holiday and writing update

[iesika]

On Thursday, people started showing up. My Granny, two aunts, an uncle, and a little cousin (the little cousins are mostly second cousins, some thirds, and they range in age from 3 to 9. There are a lot of them and they usually run in packs. Last time they were here they managed to rip down a ceiling fan and none of them will tells us exactly *how*). The sibs and their SOs came by. Mom made crawfish au gratin.

On Friday morning, little cousin #1 and I made cookies until her mother and future stepfather showed up with the other two little cousins of that genus (twins), and we all hung out and it was lovely. One of the Aunts got sick and left for most of the day. And then the horde descended. Let's see if I can count them all...

Granny, two uncles, three aunts, six cousins (including SOs), and seven wee cousins, plus me, mom, dad, and two siblings each with their respective SO, and the OFFICIALLY ADOPTEDS, though they didn't bring their daughter or her BFF who usually comes to everything. So 28. We were expecting two more from the Adopteds, and had originally planned for two more cousins and another little cousin, so we made off pretty well, all around. One of the cousins made steaks. My spinach dip MAGICALLY VANISHED in like three minutes. The Adopteds brought TWO Adoption Pies.

Some of them left and went to hotels for the night. Some of them stayed. I WENT HOME.

Saturday was the big event. Everyone went to the LSU/Arkansas game. I have relatives who went to both schools. Things get...heated. Not caring about football, I stayed here with the old folks and tiniest little cousins, and wrote my little heart out. And then there was an aftergame party, and then I wrote my little heart out some more, until about 5am.

Today, I woke up in time to run the hug gauntlet and say goodbye to everyone, helped mom clean up, helped mom get the xmas stuff down from the attic, and then did some editing.

Obviously I was wrong about wrapping this up in 58k. I've run out of room for the overflow, and I can't figure out how to left-align the bar so that I have more room.

60178 / 25000

I dare not make future predictions for fear of proving myself wrong again. But I'm through with the action, and now there's just a bit of wrap-up and sequel-teaser. My posting date is next Sunday. Brace yourselves. I plan to sleep a lot, and then write lots of tiny fic. And yes, Gloria, there will be Jason in some of it.

Comments

[fictionalknight.livejournal.com]

About the code for your progress bar, you can change it this way:

- edit as HTML, and look for the place at the beginning of the code for the bar where it says "div title="240.71%" style="margin: auto;"
- change auto for 100px (or another number, adjust to liking) as long as you don't forget the px and there isn' any space between the number and px also be careful not to remove the semi-colon (;) which follows
- save

You should be able to place the bar closer to the left of the screen this way and it won't run off the layout. :)

Hope this helps! (and congrats on your wordcount! I wish my wordcount for NaNo looked like that... *sigh*)

(edited for clarity...)

[iesika.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks for the help!

[faile-neume.livejournal.com]

I'll be honest, I'm kind of going to miss our all-night chat sessions while you are working on your Big Bang. I'll still love you anyway, just not, you know, as much.

<3

[shiny-glor-chan.livejournal.com]

Brace yourselves. I plan to sleep a lot, and then write lots of tiny fic. And yes, Gloria, there will be Jason in some of it.

*cheers!* :D

[lyanth.livejournal.com]

wow! sounds like your turnkey weekend was a blast~ i don't think i could handle that much family in one place myself o.O


GL on finishing your big bang!