Seeing as how NaNoWriMo has begun, I doubt that I will spend many of my words on here this month. Who knows, though. Maybe I will need a break from the marathon of fiction writing. I'm seriously hoping that by the end of this month I will have 50,000 words and a story that is at least 2/3 of the way complete. Even more than hitting 50,000 words, my goal this month is to create a story and actually put an ending on it. It will be the first time in my life that I will have managed to put an ending on a work of fiction if I succeed. Usually I just leave my poor little works of fiction hanging. This time, though, I at least have a conflict that needs to be resolved, if not a hard and fast plot. So that will hopefully help me come to an ending.

I finished listening to Kiss by Ted Dekker today. I really enjoyed that book. I also finished Scared by Tom Davis. It's not overly literary in style, but it's a good story and deals with some very real and hard topics. I have two or three chapters left in the Poisonwood Bible. I started The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. I'm excited to read that book.

I think I realized today that I am far too cynical for my own good. I really don't want to be cynical, but I feel like my experiences in this life have left me jaded. I'm lacking that hope and faith that should be characteristic of a follower of Christ. It's so easy to lose hold of the hope when I look around and see all the hopelessness, despair and injustice in the world around us.

I had a good weekend up in Indianapolis. My cousin and I went wedding dress shopping (for her) and had a lot of fun. We also went and had our eyebrows threaded. What an experience. The right eye was fine - almost no pain. Whew, the left one was excruciating! I thought I might throw up it hurt so bad. It worked really well, though, and only took a few minutes. It was cheaper than waxing, too. I'll probably do it again. It's such an intriguing process. I'd love to learn how to do it.

Anyway, the moving date has been postponed until Monday. So I'm still chilling here in the north.

NaNoWriMo word count: 7,532