chronicled & illustrated

view from little tobago; taken by nancy

I didn’t have a plan for what I was going to write tonight so to play for time I went over to Under the Stars to see what my friend, Sherry blogged today. I didn’t even read it. She had a meme going on, so I decided to take it from her and see what I came up with.

The Five Most Impressive Sights of My Life

1) The Grand Tetons driving into Jackson Hole, Wyoming from the east. They took my breath away.

2) A thunderstorm forming in the distance while driving through New Mexico.

3) A pod of whales off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

taken by my friend Ed Warner; I was too busy being impressed to get any decent shots of them! The best part was the sound. The captain of the boat cut the engine and we would hear SPLOOSH! as they came up out of the water followed by a WOOSH! as the air came from their blow holes. Everything was perfectly silent except for these soft, remarkable sounds.

4) View of the water and the rain forests in Tobago (see above)

5) Sparkling snow shadows in my yard when there’s fresh snow fall and a full moon!

Bonus Answers:

• Any woman giving birth
• Driving past London landmarks like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and Westminster Abby while coming home from the theater in a cab
• Niagara Falls (an AMAZING amount of water goes over those falls!)
• Fall leaves in New England in any *good* year

Thanks for the mental trip down Impressive Memory Lane, Sherry.
NOW I’ll go read your answers.
Here’s Helen’s blog where Sherry got the meme

View of Little Tobago
Originally uploaded by nuanc

I started off this month with a feeling that I had enough NaNoWriMo experience that I might be able to offer other people tips on how to get through it. I actually have evidence that a couple of people did get a little encouragement or a helpful message at the right time from these tidbits, so that’s good. I like that. You don’t do something like this 5 times without learning something.

But now, the 26th of November, I’m bushed! I do not feel chipper anymore. I do not have the energy to make little graphics for the blog or to even think up anything helpful to say to anyone. If I had any energy, I’d go looking for tips just to help me get through the next few days. I don’t know if my age is showing or if blogging every day has added just that much extra work or if it’s that short story I masochistically decided to begin over the weekend, or the other dozen things I could name that have nothing to do with writing. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter. November is almost over.

I’ll get through it and I’ll get my winner’s certificate for what it’s worth, but this experienced Wrimo will be positively plodding her way to the deadline!

Illustration: I took this shot of my older son and my stepson with their heads together while on a superb vacation in Tobago

I only took one photo this week that I liked.
Next week I hope to have a bushel basket of lovelies.
Then again, one that you’re proud of is good too.

rumplestiltskin

Originally uploaded by nuanc

As I said yesterday, I joined NaBloPoMo. What a rockin’ little group. Games, Prizes and Everything. I love a good game.

Evidently, there’s a Randomizer and I was a *hit* when Rika (hi Rika!) used it yesterday.

So here are the rules:

• Link to the person who tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
• Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
• Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs. You have to use this randomizer, I guess.
• Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

The Seven Things That Came to Me Fast (because I should be writing my nanovel):

1. I still have a baby tooth after 58 years…well, probably it didn’t come in until I was two or so, so let’s call it 56 years.
2. I am a Texan born in Missouri who lives in Canada.
3. My fingers spell out words (American Sign Language) when I’m not aware of it. This often happens when I’m watching tv or listening attentively to someone. The only reason I know, is because they say, “What are you doing with your fingers?”
4. I have no thyroid gland.
5. I consider myself: a realist, a healer and renewably innocent.
6. I love (though hardly ever eat) Twinkies.
7. I can pinch with my toes.

Here are my randomlovelies:
al bedsitter,
ladylanguage,
becky,
my2sweetsugars-youngfamily,
gvp,
kamylyon,
lisa

Sorry, I couldn’t find some of your *names*…but maybe you like that way. Have fun!

Oh! This just in: s’mee also randomized me. It’s okay, I didn’t want to do my work today anyway.