It's Beginning to Look a Lot like...New Years!!!

Because they're putting flowers onto Tournament of Roses floats next door to where I work. They do it every year, though they're a little late getting started this year.

I've been able to see at least three--maybe four--floats inside the temporary tent/building they use. One is for Starbucks. I'm not sure who the others belong to. All were built by Fiesta Floats and moved in there to have the flowers and plant items put on.

And, believe me, it is like a ZOO over there. Like a carnival actually. They use our parking lot, because City of Hope (our landlord) says they can. And, they charge admission and people watch what's going on and eat various kinds of food and they have music and pony rides.

Until Friday. Then, they block the entire street while they take the floats up to Huntington Drive and up the road to Pasadena. That'll REALLY be a zoo then. Police come out to stop traffic and the floats parade up the street in all their newly flowered glory.

One of these years, I'm going to actually go see the parade. I've always wanted to, especially in the 20+ years I've lived in southern California, but I have yet to go. Maybe next year. :)

I could have actually written more tonight, but I hit 2,000 words exactly, which hardly ever happens (the exact word count, that is), so I decided to stop and do some other writing work.


Beginning of the End 2,000 words today

200,277 total words to date


Wow...I passed 200,000 words. Novel's still just on page 768, though. Maybe cause I'm using Times New Roman as my font?