Life Speeds, Why Can't We?

Why does life just sort of move faster and faster?  Last week, I was driven almost insane by how much down-time I had but this week... I'm training at Target with only a day off for Thanksgiving.  Tuesday, I raced over to the other side of the island after I got off from Target to do my other job, then fought my way back through post-rush hour, pre-construction traffic.  I was exhausted, but I should have forced myself to make pie crusts anyway since Wednesday, I had less than four hours to come home, make a pie and then get over to church. ...I ended up using a store-bough pie because of that.

Other than that, my Thanksgiving was pretty good.  I woke up at 8, wandered downstairs and then put myself to work in the kitchen, cleaning up, mixing the guts for some more pies, peeling potatoes, pulling out dishes.  The end result, after a very good turkey dinner, I got to sit on the couch and reread Harry Potter while my dad and brother did the clean-up.  And then and then my sister's sister came over with her boyfriend and my nephew Jaiden and... well, I had a great Thanksgiving evening chasing the little 15-month-old around :)

I read a lot of British literature; my shelves are stuffed with books that originated there and my kindle is full of them.  I don't know if I can really blame that love for this habit, but I think I will: I notice I sometimes put unnecessary Us in words sometimes.  I don't know where else I would have gotten that from...

I've been mostly keeping up, but as I'm half asleep when I'm watching TV, I don't really remember what I'm seeing.  I have enough retention that I understand what people are talking about when the reference an event from that episode later, but thaaat's about it.

Watching a month of TV in three days...

Life has been SUPER crazy lately! I am almost a month behind on several TV shows (mostly Once Upon a Time, although I just caught up on SHIELD yesterday). Right now, however, I'm in a lull.

I just got a new job at Target. I was supposed to have me orientation yesterday so Saturday was my LAST DAY at Subway (WOOT WOOT!!!). But then my orientation was pushed back to Saturday because of a backlog (not Target's) due to all the seasonal hiring so this week, I'm only working one job, instead of the two or three I've been for the last few months. So I'm watching TV and playing a lot of Final Fantasy (logged almost 30 hours in the last few days alone).

Life Interfered

So... it's been a while.  In my defense, I haven't watched much of anything lately. If a number of shows hadn't taken a break for the week of Halloween, I would be hopelessly behind.

I've been watching some TV and on Halloween, I watched Halloween with my brother, Dad and sister (who is currently staying with us for a week or so). Which is part of the reason I haven't been watching TV.  I've been hanging with my sister and working and watching old episodes of Big Bang (her favorite).

And now it's November, National Novel Writing Month.  And my brother is all gung-ho to do it and is reminding me to do it as well.  And so I'm doing it. Kind of.  Last night I finally started and I'm at about 1200 words.  Yeah.  I'm going to work on that a bit after I work on a few other things.