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Cordelia's birthday party was yesterday. We had seven girls attending, and they all seemed to have fun. Cordelia didn't want a theme for the party, and she didn't want to plan much in the way of activities. The girls played Apples to Apples Disney for about forty minutes. Then we did cake and ice cream followed by presents. After that, the girls took turns playing Mario Kart on the Wii. We have four Wii remotes, so they played in two groups.

Cordelia had a yellow cake with blue 'cotton candy' frosting. (Scott has found a brand of frosting that comes uncolored and unflavored but that has a line of flavor packets that one can buy to mix in. I think they're vile, but Scott and Cordelia like them.) She helped me make the cake, Saturday evening. I let it cool over night and then frosted it Sunday morning.

Scott's sister and cherydactyl stayed for the party. There wasn't a lot to do, but it was nice to have other adults to talk to. Scott tended to hover over the girls while we three other adults stayed in the living room.

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I'm making progress on my Not Prime Time story. I've hit the minimum word count, and I've worked in all the required characters. I just have to find an answer to the story's central question and figure out how that answer changes the characters. Scott's no help with this at all because, while he has consumed the canon, it's been so long that he remembers almost nothing.

I've got my Weiss Kreuz Reverse Fest assignment. Neither of the prompts I have to work with plays to my strengths as a writer. One of them is flat out impossible because I lack the knowledge to write it even remotely believably (It's not the sort of thing I can learn from Google and Wikipedia, either). I can't blame the prompter. I didn't say in my profile that I couldn't write those things. I should have, but they didn't occur to me when I was filling the thing out. I'm worried that I'm going to produce a bad story. The prompt I can, in theory, write hits most of my weak points as a writer and has nothing of the sort of thing I'm good at.

I have put out a call for help to a friend who writes and who knows Weiss Kreuz. The stuff I have trouble with is an area she's strong at writing. I'm hoping she can help me through it.

DVD Logging

( Adventures of Tintin )

( John Carter )

( Legendary Warrior 5-13 )

( Lost Girl season 1 DVD 4-5 )

( Voyage of the Dawn Treader )

( Wild, Wild West season 1 DVD 5-7 )

( Wreck It Ralph )