2,000 to go

For NANO.  I was hoping to finish before today, but it did not work out that way.  But not far to go.  think I have identified the true villain now, finally.  Still have a lot to go on it, so it's not like I'm going to struggle with finishing today before work.  Granted it's gotten harder given that it's not quite writing itself any more.  But I'm still not sure where all of it ends.
Rained a lot this week, most of it yesterday and the day before.  Got the part for my car, so no more trying to work out transportation for now. Tried to take a chunk out of my finger(just a scratch, thankfully) getting it attached.  But I got to see how it handles the rain(no problems with sliding or other stuff yet).  Waiting on snow to see how it handles that...same for my brother with his new car.  we get to show him donuts when it finally snows.  Just wet and cold right now.
Getting Sub jobs has been harder too, things have slowed down there.  probably a good thing, given how tired I was trying to do both for so long.  So I'm only doing a partial one maybe once or twice a week now.  Can't get more than that and not really wanting to any way.
Work got crazy as expected for Thanksgiving, but went really slow for the next week after.  Yesterday the rain made it crazy again, so we were running out of soups and the store got very messy.  Nice change from boring slow, but a bit much right off the bat for most of us.
And now we have to set up for Christmas.....

Thanksgiving Week,

and 34,000 words so far.  And I finally have an idea of the story line for my Nano, but not much beyond that.  I sit down to write and I really can't say what I would write until after I make myself stop.  Certainly not sure what it was going to be when I started and it has kind of stayed that way. Figures...
Got off work saturday and it seemed to have gotten so cold once the sun went down that my car windshield was already frosted over.  Too bad there wasn't a scraper in the car, so I spent almost ten minutes getting the heater to do it.  Had some snow and rain last week, but so far its just cold.
Work is still getting busier by the day it seems.  At least my coworkers have gotten to the point that they don't need my help much.  Wish they knew more about drive through so I could get away from it more than once a week...

Half Way Already?

Sheesh, this story is writing itself, I had no idea where it was going beyond the opening scene(which I now have six versions of before I finally settled on the one I have now moved on using) and then the ending opener(not the actually ending, just how the 'final battle' begins).  It's moved past that by far, so I'm up to 25,000 words and that's only two or three chapters worth so far.  And as I said, I really don't know what's going to happen next beyond what I already wrote down. And I have to stop myself from reading what I have already written so I can stay up on word count(not that I'm behind, just don't want to fall behind) because it's sad to say that this is my type of story.  Not what i usually write, but it was an unusual story idea to begin with.
Work is not getting any better, had a coworker put in their two weeks notice friday then pull a no call no show on saturday(that was so much fun for my manager to deal with) and it happened to be the start of the crazy half of pastry nights we get during the holidays.  In other words: NOT FUN.
Had snow on sunday that lasted pretty much until the sun came up, but the cold is lingering.  my car still has power steering issues(as far as I can tell, the reservoir is cracked and leaking badly) and I can't get the part I need to fix it. sigh...not enjoying strong arming my car even if its not as hard as my truck was...

Sigh...

Remember that story idea for Nano? Wrote down what I had at the time and now I'm stuck rewriting that first scene/chapter trying to decide which one I want to use(I think I'm up to 5 possible openers, kind of a record for me) and can't deal with the rest of the story much because that's kind of the stage setter.
Grr.
Had two sub jobs today and both got cancelled.  So I have more time to try and hash out my story.  At least I can write all the openers to get a jump on my word count.
My car's power steering fluid is refusing to  stay in the reservoir, and I fear that trying stop leak has only made it worse. Sigh...a new reservoir is $50(people I've talked to suspect it may be cracked), other stuff is more.
Halloween was actually busy at work this time, shocker.  A customer suggested that it might have been because no one wanted to cook.  Given how many of the orders were large(as in multiple people's worth of food and such) that wouldn't be too far off. Even my family ordered pizza for dinner.
Lots of rain yesterday, but it actually made for a slow day.  Ran through a lot of soup though.  Actually fully ran out of two of them and all our spares.  But not a lot on pastries or other stuff.