing most of my blogging on Plurk, which is kind of like Twitter and IM mixed together and on a timeline, on a small scale as I haven’t had much to say of late. Looking back, I used to blog at least 2-3 times a week, I’d like to get back into that and maybe one day get to blogging every day. We’ll just have to see.

Onto real topics though. I’m going to do NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve already got a title chosen (thanks Mrs Fireshaper!) and have a storyline sorta fleshed out. The story revolves around two brothers who lead a group of outlaws in an alternate history/steampunk version of the American wild west. The outlaws show up in a town and the older brother, Grant, has the idea that a kidnapping would generate some income for them. The group pulls off the kidnapping but Grant gets caught after and put in jail — a train that circles the town every day. Now the younger brother, Trey, and the rest of the group have to break Grant out and the only way to do that is to break him out from the inside. I would link to my NaNo page but it’s going so slow right now. Writing starts in 3 days and you can believe I’ll begin my writing Nov 1, 12:00 AM. I started on a prequel to my story but I won’t have it done before I begin the novel on November 1st, I’ll definitely put it up on hayst.org for anyone who would like to read what I had though.

In other news, the Fireshaper House of Haunts and Evils that Mrs Fireshaper and I put together a few weekends ago is destroyed. We put up spiderwebs on the bushes out front and I dug some shallow holes that look like freshly dug graves and we put some skeletons half buried in them with headstones. Well the weekend after we get lots of rain and wind and the weather is getting worse, it seems. The headstones aren’t standing anymore, I think one is in the bushes somewhere, and the spiderwebs are strung out bad. I’ll have to try and fix it up some more before Friday night but I don’t even know how many kids will show up. Last year, in the apartment, we didn’t have any kids show up and we had bought a big bowl full of candy, so hopefully there will be more this year in the house.