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First, the I did good part.
Last Christmas my mother gave me a hundred dollar gift card to LL Bean (she's gotten to the point at almost 90 where she doesn't shop anymore, and had asked me where I'd like to have a card from). When I went to spend it last January, they were already sold out of the sweaters I wanted to spend it on, so I just hung onto it. Their fall catalog, complete with lots of sweaters, came in yesterday's mail. With a completely-unexpected code for a one-time 20% off my entire order. So I got online and used my gift card and the code, and bought two beautiful new wool sweaters (one crew-neck and one zip front) and a nice shirt, and paid only $3.86 out of pocket. Bean's is expensive by my standards, but their stuff never goes out of style (I suspect because it was never in style in the first place, but then neither am I [g]), and it lasts forever. So I'm pleased.
Second, day three of the ten-day meme:
Ten Day Journaling Challenge
Day One: Ten random facts about yourself.
Day Two: Nine things you do everyday.
Day Three: Eight things that annoy you.
Day Four: Seven fears/phobias.
Day Five: Six songs that you’re addicted to.
Day Six: Five things you can’t live without.
Day Seven: Four memories you won’t forget.
Day Eight: Three words you can’t go a day without using.
Day Nine: Two things you wish you could do.
Day Ten: One person you can trust
I run the risk on this one of sounding just a bit, er, not quite on my nut. Frankly, I don't care [g]. Also, some of these are seriously first world issues. So, not in any particular order except as I thought of them...
1) Ghost jams (those traffic jams with no visible reason for existence).
2) Misbehaving inanimate objects.
3) Bad service in restaurants.
4) People who make assumptions without asking first. Actually, let's just go with people who make unwarranted assumptions about other people, period.
5) Being lied to.
6) Not being able to choose my relatives.
7) Fall coming before I was ready for summer to end.
8) Relatives who ask questions that aren't any of their business.
Lastly, this is one seriously odd point of view character I'm writing this time. And I'm at least half sure I may end up writing her into a corner because she's so limited (as in I'm really scared that there's going to be stuff that needs to be in the book that she has no way of seeing or hearing). But she's the one who is insisting on telling the story, and no one else has stepped up, so here we go.
Over 800 words today, anyway, and I think I've hit the end of Chapter 1.
Last Christmas my mother gave me a hundred dollar gift card to LL Bean (she's gotten to the point at almost 90 where she doesn't shop anymore, and had asked me where I'd like to have a card from). When I went to spend it last January, they were already sold out of the sweaters I wanted to spend it on, so I just hung onto it. Their fall catalog, complete with lots of sweaters, came in yesterday's mail. With a completely-unexpected code for a one-time 20% off my entire order. So I got online and used my gift card and the code, and bought two beautiful new wool sweaters (one crew-neck and one zip front) and a nice shirt, and paid only $3.86 out of pocket. Bean's is expensive by my standards, but their stuff never goes out of style (I suspect because it was never in style in the first place, but then neither am I [g]), and it lasts forever. So I'm pleased.
Second, day three of the ten-day meme:
Ten Day Journaling Challenge
Day One: Ten random facts about yourself.
Day Two: Nine things you do everyday.
Day Three: Eight things that annoy you.
Day Four: Seven fears/phobias.
Day Five: Six songs that you’re addicted to.
Day Six: Five things you can’t live without.
Day Seven: Four memories you won’t forget.
Day Eight: Three words you can’t go a day without using.
Day Nine: Two things you wish you could do.
Day Ten: One person you can trust
I run the risk on this one of sounding just a bit, er, not quite on my nut. Frankly, I don't care [g]. Also, some of these are seriously first world issues. So, not in any particular order except as I thought of them...
1) Ghost jams (those traffic jams with no visible reason for existence).
2) Misbehaving inanimate objects.
3) Bad service in restaurants.
4) People who make assumptions without asking first. Actually, let's just go with people who make unwarranted assumptions about other people, period.
5) Being lied to.
6) Not being able to choose my relatives.
7) Fall coming before I was ready for summer to end.
8) Relatives who ask questions that aren't any of their business.
Lastly, this is one seriously odd point of view character I'm writing this time. And I'm at least half sure I may end up writing her into a corner because she's so limited (as in I'm really scared that there's going to be stuff that needs to be in the book that she has no way of seeing or hearing). But she's the one who is insisting on telling the story, and no one else has stepped up, so here we go.
Over 800 words today, anyway, and I think I've hit the end of Chapter 1.
