• 21:36 bit.ly/8mrxQl Mexico City legalizes gay marriage and adoption. Fantastic! #

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So I'm better, and I've caught up on all the Xmas cards and such. The shopping is done, I've paid the bills... In short, I'm pretty much set up for Xmas except wrapping, but since I enjoy that I don't consider it a chore.

I'm also lucky in that I'm off work a lot this week. Yesterday, then tomorrow, then Thursday, Friday, then Sunday and Tuesday again. I also left work early on Sunday morning because the snowstorm meant there was nothing for me to do.

I've worked hard all year. This is the part where I reap all the rewards. I can't wait for Xmas.

Tags: holiday, life

• 17:49 Dear Amazon: any past sins are forgiven as you have just completely saved Xmas for me. Thank you! #
• 18:50 It's sad that my memory has become so poor that I can read things I wrote and have absolutely no memory of how they end. #

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• 22:57 When I realized there were only 12 days to Xmas, panic set in. My laptop and I have a date with Amazon. #

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• 04:16 Dragon Age is so damn addictive that I could sit in a room with it for days and not come out. #
• 04:17 It makes me hopeful for The Old Republic, considering Dragon Age is how I always wanted World of Warcraft to be. #
• 04:44 But I'm hesitant to be excited about The Old Republic since Bioware can also do crappy, generic, pointless side-quests (see Mass Effect). #

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• 13:58 Walking up the street at 6am on Thanksgiving, everything was so quiet I felt like I had the whole world to myself. #

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• 06:11 I write, and hours flow away like sand. But somewhere deep inside, I feel so much better. #
• 21:41 Turns out Google was showing Scientology ads on my website. Blocked the Religion category so that should fix that... #

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Can't wait to be off tomorrow. Plan to salvage the NaNoWriMo project I took up. The chance of getting to 50,000 words when I have only 17k is pretty much impossible, but that's ok. I plan to finish telling the story, and whatever word count I have will be fine for me - I'll still have a novella that I never had before. I'm estimating at least another 10k to tell what needs to be told, anyway, so the project is by no means over. I just have different priorities than everybody else. Maybe another year I can shoot for that 50k but it's been impossible with the overtime I did this past month. November's always a busy month for me anyways, it would be better if it was in like, March or April.

I have another writing idea rearing its head also, so I need to finish my project before that takes over my thinking. Damn short attention span.

• 04:30 17205. Work is continuing well. Plan to get a novella out of this at least, I think I can finish it if I keep working. #
• 05:21 I wish Apple would put FireWire back into their iPod/iPhone products so that syncing music didn't take all year. USB is so slow! #

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• 02:42 Must... work... on... NaNo! (No, play one more song! You know you want to!) #
• 02:55 I lament the fact that I'm not a skilled enough wordsmith to put what I really feel into words. I'd love to share the joy of my soul. #

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