catching up (NaNo, Frozen, Little Women, Mando)

So many things…

• I wrote every day and zoomed past my goal on mini_wrimo (500 words/day) and very nearly won NaNo this year, too, omg, ending with a total of 46,042 words, holy crap. This is unprecedented. I came close to hitting 50K for NaNo, but this past weekend was a bit of a stressball even after Tgiving (kids, sigh) and I ended up doing a lot of grooming on the fic that had captured my attention rather than continuing to add words at pace.
  
  
  
  • I wrote across a lot of semi-abandoned WiPs and had success there, but my brain is still circling around Star Trek: Discovery’s Captain Pike, so that’s where the bulk of the writing went: about 10K to finish off a post S2 Pike/Tyler and about 26K to a semi-fix-it, also post-S2, Pike/Tilly (which is maybe 60% done even at that? Yeah, my brain was/is in overdrive with this one), which I haven’t started posting yet, but it’s close.
    
    
  • I am shamelessly linking to that Pike/Tyler (even though there are approximately 10 fans of the pairing) b/c it’s the first thing I’ve written in forever, and I’m all \o/ about it: Take It On Faith.
    
    
  • Also, thank you to everyone who stepped up for my vocabulary emergency over the weekend. I def appreciated it!
    
  
  
• The boys and I went to see Frozen 2 over the weekend (who knew I’d still be going to Disney movies with my grown kids?) which I think we all enjoyed, with everyone’s favorite song being Jonathon Groff going completely OTT with Kristoff’s boyband extravaganza. Too funny (and BabyBoy and I really miss hearing Groff sing.)
  
  
• The trailers were mostly horrible, except there in the middle sat the one for the new Little Women. I may have to go this one alone, just because I will not be in the mood for any scoffing, no matter how deserved it might be. (I’m hoping it won’t be at all deserved.) I may not even check in with any of my girlfriends, or if I do, I may have to screen potential dates based on whether they think Jo really should have married Laurie after all. Not that I’m neurotic about this book or anything.
  
  
• BabyBoy continues to try to drag me into the GenZ aesthetic, with this weekend being the music update – we wrote together using a loop of the Kingdom Hearts launch screen and then we drove back to school (for finals and auditions) with a bootleg of Six (at very high volume--good energy to ramp up for auditions), which does, as the kids say, slap. It has been added to our Potentials list for the next trip to Manhattan.
  
  
• I am 11 minutes away from being current on The Mandalorian, which means I am invited back to breakfast conversations again (at least through Friday, when I will inevitably fall behind), though they are kindly allowing me to offer previous episode discussion topics.
  
  
• Pursuant to the previous topic: Someone has (of course) published an amigurumi pattern for The Child (!!!!) I haven’t crocheted in decades but I feel this is a necessary project.
  

Also!! The job I talked to while hanging out with D in the hospital just called back for another round of interviews, so that’s still a thing, yay