I hope you enjoyed your turkey (or whatever meat or non-meat you had), pie and so on. For those outside the United States, I hope you enjoyed your day and are ready with the rest of us Americans ready to watch the traditional Winter Sport called…Black Friday.
Oh, my god. I have gone out not to buy a single thing, but instead I went to watch the freaking idiots trying for bikes jumping over racks of cacti. Actual story!!!!!!
For those of us here in the US, (traditionally) the end of Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the Christmas season. I adhere pretty strictly to this. While I may do Christmas shopping early, I do not put a single thing in the house until tomorrow, nor do I normally listen to Christmas music of my own accord.
This year was different. I started on Sunday and started to work on the banners for the stories.
Wow…. just wOw. You guys knocked me out of the park with these stories!!!
I will tell you each and EVERY one of the banners have hidden easter eggs in them. Once you read the story, you hopefully can pick on them. And a couple have extra easter eggs that I was all giddy in adding little details.
Have fun trying to find the goodies! I had alot of fun putting them in. Some are going to be hard to find… some easy once you read the story.
I also tried not to make it too easy to figure out the stories ahead of time. I will say, I had a heck of a time with The Wish, I did two different banners. The snow Globe has an animated version that looks fantastic, but never loads up right. Dreams was a blast to make it fit. Thanks for the Distraction let me play with perspectives. Christmas Eve Blues looks like the least altered while being one of the most heavily. That Christmas tree took forever to work in right. A Christmas to Remember has pictures that I made in it. Which M laughed when he realized that I was taking a lot of time to get the pics just right when you guys probably won’t notice them. Paper was harder than it looked. I tried for Christmassy themes, and while the banner I ended up with the frist time fit it, it wouldn’t be to the casual observer. So I added the clock for reasons you will understand when you read it. And then there was A Viking and a Swan. That one was the hardest for me, since I had to reach out of where I am comfortable to make it.
Authors, I hope you enjoy the banners ad finding your easter eggs!!! Just remember, there is no replying to any reviews until the end. Otherwise, you will be disqualified. There is no mentioning what story you entered, though you are more than welcome to say that you entered or just plug the contest!
Voting ends on the 15th.
Now, I am off to relax. I made a full turkey day dinner, all by myself! The only help I got was a pack to the stuffing from M, lifting of heavy stuff, and M and Mamakitty cutting the turkey while I made the gravy. I rocked the turkey, it came out, perfect temp and so very moist. I did a little dance when that happened!!!
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So enjoy reading, vote on yours, and leave some reviews for the authors who worked hard to get these into us!
I got up this morning, planning to start my massive washing of clothes since I removed the summer clothing from my closet. The winter clothes are all stored all stored outside in the garage. With raccoons and other critters here in Texas, the space saver and so on bags don’t work. In fact, it seems as if they encourage the beasties.
So I went through, took a bunch of work pants and cleared even more room in my closet (while happily finding that I was too lazy to put up the nice dress sweater and so on!). And I sorted the clothes to be ready to wash.
But when I went to wash my face, there was a trickle of hot water. I heard the water running, so I got dressed, washed in the ice cold water. Since I figured with my luck I will have to go outside, I needed the contacts.
I had helper Connor with me. And lo and behold, he really helped! Calling hubs, he walked me through turning the hot water off. I did this and went inside, but I had noticed Connor kept running underneath the house then coming back to me and looking at me. I went inside to grab a towel and looked under the house. Sure enough, in the smack middle of the house, a pipe is spraying water.
I have mentioned before we live in Houston, and the house I live in is a raised pier house. It’s not the stilt-like houses, but its about 2 feet above ground. Great most of the time for flooding, but not for anything else. I have a rug underneath my desk for a reason, since in the winter the cold comes right up. The part of the house the office is in, was built in the 1920’s.
Thankfully, when the hot water heater broke, M had worked with the plumber and learned where to turn off the water. So now, I am waterless, and trying to find someone to come out on Thanksgiving week.
Fun Times.
I am getting ready to start reading and making banners. I will time everything to show up for Thanksgiving. I may end up taking down the main page to make this happen, so no worries if it goes missing.
I will also be trying to get a chapter of Clocks up for you ladies as well. Just a reminder, the ladies in the Facebook group will know before you guys. I gotta reward them for being awesome!!!! And those who haunt the site, might find a link or two early…..
So have a great week, and I will be dealing with no water. You never know how much you use water until you don’t have it.
I’m sitting here writing my shopping list for groceries. And I am heavily using the Kittyinaz’s Group Food Blog.
Yes, that is right, we have a Food Blog, and everyone is welcome to visit, use it, and even donate your recipes to it! There are alot of recipes on it, and seeing the list that the wonderful ladies have for it, there area going to be even more!
What am I using it for?
Grandma’s Stuffing – Yes, this is my family list. Cheap bread and White Corn Bread is ways to get this the best flavour. Do the bread the night before so it is dry when you need it.
Macaroni & Cheese – This is my own recipe. I took Better Homes & Garden (from 1976!) recipe and altered it to this one. It reminds me of a better Stouffer’s mac and cheese and is a huge hit in my family.
Baked Spaghetti aka White Spaghetti – This one is a great make ahead meal as well as freezing extremely well. It may sound like it wouldn’t be a good one with the recipe, but the flavour is out of the world!
Sweet Potato Casserole – This one has not been added, (though it is promised to be added soon!) but I will link it with the site my sister-in-law got it from. All I can say is that I will be making double, since last year, I only got one serving. It was that good that it was GONE!!!!
MY chili recipe is hard to write down, since it changes slightly. IT’s a Friday Night Chili type vs my dad’s soupy one.
So I am off to finish my list, so I can get the shopping done and relax.
Click on the recipes to be taken to their sites, or click on the banner to go to the site. Let the ladies who run it know your thoughts. I promise they listen, MissAliceUnsub & tj6james6 are the two awesome ladies who are working it, and Meganba is the one who started the thing to help out!!!
And many huge thanks to Falling Stars for the banner!!!
I about gave up on getting anything done, and I have to apologize. For some reason, pics and so on are not showing up.
I sent a note out to the WordPress Guru, so that she can figure out what is going on.
In the meantime, I already sent the ladies in the group the link as soon as the chapter was ready. So they have already been reading if they are paying attention. lol!
For being here on the site, you get the chapters before the other sites. It’s my little thing to say THANKS for following me.
So what have I been doing?
Pouting.
Seriously.
I was supposed to go to AZ next week and now I am staying here until Hubs M is ready to go. And we have to wait for Monday the 14th, for one lousy hour. Yep. You read that. One hour. Basically, he will get up, get ready, then wake me up to finish doing whatever I need to, then I leave (after the fun part of getting Connor into the car), only stopping for our drinks. Then I make my way there, and then we will be on our way out of town.
Needless to say, we will make it there in the same day, unless traffic is truly horrendous.
However, my muse has decided that she is on vacation. I spent 4 hours the other night, first trying to find a story to write in, then finally finishing a chapter in Edge. Four freaking hours. I normally do about 3-4 chapters in that time.
So I will be relaxing, playing games and making banners.
According to the amazing Miss Rissa, the woman I can’t live without being around. Literally. She works miracles and keeps up with things that I would be lost in trying to do! But she has told me so far 5 stories have been submitted. However, she tells me that most of you will turn them in tonight.
Please remember, if you need an extension, please let her know. I am planning to publish these on Thanksgiving so that you will have something to read after Turkey dinner or for those that are going to be waiting in lines for Black Friday. Letting me know kinda ruins that whole, I don’t know who is who thing.
I am planning to run the thing through the 15th, which means right before I leave, I will be adding the names to the banners, but I will not do it until the Friday before (since I will be spending the weekend making sure things are packed, the Traverse is ready, and double checking we have the gifts already).
And I am about to go off to research iPad issues, to see if there is a way for us to fix the issue. I hate my phone and using it to read sucks. It hates me. (which is why I hate it!)
So enjoy the chapter, I am off to eat my dinner of Cheesy as heck pizza. And play a game. See you guys later!
Yep, by midnight my time (or when I wake up as the ladies on Facebook have learned) the entries are due.
If you need an extension, contact Rissa and she will work with you. (You can’t contact me since I cannot know who is who.)
I had started this morning on working on Picking Down Clocks. Then I had to leave to run around. So now that I am back, I will go and see if I can grab the file that Mistress Jessica had told me about. That will complete the comments she had on the chapter, and then I can post it.
So yes, it will be posted tonight, since I will be home with the puppies. So yes, the house will be be on the Brandibur lock down, unless someone wants to try to take out the dogs and attack cats.
Yep, I’m fudged.
On the good news, I love coupons, that give me Apple Gift Cards. I got new music and I am THRILLED! I had only one more song (ok three but shhh) that I wanted. Click on the banner to be taken to the page that has the prompts listed as well as the rules and emails.
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