Swine flu is busy making us ill Chez Aspie.
I'm understating the experience by saying that it's been most unpleasant.
I'll post all the gory details as soon as I can maintain an upright position long enough.
Please feel free to leave amusing anecdotes in the comment box and please forgive me if I don't reply to your comments for a while.
I'm sorry that I haven't been visiting your blogs lately. I'm really struggling to cope at the moment, work is incredibly stressful, exhausting me long before home time and my 'nypical facade is tenuous at best lately.
By the time I've got N3S in bed, all I want to do is sit quietly with Chopper and let my brain calm down and in the mornings I've been writing before work instead of visiting blogs. I hope it will all settle down at work soon and then I'll have spare energy leftover with which to indulge myself in visiting your blogs.
Jon Mayhew does these posts occasionally. I like to do one when I feel a bit down as it forces me to put things into perspective.
So...my five things that are good in this month of November are:
1) My NaNoWriMo novel is coming along nicely with 11,127 (good) words written so far (971 of them this morning and more planned for later).
2) The Starlings are returning for winter
3) Fluffy Canadian pancake season starts in November at Chez Aspie (yum).
4) Hedgy is settled in the house Chopper built him and seems content to remain 'our' hedgehog.
5) I get a two week holiday from work in 45 days (but who's counting?).
What are your five good things?
p.s. for those of you who are N3S fans, he has done a review of Snow White on his blog
NaNoWriMo word count update:
Sunday 8th November - 12,169
'Morning all and good morning Friday! I've been ready for some weekend since Tuesday evening. I've been very Aspie this week and struggling to cope.
Both jobs continue to be ridiculously stressful with even the most mainstream of mainstream people struggling to cope. So imagine what the inside of my brain's been like... I can only compare it to a mass of swarming ants.Far too much activity going on inside to be able to compartmentalise everything enough to maintain my 'nypical (neurotypical) facade for any length of time.
So excuse the brevity of this post but I've got to go and somehow get ready for this last work day ahead before I can relax into the weekend. I plan to indulge in lots of writing in between family time. Bliss...
This week's wordless Wednesday winners are Trousers with "Look outside - it's raining humans!" and Rachel with "That was just the door creaking, right?" And, I have to point out to those of you who missed it, that Troy left a 'clean' caption. No really, he did! Clean and just as funny as usual.This award is for all three of you.
I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered a caption. Please come back next week and make me giggle again.
NaNoWriMo word count update:
Thursday 5th November - 7,020
Friday 6th November - 7,951
Saturday 7th November - 10,156
I had a great start to my NaNoWriMo today. I was up at 5am and have written 2,719 words already today. I do hope that A Dappled Life continues to flow out of me so easily. It is a novel I have wanted to write for several months now and a lot of it has begun to structure itself inside me already.
I've taken a break to make some fluffy apple pancakes for us, put the pumpkin seeds from our Jack O' Lantern on to roast and to write this post. N1 & N2 sons have gone to do a sponsored truck pull, (as you do, no actually I never have and never will, images of hernias spring to my mind at the very thought), and N3S has settled himself in front of the TV. Now I just need to prise him away from it, help him with his homework and make a custard tart.
After that I have promised to treat myself to another writing session before settling down to watch Snow White with N3S while Chopper magics up a lovely Sunday roast for us. I'll leave you with a photo of N3S's police cat costume and some random comments. Hope you all have a great lazy Sunday whatever you may be doing.
"This risotto looks quite like rice."
"I've done your word Madam!"
"That was like a car lift in a car wash."
"When I flap on my blow it sounds different."
"I kept on seeing the letter eighteen all night."
Word count update:
Sunday 1st November - 3,408
Monday 2nd November - 4,575
Tuesday 3rd November - 5,741
Wednesday 4th November - 6, 503
Thursday 5th November - 7,020
This video is of someones front window onto which they've projected a series of images. Call me a wimp but I think it is very scary!
Meet my new little notebook. Chopper bought it for me as a surprise this week.
I've been coveting a portable computer for some time now. I can use it in class to take notes a lot faster (and more legibly) which will reduce my stress levels once a week and when I'm on the train travelling to work related destinations, which admittedly happens less frequently (the travelling, not the working).
It will also come in handy when I'm writing for pleasure (I can sit on the couch with him instead of at the PC), which I do at least an hour every day and which I'll be doing even more of soon as NaNo starts at midnight tomorrow (shriek I am now questioning my sanity and wondering why I thought it was a good idea to sign up!).
I thought this week's wordless Wednesday photo would be a particularly difficult one to create a caption for, so congratulations to everyone who entered because you're all winners this week.
Leigh for making it obvious she's a real foodie.
Troy for being predictably rude
Faith for the clever play on words
Sheepish for being so observant
Peggy for sheer enthusiasm and productivity
Chopper Ok I have to admit an element of bias as he's my (magnificent) husband but he has a great sense of humour too (well he'd have to really now wouldn't he?)
Nitebyrd for being completely surreal
Dad Stuff for thinking like me
and Tim who doesn't have a blog and therefore can't be a winner (my blog, my comp, my rules) but gets an honourable mention because his caption included one of most delicious desserts ever created (and now I want one, yes, I want one for breakfast).
I'll be back with a lazy Sunday post which I'll squeeze in between my Nano'ing. xo
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