This weekend in a nutshell

Yesterday morning: ACT testing. I actually finished my essay, which is an improvement over the SAT.

Yesterday afternoon: cleaning and baby-watching.

Yesterday evening: Mom's yoga teacher and her family came over for dinner. Also, writing group, and golf-ball-sized hail that dented the van. The windshield survived, though, surprisingly.

This morning: Church. We were going to see "The Da Vinci Code," but everyone had already seen it, so we sat around watching Elise clean the carpet and rant about how awesome our YRUU group used to be when her dad ran it.

This afternoon: Heartland Men's Chorus twentieth anniversary concert. They did the most awesome rendition of "Razzle Dazzle" ever, and there was a really funny song with a guy in drag pulling things out of his dress (no, seriously, it was funny), and I cried several times. Actually burst out sobbing during "Letter to Michael," which was partly sung solo, partly spoken, and partly sung by the entire 140-man chorus. I went out to the lobby to see if they had it on one of their CDs. If they had, I would have bought it, but they didn't.

This evening:

14,604 / 50,000 (29.2%)

I'm still behind, but I'm about the same number of words behind that I've been for a few days, so at least I'm not falling further behind. And I really like some of the stuff I'm coming up with. This NaNoWriMo thing is really a great idea. I'm enjoying it a lot.

Chuck Palahniuk on Tuesday! *can't wait* I need to get over to Rainy Day Books tomorrow and pick up my copy of his new book so I can get it signed.

(Kudos, by the way, if you get the reference in my icon.)