DST almost ruined my NaBloPoMo! I made my post last night at 11:41 PM but my server thought it was 12:41 AM! Argh!! I hadn’t adjusted my DST!!

I fixed it, but am I out? I can’t be out… Can I? *wonders*

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daniel · mid-morning · say it · ping it

November is always a tough month for me. Really. There’s the work thing that drives me insane, for one. Something you may not know about me; I work in the retail industry. This means that the last two months of the year really suck. But I do little things to make it more fun (read: challenging) like introduce new house pets, which I am doing this year. Also the past 2 years I have participated in NaBloPoMo. It’s just like that book writing thing, except we aren’t writers. We’re bloggers. So we blog for a month. Heheh.

Last year I convinced Brian to join in with me. You know Brian, right? Super internet celeb from the Cheap Blue Guitar? Him. So that was fun. Look at this post. Don’t you just feel the fun? So anyhoo, I do have a point here. Let me remember it…

Oh yeah!

So this morning I woke up to this:

it’s november! it’s national write your ass off on your blog month.

i triple dawg dare you to do it this month… with me!

are you in?

c’mon. you can do it!

xxoo,
brian

It’s so on betch!

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daniel · lunch time · 1 comment · ping it

I’ve been betch-slapped with this meme. It’s the 7 (seven!) random things about me meme. This is totally and completely different from the 8 Things You Don’t Know or the 10 Random Things. Don’t even bring up the 5 Things, cause like that wasn’t even enough things, okay? I should save it for tomorrows post, but I am in a cocky mood. I can post multiple times in a day! Watch me now!

Anyhoo. Lemme see..

Technically I should tag someone with this. I don’t feel like it tho. So you are all off the hook. Or ON the hook if you need blog fodder, like if you were doing a daily posting challenge of some kind…

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daniel · early afternoon · say it · ping it

Received:

OMG this frickin’ month is almost half over.

(thank GAWD.)

hate you!*

xxxooo,
b

Sent:

Aw. You are like the Veronica Sawyer to my Heather Chandler… I’ll avoid any beverages you serve.

*kisses*

[NaBloPoMo isn’t for the faint of heart yo.]

*Edited for effect. There was a disclaimer. Something about love and warm feelings for blogging daily.

BTW, I don’t normally post an email without warning the person. This was totally an exception due to the subject matter. NaPoBloHomo or something. I don’t even know what that means. 

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daniel · terribly early · 2 comments · ping it

I think part of the fun of this whole NaBloPoMo business is the whole once a day thing. Sure it can stress you out… but if you plan it right you can really be blogging less!

Okay I kid! I am sure that only works for me. I do find it odd that there isn’t more of a requirement to it. I mean, I could post five times a day and never type more than a sentence each. I love my ‘link-tastic’ category! Oddly though, those posts take more actual time to do. I mean, sure I am not taxing my brain stringing together words but I have to surf the internets. That takes a long time because of the distracting nature of the internet… Heh. I know you know what I mean.

Anyhoo. What else? I bought Britney’s album on iTunes. I don’t hate it. In fact there are a few songs I find catchy. Overall I think I like every song, a little. But meh. I think I am not excited about it because it is so foolproof. It could be any unknown singer and it’d be the same to me. There’s not that Britney pop to it, yanno? 

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daniel · the wee hours · 1 comment · ping it

What am I going to do with all this candy? There is so much! All chocolate, of course. This neighborhood sucks for trick-or-treaters. I think we had like 5. Richard will tell you it was more, but don’t believe him. I ate that candy, I didn’t give it out. The really funny part was that Richard came home, and waited for like 2 hours in his Batman outfit to hand out candy. Not once did the bell ring. The minute he went up to shower they came. The first two I didn’t count. I don’t think those tots could even walk they were so young. I swear mom had a pulley system installed on the brats just to get the chocolate. Then there was this tiny boy dressed as.. something. I forget. I do know that his Dad was totally hawt and dressed as a cowboy in tight jeans. Awwww! Hawt dad! I gave them lots of candy. Lots.

After his shower Richard took over. It always reminds me of my youth, the way Richard answers the door on Halloween. “Oh hai! Look at yooooou! What are yoooou supposed to be? A bee! Oh realllly? Well that’s just great! Happy Halloween!”

I swear he’s like a grandma.

In other Halloween news, we never carved our pumpkins. Kinda sad, but the house looks deliciously autumn-ish now thru Thanksgiving! We have a lot of pumpkins. So that’s a good thing. (I swear I get gayer every year. But I do always say that I am so gay I pee glitter!)

So now I am just warming up my blogger mojo. November is a long and scary month for me, and I am challenging myself yet again with this NaBloPoMo business. National Blog Posting Month. I have to post once a day. Now I typically do that, but I want to actually type something. Not just click thru a link. Although that will still count, I want to do better than last year by providing personal blog entries that I actually like experienced or thought about or something. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll just make more people I know seem like lushes. Heh. Cause that’s the real magic yo. BTW, where’s my drink? *hic*

What else? Did I tell you about Fondue Night last night? It was a hoooge success. Basically I invited my good friend Fred over and served cheese. Boiling cheese. It was soooo good. We dipped shrimp, mushrooms, and the typical bread. All with a classy accompaniment of red wine.  We had a great time!

But that may have been because Richard answered the door as batman… Did I mention his Batman outfit had spandex pants?

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daniel · the wee hours · 5 comments · ping it

So not only am I participating in NaBloPoMo… I also started a group. Hold me back!

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daniel · lunch time · 2 comments · ping it

I don’t know who ‘they’ are, but I’d agree with them on this one. Wanna know what I did last night? Really?

Well, after work my man took me out to our new favorite dinner spot Jimmy Carters. W ate waay too much. Great food AND service there! Then we came back home. Richard promptly fell asleep in his recliner. I sat at the computer with every intent of doing something creative. Maybe a podcast, come up with a Lunchtime Poll, something. No such luck. I managed to register for this years NaBloPoMo. (Come on and join me! All you have to do is post every day!)

Then I got lost.

I went to Apple’s official list of 300+ New Features. I read each one, then tried it out or tried to find it. Is that part of my OCD? I mean, to do something like that? OMG. It took hours! But it was a lot of fun, in a geeky way. I really love this latest version of OS X…

Anyhoo, I went to bed super late. Crazy boy.

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daniel · lunch time · say it · ping it

How did I fall behind like this? The rules clearly state that I have to post every day… I guess I figured that I had posted like crazy the last few days I was off the hook. Gah! I don’t have time for my little OCD tricks either! You know the one where if you misspell a word you have to delete every letter you posted since then as punishment for the misspelling?

Ya, I know I’m nuts.

So how was the day here at dp.com? Well. Let me tell you. I feel like an ass.

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daniel · evening · say it · ping it