I am just now sitting down to my computer in the office for the first time since we signed the papers for the house. You know, the room that I do most of my work in.
The Laptop is awesome for writing, but not for editing. Though it has transferred a lot of my words and names from the desktop, there are still some arguments that we have. And Grammarly is NOT on the laptop. So while I can write away on that one, it’s not yet set up for editing. When I need it to be, it will be. Right now, I want it to be for writing and playing games.
So for the house. We are looking into a few things, but soon should be moving the office furniture out of this room, and getting ready to rip it apart. I am looking forward to not freezing my feet in the winter (when it is actually cold) or wearing nothing to keep cool. Pier Beam houses are awesome for flood areas but suck on insulation for the old ones. But we are going to fix that, and save us some money by spending it. Seems to be an ongoing theme lately. <sighs>
But I am here, I will see what I can edit, in between working through the piles of paper on my desk. Seriously, every single sheet of paper since the closing was laying on my desk, along with anything M found when he was looking for something else. Like all the Flex account stuff, the statements, and the actual closing papers. No wonder he shied away from me going into the office when he was home!!!
So we will see what all I can send off to the Betas. I will tell you for those of you who are Tea Shoppers, the new beta has done chapters far in advance of where I stopped. And for those that have been with me as Alice fans, I am writing new stuff. When I have time!
Per our wonderful Site Admin, I have been asked to tell you the following:
Feb 2 from 8 to 10 mountain time bluehost is doing server maintanence. There will be 30 minutes of total site down time while they reboot their servers.
We wanted to make sure you guys are aware of what is going on.
I am hoping that tomorrow will allow me back to normal, but I may need a day or two, to figure out the mess on my desk. It’s kinda scary.
The bad part is that we seem to have to be shopping for it a lot. I did get new furniture, for the first time in 15+ years. Seriously. My chair is absolutely awesome, and I can’t tell you how much I enjoy being able to sit in it and be comfy. This is only the third time I sat in it since Thursday, but we have been busy, busy, busy!!
I am the driver for my grandmother, and I had a lot of appointments for her last week and only one this week. Tomorrow was supposed to be a free day, but I broke a filling, so I will be seeing if I can get in. If not, then I will be getting my oil changed. Or both. Who knows?
Tuesday will be taking her to an appointment, and Wednesday we get the new fridge we desperately need as well as someone coming out to look over the AC and to see what we need to be more energy efficient. Thursday I may actually get.. wait… Nope. I have to go for the woman’s torture session that we have yearly.
Friday!!!
But…
We might be starting the first room to redo at that time…
So we will see!!! My desk is seriously piled high with papers for me to scan for the house as well as other items we have.
But hey, new furniture!!!
And trying to get a lawnmower on sale is freaking difficult!!! Just saying!!! We have a huge yard, thick grass and no we are NOT going to try the push mower again. Yes, we did try it on a 1/4 acre of land, and I will tell you, misery!!!!
But this will all calm down soon. Or at least I hope it does!!! But…
I will tell you it is a great feeling knowing you own the house you are in. And thank god my parents and others are willing to help when we have questions!!!
That is all for now, I am tired and getting sleepy, so I will be signing off. Just wanted to let you guys know that life is running me over but in a good way.
First off, please don’t forget that this site is not free for us, that we self-host it to allow us to use the site as we wish. It allows us much more freedom, that also allows us to host the writing challenges and well, anything we can come up with. If you think about it, please feel free to donate. The donation button is on the right side of any chapter or posts you read.
Now, that THAT part is done with, (I hate asking as much as you hate reading my begging), now to the fun stuff.
The vacation is over. It was nice, and I got a story I had been stewing in my head out of it and talked with my muse. I still need to work on the original story, which I will be starting to edit in hopes to inspire the muse in what was fun with it.
I may not have enough time to work on much for awhile. RL interfering and so on, but hopefully, it will be over by June, no more than December of this year. Hubby is determined that my story will be a bestseller and so on. I have tried to tell him otherwise, but he is dead set on it.
I am getting ready to start editing chapters. I had a frustrated as heck day since I wanted to start on this sooner, but I had issues. My wifi Adapter pooped out on me, and I needed the chapters I had on Drive to sync up so I could work, as well as I was being irritated with the delay in the house closing moved to Friday. Hubby fixed the internet issue with us buying an ethernet cord to stretch from the living to the office. The delay in the closing, well it is out of our hands, we have answered all the questions, proved what we needed. It is up to outside sources and they verified that for us.
Oi Vey. I think I will never want to buy another house after this one.
So I am here ready to work, and will be editing chapters for Betas. Also, any betas who have NOT read the notice in the Beta Chat, please stop over there to juts give an indication of what you wish to do. I promise this makes more sense once you read it.
For those who are wondering, I did start another chapter for IND. We will see what happens. It depends on my health and RL. Neither being very kind to me lately.
Reminders:
Writing Contest!!!!!! I am looking forward to this year’s first!!! The pic is your prompt for this one…
And nothing else yet. LOL!!!
Enjoy the stories, I appreciate coming online and seeing people still visiting the site, as well as reading the reviews left. Some of you are going back to read some of the older stories. Wow!
Sorry, everyone, I have been really sick. Right now I started this while waiting for my Chamomile tea to brew since it is the only thing that makes my throat feel better. No idea what I have, since I can breathe fine, it seems not to affect my nose, but it is my sinuses. Go figure.
So before I run back into the bedroom to try to sleep the few hours before something happens and I wake up (since this has been the recurring theme for the last three days, and I so want to sleep!), I wanted to let YOU guys know what the writing challenge is.
I published this in the group back when I was feeling good, thinking no biggie, I will publish it tomorrow. Never even guessing I would feel this bad.
This is based off a pic. Full credits are owned by the artist who did the pic, I did change one thing to make it more mine. Ok more than one thing, but you guys don’t really want to know about filters and so on, right?
Here is the pic:
Rules:
Must use prompt(s).
All fandoms are allowed.
No letting anyone knowing which story is yours.
If you submit, you can grab the Banner for Participating for the month. You will also receive a banner for the story you submit.
If explicit, you need to warn people in the title.
All entries must be received by kittyinazwritingchallenges@gmail.com by Midnight CST at the end of the 15th of March 2017.
To enter, you can send it to the Kittyinazsbetas@gmail.com or to the Writing Contest email, KittyinazWritingChallenges@gmail.com. These are both permanent email addresses that Rissa checks for entries and really anything. Please include the name you want on the banners when the contest is over for Rissa to send to me. She sends the stories to me and erases any way of me knowing who wrote what. They are due by the 15th of March at midnight CST. From there I will reserve until the end of the month to be able to do banners, with the option of opening the contest early if I finish ahead of time.
I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Do remember, it is anonymous, so if you are inspired, but frightened to put your name out there, please try here! My readers are awesome at leaving reviews, and you can answer them at the end of the contest (I will let you guys know when!) Plus, you get a banner made for your story!
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