Of NaNoWriMo, Work Insanity, Romantic Cheese and other things

This competition has been something I've been wanting to do for a while now. I've always been a big fan of writing stories but then again, I always favoured something short and sweet. Used to write a lot of "romance" themed sort of stories but since then, I think I've moved on to something more serious and hopefully, more mature too.

NaNoWriMo is a literary challenge to all those out there who love their way with words and have always wondered internally, "What would it be like to write a novel?" This website takes it a notch further and MAKES you write. Which is the fun bit. I've always thought that I might have an inch of a chance to be a novelist and although I know my writing attempts suck eggs, I'm still stubborn enough to want to give it a go.

Funnily enough, procrastination isn't one of the things that's currently stopping me from writing more. Its actually work! Work is getting incredibly busy and we're running event after event and I'm not even sure if I have time to exercise anymore. I'm collapsing on my bed at the end of the day and I'm more than happy just to sleep, eat, and work.

I'm currently manning the booth for an event and waiting for people to come out so I can start doing my sales pitch again. However, Stefan continually lingers in my mind and I'm wondering what should happen next to the poor fella. I've just pretty much knocked him unconscious and put a weird, creepy man in his apartment.

So that's what I've been up to recently. Apologies for not blogging and all but with work increasing to slightly insane levels and me trying to type up enough words per day so that I can at least achieve 50,000 words by the end of this month, things are getting crazy over here. There's so much to do and so little time.

Boy, writing a novel sure puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

Shortstuff sent me this link yesterday in response to my wanting to be alone post and I LOL-ed hard. Yes, Mr Bukowski. You understand me well. I tried to NOT think of the other dirty alternative to your name. That would have been classic.

So what else have I been up to?

On the plus side of being an understanding boyfriend and also currently being accused of not being as romantic as I used to be, I decided to take the cheese level up a notch.

Which promptly resulted in the girlfriend giving me absolute shit about being cheesy. Uh...what? We boys work so hard and then we get knocked down. Sigh.

Funny, though. When the two of you are apart, every moment you get becomes real special. The constant holding hands, hugs and cuddles and kisses mean everything. Now, if we walk about a kilometre without holding hands, its actually not so bad.

(I still love you, darling. You know that, right? heh)

And going through my photo albums, I came across this picture taken of me pre-haircut.

Damn. I knew I could have starred in that Dragonball movie. My hair itself would have been a hit. And this is au naturel, mind.

And oh, oh. I'm getting my kettlebells tonight!! Yayness!

And also to prove that I can actually do 10 pullups, I put my mouth to the test. Well, I used my hands to do the pullups, not my mouth, but...sigh. Never mind.

Also, that sentence just sounds sooo dodgy.


Here ya go.

Don't mind the belly.

HEH.

If I do go AWOL for a bit off the blog, don't worry too much. I'm probably just trying to hit my 1667 words quota a day. To be perfectly honest, I've never had this much fun writing before. Oh, apart from the Blurred series which I'll put up here one day. 


Tootles.