I know.. too puny for this time of night.  Or day if you are on the other side of the world…

It’s been a long day, but I wanted to give you this chapter!

Right now, I am decorating my computer, as 4Padfoot plays with the backgrounds to decorating the site for Xmas.  Since I am leaving in two weeks (yeah!!!!!!), and will be gone until the 18th of January, I will not be here to really deal with the Xmas stuff. (as well as me decorating the posts… warning!)

*Sighs*

But I am excited for the upcoming trip. I made a list for my iPhone that is just the Xmas songs and the more popular songs right now.  It’s only 813 items, nowhere as long as the other ones. IT’s two days long, so it should be good for the trip, and how my hubs and I like to skip a song if it doesn’t fit the part of the road we are on.

Now here is the bad news.  I am officially on vacation.  The ladies are on vacation.  Everyone is on vacation.

Well, except 4Padfoot for emergencies.  And she will probably play while the boss is away.

But what does this mean???  Means it is time for me to write….

See, I have this week, which I will be more around than any afterwards.  But next week?  I will be running around, making lists, researching things and so forth.

And trying not to murder my iPad.

Seriously.

I have to turn it off, bend the edges and then work it for about 10-15 minutes before repeating.  What is it doing?  It’s called ghost touching. I can lay the thing down, walk away and no one close to it, and you can watch it move around, open apps and so forth, all on it’s own.

Yeah, it sucks.

But I will be backing up the laptop that I will be using, putting the last touches on the banners (the names and so forth) and putting the files I will be using on a thumb drive in case I can’t use the google drive.  I can’t think of why I cannot, but I am not taking any chances.

Making lists, and checking them twice, and wrapping all the stuff we have already.  I will also be taking the traverse for an oil change and all that fun stuff.

The weekend before we leave, Connor will need to be washed.  And we will be packing the Traverse that Sunday, so all I have to do is get up, get ready and leave with the dog.  Well, stop and grab me a Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper to help me wake up.

LOL!

OK…

So some reminders..

First up, is the Christmas Contest is live and ready for you to read.  Go forth, read, review, and then vote for your favorite!  There are some seriously great stories in this bunch!!! And have you found the easter eggs in the banners?

I will mention that the swan has the words from the story on it….

Yes… I did put that much effort into it!

The other thing, is please remember the Amazon link!!! It does pay for things that we use monthly.  I know Cyber Monday is coming, so I am not only putting the link in the pretty picture, but also as words.  I saved the link as my Amazon link to the site.  That is all you have to do, is click through the link once, and it will give me credit on it.

http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=kittyinaz-20

So I am off.  What do I want to do this year?  Write the next part of this series:

Then work on finishing this story:

Then moving on to where the muse takes me.  Hopefully she comes back and works with me on the two above!!!

Here is the chapter:

And remember, you feed the muses for not only me, but for the authors who entered into the contest with your kind words.  C-ya later!

p.s. I will try to get one more chapter of Clocks out for you!  No promises though!