Today was not the most pleasant day at work, but it is Friday, and I have lots of things to look forward to this weekend. One of those things may include buying a new car. I will be shopping for one, at any rate. I have a certain car in mind; I have been coveting it for some time, even though coveting is a sin (as if that’s the worst thing I’ve done lately). I hope the local dealerships have some, especially in one of the two colors I would consider acceptable. I will keep you posted on the car status. Because I have been needing a new car for far too long. My current car is in a sad, sad state. Although it runs, which is something.

Yesterday I received in the mail the blue parlor jacket that I ordered from Anthropologie. It was on sale. It is even better in person than it was in its pictures. It is my new favorite item of clothing.

The novel-writing is still flowing nicely. I only need 18 more words today to be right on target. I have a feeling I will write far more than 18 tonight.

It’s been a good writing day so far. I’ve met my daily quota, and I’m still brimming with things to write about tonight. I’m excited about my story this year, not because I think it’s going to be this great, literary story (not a chance of that), but because it’s going to be fun to write, because this year I’m writing what I love to read. Which means I am writing about things you might find in Jane Austen and Connie Willis and P.G. Wodehouse, but also that you might find in books on systematic theology and ethics and phenomenology. I’m not exactly sure how it’s all going to work together, to tell you the truth. But I won’t get bored, and that is key, I think, to reaching 50,000.

Hi, everyone! Finally, just in time for NaNoWriMo, I think I’m ready to start blogging again. This may have something to do with the fact that I have nearly finished the remodeling of my office/library (the room where the desktop computer resides). It’s a cheerful & comfortable room now, its walls painted in Exotic Bloom (it used to be dreary with walls of seafoam green), and I only need to put up curtains and hook up the desktop again.

The weirdest part about the sabbatical (so to speak) from blogging was that every time I did something interesting (or even not very interesting), or every time my cats did something cute or stupid, I thought “I need to take a picture for my blog.” And only then remembered that I had pulled it down. It took a while to get out of that habit, and I feel a little more sane now. That won’t last long, of course.

I haven’t been up to too much lately, aside from the numerous DIY projects in my house. Though I have been taking a class on writing and selling short stories at one of the local colleges. Lots of fun.

Anyway…I just wanted to say hello and wish everyone a happy Halloween (early, in case I don’t get back before then). I have missed this!

See you around….