That's me. I'm wearing my pink pants and a sweater with pink in it. I've become a girl. it's horrendous, I know.
Sonia called me a pink lady when I came in this afternoon. (Yep, working into the evening again.) Now there's a girl... Miss Sonia and her sunglasses, her jacket, her face cream. At least she's not overbearingly girl. Like with perfume, the nails, the hair, the lipstick. Just modern chic girl. Very approachable. She's probably reading this. Hi....
And I know... my novel is completely uncomplete. Since finding out about Norway, frankly I haven't had the time. And it was Thanksgiving. And work was in overdrive last week since it was a short week. And technically, it was all due today. Winners to be posted tomorrow. And I'm only done with three chapters, a measly 20,000 words. Measly. I know, so not compared to my previous attempts. But other stuff got in the way... like work. I haven't even had a lot of time for PHS. My doggies.
I walked this sweet pitbull last week. Precious girl. Got my workout by running her. Also, got locked into her cage. I closed the gate behind me to keep her inside. I didn't have the leash on her yet. And she jumped up a little, got excited and I plunged forward to keep her away from the open gate. Well, the gate swung shut and I couldn't squeeze my fingers in fast enough to keep it open. Once it's shut, it's shut. So, I started calling for help. I was considering climbing over the gate (about seven feet high) when the janitor came around. He was nice and just giggled. He let me out and the dog just pulled me right out. So, the janitor follows me into the customer service area and lets everyone know that he had indeed heard something. It was me and I was stuck in the cage. My first time. Hopefully, my last time. But probably not.
Anyway, now that I have time to finish my novel... Chapter Four probably won't be up until the end of the week. I'll start Chapter Five next week. My goal is to have chapters one through five, completely edited, up and done before the 17th when I leave for England. After reading the first couple of chapters, I realized I should probably put the whole novel into third person instead of first. Makes it seem a bit more adult. And there's a couple other things I want to change.
So... look for that. Plus, what's with everyone getting engaged? I talked to Erin yesterday and apparently Toni's getting engaged. Dana and Matt are probably gonna get engaged soon. Lindsey and Nick getting married isn't too far off either. I can see Beth getting married too, although I've no idea when and to whom. I told Em that it'd be me, her and Erin as the last holdouts. Although, E would probably not get married, but have a longtime partner. So, maybe we'd add her to our list. But everyone else in our class... they'll all get married. I can just tell. They are all the type to get married. Which is not a bad thing. By all means. No complaints for them. But once again, I'm part of the strange crowd when it comes to my peers. At least I have Em and Erin to help me out.
I had this daydream this morning that I was in Norway and I did meet a Sven or Bjorn or something like that. And that he was super hot and romantic and that we'd have kids together and live in Norway. Did you know one of the parents gets up to two years off work to raise the kid? Unreal. And I did say parents, meaning the dad could do it too. Notice that I didn't dream of a wedding or a proposal, but rather me having kids with him. Apparently, my socio-cultural side of my brain skipped a step. Neither did I dream of the pregnancy, but just tooling around with a stroller or nursing a baby. Again, a different side of my brain... missed a step.