Soup and Sore Throats and Books and NaNoWriMo
Food: Potato-leek soup is an awesome thing to do with leftover mashed potatoes.
Sore throat: Woke up this morning at 3 AM with a “tickle” (and a cough) in my throat. Took a zinc lozenge. Woke up at 6:15 with partially-dissolved lozenge still in my mouth, and my throat feeling like it was burned by acid all night.
I went shop-happy on Amazon.com yesterday. They gave me a free 3-month trial of their premium membership. I am already loving it– free 2-day shipping on anything? Oh, yes. That is joy.
So my “I finished NaNoWriMo” self-presents shipped this morning (as did Mom’s Christmas gift). I got two books for SCA-ing: “Medieval Calligraphy” and “Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery.” The first is apparently *the* book for scribes in the SCA wanting to develop a “period” hand. The second is for folks wanting to cook period food (I’m secretly hoping it will also have recipes for rapini and other weird tasties that my organic CSA keeps delivering to us).
We had a winner at the write-in last night! Someone new(ish)– I gave her her winner’s medal and a bunch of congratulations.
gabbysmom wrote:
I got the free trial of amazon prime too. Yay free fast shipping. I don’t think I need that much in the next 3 months though!
Posted on 28-Nov-05 at 11:17 am | Permalink
anarchist_nomad wrote:
Congrats on finishing the first 50k words of your novel!!!
Posted on 28-Nov-05 at 7:23 pm | Permalink
mortaine wrote:
Not there yet. 48K. 2K to go. I just ordered early so they’d arrive the day I cross over.
I also would reward myself for trying hard, though so far I haven’t lost a NaNoWriMo yet. I did fail my first NaNoEdMo, though.
Posted on 28-Nov-05 at 9:27 pm | Permalink