Tail End Wendy

It's been a little crazy here. Why does everything have to happen on the same weekend?

Good Stuff:
- My new printer works.
- November Powerpoints are about 75% done.
- Canned more tomatoes. I have more to pick, a few red and lots more green. At the suggestion of a friend, I'm going to pick them all and make salsa verda with the green ones. She gave me some serrano peppers to throw in.
- We hung out with friends Saturday night. There was a Scotch tasting to raise funds for Tartan Days in April (where I'll be doing my tag team set with Pictus). Of the five we tasted, I really liked one and didn't like two. The other two were all right. I do have a better idea what I like now, so I'm on my way to being a Scotch snob. ;-) The Scotch we donated to the silent auction brought in half again what we paid for it, so that was exciting for us.
- Fenced on Saturday, which was a good workout. The only possible downside is he's teaching me one-handed and two-handed at the same time, and the footwork is completely different, so I keep messing that up.
- Bought part of a cow for our freezer. A hundred pounds wasn't as much as I thought it was going to be.
- Our DVR has saved my sanity. I haven't watched live TV (except evening news once or twice) in weeks.
- Got a good start on Christmas shopping.

Not So Good:
- I'm already behind in NaNo. As of Sunday I was at 5426. The busy weekend really hurt word count, and we're having company for a week at Thanksgiving. On the upside, I got two more warrior queen stories written. Two more to go, but I've got research material for those, so now it's a matter of reading and writing.
- I looked forward to getting cheap Halloween candy Thursday, but all I could find was milk chocolate and the sour fruity crap the kids like. No dark chocolate at all. Not entirely bad, really, but still!
- Decided to make a beaded circlet for my friend who's turning 40 a few days before my birthday. Bought the supplies, talked through design with the beading expert at the shop, and got home to find Vicky had taken almost all the beading tools with her. I have a pair of wire cutters and two crimpers, and I'm not using crimping beads on this project. :-/

This Week:
- Get the guest rooms finished. No, really, I have to do it this week.
- Crit a contest entry for a friend.
- Gear up for Thanksgiving (make a list, buy food, fun stuff like that)
- WRITE! GET LOTS AND LOTS OF WORDS! Jeesh.