amyina68

Yes, my “roommate” and I are still living together. But he drives me crazy and I’ve tried to get him out several times. However, he is unemployed right now and can’t afford to get his own place. What I need now is another bed…

As of yesterday I had 71500 words on my novel. There’s still a little more to write, but I should have a solid draft by the end of November. Four years in the making, this novel is my dream. Who knows what will happen with it, but at least it has been written now.

For anyone out there who has a novel hanging over his/her head (you know who you are) I can tell you that it’s a hell of a lot of work. The old annoying advice about working on it every day is true.

Well, I haven’t been on 43 Things in a while. The reason? I have been sticking to my writing schedule, working on the novel that has been hanging over my head for the past four years. And yes, I almost have a draft! So far, it’s 71500 words. Not the heft of Gone With the Wind, but still longer than The Bell Jar and Less Than Zero. Not that size matters…

On August 15th I will begin a new position as a full-time writer at an advertising agency. I’m nervous about doing well, but am happy that I finally have a real writing job and that, yes, I will be making more money!

Because my sweetie moved in with me, I had no choice but to get all the crap out of my extra room. Now it has become a cuddly love nest.

Today while reading Salon, I noticed they have a new section. They are asking people to write essays about objects and inventions—sort of like an “e-pinion.” I think this would be a good avenue for me to get somethings published there. Now, just have to think of what I would write about…

As of Monday, I’m “shacked up” with my lover/boyfriend. It has taken us years to get to this point, and so far, so good.

I decided to choose “worth doing,” but this adventure was hard to get through. It was cramped, hot, and smelly. The national park we visited was gorgeous though.

I had a dream about this last night. In my dream I planted little pumpkin plants that grew into little pumpkins.

This week as a birthday present I bought myself a food dehydrator. It arrived to my doorstep yesterday and last night I put some apples and cranberries inside. This morning I had crunchy apple chips and VERY dried cranberries. The apples were delicious, but they have carbs so I have to eat them sparingly. Anyway, I have big plans for my new kitchen applicance. I hope to dry flowers and herbs in it as well.

Last week I had another lucid dream. I was driving my car, but the brakes were going out on me. This triggered (still in the dream) that dreams about my car breaking down have the potential to go lucid. So I demanded to myself that I wake up.

The thing was that I did have the sensation of waking up, but instead of REALLY waking up, I just went into a new layer of dreaming.

I think if I keep writing about this, I might continue to make progress.

I thought I was in love again, but it was a bust. Again. Same guy, same story. He was going to move in with me, but when he found out I would want rent money (just $200/mo), he suddenly disappeared. When will I learn??

Lately, due to some drama in my love life and a lack of motivation, I have NOT been writing. My poor iBook has been sitting on my dining room table as I have been flitting around at nightclubs and parties. Well. Time to get down to business. Tomorrow.

This week I have been paying a lot of attention to the Terry Shaivo case. There’s so much irony at work here—the fact that her brain damage was caused by an eating disorder and now she will starve to death, and that Bush will get on a plane late at night to save her life, yet he seems to not care a whit about the lives lost in his bloody war.

I’m concerned about the “culture of life” fanaticism that seems to be growing more powerful. What is moral about telling diabetic children they can’t benefit from stem cells for the sake of frozen embryos?

Something has gone horribly wrong.

I think this is happening. More later.

I am still losing weight slowly on my low-carb diet. It’s been almost a year now since I began. I’ve gone down almost two sizes, and am now almost into a 10. To think I used to be a 16!

Anyone out there who is overweight and can’t understand why should try a healthy low-carb diet. For years I couldn’t figure out why I would consistently gain weight when I was a very diligent health food junkie who ate only about 1200 calories a day. Well, it was that nutritious oatmeal and cous-cous and whole wheat bread that was putting on my pounds. And, of course, that occasional whole wheat fig bar and Odwalla juice.

I now eat eggs, bacon, meat, sour cream, avacado and nuts and bake low-carb desserts. I have not gone hungry yet I have lost weight.

What’s I’m saying is that it worked for me. But—it will not work unless you have the will to cut out flour and sugar permanently. It’s hard, but worth it.

I haven’t been writing lately. My job and some other stuff has been keeping me away from my iBook for the past two weeks. I have to get back at it soon.

About two weeks ago, I had a lucid dream that was pretty cool. I was in my car, driving, and something was telling me it was a dream, but I wasn’t 100% sure about that. But then my car began to slide backward and-on a hunch-I released the steering wheel. Suddenly I was in a tunnel of wind. It was peaceful. Then I woke up.

I have a housemate coming soon, so I have been getting all the junk from my spare bedroom. I predict I’ll be checking off this goal soon….

I am thinking about applying anyway. I’m curious to see if I would be accepted. I think that’s what this goal is about.