h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As Dmitri pointed out, I had 3 themes woven throughout this year's NaJoPoMo: travel, fudge, and PaperKid's basketball games.

While I have paid my airfare (the biggest single expense for the trip), I do have some other fairly large chunks of cash to lay out. However, those can't be paid for until 90 days before use, those ends will have to stay loose for a bit longer. I should probably get around to getting my passport application in pretty soon, though.

The Holiday Fair was last weekend. I didn't get as much fudge made in the end as I'd planned on, but it turned out to be just as well. The Fair was spread out over roughly 3 times the hours that a day at the Farmer's Market covered. We brought in around twice the money of an average day at the Farmer's Market... My fudge fridge is stuffed full.

PaperKid's basketball team came out of the regular season undefeated! Though the last game was a real nailbiter--final score was 20-19, with the opposing team's last basket being made close enough to the end of the game that there would've been time for one last basket by either team, but not time for another. The Jaycees tournament began this afternoon, with PaperKid's team scheduled to play the first game vs. a team that they'd not played before. We still haven't played them--they are from a town 2 hours away, and forfeited due to nonarrival (though the other out-of-town teams showed up from farther away). Coach R and Coach K stayed to watch the next game, as we will be playing the winner tomorrow. The Paper Clan stayed, as well. Tomorrow's first game should be a good one, going by what we saw tonight. The winner of tomorrow's first game (first for PaperKid's team, not of the day--our game isn't until 11:30, while gameplay starts 2 hours earlier) will go on to the championship game at 8pm, while the loser will play for 3rd place at 5:30pm.

In and around the games, we've been invited to breakfast and the 4H Christmas party. Depending on how the morning game goes, we'll either be late for the party or have to leave early--the option of simply not going hasn't even been mentioned

Fantastic regular season of Basketball Shame the other team didn't manage to turn up for the tournament game, but hopefully that means PaperKid's team is fresh and ready to go

Say "fudge fridge" five times fast!

Biggest single expense? Would it help t marry it off?

PaperKid's team lost the other 2 games, putting them in 5th (of 8 in their division). Did better than the other local schools in their division, though. Not coming in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd means that Coach R won't be shaving his head, nor will Coach K be getting a pie in her face.

Oh so they did it on purpose to be nice to the coaches. So sweet of them.

Uh, sure, yeah, that was it...

Obvious !

Half of those sports I don't even understand the rules for.