Y'all, my house smells AMAZING right now.
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seren_ccdI love October - all the birthdays! It's my husband's b-day today and mine was last week. He made me Chicken Fesenjan (chicken with a walnut-pomegranate sauce) and chocolate pecan pie. OMNOMNOM. So, today I'm making him puerco pibil (the slow-roasted pork dish from Once Upon a Time in Mexico) and a blueberry-peach pie. I'm using my slow-cooker and the pork has been cooking away for the last 2 hours. The house smells incredible.
And goodness, it's been a wee while since I updated. Work has been nuts. We're so busy. I'm working 9 hour days and I spend the morning doing tons of admin and data-input work, then after lunch I'm in the lab until it's time to go home. We have so many samples, it's ridiculous. Hopefully, this will settle down, um, in November? Maybe? I'm so tired.
It needs to settle down because I'm actually doing NaNoWriMo this year. Wooo! I'm FINISHING my Nora and The Ghost story. I've been thinking about how to go about doing it and I'm doing the hard thing and starting from the beginning. It's the only way.
I've been working on it piecemeal for a few years now, I know what I want to have happen, but it's not very cohesive. So, I'm starting from the very beginning and going straight through it.
I'm also handwriting it. My thoughts flow better with a pen in my hand. And I can edit it by typing it up later. This way, I can just get the damn thing DONE.
In other, other news, I love our new place. It's quiet, it's by the sea, and it has just enough space that it's fairly easy to stay on top of things. I'm really content. :D
How is everyone? Have a lovely Sunday! ♥
And goodness, it's been a wee while since I updated. Work has been nuts. We're so busy. I'm working 9 hour days and I spend the morning doing tons of admin and data-input work, then after lunch I'm in the lab until it's time to go home. We have so many samples, it's ridiculous. Hopefully, this will settle down, um, in November? Maybe? I'm so tired.
It needs to settle down because I'm actually doing NaNoWriMo this year. Wooo! I'm FINISHING my Nora and The Ghost story. I've been thinking about how to go about doing it and I'm doing the hard thing and starting from the beginning. It's the only way.
I've been working on it piecemeal for a few years now, I know what I want to have happen, but it's not very cohesive. So, I'm starting from the very beginning and going straight through it.
I'm also handwriting it. My thoughts flow better with a pen in my hand. And I can edit it by typing it up later. This way, I can just get the damn thing DONE.
In other, other news, I love our new place. It's quiet, it's by the sea, and it has just enough space that it's fairly easy to stay on top of things. I'm really content. :D
How is everyone? Have a lovely Sunday! ♥
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Date: 2016-10-17 05:56 pm (UTC)(And I am still COMPLETELY serious about getting to beta/CP on the ghost book, btw. I have been so good about waiting LOL)
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