New $100 Bill

A lot of people don't like change. Therefore, I'm guessing that a lot of people don't like the new $100 bill. I am not one of those people. I think the new bill looks awesome. If you haven't had the opportunity to look at the new bill, I suggest you do. It has a blue ribbon next to Ben Franklin that changes pictures from 100's to liberty bells when you tilt it back and forth. As usual, it also has the face of Ben Franklin when you hold it up to the light. The new bill is colorful and looks kind of fake. I think it looks pretty fancy. I wish I had more of them so that I could stare at a large number of new Benjamin's. I'm just not rich enough to do that yet.

Finished With NaNoWriMo!

I didn't do National Novel Writing Month the way that you are technically supposed to do it. I had already started writing a book before November 1st. Since I learned about NaNoWriMo three days before it started, I didn't really have a choice but to pick up where I left off. I had written 11 of my 33 chapter book already. I started writing at chapter 12. I finished the book about a week ago. My book is 60,000 words. However, I wrote about 41,000 in November. I still had about 9,000 words to write to officially win NaNoWriMo. I was going to start a nonfiction book, but then realized that this is novel month not nonfiction month. I started writing two more "The Teacher That..." books. Both of them are ideas for possible books where my main character would be in eighth grade. At this point, I don't like either idea and probably won't use either as a serious book. However, between the two books, I was able to write 9,000 more words before December first. I wrote about 5,000 words today to finish it off. I really didn't think I'd be able to do this. I'm so proud of myself for sticking with it. I didn't stay up crazy hours of the night to write. The only thing I did was change my lifestyle just a little bit. I focused more at night and wrote instead of watched TV. On Saturday's, I'd write instead of being lazy. That was about it. If I hadn't done this, my book would be very far from done. It's funny because right before I found out about NaNo, my mom asked me when I'd be done with my book. I told her that if I wrote two chapters a week, I'd hopefully have the book out by February break. I didn't even think I'd be able to keep up with two chapters a week. It's amazing what a competition and a little bit of motivation can do to me. I have a lot of editing to do on my book. However, I anticipate having it out to the public by early to mid January! Thank you NaNoWriMo!

Brown Thursday

Since so many stores open tonight, I guess they are calling today Brown Thursday now. Although I despise shopping, I shockingly went to JC Penny tonight at 8 to look for some dress shirts. The only reason I went was because the store is around the corner from my house and I knew it wouldn't be crowded. I refused to go to the one in the big mall we have about 15 minutes from here. I'm not risking my life. However, the store near me is closing in January. I went to the store and saw a bunch of store closing sales. I asked a worker if they were having Black Friday sales and she said no. The prices they had for store closing sales were awful. I didn't need shirts that badly so I turned around and went home. Shopping is not my thing at all. You will never, ever, ever catch me shopping in the middle of the night on Black Friday for anything.

3 Day Week

I expected this work week to drag on. I am shocked to report that this week absolutely flew by for me! Today was even topped off with a full day at school followed by 4 hours working at my dad's store. I thought for sure that it would take forever. Even though the work week flew by, I know the next three days off will fly by too. Yes, three days off. I have to work Sunday at the grocery store as usual. Since the turkey is only 12 pounds and we aren't eating until about 4, I don't have to put that bad boy in until about 11 tomorrow. I'll be sleeping in! By that, I mean my horrible body clock will probably let me sleep until 7:30 instead of 6:40. We will see.

Las Vegas

I booked a trip to Las Vegas yesterday! I'll be going from February 18-21. I got a really good price airfare and hotel. Let's just say that I've been looking for editors for my book and I can go to Vegas 5 times for the amount that some people want to charge! I've been looking on lasvegas.com for things to do. You could probably vacation in Las Vegas for a year and not get to everything in the city. There is so much to do it's unreal. I want to see a show or two even though they will cost a ton of money. As shocking as this might sound, I want to do other things besides gambling. I want to walk the strip, see the fountains, go on the roller coaster at New York, New York, and do as much site seeing as I can. I'm only going to be there for two full days. I'll be arriving at around 10:30AM Vegas time on a Tuesday and leaving at 2:40 on Friday. We will see how much fun I'll be able to pack in throughout that short period of time. I can't wait!

Catching Fire

I just saw the second Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire. The second movie was much better than the first movie. There was a lot more action. The first hour was a little slow, but they had to do that to explain what was going on. I really need to read the book right before I go see the movie from now on. I have a short term memory. I couldn't remember what happened in the book. I had to read the plot today briefly before I went to see the movie. I still think that people should read the book before seeing the movie. As always, the book has much more details. Part 1 of the 3rd movie won't be out until next November with part 2 coming out the following November. Of course they are making the final movie two parts strictly so that they can make more money just like Harry Potter and Twilight did. The movie was 2 and a half hours long. I actually got my moneys worth for once! I'd recommend you see this movie after you read the first two Hunger Games books.

Screeching

Whenever I watch a college basketball game and they are about to shoot a free throw, I always hear that one fan who screeches at the top of her lungs. I'm watching a football game right now and the same thing is happening. The cameras microphone must be very close to this one fan. The only thing I hear while watching the game is this girl screeching. I don't understand why fans feel the need to screech. I completely understand screaming because I do that too. You don't need to make it high-pitched though! My eardrums are about to explode even though I'm not sitting next to this fan.