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| My mom's birthday is coming up and Christmas is just around the corner, too. I want to try to come up with something different for my mother this year. I did good last year with the digital picture frame. That was a huge hit. I'm not going to kid myself that I can outdo that in sentimental value and just plain neatness.
So I typed in "gifts for moms who have everything" into goggle and got gifts that moms already have. Clothes, jewelry, flowers, treats, and sentimental gifts like digital picture frames and scrapbooks. None of the idea are unique. None of the ideas thrill me.
My mom has way too many clothes. She had to get rid of some this year. She has way too much jewelry. She's not big into flowers and she's on a diet. I can't mail something too big. Her main hobby is darts, but she already has a professional board and a special set of darts that she uses that my father had given her. So she's not going to want new darts.
Does anyone have any unique gift idea suggestions?
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| I didn't get a lot of writing done over the weekend. I've over 23000 words now in the NaNoWriMo challenge. I don't feel the push to do it fast this year. I'm happy with how the story is going and I'm having fun with it. That's what matters.
My weekend wasn't terribly interesting. Errands and groceries on Saturday. Then a walk in the woods. Man, the weather has been so nice lately. Rare for November.
Our phone line continues to be all static-y. It's been doing this for almost two weeks now. I know the phone company has been working again on the lines to add in their new cable, but sometimes I can't even hear the person on the other end of the phone.
I saw Zombieland yesterday since it was a five buck movie. It was amusing, but not a film that I'd recommend to anyone. More ways to kill zombies. It seems like a competition in Hollywood these days to see how many ways they can kill things.
All of our trees have dropped their leaves except for the one in front of our house. It's still green on one side. We've been putting raking off as we wait for the leaves to fall. Meanwhile, leaves from the oak trees in the neighbors' yards keep blowing into ours.
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| NaNoWriMo word count: 13260.
Keith asked me is it even a challenge for me any more. Yes, it is! I know I'm going to hit snags and bumps in the road. Sometimes the beginning is easy because I get so excited. Then there's the middle where I need some stuff to happen, but I have to think of other stuff to fill in the space between those things and to get them to the point where the important stuff happens. Endings are rough for me, too. I don't know exactly how this novel is going to end. I say I'll figure it out when I get there, but most of the time, it's not that easy. It has to be exciting, but it also has to make sense.
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| I'm off to a good start. I'm at 6440 words right now and I like the way the story is going. Of course, with NaNoWriMo, I write in scenes for a fast word count that I might not keep when I edit it later. I remember a fellow NaNo participant a few years back said she wrote 1500 describing a person taking a long shower just to get her word count! I'm not that bad, but I add in more descriptions or more of the protagonist's thoughts than I might normally when writing. I don't have a title yet for my novel, but that's not unusual for me. It will come to me eventually.
Here's the synopsis: Inari Thane had a hot one-night stand on her 30th birthday and the gorgeous man left with her a surprise gift. She thinks he has forgotten her, but she can't forget him. She's having his baby. The pregnancy isn't a normal one, though. The fetus is growing at twice the normal rate and Inari suddenly finds herself stalked by frightening things. Cut Donnelly knows what is happening to her and he offers his help, but even though she's very much attracted to the handsome man, she doesn't know if she can trust him. Inari will have to put her life in his hands or she may fall prey to the vicious predator that is hunting her.
Halloween was fun. We had 70 kids before we ran out of candy. Lots of little girls dressed as princesses and boys as cowboys. We left at seven to go to a party and we saw at least 20 more kids coming down the street. I bet if we stay until eight thirty, we would have gotten twice as many trick-or-treaters. It's good to know how much candy we'll have to buy next year. We had fun at the party with good food and friends. Most people left pretty early. Yeah, I guess we hang out with friends who think they're old! We stayed and watched a French horror movie. I'm sort of disappointed that all the horror movies have stopped playing on television. I liked being able to turn one on any time I felt like it. I guess the Christmas movies won't be long coming, though!
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