Thankfulness for Monday

I completely forgot about this last night until M kissed my nose in bed. I was going to make it a feature this week!

Things I'm Thankful For

• Photoshop and my Wacom tablet--they allow me to use my skills for both good AND evil. (But I won't post evil because I'm not, really.)
  
• The joys of string and the lovely things that you can do with it.
  
• My friends--okay, just another standard boring but true one. Hopefully I'm done with that now.
  
• The smell of Scotch tape, which reminds me that Christmas is on its way.
  
• Mail filtering, which is a very Good Thing in light of the floods of spam I'm getting these days.

Ramblings

Morning Ramblings That Didn't Get Posted
It's going to be a long day with writing, I think. I stop every so often and put my word count into today's slot in the tracking spreadsheet to see the new statistics. Today, I updated the thing after the first two words I wrote, as if I didn't know exactly how many words I'd written at that point or how that would affect my statistics. I plan to continue writing when the month is gone, but oh, man, will I be glad when Nano is over. You may bitchslap me and tell me to get back to writing if I stop mentioning my writing goals, though.

Someone just said the sweetest thing to me and it made me want to hug them. And take them out to lunch or something when next I'm traveling through Frankfort. ;)

I have a really full to-do list on the board, but for some reason, I don't feel like I can do any of them. That's so not true. There are a few things that I really can and should get done before the four-day weekend. Actually, now that I think about it, I already have done a few of those things. I should read through it more carefully.

Evening Ramblings
I used to try to get things posted while M was at work, but now that I don't worry about it, these journal entries get written on all day, which means that it sounds weird when I finally do post.

I'm still very worried over this zine project, whereas everyone else seems to have moved on to just excited. I guess that's natural, considering the nature of things. I'll write more about the actual project later on, though I'd say a good number of you have heard references to it all along, both here and in a few other journals. I suppose part of it is just my nature--I worry, and I never worry more than when I'm starting something new. Don't get me wrong, I'm still tremendously excited about it. More excited than worried, even. I'm (ahem) hiring a consultant tonight to help me sort out some details and make some notes on getting started. You don't want to know what I'm paying in consultancy fees, but anything to help the project along... ;) No, seriously, M is a logistical genius (really) with enough of a design background to know where to start with this and he's promised to help me both organize the data I've got and to bitchslap me into line and remind me that I can do this. This is a very good thing, to those of you who are involved. :)

Anyway. I'm getting bored with Nano and would like to write like a banshee now and get this thing over with. (A banshee??) My consultant is doing his homework right now, so this is a good time for me to get my butt in gear and get some horrible words out. I think I know the plan for the entire rest of the book, though, which should help. I usually don't have too much of a problem when I know what's going to happen. My next book will be better planned in advance. ;)