let it snow let it snow let it....

Why is it that everything's on hold all the damn bloody time? What with all the progress of the modern world, why is it that everyone is waiting for something to happen? Is it the curse of the twenty-somethings? Why can't I get into control over even the littlest of things, having to leave it to others who don't seem to get my sense of urgency?

why why why why why why?




*argh!*


and oh yeah, it snowed

here and there and everywhere

and sometimes one should update one's blog. It helps with keeping one's reader base from slipping into disinterest. Or so I imagine. If I had a reader base larger than the base of friends who know what's going on without me posting in here as a result of talking with me on the phone, or through texting, or through email even. But, if there is someone, something, some entity out there who just stumbles upon here, it would be nice for such alien a creature, to find something to read that is not months old. And anyways, it's the new year. New resolutions, or vague ideas of possible resolutions for the next year, have been made and already forgotten. Plans made to bring new elan to lives have already begun to gather dust, which isn't terribly hard or unexpected, because I don't dust very often. But that is besides the point. What the point is, exactly, isn't exactly clear, but by the end of this apparently pointless blog entry, one strives to have found a point. Just in case this end up being pointless, I have my needlepoint at the ready. So no matter how you end up after reading, I do have a point available, at least to myself. But enough of this pointless babbling.

If I haven't spoken with you yet this year, I'd like to wish you all the best for this new year. I'll leave it to your own discretion to come up with what you think is the best, because everyone needs something else to make their lives better. For instance, I would like to think, and am almost one hundred procent certain, that a visa to live with my new husbad of almost 7 weeks, would improve my life to no end. Hopefully, barring any unexpected sillyness, we should be able to work that out this year. If not, I may end up spending my life as an illegal Mexican, call myself Juanita, only speak spanglish and clean up other people's houses. Let's just assume we won't need to be that person, but never underestimate the jokes life will play on you if you're not very careful and read all the small letters on the bottom of the contract of your life. It may say "binman" in invisible fineprint. To any of you have get life served to you on a silver platter while you're having a champagne breakfast in your bed sized to befit a king, or in some cases a CEO, would like to say, as they do in odd places where sane people should dare not venture, "dai." I know of a few people who would love to take your life contract and rip it into tiny pieces to make a rather large number of lives significantly easier to live.

If you're a designer who answers phonecalls 3 days a week to make ends meet, I sincerely hope people who have the power to employ you and make your designs available to the masses, will pull their heads out of their asses, and give you a job already.

If you're a facility manager with more creativity that the regular facility can handle, I wish you all the luck that you don't really need with creating your own facility, and with making your own possibilities work for you. You can't really fail if you do it right.

For anyone else, there will be two more weddings, on a continent near you!™, © and or ® [whichever takes your fancy] Dates will be revealed.

Komt dat zien?

gefopt!

mijn koffer is onderweg, ik (helaas?) nog niet. 50 min vertraging als je maar 55 min hebt om van vliegtuig te wissleen, is nèt niet genoeg....

vreemd genoeg was mijn koffer al onderweg, voor het vliegtuig waar ik in zou moeten, geland was in Dallas. Dus, nog een extra nachtje wachten, en dan gebeurt het echt!

Zondag, 11.40 land ik op schiphol!

Toedeloe!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!

50.064 WORDS!!!!!


F3@R M3H, FOR i AHM TEH @UTH0R!!!!!

Komt dat zien! komt dat zien!

Technisch gezien, kom ik zaterdag om 11.40 uur aan op schiphol. Practisch gezien.... volg teletekst! vlucht nummer CO46

Boe Nell ;) (in dat geval heb ik een sint kado voor je, en dan automatisch dus ook voor Heidi)
Boe Kees!

Nu, snel weer verder, nog iets minder dan 10.000 woorden te gaan, and iets meer dan 36 uur om ze in te schrijven!!!

Tis net of weer op school zit!!!

Help!!!

(PS. zoek naar de aanwezigheid van de Novelist! button. indien afwezig, vraag NIET na of het gelukt is ;))

onderweg naar....

8000 woorden!

Hopeloos achter, maar iedereen die ooit getuige is geweest van mijn schoolschrijfactiviteiten, weet dat een traag begin niet altijd wil zeggen dat ik de eindstreep niet kan halen!!! (zo positief genoeg, Heidi?) Als dank voor je opmerking, ben jij nu een australische dame van 25 jaar oud die samen met vriend Oz een SYHA runt in een fictief dorp in Schotland! Is het niet geweldig!

Voor iedereen die zich nu afvraagt waar het in hemelsnaam over gaat: vette pech voor de kabouters!

Werktitel:

"The Ironing Lady"


PS. fotos van dit weeknd volgen. maar niet nu!
PS2. Wisten jullie al dat Kim is afgestudeerd?

nanu nanu....

So, after that half-assed attempt last year (starting halfway through is a good excuse to fail) i'm doing it again.....

www.nanowrimo.org

writing a 50.000 word novel in 30 days.
after achieving this, i get wear my "novelist" badge. which would make me very proud.

because i'm writing about 2000 words a day, i get to:

not do dishes/vacuum/laundry/cook/grocery shop.

so, if you want to help me out, do all of the above, ask me often how far i've gotten, and just keep poking me about it. those of you who support my efforts, will be remembered as i close a million $ deal on the manuscript.

if you don't support my effort, well, i hope you dai! dai! dai! or just lose the ability to read another novel, ever.

Now, of course i know all of you look upon this with a wary eye. Yes, i'm undertaking another project, likely to fail like any other project/plan i've had so far. So bear with me on this one. i'm gonna try anyways ;)

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