Month: November 2006

God, so far it stinks to high heaven. I do this every year, and every year, while I can see the page numbers increasing with each passing day, the stink factor also increases expodentially. My step-daughter asked if she could read what I had written already, and I told her no because I don’t want her to read it and think that I’m a horrifically bad writer. Well, maybe I am no matter what, but I don’t want her using the first 17,000 words of my nano novel as a benchmark. “Ya, my step-mom calls herself a writer but I hope she doesn’t quit her day job.” Well, until switching to business analyst for my current contract, I could say “hey, I am a professional writer!” for the past 17 or so years. That’s kind of neat. I mean, other than looking at that number. I’ve been doing that for how long? Yeesh.

Okay, so anyway, I should be working on my NaNo novel instead of writing this or I’m never going to get caught up…

DisneyLies — your source for bad Disney information

Okay, if you’ve ever been to Disney or ever wanted to go, this site is a laugh-out-loud fake travel guide. Everything in it is a lie – my favorite kind of site!

I have witnesses. I saw something on the way home tonight and I took the family back out with me so they could verify that I wasn’t losing it. A house very definitely had a lit Chistmas Tree in their front window. A LIT CHRISTMAS TREE. I love Christmas, we’ve discussed that before. But I have rules and Thanksgiving is the line I have drawn for doing Christmas decorating.

On the other hand, we all watched the move Elf last night, so I have my faults as well. But watching a movie isn’t the same thing as putting up the tree.

Tonight’s movie, by the way, will be Cars. I love watching fun family movies!

Driving down route 495 this morning, I saw the following bumper sticker.

“Never, never, never, never shake a baby.”

Sweet Jesus, where have I been? I treat babies like martinis! I really do wish I had seen this bumper sticker years ago. I feel like such a jerk now. Thank you, lady in the ratty old car, for being brave enough to take a firm stand on such a controversial topic. I hope the baby-shakers don’t key your car.

Hey, Mr. Dump called a chimney sweep in Maynard (Chim Chimney) and not only did they take his call, they are going to come out and clean our chimney in less than a week! How excited am I? I can’t begin to tell you. Well, I did begin to tell you, but you know, you have to fill in the blanks. It’s been WAY too long since we got the chimney swept. Like, I don’t think we’ve ever had it swept. We don’t have many fires (in the fireplace, not in the chimney, duh) in any given year, and 80% of the time we’re using the fake logs, so our risk is lower than a heavy wood burning fireplace. And we have used those logs that are supposed to clean out the chimney. I assume they are crap and a waste of good money, but it made us feel like we were at least giving it the old elementry school try.

Well after Tuesday I won’t have to worry about it for the whole rest of the year! Woo!