key to my world

I've had an unusually stressful day today.

My car has battery problems with have got so bad that I have to jumpstart it everytime I want to use it- which is a bit of a pain- and i have made 4 journeys and on 3 of those I had to jumpstart and now my radio needs to have the key code put in to make it work again. It's gotten so bad that I'm getting a new one on sunday.

I am back to work on tuesday following my accident, so less time for writing unfortunately and this will make nano or the more intense and interesting as i will be doing it on a full time job.

I also saw my friend today who gave birth four months ago, but due to my accident and not being able to drive I hadn't been to see her so it was lovely to catch up with her and her baby is adorable and so well behaved.

I came home this afternoon, to find that the central heating still hadn't kicked in and it was 13 degrees celsius in my living room, and after checking the thermostat programmer called the rental agency. They sent someone out, and he said it was due to the pressure and he just had to push a button internally to fix it and asked for the boiler key. My response- what key? Without the key the boiler could not be opened and my heating could not be fixed. The guy who came out is coming back tomorrow hopefully if he can obtain one, and in the meantime I have been looking for a non-existant key which I think may have been taken by the chap who did our last boiler inspection as he would be the only one who touched it. I certainly had no reason to take apart the boiler. So I am sat here under multiple layers of blankets and bedjackets, my fingers turning to ice, wondering whether I will be cold tonight and would it be worth getting out the hot water bottle.

As for tomorrow, we are having a pre-nano meetup in my town which I would like to attend, however, this will all depend on what time Mr fix-my-boiler turns up and leaves by, as I will have to wait in all day for him until he turns up.

As you can see today has been a day of keys. Keys to boilers, radio keycodes, even the key turning the ignition after using jump leads on the car leading to a power pack. There are many definitions as to what a key is and does but the best one i found was, "something that affords a mean of access". This definition automatically makes me think back to my novelling project on NANOWRIMO, as a novel can give you access to worlds you never dreamed of like in gulliver's travels, alice in wonderland, the wizard of oz etc. but they can also give you the access and means to escape your world whether it be for just a few hours, half an hour, ten minutes or even a few minutes.

Novels give us artistic license to use our imaginations to their full potential,and they are marvellous tools which can influence our dreams and lives. Novels tell us that the impossible is possible,that anyone can be what they want, do what they want, believe what they want, and go where they want to without any fear of judgement.

Novels can change your own world my making you think differently about something, and some novels are a reflection of the real world allowing you to view it through different eyes. If novels are keys then that only leaves one question: Where do you want to go today?