Busily attending Electric Dreams. Feel strange not having to write my NaNo novel today!
Today’s earworm playlist:
The Darkness – Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)
The Beatles – Do You Want To Know A Secret?
Take That – Babe
Duran Duran – Violence Of Summer
ABC – The Look Of Love
Little Mix and Stormzy – Power
And a bonus track that Geth was humming earlier:
Sheena Easton – Morning Train (Nine To Five)
Off to the first night of a music festival this evening. Will have lots to say tomorrow!
I do want to say that I finished my awesome overachiever 120,000-word NaNo today. Very happy with that.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
Robbie Williams – Dream A Little Dream
Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder – Together In Electric Dreams
Kate Bush – Them Heavy People
Sia – Santa’s Coming For Us
Duran Duran – Winter Marches On
Pet Shop Boys – Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money)
I didn’t go to either Slimming World or Pilates today. I’m still feeling ill and relying on the Lemsip Max Strength, and Geth and I have a music festival this weekend, so I wanted to save my strength. It did mean that things were a bit less hectic than I expected today, which was good.
4,000 words done on NaNo, taking me up to 116,000. One last push tomorrow!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Traditional – Itsy Bitsy Spider*
Robson & Jerome – I Believe
Kate Bush – Them Heavy People
The Rolling Stones – Let’s Spend The Night Together
The 1975 – Too Time Too Time Too Time
Adam & The Ants – Stand And Deliver
Boy George – Everything I Own
Bing Crosby – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder – Together In Electric Dreams
*You can thank the fever dreams for that one.
It’s another one of those hectic weekends (actually, it’s a full hectic week, starting tomorrow and lasting until next Wednesday) coming up. On the plus side, it involves a music festival that I’m really looking forward to, and after Friday I’ll be done with NaNo for another year! (Another 4,000 words today, taking me up to 112,000 words. I’ve done twenty-eight 4,000-word days in a row – I only need to do two more for 120k!)
As such, I’ve been using today to catch up with all my admin, or at least try. Unfortunately, I’ve caught Geth’s bad cold, so I feel pretty rotten. Lemsip Max Strength is keeping me just about functional, but I can’t even face food or anything like that at the moment and I feel pretty faint all the time.
Hoping to feel a bit better tomorrow.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Idina Menzel – Let It Go
Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Robbie Williams – Dream A Little Dream
The Human League – Human
Ultravox – Vienna
Little Mix – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Just a quick update today because Geth and I are going to a gig tonight! Will tell you all about it tomorrow.
(NaNo update: another 4,000 words, 108,000 total!)
Today’s earworm playlist:
Erasure – Drama!
Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Duran Duran – The Chauffeur
Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
So I managed to get up slightly earlier this morning – not quite as early as I’d hoped, but still earlier than the last few days. As such, I got my 4,000 NaNo words in before mid-afternoon, which meant I’ve been able to spend the rest of the day catching up with admin.
The Now! ’80s channel switched to Now! Christmas last week, so it’s all Christmas tunes in the house at the moment, which means I’m getting in the mood. So close to December now!
Hoping for another good start with the writing tomorrow.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Kendrick Lamar and Sza – All The Stars
Bing Crosby – White Christmas
Janet Jackson – Together Again
I wrote my daily 4,000 words on my NaNo novel today, taking me up to 100,000 words total! I’ve never managed anywhere near that for NaNoWriMo before, and it’s possible I never will again – it’s just that the circumstances have really all come together this year. Just five days to go, and I’m confident I’ll be able to keep the streak going for 120k!
Otherwise I’ve just been catching up with TV today. Hoping for a more productive day tomorrow.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin – I Like It
Last weekend being so busy meant that I’ve been struggling to catch up with things all week and have not really managed it yet. I know that once November and NaNoWriMo are over, I’ll be plunged into a whole different kind of hectic with the run-up to Christmas, but I’m ever hopeful that at some point I’ll actually have some time – just a week would be enough – to sit down and get caught up with all the housework and admin that are always the last things to get done.
Geth and I are both fully into the winter running slump following last weekend’s half marathon as well. It’s okay. I’ll properly get back into it when I start my marathon training in January, and in the intervening time I’ll maybe manage a parkrun every now and then.
Today was a very late start – in the last few days I’ve got into the bad habit of finishing work/writing around midnight and then needing a couple more hours to wind down before bed – but hopefully I should have a better night’s sleep tonight and be able to get more done tomorrow.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Thompson Twins – You Take Me Up
Leo Sayer – Moonlighting
It was mine and Geth’s sixth wedding anniversary today. We have had a ludicrously hectic year and we’re both really tired at the moment, so we decided a good few weeks ago that the absolute best thing we could do to enjoy our anniversary was to doze on the sofa with a takeaway pizza. We’re so old now. <bones creak> Also, Geth has a bad cold and he needs a few days of sofa dozing to get over it.
I’ve had a really productive day, though, with lots of writing done including my daily 4,000 words on my NaNo novel. Looking forward to a really quiet weekend now!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You
John Leyton – Johnny Remember Me
Thompson Twins – You Take Me Up
Duran Duran – Notorious
Florida-Georgia Line and Bebe Rexha – Meant To Be
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
Well, I kept up my 4,000-word NaNo streak, but I didn’t have that great a day otherwise. I had a gain at Slimming World so I’m out of range again (maintaining is so hard!) and it rained all day, which is not good on a day when I’m out and about so much. I did get some unexpected music practice in though.
Looking forward to a quieter day tomorrow.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Thompson Twins – You Take Me Up
Duran Duran – Winter Marches On
Florida-Georgia Line and Bebe Rexha – Meant To Be
Boy George – Everything I Own