Ramble on

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I’ve written my goals for the week and written stuff for the writing challenge I’m involved in with Reb and Em but those didn’t take a whole lot of words and I am going to try to do 600 words a day. I think that’s going to be my goal for the year too--an average of 600 words a day. I should probably make a spreadsheet to track that too so that I don’t have to go searching through my documents at the end of the year to find and open every single month’s spreadsheet to look up the total word count from each month to add it up at the end of the year. I have my January spreadsheet started now which is great.

This weekend was so fun and I just had an amazing time. The trip back was a little annoying because there was a lot of traffic. I don’t know why people can’t manage to drive but it was seriously kind of obnoxious. It wouldn’t be so bad if it were just a fender bender here and there but we’re talking about delays that--at least according to Google--ranged from 42 minutes to almost an hour and a half. It’s only supposed to be a four hour trip to begin with! I ended up making it in about five even with stopping for gas and a pee thanks to the rerouting by the GPS. I have a feeling I would’ve been home much, much later and possibly a lot crankier without it.  

I was enjoying my audiobook though. I have to laugh at myself because I have about 375 books I could listen to that I haven’t yet listened to and another chunk that I’ve only listened to once and here I am reading the same series for what I’m pretty sure is the fourth time. Because I’m pretty sure I read the physical copies at some point and only got into the audiobooks later and I’m 99.99999% that this is my third audiobook listen. It’s definitely at least the second as I re-listened to them all early on in 2016. I’m probably not going to get into all the side novellas like the ones about Niles Van Holtz and Irene or Eggie and Darla, just the main ones. I started at the beginning and have now made it to my favorite of the series. At least I’m pretty sure it’s my favorite. There are two others that give it a serious run for its money and it is possible there is a tie, but I think it’s the reigning favorite. It’s technically the sixth book but the first book is really two different stories so I always consider it the 6th in the series. Although, that whole “what number in the series it is” thing isn’t really important.

I’m also thinking I’m going to re-read “A Wrinkle in Time” this year. I haven’t read it, I don’t think, since grade school and the movie looks amazingggggg. There are so many things coming out soon that I seriously can’t wait to see. And so many books I’m going to want to read. Still probably going to finish this 9 book series first. At the very least I’m going to finish five and six and possibly nine. It really love every book in the series, including seven and eight, it’s just that I started listening to these books because I was in need of the comfort of the familiarity and humor and now I’m starting to want to read new stuff again. Or at the very least stuff I haven’t re-read several time, the last time of which was less than a year ago.

Regardless, I think I’m going to be busy this year.