Not that anyone reads this anyway, but because I'm a scatterbrain who forgets to IM and email friends, I just wanted to say that I'm going to be in North Carolina for the next three - four days... we're travelling there for Nathan's grandfather's funeral.

A special P.S to Tracy & Sarah: I'm sorry I haven't been around on Trillian/ICQ/MSN lately. What with my mum being here and other stuff going on and on (and my computer crashing every five seconds) I haven't been around much :/

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.)