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Today I am thankful for electric heaters.
November 23rd, 2007
It wouldn’t be a holiday unless something got fucked up.
Last year, it was Christmas a la Laura Ingalls Wilder, toasting muffins over the gas stove and hoping fifty thousand candles don’t burn the house down before the power comes back.
This year, it’s Thanksgiving in the Arctic. Our furnace mysteriously stopped working on Wednesday, the day before the long holiday weekend. Which means nobody can come look at it until Monday.
It was 37 degrees last night.
Kevin went down into the crawl space to peer at the thing and has done what he can, though to no avail; further troubleshooting would involve the possibility of electrocution so I put my foot down. He went to the store and bought a couple of electric heaters which have actually warmed up our living room and bedroom pretty well.
I, however, am in the office all day which feels like a meat locker. I wear fifty layers of clothes, drink my weight in hot tea, and write my NaNo story until my fingers freeze and can’t type anymore. I’m woefully behind but charging forth at top speed. My goal is to be within 5,000 words of 40,000 by Sunday night.
Wish me luck. And I hope you all had a safe, warm and happy Thanksgiving!
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Filed under Gratitude, NaNoWriMo, Writing |4 Responses to “Today I am thankful for electric heaters.”
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Good luck
Awwww…..bummer about the furnace. I hope it’s nothing major.
Keep writing! You can do it!
onward and on! good luck
Hmmmm….emulating your mentor? M.B.?