Would that it would snow...

Today was very brisk and cold. As I drove from Salem to Hometown, I saw the clouds heavy, heavy, heavy with snow. I wanted to stop and take pictures of the watertower behind the vo-tech school because the dark clouds made the light blue of the tower stand out for perhaps the first time ever. I didn't even know the vo-tech had a water tower until today.

In other news, they ruled out the possibility that I have some sort of weirdness in my lungs by doing a CT Scan on me today at the hospital. Glad that I don't have a pulmonary embolism. Sux that I'm going to have a huge bill to pay. The medical system in this country is so fucked up. (Things to look forward to, Tiara, when you come back to the U.S.--horrible health care and tremendous bills for even the smallest things. I'm so sorry you're coming back to this Darwinian Mess of a Health Care System before we managed to figure out how to get everyone equal coverage under the law. Nonetheless, welcome back!!!)

Now, I just need to get my breathing under control. I've been really short of breath lately. I wonder if I have asthma?

Sorry for the rambly. Not feeling all that great these days.

Another Cold

I have caught another cold. Sux.

But I just ate an awesome chicken and mushroom brioche! (I won't blog about it though.) ;-)

I feel absolutely awful, which is a shame because I've been enjoying a somewhat drawn-out celebration of my birthday, which I've perhaps enjoyed too much.

Anyway, more once I'm on the other side of this cold.

Happy Holidays, everyone!!!

First Day of NaNoWriMo...

OK, so it's the first day of NaNoWriMo, and I was intending to go to bed early, get up at midnight, and immediately start writing. But alas, I came down with the flu yesterday and so there was nothing but sleep in the works for me. I woke up at 4:30 a.m. with the thought of *maybe* starting then, but at that point, everything above my shoulders felt like it was on a spring. I was a bobble-head doll.

SPROING!

So I went back to bed. Now I'm about to dig in and start writing. I have to remember that this doesn't have to be the Great American Novel (here on out referred to as the GAN), it just has to be finished. Or at least meeting the word count. So I think today I will do the following:

1. Rest a-plenty. This does involve orange juice, copious amounts of herbal tea with lemon and honey, and at least three episodes of "The O.C." (Don't judge me!!! It's healing with brain candy.)
2. Look over my character sketches and outlines one more time, make sure I've got basic (extremely basic) plot points worked out.
3. Re-read the first few chapters of No Plot? No Problem! by NaNoWriMo God Chris Baty.
   
4. Consider what I want my first scene to be.
5. Start writing.
6. COFFEE!
7. Stay awake long enough to take advantage of that extra hour as we move from EDT into EST at 2 a.m.

Woo-hoo!

And awaaaaaay we go!

Sick.

Tonight, I would love to write, but I am sick as a dog. So I'll postpone all wisdom until tomorrow. Need to go to bed.