So...yeah.  I left it awfully late - BAD ME - but I wanted to let everyone know that I have officially signed up to walk the Terry Fox Run on September 14th!  (It's only the second charity walk I've attempted, and my ankles hated me after the first one, but I made a promise to myself and I plan to keep it.)

For those unfamiliar with the Run, you may want to check out the Terry Fox website.  It takes place every September and raises a lot of money for cancer research, and since I've lost some important people to the disease in my life, I figure it's high time to do more than just donate money.  This year, I'M WALKING.

If anyone's interested in donating/pledging for my non-Run Walk (?!), you can do so online:

Support Ehch in the Terry Fox Run!

And yes, I promise there will be photos afterward, to prove that I actually did it.  Any support will be gratefully received - even a dollar can go a long way!

Thank you in advance, and WISH ME LUCK.  I'm gettin' the ice packs ready for my ankles already.  Hee.

[ please note that everything here is almost certainly x-posted to my LiveJournal, which is where most of my friends still are, and/or  to my JournalFen account, and/or IJ account!  I post the less personal stuff here so those who don't have journals at those sites can still read 'em, if they want to.  Apologies if you're seeing something a hundred times! ]

From this thread between me and Emily came a sudden urge to show off a very infrequently discussed passion of mine:  CARS.

Most of my closest friends probably have no idea that I actually know about cars.  And I don't mean I can recite the specs of every limited edition around the world or anything, but I'm no dummy when it comes to the fast and the furious.  My ex, Doug, used to take me to the Toronto International Auto Show every single year, and I got quite an education; we were still going to them long after we broke up.

And thus I am here to list my absolute favourite cars of all time, and to ask what you guys would drive if money was no object!

If you don't belong to LiveJournal, here's the gist of what I said to Emily about my own particular favourite: the Jaguar XJ220.

"Oh, LET'S [pool our money and buy one together]!  We can have it on alternate weeks & visit each other every weekend to par-tay!  I like this idea...

A photo of one of the few existing XJ220s:

Couldn't find one in 'my colour', sadly.  (I have a Hot Wheels of it in Lilac.  Sigh.  And my high school sweetheart built me a model in Midnight Blue.)  But they're also gorgeous in black, green, blue, red, and even burgundy!"

So now you know all about my one true love.  But that's not to say I wouldn't take a fire-engine red Lamborghini Diablo or a black Lotus Elan in a heartbeat.

Thoughts on your dream car(s)?

At 12:01 a.m., I'll be gripped with the anxiety that goes along with this torturous NaNoWriMo experience.  I'm lucky enough to have had a breakthrough last night in terms of how I want my story's end to twist, but I'm SO unsure of whether or not I'll be able to pull it off. 

So.  Cheers to everyone who'll be doing the same thing as I'll be doing in a matter of hours.  Feel free to leave comments here - whether we've met yet or not! - about how you're doing, what you're writing, and any comments or questions with which I might have some hope of helping!

I guess, since I blog primarilyelsewhere, that I'm going to be using this (for now) as a plcae to put all of my NaNoWriMo thoughts, passages and so on.  Here's hoping I can actually write something worth reading, hmm?