It’s been an entirely unexpected and interesting journey only one week in. 4,869 is the word count I have on the 8th day of this challenge. Ideally, I should be around 13,300 words. I start to wonder if I could ever make 50,000 words. But I promise you, I’ll at least write as much as your donation. That I will do. First of all, balancing the time between my numerous hobbies and activities, as you all know, during USC football season has proven to be challenging. Secondly, my inner editor won’t shut the hell up. I guess that’s a major...
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We’re in October now and I’ve realized I’m not doing entirely well on my 2010 goals. Determined to accomplish something this year and inspired by my friend Irena, I’ve decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month – NaNoWriMo, in November. NaNoWriMo is is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved. So, staring November 1 and wrapping up on November 30, participants are aspired to write 50,000 words or about 175 pages novel. It doesn’t have to be completed. It doesn’t have to...
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It started with this picture of me with Olivia Munn. I know she’s all professionally made up for the show and she’s already GORGEOUS. But I looked at myself and thought: Fuck, I look like crap. As I might have blogged about before, I don’t really like make-up. I don’t like the feel of it. I don’t like the maintenance of it. But at 33…and another look at that picture…I’m rethinking that a little bit. Armed with internet tips for doing make-up for girls with glasses, I adapt an easy new routine. I’m already using tinted moisturizer, so I’m adding...
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We’re child-free by choice. We don’t hate kids. And we make great auntie and uncle. We just like to play with them and hand them off to the parents at the end of the day. We adore Brandon’s two nieces age 8 and 11. We can hardly wait to hang out with Aurora and James’ 2-year-old Dresden and baby Chloe. Olaina and Justin’s Ella is still too little to play with but we didn’t mind hanging out with her too. I’m quite sure the fact that they are relations–or practically relations, our tolerance and patience for them are a lot...
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I went online to shop for an item I needed for the kitchen that I couldn’t seem to find in the stores. [ETA – It was a bacon dripping jar to save the yumminess for later use.] My friend David was the one who inspired me to get one of these, but he himself does not have one. When I tweeted him that I bought him something, he was quite surprised. Another friend chimed in asking it was because his birthday was in a couple of months. Nope. I don’t need an occasion to buy a friend something. This notion...
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Oh yes. The tradition is back. First of, in this blog, soccer will be called by its proper name of football. Thank you. You know, I’m not an all-the-time football fan. But every time the Olympics and the World Cup come around, I’m all into it all over again. It’s a family tradition that I just can’t shake. Having grown up with 2 older brothers, it’s not difficult to get roped into the spirit of all of the teams. Frankly, I remember watching enough games but I still don’t know who’s who. All I know is that since Sunday’s color...
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