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I'm typing this post on my iPad as I try to get 6,000 more steps before bed. Step type type type step type type type. I'm trying to get back in the habit of writing every day in preparation for NaNoWriMo in November, which I'm going to try to do for real this time. Last weekend at the Indiana Author's Fair Sarah and I were talking to her friend who has now published three books, and she said she wasn't ever able to finish anything until she did NaNoWriMo. I'd already been thinking about trying it for real, but that kinda cemented my decision. It's going to be hard, though. 1,667 words a day, every day. And random lists and paragraphs about how I don't want to write don't count.

It's been a crazy couple of weeks. Michael is leaving his job and joining a brand new company in a different city, we're trying to sell his old house, we're about to start this crazy "live in Cincy during the week, Indianapolis on weekends" thing, and it's almost Christmas-card season for Olive & Clyde. On Saturday Michael got rear-ended and the guy drove off, so now he has to leave his car here next week to be fixed and pay a bunch of money we really shouldn't be spending right now. On Sunday we spent the whole day removing the bushes in front of his old house, which involved renting a stump grinder and making seven trips across town with my dad's truck filled with branches. There were spiders making webs on the windshield as I drove. And then there's the normal stuff with consulting and making sure Clyde doesn't get eaten by raccoons. There's always something.

Today I worked on some Olive & Clyde stuff and then finally started packing for Cincinnati. It feels wrong to say "for the move to Cincinnati" because we're not actually moving our house, just enough stuff for the small apartment we'll be staying in during the week,  but I also wonder if maybe I'm in denial. Everything is going to change, and here's no real avoiding it. That doesn't have to be a bad thing, though I gotta say I'm pretty happy with things as they are. Nothing stays the same, right? I'm hoping Cincinnati will provide some inspiration - I've already picked out some writing spots. We"ll see. 

As much as change makes me apprehensive, though, I'm also kind of excited for all the possibilities the future holds. And I'm just glad I have somebody awesome to have an adventure with. It doesn't really matter what happens as long as you have awesome people to do it with you.