Typos
I am pathologically incapable of typing the words "of" and "something" at any speed. I have come up with at least three variations on "something."
The novel is coming along, I just have to put the chess pieces in the right places. Right now
Alison Hawke
Heading for the finish line
I have seven thousand words left to go to complete the NaNoWriMo goal of fifty thousand words in thirty days. I think I'm going to make it. The novel is nearly seventy pages long, the longest thing I have ever written. There is one big confrontation to go,
Settling in
Sehlat sent me an email last night saying "Your blog's disappeared!" It's all back now. Sehlat gets a gold star for finding the blog in the few minutes after I renamed the old directory and before I created the new one while I was
Woo Ha!
Got my forty thousand words! Hubby is fetching Buffy season seven from his car! Yay!
Recipe: Kedgeree
I had a recipe book on the counter while I was making kedgeree Monday night and what I made bore no resemblance to the book, the recipe's been wildly modified. So this recipe is my version of kedgeree. It's comfort food, feel-good food, Anglo-Indian
Bribery!
This is so wrong I don't have words to describe it.
From: Hubby
Date: Tuesday November 16th
I have the *perfect* carrot on the end of a stick for you for reaching 40,000 words (7229 words from now, according to your blog, so, 4 days hence...)BUFFY
National smoking ban
Bhutan to stub out tobacco sales. Excellent news!
The remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has decided to ban all tobacco products from Wednesday, a government notification says. Shops, hotels, restaurants and bars selling tobacco products have been ordered to dispose of existing stocks before 17 December. The tobacco ban will
Good things
* Knitting morning at my house.
* Surprising Rox at knitting morning with a birthday cake.
* Starting the hemp socks.
* Breaking thirty thousand words on my novel on Saturday.
* Missy moving from Florida back to St Louis, and turning up in church this morning.
* The water being back on at the house
Stitch 'n Bitch Nation
My month has officially been made. A copy of "Stitch 'n Bitch Nation" is on its way to me from Debbie Stoller, because one of the knitting tips I sent her is in the book! I was planning to get the book for the Union Jack sweater,
*Snort*
Apparently the war on the Ivory Coast isn't affecting business quite so badly, anyone wanting a 15% share of "Fiftenn million,seven hundred thousand United State Dollars" should wake up and smell the 419 scam. Spelling errors have been left in this noxious piece of spam