Update

Yesterday's tea and pie and crafty goodness w/ Ami_B went wonderfully well. :-D

I now have my mom's tote-bag finished - in the sense that it is now a tote-bag - and am working on the embroidery part.
So far, I have stitched "Glorious are the Woods in" onto the bag in lovely, squash-like orange thread. :-)
Must add "their latest Gold and Crimson" plus the author's name (William C Bryant - though I may just shorten it to 'Bryant' for the sake of space), and then appliquer the autumn leaves onto the bag.
That last bit requires getting some appropriate-coloured thread. (Woops).
But that's going pretty well.

Plus, now I know that, when I do my sister's bag? I need to do the embroidery *before* I sew the bag-pieces together. It will make things a *lot* easier. Particularly since her quotation is somewhat longer. :-)



Re: Nanowrimo: Have cleared 20K (yay!) and am writing a happy sexual flash-back story so that I don't jump from "OMGwejusthadsex! Uh. Now what?" to "I can't do this anymore. You're a lush." with nothing in between despite the passage of about three years.
(Besides, it's fun and takes up word-count). :-)


In Other News: Going to the Ottawa Citizen Job Fair today. Must photocopy resumes before I go to work. :-)


Also: My mom just wrote to me asking if I want to go to Toronto and see my sister next weekend. This may involve some negotiation with Paul as I think his grandmother's birthday party and/or the Brother-In-Law weekend of insanity, is next weekend. This could be tricky.


- TTFN,
- Allison. :-)

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I'm having a day.

you know, one of those ones where nothing actually bad happens, but you come home exhausted anyway?

<*sigh*>

I forecast bleeding within two days. (Although most likely starting on Thursday, in the name of inconvenience).



I am, it appears, going to Toronto (and then on to London, and then back) on Friday, for the weekend. My mom sent me an e-mail this morning saying "Wanna come?"
I negotiated shortening my Friday shift so that I can go - provided Mom's willing to wait the extra hour (or, potentially, two, depending on how we sort this out) to go.
So now I just wait to hear what she says.
(I am assuming things will be fine).


So that's my excitement for the moment.


I have 21,000 words, or so. Hurrah! :-D Tonight, I write (which, granted, is not that unusual). I have two potentially long and/or emotional scenes on the go, which is good because if I can get on a roll with either of them, I should be able to up my word-count significantly - which is good/necessary due to the likelihood of getting NOTHING done, writing-wise, this weekend. (Which means... oh, bugger. I basically have to crack 30,000 by early afternoon on Thursday... Hm... 3,000 words tonight it is, then. :-)


Anyway. Paul's on his way home, so I should get dinner started. :-)

(I finally got that Libation wine, so I should pour that out, too).


[EDIT 1: Okay. Novel Stuff: I need to be able to explain Kit's reasons for not being able to enter into a 'steady' romantic relationship with Nita the way Kit would see it in her own mind.
See, I know that Kit's emotional state is such that, as far as she can grok it, if she starts going out with Nita, she's cheating on Daniel (her late, violently-killed-five-years-earlier husband) all over again.
However, I can't just *say* this to the reader. I have to make it clear that this is what's going on, but I have to do it in such a way that it's clear Kit doesn't realize how stupid/self-destructive this is.
Somebody help Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!]


[EDIT 2: 23,476! Ha! :-D]


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)