S.B. Howell

Category: My Life

  • Colonoscopy Tips

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    I recently got a colonoscopy because I have a family history of colon cancer and I’m having some recurrent upper left abdominal pain, chronic constipation, and minor rectal bleeding. It went pretty well (Excellent prep and no polyps! Just internal hemorrhoids. >.>;;). I’d like to talk about my experience and share some tips, both for…

  • Thoughts on Buying a Used SUV + Tips and Resources

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    Recently my Subaru Forester bit the dust (head gasket failure at 270k miles) and I embarked on a quest of car shopping. I wanted a small SUV-type vehicle that I could lay the back seats down and sleep in if need be and would be large enough to move small furniture. I did a ton…

  • March Writing Fail

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    So… writing in March didn’t exactly go as planned. I kinda got busy and completely forgot about it. I did do some other writing for ExploreLivermore and I managed to finish my So Rich, So Poor review, but fiction writing kinda didn’t happen. Happy distractions abounded, from Daniel’s birthday, my mom coming to visit, and…

  • Rainy Love

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    Life is like a point-and-click adventure game. Today I went to the police station next to the library (because the library opens at 10) and I saw a monument with a rock split in two, joined around with a rope.

  • January Writing Progress

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    So here’s my daily wordcounts for January using the method I talked about here! I missed a couple days when I went to a convention, the Women’s March, didn’t feel like writing on the weekend, or was working on a blog post, but I did hit 10k by the end of the month, so I’m…

  • Ikea Ivar Bookshelves

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    This blog post is a little late (since I finished the shelves in October) but I thought I should post it for anyone who’s looking for a cheap way to make a custom bookshelf wall. 

  • Productivity Updates – How I’m Writing Every Day

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    I’ve been working on building the habits I started during NaNoWriMo into a daily writing practice and I’d like to show you how I’ve been keeping track of my writing goals for the month of January:

  • Ars longa, Vita Brevis: NaNoWriMo 2016

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    I did NaNoWriMo this year! Well, I participated, at least… I didn’t get to the 50,000 word mark but I did get 10,000 words down. I started off really strong the first day, slowed down on day 2, and then got bogged down for two weeks with Comp Sci homework (and then dropped that class)…

  • Trich Tips (BFRB week, pictures)

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    It’s the very end (actually the last two hours) of BFRB week. For those of you that don’t know, BFRB stands for Bodily Focused Repetitive Behavior. BFRBs include trichotillomania, an issue that I’ve struggled with since I was about seven years old. Trichotillomania is a condition of unknown origin (not sure if physical or psychological)…

  • Weekly Update #3

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    Again, not much done this week because of wedding planning and job stress. ^^; However, I got through 3 chapters of A History of Western Philosophy: The Rise of Science Francis Bacon Hobbes’s Leviathan (and a little bit into Descartes but I’ll leave that for next time…) “The Rise of Science” summarizes the work of Copernicus,…