Cleaning and Cooking

Got desk... mm, half-cleaned last night? Of course, Wonderful Husband says that the last 20% will take 80% of the time.

Also took the large bowl of (homegrown) tomatoes sitting on the counter, cut out the bad bits, and turned them into six half-pints of tomato jam. I can't use ketchup anymore because it's so high in sodium, but this makes a very good substitute and I'm hoping to wean Wonderful Husband off store ketchup too when the current stuff is gone since I'm also not enamored of how much HFCS is in our diet.

NaNo, Day -3

I'm starting early. This is due to the fact that today while at work I had some quiet time while putting two dozen sets of ashes into urns. (If you want to graph this out mentally, I average about five minutes per set of cremains across the various types of urns.) And while doing this I got hit by Plot Relevant Stuff. As in, hey, that book Marin was given? Here's where it plays out, making the later scene not so pointless. Also, how to hint more heavily at Big Bad Back Story as well as Important Future Story. So tonight I started going through the stuff that hasn't been turned in to class yet (they have read up to page 28), as that's gotten some edits in a different file, and started smoothing, correcting, and writing. Hints at BBBS and IFS have been put in pages 39-41 of 133 thus far.

Start point: 80492
End point: 81058
Words written: 566

Definitely below what I want to average, but I started late and rediscovered that background music means I cannot write. Weird but true; I couldn't have anything else going while I did homework in high school either. Completely shatters my concentration.