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Eva Mendes adjusts price of clothing line according to mother

Los Angeles, Sep 12 Actress Eva Mendes adjusts the price of her clothing line according to her mother.

The “Place Beyond the Pines” actress uses her sisters as “guinea pigs” for her eponymous clothing line while she knows she can always rely on her mother to keep things grounded, reports people.com.

“My sisters are definitely my guinea pigs and then my mom always keeps me grounded,” Mendez said.

“I will be like, ‘Mom what do you think about this jacket for $79?’ And she’s like, ‘Too much!’ I’m like, mom it’s $79 for a beautiful coat!’ Sometimes we adjust it according to my mom’s opinion,” Mendes added.

But it isn’t just the opinion of her mother that is important to the 42-year-old actress, who has daughters Amada and Esmeralda with partner and actor Ryan Gosling, as she knows the value of listening to her customers.

“We average a collection every six weeks so we’re just constantly making adjustments and really paying attention to what the customer wants.

It's bothering me a lot! But since I've always posted my actual word breakdown, here is this year's. Broke my streak, but now I'll just have to finish it on my own.

It's really hard to recover from two straight weeks of work, weekends included. So I didn't get very far, but oh well. I'll finish it, but in my own time now.

Words today: 1,490 Today's par: 50,000 Total words: 14,308

Excerpt: 

The void surrounded her, pressing in with suffocating stillness. She could do nothing to escape it. It held her down with an invisible force, and she simply lay there, suffering through it in silence.

Then all at once, she heard voices. Her body twitched in surprise and her eyes fluttered again, yet all she could see was black. Still the voices went on, but they were soft and dulled, too garbled to make out.

“Sy… Sylvan…?”

Her own lips parted, but her voice was weak and barely audible. The voices ceased instantly and a hush fell over the void, plunging her back into silence. It gnawed at her. It pushed against her ears like a physical force, drowning her, pushing her deeper into the emptiness.

Even I'm not sure I can write 37k+ words in one day. Between work hours and housing issues, this was the worst November I've had yet.

Words today: 1,069 Today's par: 48,333 Total words: 12,818

Excerpt: 

Her eventual attempt was cut short as the man extended his hand and she again jolted and raised her hands in defense. This only prompted the man’s glaring face to take on an even more sincere look of disgust. His offered hand instead rose and pointed past her and into the trees. “That way.”

“…what?” she asked, hesitantly peeking at him again.

Back in action, but slowly. Headaches and long periods with a computer screen don't mix. Also, family around for holidays.

Words today: 1,457 Today's par: 45,000 Total words: 11,749

Excerpt: 

“Use the wall to guide you,” he advised. “It’s a straight line. You’ll find me soon.”

The girl obeyed, pressing her fingers gingerly to the cold, damp wall of the cave. She almost needn’t bother keeping her eyes open at all, as she was nearly blind in the darkness of the place. Still, she ventured further inside, walking carefully on tired legs. “Sylvan?” she called nervously, her voice growing smaller as nerves overtook her once more. “How far in did you go?”

No overtime this weekend either, so maybe I'll actually write!

Words today: 1,412 Today’s par: 11,666 Total words: 10,292

Excerpt:

“I didn’t realize…” she whispered, and then swallowed hard. “I think… I think I don’t want to remember. I think that it’s bad. I think I blocked it out on purpose.”

“So you don’t want to know about yourself? Who you are?”

“Not if it hurts.” She pushed her hands to her eyes, trying to dam the flow of tears. “My chest hurts… If it hurts this much even when I can’t remember, then… I don’t want to feel it all come back. I don’t want to find out.”

Still no overtime due to network outages at work. Should start tomorrow, more likely, and again I should've used my time more wisely. But I'm tired.

Words today: 1,480 Today’s par: 10,000 Total words: 8,880

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She saw nothing out of the ordinary behind her. No matter how long she stared through the foggy trees, the only thing there were more trees and overgrown ground. But the urgency of his words had manifested as lingering chills upon her skin and she quietly turned to follow. Her hand reached out and grasped at the back of his shirt like a child wishing to avoid separation from a parent, and he allowed it without a word.