Today: 1,690 words
Total: 23,465 words

I’m approaching the midway point for NaNoWriMo, which feels good considering the other fifteen million calls on my time this month.

What are those calls, you ask? Let me tell you. So I have seasonal decor in our home. We have a wreath or some kind of decoration on the front door, garland that hangs in swags over the front door (plus a little wreath or decoration if I have one), flowers in tall tin vases in the sidelights flanking the front door, and as of last year a garland different from the one over the door that is swagged on our fireplace mantle and entwined with fairy lights (we did this last year with our Christmas swag as a kind of nightlight for J.J. and realized it looked really cool so we added lights to all the other garlands).

Normally I change out the decor at the beginning of each season. The winter decor goes up in January, the spring decor in April, the summer decor in July, the autumn decor in October, and the Christmas decor goes up with the tree. Needless to say, this year I was a bit preoccupied with other things in October and the summer decor has stayed up. Since I’m cleaning the house, however, I figured what the hey, even if it only stays up for three weeks I’m gonna put the fall decor up.

Cut to me climbing a ladder and swearing under my breath as I try to get the door garland hung evenly, then discovering that the new wreath hanger I got to replace the old one that broke a couple of weeks ago doesn’t have a little loop on the inside for the small decoration that I usually hang there. Climb down the latter swearing out loud now, hunt around for a big ol’ pushpin, climb back up the ladder and stick it over the door right under the fan light … and realize that I can’t put the usual cornucopia there because it will hit the door every time we try to open said door.

The cornucopia is now hanging in the kitchen (hey, it’s apropos) and a little autumn fruits wreath is hanging on the pushpin. The autumn flowers are in their vases, the fireplace garland is up and glowing prettily, and I even completed my NaNoWriMo word quota for the day, so there, nyah.