Today is my mom’s birthday and we’ll be spending the day together, but I wanted to tell you guys about the fun I had yesterday. My two roomates, my sister, and my mother all sat together last night and had a writing party. We had snacks and music and we encouraged each other along while we tried to hit the NaNoWriMo word count goal of 1700 words. It made me really happy.

I also made a semi-goal to myself to try and get things my mother will use every day as a gift for her birthdays. The last few gifts have been DvDs like Starman, Millions, Out of Africa, and Somewhere In Time. She loves them, sure, but only gets to watch them once and a while. I want to get her things like a new comfortable office chair, a new monitor for her computer. Because she’s a nerd like me and would geek over that stuff. At least I assume so judging by the way she geeked over the ambidextrous mouse I bought her.