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Where do you go to get away from it all?
Submitted by Hops.
this one is easy. i hop on a plane and head down to AZ. my uncle and his family are down there and we are practically the same age. my parents own a house which sits empty for most of the year. so it's sparse and easy to maintain. there are only things you need. 4 plates, 4 bowls, etc. when stuff gets dirty, you wash it. i sweep the patio every morning. it's simplier there. however, it's a production getting down there with the boo and the plane tickets and renting a car and whatnot.
it's totally worth it though.
we are heading down for thanksgiving.
psycho jen wants a new nickname. which still totally proves she's psycho. but she wants to be known as the "no fun friend". she feels she's a total downer because she's going through infertility and her mother-in-law had her hip replaced and isn't recovering well.
What's the best thing since sliced bread?
The Black Crowes.
Jack Bauer.
Giggles.
i haven't been updating here because things are too hectic. my beautiful, wonderful, graceful mother passed away on November 11. i am saddened beyond words. nanowrimo was thrown out the window, my non fiction writing class i bonked on. sorry kids, but i'm taking a break from you too.
who knows when i'll be back, but i'll be watching when i can.
all my love
p.s. do me a favor over the holidays. take a picture of you with your mom (or mother figure) if you have one. the last good picture that i have of me and my mom is from 1995.
got a lot done at my mom's yesterday. not as caught up as i'd like to be though. hopefully, i'll crank out some more after boo goes to bed. and she's at daycare tomorrow, so i'll hopefully get more done during the day. i explained some of the story to my mom yesterday and she thought it sounded good. of course she's my mom, but she reads a lot and when i explained some of the plot twists she thought they were solid.
i have decided on an ending too. that's a nice thing to have in mind.
technically it's day 5 since it's after midnight. i am about 2000 words behind, but am going to babysit my mom tomorrow and hopefully i can catch up. i need to go to the library and get a book to help with research. i totally blabbed to my cousins that i am doing this. they all wanted to know what my novel was going to be about. i didn't tell them, because my mom was sitting there. she's in fragile health and i didn't want to disturb her by saying i was writing a Jack the Ripper novel.
lots of distractions this week. tig coming into town didn't help, and aunt iowa is here now, so i am trying to spend a lot of time with her. i am not too downtrodden about being behind, not yet. i am sure that my cranking out a few solid hours of writing tomorrow will put me back on track.
i am going to try and convince jcsg into coming up to the cabin with me for a weekend of writing. it will be cold as hell, so there won't be much to do except sit inside, drink, and write. dualling laptops if you will.
ok, so i'm off to bed. word count is below.
What would the title of your autobiography be?
Submitted by princesskasren.
"Don't Freak Out for Me"
Dedicated to Marcie, who has heard all of this shit before.
ok, so for whatever reason i couldn't post on Vox until just now. and i fucked up my numbers already because while i thought i had hit the goal yeaterday, i was like 1000 words off. so now i am really in a k-hole.
outside life things are totally hectic and i am feeling like i am failing at this novel before i was even able to give a good go. i want to say that i'll make up for it this weekend, but i have to babysit my mom all day on sunday. i am charging the lap top in the hopes that she takes a nap, but i'm not counting on it.
i feel like i've totally fucked this up already and there is no way to salvage. i am just at a loss for finding time.
