Happy, merry, jolly ... whatever

I got a note from a friend telling people to send a "Merry Christmas" e-mail to the ACLU ... just to drive them crazy.
Got another one complaining about Bush and the holidays.
It's amazing how people are all sides can turn the holidays into a political statement.
I would like to call for a politics-free holiday season.
I don't care about your stand on the war, on the hurricane, on Saddam's trial, on Hillary, on George, on steroids, on Pete Rose (well, I care about that, but not right now), on anything except family and the holidays.
So, given that, have a great one ...

Closer

OK, so I've been writig the family Christmas card. I've been writing my column for the newspapers. I've been writing a lot of e-mails, reports and other assorted crud at work.

I'm still not doing the writing for my book. The ideas keep circulating around in my skull. I think I know where I'm going with it. Just not doing it yet.

I'm hoping that the holiday break will allow me some time to get back into it. I want to get to a regular writing schedule. Not as hectic as NaNo. Something manageable. Like a diet -- I need one I can live with (although anyone whose seen me lately knows I'm not having success finding the diet any more than I am a writing schedule).

Oh, well, I will stick with it. It's not going away.

NOT

OK, I'm not writing.
My alarm goes off in the morning. I lay there. I'm tired. I contemplate getting up to write. I lay there. I think about just getting the ball rolling again and how easy (relatively) it was to get the first 50K. It's a fun story. It's going well. JUST WRITE, Darn it! And I just lay there.
And then I look at the clock and it's time to get up to get dressed for work.
I'm hoping I'm surrfering from a short-term NaNo hangover.
I will get back to it.
It's finally starting to snow here! I love sitting inside a warm house, sipping on some spiked hot apple cider and writing. Now, all I have to do is do it!

Small world

So, last night we had our last meeting of the Greeley contingent of NaNoWriMo.
As I sat and listened to their stories of how their month went and the strange details of their lives and their novels, I realized that without the internet and the NaNo site, there is probably no way in the world any of us would have met up. We all come from completely different worlds with the lone binding link being that we all love to write.
Anyway, I'll get off the NaNo kick now...
My plans for the coming weeks...

• Continue writing my book
• Help with Alex's basketball team
• Help Tracy as she coaches Alex's Odyssey of the Mind team
• Finally freakin' see the new Harry Potter movie (it's killing me!)
• Get some Christmas shopping out of the way
• Continue with racquetball so I don't triple my current weight with holiday food
• Try to give a little more attention to Andy who seems to be incredibly sensitive about just about everything these days.
• Work on Andy's birthday cake!
• Maybe get some work done at the office (ha!)
• Shampoo our carpets

Sounds like fun, huh?