Post NaNoWriMo depression

This is that magical time if the year when  I sink into a lovely abyss of depression.  Ok, its not nearly as dramatic as that, but I definitely get.into a funk the first half of December and it is entirely the fault if NaNoWriMo.

When you spend 30 days living and breathing your story, getting to know and love and hate your characters, expending every last extra ounce of energy you have working on your book, you feel almost bereft when it's over.  I can't keep up the frantic pace if NaNoWriMo beyond December.  I don't have the energy and my family would kill me.  At the end of every November I get to relive that exhilarating feeling of my dream of being a working writer dying.

Yes,  I know, I am a ray of sunshine.  I can't help it, I'm suffering from post NaNoWriMo depression.

Who knows, maybe this year will be different. Maybe I'll finish the book this year. Maybe I'll rewrite and  edit and polish until it's ready for publication. This could be the  year.

Bit first I need to get some sleep and finish watching this show.

And just because

I'm feeling a little crazy on a Friday night:

Love.

Daytrotter

Everyone must go here and check out Daytrotter.  It's a kick ass site with awesome music.  In their words, it is a:

place of discovery for music lovers and a hole-in-the-wall-of-the-Heartland haven for passionate and inspiring musicians criss-crossing and cross-crissing the country and the world, hoping to find open and sympathetic ears.

(Disclaimer: it's not free anymore, but they are offering a 7 day free trial.  Use it, you will end up paying the $2 per month to join.)


My favorite session so far is from The Civil Wars.  They are so amazing and if you haven't heard them you must go right now to their website and get a free download of Barton's Hollow.  You will absolutely love them. 


Los Lobos also did a Daytrotter session a while back that I love, especially "Yo Canto" which is one my favorite LL songs.  Check that one out too.  Now.

Foo Fighters in DC

I took my 10 year old to see her first concert on Friday.  Well, it was more like I dragged my 10 year old daughter to see the Foo Fighters with me because I love the Foo Fighters so hard and I wanted to share that with her.  She's more of an Usher kind of girl, which is disturbing since she's 10.  But, you know, R&B, hip hop, it's fun and cool but it's not rock and roll.  We had a killer time even though she wasn't anywhere near as into it as I was.

(Yes, it is a shitty cellphone pic, but it still rocks.)

The concert was awesome.  It sounds lame to say it like that, but I don't have seem to have the words to say how fucking amazing it was to see Foo Fighters in concert.  It was my first time seeing them and my first real concert in almost 12 years.  I saw Chris Cornell on the Euphoria Morning tour the week before I got married.  That was the last concert.  I'm thinking that's grounds for divorce right there.

Anyway, here's the set list.  They played every song I love except Come Alive.  Let's hope they really do come back and play that song at the 9:30 Club.  I will cut someone to get tickets to that concert.  (I wish I were kidding.)

So, I've been sick since Wednesday and called in sick on Thursday and Friday.  I hope my boss is understanding when he finds out I skipped out on work to make sure I had the energy to go to the concert on Friday night.  In my defense, I really was/am sick and I have the snot to prove it if anyone asks.  No one's going to ask, right?