Joie de vivre

-I only know my bank account numbers backwards.

-crystallia wins Gold Stars and whatever other virtual accolades I can heap upon her, for behold, I have in my possession a Cranberries CD and it is Good. I knew nothing about the band when I first listened to it, and I kept thinking, "gosh, what a classic Celtic-sounding voice encased in such non-Celtic music," and lo and behold, it turns out the lead (only?) vocalist is from Ireland. She has the sound of the music I used to listen to on Thistle and Shamrock... I miss that program. Celtic music has the power to move me so deeply.

- I like dark wash jeans very much.

- I went for a spin in the new Mercedes. *geeky grin* I still haven't gotten a decent picture of it, but one will come along one of these days.

- patrick___ asked me which was my favorite of the books I've read so far this year. I take this reading stuff Seriously, so I've taken some time to ponder and I believe I have come upon the answer: Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point. I've read a whole bunch of good books, fiction and non, and it's so hard to pick favorites, but wow, that one kept me riveted. Go read it.

- Part of me wishes I was doing NaNo again this year, and the other part says "Been there, wrote that, got the novel to prove it."

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alissamarie mentioned participating in NaNoWriMo, and I thought "Hm, I've always meant to do that someday, but I can't possibly this year. I've only just gotten my life under control again, and I barely have time as it is to keep it that way."

And then I visited the website, and signed up, and made a profile. And got my plot idea.

So.

I don't know. Maybe for one month I can put aside other things and actually get it done. Because you know me--I want to either do it, or not do it. If I actually do this, I will darn well make the deadline with my 50,000 words or I will be a Most Depressed Person.

Has anybody else done this? Tell me, how much of your life did you have to give up?

But I'll do it, I'm sure I will. I've always wanted to have finished something monumental, even if hastily (ie, badly) written. Rewriting I can handle; the initial setting down is the hard part. If I get that done, I'm good.