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.
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!
Yep, by midnight my time (or when I wake up as the ladies on Facebook have learned) the entries are due.
If you need an extension, contact Rissa and she will work with you. (You can’t contact me since I cannot know who is who.)
I had started this morning on working on Picking Down Clocks. Then I had to leave to run around. So now that I am back, I will go and see if I can grab the file that Mistress Jessica had told me about. That will complete the comments she had on the chapter, and then I can post it.
So yes, it will be posted tonight, since I will be home with the puppies. So yes, the house will be be on the Brandibur lock down, unless someone wants to try to take out the dogs and attack cats.
Yep, I’m fudged.
On the good news, I love coupons, that give me Apple Gift Cards. I got new music and I am THRILLED! I had only one more song (ok three but shhh) that I wanted. Click on the banner to be taken to the page that has the prompts listed as well as the rules and emails.
The Kittyinaz Christmas Prompt contest will be closing on Saturday, November 21st at midnight.
Here are the prompts:
Remember, you need to tell us which prompt you used, so we can tell the readers which one you are using. You can use more than one, and you can enter more than one time. There are no word limits, and every story that qualifies, will get a banner made by me.
Here are the rules and how to enter:
Must use prompt(s). Indicate the one you are using please.
Use fandoms I write it. (It can be one from a story upcoming also. Just ask if you don’t know, you can ask Rissa if you don’t want me to know!)
No letting anyone knowing which story is yours. If this is leaked, your story will be removed from the contest immediately.
If you submit, you can grab the Banner for Participating for the month. You will also receive a banner for the story you submit.
If explicit, you need to warn people in the title.
All entries must be received by kittyinazwritingchallenges@gmail.com by Midnight CST at the end of the 21st of November.
Truly!!! I feel so much lighter, and I actually woke up, checked my emails and got up without me needing to send out a call for help to get up. (Which Royal Ember, being the awesome friend she is, already sent me when she noticed me not up yet.)
And since writing was a bust last week, I am hoping this week will be better. I ended up playing games, and M came in and joined me yesterday. It’s interesting, since he is warlike, and I just want to build my cities. Playing together like we did allowed me to do what I like. It was freaking awesome.
So sorry I don’t have any updates where I am writing, but I will be trying to get to it this week.
Here are some reminders:
Shopping for Xmas present on Amazon? Please use my link. It costs you nothing and gives me a small percentage for going through my link. The money goes for paying for stuff for my writing, things like the storage online so I don’t have to worry about my hard drive being wiped out and losing everything. We have decided that those won’t come from the donations, but from Amazon.
And the Xmas prompt contest only has less than two weeks for the entries to be in! I am sooo looking forward to reading and making all the banners!
Just a reminder, there is a complete story here called Crossing the Fine Line. It is a TB fic, and taking off from after the Maenad attack. If you are wanting to read something, please read it. I know I didn’t build up anything for it, but it is complete stand alone fic.
And there are banners to pick up on the Adopt a banner page. Remember, they will be retired if they are from the year prior, and the page redone. So if you like the banner, but not the people, tell me and I can change it. I really don’t mind!
I’m off to puzzle why people are offended by a cup (thanks, Meridian and Royal Ember!) and try to catch up on anything I missed last week.
You guys freaking rock the Kaspar! Seriously. I told you about the donation button, and you replied.
Eight of you stepped forward, and seriously made 4Padfoot and I’s day. I know I was so shocked, I had dogs and a hubby running in here to find out what was going on when I realized what 4Padfoot was telling me.
When I told them, he couldn’t do anything more than blink. Then told me, my followers were more than awesome.
I have to disagree. You guys Are Freaking Awesome!!!!! Seriously!
And for this week, so much bad news has been piled on me, that this was sorely needed.
I cried.
You are the ones who helped on that. And if you guys continue, omg… I will be flabbergasted.
As for the site, it is as far as we can find, virus free, and malware free. We have implemented the proceeds of the donations so far to help speed up the site, and to put firewalls in place to prevent this.
Live and Learn people. Live and learn.
If they continue to come in, we will be adding more things to make the site better for you guys. Remember, this may be a ‘WordPress’ site, but we self-host it, and a lot of the goodies that you have through the WordPress site is not available free to us. However, the opposite is true that you couldn’t have the donation or the ads I do have on the site.
Up until now, we have been paying a lot of it out of pocket. So we were limited on what we could do, but this may open up a lot of opportunities. To look for options that 4padfoot has passed by since they cost money, now we can implement them to make the site load up for your on your mobiles easier.
And for those of you still using the link to shop Amazon (Click above for the full link), you are still helping us out!!! We didn’t realize it wouldn’t be as much, but we are still planning to use that money to help defray costs that we have been implementing. In other words, in no way are we using any of it for profit. We are using it all for the site, and things to do with the writing process. it is all non-profit.
While I did go in to get What If ready, I realized that the beta didn’t get that one done. Sorry!!! I did get the Revelation’s chapter ready for those of you who read that. There are a lot of changes going on for it.
Also, don’t miss out on the Christmas Prompts contest!!!! I am soo looking forward to seeing what you guys have in store, and a little birdy told me that some have inspired authors to write more than one entry. Yes, you CAN do that. Remember, these contests are to help people to write!! So enter. You get a banner no matter what, and who knows, you may have bragging rights!!!! The more entries, the more places we do.
Other than that, I have no idea what else to put on here. Just a huge thank you. Seriously. You people have made one worry go away, and it was so needed. Hopefully, other things will continue to help out and we will get out of this rut, and I will be off to AZ to help get my levels normal.
And to write!
PS. Thank you to everyone for your help!!! seriously!
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