The Thing That Goes Doink

My car is clean. Like, make sure you're wearing some sort of protective eyewear when you look it because it's so damn shiny.

The weather this spring has been absolute crap and I just now got a good enough forecast to allow for me to wash my car to the nth degree. My husband started early, washing his car and then doing the clay polish on it, followed by waxing it. After I dragged myself out of bed (rather reluctantly because my bed was nice and cozy and the idea of sleeping forever seemed really good) and fed myself, I forced myself to go for a bike ride. Once I got home and showered, I took some time to have coffee, followed by quickly throwing stuff in the dishwasher and running it before going to wash my car so it could also get the polish and wax.

And now my husband, sweetheart that he is, is changing the oil in my car as well as getting the headlight casings restored because they're cloudy and therefore not very effective.

I'm doing laundry (joy) and I should probably empty the dishwasher. Of course after being on my feet for most of the afternoon means that I really just want to sprawl on the bed and not move until tomorrow morning. Not that it's going to actually happen, mind you, because there is a boatload of laundry to do and I really shouldn't put off the dishes.

Even if I want to.

So I made a quick post earlier, but I didn't really have time to make a full post.

I have time now.

Anyway, now that I'm done stating the obvious, I went to visit my grandpa today at the hospital. We visited for about an hour before he started nodding off, and he was sitting in a chair, as opposed to being stuck in the bed. He had also been officially discharged from the ICU, but was still there when I went to visit because they hadn't managed to find a room for him elsewhere. He'll probably stay in the hospital for a few more days, and once he is finally discharged from the hospital I'll be spending time over at my grandparents' house to help out if necessary. Thankfully most of my work can be done from my laptop.

After that, my husband and I stopped and got new tires for the Fit, which greatly reduced the road noise and now the car is quieter and handles better. However the downside of that was that I missed my saree delivery, but they'll try again on Monday (or so says the tracking feature on UPS). Which means I'll get my saree on Monday (odd that they're delivering on President's Day, but then again only most federal agencies will be shut down then) and then my wigs on Tuesday, and that means Tuesday night I may or may not start styling Sheena.

Admittedly she doesn't need to be styled until April - but what the hell. I'd like to get her done and maybe I can do a few photos around the apartment so people can see what I have done. And while my hair is roughly the right length for Sheena, I can't get it to be styled the exact same way. Also, I'm a brunette. With red and blond highlights. Yeah, I'm not dying my hair black for ONE character.

Anyway, I'm currently taking a break from the character building for my first attempt at a screenplay. I'm going to adapt Allerleirauh (linked to it's original format, incest and all) for a movie, preferably your typical family animated fare. This means that I'm removing the incest (though small children will be oblivious to what it is, I know I didn't get it the first time I read the story), creating an actual villain, fleshing out the "King" who has been made a prince and deciding that I'm tired of the idea that at least one parent has to be dead. Allerleirauh's mother will be spared in this adaption. So far the character building has been kind of fun, especially since I like the idea of the Mole making a Heel Face Turn and making the villain a cross of Gaston and Jafar as far as his personality goes. Obviously he'll be fine tuned but at the moment I'm thinking someone with Gaston's ego and Jafar's intelligence. Which should make him really scary when push comes to shove.

Okay, it's official, I'm fading so I'm going to go pass out dead asleep. Besides, if I have to try and slog through any more German names, I'm likely to start hurting myself.

Not like it matters that I'm not writing for NaNo right now - I'm pretty far ahead so it's not like I have to write today. Obviously I still am, and I'll probably write tonight as I watch the finale of Dancing With the Stars, Skating With the Stars and Castle. I've written less than 500 words today, but it's less to do with being uninspired and more about "Oh hey, it's snowing!"

Speaking of snow, I mentioned last night that it was really coming down. When I woke up it was very lightly snowing and petered off after half an hour. At eleven thirty it was starting up again and by noon there's enough that it's starting to pile up again. Normally I wouldn't care and would just enjoy it, but I have a meeting for a fundraiser I'm working for at 5:15 tonight. I'm planning on leaving a hour before and spend some time checking out the library (it was remodeled last year and I am as yet to officially check it out) before going across the street to the meeting.

My car's battery is on the old side, so there was slight paranoia about if my car would even START. If it didn't it's not like it's a big deal to catch the bus, but I'd rather not. After some coughing and sputtering my car finally started up and purred quite nicely. I cleaned off the snow as I let her sit and warm up, before turning her off and heading back in to officially eat lunch. I'm going to have to clean off my car again, but it's better than having the three to four inches that was already on it to have an addition one to two inches.

That just leaves driving. Last year I never really had a reason to drive in the snow, and while the previous owner says that the car does well in the snow, I've never actually tested this for myself. Because it's warm enough out that the roads are just wet, I should be fine. I probably won't be doing any driving tomorrow because it's gonna be slicker than snot on a door knob. No chance of a Chinook blowing through either, because it's supposed to be cold and STAY cold through Thanksgiving.

On the plus side, theoretically it should be pretty and white as I decorate for Christmas this weekend.

Anyway, I should get back to NaNo - I have some tea and good music to write to.