NaNoWriMo & Supplies

What do you really need for NaNoWriMo? I like using my Mac and Microsoft Word. It is that plain and simple. A computer, text editing program and time will get you 50,000 words.

Some people do hand write their novel during NaNoWriMo, or so I hear. I know I will not hand write my novel. Then you have to count all those words. My fingers and hands can't do it. It is painful to type at times but hand writing is more painful to me. Plus, my procrastination side will never count handwritten words.

I started to write this blog many hours ago (now yesterday). It also happens to be the weekend and my computer guy (by computer guy I mean my husband) decided to help me find some storage space on my hard drive today. I would love a new Mac Book Pro but that is not in the budget and I really don't have time to learn a new computer days before NaNoWriMo.

About a week ago I started to get start up memory warnings on my computer. Not what a girl wants to see two weeks before NaNoWriMo. Two important things come to mind with this warning on my computer. One have a backup plan for if your computer decides to act up. Two is most important, BACK UP YOUR WORK! I put mine an a flash drive, an external hard drive and email it to myself on occasion.

Saturday mornings post painfully became Sunday night. The good news is I have 23 more GB of storage on my computer and hopefully I don't manage to turn on any more podcasts that take up valuable space, download things and leave them in limbo or double upload pictures from my camera, oops. Most of my pictures are now backed up on two different external hard drives.

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Lucky Saint Patrick's Day!

Ada you will love this... Madison loses her tooth yesterday on the way home from school. I am so excited, I take a picture as soon as she gets out of the van and post it everywhere and email it to family. I clean it off and put it in a zip lock (easier to find under the pillow, right?) and we tuck it under the pillow and we all, ALL fall asleep. Madison wakes up at 5:30 AM and says to me, "I can't see if the tooth fairy left me anything". PANIC stricken. I FORGOT THE TOOTH FAIRY JOB! Okay this is my only job on earth. I can't remember to exchange cash for a baby tooth. I send her to the couch and tell her it is too early that she has to try and go back to sleep. I grab Marks elbow and he says to me, "it is only 5:30". He was awake and heard her too. We both lay in silence for 30 minutes hoping she falls asleep. Funny thing is once we talked to each other thirty minutes later, both of us were in bed formulating a plan. He wanted to sneak out our

Mohawk!

Um, where to start? I went away for the weekend with girlfriends to get some R & R and scrapbook. Little did I know I was going to come home to a Mohawk. GO RAYS! I think Nathan is loving the attention that comes with such a dramatic do. I really can't believe Mark did such a crazy thing. I don't think anyone that saw Nathan at church could believe it either. For all you wondering, I love it and I will go away on another girls weekend. It's not like he gave all the kids a mohawk. The girls still have their lovely locks.

Time

Yes, my topic again is about time. This one is not about the waste of time, but the passing of time. As in how long it has been over a period of many days, years, etc. Saturday night I went scrapbooking at a friends house. Something we have done for about two years! WHAT? Two years, at least once a month. Where did that time go? I feel like it was just yesterday that Meagen and I where going to Anita's. At the time if you would have told me my scrap buddy was moving in the matter of months to Fuquay-Varina I would have said two things, "Where in the world it that?" and then I would have said "yeah, right!". She probably would have said the same things at the time. I now see it all as a God wink. Most of you have been to a Women of Faith conference and have heard the term God wink. I appreciate all the God winks in my life. See, at the time I didn't know Anita except from an occasional candle party or birthday party. We were aquanitices at the

Box of Chocolates

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