Random Thoughts in Early October

My favorite! A bulleted list!

• Is it ironic that NBC wants you to sit on your ass for two hours to watch Biggest Loser? Actually, last night's Biggest Loser was just an hour and a half--but it still gave me enough time to make a pie during all the commercials. Should calories consumed while watching a weight loss show be canceled out because you're thinking about exercise--or count double?

• Today The Star forgot her French homework and I took it to school for her. It was a family tree with each person described in her limited French vocabulary--lots of "my name is..." and "I am xx years old." But, not surprisingly, all the people in her poster were zombies, even the cat. If there was ever any doubt, things like this totally prove that she's her father's daughter.

• The Magician has been invited to be one of the ten featured chefs for the gala auction at the Unitarian church (which I don't even attend anymore, and he never did). He'll get $50 to make an appetizer for 100 people. The auction coordinator has tasted some of his appetizers at the gallery's openings and thinks he's one of Vancouver's up and coming chefs--and she's right.

• The lump in my boob that I found as soon as my insurance expired, has been called "more cyst-like than tumor-like," but the doctors (two! the first one needed a second opinion) are glad that I have a mammogram scheduled for Oct. 18th.

• I'm driving to San Jose on Sunday by myself to take care of the stuff that my grandma left to me when she died in 2005, and which my dad didn't deal with before his death in June. It's a long drive by myself, but most of the people I know have jobs and kids and responsibilities.

• I have signed myself up for National Novel Writing Month, with the goal of writing an entire book (50,000 words, really just a novella) in November. Several friends are going to give it a try as well. To prepare, I'm reading Forever Amber, one of the largest books I could find on the bookshelf at the library. The subject of that book (whoring your way to the top in Restoration England) has nothing to do with the subject of my book (unintentional racial passing in the 20th century), but I figure that 150 pages will look minor in comparison to Forever Amber's 976. (Also, once I start uploading my word count to the NaNoWriMo site, I'll have the icon to the right go straight to my participant page so you can all see judge how I'm doing.)

• I sold my first item on Etsy! I will be participating in a art fair with my friend Brooke on Oct. 20 and then have my own table at the PDXEtsy show on Dec. 22. Good thing I have so much free time for crafting and writing.