I WIN!!!!!

I just passed the 50,000 words to win NaNoWriMo! I am SO excited. I have four more chapters to write by the 30th (after all, I can’t leave the characters on a mountain top – winter is coming). This has been a great month. Oh – my room is clean AND the dishes are done. So there!

Gotta Love NaNoWriMo

What other time can you google things like “how many ribs does a cat have” and actually use the answer? The answer, by the way, is thirteen pairs of ribs.

** Disclaimer: No cats are or will be harmed in the writing of my novel. **

Taekwondo Black Belt Test

We all passed!

This Is How The World Will End

Election Day Food for Thought

Here are some great quotes for election day, I especially liked this one:

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves” — Thomas Sowell (b. 1930)

Go and Vote Tomorrow!

I Want This

Yummy!

Nucking Futs

Let me explain, no there is to much. Let me sum up.

– The Princess Bride

We have a new kitty. We agreed to take the female stray that was hanging around at work if they could get the spay/neuter task force to fix her. She was going to be an outdoor cat, until she journeyed 2.5 miles back to work, including going over the bridge! So we moved her into my office. Unlike the other cats, she is super friendly, I was getting mauled every time I tried to work. So we have 2.5 house cats now (the boys’ cat goes in and out). This spring we will let Stella (guess what movie the kids watched before they named her) go in and out as well. After she knows where home is and comes to my patented food whistle. Pictures someday soon.

I have some wooly bunnies. I was able to get a breeding pair of Angora rabbits. A one year old purebred German Angora buck and a six month old 85% French/15% German Angora doe. The French Angoras are supposed to be the easiest to care for, due to the percentage of guard hairs. The German Angoras are excellent producers. I think this will be a good mix, and if I enjoy them I am going to try to find a purebred German Angora doe. I am looking forward to spinning (or perhaps selling) their fiber. The buck is a sweety too. I will try to get pictures soon.

Under two weeks until my Black Belt test. I promised Kevin I wouldn’t panic, but just typing that made me apprehensive. *Deep breath.*

I joined NaNoWriMo, with a goal to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. So now you know where I got the title of this post. That breaks down to 1,667 words a day. I set my goal at 2,000 just to be safe – 1 chapter a day. I have the chapter titles outlined, and I am doing a phase outline for the next chapter the night before (did that make sense?). I did chapter one today, 2,105 words. In case you are wondering, its a story about a cat (with human qualities) being drawn into a magical world and fighting an oppressive overlord. It has elements of my favorite books (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Space Trilogy, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) and the MMORPGs I have played (Asheron’s Call, World of Warcraft). I have no intention of being held down by reality. It should be fun. If you want to see how I’m doing – and either cheer or give me a kick in the pants (or accuse me of being crazy), go here.