Happy New Year, part II

I lied. I'll do the pics, etc., tomorrow. I decided
I just had to get to 10,000 words tonight. It's
a NaNo thing ... which normally I wouldn't explain, but since
I have to get 142 (or rather one hundred forty
two) words in a fairly short amount of time, I
will. NaNo is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, or
November, which is basically a self-challenge to write a work
of fiction in 30 days. At least fifty thousand words
long. I won, wrote a stunningly horrible novel. But at
least now I know I can do it, and things

can only go up from here. That's another thing I
accomplished in 2008. Two minutes to go. Um. To celebrate
the New Year, we all went over to Aunt Amy's,
but we're home now. Young kids and all. One minute.

Cheers,
McKenna

There. 10,000 words. Cross that off the to-do list. And up the goal for next year. 25,000? Okay. Sounds good.

Happy 2009.

In case you're wondering, this is oddly spaced because that's just the easiest way to count the words.

Cheers,
McKenna.

Which I only said twice because the first time they were the 9,999 and 10,000 words, and I couldn't not say it the second time. Forgive the randomness of this post. I'm tired and should be sleeping.

Bye.

Happy New Year

Exactly one year ago I started this blog. Doesn't seem like so long ago. Lot's happened this year- trips to Florida, Ohio, Chicago, North Carolina ... I wrote a cantata, learned to play 2 instruments (started to, anyway), gained two cousins, lost a grandparent, read a book or two ;).

Anyway. Out of idle curiousity, I went through the old posts and gathered a few stats. And later tonight I'm posting the "Best of 2008" things ... best pictures, videos, comments. So-

Total word count: 9858 (I guess my next post will be 142 words, then)
Number of comments: 1146 (and I've deleted a fair few)
Number of pictures: 206 (or 207, but one picture has been posted twice)
Number of videos: 40
Number of Random and Funny Things: 62
Number of posts not made by me: 3 (of 101)

If anyone has any opinions on what the best pictures, comments, videos, posts, quotes, whatever, are, leave a comment.

Oh. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH!

Cheers,
McKenna

Christmas Pics

I'll caption these later. 100th post of 2008!

Cheers,

McKenna

Quote of the Day

Whenever he sings too high, he's flat.
~Shannon

Cheers,
McKenna

Forgot to put this in the last news post.

Mimi (the dog) died last Tuesday. Hit by a car; her leg was hurt really badly, and so the vet put her down.

Thought you'd want to know.

Cheers,
McKenna

Christmas Musical & Cantata Pics

Look at our shapely bodies. Cause rectangles are shapes, right?

Tubby. I mean Shannon.

Elizabeth, Riley, Laura and Kaley, hiding during a rehearsal.
Laura and I at the dress rehesarsal yesterday.

Kaley, Laura and Riley.

Laura and I. Again. This was today.
The Greedy Girls.

Cheers,

McKenna

Thanksgiving

We had a bit of trouble on the way out.
At the beach.

The short little people in the background are Aislinn and Janelle. And that's Shannon cartwheeling, but that seems a little obvious.

Moi.

Shan, Mom, Nell and Riley.

Ais, Shan, Riley, Wes and Jonathan.

Our last night in NC. I think.

Cause they can't take a picture with a straight face. Or, heaven forbid, a smile.

What did I tell you?

On the ferry.

Still on the ferry.

At the Aquarium.

No, of course I'm not related to these people.

Riley.

Washing dishes on Thanksgiving.

Cheers,

McKenna