Every year around the time that September starts I realize how it’s almost the end of the year again (and how my birthday is almost around the corner again). And that usually means that the family birthdays madness starts. I have no idea why we have so many fall/winter birthdays. It would be so much better if they were all summer birthdays – bbqs and stuff like that!

Today, well yesterday (it’s the 2nd over here already), was my grandma’s birthday & on Friday it’s my uncles. Grandma had a dinner over at my aunt’s to celebrate a lil bit and I decided to go over there too. I wish somebody would’ve told me that they started at 5pm so I didn’t get there by like 6:30pm and feel totally stupid for being so late. And there was no room left at the table so I decided to go and check on my little cutie Maxi. He didn’t start crying – SURPRISE! Even Maxi’s cousin didn’t cry when he saw me – and he barely knows me because he has seen me like 3 or 4 times in his entire 12 months of being on this planet.

There are a few more birthdays this month & then we’ll have an entire month off before the madness starts again. In November we have four birthdays within a week. And one of them is mine. :D

I actually really like this time of the year though. Time seems to just fly by and it’s December & Christmas already. And than just a week later it’s New Year’s Eve and all that awesomeness. Thank god there aren’t any big birthdays this year though because that usually means bigger parties at some halls and stuff like that. I prefer cosy parties at home with all family & friends invited. My sister is turning 20 though… so maybe there will be at least one somewhat big party right before New Year’s Eve – my sister was born on the 29th.

Sometime totally off topic – my sister probably gets a job like really soon so she’ll be gone most of the time & I will no longer have to deal with her annoying me – and no, I am not talking about Alina. She’s still pretty nice & stuff lately. It’s a nice change! I am talking about Natali. She isn’t at home most of the time anyways because she is at her boyfriend’s but when she actually is at home she still manages to piss me off – badly sometimes. I guess that’s what it’s like to live in a house with 3 girls – 4 if we include mum.

What the hell is NaNoWriMo some of you guys might be thinking right now, so let me explain it before I actually start with my post. So NaNoWriMo is short for Nation Novel Writing Month.

I found out about NaNoWriMo pretty much by accident last year. I don’t even know what I was looking for but somehow I ended up on the official NaNoWriMo website and it sounded really interesting so I decided to participate. When November came around (which is when this whole thing happens) I pretty much lost interest and had absolutely no idea what I could write a novel about so I just dropped that thought.

And just today it randomly popped up in my head again and I decided to check the website again to see if they’re doing it again this year – and they are. So my goal for this November is to actually participate and finish a 50,000 word novel.

I have some ideas floating around my head for quite a while now and I have been talking about how I want to start writing again for quite a while so I think this is the perfect opportunity. It might put some pressure on me because I have to (not really, but anyways) finish my novel by midnight on November 30th. Everybody can participate so it would be really awesome if some of you guys would participate too!

I just really hope that I can do it this time and that I will have enough ideas to write that much. You aren’t allowed to continue a story you’ve wrote before or anything like that, so I’ll have to start completely fresh. I hope I can find a lovely character that will help me to actually tell this story. Because I’ve found out for myself that if I actually like my characters and the direction I head them to it’s easier to continue a story.

If you are a more experienced writer and have some tips for me – I’d love you forever and ever. I am dead serious.