Welcome to Nyeusigrube

"We're the only country on earth stitched together by words and, most important, their dangerous progeny, ideas. And those ideas have had weight. They have had force, not just for us in our eternal dealings, but for the rest of the world." ~ Ken Burns

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Welcome to December

Well... National Novel Writing Month is over, and what a month it was. I made my 50k this year; in some ways it was easier than other years, and in some ways it was harder.

It often seemed like there was no way I could finish. There was so much going on. I've had a couple friends dealing with fairly serious health issues this fall, which has occupied a lot of my attention. Meanwhile, Mandi and I are still wedding-planning (we finally arranged a taste-testing with the caterer, which went very well) and... okay, I'll just say it. We've been house hunting. I'll let you know how it goes.

And of course, there's Thanksgiving, which was particularly exciting this year when the oven spontaneously shut down-- completely, oven and stove all turning off, and it's electric, so off means OFF-- about 30 minutes before I expected to take the bird out. There was a lot of discussion about finishing one of the birds on the grill or taking them 15 minutes down the road to my sister's house to finish making dinner as all the handy folk in the house checked circuit breakers (I was the first one to look, but no one believed me when I said nothing was flipped) and pondered.

Eventually, my brother-in-law realized it had been unplugged. Go figure. A few people concurred that this made perfect sense, that it must have been loosened over time, but seriously, how does a major appliance randomly come unplugged when the very large plug is UNDER the appliance? Either way, we got it plugged back in and working again, and managed to serve by 6:30, which is outrageously late to serve Thanksgiving dinner.

All in all, though, it went well. I also managed to acquire Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, so I spent much of Saturday, Sunday and Monday playing that instead of working on my NaNo, which I still managed to finish by 10:30ish.

November has been a little surreal.

Now it's December. Like every year, I've sworn I am not going to the mall this year. The one near us is so overly large it creates its own traffic patterns for a month on each side of Christmas. Like every year, I'll probably be there a few days before Christmas buying last-minute items. Maybe I should just give in and go early instead.

Before then, though, I'm going to Torah study with my fiancee on Saturday morning, followed by a production of Beauty and the Beast that night. Chanukah starts the following Saturday, so Mandi and I will light candles right after I trim the tree and put up the creche with my parents.

And now... now I need to call the lawyer and see if the sellers have signed a contract yet, so we can go to a home inspection...

Welcome to December.

7 comments:

  1. Great to hear you managed to reach 50k, especially under the circumstances. I'm sorry to hear about your friends' health issues. D:

    Unplugged stove...that sounds like something that would have happened at my family's dinner. It was a relatively peaceful day for us, though. I played my own DS for a lot of it. I've been on hiatus on Days, though. I was playing The World Ends with You, which is another great game.

    Hope you have a great Chanukah and get the perfect house!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hey there!
    I live in Sweden. And we don't celebrate thanks giving. But the unplugged stove thing has happened to me to. That is not cool!
    What is a 50 K?
    And I'm really curious. What pets do you have these days? When you and Mandi move to a house, will you bring some or one of the pets from home? Do you still have the labrador dogs? Hatsepshut and Alexander?
    Take care!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Hi! I'm from the Philippines!
    I have grown ever so fond of Amelia's den of shadows series. hahaha 'tis my 1st time to post a comment. I really feel Amelia's vampire characters are true. or am I just imagining that.
    Well, that's all!
    I Love Den of Shadows!
    you can call me Iroki!

    ReplyDelete
  4. oh i forgot, its so unfair that the only book i couldn't have is the persistence of memory and now there is a new book coming alredy *groan*

    ReplyDelete
  5. Waiting for all just glass is killing me. truely I wake up and trun on my lap top and look here to the release date, then ry when all I see is tba ;W.W; then I come home. I do the same thing.-I need a life- Shattered mirror was and is my fav. book of all time. I just cant wait for the net one.

    With Out Wax

    Willow

    ReplyDelete
  6. hi! its me again... school is so tiring that sometimes I wish i was a vampire. L.O.L. waiting the next book is making me nuts hahaha..,

    ReplyDelete
  7. isn't Torah the bengal tiger's name in "in the forest of the night"? just wondering, is your fiance a woman? you called them "mandie" in later post...

    ReplyDelete