Thursday, December 12, 2002

 

Well, I decided that I would take a break over thanksgiving, so I haven't written anymore on the novel.

December's are just way, way to busy! Plus, my laptop is at the repair shop. James found it one morning smoking and smelling of burning plastic. There's been a short in the power plug part and we thought it cleared up. We hadn't had any problem with the connection in several weeks. Sometimes the connection wouldn't make contact and it had to run on battery power. No big deal, just annoying if you weren't paying attention and the battery ran low and forced a shut off.

Anyway, so we were unable to retrieve any info off of it because when we noticed it the battery was nearly gone and the power cord wouldn't connect (except to burn parts unseen). I thought that my only copy of my novel (except a 30-somethingK word back up) was on there, but just yesterday I realized that I had saved the final version to disk so that I could upload it on this computer for the NaNoWriMo to verify the word count. So, now I have no excuse. Except that December is murderously busy.

I spent all day yesterday wrapping gifts. I have one or two left to wrap, then three packages to put in the mail when our Christmas cards are done, which we should work on this afternoon(maybe). Plus, I got a call from a teacher wanting me to substitute Friday. I haven't subbed in over 3 years. I'm gathering a bag of goodies and games to play to fill in extra time.

AND, my sister, who now lives about 2 hrs away, is moving to Tucson, AZ just after Christmas. THIS Saturday is the only time she has available for us to see her before she leaves. I'm taking a casserole, a salad and pumpkin pie for lunch. No biggie, but the salad I want to have takes forever to make. It's a fresh brocolli salad that is yummy, but the brocolli needs to be cut up and bacon pinched up (imatation bits are nasty) and green onions sliced. I don't know when I'll find the time to make it, but it is a delicious salad.

ALSO, we haven't had a vacation yet this year, so we decided to skip town for two weeks over Christmas. I'm so looking forward to it, but that means time washing clothes, deciding what to take, and packing. And with a 13 month old, that means packing everything but the kitchen sink!

Anyway, so that's what's going on this month. I really want to work on my novel some, I definately don't need to be away from it for a whole month, but I'm not sure when I can squeeze time in to read it.

On top of all that, my body is griping over all the junk that I've already eaten since Thanksgiving. But with all the yummy stuff around it's hard not to eat it. I'm trying to limit it because I don't feel well half the time, but you know how that goes. James and I both are going to try not to ruin our 30+ weight loss this year. So far we've done well to keeping it bouncing around the same 5 pounds. Ahh, I'll be glad when the New Year is here and we get back to 'normalcy' around here. I was looking forward to fitting back into clothes I wore on our honeymoon 8 1/2 years ago.

Dawn posted this at 11:37 AM.

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