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cupcake_goth) wrote2025-11-02 12:45 pm
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Our Halloween was very quiet. We had plans to get window seats at our local brewpub and watch the massive community trick-or-treat event, but the skies opened up around 3pm with a torrential downpour. We stayed at home and watched movies.
The other reason our Halloween was so low-key is because of a Fri-Sun Magic: the Gathering tournament at the local convention center, and the Stroppy One was in attendance to do the World Famous M:tG Artist thing and sign people's cards in exchange for money. These shows are great and yet exhausting for him; on Saturday there was never a break in his line, he was there for over 9 hours, was the last artist to leave, and came home with three commissioned sketches to do. This has become the norm for shows for him, in part because he only goes to ones that have a specific tournament format that focuses on the expansions that he has the most art in, but also because he's one of the most prolific artists in the game.
I went to a friends' low-key party last night, which was wonderful. Costumes were optional, so I just pulled out my fancy witch hat and covered my under eye circles with glitter. Did you know that there are now glitter temporary tattoos?! That you can cut apart and layer for the coverage you want?! And the glitter does not budge, to the point that it took several rounds of jojoba oil to remove.
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I did some last-minute gothy impulse shopping thanks to mailing list discount codes: this belt from Videnoir, and this over-the-top ruffled collar from Devil Fashion. And then an Etsy seller I follow sent me a massive discount code, so this giant onyx pendant is headed my way. (It's the store that I purchased my massive labradorite pendant from, so I know the quality is good.)
The other reason our Halloween was so low-key is because of a Fri-Sun Magic: the Gathering tournament at the local convention center, and the Stroppy One was in attendance to do the World Famous M:tG Artist thing and sign people's cards in exchange for money. These shows are great and yet exhausting for him; on Saturday there was never a break in his line, he was there for over 9 hours, was the last artist to leave, and came home with three commissioned sketches to do. This has become the norm for shows for him, in part because he only goes to ones that have a specific tournament format that focuses on the expansions that he has the most art in, but also because he's one of the most prolific artists in the game.
I went to a friends' low-key party last night, which was wonderful. Costumes were optional, so I just pulled out my fancy witch hat and covered my under eye circles with glitter. Did you know that there are now glitter temporary tattoos?! That you can cut apart and layer for the coverage you want?! And the glitter does not budge, to the point that it took several rounds of jojoba oil to remove.
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I did some last-minute gothy impulse shopping thanks to mailing list discount codes: this belt from Videnoir, and this over-the-top ruffled collar from Devil Fashion. And then an Etsy seller I follow sent me a massive discount code, so this giant onyx pendant is headed my way. (It's the store that I purchased my massive labradorite pendant from, so I know the quality is good.)
glinda (glinda) wrote2025-11-01 09:19 pm
glinda) wrote2025-11-01 09:19 pm
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How is it November Already?
So my revised target for writing this year has been to start each new month with more words than I finished that month the previous year with. Largely due to the fic part of my writing brain having unlocked itself back in July I have been solidly making that target since then. This month however was always going to be a challenge because, well, last November I wrote nearly 13,000 words. However, while I did not come anywhere close to that I will be starting November with 6000 words more than I started last November with - which given that my monthly target is around 6300 words, feels true to target.
Once again I'll be doing![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
mini_wrimo with a target of 250 words a day. (Signups are still open if you're doing a writing challenge this month and think it might be useful.) I'm also doing Nablopomo as usual, so between here, my film blog and my food blog I'm planning to blog every day. (We'll see!) I'm giving myself an overall target for this month of 10,000 words with a stretch goal of 15,000. Given that according to my spreadsheet my daily target for this month is 333 words a day (which has a pleasing ring to it) I should really have signed up for that, but that would require me remembering to put the figures in the spreadsheet before signing up and I did not do that. Also I know from experience that 250 words is sustainable over the month so why set myself up to fail?
Also, I am now on holiday from work for a fortnight. I very much need it. *basks*
33609 / 75000 (44.81%)
Once again I'll be doing
mini_wrimo with a target of 250 words a day. (Signups are still open if you're doing a writing challenge this month and think it might be useful.) I'm also doing Nablopomo as usual, so between here, my film blog and my food blog I'm planning to blog every day. (We'll see!) I'm giving myself an overall target for this month of 10,000 words with a stretch goal of 15,000. Given that according to my spreadsheet my daily target for this month is 333 words a day (which has a pleasing ring to it) I should really have signed up for that, but that would require me remembering to put the figures in the spreadsheet before signing up and I did not do that. Also I know from experience that 250 words is sustainable over the month so why set myself up to fail?385 / 10000 (3.85%)
Also, I am now on holiday from work for a fortnight. I very much need it. *basks*