Well, I got some words done on AETW yesterday, and would have done more except I made the conscious decision that I needed to get back to exercising. So I did, then dove into the shower, and was ready to leave by the time Ken got home. We headed out to Burbank and our friend Donna’s (Styx fan, former “Highlander: The Series” writer) birthday party at Picanha, a churrascaria restaurant. It’s Brazilian food. The waiters (all of them quite cute) bring skewers (swords, really) of various types of meat (most smothered in garlic) to your table and you pick what you want. Plus there’s a side dish bar and a salad bar if you want something other than meat meat meat. Extremely yummy!

Afterwards we went to Gillian’s (see note as for Donna) with Donna and Lori (also Styx fan) and hung out until 1 a.m. Much fun. But it meant we didn’t get home until 2 a.m., which means we’re not going to Festival of the Rose today. Ken didn’t really want to go anyway, and I didn’t get my velvet banner done for display, although I still wanted to go. Rats. But we knew we wouldn’t get up this morning, plus we weren’t packed, and we’d discussed leaving the event early and taking some fun roads home (taking the bike, of course). We realised we’d get there at the time we were going to leave…

It looks to be a lazy day. Ken got up before I did, and then I got up at about 10, but then he fell back over on the bed. It’s nearly noon now. I’m going to try and get some writing done, I think. Although goodness knows, I’ll go in there to wash my face and put in my contacts, and he’ll wake up…

I’m toying with doing one or two of the Dares at Holly Lisle’s Forward Motion Community for July and August. The Master-Level Novel Dare is eight chapters of at least 1K words—the clinch being if you write longer chapters, you’ll end up writing a lot more. But even with a week in NY, I should be able to do a chapter each week. The other dare is for Word Count—Master Level is 2K/day and Apprentice Level is 1K/day. The reason I’m waffling over which level is because I don’t write every day—I take weekends off. Right now my chapters are running about 4K, so by doing the Novel Dare, I’m committing to about 32K words. I guess I could add short stories in there to bring the Word Count to 62K for the other dare. Hmmm…