Sometimes, the fannish self glimpses through

[oloriel]

No news on the job thing.

The cold season is beginning so I'm not outside but in here where I can light the fire, or as Julian puts it, "heich" (heiß is German for hot). Cooking is also "heich". His vocabulary is small but beginning to grow - every couple of days, he'll produce a new word. So far, he says "Mama" and "Papa", "Nana" for Grandmother Ingrid, "Bebi" for Felix, "Bibi" for pee, "Mau" (meow) for cats and horses, "auf" (on or up) for open doors, lighted lamps and going up the stairs, "ja" (yes) and "nein!" (no), "ne" for "I don't know", "baff" ("thud") for everything that moves downwards (particularly if it does so very fast...), "fah" (from fahren, drive) or "brrm" for cars, "ei" for gentle, "au" ("ow") for things that hurt, and "hmm-mm" for "hungry", "food" and "delicious". "baff" and "nein!" are his most important words. He likes music on CD or TV, but when anyone starts to sing in real life, he'll immediately go "nein!" Felix listened to singing endlessly, I could even sing him to sleep, but for Julian, singing is "nein!". He doesn't like sleeping much, either. He still wants to be breastfed. We're trying to limit it to evening and nighttime. He has eleven and a half teeth, and the most adorable cheeky grin. And he knows exactly that nobody can resist that grin. He tries to copy whatever his big brother does.

I have stuff to do outside but it's just not warming up, so I'm procrastinating. Can't do so forever, but right now, it's tempting. I don't think I'll do much in the garden today, but I will have to protect a couple of plants from the nightly frosts (or else). There's enough to do inside but I'm not feeling like it, either. On the plus side, I finished Chapter 15 of Golden Days. It turned out an extremely short chapter. I posted Chapter 14 on October 10th 2013 so this is sort of ridiculous. 2 years for 2500 words. But maybe getting this chapter out of the way was the most important thing and the words will flow more easily now? One can hope.

Speaking of word counts, I have decided on what to do for NaNoWriMo. Not fanfic (I never use NaNo for fanfic, because NaNo is supposed to be special) and no editing of old material, but picture books. I've had several ideas for children's books in my head for a while and never did anything about them, so I hope NaNo will help me change that. As a picture is worth a thousand words, I figure that if I do 50 illustrations, that's like 50.000 words, i.e. winning NaNo. It's not cheating, it's rebelling...

Finally, I'm just 20 pages into The Sleeper and the Spindle and I'm already shippin' Snow White/Sleeping Beauty. It's like in the old days!

Finally finally, The Last Kingdom series on BBC2 starting next week?! Oh my heart. CAN'T WAIT PLEASE DON'T EFF THIS UP.

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[sermanya.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about NaNoWriMo. Even though I KNOW that I don't have time for this. But there is a plot in my mind. It just appeared and I really, really like it. (which is very rare for me to happen)
And today my Japanese teacher told me that she'll be in Japan in November. Maybe I'd STILL better work on my Japanese. But the story is really tempting to be written down. hm. Or I'll just hang around and relax ;)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

The point of NaNo is that you somehow manage to squeeze in time (or simply neglect other duties because it's just for one month, ahem), so I totally think you should go for it! :D It probably helps not to take the commitment too serious, so if you find that you really don't have the time/energy/motivation/inspiration, you can just bow out gracefully with no harm done.

So... why not try to take part? Of course, I'm not just saying that because I enjoy having companions in woe... ;)

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I didn't have much in the way of garden/outdoor plants this year. For once, there aren't any plants to cover. Otoh, I feel seriously cheated out of nomming on the garden veggies I had hoped for.


Here's an article you might be interested in:
http://www .theatlantic.com /international /archive/ 2015/10/words-mom-dad-similar-languages /409810/

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Julian is doing great. I love to hear about your boys.

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your NaNoPictureMo! :)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

Actually, there is (was?) a lj community called NaNoMangO, whose goal was 30 comic pages in 30 days. 50 might be a bit zealous. But good luck! ;)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

50 illustrations, not 50 comic pages. I do hope that'll be more doable! XD

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

So hard to believe that tiny Julian has a dozen teeth and is talking already - it seems like just the other day that you had his Christening party. Good luck with NaNo!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I know, right? On the other hand, when I see other parents with their newborn babies, I can't believe that it's been only a year since Julian was tiny, passive and helpless like that. It feels like a lifetime! (Well, for him, it is a lifetime...)
Thank you!

[independence1776]

Yay Julian!