November 13, 2007
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Surprise and Delight
Today was a tedious day–very little of it at home, hours of it in the car. I’m not even done with the taxi service yet as I have to pick up Hunter and Wit from Little Women practice. This means no bubble bath and book until around 10:00. Boo.
Speaking of books, my novel is coming along well enough. Today is the first day that I’m not forcing myself to make the word limit (which is about 1,700 words a day). I wrote 143 and am saying, “NaNo NaNo Boo-Boo” to it. So there.
AimeeAnne is the one who “made” me take on this challenge (for which I am profoundly grateful and have named a village after her). What did this dear lady do which made me squeal for joy today? I got my mail and found this!
It’s my very own NaNoWriMo canvas tote!
I was thrilled. I am a huge fan of canvas bags. I am an addict, admirer, aficionado, buff, devotee, enthusiast, fiend, freak, lover, votary, and zealot when it comes to tote bags. I am a happy lady. Plus, it’s really wide–wide enough for my laptop to fit in it.What nice thing has happened to you lately?
Comments (23)
1,700 words a day seems like a lot.
Very nice indeed. Are you going to let me read it? Nice thing….I got this delightful book about Beatrix Potter’s world from Amazon today. I find it inspiring.
Hi, wondering if you received my e-mail re classical schooling. No pressure to respond to the e-mail; I’m just somewhat ocd I guess about sending mail off into the wild blue cyber–I obsess about whether I should send it again; did I wind up in the spam folder; whether the person I responded to thinks I’m ignoring her because she never got the mail I sent; I’m sure there’s a medical term for this condition.
That’s very nice looking canvas bag!!
Nicest thing someone ever gave me?? Oh I got a shirt that was from Austraila unexpected.. Far, Far away and I need to give her a shirt from Lousiana.. That was very neat thing to do. Swamp shirts. 
1,700 a day is alot. I agree with Dan.. Where do you find the time plus doing other stuff?? Are you being superhero? *laughing*
Surprises is the mail are so much fun.
I just wanted to say that I so enjoy reading all your updates – my moments of sanity in a sometimes insane world. Much love from my laptop to yours…
One busy day!
I go for the bubble bath, no matter how late it is. 
(I just finished voice practice, and it’s 10:53 p.m. I guess you can tell we’re night owls??)
I didn’t realize Hunter and Wit were in Little Women…I guess I’ve been rather ignorant lately.
What parts do they have?
Something nice recently…I got excellent grades from Mrs. R two timed essays in a row, I survived my vet’s interview, and I did about six or eight fuate pirouettes in dance before falling over.
Nice bag!
The nicest thing so far this week was my bible study group on Monday. Did I tell you we are doing the book of Daniel with Beth Moore’s help. WOW……………….it has been great.
Nice bag. Lots of words to write. But when it comes, it comes and pours.
I haven´t been around for a while. I just want to stop by and say hello and may you have a wonderful and blessed day today.
Ack!! That’s just like my mom. She has so many tote bags that I can never find anything in them…
A nice thing that happened to me lately is that I was on my way to the library to pick up a copy of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but there was a cheap book sale at the thrift store and I bought a nice hardcover instead. =D I also got The Screwtape Letters (one C.S. Lewis paperback that I didn’t own), Wuthering Heights, and a couple others. Hurrah for thrift stores!!
Nice things? We decided to have pie for breakfast this morning. It doesn’t get much better than that!
I am way into bags too. What a sweet thing for AA to do for you.
Now that is good motivation to win. If someone sent me a NaNoWriMo 2007 bag and I lost, I would feel awful taking it around with me and having people ask about it for years afterwards and me saying “yeah, I didn’t quite make it that year…”
Ah ha! Now I know your word count strategy. Use every descriptive word possible when describing something. I’ll have to keep that in mind…
perfectly applicable bag!
the pics are from a NYC trip last weekend… my camera unfortunately ran out of battery life at the beginning of the conference, and I had forgotten to bring my charger… so no San Diego pictures… :{ (how do you like my nice SD/mexican-mustached emoticon?) Both were neat trips though…
Don’t forget to take batteries / chargers for your trip next year….
Yay! It is always so fun to get a surprise in the mail…enjoy your bag!!
for sure indeed, one of my late-night i-dont-know-what-to-do-with-myselfs. Glad you liked it!
Robert took care of ALL Brie duties tonight, while I went out for a coffee treat!
That was a thoughtful gift! Am I the only one who has wondered this, or the only one clueless enough not to know: what does na.no.wrt.mo stand for? I get the wri.mo. I think.
So you did
. Nice to see you here. That is a great bag.
I love canvas bags as well. That’s a nice one. =)
I’m expecting a book in the mail from a friend I met on a messagboard. I am eager to get it and dive right in!
I like tote bags too…and my thesaurus.
I am a fan of tote bags too. I actually bought a really neat one last week. Something nice? I made myself a wonderful cup of apple cinnamon tea, and actually sat down to enjoy it.
Hello there,
I’ve been reading some of your previous posts and I saw your request for good plot ideas. You should DEFINITELY put something in there that has to do with cabbages. I can’t remember EVER reading a book that had cabbages in it and not enjoying it. I am SO serious. It would make your story awsome!
(you know who I am, right? If not ask Linaldawen.)
*Corny