A Mental Marathon, SBQ, and Booking Through Thursday

I know it's only the middle of October, but already I am thinking ahead. About Thanksgiving, Christmas shopping, holiday weight gain. . .Nope(well maybe a little). I have decided to take part in the mental marathon also known as "National Novel Writing Month".

Which means that my posts in November will probably be less frequent than they are now: (1)because I'll be using my computer time to write, (2)because I will have minimal knitting/stitching progress(see #1), and (3)because my family will need some time to bond with their sleep deprived, caffeine fueled, zombie of a mom/wife(see #1). I figure that most of my writing will have to be done at night after the kiddos are in bed; so it's time to stock up on coffee, tea, and diet Pepsi. But what an accomplishment it will be if I can complete the challenge. Any other aspiring novelists-to-be willing to take the 50,000 word leap?

Today's "Stitching Blogger's Question" was suggested by Outi (http://
www.livejournal.com/users/snowprincipessa/) and is:

How do you `non-hoopists' who use a rotation system handle it (as it
seems to be lot easier if you are in good terms with hoop)? Do you
have several scroll frames? Do you use Q-snaps or maybe something
completely different? Or do you just have one or two big projects and
others are small enough to be kept in hand while stitching?

Well, I use Q-snaps and I have a TON of those. Anytime I go more than a week between stitching I take my piece off the snaps--so changing them out for a rotation is actually no different. It seems like all my projects are big--I work on one I like until I get bored then I switch :)

Booking Through Thursday

Here's another set of questions from Nicki.

1. What's the worst book you've ever read? Well, there were tons of them in college--mostly from my American Lit. class. My personal theory is that our country is still very young--in the grand scheme of things--and therefore we had a tendency to stick to political type writings which I personally cannot stand; so I think that is why I couldn't stand American Lit. More recently I'd have to say Middlemarch was the worst thing I have read this year--I couldn't even finish it.


2. What's the book you hated the most? Middlemarch--that's why I couldn't finish it.


3. Is the answer the same to both questions? If not, why not? Kind of because I was trying to limit the question to stuff I've read this year.


4. Why was this book (or these books) so bad? Well, I explained my personal beef with early American Lit. above and Middlemarch just blathered on and on and on and on and on--and I usually either fell asleep reading it OR I tossed it down in disgust.