Casper...the car who craps out a lot.

I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. I laughed, I cried and I vaguely enjoyed.

There will be no spoilers from me since I prefer the books over the movies one hundred billion million times. It was the end of an era in a way but that is that. I enjoyed it enough to want to own it on DVD and, probably because it has an ending, it was one of my favourites out of all of them.*

Onto other more random news. I drive. I drive a rather crappy and somewhat unreliable Nissan Pulsar. Casper, as he is named, serves me well at getting from point A to point B on most days. However, on chilly mornings like today he occasionally has ice issues.

What happens is that I'll be cruising along and suddenly a small internal part will freeze and my car will suddenly lose all power. I will have my foot ramming the accelerator but nothing will happen. Actually, something will happen...Casper will get progressively more slow until I have to pull over and turn him off and on.** Normally, that only happens once and he's fine but this morning was a different matter.

So, here I am, driving to a different school since it is a teacher's only day and all the English Departments from the local schools are having a meeting together, when my car does its little dying thing. This is fine until it decides to do it a second time, which results in me calling it varying names which I will not repeat here.

Casper decides to work after this. I'm not under the belief that my threats and growls made him ashamed of his behaviour but he did work. Unfortunately, this is not the first time that Casper has decided to mess with my mind. There was the time that he broke down on my birthday last year and I had to drive my mum's car (whom I call Hank) to Hamilton with no music. No fun.

Then there was the time that I broke down on forty minutes from home but in an area with no mobile reception. Luckily I managed to fix it myself, all MacGyver like in my skills. There are many other tales I can add and I can hear you asking, why don't I buy a new car? Well, the simple answer is that Casper works well enough for me at the moment. The other answer is I'm rather broke and a new car just isn't in the budget at the moment...plus Casper is, nearly, my first car.

Anyway, it's Friday afternoon and I think I'm going to play with my Wii...*** Until Monday, my dear readers, take care and have a great weekend.

*My real favourite, both in novel and movie form, is always going to be Prisoner of Azkaban. But that is neither her nor there.
** Read into that however you want.
*** Seriously, that never gets old.

Seven days in and NaNoWriMo is...

Seven days in and I am finding myself wishing that I could move onto a different project. I won't because I am very stubborn and I will not let NaNoWriMo beat me. Yet, with so many other things happening I can't help but feel that I may be in over my head.

So far, my two main characters have just infiltrated a school posing as niece and uncle. They have already met with a golem of sorts and I just feel that there are more nasty things around the corner. It is a good thing I am not writing this to get published. I may use some of the ideas later on but this is just pure brain vomit onto the page.

Another thing I am finding is that some of the words begin to blur together and I find my characters acting out of sorts. I may not be overly invested in these characters as of yet but I still find them banging around with my other, more well rounded, characters. I don't know if other writers have the same uh...'problem'...You know, where you try to make your characters do something that is against character and they raise such a ruckus.

On a side note it turns out that one of the brake pad things* shattered while I was driving home yesterday. This explains why my brakes gave out. Thankfully I was just about home and managed to glide into my park. My dad, bless him, is going to get a new 'shoe', as he calls it, for my car tomorrow.

This is going to be another shortish, almost pointless, entry as I have to get cracking on this NaNoWriMo effort. Also, I had more sugar today than usual. Every so often I just crave chocolate even though I know that I shouldn't have it...

Also, I got three new books yesterday and I want to get cracking into them. Is it bad that I am inclined to read more at the moment. (So there, Laura Miller...I may be doing NaNoWriMo but I'm still reading...)

*Things - this word is right up there with stuff to explain random things that I don't know the technical terms for.

Word Count - 14 452
Tunes - NCIS on the telly in the background.