What's Happening....

We were totally planning on dressing up and going out for Halloween this year, but we put off figuring out costumes till...well, now, and so that's really not going to happen. :) The (thoretical) plan was to go thrift store shopping and piece together Britney Spears and Kevin Federline costumes, but we kept putting the actual shopping portion of the plan off till it's too late. We're now going to go over to Jenni and Eric's and have dinner with them and go out with them when they take their kids trick or treating. We might dress up, but it's really not a high priority at this point.

We are definately going to start working on some awesome costumes for next year, maybe try to go out to a place where they're having a costume contest or something. We'd like to continue our "comic couple" theme (e.g. Joker & Catwoman, Peter Parker & Mary Jane), although we may expand that to sci-fi and fantasy couples as well. Regardless, part of the plan involves working out and getting into much better shape in the next year. Neither of us is willing to wear anything resembling spandex otherwise...

The big plan for the coming month is that both of us are participating in the National Novel Writing Month. The idea behind this event is that anyone can write a novel, and that you just have to apply yourself and make yourself do it. I'm hoping that I'll be able to apply this sort of deadline-abiding philosophy to other sections of my life (like my artwork), and be much more productive in the long term. For now, Jenny and I will both be attempting to churn out 50,000 words in 30 days. If you'd like to learn more, check out the NaNoWriMo website; and if you're a participant you can "buddy" us - here's My Profile and here's Jenny's Profile. Wish us luck...

Otherwise - work continues as normal, we still don't have a garage but it'll hopefully be soon (we're waiting for the apartment people to figure out who all's using garages without paying, and whether they'll kick 'em out or charge them back rent), and the IRS payment plan is working itself out. We may be out from under their thumb sooner than we thought, but it's not a sure thing yet.