Thanks to Joe from Stratford.net for grabbing the screencap of that, and to everyone who visited CookieCam this year!

It was only a 2-night run, but it was a whole new system and I had a great time with the live format. I’ll definitely do it again next year.

But now? Sleep.

Mogulus is doing server maintenance ’til 6:45pm. So I’ll see you then!

7:04pm Edited to add: Mogulus was great! Rick worked with me on the phone to clear up the issues. Which had to do with my cookies, ironically. Since I’m already into other things, I’m going to do it tomorrow night instead.

im redy 4 my closup mom

Ollie is not that tall. WM is holding him up.

I think I’m ready. Well, I have to get out of my pajamas, but other than that, we’re good to go for Cookiecam at noon.

A few things you’ll notice:

My laptop’s wireless card is dead, so I’m not going to be as interactive as usual. Twitter (I’m @ladygypsy) is probably the best way to say hi, as I’ll have my iPhone nearby.

Even though I’m streaming live (a cookiecam first!) there will be no audio. I listen to music and have the TV on while baking, and I don’t want to deal with copyright issues. And I don’t want to talk to the camera.

If I’m not on camera, I’m in the bathroom or sitting here at the desktop PC tweaking something. Or crying and wondering why I do this stupid thing. Patience!

I’ll be AFK (away from kitchen) at 2:00ish to take the dogs out.

Remember, this is not instructional, This is not professional. This is a talentless hack in her kitchen doing what she was biologically programmed to do in December.

Today I’m going to be baking Glazed Lemon Cookies, some sort of pinwheel cookies, peanut butter blossoms, and maybe some gingerbread snowflakes (cheating, as I have premade gingerbread dough. How far I’ve fallen!)

So at noon, watch at mogulus.com or come back here for an embedded player!

(need to find my cookie cutters and my santa apron!)

Cookiecam lives tomorrow at noon, via Mogulus.com and an embedded player here on ladygypsy.net. I still need to find my web cam and figure out how to get this to work, but by hook or by crook, there should be something online at noon tomorrow.

Live, and hopefully silent, since I really would rather not chat into a camera. I have the voice of a silent movie star. :/

Secondly, I wrote a World of Warcraft Gift Guide for my WoW blog. Check it out!

NaNoWriMo on the other hand has been a lot harder. I have no idea how I did this years ago. Things were looking pretty grim for me at the beginning of the weekend. I had let five whole days go by without adding one word to my story. I was facing the necessity of writing 10K words in one weekend to catch up. I was considering quitting because I was too far behind.

Then I took a breath and broke out the calculator.

To reach 50K in 30 days, you should write 1667 words a day. I’m aiming for an average of 2200 a day, which will still get me to 50K with time to spare.

The “novel” (if you can really call this that) is about a group of people who play an online game and meet in person. It is not autobiographical. I’m having fun developing the various dork characters.

And I’m on the fence about CookieCam. This place is so teeny…

I see two possible scenarios:

1) If I don’t lose my job the first week of December CookieCam will be a limited-night engagement and probably streamed live. I’m looking at picking up a freelance job for about 5 or so hours a week, and I also have an application in for holiday work at my local Disney store*. Time is going to be limited.

2) If I do get laid off (nobody is safe) then I’ll have time to do CookieCam during the day while I’m being paid severance and looking for another job. I’d probably get a bigger audience that way!

*Trying to squirrel away money while I can in anticipation of future layoffs.