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[electricland]

Hmm. Week is starting reasonably well (although crankygrrl was actually ON TIME at the coffee shop today, i.e. when I was just staggering out of bed -- the nerve).

Returned books to the library. Read this weekend: Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation) and New Skies (anthology). Still have a stack, but may need to just cry uncle since the Month Of Torture Writing A Lot starts today.

Just heard from Car Heaven, they are picking up my car tomorrow *sniff* -- going over tonight for a farewell ceremony.

Puttered yesterday and didn't go outside (which means I didn't do laundry -- but I think I have just enough socks to make it). Dishes, muffins, took down Christmas decorations, changed sheets, etc.

Onward!

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[emjayne.livejournal.com]

You've just inspired me to make a trip to the library today. I need to stop BUYING books.

Hurrah for puttery-cozy-home days.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

The library is good! And you live so close!

The web search/hold list function has definitely reined in my impulse book-buying tendencies.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

the month of Torture writing a lot shall include me, though I will be writing non fic for the MA that will never end.... *sigh*

and then there is the chaotic job. I can't claim boredom anymore.

so, as you say, ONWARD!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

It will end! It will! You can do it!

[lietya.livejournal.com]

what is the Month of Torture-Writing A Lot? (I like that version of the punctuation better....)

Your poor car. I hope it finds a happy home.

I love libraries. I would seriously go broke if I didn't borrow 90% of what I read from the library. (Why do I still have 1200 books, though?!)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

MoToWriALo: well, crankygrrl and thassalia and I missed NaNoWriMo (http://www.nanowrimo.org/) (I was busy in November) so this is kind of its moral equivalent. I believe rubberneck is also joining the fray.

And my poor car... well, it's going to be either refurbished or recycled in an environmentally responsible way. It's over 15 years old, I don't really need it now I'm back in Toronto, insurance is ridiculously expensive here and I was going to have to pay upwards of $1600 just to get it fixed enough to register it in Ontario... but I still feel like a horrible person for sending it away. I'll go over tonight and pour some champagne on its hood. Thank you for the good wishes.

*sniffle*

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. My husband did NaNoWriMo; please don't suggest to him the idea of doing another month of it. :) I missed him!

Your poor car. I know how you feel; I finally sold mine at the age of 14 last summer (also because it was planning to cost me a huge sum of money, for emissions). I felt terrible, too. I made my mechanic promise me that it would have a long happy retirement with some old lady that drives 3 miles a week, even though I suspect the horrible truth. It *does* feel like a betrayal. Hey, it had a long life, and it will end it all with a final good deed - there are worse ways to go.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

It's ridiculous how attached we get to our inanimate objects, isn't it?

Car Heaven gives a chunk of the proceeds to the charity of your choice (I went with the Red Cross, what with tsunamis and all), so yes, it IS a final good deed. I am not sure but I think they may also send me a certificate of some kind. And their logo has a little cloud-car pootling about the sky to make me feel better.

I am very very scared about MoToWriALo. Oh well. I'll buy myself a new notebook, that will make me happier.