My beloved Geoffrey has won NaNoWriMo!!! I am so incredibly proud of him! *happy bounces*

I’m almost there, can damned near taste it…and hopefully will finish no later than the 29th. (My wordcount is past 48K, but my best estimate is that it’ll take around 5K to wrap up the novel and type “The End.” And I don’t want to validate my wordcount until I’ve done that!!!)

Over three hours spent in the laundromat on Monday, with fourteen loads of laundry washed, dried, and folded — after I wrote 3,500 words on my novel (before 10 am, no less!) — pretty well wiped me out for the rest of the day. But I rewarded myself for all that work with a gorgeous pewter wind chime I found at the curio shop next door to the laundromat (I love wind chimes and have at least 6 of them thus far, and most of my neighbors probably hate me for it).

There was a smidgen of snow on the ground briefly around 6 pm, but happily it went away very quickly. Snow in Portland, in November, is a serious WTF?! And scientists say we’ve got global warming and we’re all gonna die of planetary heat waves and drought? (Of course, some other scientists say that the global warming is the only reason the planet hasn’t entered into the next ice age which is theoretically overdue.) Mm-kay, whatever.

Geoffrey won NaNoWriMo!!! Yay!!!