One, that Mother Nature loves laughing at me. Last week we had a cousin we had never met come here to spend a week with us. It was fun, and so was she. Monday we went to Galveston, rode the ferry (and I sprayed a crapload of sunscreen on me!!! so no burns this time!) as well as went to lunch to one of the island local restaurants. The food was awesome. Then we went to walk down the Strand, which is where the Wall Street of the Southwest was in the old days. The architecture and history are amazing, as well as walking into the local shops. The Temp was 89 with 70% humidity. The next day we went to Nasa. Had a blast but after so long (and 87 freaking steps to mission control that almost broke me!!!) in the heat, we were ready to leave. the temp was about the same, with just more humidity. Wednesday was supposed to be rain. Lots of rain. It was a thunderstorm in the morning and that was it. lol! So that night we went bowling, her request. During that time, she mentioned she loved the zoo, so guess where we went Thursday? And it was worse. Heat indexes in the 90’s. Friday was spent visiting and at the Barnes and Nobles. And dinner with Bar-be-que.
Today? 69 freaking degrees at 1pm.
Why?!?!?!?
Two is that as much as I wanted to work, it did me a lot of good to have the time away. Though I vastly prefer the last week to the week spent in bed sicker than a dog. I was eager to get up, finish the banners for the contest, to think up a new one (which once I make it I will showcase it. It is one I have to think of how I want to do it!)I got that all done with and we are waiting only on the master website admin to get home to work on her part.
Three, I have a plan of action that may make you happy or upset. I am going to only publish what I have back from the betas. There is plenty out there, the next chapters of Clocks, The Charmed story and so many more.
Meanwhile, I want to sit down and try to finish some older stories. In The End, Revelations, and a good try to I Never…Did. I want to get them out of my line up and free the areas on my blackboard for some other stories.
I also have a bunch of books for classes on Photoshop and WordPress, that I want to look over.
And my books, I want to work on them without feeling guilty that I am not working on an update for you guys.
So I am going to take the updates and do them once a week until I run out. I am going to go through and work on finishing the other stories so that they are gone. Depending on how things go, I may get back to What If and so on. But I need them done so that I can feel free to work on whatever I like. Lately, I have been working on things for you guys and not paying attention to the need to write. With my new iPAd, I have been going back and reading stories, upset that there are no more chapters for me to read, and I WROTE THE DANG THINGS!
Now, for some news….
Thanks again to everyone who uses the link to Amazon. You just helped pay for a month of Google and Photoshop. My hubby, M, is thrilled that you did this and it isn’t coming out of this pocket.
For those that don’t know, the Amazon link doesn’t cost you anything, you just use it to access the site, and then if you buy anything, I get anywhere from 1-6% of your final cost for referring you to their site. This goes for the things I use for writing, Grammarly, Photoshop, and Google Drive to keep all my documents and pictures safe. Also on the side if you read a story or hit posts on the top menu, there is a donation button. This goes directly to the site admin to use to pay for the security (aka virus protection as well as hacker prevention), the site itself, and any enhancements that she can find to speed up the site and allow more to use it with their tablets and so on. When I was hacked, and 4Padfoot was telling me what was needed to fix it, Mamakitty came up with the idea of the donation button. And within a day or so, the response helped us with that cost.
None of the amounts get used for anything but those items. Photoshop and Google drive cost me about $20 a month. The Grammarly was $140 for a year. I get around $10 – 20 a month, with an increase around the holidays. Most of the time, we end up paying for something out of pocket, since the $20 a month is very recent that it was more than a month in a row.
Banner contest in Kittyinaz’s Facebook Group!!!
I am ending the entries for this tonight, (or aka when I wake up in the morning). The rules:
Banners are 801×250.
All need to have the words: Kittyinaz’s Group and the KittyinazsBetas@gmail.com on them.
They need to be one of the following:
Story banners with the story name on it,
Character Banner with a quote,
Pairing with the story name,
or an Owl.
And for this month only!!! – Civil War idea and/or May the Force Be With You with stories I use already. I am sooo looking forward to this one.
And last but not least, the chapter for this week:
You guys freaking rock the Kaspar! Seriously. I told you about the donation button, and you replied.
Eight of you stepped forward, and seriously made 4Padfoot and I’s day. I know I was so shocked, I had dogs and a hubby running in here to find out what was going on when I realized what 4Padfoot was telling me.
When I told them, he couldn’t do anything more than blink. Then told me, my followers were more than awesome.
I have to disagree. You guys Are Freaking Awesome!!!!! Seriously!
And for this week, so much bad news has been piled on me, that this was sorely needed.
I cried.
You are the ones who helped on that. And if you guys continue, omg… I will be flabbergasted.
As for the site, it is as far as we can find, virus free, and malware free. We have implemented the proceeds of the donations so far to help speed up the site, and to put firewalls in place to prevent this.
Live and Learn people. Live and learn.
If they continue to come in, we will be adding more things to make the site better for you guys. Remember, this may be a ‘WordPress’ site, but we self-host it, and a lot of the goodies that you have through the WordPress site is not available free to us. However, the opposite is true that you couldn’t have the donation or the ads I do have on the site.
Up until now, we have been paying a lot of it out of pocket. So we were limited on what we could do, but this may open up a lot of opportunities. To look for options that 4padfoot has passed by since they cost money, now we can implement them to make the site load up for your on your mobiles easier.
And for those of you still using the link to shop Amazon (Click above for the full link), you are still helping us out!!! We didn’t realize it wouldn’t be as much, but we are still planning to use that money to help defray costs that we have been implementing. In other words, in no way are we using any of it for profit. We are using it all for the site, and things to do with the writing process. it is all non-profit.
While I did go in to get What If ready, I realized that the beta didn’t get that one done. Sorry!!! I did get the Revelation’s chapter ready for those of you who read that. There are a lot of changes going on for it.
Also, don’t miss out on the Christmas Prompts contest!!!! I am soo looking forward to seeing what you guys have in store, and a little birdy told me that some have inspired authors to write more than one entry. Yes, you CAN do that. Remember, these contests are to help people to write!! So enter. You get a banner no matter what, and who knows, you may have bragging rights!!!! The more entries, the more places we do.
Other than that, I have no idea what else to put on here. Just a huge thank you. Seriously. You people have made one worry go away, and it was so needed. Hopefully, other things will continue to help out and we will get out of this rut, and I will be off to AZ to help get my levels normal.
And to write!
PS. Thank you to everyone for your help!!! seriously!
OK, I spent today making the banners for the chapters. I will be publishing the new one this week, as well as updating it on all the site across the board. That means even Fanfiction will be updated, and outtakes will be removed from there.
I am just happy to have achieved something though it seems way too early for it to be so dark outside!!! I guess I can look at Sacred and start working on that one….
Yes, it was updated earlier this week. BEFORE Wednesday!!
So yep another one. And for those of you NOT in the know. The picture up above means Lemon! (It’s a mild picture above, but I need to get new ones soon!! I have more for Blondes for some reason….)
And this was originally in the Outtakes, and ended up being it’s own chapter here. All lemons people.
Many thanks to MKnue for her help in realigning my Lemony writing now with then. Yep it changed. I am actually more shy now. LOL.
PS. the new story?? Yeah already has a Beta, Zabby Pemo. The funny thing with her, is that I used to Beta for her. So this is a twist! She writes, ALOT and I linked her name in the Rollcall to the side with her A03 site. Go see what she does!!
Yep another installment of Revelations. For those that are interested, this is the Second story in the Revelations of a Hatter and Alice series. Alice and Hatter is the first one and finished. And both this one and its prequel are both rated MA.
Also, my one year with WordPress is coming up in 4 days!! I am hoping to make 100K and we are in the 90K right now.
I am right now writing ED, while the muse is red hot, and let me tell you, she is really running hot!!! Lots of yummy times happening, and I am getting ready to write more.
As always, thanks to the awesome MKnue for her Beta skills!! I feel honored!!1
Yep a new chapter of Revelations is ready for you guys. Click the image above for the update.
But first we have some thanking to do also!! Yes, we reached that goal for over 75,000 views of this modest little site!!! In honor of that, our very own MissRon80 made me the above Banner!! Thanks!!!!
We also got the most hits in a day yesterday, 1,993! Now my new goal, 2K!!! Always strive.
Then I got more presents!!! Sephrenia1 made me buttons!!! This is the first chapter that has them in it. And I love the buttons, so much easier to link!!
I am off to find out what has been going on then to get the final chapter of the current arc of In The End ready and then try to work on some new chapters!
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