Peace

Finally...SLEEP!

Stu and I both decided to go to bed at 10 p.m. last night so although I woke up a few times (once to see Stu's sleepy foot sliding down the end of the bed to make a *smack* sound several times in succession...it was weird), I went back to sleep more quickly than usual and I am so AMAZED at how much energy I have after getting 6 hours of sleep! (That's about right for me)

PRAISE THE LORD! (Seriously)

Ahhhh...blissful. This is truly wonderful.

(I'm pretty sure that no lamp, early bed-time, no food right before bed, and not watching TV right beforehand helped A LOT. I will try to remember those)

Anyway,

I wanted to write a little bit about where I am with Violet and some other things that have been going on...

I have tried and tried to make a front cover for Violet and have failed (so far). I know what I want but getting it onto paper has been frustrating. So I shall keep trying.

I am in the third chapter, currently (in the 5th draft, there are 17, so I am 18% of the way through! Yeah!), changing the order of events up a bit (faster pace, more suspense, etc.), and re-wording a lot. Thank goodness I'm not just starting from scratch. Ugh.

I am trying to find music to help write...so far, it's been a mix of certain songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events; Peter Pan; and Speedracer. (I love soundtracks. So much.) I might put in a little of Doctor Who (free song available for download!! ), and something else...maybe Finding Neverland. We'll see. I have my iPod on shuffle for now and it's alright, but I need to make a playlist just for Violet so I can set the tone.

I'm liking where this draft is headed. It's definitely a little darker, definitely deeper, and less whiny. So that's good.

I'm also going to have an incentive for myself to keep going - once I finish the first five chapters, I'm going to send them out to whoever wants to read/critique for me, and then I'll keep writing while everyone peruses. That way I have some critiques for the first five and people will know whether they want to read the whole book or not once I finish this draft.

Although I better keep it small - don't want the entire FB world to read it before it's published! :P

I'm also considering writing chapters of My Life As A Rockstar here and there, as small breaks between Violet re-writes. I've also got to get a basic plot going for my NaNo novel, Mae: The Intergalactic Au Pair. So that's exciting.

Also, I have been washing dishes! :) That's not that exciting until you've seen my kitchen (shudder). So now I have to figure out a day to clean out the fridge and clean the microwave/counters so everything is nice. I just want a nice, clean kitchen.

I am doing things little by little. The living room and bathroom get cleaned the most, and the music room is staying mostly clean. Gotta pick up some of my art stuff I left lying around, but that's about it. I guess the bedroom is next.

Still working on making a summer scrapbook (need more paper), and wishing I could work on my dollhouse. Maybe once I get into a routine of house-cleaning I'll feel like I can sit down and work on it.

I've also got some altered clothing projects in the near future - I found a long grey t-shirt that I'm going to alter (the top of it) so I can make it into a shirt dress and wear it with a red belt, black leggings, and dress shoes. Yay!

Still need to work out times to do photoshoots, but I am pretty excited about them!

Haven't had time to play with my Bamboo Pen & Touch, but hopefully since Stu is done editing the wedding videos I can play with the Bamboo and the Mac (WOOHOO!!!).

Also...I've come up with a music video idea that I will be scripting out in hopes of Stu wanting to film it with me. :) It is going to be filmed to one of my favorite songs: "Everyday Superhero" by Smashmouth.

YES.