Words
Current word count, as seen from the widget, is just
over 45K. NaNo ends this Friday, leaving me only 5K to go in the next three
days. After that, I plan to try to keep to a schedule of at least 500-1K per
day. I’ll continue working on my NaNo
book, as most of what I’ve written is unusable, but was written in an effort to
keep the word count high. It’s still story, but I don’t think some of it will
belong to this story, necessarily. I plan
to finish the NaNo book by the end of December.
One good thing about NaNo, regardless of if I “win”
or not, is that this story has decided to become a series and I’ve gotten a few
other series ideas—one from the story I was originally going to write, one from
the story I put in my NaNo profile (but am not writing), one from hubby, and
about two or three others that my muse is sending my way for love and attention.
Still trying to come up with a name for the series/the current book. May wind
up having a contest for help with that. As to word count on the books, it
appears as though each story of the series is going to wind up close to 25K
each.
Weight
Overall starting weight was around mid 216 (pounds,
not kilos O_O). I’ve gotten as low as 212.4 and messed it up. As of this
morning, I am down to 213.4 again. I stopped exercising last week, with the
kids at home and Thanksgiving cooking and cleaning and decorating. Oh my. So
long as this sort of trend doesn’t continue over the next few vacations, I’ll
be good.
I’ve brought my weight loss goals up to 1.5 pounds
per week from 1 pound per week. Starting back this week to exercising, I am
doing 5 minutes of warm-up calisthenics (I got up to five regular push-ups this
morning from zero just a month ago); I also do sit ups, “girl” push-ups,
flutter kicks, stretches and use small weights to try to keep from having the
flappy arms. I’ve increased my treadmill time from 20 minutes to 25 minutes of
variable speeds. On a sad note, I will have to find a body of water to chuck my
iPod into; luckily, being in Florida, that’s not hard to find. The fool thing
only lasted eight minutes this morning. Eight! Unfortunately, I do not have funds
for a new one at this time.
Weather
Nice cool weather today—60s and mid-70s. Was cool
enough to actually open the windows up last week, at least until Saturday; had
to cut on the A/C for the past three days. It’s actually chilly enough right
now with the windows open to think about closing them—despite wearing jeans and
having my socks on. Time to snuggle up with a blanket and a cup of hot cocoa.
A friend in Canada is expecting up to 11 inches of
snow. I miss my snow in the winter, believe me, but that’s a bit much for my
taste. But it did spark a story idea…
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