Well, kinda…

I’ve been telling people for awhile to go watch the video for Sacred for over a month.  The reason for this… is that last yesterday I published the first written chapter of this story.  And as usual, I leaked it to the Facebook Group.

Why?   Because they go the extra little to be a member, and also since they are the one cheering me on when I am down, I like to give them thanks.  Seriously, right now the ladies have been trying to figure gifs for me to separate into seasons of True Blood for Alex.  (out of a couple hundred we are down to four.  Yes… FOUR!)  Which that started out because of Chapter 1 of Sacred.  I was looking for specific gifs, and found it too hard to find what I am looking for since I had all the gifs for Alex jumbled together.

And for those that know me… That is a huge no-no!   I’ve been sorting pics into more folders as time has gone by.  Alex’s regular pics are separated now into headshots, upper body and full body.  Leighton Meester is the same.  Allan Hyde will be next since his are starting to bug me also.  Also Damon’s are pretty big files also.  And for me, if I can’t place my hands on something quickly, it is time to organize.

I do so much organizing in fact when my mom wants her office to be organized she asks me to come in.  I come in while she is working, observing how her current office works, and then last weekend M and I went up with her and redid her office.  Again.   Yes, I did in fact, did that last year, but circumstances change as they often do, and it caused a need for her to face her door now.  Which of course disrupts her entire workplace so she wanted another one just as efficient as the past one.  Luckily, this time ,we just had to reorganize it, not the outer offices.  Which would have been a lost cause.  And she purposely doesn’t allow me into her bosses office, who is an engineer.  In other words, he has LAYERS of paper hazardly scattered over every surface including the floor.  OMG.  My hands twitch at the mess.

At least, before I came in she stayed late to file in her office before I moved a single thing.

Because of the need to organize, you may notice some changes to the main page.  I cleaned up the current chapter banners to make them match.  I also moved some stories around on the bottom, to allow for the missing one, as well as adding all the new banners.  4Padfoot is more than awesome at all this, but sometimes, RL just gets in the way and we forget that something needs to be updated.   Oops.  So I sat down and went through it all, added new betas, updated what betas are doing what now.  I left the older betas there since they did help me out when I needed it, and hey free advertising for them!

Now we don’t see anything wrong with the Main Page, but feel free to tell us if you notice something wrong.  Since 4Padfoot is working on the site this weekend.  And let us know about the Goodies page.  We already know links are broken there, but please tell us what you see so  we can make sure nothing is missed.  Anything at all you notice on the site that is not working, needs updated and so on.  We try, but hey life happens.

Also, if you haven’t noticed this past week I have become very active online.  I had been tired, trying to spend time with the family, and then trying to sleep normally. I was feeling drained.  The I bought some probiotics that have other stuff in them, as well as talking to M about how I can’t do what I have been doing since I feel worn out.

The result?

I now sleep when he leaves for work until 1-2pm in the afternoon, which is right around 8 hours.  I get alot of work done during those times, there is no one awake here, and even the pets are sleeping mostly.  Also in conjunction to all of this, I am taking the pills.  Talk about energy boost!! They make it where you get energy from what you eat from digesting your food better.  I also make sure I eat three times a day, and rarely snack anymore.

Now the pills I am taking are expensive, and are a specific brand and they don’t work for everyone.  However, I was slumping towards becoming as sick as I was when I was working. I figured since all the side effects are what I am suffering now, what could it hurt?  For me, this works awesomely.  It could have a negative side effect on my anti-depressants, but the boost of energy makes me a happy person often.  So it works out for me.

How does this affect you guys?  This past week, I worked on Sacred Chapter (finished) LOTR chapter (sent to beta and the chapter is set up all ready to go) and Edge Chapter (sent to the beta and returned, I just need to make banners for it.)  I also am going through all the sites I publish in and updating them with either banners or uploading stories to them.  I also worked on the site itself extensively and updated banners for it.  I smooshed all the Alice One Shots into one slider.  I also made a banner for my one Twilight OS story.  I also made the completed page for easier finding of what is done and when.

Today I am finishing up the other sites, then working on banners for the aforementioned stories and the writing challenge.  I will be publishing some of the Revelations chapters as well.  Tomorrow? I will not be working on the sites or anything Fanfiction.  It will be time to read, to catch up on other things and spend time with family.  And if I get bored, then I can come in and play games.  But I need to take a break.

What am I aiming for?  To make it where I can write all those stories you guys keep asking for.  I WANT to finish stuff, but I need time without having people asking for updates.  Sacred has 30 chapters written to it already.  I will not be updating this every week until I run out of other stuff to update.  I will dribble it out, then when I do have only it left, I will publish each week.  That way I can have at least 30 weeks to write new stuff for you guys.

So, go on to read, and we will see what all I will be publishing on Monday and what can be published for you sooner.

Also, when I go to make banners for the chapters, I try to find a theme behind them.  For instance, ED was Roads, Edge is Dirt Roads.  Crossing the Line is Trains, LOTR is Middle Earth, Crossing the Fine Line was Space, and so on.  Surfergirl11 inspired me in Sacred with her banner, but when I went to make the banners for the chapters, I couldn’t replicate her work.  So I changed the banner and picked Fire and Water (aka Lava and water).  My OCD makes me want everything to match.  So here is her original banner, which I give credits to on the homepage of the story.  Which also contains a link to her other banners she has out for adoption.  They are amazing!

Made by surfgirl11

Here is the chapter.  Hope you enjoy it!