Whenever I put my mind back to November, all I get is blurred images and skidmarks. Productive it may have been, but I am paying for it now. Jem also seems to have saved up a lot of crankiness, tummy pain, random screaming and suspiciously red cheeks (TEETHING, ALREADY?) until now, which on the one hand is truly excellent of her, but on the other hand…

Yeah.

I gave myself this week off to hum and stare at walls and all that sort of thing, but have already spent a lot of it juggling a miserable baby and trying to catch up on the Pendlerook Designs work I have totally let slip over the last month.

Today is due to be quite exciting, I have a jaunt to Salamanca planned for photographing purposes, plus lunch with some of my old Classics office peeps, and then Raeli is going to be an elephant in the grand performance staged by her daycare centre tonight. It’s all good stuff.

I’ve done more blogging during NaNo than I have in ages – almost daily, and have been feeling all revitalised. I don’t know how many blog words I wrote to add to my 50,000, but it’s a lot. Partly this is the joy of my shiny new website/blog to play with, and partly it’s that words feed into each other. Writing makes me want to write more. It’s always been this way. High energy output of one kind of writing inspires more output of other kinds of writing. Just like the way that ideas for new novels tend to crowd in once your writing schedule is soooo busy you can’t possibly write anything new.

Once NaNo stopped, I hit a wall with the blog, too. Thinking of things to blog about (apart from obvious things like book reviews) was suddenly hard again. Oddly enough, forcing me to do this entry, even though I didn’t have anything much to say, has started ideas for new entries bubbling in my head.

Heh though of course I have no time to blog now, because getting out of the house for lunch means getting ready an hour early. Baby to juggle!

Hello! *waves*

For those of you just joining us, I’ve been blogging over at Livejournal as “cassiphone” for the last five years.  All the posts from this blog will be crossposted over there, so you won’t miss anything if you follow me through your friendslist or through RSS.  I hope.  All being well.  Etc.  I’ll be following any comments that appear in either blog.

As you were!

T