blessings

Count your many blessings


Daddy and Girl
Originally uploaded by nichole_e.

I’m thankful for so many things this year. Among them:

  • my happy, healthy, silly little girl.
  • Rockford, my best friend.
  • my parents, without whom I wouldn’t be here, being who I am and doing what I’m doing.
  • that God gave us the courage to leave Holland.
  • that we had a place to which we could return.
  • my bright and talented little brothers.
  • my niece and nephews and their unrestrained hugs.
  • my parents-in-law, with whom I actually enjoy spending the holidays. (I know! Who gets along with their in-laws? I got lucky, I guess.)
  • my funny, quirky and altogether lovely sisters-in-law.
  • my equally funny and quirky brother-in-law. I will not call him “lovely” because I don’t think he would appreciate it.
  • my friends, who I miss mightly but cherish nonetheless.
  • the Internet, for making it possible to stay in contact with my far-flung friends and family.

    This sounds like an award-acceptance speech, doesn’t it? Oh well. I’m going to go make some stuffing or something.

    Happy Thanksgiving!!

    • Bandwagons

    50,000

    I finally reached 50,000 words.

    I would like to thank Rockford, who has very kindly let me write write write write write for the last few weeks; Poppy, who slept an extra hour and a half this morning; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was a very long-winded poet; and adverbs, without whom I would not have reached 50k.

    I don’t have a great feeling of triumph, mainly because of the role that “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” came to play in the story. And also because, even without Coleridge, the story is horrible. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll try it again next year. If I do, though, I definitely need to have a plot and an outline before November.

    Reading

    "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists"

    “The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists” is an exceptionally silly book. It was fun to read, though, and it’s very short. So if you hate it, at least it will be over quickly.

    The pirates managed to do a pretty decent job of mingling with the scientists, nodding politely and saying “Really?” a lot as they listened to them drone on about their latest inventions and discoveries, but the Pirate Captain soon found himself involved in a particularly awkward conversation about molecules, so he was relieved when FitzRoy interrupted him before it got to the stage where he had to say if he was for or against them.

    Yeah, that’s pretty much how I handle all of Rockford’s science shin-digs.