Lots of News

Before I begin, I'd like to say sorry for being such a horrible blogger in the past week. I realize that it's been...almost two weeks since I last posted. I'm so very sorry! Life decided to get in the way and make blogging nearly impossible. So I've decided to drop in and let you all know what's up.

School and homework has been taking up the majority of my time. We're nearing the end of the trimester which means teachers are now piling even more work on us in an attempt to get through all their lessons before exams. At this point our trig teacher has already told us that we're not going to have any time for review in class before our exams. Which sucks. Whatever time I don't spend working on homework, is spent writing. NaNo is very time consuming, but I'm quite happy with my project so far.

Yesterday my laptop broke and it's now in the shop. I think I have a vague idea how parents feel when they're children go away to summer camp. Everything was on that laptop including all of my nano project. I did have the sense to backup all my novels, except for that one. I'm getting everything taken off my harddrive, but I'm not getting that until tomorrow. So until then I'm just working off what I remember. The worst part of a broken laptop is I now have to share our lone computer with my mom who also happens to be a writer working on a novel. So now we're fighting over who gets top priority on the computer.

So where does that put this blog? Well, unfortunately at the bottom of my priorities. I will continue to blog as often as I can. Blogging will probably be pretty sparse this week but I'll try to get back into regular posts next week. I had book reviews planned for this week, but my notes for those were also on the laptop.

Note to readers: BACK UP EVERYTHING! As soon as I get my backup copy of my files, I'm going to backup everything that I need. It doesn't have to be complicated, all I do is email an attachment of the document to myself.

Also, today is November 8th. Which is Destiny's first birthday! I had a celebration planned that included interviews with my favorite characters, but that is going to have to wait a few days.

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Emilia Plater said…
No need to apologize love. I hope you get your lappy back soon! And happy birthday Destiny :)
November 8, 2009 at 5:10 PM
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