Sorry everyone, Saturday I learned a valuable lesson. It is called, do not take a probiotic pill AFTER you eat. It hurts. Alot. (Just remember, I have a sensitive tummy, so it can not affect others the same way.)
Sunday was spent with the family, and Monday I was feeling bad.
Just to be clear, no one knows what is wrong with my stomach. The pain I suffer from is there, you can watch my body register the pain, but to find out what is causing it? No one knows. And it may sound stupid to realize it, but my depression ebbs and flows due to the pain. Imagine that.
I was up for a short amount of time finishing moving over ED to Better in Texas. And went down after I finished it. I also have RL coming in mucking things about. WE have a house beside us that has been damaged by Ike, and the owners abandoned it. It’s not only an eyesore, But it has caught on fire and the a hail storm broke the water lines that I had to find to turn off manually. It’s a house with a detached garage with an apartment over it. And the garage is where all this damage has been. Now the garage in the last week has shifted from leaning towards my house, and then the other house. 4 times, someone has pictures of it doing so. So they are knocking it down next week.
During all this, there is a trailer behind us M and I were remodeling but Ike broke the bottom support into two pieces. Due to it being cause of Ike, the county let us know there is still unclaimed money from federal for Ike, and if you qualify, they will pay to demolish any structures on your land. We qualified and with the demolishing of the house next to us, they came for the bidding process at 8 this morning. Also to inform me basically, no sleep for me next week. Yeah…….
The trailer will be about a month to get rid of it. Yeah!!!!
Also, M got me my month and a half early anniversary gift. I finally got the iPad. a Mini. I think he got tired of me complaining that I couldn’t get rid of all the emails since I didn’t want to read them on the computer. I spent yesterday setting up the thing, since according to it, my upgraded IOS, was too old for using on the new stuff. I ended up banging my head against Tucker, (Who thought I was head butting him, so he would purr at me for doing it) I finally got the thing working.
And I was thrilled to be able to play games, I lost my dream notes that I had on the old iPad, but at least I have it updating to the cloud now, where my old one refused to. (must have been one of those too old things…) And Now I have the pen synced to it, so I can go back to waking up, writing those details down, and then go back to sleep. Cause there are some awesome dreams coming about!!! I have had a Tom Hiddles one, a Winchester one and two Damon ones.
So tonight, I am still exhausted from 3 hours of sleep today. I went online to check things, and tomorrow I will try to get the challenges up, (which I read on my new iPad and wow!!!) as well as the banners for the Edge chapter I have ready.
Sorry everyone. But to those out there that message me, thank you. Often you ladies are the ones who get me out of bed. You know who you are, and you are freaking awesome!
P.S. – WE think we have everything fixed. But if you find a link not working, please tell us. Often we work on the backend of the site, and don’t mess with the front except to look at a page and see if it posted right. 4Padfoot went through and fixed the last links I found….
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!
First off, I did a review on the Non-canon Awards. It is for an oldie, but goodie. I am diving into the completed stories on Fanfiction.net to go back to the stories that introduced this universe to me. While I am not reading them all, (some had sequels that were never finished and so on) I am reading some of them and will be reviewing them. I figured they deserved some love too!
The first one was…. *Drum roll* is:
Click on the banner to be taken to the review. And yes, I make banners for the stories I review if I feel inspired or they don’t have one. Otherwise, I try to use their banners. Since I only found this on Fanfiction.net, I did their banner size for them. (It works… I promise!)
The next good news?
I worked on the next chapter of The Sun Holds the Moon! I have one in reserve still (since I like to make sure that I don’t write myself into a hole in this one) but Chapter 6 is done and the beta is notified. Now… I do have to remind you that a lot of work goes into the Lord of the Ring stories, fact checking as much as possible. Yes, I have taken liberties, but there is a lot I want to remain the same. So once I am done, I hand it to the beta, who goes through and fact checks things also. But it is done on my side!
Then… I finished another story edit last night. I have to go through and make a ton of banners since it is a new story. Though I will warn you… You really need to watch this video. It is the prologue to the story, and I will be making the page for it.
Yes. Sacred is about to become a live story for you to read!!!! Well, I mean it will have a chapter to read along with the beautiful video 4Padfoot made for it! The video is important to the story. Without it, some things will not make sense. And later it repeats for another person…. All I will say is it is a dream….
In addition, I wanted to highlight a story from my completed file…
The first one is a One Shot for the TB Fandom. It is based on a song – Austin by Blake Shelton. I have heard it a few times, but for some reason, this time it clicked and this story came to be. I will say it is due to Gyllene that I published it. She loved it, so I dedicate it to her…
Description: One Shot – All Human Sookie leaves, and almost a year later, makes a call that changes everything.
Don’t forget that the Writing contest ends tomorrow at midnight CST. Thanks!!!
Ok, today’s post is brought to you by the wonderful letter, E. For Early.
Yikes. Nothing like being woke up only after a couple hours of sleep. The good thing? I can go back to sleep here in a few minutes. Hopefully, after I finish this post!
Lots of things in this post, today.
One, I added a few pages to the site last week. We have the 2016 Adopt a Banner, 2016 Kittyinaz’s Group Banner Contest (which is going on right now!), and a new page that I put up. It has all the Stories I completed and the year that they were completed. This includes One Shots. I have links to the stories embedded into their banners as well as descriptions for all of that. You can find it here. I will also be doing a post later this week featuring a completed story, starting with last year and working backward. Since I have had a lot of comments that people didn’t know there were some that I completed for contests.
Two, I wanted to thank each and every one of you for using the Amazon Link. This helps out greatly for the programs I use to do everything for the site. It helps pay for storage offsite which means I don’t have to worry about the computer crashing and losing all my stories and pictures. There was a time two weeks ago that this was a big deal! It also helps pay for the Photoshop and Grammarly. Which as you guys know very well I use a lot. The Donate button money goes towards the site only. Any monies donated there, 4Padfoot uses to pay the site costs as well as the security for the site. If there is any left over, she looks into ways to make the site be easier and faster to load for you guys.
Three, I also wanted to thank you for reading the stories on here. I love sharing them with you as well reading your comments. Many times I have gone back and read comments and they have cheered me up when I am having a bad day. I keep all those in folders (yes, I am OCD and getting worse as time goes by) and if I want inspiration to keep writing, I look at them. Your support and feeding the muse often help me!
Four, The writing contest ends on the 31st of this month! If you need an extension send them to the email address for that. I am looking forward to seeing what you guys came up with. Later today I will be thinking of next month’s contest so that can be given as soon as possible to you guys.
Five, Chapter! This chapter is brought to you by the lovely and very talented MistressJessica1028. If you have not read her stories, click on the button below to be taken to her site. Also, the chapter had been released to the Kittyinaz’s Facebook Group yesterday. I always like to give an extra thank-you to the people who follow me over there.
Now, I think that was everything since everyone is gone and I just have to let out the brats. Then back to bed, I go! I look forward to waking up and seeing what you thought of the chapter!
So…. It is official. Everyone in my house has had the flu or having it. I hoped to be over it, since I somehow got away with a light version of it. Instead, I am so freaking exhausted and body aching, I’m afraid I get to go through it again.
Yuck.
Right now, I am waiting for meds, chamomile tea and whatever else can happen to happen while I am writing this. I’ve taken care of myself and M and been sleeping alot. When I am not sleeping, I have been working on editing the next chapter of LotR. See, when I work on that one, I need to have as many source material open and double check myself….A L O T. All before I hand it off to the Beta for her to wave her magic wand and make it readable, as well as a second pair of eyes to check that I didn’t fuck up the universe.
Which makes me wonder what I am thinking since I am going to be taking that universe and take it for a spin with some other characters. That belong there. Yeah. It makes sense in my head.
Plus with all that, I am having issues with writing things. I want to work on something. I am bored. But I feel like I have pressure on me to edit, so I can eventually write.
I am setting a timer on this post. Why? I want to reward all my ladies in the Kittyinaz’s group chat on Facebook. They have been my cheering section this week, so I have let them know the chapter is live.
So for all those wondering, Eric appears in this chapter.
And I have to tell you that you cannot kill me for the ending. If you do so, the last beta’d chapter will not be released, and you will not ever get to read it!!! And I promise you, you will want to read it.
Also, due to feeling bad about one story that I soooo want to continue, in response to a review, I left a huge ass teaser in it. In fact, it is everything I have written so far. Have fun finding it.
Yeah, it ain’t the greatest title for a post, but you knew there was a chapter of Clocks right?
So.. Interesting things happened last week and yesterday.
First is on Friday I went up and saw my newest Jacob who is finally home with grandma (who is his great grandma!). He is so tiny next to all the ones we have had lately. And of course, I love him just as much as all the others.
I found out that if I take more than 2 days to edit a chapter, I need to give myself a break. Work on something else. For me, I watch a movie in my head of what I write down for you guys. Imagine watching it over and over and over. Not so much right? Especially one small piece of it? That is what was happening to me on Edge. I had to walk away so I can come back to it after I work on something else. Otherwise I just stare at it now… And there are a lot of details that make the chapter richer, that I need to write in and look over…
The other thing was I complained of a headache last night and Hubby (otherwise known as M) started mouthing off how I had a headache every day. It bugged me as I lay down and then it came to me, See my iPad still had that corner popping up, and I pressed down one day to pop it back in, and it cracked the screen. and will not work now… so I have been reading on my iPhone 5. Needless to say, the print is very tiny. So M gave me his iPad (which is the first one and was mine at the beginning) and I gave him mine to fix for himself. He never uses his as much as I do. Now we wait with baited breath to see if I can get a new one, and especially a new phone. Mine needs charging sometimes 3 times a day…. It’s old…
So what does this mean? For now, a chapter a week to update at least. If I know I have one for the next week and one comes up done, then I will publish it. Sorry. The old pace was when I got alot of editing done and sent to the betas. I’m trying, but I am also trying not to stress myself out. That would be bad.
Also it will help if I stop hurting myself and doing stuff. But hey… at least I am trying!!!!
Here is your chapter courtesy of the most wonderful beta MistressJessica1028!!!!
Enjoy, and also, welcome to all our new members of the Kittyinaz’s Facebook group!
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