I have some great news! Two days ago, in the evening, I became an aunt for the first time! My brother and his girlfriend became parents to a lovely little girl. She was born well over a week before she was due, but everything is well with both mother and child and they are all very happy. My parents are extremely excited about finally being grandparents. I'm convinced that my brother and his girlfriend will be wonderful parents, and I have already told them that she will be thoroughly spoiled by this aunt. I've been looking forward to this so much! I haven't seen her yet, as they live on the other side of the country, but my mother and I (my father is already there, as he had work on that side of the country - talk about good timing!) will go there the day after tomorrow.

Also, the club ~WA-writersblock is getting on its feet again after a way too long hiatus. I was thrilled to see that people still seem to care for the club and want it to be active again. I have also gotten help this time around, from ~Kerowin4Moons, so hopefully the club will be stronger and better than ever. I don't plan on letting it die again, I already have some ideas. It will maybe take some time before it is completely the way I want it to be, as I need some time to work things out, but it will be back.

Thirdly... I will become active again at this account too. I haven't painted in ages, but... Probably soon. Besides, I've been writing, so possibly I'll upload some stories again. They will be better than the stories I've uploaded here before

Clubs I'm in: (some of them)

Anyone else nanoing this year?

I had not planned to participate this year, because of school and because my life is way too busy to begin with, but three or four days before November I realised that I just could not not do NaNoWriMo this year. I have participated twice before; I did not get past 5,000 words any of those years. I think I had 1 and 3 pages, respectively.

But that was then, I had several things in my life that took away my motivation and my ability to actually do what I decided to do (my depression, mainly) and now things are entirely different. After three or four years of only writing very little (especially compared to how much I wrote before) it is actually nothing short of wonderful to be writing properly again. My novel currently sucks, and the plot that I made up the day before it started is very extensive (part of the backstory of my regular novel project) so I feel like I skip the parts I should detail, and the other way around. But it is fun!

I am now at 42k, have written 10k already today and do not plan to go to bed yet. So I might even get to 45k before going to bed. Which means, considering that the requirement for winning is 50k, my novel will be finished tomorrow. A novel in a week! What a project. And what a contrast to the last two years... I have the time of my life right now.

A little side observation: NaNoWriMo really do take away your ability to use contractions. ("Won't" is one word, "will not" is two - every word counts )

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I decided to try my hand at the blogging thing again. As if I don't have enough to do... I created a new one at blogger.com, but then remembered that I have a dead one at Livejournal too, as well as the blog on my website... But as nobody reads the blog on my website I decided to blog elsewhere until I have the time to work properly on my website.

My blogs are:
Blogger.com: [link]
Livejournal: [link]
(Website: [link] )

Currently the blogs have pretty generic names - I have no idea what to call them. If you have a good suggestion I'll feature you in this journal and on the blog in question...

Also, for those of you who are on blogger.com or livejournal, I'll be really happy if you follow me or friend me! I'll do the same in return, of course. It's lonely blogging with no readers

Anyone else doing NaNoWriMo, by the way?

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I've actually managed to clean out my devWatch completely. I didn't really comment much, sorry about that. Starting now, I'll become a better commenter I'll possibly start uploading some of my photography today...

Nowadays there's just so many positive things in my life I don't know what to do with myself. Try to make myself realize that there's no reason to panic, possibly I'm so used to not getting things done and being late and having a thousand things hanging over my head that I don't really know how to act when I don't. I just don't know how to think! Truthfully I still have my thesis, but I'm not supposed to work on that one during weekends, so I shouldn't panic about that today.

Anyway. This weekend I've missed a workshop with world famous Dairé Nolan (the baddie in Lord of The Dance) - he's been teaching my dancing troupe new choregraphy for our upcoming show. I've been ill the whole week and just couldn't go. Almost well again, but it just takes some time. According to one of my best friends, I just don't know how to take care of myself. I beat myself up over small things, I don't eat right, I constantly do things that are bad for me... Yeah. Oops, didn't mean for this to be a soul-searching kind of journal.

Positive things!

- I've made a breakthrough in my thesis work. I'm getting there! (rather, I've moved a little bit away from the starting line...)

- I'm writing again! Currently none of them are stories that are publishable, they're just for fun, but I'm slowly finding back to my older self where I'd spent every spare moment writing. Writer's Digest have a short story competition right now, I hope I'll be able to write a good story before the deadline. The prizes are super-awesome (first prize is, among other things, 3000 USD)! Wish me luck

- The Japanese course I'm attending is going well. I'm actually, for the first time in my life, answering questions in class voluntarily. Currently I think I've done enough homework for the next month though

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Edit: Got help from =Jibril85 , thanks a lot. If I get the time to put together a feature soon, you'll be on top of the list! I got it sent before deadline and finally I can stop thinking about advertisements...

I have now 733 deviations in my devwatch... I really need to find the time to comment soon!

To all German-speakers out there, I really need some help.

I am in charge of making an advertisement for work, and it needs to be translated into German, but there's not really anyone who speaks German here at work. I DID, but my Grammar is just completely horrendous. So, could any (preferrably native) German speakers help me translate the text into German? Pretty please with sugar on top? I'll give you a subscription, anything. The thing is that it also must be done today. If you are willing to save me, send me a note and I'll send you the text. It's really short, only 6 sentences.

Anyone?

Clubs I'm in: (some of them)