Yeah, sorry this is late.  I had an interesting week.

I upgraded to Windows 10.  I have multiple screens, and I had issues with it, and felt very stupid when all it needed was another restart.  So my mom, who had set me up to be the guinea pig, decided to upgrade her Windows 7 to 10.  (I had 8.1).  Yeah, while I spent an hour and a half waiting for the upgrade to load, then spent an hour working through the options (which I fell in love with Cortana) my mom had so many more issues.  We were up to 12:30 getting her to work.  Let me tell you, restart, restart, restart!!!!

No nightmares on anyone else, everything works sooo much better, but the issues we had were because of the multiple screens.  Nothing to help it, just do as I say and restart until the other screen pops up right.  Then restart one more time if you use Google.  (after you set google to be your browser.) Edge is not so bad, but it uses Bing, and I am not a Bing fan.  But for everything else?  OMG.  It recognizes the Bose speakers finally and the sound is phenomenal!   I don’t have Photoshop crashing when I try to resize stuff and other issues.

Then came Friday.  I spent the entire day with Grandma, walking everywhere, as we shopped.  Normally not a big deal for me, but I think it was a combination of heat (it was 102 once per my Traverse!) which means the Heat index was high.  I spent the whole day chugging drinks like you wouldn’t believe, and still got a heat headache.  I hate humidity.  By the end of the day, we were taken to Dinner, and then I went home and took Aleve, as well as gulping more liquids.

Saturday was a pool party at my aunts house, and M saw me limping badly when I woke up and told me to chill out.  I am not kidding you, no matter how I stretched it out, I had what felt like a live wire going from the top of my right leg all the way down. And no way to freaking relax it!! I even went with my mom, after making Angel Lush for the pool party, to Apple to exchange her iPad for a bigger memory one.  (Yeah, I am like that.  But I couldn’t sit very long without it hurting more.)  By the time that was all done, it was late and everyone in my family called off going.  M was going bowling, Dad was so tired from working OT in the heat and MamaKitty was tired, headache from the heat as well needing to start her upload of her new iPad.

I didn’t get any sleep until like 8 am the following morning.  Needless to say, I spent alot of yesterday resting.  And today only had a headache.  That I can feel.   (I have a high pain tolerance, if I fall asleep, whatever bothered me is often not felt by me the following day.  not all the time, but enough that it is a relief!)  Unfortunately, this has a bad side effect.  See, I get sick if I am stressed.  Not stressed mentally (though that can count towards it).  If my body is hurting, it causes stress and I get sick. Wonderful aint it?  Not really.  It doesn’t help with that pain tolerance since often I know i am in pain by getting sick though I don’t feel it.

Why am I telling you all this?  Cause I feel guilty.

I have been slacking on working this past week (to me) though I finished a chapter a night for a not-able-to-tell-you reason, and worked on a chapter of Clocks, as well as dealing with all the computer issues and so on.  This is slacking to me.  I haven’t been online to talk to the group as much nor have I been able to do much in fact.  Have I ever mentioned I hate summer also?!?!!?

As I mentioned on a post in Facebook, the cold never bothered me anyways fits me.  Seriously, I have a ceiling fan, a desktop fan and a fan for the CPU/slash my feet. Yes, the dogs fight for the spot by my feet for the nice cool fan.  And often I am still hot.  ugh

I am on my last week of taking Grandma to PT, then I will be back to working all week long.  And back to the gym I am hoping, since I haven’t been able to go while I did all this.  Though I will be gone for the thursdays this week, taking care of my nephews.. Such a hard life.  LMAO!!!

This is why I am not worried about my betas, since summer is a very hard time for them to work.  They often have children they are taking care of, or other obligations.  Vacations and so on. When they can get to stuff, they are all very good about it.  And I have been checking in with them.

4Padfoot has come back!! And she has been a powerhouse while she has been back.  She fixed my attempt at the Awards page, and told me not bad.  If we forgot an award, please let us know.  We Have them divided into two categories: Awards by the site(year) and Awards by Story.  It is taking advantage of the neat stuff this theme can handle, and uses some graphics and such.  Easy all in all, but it was to have me to learn my theme some.  By me… lol. It is located on the Other Goodies page under awards.  Or you can just click above to be taken to the new page.

She has also listened to you guys, and has made a Site Map for those unable to find features they had in the past.  (They are all there!)  This can be found up top after the posts.  Click on the pic above showing you where it is to be taken to it.  This is NOT graphics heavy at all, and is an alternative to tablet users and so on.  I will remind you though. There are items that are Password Protected on purpose.  Only those that are approved to read those stories will be allowed.

I also did an Author Interview on Friday:

And the story review was on Queen of Area Five’s Lifting the Veil.  There will be an author interview out this Friday, so please be looking for that.

I will be getting together the prompt for this month here as soon as I can.  Life has certainly been busy!!! I am also gong back to working, since I got this out now.  I am looking forward to when I can be posting those chapters you guys are looking for.  OH YEAH!!!

The results:

And for the Others: I Never Did: 3; When I Pretend: 2; What If: 1; Blood Of Innocence: 1; In The End: 2.  One write in was just W, and one of the previous had 2 write ins.

I am completely shocked that All I Want won.  You’re came up from behind, it was originally behind Edge.  But I see and I will be working on AIW as soon as I get a free moment.  Hopefully after the novel since I will be freer after then.  Or in Tucson.

Hopefully a freak cold front comes in and I will get REALLY inspired as usual and get cracking.  Until then, I will deal with a kitten you can’t give tuna to.  Seriously.  M gave her whatever was left on his draining thingie from the tuna cans, and she was racing up and down the house, taking the longest routes, running up the couch and back, over the dining room table and.. well you get the idea.  She did 2 laps in a minute.  And we have a long house. She just woke up, so I am anticipating the jumping and so on.  She already has shut the laptop lid from where I am getting ready to do the Windows 10 Upgrade.  Hopefully it fixes the issue with it. Besides it being old. Still eligible for Photoshop, but old… (Yes I am hoping for another one… before the trip to Tucson.)

C-ya soon I hope!