Happy New Year!
I had a wonderful New Year’s Eve with my favorite [ljuser]purpleleopard[/ljuser], my mom, my boyfriend, and mojitos, at my house. I don’t have cable (or an antenna), and we couldn’t convince the Internets to give us the ball dropping at the appropriate (west coast) time. :( I like watching the ball drop. But with nice champagne, homemade pizzas, and good company, it was wonderful.
My bday is on Monday, which I’m planning on celebrating by staying home all day and not going anywhere. (I took an extra day off for it.)
I’ve managed to *write* a bit this vacation. Only a bit of actual story (just shy of 1500 words, which feels really pathetic), but also brainstorming and other bits of writing happened. I’m trying out Scrivener, which is a (mac-only) text editing program for writing fiction. So far I like it, but I’m worried that creating so much structure for myself will set myself up with too many expectations and I’ll stop wanting to use it. So I’m trying it, and I like it, but I’m gonna wait 30 days before giving them money for it. So far it has a lot of similar features as CopyWrite, which is the program I’ve been using, but it has more ways of looking at the same info. This may or may not be helpful for me… we’ll see.
And my period started yesterday. No cramps, no obvious mood-swings… it was a bit weird. Today the cramps started. I could feel them starting, and decided to take painkillers, which usually makes me feel better until next month. And then Ben and I went for a nice long walk on the bluffs (the ocean was beautiful, it wasn’t too cold or too hot…), and I noticed that the cramps weren’t going away. They still haven’t. So now I’m home on the couch with hot tea, wishing I felt better. :( I think TV (hulu–I’ve already mentioned my lack of cable) will have to be my solace.