Whew! Finished NaNoWriMo last preparatory to leaving town to go visit relatives for Thanksgiving in a few hours. (Finished is such a relative term. In this case it means 50k of wordbarf, with more to come.)

But for now, the 3-yo is excited that we get to go on an airplane, and we get to see scads of family we don't see that often. Yay! See you guys in December. If you're American, have a great Thanksgiving. If not, have a great Thursday.

...We are homeowners!!!

(Or I guess homeowners in waiting? We close in December.)

I am jazzed. And psyched. And gleeful. And so forth.

I have signed my name approximately one billion times.

(Fenced-in backyard! Kitchen bigger than a postage stamp! Not having to deal with the slumlords! Bliss.)

1. I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year. The result so far is a lot of words, but also a first draft that has exploded on me. Which is fine, but it's going to be interesting trying to make it all fit together.

2. I read "A Memory of Wind", a short story by Rachel Swirsky over on Tor.com, and it has been haunting me sufficiently since then that I thought I'd share it here in case anyone hadn't seen it. It's a retelling of the sacrifice of Iphigenia by Agamemnon. It's lovely.

3. Holy crap, we put an offer on a house today. Eeek! Another couple has an offer on the same house. We should find out tomorrow whether we get it or not. I'm very excited and very nervous. I will be thrilled to move out of the apartment, but I'll miss our upstairs neighbors (my in-laws.)

Whew. Keep your fingers crossed for us.

My sister has produced an adorable offspring! Tonight, I drink to nephews.