November not getting off to good start

It has been a busy start to the month, with voting and my dad nearly breaking his thumb and my dogs chewing up my glasses... yeah, November is not starting off so well. Still have not got the heating system fixed or the fireplace installed in the house too. So, it is all around adding up to a rather lousy month so far and we're only to day 5. Gawd, day five... I'm now almost a week behind on my NaNoWriMo effort.