fic update

For Christmas we wrote you a novel. No, seriously. We're now in edits for the next part of IHNIIHBT, and it's like 70,000 words. We hope to get it to you by Christmas, but are making no promises for obvious reasons. It's awesome though. I'm nervous about it, for all sorts of reasons I can't go into, but for me, I get to the end and I go "every single word we've written leads right here" and it is so exciting. Only one more piece after this.

ETA: We've hit an infamous Word bug and in fact have no idea what the actual word count is now. It's fucking long. That's all we know.

sundries

- There is one gift item left that Must Come in the Mail tomorrow. This is slightly stressful.

- My parents are getting: a selection of exotic tea, a bottle of rare honey, some Italian chocolates, Australian macadamia nuts and a Netflix gift subscription. None of it has salt, none of it will clutter up their house, none of it requires them to move. These are the criteria now that they are being obsessive about being old.

- I found something hilarious and random for a friend (and oh trust me, you'll know it's you when you see it!)

- The stuff that isn't done doesn't have to be done until in January.

- Shitty German pop music is oh so good.

okay, this is unlikely

or neurotic or silly or SOMETHING, but I really, really need to win this contest:

http://www.idealsweepstakes.com/australiastory/

Click on about the event to see why.

Damn damn damn damn damn.