Monthly Archives: November 2006

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Hi again

Some of you may have noticed that my blog was down for a while- some server problem that my darling husband fixed. In the probleming a post was lost, about how accident prone I was the other day. The important bits: I tripped up the stairs, banging myself profusely; Zoe didn’t die and was in no way maimed, due to my motherly getting hurt instead; lots of other little accidents happened that day; being around me is hazardous. Ta-da! Post replaced.

I’m supposed to be writing a review right now and am fiendishly procrastinating, so I thought that in honor of Thanksgiving I would begin a list of things I’m thankful for. This will hopefully help prepare and get me in the proper mood for the consumption of turkey.

1. My darling husband

2. My adorable Zoe

3. My family

4. My home

5. books

6. that my mom came and watched Zoe so we could go see Tenacious D

7. that Zoe slept for a good long chunk of time so that everyone involved in going to the concert, or facilitating the going to the concert could sleep

8. the yellow leaves of the tree outside against the blue of the sky

9. rocky road ice cream

10. that Zoe only screamed for 7 minutes tonight before sorting out how to fall asleep

11. my computer

12. Prince (this is a stream of consciousness list, what can I say?)

13. root beer lip gloss

14. my lovely, lovely bed

See how quickly it heads towards sleep? And it’s only 8 o’clock. I’m officially old. Old and tired.

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NaNo Day 3

So, I’m managing to keep my goal of writing every day. I’m still horrifically behind where I’d need to be to get to 50,000 words, but I keep reminding myself that I’m not worrying about that. So, because Becky asked, here’s the next part of the story. (It’s so not long, but hey, what can you do? I had to go to Santa Cruz today.)
I’m including a little bit from last time so there’s some context….

Elizabeth realized that he must be a photographer for a gossip page, and had taken her as the same. She didn

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NaNo Day 2: The Amended Goal

Finding time to write while taking care of the Zoe, planning for Young Women’s, keeping my house in some semblance of order, trying feverishly to catch up on my reading goal, AND having any time to sleep is just dang hard. So, in order to keep my sanity, and not completely give up on my novel which I think has the potential to turn out pretty ok, I’ve amended my NaNoWriMo goal. Forget stressing over making 1700 words a day– if I write any number of words (you know, more than just a few)

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NaNo Day 1

NaNoWriMo, otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as the month when all the crazies in the world aren’t on the street because they’re too busy feverishly typing, begins today. I’m going to need a heck of a lot of egging on this year- it’s hard enough to vomit out