First, the good news:
I hit 50,000 words on Thursday, thereby winning NaNoWriMo, and celebrated with a delicious box of Count Chocula cereal (thanks, Jae!).
I can’t call it official until I validate my word count, and we can’t do that until tomorrow. Until then, I’ll be on edge, waiting for every computer in the house to simultaneously self-destruct, thus thwarting my victory.
But still… feels good. 🙂
The bad news is that I haven’t got anything done since Friday morning. We have some people coming to look at things that need to be fixed in out house (yay!), but that means that we had to clean the house to make it presentable (boo). Most of it wasn’t too bad, but the kids’ areas (their bedroom and most of the basement) looked like they got hit by a toynado. I had to go into mean mommy mode and spend my days helping them. And then there were little, unimportant things like cooking, dishes, groceries, cleaning everything ELSE…
It’s left me in a REALLY bad mood. As torturous as writing is sometimes (and as good as I am about procrastinating), I do notice a change in my mood when I’m kept away from it for a few days.
If anybody’s going to screw up my writing schedule, it’s going to be me.
In any case, the weekend is almost over. We’re going to go do some Christmas decorating right now, before the boys go to bed (yay!) and watch the Grinch (boo).
What are you all up to this weekend?
disregard the prologue 
November 24th, 2013 at 8:49 pm
Congratulations on your success with NaNo! Anything chocolate is good. Have a glass of wine.
November 24th, 2013 at 8:51 pm
I would of I had any in the house! I don’t keep it around. Too tempting for me.
November 24th, 2013 at 8:51 pm
Grey Cup! Go Cats Go! Oskee wee-wee!
November 24th, 2013 at 8:56 pm
HARRIET IS NOT PLAYING FOOTBALL.
November 24th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Congrats on finishing NaNo! That takes some serious perseverance.
November 24th, 2013 at 9:17 pm
Congratulations!!! Such an accomplishment finishing NaNo you deserve more than a bowl, I’d polish off the rest of the box 🙂
November 24th, 2013 at 11:02 pm
Congrats on NaNo. This weekend watched the Irish win over BYU and Baylor lose to Oklahoma State. Tried to stay warm in the 50 degree South Texas Artic weather.
November 24th, 2013 at 11:04 pm
I’m going to need to look up that temperature conversion, but something tells me I’m not going to feel very sorry for you. 😉
November 25th, 2013 at 7:36 am
Massive congratulations on reaching 50,000 words! 🙂
November 25th, 2013 at 12:24 pm
Congratulations, Kate!!!! What an achievement!!! I reached my semi-NaNo goal of 30,000 words. I didn’t get much writing done this weekend. I hung out with family and friends. Saw Catching Fire–awesome!!!
November 25th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Congratulations on reaching your goal! Let us do the dance of joy together!
I’m jealous you got to see Catching Fire. I probably won’t get to until it comes out on DVD… or unless it’s in theatres for a REALLY long time. Glad you enjoyed it– I’ve heard it’s better than the first one.