I'm now at 14200 words of Nano. I think I'm slightly behind where I was at last year, but I'm still ahead of where I should be. I'm at the empty blah blah blah stage of the writing where I'm writing filler until I get to the next interesting bit. Best thing is, I'm in love with my male protagonist. Female is a bit of a concern, but that's to be expected, given the trauma she's suffered.
V.
Hmmmm. V.
Great opening sequence. Good plot line. Is in the difficult position of being held up for comparison to not one but two shows. When BSG (mark 2) came out it had to put up with a fair amount of "compared to the old BSG..." while V has to put up with "compared to the old V..." and "compared to BSG (mark 2) ..."
I like it enough to keep watching it and see where they're taking it, but I don't think it's as brilliant as BSG. There, I said it. Aha.
Actually, it's not as brilliant as Flash Forward. I love Flash Forward.
Connor
My baby turns five in 18 days. That's not a baby anymore.
The Time Traveller's Wife (aka The Time Traveler's Wife)
As the biggest TTTW fan in the world, I think I'm the only qualified person to say that Eric Bana IS Henry. So, shut up all you stoopid reviewers.
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I have a full day of work tomorrow so am unlikely to get any writing done then. This, however, is my work for today. And, can I say, I did this on a bad pain day with a nasal infection thrown in for added measure and a child home. Plus I took the car down to have the front tyres replaced (bye bye new vacuum cleaner for another few months).
http://wordmeter.heroku.com/meter/words=1
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An hour and a half alone and a glass of red wine have produced results. I'm now at 5031 words and back ahead of target (slightly) so here's my updated gizmo.
http://wordmeter.heroku.com/meter/words=5
I'm beginning to think I write, just because the gizmo amuses me.
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- Noise factor:On the Turning Away - Pink Floyd.
Okay, I'm recording this, more for my sake than anything else. I want to be able to get to the end of the month and see just how I coped.
But before I do, let me tell you what's happening in my life (in dot point)
- Aiden has discovered testosterone in a big way. He is now nearly a foot taller than me and is using his height to try to intimidate me into doing his will. He's spending a lot of time grounded from PS2, iPod, TV, friends etc as a result. Yes, I'm five foot nothing, he's around 5 foot 11 (that's 153 cm for me and darn big for him), so it can be amusing when he towers over me and leans his arm on my head. It's not amusing when he's yelling at me and calling me a cow. It is amusing (well, for me) when I tell him to give me his iPod as punishment AND HE DOES!
- I'm seeing a psych about my car accident three years ago. This has raised a lot of issues for me, most of them centred around the way I was parented, the way I parent my children, how I dealt with the kids going to live with their dad, the guilt I feel over leaving their dad, my disfellowshipping and where I am with my faith now compared to where I think I should be, the messy parts of my childhood, the good parts of both marriages, Cassie's miscarriage, Aiden's puberty, etc etc. According to the psych this is all relevant to the feelings of chaos that has surrounded me since the car accident and the fact that I don't feel in control of my life anymore.
- I like work a lot more now, particularly as the person I had most problems with is now on maternity leave. However, there is a lot of pressure on staff at the moment to meet ludicrous goals in regards to referrals and sales.
- November is a birthday heavy month and I tread a very thin line between keeping my family happy and keeping myself happy. Compromise is the name of the game, in theory, but in practice I do things I don't want to and yet no one (in my family) ever offers to come to the Memorial (our most important night) or to any of the talks. So, I'm about to get a lot stricter and say NO to the celebrations that I don't celebrate.
- I've been reconnecting with my old school friends, pals, buddies, associates and am realising just how much I hated school and why. I was horribly bulllied. It's a wonder I'm not standing on a water tower with a sawn-off shotgun right now :))))
And now, onto Nanowrimo.
Today I've written 1332 words giving a total of 4013. I'm slightly behind target, but expect to make that up tonight when Lee's out tutoring.
And now, here's a picture.
http://wordmeter.heroku.com/meter/words=4
I've actually changed my mind about my novel. I'm not working on Xenoi after all, but a work called All Things New.
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I'm not going to post everyday, but I did want to give you my results for day one.
Lee and I took our Nano groupie kaelajael down to Dome today and wrote our first words while eating cheesecakes, wedges and chips and drinking coffee, wine (okay, that was just me) and lemon, lime and bitters. The five teens took the two littlies and skeddaddled for a couple of hours (thanks be to the Triffen kids for their help today) while the three of us wrote.
At the end of the two hours I had 2681 words. I'm trying out this new gimic for my word metre. It's not working (for me) quite in the way promised, but if you click on the link, it should still show what I've done.
http://wordmeter.heroku.com/meter/words=2
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A message for my Clarion friends. What on earth did you see in Xenoi? I'm reading through it again and wondering who on earth wrote this drivel. Surely not I? Never. A novel, Peter? Really?
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My main writing songs are Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve), No More I Love Yous (The Lover Speaks), Don't Go (Hothouse Flowers) and Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) (James). They are also, surprisingly enough, the songs I listen to when I feel so depressed I want to slit my wrists.
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I started to share this happiness as a comment over at girliejones' LJ, but decided I wanted the rest of my friends to share my happiness too.
I wanted to file my nails on Friday night so was going through some old handbags that are destined for the bin (just as soon as I pluck up the courage). I couldn't find a file, but I did find my trusty pink iPod, which had been missing for close to five months.
Surprisingly, I had searched that very pocket of that very bag at least 10 times since losing my iPod with no luck and even more surprisingly, I knew about 7 seconds before I even opened the bag that I was going to find the iPod at that moment.
I can't tell you how happy I am. Nor how happy Erin is. I replaced the iPod with a new updated blue version and had promised my little girl that I'd give her the pink if I ever found it. Now I'm stuck because even though the blue has way more giggage, I don't love it anywhere near as much. What to do? What to do?
Now, does anyone know where I put my nail files?
Edit: Erin now has 38 songs on her pink iPod. She also has a lecture about the great love I have for that iPod ringing in her ears.
Edit again: Nail files were in the car.
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My beloved and I were browsing in Angus and Robertson's the other day, looking for, you know, a book, of some description, that, like, you know, caught our eye and demanded we buy it.
Amusingly one book caught our eye for just the wrong reason.
K A Bedford's Time Machine's Repaired While You Wait was sitting, waiting for the knowledgeable reader to pick it up from, wait for it, the Australian Non-Fiction section.
Now, I've read this wonderful book and while I can attest to the fact that the book was definitely written in Australia by an Australian, but is not, best to my knowledge, Non-Fiction.
Unless management have their own time machine and know different.
Adrian?
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petermball you heard right. Xenoi. My Spartan hemaphrodite hero returns, this time in novel length.Anyone who wants to friend me can look for battblush. If it aint broke...
- Where am I:between short stories
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I sent my kids to bed last night at 6.45 and it really was 6.45, not 5.45 in disguise. Fan-freaking-tastic.
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Intelligent conversation on an adult level.
Con:
Mostly, though, it's worse than trying to speak to a toddler. At least with a toddler you KNOW they can't be reasoned with so you don't even try.
Pro:
Free to cheap babysitting.
Con:
Most of the time you're too scared of them to even ask for the favour.
Pro:
They cook for you.
Con:
Sure they cook, but they use every utensil and piece of food in the house, but don't bother cleaning up afterwards.
Pro:
They tower over you and envelop you in their long arms when you need a hug.
Con:
You have to trick them into said hug.
Pro:
Ummmm....
Con:
They think grunting is acceptable communication.
Pro:
Errr, wait, I can answer this.
Con:
They argue in such a way that you feel like you're in the wrong plus, they reduce YOU to toddler level so you end up stamping your foot and throwing things while screaming.
Pro:
They know how to set up the video/Foxtel/DVD/game system of choice.
Con:
They hog it so you can't use it.
Pro;
They are the most wonderful, intelligent, gorgeous children in the world.
Con:
Their report says otherwise.
Pro:
When they say they love you it's the bestest feeling in the world.
Con:
There is no con to this.
Pro:
They can make you very proud just by bringing the washing in without being asked.
Con:
They can make you understand why animals in the wild eat their own young.
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- Noise factor:Lily Allen. I'm not saying which song, but it contains a swear word.
If Adelaide throws up dead fish on the sea shore and Brisbane undergoes a sudden plague, I'll be heading straight to the Kingdom Hall.
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When I left school I applied to the brand spanking new ECU to do my teaching degree. Life was not on my side however. My dad had just died, I was coming to terms with years of abuse at his hands as well as trying to cope with the mental abuse of my new guardian. English was my escape, but all my other marks barely scraped through. I missed out by 19 marks.
I joined the R&I Bank and bided my time until marriage and family took over all my thoughts. I did my STAT test in 1993 with a view to maybe studying at Curtin, but pregnancy threw that out the window.
In 2000 I decided to try again. My youngest was now at school full time and I was wanting to do something more with my life. I applied and, thanks to the combined TEE and STAT scores, was accepted into ECU to do my BA English. The thought was that I'd do the degree then finish up with the Dip Ed.
Then my marriage fell apart, I met Lee and I found I couldn't cope.
A few years later I tried again. I was pregnant with Connor, but I thought I could cope with doing one subject. And so I did. With that one subject I was able to finally meet all my first year requirements.
After a difficult pregnancy came my difficult baby and uni was dropped again. I decided there and then to accept my lot and to stick with banking/wifing/mothering/writing.
I love the wifing. The wifing is gold. The mothering isn't so easy. I have to work at trusting my kids not to break my heart (again). Writing comes and goes. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't, but I'm not passionate about it anymore.
I hate banking.
Hate it.
And I want to change. The only way to bring about that change is to take positive steps and so, today, I did it! I sent in my TISC application to study Early Childhood and Primary Teaching at Murdoch next year.
This is it. Connor starts at Pre Primary full time next year and I plan on starting uni at the same time.
And I plan on losing 8 kg by the time I do so. But that's another story.
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Erin: "My boyfriend just murdered me, chopped me up and threw me under the bed."
Just so you know, there are some games we stop. This was one of them.
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Lee: Well, we went to these large places that were full of books and newspapers and there we could spend hours looking up all the knowledge in the world. It was called the - the - the - ummm....googlearium.
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We were supposed to go and visit a good friend for the weekend but at the last minute got a "by the way, we have swine flu" email. So, I decided to invite my brother and his family for the weekend. Got an sms back saying "would love to, but, we have swine flu."
The circle is closing.
Part of me wishes my friend hadn't said anything and that we'd gone ahead in ignorance. Now we have to be all responsible and stuff :)
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So, this swine flu thing.
How likely are the kids to get it in the normal run of things?
If we decided, for example, NOT to expose the kids to an infected friend, is it likely they'd get it somewhere else anyway?
I've heard of three friends/workmates being infected in the past week.
The clock is ticking.
Should we steer clear or should we bite the bullet and expose them now?
Your sick child wil always ALWAYS make a miraculous recovery five minutes before the doctor's appointment.
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