So it’s November again, and one of the reasons I pushed so hard to get everything wrapped up with the business within a week was to clear the decks and be ready for National Novel Writing Month. I have an interesting concept (I hope), and although my house is still a disaster, I was ready to go.

And I started off really well, and even getting a little ahead of schedule. But a bad day threw me off and now, sadly, I’ve ‘earned’ my first NaNo badge:

I made a donation to the Office of Letters and Light and bought a package of these buttons that you get to wear after achieving some dubious milestones, many of which are either tongue in cheek or just too funny.

“Procrastination” is for missing 3 days running and being bad, bad, bad. The graphic shows a vaccuum because when housework looks better than writing, you know you’re in trouble.

I should have been writing all weekend- that was the plan, but it hasn’t worked out that way. Tonight, after the end of the Saint’s game (which isn’t going so well at the moment Edit: 8-0, baby! Comeback kids!), I may have to earn another badge as I start to catch up:

I think that one’s self-explanatory.