I did it!

I did it! I achieved the unfathomable... the inexplicable... the truly insane....

I finished 50K in 30 days!!!!!!

See my pretty winner's icon???

I'm so excited I could cry!

I am SO gonna win!

That's right, folks. Today (well, let's call it all Monday even though it's early Tuesday AM) was an 8,000 word day. I'm at 43,117, which means I have just about 7000 words left to write before I am an Official Winner. Woohoo!!!!

The bad news is it doesn't look like I'm going to be at the end of the actual story when I reach 50K. But that's all right. I just want to make sure I get to 50k legitimately and on my own steam.

Watch out world! Erin's gonna be a winnah!

Sigh

On my way back home I stopped by the grocery store to pick up a prescription for myself and one for my dog, and as I drove back, I hit a deer.

Not just a tap either. I creamed it. And then I freaked out and broke down crying.

I called the police, just like a good girl should, then talked to animal control who had gone out to find it but couldn't, so apparently it was still alive enough to move itself out of the road when I was through with it. My car quarter panel is dented and the driver's door won't open, and I had to wash the deer sh*t off my window because oh by the way, it let loose when I hit it also - but at least it wasn't blood and guts I had to clean off. I think I would have collapsed into a quivering sobbing heap and not been able to pull myself out of it.

And here I am, now, still sick and feeling awful, lonely, frustrated by the fact that I'm going to have to pay for the repairs to my car and depressed and upset that in all likelihood, a deer is dead tonight because of me.