I exceeded my minimum word count tonight and hit my secret target count. Plus some cool stuff came out of all that agony, and I had an idea I can run with. Yay. So, right now, all’s happy here.

My really exciting news is that today I used the credit card (sigh) and bought a GPS for the car. This weekend, my son has a soccer tournament down south a couple hundred miles (moved from the previous weekend) and I have spent the last two weeks feeling sick with the certainty that I will get lost. We’re driving down Friday night, so gosh only knows we’d probably end up at Yosemite Lodge before I realized I really did miss a turn. It’s just horrible and I hate it. So I bought the GPS and it took less than five minutes to set up and get working. Really really really easy. And when I picked my son up at Aikido, I told it I wanted to go home, and waddya know, it found my house. The dear child may possibly be MORE excited than I am.

Okay. It’s late, I wrote more than 1,000 words, and I’m deeper in debt but not dreading the weekend quite so much.