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New Words: 2333
Chapter One total: 1625
Chapter Two total: 3274
Chapter Three total: 2141
Chapter Four total: 2649
Chapter Five total: 2165
Chapter Six total: 3055
Chapter Seven total: 3342
Chapter Eight total: 3653
Chapter Nine total: 2058
Chapter Ten: 2838
Chapter Eleven: 3008
Chapter Twelve: 2474
Chapter Thirteen: 2275
Chapter Fourteen: 2609
Chapter Fifteen: 1636
Chapter Sixteen: 3915
Chapter Seventeen: 2720
Chapter Eighteen: 2638
Total words for first draft: 48,079
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Today was a much better typing day and I think I figured out why I started dragging the pen on the upcoming chapters. The scenes I have outlined aren't big enough to carry two chapters, so I better combine them.
Fave line: "This jerk from a Lucky Charms box spooked her."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Mom's cleaning out the shed project: my items in the shed are too cumbersome for her to deal with and I forgot about it last weekend. So I got my great-grandmother's bedframe and my extra door (I knocked out the wall it was in years ago) to the front porch. Next up the heaters that were replaced by a modern one and I don't want to get rid of them for sentimental reasons. Tugged the one on the shed floor towards the door and lots of paper debris (the rodents chewed up a whole Monopoly game that had been stored out there) came out as it moved. I tilted it to lift it up and the mice living in it ran for their lives, circling around the heater and me as they crossed my path to get back to the safety of the still covered with stuff wall. I know I saw at least two, heads were mousy not rat-like, but of the two one was as big as a rat so it may have been three or more all moving as one while shrieked and jumped out of the shed.
Okay, I'm a country girl and I accept wildlife outnumbers me at my home. But what flashed in my head while I reenacted every cartoon mouse encounter I have ever watched was the episode of Medical Investigations with Hantavirus and OMG how fast those soldiers DIED! After my brain rebooted, I realized Mom would be dead from it last week if those rodents were carriers, but I was done for the night.
What I'm looking forward to: Laptop purchase that I don't know when I'll get to make now. :( The bills ate up the money I thought I would have for it. Maybe next month if I'm good with the money. A bonus to my paycheck this week! *Checks paystub* That's enough to buy my laptop—I'm ordering the laptop! I'm not going to talk about how the laptop purchase didn't happen AGAIN. I've paid shit off, I'm not supposed to be broke every paycheck any more. Weekend plans still look good, and my baby sister is coming down next week.
What I'm not looking forward to: New issue: I have to get those heaters out before I leave on Friday for the weekend. So I'm going to see if Mustard will actually hunt in there before I move anything. I'm hoping for something like this, I think.
Once I get XMarks saved bookmarks correct I have to have a massive save page as party and completely change how I archive my research for everything now because I can't trust the paying job computer not to screw with it somehow. Still haven't had a chance to fix that yet because I'm terrified I'll lose everything if I touch any of it.
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