Day 13...yadda yadda yadda

So I pledged my writing buddies that I would do 5,000 words today to make up for my tortoise-like progress. Well, I didn't quite make 5,000, but did get pretty dang close at 4,100. I had to throw in some extra descriptions of things to push it up over 4,000, but I did what I had to do. I've figured out how to overcome the whole yadda yadda yadda thing. I just skip to the next part without explanation. Hey, this is a first draft. I'll know when I go back (if I go back) that these parts will need to be filled in. It is sort of like pinning the story together, knowing that things need to be sewn up afterwards. So that's what I'm doing. And it is fun. When things are lagging, I throw a wrench into the deal like a sudden snow storm (can you tell I'm writing in Canada?), or a transit strike or a power black-out, or the plant version of the bubonic plague.

And since the construction crew is not leaving my neighbourhood anytime soon, I'd like to announce that from this day forward, they will be a regular feature in my novel. So the guy in the yellow hard-hat, his buddy with the red hard-hat and their cement truck will be appearing intermittently to block the driveway, wake up the neighbourhood at 5am, and to cause vibrations that are enough to make a little sick bonsai tree lose all of its leaves. Yup.

Things I learned today:
-I think you can get an extra caffeine buzz by deeply inhaling the vapours coming off your espresso while it is still piping hot
-the middle part of the chicken wing (the part with two bones) is NOT calorie free, and must be eaten in moderation only :(
-burnt fried eggs smell worse than burnt popcorn