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NaNo Half-Way Party

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Today we’re offically through into our third week of NaNoWriMo! I’m at 24,168 words and going strong! We met at the River Club for our halfway party, with EvilBelgian, his dad, Magependragon, myself and my bf having breakfast there beforehand.

The breakfast deal is well worth it, at R70, for a self-helping of cold breakfast (cereals, croissants, danishes, etc), and hot serving of eggs, bacon, sauteed potatoes, friend onion rings, fried tomatoes, and sausages. The deal also included a bucket of 50 balls (hiring of a club is R10) which you could then knock off the driving range or you could rather choose to play a 9 hole game instead of the bucket. I had fun taking food pics, but I forgot to take a photo of our hot breakfast…lesigh.


Fruit salad!


Lots of pastries


The buffet itself


The bf whacking it to the moon!


The Hot Food buffet

After eating our fill and putting (in my case) our balls off the second floor of the driving range, we proceeded with the NaNo Half Way Party. Loot in the form of adorable Dinosaur Erasers, which I dubbed Wrimo’Rasers, noise making balloon blowers (gosh these things were noisy!), and other cool things (I got a replacement feather for my one that blew away at the kick off party haha).

After we ate, laughed, drank, laughed some more (that creepy murder music was eery!) we eventually parted ways, with promises to continue on with our novel plight with due diligence.

And for the first time in ages, I lugged my camera with to document the event :P


Everyone chatting…


An authentic NaNo Sticker


My Wrimo’Raser: Gearz


My “Snack Basket” (there are chips under those spring rolls haha)


Gearz making a break for it!

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Completed = crossed out

Personal Growth:

1. Go to a movie alone
2. Do volunteer work
3. Get published (letter/story/photograph)
4. Plant a tree
5. Buy a worm farm (or "shares" in a worm farm)
6. Try a new restaurant
7. Take each member of my immediate family out to lunch (0/3)
8. Read a biography
9. Write a novel - 30/09/2009
10. Finish a YOU magazine crossword
11. Frame & hang 10 photos I've shot (0/10)
12. Get MagMark bookmarks made
13. Get professional photos taken of myself
14. Make my bed every day for the next 2 weeks (14/14)
15. Train myself to do the splits
16. Go shopping alone 5 times (5/5)
17. Get Gizmo's lumps removed - not recommended by vet
18. Travel out of South Africa
19. Get car fixed (bonnet, dent, rattling) - traded in for new Getz

Online:

20. Go one day a week without Facebook for 3 months (0/12)
21. Get 5 new blog followers (let me know if you're following my blog so I can count you) (5/5)
22. Get three people to start a blog (0/3)
23. Sort my blog links in catagories - in progress
24. Re-evaluate bracketed items in this list when individually completed
25. Get 3 other people to do a 101 in 1001 list. (1/3) - let me know if this has inspired you so I can mark off a notch here! *in progress: penmagedragon*

Health/Diet:

26. Go to the dentist
27. Use body cream every night for a month (0/31)
28. Donate blood (this is a scary one for me!)
29. Get two other people to donate blood (0/2)
30. Incorporate three new meals into my diet (3/3) - fish/calamari, Cottage Pie, Vegetarian Schnitzels
31. Make an emergency kit
32. Learn CPR
33. Stretch (ie yoga-style) every day for a month (0/30)
34. Take my pill every day for 60 days (60/60)
35. Try a new food - Egg Foo Yong
36. Stop drinking fizzy drinks for 30 days (0/30)
37. Go to the gynecologist once a year (0/2)
38. Try the fruit of a Delicious Monster
39. Go to every gym class for a month (12/12)
40. Find out my blood type

Hobbies:

41. Get my Sexpo photo printed on canvas
42. Do some fabric painting
43. Take three images in a series (0/3)
44. Get three images printed on canvas for my lounge (0/3)
45. Bring our bonsai back to life
46. Buy a bigger pot for my Delicious Monster - Birthday Gift '09
47. Get fish tank looking and running great
48. Shoot a sunrise
49. Keep my bedroom floor tidy for 2 whole weeks! (2/14)
50. Complete a scrapbook

Random/Fun:

51. Ride a luge pipe
52. Watch Forest Gump
53. Fly in a helicopter
54. Ride in a hot air balloon
55. Write to a celeb (and try get an autographed photo)
56. Walk into an elevator and don’t turn around, just face the other people
57. Win a competition
58. Get birds to visit the garden regularly -17/05/2009
59. Build a puzzle
60. Take my dogs to the beach (and take pics)
61. Get a professional massage
62. Get canvases and do rat painting art
63. Go to Build-A-Bear and build a bear

Financial:

64. Keep a list of expenses for 30 days (30/30)
65. Save R3000 (R0)

Social:

66. Go to a strip club
67. Throw a party for someone - 02/01/2010
68. Go wine tasting
69. Go grape stomping
70. Do a Township Tour
71. Go camping
72. Host a board game night
73. Go cherry picking
74. Go to a Summer concert - 14/02/2010
75. Throw another cocktail party
76. Do a girl's night out with cocktails
77. Go gambling
78. Go to a Lesbian Bar/Club

Learning:

79. Learn to shoot a gun
80. Learn to pole dance
81. Learn to belly dance
82. Learn to make three new dishes (1/3) - seared spicey tuna
83. Learn the harmonica
84. Learn how to change a tire

Work:

85. Shoot 5 weddings (1/5)
86. Get business cards printed
87. Get portfolio book printed
88. Photograph at an animal shelter
89. Take a photography course
90. Shoot a wedding for free
91. Redo my dad's website
92. Buy new camara equipment (lens/body/memory card/etc)
93. Advertise my business (paid advertising)
94. Host a stand at a wedding expo
95. Backup my computer data
96. Get to work on time every day for a week (5/5)

Love:

97. Initiate romance once for every 3 five times (2/5)
98. Make love 5 times a week for 1 month (0/4)
99. Have sex blindfolded
100. Be naughty in a public place
101. Get engaged

Start Date: May 02, 2009
End Date: January 28, 2012
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