Birthdays and Forgiveness

So it was my birthday yesterday. I decided on a few things for the day:

1- I would take the day off from work to avoid any irritation on "My Day"
2- I would sleep in
3- I would get my Tattoo done
4- I would get my hair done
5- I would have dinner with my mom's boyfriend- it's his birthday too

So I did take the day off and I don't regret it although I did have to skip a meeting with Moby which would have been super cool. Se La Vie! I did sleep in and it was just the way to start the day- truly rested! I went to get my Tattoo done at the place where I got my first and found that it had burnt down- SHOCK led to OK I'll re-route and get it done closer to where I live now. I moved on to get my hair done and then met up with my mom's boyfriend- which is an understatement of sorts. This man is actually my brothers' father. He was the love of my mother's life- her words. They never married, but they first met when she was 7 or 8 months pregnant with me. They had a life long relationship and I hated him most of my life. I didn't like that he never married my mom. I didn't like that he left when my brothers were still little. I didn't like that he came around when he wanted and wasn't really there to show my brothers how to become the men they needed to become. I didn't like many things about this guy and when ever my mom would ask "Do you ever think of him like a dad" I flat out said "No, Never" and I think that hurt her, but I didn't care. I didn't want her with him - her door was always open to him and I hated that. I believed she deserved better, I believed she never got what she deserved because she had this on again off again thing with him. He was abusive to us all and I believed our lives were worse off because of him. For that and so many other reasons I won't get into I despised this man and everything he did to my family.

For my birthday I forgave him. I did not tell him I forgave him because that's between me and God.....but my having a B-day dinner at all with him should have been a clue to anyone who knows me. I have made that decision and I intend to try my best to live that out- because that's what God wants for me- to give away hate and embrace forgiveness. So on my birthday and his that's what I did- I even invited him to Thanksgiving Dinner- my second SHOCK of the day.

After dinner I drove to the Tattoo place close to my house and found that it was closed so I went home and watched Dancing with the Stars - I guess I'll have to get my Tattoo done some other day.

National Novel Writing Month

Yup it exists- Weird how things happen everyday in this country and yet one can be oblivious to it. I was reading about it and before I knew it I was on a rocking website all about it: www.nanowrimo.org

Basically a person signs up for the event starting Oct. 1- I missed the deadline :(

After creating an account and editing a profile- some administrative stuff- when that's done you get to tell more about what you like to write and what you think your novel might be called. The site customizes to where you are regionally and there are lounges, forums, and local events with novelist gatherings- which sounds like a whole lot of fun to me. I always thought I would someday write something- maybe a book.

On November 1 everyone begins writing their novel- I just found out about this today :( Nov. 2nd.

The goal is to write a 50,000-word novel by midnight, local time, on November 30th.

You can post excerpts of your work for others to read, and update your escalating word count. Basically this community encourages you to Write like crazy for thirty days. That's it just write!

I'm so bummed that I just found out about this- I've been really down since my LSAT scores came back lower than I wanted and this could have been a nice little distraction for me.

I think I'll do it anyway- I'll just have to lose some days and somehow find a way to use the website functions without signing up. I wonder if it will let me sign up late. If it doesn't work I guess there's always next year.