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- Hope everyone who braved Black Friday actually survived.
- In honor, or not, of the holiday shopping season, check out Zen Habits No New Gifts Holiday Challenge. One of the suggestions is “Find gratitude for what we already have” — how about the people in our lives? Check out Tiny Buddha’s 50 Ways to Show Gratitude for the People in Your Life.
- Per our holiday tradition, we’ve begun to deck the halls. This will continue all week concluding with the tree next weekend. Aw…I love Christmas decorating
- And then there’s the music and the movies…
:happy sigh: - Okay, on to check-in stuff. Facebook and Twitter updates went pretty well this week with me doing “post and run,” LOL. But at least I got them in there.
- Blog commenting on a minimum of three blogs a day continues to go well though, for obvious reasons, I didn’t do this on Thursday. I have quite a few posts in various stages of drafts and need to spend a day replenishing my stash of scheduled posts. I do have this upcoming week already scheduled so still working with a cushion.
- Word count…I’m afraid to look, LOL. I was doing well until Tuesday when the wee beasties succeeded to giving me their cold. :peeks through fingers: 3308 between Sunday and Monday which would be awesome if I’d done any writing since! (I’m scheduling this post Saturday afternoon, so there’s still a slight chance for more words this week. Slight.)
- This also means I’ll likely be settling for Scrivener’s 20% off for participants carrot, instead of the 50% off carrot for winners, of NaNo. Aw…well, I’m that much further in my draft, so all good.
- This coming week is full of fun stuff.
We have Ciara Knight’s
(be sure to come back Thursday to check out which book I choose)
and Jenny Milchman’s
What’s on your agenda this week?
Raelyn Barclay 
The wee beasties are great at spreading the disease, er, um, the love. Yeah 🙂
Still a few days left for NaNo, maybe you still have a chance of reaching it? Either way it is the effort that counts the most.
Have a great week, Raelyn and I hope that you feel better soon 🙂
Thanks Gene. Most of the icky cruds are gone. As to NaNo, only if I can knock out 5500 a day for the next four days 🙂 We’ll see.
Thanks for stopping by.
Good luck on NaNo…I still recall how I felt last year when I was doing the sprint!
I continued working on that manuscript throughout this challenge (Interior Designs) and picked up another one that I had started the previous year (Defining Moments).
Hope you recover quickly from what the beasties gave you!
Thanks Laurel, definitely on the mend. And I haven’t thrown in the towel yet on NaNo but a win isn’t likely from where I sit at the moment.
Thanks for stopping by.
Colds all over the place here too! Hope you feel 100% soon and you are able to win NaNo! Final push now! Good luck!
It is that time of year isn’t it Em? Thanks for stopping by!
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Wow, thanks for stopping by to let me know Riya!
Ah, bummer, a cold … hope you feel better soon!
And, even though you might now win NaNo, every word down is still progress 😉
Keep it up!
As I wasn’t going to do NaNo, I’m not overly bummed about the words, but I really wanted that 50% off coupon, LOL
Thanks for stopping by Juliana!
You’ve done awesome. I’ve made a tiny attempt at more word count but that tiny turned into a negative when the Inner Critic broke loose taking away great brain drool that counted. But I digress. I think I’ve reached my happy loser point with NaNo and can’t wait to see what I can really make happen with my story.
I haven’t thrown in the towel completely yet but I understand what you’re saying Angela! Send that Inner Critic on a cruise and get back to work 🙂
Thanks for stopping by.
Hope you get your 50% but even if you don’t you’ll have the masterpeice:) sorry to hear about the cold – we have skads of them here in UK – miserable things- I really do think the scientists could have done better by now and found a prevention for a common cold – I was part of research into finding a cure back in the 60’s for goodness sake why isn’t it here yet!!!!
all the best for coming week
It’s far from a masterpiece at this point, LOL.
Thanks for stopping by Alberta!
I really hope you feel better soon. There’s some nasty bugs going around.
Well done on what you managed to do (especially as you got ill.)
I love Christmas too. I can’t wait until 1st December when I can start decorating and singing Christmas songs. 🙂 x
This week (Friday after Thanksgiving to Friday first weekend of Dec) is my decorating week and we’ll get the tree next weekend to finish off. And the Christmas music has started 🙂
Thanks for stopping by Laura!
You did better than I did. For the first time ever, I shut down my blog for four days. No posts! I didn’t even visit any blogs. I am a little ashamed but my family is happy, so I guess it’s okay. I’ll be doing the same thing at Christmas. I hope to rejoin FB and Twitter once I’ve caught up on edits. 🙂
I didn’t get online Thursday at all, and only minimally the other three days. I’m sure I’ll be doing something similar at Christmas. Family has to come first, right 🙂
Thanks for stopping by Ciara!
Hi again, Raelyn! Thanks so much for your support of TYCBD 🙂
🙂 You’re welcome. My wee beasties are looking forward to it.
Great check in, especially considering the beastly cold and Thanksgiving. I didn’t write at all from Thursday through Sunday last week (and need to write some more tonight to make any dents).
I love your outlook on NaNo, any amount of writing and book progress is a plus in my book!
Clearly I’m quite behind since it’s Tuesday, and I’m just now commenting on Sunday’s check ins. Tomorrow the circle begins again! 🙂