I've been somewhat sick half the week, but I've discovered that taking Nyquil before bed = awesomeness. What? Sleep through the night? Without my head congested and generally unbreatheable? Wake up feeling better not worse the next morning? Yeah! Why haven't I done this before?

Because I've been a head full of mucus this week, I've use this as an ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the first ever Mindful Writing Day, organised by Kaspa & Fiona at Writing Our Way Home! Yay!

To join in simply slow down, pay attention to one thing and write it down (making a small stone ). As per Fiona: "small stones are easy to write, and they will help you connect to the world. Once you've started, you might not want to stop..." ( Read more... )

1. Anti-Nano
November is generally known as the month my family stares at me in wonder and shakes their heads as I dive into National Novel Writing Month. Generally, they think of me as a crazy person for this (except for my youngest sister, who occasionally participates, too).  I will not be participating in the official Nano this year, however, as ( Read more... )

I had a lovely, relaxing four day weekend with my family. In addition to a full weekend of fabulous food (half of which was gluten free) -- candied yams, leftover turkey sandwiches, leftover turkey soup, cookies, brownies, and four different kinds of pie -- we also participated in nightly rounds of 31 (a card game).

On Friday, we went to see The ( Read more... )

My post-apocalypse Halloween costume this year came together quite well. I've posted updates of the skirt I made. I followed that up by cutting up some t-shirts and layering them, tearing some holes in some old leggings and adding some cool goggles and boots. Oh, yeah, and let's not forget the giant machete.

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I'm a little stumped as to how the year warped by. Christmas decorations are already out (granted they've been out for a considerable while now, but still). And Nanowrimo has begun. I can hear the clacking of keyboards as frenzied writers get to work.

Unfortunately I'm not one of them. Nano is too much for me this year. I'm traveling to Alaska to ( Read more... )

Project: Untitled Alternate World Novel
New Words: 5,126 (Two days worth of writing.)
Current Total Word Count: 25,131
Goal: 50,000+ words

Random Sentence(s): The children ran up the rows collecting the stones, laughing and shoving and pushing. It was a race and the children threw the stones into separate piles, which their father would count ( Read more... )

I've fallen rather behind on Nano. And what's more, instead of writing or even going on one of my walk/runs for marathon training, I spent last night in a frenzy of watching TV episodes on hulu.com. I watched the latest Heroes and Dollhouse episodes, and then discovered that hulu also has some old Buffy episodes, so I went and watched three of ( Read more... )

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While I still did not complete a significant amount of the tasks I set for myself last week, I still came out of the weekend feeling fairly accomplished. Not only did I get back into the groove of completing my morning poetry/journaling routine, but I also completed all of my marathon training days and made some progress on the writing front. This ( Read more... )