When you talk in song lyrics...

After this video made my friend Cy's day:

we were talking on the phone, seeing if he'd watch our new kitten Mocha this weekend while we were camping.  (Oddly enough, Mocha loves cantaloupe... weird, right?)  Anyway, Elli was talking to him, and I told her to tell him that I was "still alive"  So here's the conversation:

Haili: Tell him I'm still alive
Cy: We'll that's a triumph.
Haili: Yep, making a note here: huge success
Cy: It's hard to overstate my satisfaction about that
Haili: Why don't we have some cake?

Keep in mind, this was all spoken.  Not sung.  It was really funny, especially since Elli was playing mediator since I was driving.

I saw 2 police cars, 2 ambulances (one of which was going the wrong way down a one-way street I was on- yikes!  I had a red light and it went in the other side) and a fire truck.  Wonder what happened?  They half scared me to death.


Okay, on to wasting time.  For those of you who care: Camp NaNo=2,600 words.  I fail.  Miserably.

My excuses:
Friday: I don't remember, but I had one.  Oh yeah, I was doing mission hours all day.  5 hours!  Woohoo!
Saturday: Wedding.  All day.
Sunday: wasn't allowed on computer until my room was clean
Monday: babysat all day

When I did work on it, I worked on stupid things like this:

 And of course, I had to make the characters with this lovely dress up game that's inspired by Disney.  WARNING:  Will cause you to waste massive amounts of time.  But here it is anyhow.  Enjoy.

And this.  (yes, again with the Noteflight, Haili...)  This is the beginning of "That Girl" which has been stuck in my head all day.


Oh, and I'm learning to play this:

So epic!  Okay- I'm gonna go try to write now...

The Final Chapter and a New Scene

Oh boy oh boy oh boy... very exciting things happening in my life right now!

1. I just got a new microphone, so I can now record the audiobook of my novel.  Why is this exciting, you may ask?  The sooner I get it done, the sooner my parents read my novel.  Neither has any time (or in my mom's case) any desire to read, but both spend an inordinate amount of time in the car.  Put my book on CDs and they both can read it.  Plus, I like recording myself playing stuff and my old microphone got lost while we cleaned the playroom.  And this one is much nicer anyway.
2. Also just got a new book of French horn music- and it's DISNEY! Why wouldn't this be exciting?  I've spent most of the night playing Prince Ali and Go the Distance.  Prince Ali is stuck in my head.  But I love it.
3. Elli's birthday presents came today. She's going to love them.
4. I just got paid $121 for babysitting.  Seems my life has been babysitting.  
5. I finished editing my novel.  Am working on getting it up on CreateSpace.  I also shared it with a few people, which is exciting.
6. Elli's getting her novel up on CreateSpace as well.  It's a lot smaller than she anticipated, but it looks cute and will be a good beginning chapter book.
7. I figured out who to dedicate my book to.  And no, I'm not telling.  It's a secret!
8. In a matter of 2 hours and 15 minutes Camp NaNoWriMo starts!!! Twice Upon a Time, here I come.  (I was acting it out for Elli the other night using a small Mary statue as Jennie, a silver cross as Micah, a wood cross as Nolan, and an angel statue thing as Connie.  I will never look at that silver cross the same way again.  I felt ridiculous.  It was also like 11pm...)
9. My cousin's getting married this weekend!  Need I say more?
10. We just got memberships at the Y which is kinda fun.  Did my orientation tonight and discovered that there are machine where you can bike and read AT THE SAME TIME!  Forget the ellipticals and treadmills with the TVs- give me a good book and a crash free stationary bike that is klutz proof.  Lee's so funny.  He's so excited to go there and work out.  He thinks he's so cool.  "Haili, can we go to the Y every day?  I need to *flexes* work out" (keep in mind, he's 11... dear me...)

Reasons why I'm not happy

1. CreateSpace is being obnoxious with formatting my book.  And I mean OBNOXIOUS.  Every time I upload my novel, it screws something up and I have to go fix it.