I'm in such deep shit - I signed up for the Sims Online beta and just got my CD in the mail. Luckily, my laptop isn't up to spec for the game, and my hubby's PC is, so I'll have to get past him to get any real playing time in. Not that I don't have my wily ways...

I've been using this space to collect ideas for a little while now, and now I'm repurposing it to serve as my NaNoWriMo blog. I will probably end up throwing all the stuff below plus the baby and the bathwater and the kitchen sink into those 50,000 words - what the hell. Here I go. Kickoff for LA's NaNoWriMo group is on October 30th at Barbara's at the Brewery. I will be there ready to go. Oy. Yeah, there's trepidatious stuff rattling around in my head, but I know that I can crank out 1,000 coherent, publishable words a day in about 1-1.5 hours, every day, for 365 days straight. If I can do that, I can double or triple the time to 3-4 hours a day for 30 days straight. *deep breath* I can do this. And I'm gonna.