Holland is six kinds of weather per day

Holland is enkele plaatselijke buien

Holland is rain.

...

Holland is narrow staircases

Holland is zegels plakken

Holland is gratis aanbieding met de fles - een plastic eierdopje.

Holland is grey plastic garbage sacks

Holland is bouwvakkersvakantie

Holland is shops where

ze hebben het wel, maar niet in voorraad.

Holland is greeting-cards

met de mond geschilderd

Holland is somebody's

verjaardag

every other day

Holland is buried under flowers like a corpse...

Ethel Portnoy (NL Wikipedia)

Making a list and checking it twice.

Thanks to Google Docs, I can even add things I think of when at work.

I have a huge list of 'one-time' expenses, and unfortunately another long list of monthly expenses.

On another note, below is an overview of my new neighborhood. It's posh ;)

House

Yes, it's mine. I'm waiting for the rent-papers (contract/etc) to arrive, but I have confirmed I want it and the Foundation (how serious does that sound?) has confirmed it's mine :)

Next week, I'll be making endless lists of things I need to buy, things I need to cancel and renew, and of course, the all important "move" itself. Friends of mine have heard the question 'What are you doing in the third week of December?' often enough by now, to realize I want them to help me ;)

NaNoWriMo

With all the house-searching and such, I have not had any time to write. It seems, I'm stuck at my current word-count, and I don't know if I'll ever catch up. Perhaps, I'll do another run in January.

Weekend

Spending the weekend in Lunteren, working on Three-Dimensional (at least, that's part of the reason). Sofie, Michiel and Nancy have helped me celebrate the new house: my parents gave me a nice bottle of bubbly wine :)

We will be doing some 3D stuff, mainly working on a new site for ourselves, and working on a site for possible customers.

All in all? Life is good!

ALL MINE!

well, at least one of them ;)

Our Father, who art in Nano, novel be thy name. Thy word count come, thy will be done in text as it is on paper. Amen.

Day One is almost over, and so far I have managed to write almost 2000 words.

I started my story with a title and a main character, but that is about it. No plotline, no location and no real time frame.

As any playwright will tell you, I am not following Artistotle's famous unities for drama

• unity of action
• unity of time
• unity of place

but I am hoping I will get there anyway.

In the menu on the right, you will find a link to my story, Julie's Marbles. I will update both the story and the number of words frequently for now.