NEWS!!! (and Skyrim..)

So I lost.

I got to about 37,000 words for NaNoWriMo.  It was a fun stint of flagrant wordsmithing, but in the end I couldn't quite make the big 5-O.  No matter, for next year I will try again with vigor and hopefully I'll make the goal =)  Regardless of not winning, I'm very proud of myself for the word count I was putting down day after day. To me, that's the foundation of this whole thing if I'm going to be a real writer when I grow up.  So here's to you winners out there, and to future me.  May you all prosper in your verbiage and let your inner-editor take a holiday until you're ready to use him/her.

I've been pondering which writing project to pick back up now that NaNo's over, and I'm kind of torn.  I think I'll end up having a free-writing session to see which idea sinks into my head most and then run with it.  It's been amazing how many ideas for old stories have flitted into my head while I haven't really been able to work on them.  JJ, Tylan, Jessica, and Claus.  And Trent, why not throw you in the hat too?  You've been good, you can be up for consideration again.

Saturday I beat Minecraft.  It was pretty awesome.  The dragon egg is currently hidden in a discreet location in my palace gardens until we build a dungeon to hide it in.  Not much more to say about it.  Other than I'm glad The End is filled with Endermen instead of with Creepers.  That would have been awful.  Sooooo awful.

They're like an infestation.  Of creepiness.

Later that day I went to Volkswagen of America's 2011 Christmas party down in the Grand Ballroom of the Motor City Casino in Detroit.  It.  Was.  Awesome.  After the preliminaries (get a wristband - not that  classy, complementary coatcheck - classier) I took the escalator down and saw the glory of VW's wallet.  

Pyramids of hors d'oeuvres.  Giant salad bar.  Tables designated only for fine saute'ed mushrooms.  MUSHROOMS!  And five (FIVE) open bars stocked with top shelf alcohol.  Oh and the desserts.  Mmmm they looked good, but I wasn't that brave.  And a live band!  !!!!!!!!!!

So it was awesome, I enjoyed myself tremendously, did not regret cancelling my room (I would have slept alone anyways) and headed home to enjoy a few blinks of Skyrim before bed.

Oh yes.  Skyrim.  Dear sweet Norse wet dream.  It's just as enjoyable and addicting as I had hoped.  I've already killed two dragons, been assaulted by a group of angry black men for (almost) no good reason, been named Thane of Whiterun, bought a house, and looted over ten times my weight in burial offerings.  For 10 hours of total gameplay so far, I think I'm off to a good start.  I could whine about the mechanics being buggy (which they kind of are) but I'm trying to be positive and so far I'm riding a Skyrim high, baby!  Onward, to glory!