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NaNoWriMo Week 2

Crossed the 25k mark this week, but I haven't quite got to the halfway point of the story, that's another few thousand words away. I have a nasty suspicion this one wants to be quite a bit longer than 50k. Characters are turning out a lot

Novelling away

There's a point in NaNoWriMo where you're trucking along writing your story, and one of the characters does something unexpected. You don't know where the words came from but you just typed them and they weren't in the plot, or even in

Workspace

This is where I spend a lot of time, my desk in the craft room: The bay window lets in the afternoon sun and my IKEA desk matches the shape of the window, we stained it together in the new garage. Still a novelty that, we have a garage and

Healthcare comparisons

UK NHS healthcare has been in the news a lot recently: potential new computer-based insomnia treatment, a horrible lack of domiciliary care and patient horror stories in response, online therapy for depression, and the use of continuous deep sedation as a possible alternative to illegal euthanasia. The insomnia article

Project round up

You never know what you have going on until you get it all in one place. Knit: My Eris cardigan is still languishing, sleeveless, and waiting for the hem to be finished. Must complete this one by the end of the year! Hold me to that, maybe I need a

Fourteen years

August 5th is our 14th wedding anniversary! Paul proposed exactly six months after the first date, and we got married exactly one year after that. I love you Hubby.

UKA Karate Tournament

Went to the UKA Karate Tournament on Saturday 18th July in Eureka, about 30 miles from home. Hubby and I turned up on time and watched students perform katas for the judges. I was surprised to see a white belt competing, and some orange belts like me. The white belt

Independence Day

Saturday was our first Independence Day as American citizens. There's an irony in celebrating liberation from the country we were born in. We spent the day around Ste Genevieve with Pat and Jodi and Pat's family, swallowed up as siblings for the day. We got to

Heatwave?

Monday night Hubby and I drove down to the Chocolate Bar for late night dessert: 10:20 pm, 28C (82.4F), and summer has finally arrived in St Louis. Facing a week of temperatures over 30C, Britain is declaring a heatwave. BBC News: Ten ways to beat the heat. After

US Citizenship

Our swearing in ceremony took place on the 28th floor of the courthouse on a blazing hot day. Twenty applicants with friends and family milled around in a marble corridor with great views of the downtown area. We recognised three people from our citizenship test. A court official got us

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