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NaNoWriMo

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A few years ago I tried to do NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo as you obviously already know is NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth. I had thought about doing it again this year. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Obviously I didn’t achieve that when I tried years ago and I haven’t started so I’m not on pace now.

However in my information search about NaNoWriMo I came across an idea called the 750 Words. Every morning you write 750 words. About anything that’s on your mind or anything at all. I figure there’s a few reasons for the 750 words. One it allows you to get anything on your mind off it to start the day write. Two it gets you writing on a daily basis. Three it seems to me that 750 words is just long enough to make you not only write out what you are thinking of (or your initial idea) but also force you to expand upon it. Which is not an easy skill.

So I will write on my blog everyday in November from here on out. 750 words (if I have a word count available to me that is). But 750 words is nothing to shake a stick about. I’m not even close with this entry.

But… Uhm… the 750 doesn’t start til tomorrow. Its Saturday. The end of the week. I need to start fresh tomorrow. So expect a 750 word entry tomorrow. If nothing else I’ll use my Rory’s Story Cubes to get some ideas of what to write about.

However I am kind of excited. I think I may like to turn my blog into a slightly more introspective thing. Or at least make it more personal and full of my thoughts as opposed to a collection of incidents. And having a daily blog piece might correlate nicely to my daily drawings. Of which I still try to do, but need to get much more better at scanning them.

The only off limit thingis work. I refuse to write about workon my blog (other than to say I had a longday, or hard day, or maybe was frustrated at work). No details though.

Huh

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Dropped Sam to get ready for the wedding we are attending this weekend. I now have just over 9 hours to spend in West Chester, Ohio before the wedding starts.

Hope there’s a bookstore nearby.

A full weekend

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My Friday went something like this:

5:30am – Wake Up
6:25am – Leave for work
6:55am – Arrive at work
8:55pm – Leave Work
9:20pm – Arrive at home – Relax at home with Sam and watching some tv, pass out around midnight

There for I spent my weekend trying to relax in every possible way.  Natural History Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Horror Movies and relaxing on the couch, eating at Benihana’s (Japanese Hibachi Grill), some indulgence shopping at World Market (strange junk food heaven), and browsing at Half-Priced Books.

Fire

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Using Mazzy Star to strengthen my calm demeanor facade this morning in the hopes of preventing me from exploding and going off on the first person I talk to today.

A Grave Error

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So I made a pretty big mistake yesterday.  I got home from being at a conference in Columbus for two days and immediately started cleaning.  I took the garbage out, picked up clothes and etc that were left on the ground and vacuumed.

I then went to work on the bathroom.  Not much to do other than pick clothes and wipe down the sink.  I noticed that the toilet didn’t have a cleaning gel disc thingie in it.  We use the Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Cleaning Gel.

I bought it on a whim a few years ago.  It looked easy and different from other such products and it works pretty good.  So I grabbed the little plunger thing, stuck a gel disc to the inside of the bowl and walked away.

Last night I went to use the toilet and noticed the seat was wet.  Being polite and all I didn’t want to come right out and blame it on Sam so I didn’t say anything.  This morning I discovered the real culprit.

SCRUBBING BUBBLES HAS RUINED MY LIFE!!!!

Due to the extreme pressure each flush brings, and where the gel disc is positioned, water comes flying out of the other side of the bowl whenever its flushed.  I never had this problem in the old apartment.  Even with the lid closed water still gets all over the seat, inside lid, and still comes out of the space in between the two.  Granted the gel disc is positioned high enough that its only the water that’s being pumped in that is being misdirected out of the bowl, but still…. ew.

Thankfully these things seem to dissolve pretty quickly.

Till then, don’t leave anything on the floor of my bathroom.