I almost forgot!!
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Now I am truly giving the site over to 4Padfoot.
Kitty
The site will be down temporarily for system maintenance at 9:30 pm MST.
Now I am truly giving the site over to 4Padfoot.
Kitty
First, Happy Holidays to everyone that is here. Since I am literally am over the world, I wish to let you know you have my good wishes for the season. As the darkest night of the year approaches, I hope your world is full of light, love and happiness.
Merry Christmas to those that celebrate it, as well as a Happy New Year from the Kittyinaz family. (including the pets!)
Now to what you are devouring this post for.
Yep, I finally finished the Clocks chapter!
I am so sorry!!! Thursday was a wash for me… Hubby had me try a game, and I loved it (civilization 5). But when everyone got home, the news that we are leaving early caused a bit of a ruckus.
Yes, we are leaving Texas for AZ this Friday instead of Monday.
What does this mean?
Time is short, and I have alot to do. It didn’t help that this past weekend was a busy one with my mom. I spent Saturday with her and the boys, as well as spending the rest of the day with my brother and them at their town’s snow day. Which was funny as hell watching people play in something I saw everyday when I was little and played in. It was also fun to think back on those days adn share them with my brother who can barely remember the days.
Yesterday was a visit to Grandma Kitty, as well as a pampering day for both of us after standing in lines in 50 degree weather for the boys to ride everything. Yes, I got a pedi courtesy of Mamakitty, and gave myself a gift of a manicure. It was so nice not to have to do my own nails! And it got rid of some cramps from the day before.
However, the weekend ate into time I had planned to spend on other things.
So, today I am finishing the cards I was working on at 2:30 this morning. (I am up only because of a kitten who could not understand Mommy needs to sleep more than 4 hours). I will be getting the names on the banners, and work with someone to finish the contest in case something goes wrong on my end to put the badges on them.
The contest closes the polls on the 15th. And you may want to try to vote for your favorites… might.
I will be also working on getting the chapter of Clocks ready for you guys, but that will be it. I have way too much to do, and things are piling up. So I will be working on all of that. I will be online today, but if I don’t answer you, it is because I am busy doing something else, or hopefully getting my mifi delivered. Stupid Murphy, we know he took it.
Damn, sitting here, I am thinking of more stuff to do, so I need to be off. I wanted to let you guys know what is going on, and why I am being a bad bad kitty.
Now I am off to fight with the computers, (yes computerS) try to do banners, (which I got one done before the computer needed to restart) and get these Christmas cards out. Once I am out of stamps, I am done… sad thing, is I am hoping to get one out to all the betas!
See you guys later today, or at the latest tomorrow.
Enjoy the Christmas banner that the most awesome 4Padfoot made!
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!
I hope you enjoyed your turkey (or whatever meat or non-meat you had), pie and so on. For those outside the United States, I hope you enjoyed your day and are ready with the rest of us Americans ready to watch the traditional Winter Sport called…Black Friday.
Oh, my god. I have gone out not to buy a single thing, but instead I went to watch the freaking idiots trying for bikes jumping over racks of cacti. Actual story!!!!!!
For those of us here in the US, (traditionally) the end of Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the Christmas season. I adhere pretty strictly to this. While I may do Christmas shopping early, I do not put a single thing in the house until tomorrow, nor do I normally listen to Christmas music of my own accord.
This year was different. I started on Sunday and started to work on the banners for the stories.
Wow…. just wOw. You guys knocked me out of the park with these stories!!!
I will tell you each and EVERY one of the banners have hidden easter eggs in them. Once you read the story, you hopefully can pick on them. And a couple have extra easter eggs that I was all giddy in adding little details.
Have fun trying to find the goodies! I had alot of fun putting them in. Some are going to be hard to find… some easy once you read the story.
I also tried not to make it too easy to figure out the stories ahead of time. I will say, I had a heck of a time with The Wish, I did two different banners. The snow Globe has an animated version that looks fantastic, but never loads up right. Dreams was a blast to make it fit. Thanks for the Distraction let me play with perspectives. Christmas Eve Blues looks like the least altered while being one of the most heavily. That Christmas tree took forever to work in right. A Christmas to Remember has pictures that I made in it. Which M laughed when he realized that I was taking a lot of time to get the pics just right when you guys probably won’t notice them. Paper was harder than it looked. I tried for Christmassy themes, and while the banner I ended up with the frist time fit it, it wouldn’t be to the casual observer. So I added the clock for reasons you will understand when you read it. And then there was A Viking and a Swan. That one was the hardest for me, since I had to reach out of where I am comfortable to make it.
Authors, I hope you enjoy the banners ad finding your easter eggs!!! Just remember, there is no replying to any reviews until the end. Otherwise, you will be disqualified. There is no mentioning what story you entered, though you are more than welcome to say that you entered or just plug the contest!
Voting ends on the 15th.
Now, I am off to relax. I made a full turkey day dinner, all by myself! The only help I got was a pack to the stuffing from M, lifting of heavy stuff, and M and Mamakitty cutting the turkey while I made the gravy. I rocked the turkey, it came out, perfect temp and so very moist. I did a little dance when that happened!!!
Click the banner to be taking to the listing for the entries.
So enjoy reading, vote on yours, and leave some reviews for the authors who worked hard to get these into us!