Archive for December 6, 2010

I haven’t updated this blog in over a month now. I blame NaNoWriMo. It sucked my writing energy for everything except working on my novel.

I’m happy to report that I have, indeed, won. I finished my wordcount while I was over visiting with Kris and Marcy in Boston Thanksgiving weekend. The book isn’t finished yet as I need to actually write the ending, one flashback scene and then rewrite the beginning to match up with the ending. But I’m planning on finishing it. I’m taking a little writing breather break. After spending that many days in a row writing so much, I need a little time off.

So, hrm, what happened last month. Not much to speak of other than writing really. At least not that I can remember. Time to pull out my Facebook status updates.

My roommates who were searching for a house to buy found one that they really liked and put in an offer at the beginning of the month which was accepted. Unfortunately things have been going pretty slowly ever since thing with various things. The lawyer found a potential issue with a possible buried oil tank on the property but the eventual environmental inspection revealed that they hit solid concrete when they went down to inspect it so it looks like if there was a tank there, it was taken care of properly. The next delay ended up being with the roofer. The roof needs replacing in several spots on the house and the roofer my roommates got took weeks (and counting) to get back to them with the final report so they could request repairs. The seller finally got another roofer to look at it, but things are kinda in limbo at the moment. The projected close was the end of this month but that’s probably not happening at this point with the delays.

(UPDATE: It looks like my roommates are backing out of the house. The environmental inspection ended up not being done how they asked and everything is kinda falling apart. So it looks like this house is officially 100% dead. Blargh.)

Moving on…

There’s been no change with my work situation sadly, and it’s really bumming me out. At the beginning of the year I promised myself I would make something happen to get myself in a better situation (ie, out of this job) but nothing has panned out and it doesn’t look like anything is going to any time soon. I don’t know what to do really. It kinda sucks feeling stuck. I’ve just been feeling kinda blah in general over the past week or so realizing exactly how little has changed over the past year.

I am still continuing with classes though. I’m finishing up the basic photography course this week and next semester I’m enrolled in General Drawing. Wish I could take some of the Graphic Design theory courses but they’re all at times I absolutely cannot take right now :-/

Heading in a totally different direction now though, as I mentioned before I went out to Boston again to visit with Kris and Marcy. This time no big concert drew me there, just plain old visitation. I had a lot of fun, hung out, played Rock Band, found an awesome little tea shop that I’ll be ordering some stuff from in the near future. Kris had some car issues which cast a shadow over the visit but overall, I enjoyed it a lot and I’m looking forward to the next time I can visit in that direction.

I never thought I’d say this about the Boston area (even the outskirts) but I’m starting to really like the general area. It’s become one of the few places on my list of areas that I might end up living someday. No plans to leave the state now or anything, but down the road, maybe it’ll happen.

Hmm, I think that’s pretty much it as far as personal activities. Just marching onwards to December and hoping 2011 is better. In my 50 in 365 challenge, I’ve read books 30-35 since I last posted a book update. I’ll be combining those into one big huge update coming up next just to get it out of the way. I’m a good chunk into book 36. Looking like I’ll be missing the 50 book deadline but 36+ ain’t bad.