Well, once again I've been bad about posting anything. I will admit that most of my keeping up with people lately is via facebook, and that while I read posts on here, I don't generally write anything much anymore. However, as I'm curious to see how many I've gotten to this year, and because I like keeping a record, I will at least update my book ( Read more... )

The world lost one of the most wonderful people in it yesterday. Barb finally succumbed to ovarian cancer yesterday. I'm having a hard time accepting it. Barb and losing just don't go together in my mind, but I know she fought as hard as she could. Cancer just doesn't play fair. Much love to the many people affected by her loss ( Read more... )

When I went to feed Chaucer this morning, he was very quiet and still, and wouldn't eat anything. When he did move, he was moving funny, so I picked him up, and as soon as I did, I knew he was on his way out. I just held him and kept him warm, petting him and having my last time snuggling with him. Within in an hour or so, he was gone. He never ( Read more... )

It's been a crazy year. I did not reach my annual goal of 40 books, but here is the shiny list, even so ( Read more... )

Don't think I'll reach my yearly goal this year on books, unless I do some creative counting in the next 12 days, but considering how crazy this year has been, I've still gotten a decent amount of reading done ( Read more... )

I can't believe how much rain we've been getting the past couple days. I must say, it's really effecting my mood at this point. I feel like I'm getting sick, but I think at least 50% of that feeling is stemming from the fact that I haven't seen the sun in several days. I'm really not looking forward to this morning's drive in to work, and was ( Read more... )

Hopefully not, as it's only the 6th of November, and this year I'm not planning on stopping when I hit 50k, as it looks like I might be able to get a good chunk more than that. I am happy with my progress again, as I've gotten back a bit of a word buffer, and I have most of the day tomorrow to make another nice dent in my word count. I'm also ( Read more... )

Not sure what I've done, but my back is definitely not the happiest of campers right now. We did go in the spa this evening, and that has helped a bit, but I even skipped fencing, as it seemed silly to drive out there to just stand there to coach my kids without actually being able to demonstrate ( Read more... )

This whole having to go to work thing makes getting a good chunk of writing done in a day. It doesn't help that I'm also hitting the part of the story that I'm not quite sure how to write. I think I might take a bit of time tomorrow to actually plan out this middle chunk before I end up writing a really crappy middle chunk.



10840 / 50000 ( Read more... )

I went to my first write in this evening, and I really enjoyed it. Made some good progress on my word count as well, and I'm now several days ahead. This is good, as between work and fencing tomorrow, I'm not likely to have much time to write.

I did also finish reading Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters this afternoon. I'll have to figure ( Read more... )