ARGH... I am writing from the depths of Nanohell. On the upside, this is my third year running, and the last two years I "won", or reached 50,000 words, so I hold out hope for this year. On the downside, I'm lagging in the wordcount stake by about 4,000 words. D'oh.

So I'm distracting myself with plenty of Alchemy, a good dose of Diet Coke, and searching for definitions of things at Urban Dictionary.com. If you have ever found yourself in the position of explaining the concept of "bling bling" to your 50-something mother, this is where you need to be. (If you happen to stumble across the definitions of "pearl necklace", "donkey punch", "filthy sanchez" and "shocker" while you're there... don't blame me.)