I am hoping you are all having a wonderful season of holidays!!!
I’ve been busy on my own, a lot with Christmas. At this moment in time, I am done with everything, but Friday I will be baking a Banana Bread for my nephew who asked for it. I am on the wall about making my pumpkin roll since I don’t have enough pumpkin for that and 2 pies.
But I have been busy over at the Food Blog, I made sure all the recipes I used were live, and then came back to tell the ladies that the Eggnog Fudge is freaking awesome. I am still getting rave reviews from people on it. I don’t even like fudge much, I end up nibbling on it for weeks since to me it is too sweet. This is nowhere as bad, and the eggnog flavor explodes in your mouth.
I did spend Saturday making a mountain of cookies. see?
That isn’t even all of them. I made Snickerdoodles, peanut butter cookies, no bakes, peanut butter rice crispies. cap’n crunch bars (don’t knock them until you try them, everyone ends up eating them!), Soft gingersnaps, butter (oatmeal and coconut cookies), Chocolate covered Pretzels and the eggnog fudge. Then on Monday I made: Pumpkin Cupcakes (it’s a 2 ingredient recipe that freaking rocks!) and my brownies that people love for some unknown reason.
Needless to say, I was tired. I slept mostly Sunday, then back to work. My presents are wrapped, I have a couple cards to give to the boys with their main gifts in them.
The house buying is coming along, it looks like we will be homeowners for the new year. I am already excited, as we talk about the changes we will be making to the house. Just to clarify, this is the same house we have been living in, we are buying it so that we can own it. It’s an old house and has issues, but we are thrilled to have it since we are getting a huge freaking deal on it. We will be here for a long time, if not forever. It is big enough to satisfy our needs, as well as once we are done renovating it, won’t be too big for us to keep up.
The dogs are being…well dogs. Murphy got to experience opening presents as he removed each of the presents under the tree that were sent to us by people in AZ to the back yard and opened them. He didn’t chew up the presents, just opened them, and any boxes they were in. We ended up calling to make sure we had them all, but it is now funny. Yesterday, not so much.
The cats have mostly left the tree alone. We have it spinning and the only things that have been bothered is a ribbon wrapped around the tree, and I fixed that, and one ornament. Now the tree skirt? That thing has all the animals BUT Connor in love with it. It has stayed under the tree for 2 days so far. A true record!!! The longest before this streak was 2 hours. They all want to sleep on it, so fight over it.
I have started something, that has been lurking in the back of my mind. I am not publishing it since I have no idea where the story is going. But that is how most of your favorites have started. But the prologue is a story all by itself. The general consensus over at Facebook is that for me to write it out, and when I am done, look back at the prologue to see if it should be a story on it’s own. If you want to know about it, join us over at the Facebook Group.
I know it is late, but please do remember to use my Amazon Link to shop, and you can use it all year long. Using my link costs you nothing since it is me referring you to the site. It helps waylay the price of Grammarly, Photoshop, and The Google Drive. It also goes toward my virus protections and so on, since I need to keep them up to the highest level with me on the site so much. Plus I research a lot, so I end up all over the internet, especially the Wiki sites for fanfiction. All this you help me pay for by using my link to shop at Amazon.
If you are curious on the finances of the site, please click here. I will let Robin know that it is done so that she can put it where you can find it normally. If you look at it all, there is a lot of times that we pay out of pocket, Robin more than me. Luckily last year a snafu happened on my side and McAfee accidently charged me the wrong amount so I got this as a free year. This year I will be paying the $70+ out of the Amazon funds. We truly do NOT make any money on your donations or you using our link for Amazon.
Lastly, don’t forget the Christmas Carol Writing Challenge! After this year, I am going to do the contests once a quarter. I will be bringing back the Fairy Tale contest, as well as Angels through the Fire Series. Seems you guys REALLY liked those. One will the Annual Christmas contest, so I will be using the last as whatever I come up with.
I am off to see what I can do while doing the chores. I think tonight I will be in here for awhile. For those not in Texas, we are having whiplash weather. 2 weeks ago, it was flooding. Enough to make us glad we have the home we have since we are a pier beam house. While we are not as high up as this shows, we are the lower blocks…
I figured those not on the coast will not know what that means, but it means that the house is up on blocks. They are NOT the stilt houses but are perfect for our area that floods often. We had a moat around the house 2 weeks ago and thankfully we didn’t have to worry about anything but getting out of the house. Then we had a week of 75+ temps. To only have us drop into the 40’s this past weekend. By Christmas, we are supposed to be up to the 70’s again, with another snap of cold weather to be coming our way.
For me, it is perfect. But a lot of people are getting sick, and everyone is going to bed early in my house with the cold weather. Today we are beating the 50’s by getting into the 60’s.
Man, do I miss my tea maker!!!!!! And of course, when I got it, I gave away to everyone the other tea stuff I used. Hopefully, Santa brings me one?
Ah well. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas! I hope to touch base with you guys after Christmas when things will be slightly calmer. Well, slightly. We have the house signing soon to do.
I went through each and every page looking for anything that had been marked Pending and checked to see if it had been done by betas. There are still a few out there for the betas to work on, and I am all done with all the updates to chapters I am working on.
What do I mean by this? That all I the chapters I wrote (Aos Si) and any I worked on (Our Road) is updated in WordPress. Now I can work on new chapters for the Original Fiction, and for tomorrow, I can work on the Sacred chapter I have been working on. I should say finish it. The trouble with this chapter is that I want to read the rest. But I am going through and seeing if there is something I need to clarify. Something I see in the movie, that I am not seeing on ‘paper’.
But at least there hopefully is one chapter out there for you to read!!!!
And I know I was light on pics, (unless it was a chapter I had loaded with pics before) but seriously, I am tired and I think I worked a little too long. I am off to relax, and hopefully eat some more. Food is kinda important.
Enjoy the chapters, and I will let you know when the transfer has finished. Thanks for all who donated, this is the money you donated in action. If we didn’t move, there would have been pictures going missing and who knows what else. This way, we might get more action on our ‘issues’ when they happen.
So you guys have noticed I am not online the last week nor have I really posted anything…
The reason is one, I was sick all week. Different stuff but basically lots of headaches and my stomach.
The other reason was that the site is being moved over. They are having issues with it, seems they get about 65% of the way done then something happens. I checked with Robin to make sure this would be ok, so today I will be trying to post a bunch of updates. I hate doing this since it throws off my stats, and I can’t easily tell what stories you guys are enjoying the most. So please at least like the story if not comment so I can get a feel on what is going on?
The bad thing is that I cannot be sure when I will be able to update until the move is done. I for one, am excited to see how the move will affect some of our backend things, but I suspect that it will be the same. WordPress needs a better database for pictures. That is my biggest complaint I have is the pictures. I went back and reread some of my stories (tin man and OUaT) and they were missing pics. Some were grayed out boxes, others were just missing, but I know I made the banners at least for the top of the pages.
*sighs*
So I will be working on this for as long as I can before I veg out. I don’t want to push myself too much since today is the first time I felt kinda normal. Not 100% but at least not wanting to stay in bed and be bored reading… I exhausted a new fandom already.
It might take me a bit of time for each update to make banners, but I promise to have some up today. Sorry to flood your inboxes, but I think you guys deserve them.
Yes, we are still planning to redo the site, but I spent all day first doing my nominations, then working on moving everything to the sites. I started having technical difficulties, but I will have A03 & Fanfiction Affliction updated tomorrow hopefully. I’m finishing up the Better In Texas one right now… I needed to watch the Slide show to make sure I have all the updates.
They will be updated weekly, so I can make the banners without stressing myself out like I was just doing.
This is it, folks. You have 9 hours to get those entries in unless you have talked to me about an extension. And you still even have time to contact me about them! And don’t forget to pick up your Participation Banner!!! It’s in the page, that is linked to the above banner.
Also… Once those entries are in, you have limited time on the site…
See we are doing what I suggested before… We are moving hosts. We had Blue Host but got insider information, so our wonderful Robin aka 4Padfoot went out and has snagged us a shiny new host. I am going to make sure all the other sites are updated to not make it where you have any interruptions in reading. I am on: Better In Texas, FictionPad, A03, TWCS, Fanfiction Affliction and Fanfiction (but not really). My name is the same on every site.
What does this mean? This means Thursday night, the site will go down as we move the site over to the new host. I say we, but it is really Robin who will be doing it. I will assist her in any way I can, but there is not much on my end. I am the writer, banner making sometimes and someone who is working her way through how to do things on the site. Heck, I am happy how to figure out how to add things to the site, though Robin has to go behind me and make sure everything is ok.
She is awesome!
Reminders,
GET YOUR NOMINATIONS IN!!!!!
I admit, time slipped through my hands, so the next thing I am doing after hitting publish is going to put in my nominations! Are you going to join me?
Also, there is the new contest. I am excited about this, the possibilities are endless. A crossover is your only restriction. And then I gave you some hints courtesy of BuzzFeed. I would love to drop on that post, and tell the lady who compiled all that, there are some answers to her requests!
I just did this interview over at the Non-Canon Awards!!!
About me – I have stated that for now I am only editing chapters for fanfiction, (I have 30+ on Sacred alone!) and until I am done, I will be doing on that as I work on writing the Original Fiction. I have only months left to get that done. If I don’t then Fanfiction will be dropped to push through the dream of working through writing. So please, no demanding comments that I have to finish stuff. I want to finish stuff, I really do. The muse goes where it wants, and do you really want lackluster chapters? Written for the purpose of only giving you chapters and no meat in it? Why?
For those that ask about When I Pretend… All I can tell you, is that Every Dark Night has made it hard for me to continue with the plans for What If. I am having to shit that story cause I can no longer write Alice the way I saw her when I first wrote her. Also, I wrote that one in the midst of losing my job, sick and barely able to leave the house. To say I was depressed to one of the furthest reaches I have gotten is not far off the mark. I have struggled with it, and am bringing it out of the darkness it resided in. I have more to write on it, just haven’t got there yet.
However, When I Pretend is going to be worse on Alice and Edward if not the rest of the Cullens. I cannot write and finish What If if I work on that one too much. That is not fair to that story. I had warned people from the beginning that I wrote When I Pretend to some requests of fans, even though I had not written much beyond the first couple of chapters. It was in the section for pending stories and never meant to be more than that.
Now, the people who follow me here and talk to me through here, have not been as pushy as others in the other sites. But there are a few who do it here as well. All I have to say is that telling me to write on a story or else is not the way to get me to work on it. If anything it makes me mad and I could work on it, but never release a chapter, cause why should I? To have you get hateful when I go to others?
So let me go where I want. I will ALWAYS finish stories. Never giving up on any of them. I am going to work on reposting Tea Shoppe for Twilight and Alice fandoms here when I get a breather. I have no beta for it, but I have people asking for it. While I can add it to the Universe I am building, I figure why do that when you guys want it so much? I never thought the story would be liked as much as it ahs been. Shocker to me.
I am off to post some chapters to the other sites, then go back to working on my original Fiction. I have a chapter of In The End and Our Road is Long out to betas. They have real lives as well, so give us all a break. I know there are stories out there you want, but some of them are waiting for real life issues, and I rather give my betas all the support through their real life issues than demand chapters from them.
Though, I have to warn you, this chapter starts a sad cycle, but necessary to the story. No wish is ever granted like this one had, without pain involved. If you mess with timelines, there are going to be consequences.
And this chapter is beginning those consequences.
However, this is me. I can’t go too long being sad. I have a plan, and for why this had to happen the way it did.
I give huge prompts to my beta for this. She worked on it, and I gave her a heads up that I will be forwarding a new chapter of Edge towards her probably tomorrow.
Yes, Tomorrow is the start of the Fanfiction weekend. Before that happens, I am finishing up a chapter of Aos Si. It’s an actiony scene and major. It starts them off towards the story and bringing in the universe they are involved in now in more detail.
Which I will say, I am thrilled to be getting to the meat of this. I may go back and write more on their last school year, but it is not that important to the story. I hit on the high spots, and now we are getting ready for the battle coming.
So enjoy this chapter of Our Road is Long, while I write my little heart away and then write you another post for today on that chapter update.
I’m getting excited.
So reminders, The contest.
You are now reminded.
You Want Blood Awards.
Go send in your nominations. If the stories you wanted nominated are not, it’s your fault. This is your time to shine, to suggest the stories for the categories!
And I know there are more reminders, but seriously, I can’t remember them right now. Maybe later tonight?
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