As hoped, I’ve had a good day for getting stuff done! Another 4,000 words written on my NaNo novel, and lots of stuff watched off the digibox.
A typical busy Thursday tomorrow, so it’ll be a bit tougher to squeeze everything in.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Calvin Harris and Sam Smith – Promises
Sarah Brightman and Steve Harley – The Phantom Of The Opera
Duran Duran – Notorious
Traditional – Deck The Halls
Duran Duran – White Lines
Another 4,000 words on my NaNo novel took me to 80,000 words today!
I also cleaned and tidied the house, or some of it anyway, because Geth and I were having guests round for boardgaming tonight. Having guests round during NaNo month is a good thing because otherwise the house would literally not get cleaned for a full month.
We’re playing Pandemic Legacy series 2, which is the latest legacy game in a series of legacy games that we’ve been playing with the same group of people for three years. It’s a bit scary that it’s been three years. I’m really enjoying this one, though, and I’ll do a review of the full campaign when we finish it sometime in 2019. It gets more and more interesting as you explore more of the world map.
Looking forward to a full day of catching up with admin tomorrow.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Thompson Twins – You Take Me Up
Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
Tracey Ullman – They Don’t Know
Duran Duran – Winter Marches On
Duran Duran – White Lines
Leo Sayer – Moonlighting
Duran Duran – Hungry Like The Wolf
Over the past three days I have:
Tomorrow is busy again as I’ve got lots of admin and a boardgaming evening!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Taylor Dayne – Tell It To My Heart
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper – Shallow
Arcadia – Election Day
Duran Duran – Girls On Film
Another flying post today because between running a half marathon and writing another 4,000 words on my NaNo novel, I’ve been really busy. I’ll update with lots of posts tomorrow, though, ’cause I’ve got lots and lots to say about the weekend!
Today’s earworm playlist:
Arcadia – Say The Word
Europe – Carrie
Silk City, Mark Ronson, Diplo and Dua Lipa – Electricity
Loud Luxury and Brando – Body
Calvin Harris and Sam Smith – Promises
Boy George – Everything I Own
Will Young – Leave Right Now
Sacre – London Marathon
And a few bonus tracks that Geth was humming earlier:
Tracey Ullman – They Don’t Know
Urban Cookie Collective – The Key, The Secret
Metallica – Sad But True
Metallica – The Memory Remains
Covenant – Dead Stars
Just a quick post today because Geth and I are heading off to a gig! Will update fully tomorrow, as it’s been a very busy weekend of running stuff and vintage fairs and lots more.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Duran Duran – Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
Little Mix and Nicki Minaj – Woman Like Me
Duran Duran – Notorious
Wham! – Last Christmas
Duran Duran – Late Bar
Level 42 – Lessons In Love
Culture Club – Victims
Sacre – London Marathon
Calum Scott – Dancing On My Own
Dennis Waterman – I Could Be So Good For You
I got another 4,000 words done on my NaNo novel again today. It took a while because I was trying to catch up with the last few weeks’ worth of music charts as well, but it got done. I’m determined to (a) keep this streak going and (b) finish this story!
I also got my music practice in again – keyboard this time. I may not have time to do it next week (and definitely not over the weekend) but we’ll see.
Going to try and get an early night tonight, because I’ve got a very busy weekend ahead of me with a couple of early starts.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Duran Duran – Come Undone
Elton John – Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
Duran Duran – Burning The Ground
Duran Duran – A View To A Kill
The 1975 – Too Time Too Time Too Time
Loud Luxury and Brando – Body
Pulp – Sorted For Es And Whizz
Paula Abdul – Straight Up
Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush – Don’t Give Up
Another 4,000 words on my NaNo novel, taking me up to 60,000!
Today’s music practice: back to the tin whistle and those last few slightly difficult tunes from Recorder From The Beginning.
I’ve had a couple of weeks where I’ve not really watched much TV ’cause I don’t like having the distraction while I’m writing. Tonight I turned the TV back on – first because I wanted to watch a couple of BBC4 documentaries on iPlayer (one with Boy George talking about the 1970s, which is (a) pertinent to my novel and (b) excitement-building for the Culture Club gig I am going to see on Saturday, and one about vinyl singles, which was just glorious and nostalgic and featured lots of excellent talking heads), and secondly just to have some Now! ’80s on the go as background music for the rest of the evening. A couple of alarming things that have apparently happened in the last couple of weeks:
Still getting a lot done, but still very behind on managing the actual to-do list at the moment. Hoping to get that sorted tomorrow morning.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Duran Duran – Come Undone
Queen – Bicycle Race
Duran Duran – Rio
Duran Duran – Skin Trade
Leo Sayer – Moonlighting
Alannah Myles – Black Velvet
Arcadia – Say The Word
Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam
Another day, another 4,000 words on my NaNo novel.
Also: another day, another old kids’ music book that I dug out of the stack and started going through again (today’s offering: Me and My Piano). Nothing like being super proud of being able to play through a tune and then noticing from the date written next to it that you first managed to play through it when you were six. Also, it’s sort of bizarre when you find yourself playing through Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star with actual feeling.
Also: had some actual day job work to do as well for a client, as well as lots of day job admin.
It’s been a fairly productive day on the whole! Tomorrow there’s no Pilates class, so once I’m back from Slimming World I should be able to get properly into my work again.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Queen – Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
George Michael – Careless Whisper
Duran Duran – All She Wants Is
Arcadia – Election Day
Duran Duran – Girls On Film
The Power Station – Communication
Duran Duran – Last Chance On The Stairway
Duran Duran – Notorious
My daily 4,000 words put me past the 50k mark and up to 52,000 today! That’s ten days earlier than my previous record from 2015. I can’t even officially validate it yet!
The rest of the day was just spent doing more admin. Same again tomorrow.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Arcadia – Say The Word
Duran Duran – Hold Back The Rain
Five Star – Rain Or Shine
The Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian
Pepsi & Shirlie – Heartache
George Michael – Careless Whisper
Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody
Duran Duran – Notorious
Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball
Duran Duran – Rio
Geth’s been out boardgaming all evening (he and friends have discovered a new card game that they’re really enjoying) and so I have been taking advantage of the quiet house again. This has meant another 4,000 words on the NaNo novel (48,000 in total!) and lots of admin done, though not nearly as much as I would have liked. I’ll be getting up early tomorrow to try again.
Today’s earworm playlist:
Al Stewart – Year Of The Cat
Steps – Better Best Forgotten
ELO – Mr Blue Sky
Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite
Abba – Happy New Year
Leo Sayer – Moonlighting