We flew to Charlotte on Tuesday night to spend Thanksgiving with my parents, and with Nana and Georgann. Mom wisely banned politics from the house for the duration, which is good because there would have been some Strident Disagreements. (As it was, there were some highly unfortunate comments, but for the most part I have grit my teeth and moved ( Read more... )

I get two more days of this? Bills ( Read more... )

I am grateful for friends, and family, and good food, and a roof over my head, and two adorable fuzzballs who love me. I am grateful for my health, and for the meds that make my brain more tolerable, and for a job I enjoy with coworkers who are great ( Read more... )

Alright. I've totally had six hours of sleep and three glasses of wine, so I am probably mentally competent to talk about NaNoWriMo.

( If you don't want my navel-gazing about the collision of competing priorities that was NaNoWriMo, skip. )

Today I am thankful for my family and friends--the ones I met via electrons on a screen and the ones I know in physical space. I'm thankful for all the food we've had, and for being able to come home for the holiday and see everyone. I am thankful for the awesome place I live, and for my cats, and for all the interesting things in this world ( Read more... )

oh good God.

So I made myself get the hell off Twitter last night because I was being hyper and ridiculous, and having squealed infinitely about my novel with mithrigil, lindensphinx, and
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....because i eated it.

My mother is trying to feed me to death; we had orange spiced scones for breakfast, and then there was the Macy's rickroll, and then there was lots of cooking.

rabbitbenrin showed up around 2:30ish or so and there were snugglins, and I made some vague attempts at nano which thus far amounts to 600 words. Then my mother fed us ( Read more... )

O, Starbucks, how I have missed thee.

In point of fact, I didn't actually miss Starbucks, but there's Internet here. It's beautiful. (Although it is going to take me all night to catch up on everything y'all have posted since Wednesday night.

Thanksgiving was great; my mom and Aunt Snooze cooked a fabulous meal, as always. I spent a lot of ( Read more... )

Yays. Back to Chicago with surprisingly few travel delays. NaNo is currently near 44,000 words. I just finished up the last two pages of the outline, putting the total outline at 8.75 pages. I am currently on the first line of page two. Uh. I am ded of epic, and it's all celeloriel's fault. I went to dinner with her and yi_sen on Saturday, which was great ( Read more... )

Very full of turkey. Got to hang out with rabbitbenrin. Getting closer to caught up with NaNo (only 1500 words behind now.) Wrists hurt like hell so no Thursday Thoughts this week. Bed now ( Read more... )