On This November 22nd

If you live in the USA, I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

And if you aren't celebrating Thanksgiving this week, may you have a great Thursday. :)


-----The Golden Eagle

To Those Celebrating: Happy Thanksgiving!

To those not celebrating, have a great Thursday. :)

And, since I think it's always a good idea to not take anything for granted, I thought I'd list a few of the (many and varied) things I'm thankful for here (really, I cannot pack everything into a single list):

Blogging--in particular, the other bloggers (i.e. you awesome people reading this post).
Writing--being able to express myself in so many ways.
Dance--it can be hard, but there's no substitute.
Family--Mom, you rock.
Life--because there are things to do and see that are still out there.
. . . finally, I am thankful I don't have to write tomorrow for NaNoWriMo. I reached 50,014 words on Monday (hooray!). And while we're planning to spend the holiday at home, it's nice not to have to do anything in particular that day.

What are you thankful for?


-----The Golden Eagle

The Aftermath

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day!

And now there are leftovers to look forward to--mmmm. Due to there being an awesome sale at the grocery store, we got a 21-pound turkey, even with the knowledge there would only be two people eating it . . . so we've got a whole lot of delicious food. :) (Plus stuffing--I adore that stuff.)

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In writing news, I finished another part of my book! (I write the current novel in parts.) NaNoWriMo has paid off in that I've been thrust up to a turning point in my book and advanced it over 70,000 words. Which is excellent.

Although, I've said I wanted to finish my novel by the end of 2010--that's looking a little questionable, since I just got some more ideas during NaNo, (the Case of the Expanding Novel strikes again) and I only managed to write 5 lines out of 36-line plot plan in all those 70,000 words. Which means I'd have to write another 7 parts at my current pace, and really, I don't think I'll be able to write 400,000 words or so in one month, as much as I'd like to be able to. But I will not be deterred! If anything, I want to get halfway through that plot plan in December; I might have to truncate some things, but I have to make this thing stop sometime . . . this isn't a Never-Ending Story.

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I was thinking about putting up a Christmas playlist--I've been thinking about putting up some music for a while, and naturally that led to the Christmas music idea. But since not everyone celebrates Christmas, I was wondering: would you mind a playlist? Would you enjoy it? Would you hate it? (I promise there wouldn't be anything horribly screechy or annoying or bothersome. Mostly instrumental.)


Again, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving day. :)


-----The Golden Eagle

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today's the day!

Happy Thanksgiving to you all, and do remember to be thankful--for the big things, for the little things, for the things that seem ordinary but can also represent so much more. :)

(If you want to see the annual Presidential pardoning of a turkey go HERE. I feel bad for the rest of my birdy cousins.)

Have a wonderful day!


-----The Golden Eagle

Did You Know . . .

. . . that the Empire State Building moored a dirigible?

(Source)

. . . that one of the largest pyramids in the world is in Las Vegas?

(Source)

. . . that the Pentagon once spent $7,600 for a coffeepot, $435 for a hammer, and $640 for a toilet seat?

(Source)

I know I didn't!

(I am not kidding you, in case you were wondering.)

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I love trivia. I know I'm not going to rule the world with trivia, but it's fun to know about.

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Thank you for all your comments on the Ease or Throw the Reader? post--it was great learning what you thought about that subject!

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Anyway, I'm also here to say that RaShelle (who was recently nominated for the Sexiest Female Blogger Award at TheMovie411--go vote for her!) awarded me this lovely mug:

Which I am going to give her a big *hug* and THANK YOU! for. :)

I'm now going to pass it on to these wonderful bloggers:

Summer Ross
Jai Joshi
Rachael Harrie
Old Kitty
Karen Gowan

. . .  and I do think that's all I came to post about today.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!


-----The Golden Eagle

The Beginning

Tis the beginning of November!

Several things happen this month:

NaNoWriMo and its accompanying frenzy. I am participating HERE, although the site's down and I can't access it. There are just too many writer's trying to get on, I guess. But that's better than just a few, lonely participants. :)

Voting on November 2nd. Unfortunately, it's all "this candidate did this!" and "that candidate did that!" and blame, and guilt by association, and attack ads, and "I'm mad as hell" (seriously, I visited one site and the person running actually appeared on the screen and said it. Right. Uh-huh. Integrity, please!). There are few to nil "I am going to do this when you elect me" or "I am pledging my support for that" which is extremely dismaying--and all these newcomers don't have a record you can follow.

The Thanksgiving holiday. I'm not the hugest fan of Thanksgiving, although I do enjoy the purpose of the holiday. We really should be giving thanks--much more often than we do. Plus, there are the family get-togethers for a lot of people.

Did I mention frantic writing on the side of NaNoWriMo? Yes? Oh.


I will try to keep up my blogging, and I will post book reviews sometime--I haven't done one in a week, and I've got several sitting in my Draft pile. There's just too much to post about 'round here! I didn't have that problem before, but it's a good one to have at any rate. ;)

I wasn't very present on the blogosphere today, either; I'll be getting to you peeps tomorrow.

Finally, I'm also going to say: "Have a great month!" before I forget it, and really, I hope you do.


-----The Golden Eagle