I am not sure when the next time I can post to you guys again, so I am letting you guys know what is going on.
My mom has her surgery on Friday. Seems I have a bridal shower to go to the following day. And yes they invited her too. That’s all I am going to say about that.
There is a trip to Ikea to pick up my frames and boxes. Then I will be done. ::Fist pump::. Unfortunately this means that since she thinks I did a great job on my side of the room, she wants me to decorate the rest. I sighed and agreed. But this will be a challenge. She wants a tea/coffee station. Not in the kitchen. Yeah, this will be fun. PLEASE Ikea have something so this will be moderately painless!
I have finished the prep work, and now am ready to start writing. Thank Godric! I really have been feeling the need for writing. So I plan to get it out of my system, and then come back to editing. I know, I know. You guys want your E/S new story, as well as the other stuff, especially the sequels. Last count I have 14 open stories, and I am trying to cut down on those, plus I have a mom who will be demanding some chapters of her own story.
Everyone wants stories, and I need to write them first!! I am also wanting to work on my Original Fiction. If everything goes the way I am wanting, I will finish the Twilight one I am working on, work on the LOTR one, then finish Aos Si. Then edit All I Want, and the Twilight one, while the prereading team and Betas start looking over Aos Si. Then I can write more, (tons of stories to do this too) and then edit some more. I may miss a couple of weeks of posting, but hang in with me! There is so much going on in my life, that I am trying. Writing is the way I escape and I need to relax.
For those of you clicking away at the Amazon Link, Thank you! It is slowly giving us some much needed financial help, and allowing me to stay here writing. It is nothing to you guys, no extra charges and fees, just use the link from here to go to Amazon when you shop. Even Kindle Books and gift cards count. It’s amazing what all can be credited to me, and those clicks and buys help me out. So thanks!!! WE will try to keep up the Amazon page so you can be aware of sales.
And while you are waiting for fics from me (In case I don’t get back to editing in time for when You’re is done, which will take a few more weeks, maybe a month or two even), check out my betas!!! They are freaking awesome and they write too! My WordPress Whisperer has been unwell, but she has also put together many sites for others, to get them started to publishing away from FanFiction. Click on the links and read their work!
Don’t forget the food blog. My biweekly contribution is a bi-weekly menu. We also have a new person in the blog. If you wish to help out there, let the ladies there know. They are anxious and full of ideas for it. Just needing some lessons on how, but 4Padfoot is working with them to help out.
And last, but by no means last, we are still on the hunt for Betas. We have some excellent benefits for being a beta, or even helping on the Food blog. And what we like to do now is pair up new betas with some of our pros at it. So if you want to, but not sure how, this is the best time to apply! The beta email is around here, (somewhere on the side tab) and just send to them your particulars and/or contact Karen Meridian on Facebook, and she is the Queen of the Betas. She will get you sorted into the right beta for you, and no worries, new ideas are coming along, so there will be stories to beta.
Enjoy the week, and hopefully there might be a post on a chapter, but I will need one of the ladies to post it, since Friday I will be at the hospital. And enjoy Alex. I have missed him… So I wanted to see him for awhile when I am on the home page.
Oh Yes!!!! There is a one shot challenge on the Facebook Challenge!!! I am so freaking eager for the results of this, which is ending on Friday 02/28/2014 at Midnight CST. All the entries will be posted here, and then you will get to vote on the winner! There will be more contests (And I may even enter a few!) coming since this is a huge hit. I even got comments of it breaking through writers blocks. If interested, join our group. We love new members, and there are benefits to it. from what I hear, my group is not your normal, I lord it over all, I try very hard to get the ladies involved in it. It is also closed for a reason, to allow for more freedom for the group, and no one from outside to point a finger at us for any reason.
AS someone who’s mother is just gone through the worry about Cancer, is in fact having more surgery this coming week, I more than support this request. Please send your good feelings!
No post this week, we have a beta we are praying for, and she has a real trying time of it.
But I do have good news, I finished You’re. All the editing is done, and so therefore, unless Beta set backs happen, (And face it, we are human, so they will happen!) It should post to the end. I am now reading a Twilight favorite, and plan to write that one out, then turn to MamaKitty’s story of the Twilight/LOTR crossover to write until I get frustrated again. It’s a hard one to write, I have what I want to do, but carrying it out? Well the characters want to go their own ways.
Afterwards, I will be editing the new E/S I keep baiting you on, and then try to either work on the OF Aos Si and finish that one, or edit the Twilight one and then keep going. It takes a lot out of me to edit, and I love writing so much, but just check out those before edit numbers and the after edit numbers. They should give you a huge clue on the type of work I have to do with these chapters when I go back and edit.
For right now, I am off to paint a mirror to go in my new office, giving life to a piece of wall décor that has not been in use since I left AZ. Yeah!! And then I will be back here reading and making dinner. Stew with homemade biscuits. It’s over in the food blog if you are interested, with step by step directions.
But I am trying to catch up on fics, and trying to get my first Original Fiction up and going out to publishers. Though I have no idea what to do with it once I am done writing it. So we will see.
Have fun, and we should be back to normal next week, but our betas are much more important to us that getting stories out, so we will just pass this week while we send good wishes to her. Next week it will be MamaKitty’s turn again, and she is not looking forward to it.
As you know, this is one of my awesome Betas!! She threw me a bone with this story and I am hooked, as any of the betas can tell you. I keep shhhing them as I read. So go join me, and tell her I sent you!
As you guys know, I love reading the crossovers, and found this gem of a writer over in it. She mentioned that she posts on WordPress, so I came out to see her. Only to find out she follows me! Small World isn’t it? The Push and Pull of Things so far is my favorite, and I drop everything to read, but By Your Side is really interesting also!! Check her out!
This week, I took my office, that looked like below, and transformed it into something neat (See more pics below.) My mom is working on her side of the room. She already switched the desks around and is now seeing where she wants everything.
Yes, I went and repainted the entire room (times two, some spots three times, including the ceiling.) then scrubbed the freaking floor, (Actually scrubbed with dawn and hot water) cause we were going to patch up a spot on the ceiling, which we did, then my hubby bought the stuff to make it repopcorn, since the other popcorn was put up with glue. Industrial type. But the damn stuff exploded everywhere, and when he painted the ceiling to prep it for it, I told him no. But we had to clean the damn stuff off the floor, and instead we ended up being able to remove DECADES of paint on the wooden floors. Thank god for Steam cleaners, cause it removed the Dawn from the floor. However… it worked!!!
Thursday (Cause Wednesday was spent getting the paint and supplies, and prepping the room.) was spent crawling around the floor, painting the trim, then when I got back to the beginning, instead of having to wait like I was told, it was completely dry. So I applied a second coat. I also had to make a false bead on the floor cause the idiots had covered up the original to the house from 1920’s wood floors with, yep you guessed it, carpet. Only to rip it out, but not fix the trim. So yes, there is carpet still under the trim. Along with all those years of paint. Now we had decided NOT to redo the room, since I was going to be spending so much on furniture, and all we thought it needed was a coat of paint. ::Bangs head on desk:: As you can see, not true. The prepping of the room should have warned us, since we spent the time sanding off sharp edges to the texture on the wall and filling oh so many holes. I was thrilled when my hubby came home and decided after checking the trim himself, to tape off the room and paint. Yes!! We may actually get done by Friday!!!!
And… I was disappointed to say the least. I am not scared of color. My bedroom is what they call navy suede. the ‘suede’ parts look like you rubbed your hand the wrong way and there are so many shades of blue in that room, it isn’t funny. The ceiling is painted another color of blue, one of the shades that came from the suede effect, with bright white trim on the crown molding. The ceiling looks MUCH higher than it really is, as well as gives a floating feeling. Which works, since it was our first ceiling to put in ourselves, and Marty has one of the boards flipped, which later gives us a wavy look to that section. Hey, live and learn! But the reason I am saying this, is to give you an example of how I am. And I was disappointed in the color of the room. I was shooting for soft dove gray. 2 shades darker. I got a soft gray. Real soft, like almost white over the blue that was there before (faded denim). I went to bed, upset. We had also tried to remove the popcorn ceiling and nothing was going our way.
Friday morning, (After my hubs had been up to after 1am and got up 3am to go to work) I was woken by cleaning elves. I told them not to bother with that room and my own, and went back to bed. Bad headache, though the window was open. All I can say is fumes. Came in the room, and it was better, but the smudges on the ceiling were still the color I wanted, and the walls were not. So I coated them again. Better.
Hubs came home, (and he had left my flowers on the dresser since my desk was under a pile in the living room). And instead of going out, he showed how much he knew me by bringing me what I call outlet plates. To paint, so they will match. He knows me so well. He also tested the walls, and took off the tape around the room, and climbed up to tape off the walls for the ceiling. He painted. We ate take out from Mickey D’s me not wanting to go out in the madness of Valentines Day. This, to me, was a better present.
The following morning, we got up, and went to Ikea. Spent almost all day there. I got my furniture. Lost my drivers license and Ikea Card, Hubby backtracked through the showroom and found license. Hero!!! Went downstairs, and started to pick up things to buy (Hubby had found a puppet owl which yes, is on my bookcase right now.) My mom was picking her side of the room, and I had mine all picked out. Fought with an employee who told me that they won’t restock in the middle of the day my bookshelves. Then was vindicated when he showed they had 25 in stock and made him search for them. We got home last night after stopping for dinner, and Marty started building, having me hand him parts since my CDO (OCD to normal folks, but it ain’t my fault you can’t put the letters in order!) has me excelling in this. He put together a sofa table, (That doubles for me as a storage place and a table behind me) 2 bookcases and my desk. Which took the longest. Then he put together my mom’s desk. It was past midnight when everything was finished.
Today, Connor woke us up, and I started to bring things into the room. He replaced all the electrical work, and once everything was in here, he took off his electrician’s hat to put on his IT hat to put the computers together. Then I brought in the books and fixed up my area, and tested my computer. Then I took a nap. My headache from the paint still there, and I pushed myself so my ankle AND knee were telling me how bad I was. When I got up, I found he had completed the covers, put up the curtains, and put the glass back on the lights on the fan. But it doesn’t stop there!! My mom came home, and he helped her to rearrange her furniture to her liking.
Finally, we are done. Both of us. Later (Tomorrow) I will take a picture of the room for those that care and have it up on the Facebook Page. It looks so different, as you can tell from the preliminary pics.
But why am I sorry?? Chapter 18 AND 19 of You’re posted while I was out. Meridian has since posted 18 to our different sites, but 19 is still here and waiting for the next Wednesday. Just a hint, the Beta for that one likes posting on Fridays. I didn’t have a computer, since mine was in pieces, and I kinda forgot to ask. Sorry!!!
Other news, Prayers are needed for betas and MamaKitty since they will be in surgery soon. One next week, and the other soon. It was one of the reasons I pushed for this to be all done, since she wanted to go back to Ikea before the surgery to get the last of the stuff. So this way we are all set.
Our awesome WordPress Whisperer has attacked my Tea Blog, and updated it. As well as made it and the Food Blog’s latest posts be seen from the side menu. We are also in the final stages of the interview process for this month’s participation on the Facebook page. Damon of You’re is the winner, and the five questions to be asked is going on until Friday.
Also, for those wondering, I have a couple chapters of You’re left to Edit, then I will be working on a favorite to finish. This one is NOT a one with a sequel, so when it is finished, it will be done. then I will edit the new E/S story I have out, and then edit the story I finished. Seeing a pattern? I am hoping that I will be able to work on writing since I got a lot done when I was out. I also want to get back to MamaKitty’s story so she can read it after her surgery. So much going on!!!
I am going to go post chapters to FictionPad that should have been done Wednesday. I am also going to spend the rest of my supposed day off, reading the 43 emails I have in my inbox. 🙂
Enjoy the chapter!! Click on the Picture at the beginning to get there.
Both of my Betas posted today, and I have to reblog both of them for the awesome job!!! Please go in and read and review. Tell her there can’t just be one more chapter!!! And let her know I sent ya!
Yes!!! Many huge thanks to kelpieskorner for her awesome Betaing skills, She has gone back and redone all the chapters for Best. We appreciate it! And I even gave you guys a Gif for it!! (And me to stare at until the next post!)
I have already done Chapter 6, sent on to missron80 to work on, but she works while I don’t, which gives me more time for writing, but even I had to wait a couple of weeks to write this current one.. My Co-author is awesome, and this coming chapter is very pivotal, so be patient!!!!!!!
If you haven’t seen already, I have a tea blog that I am writing about my adventures in blending teas. It is fun, plus it reminds me of what I have already done. I found a blend I used at the beginning I had forgotten about. Go check it out, it gets all excited cause 5 people liked it today. It’s a baby site still.
We also have a new lady for the food blog, so expect to see some changes there also. I’m excited about all this wonderful stuff!!! This is all stuff that means more for you my ladies (And guys if there are any!) Happy Times!
I am still working on You’re. I think there is something still going on with the current chapter, but once I have clarification on posting it officially up, I will let you know. Once I am done with this, I may take a break and work on the story I have now, before getting the new story ready for publishing. Remember, I am trying to give you guys completed stories, but I will go back through the stories to see if I have any chapters that are done, but not edited. Who knows? Maybe I will read one, get all inspired and finish it?
I am trying to make sure there is stuff to read for you guys, so be patient!!!
Enjoy the chapter, remember we will not post this to any other site until Wednesday.
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