workin for the weekend...
i just finished some of the best pancakes, courtesy of alton brown, and some awesome sausages, courtesy of rachel ray. that's right. breakfast for supper. good stuffs.
had an unexpected afternoon. helped my friend fix his computer from 600 miles away and got to have a nice conversation in the meantime. the quiet of the house has been increasingly pressing in on me. i'm one of those that gets pretty attached to people, so the fact that one of my closest friends is that far away just makes it all the more difficult. i'll dig the hole a little deeper and add that this has also been the longest time since i've known him that i've gone without seeing him. it's just not the same when it's e-mail or facebook. i knew it was going to be tough, but i wasn't expecting it to be like this. so hearing him again made a world of difference. and i probably shouldn't be posting this. haha. i just miss my friend.
well, i suppose i could say also that i had an unexpected weekend. brian and riff and brandon c. came up to visit. well, they weren't visiting me, but i can pretend. definitely broke the silence, which was awesome. i wish you all could experience what being in the same room with brian and riff is like, if you haven't. brian has one of the sharpest wits i've ever seen and his best friend riff (his real name is aaron, but he has a cool last name) is crazy to boot. it's impossible to not laugh. brandon c. was here helping his girlfriend move out of the house because she couldn't stand being with me. well, i tease her that that's why she left, but she claims otherwise. she was the only other native english-speaking person here. ho jong is cool, but i don't know him very well and there is a certain language barrier. i'm sure i'll get to know him better. good weekend, though.
i think i'm going to try to go into the candy factory again tomorrow, if i don't hear from them. bj and sue are also getting on me to write more. for those who don't know, bj is my pastor. he's six years older than me and a great friend. one of the best guys i've ever met. when he found out i was writing a children's novel, he got all excited and asked if he could read it. his wife, sue, was telling me today that every time he'd sit down at his computer to read it, he'd constantly say how good it was and how he had to find out what was going to happen next, making notes and such along the way. i have yet to read those notes, but i'll say that he's definitely one of the reasons i'm still writing it. seeing his excitement and hearing his encouragement have been such a help. it's so difficult to put so much of yourself into something then let it lose. j.k. rowling likened it to pregnancy and childbirth. fortunately i'll never have to know what that's like, but in some ways i can kind of understand what she means. so tomorrow i sit down to write chapter five. out of, what, thirteen planned chapters? haha. i'm almost a third of the way there. oy.
bedtime. later.