And I am now Back!

And I am now Back!

First off, I would like to reuse a gif.  It fits how I feel right now!

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Replace that we’re to I’m!  Holy cow!!!  I didn’t expect to win anything much less any of these!!!!!

I get the idea you guys REALLY liked All I Want.  I will promise you this, if nothing else, I will write it when I am back in Tucson this winter!  I am going for about the same amount of time that I did two years ago, and it inspired the first one… I am truly blown away that you guys picked it as first place!!! Over my favorites even!!!  I am truly blessed!!!

And then to win second place in Otherworld, and 3rd for Romance?!?!?  Thanks!!!!

Finally there is You’re!!!  I get the idea!! I will be working on that as soon as I can!!!

Truly….  I did this when I read through the awards this morning:

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I would truly like to congratulate the following ladies, My very own 4Padfoot, Bertie Bott, Meridian, Mommy4Thomas. Then these FANTASTIC ladies who I count as friends: Dr Harleen Frances Quinzel, California Kat, hisviks, and The Darkest Falling Star. Then these ladies I follow their sites: CaraNo, Morggy, and chicpea, You ladies rock!!!

The vacay was awesome.  I spent the time with my mother in law, and we (including M) went all over Houston.  She had been here on a convention for Emergency services.  And she was quite amazed by our cities readiness.

And of course they had a laugh on TS Bill at the convention.  I told you he was a joke.

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Huge reminder, the Fairy Tales contest is ending at midnight tomorrow.  Get your entries in.  This means on the first, I will be busy making the banners for each entry.  Once that is done, then 4Padfoot needs to set up the polls and so on.   We try to get them out to you as quickly as possible.

So while I was gone, I would hit up wifi spots to reblog things.  I kept seeing something that I had done good in the Fanatic Fanfics, but I didn’t look it up.  As it was, trying to explain that I really feel like my muse is not me, and how I often don’t know the ending to my own stories, until it is written.  And how there was all these little clues I scattered into the story without knowing and so on, well let’s just say its a good thing my Mother in Law knows me so well, or I would be in a white coat this morning.

It is really hard to explain it to someone who has no idea.  M even tried to explain it.  He made more sense, but he told me it was a little more out there than most would think.  But his description?  My subconscious is my muse…   If so, the little bitch needs to behave even more!!!!

So I squealed, then tried to explain it.  And gave up.   She supports me 100% but doesn’t really understand.  I can deal with that.

While this past week came about, I got two new Cousins, (Nephews).  To be clear, I have 3 normal Nephews. As in they are my nephews because 2 are my brothers, and 1 is my sister in laws.  However, because of how close the real family used to be, I was raised with my cousins being closer than cousins.  So all the current babies call me Aunt Wendy.  And M has a butchered name, but it is accepted by all of us.  They have slowly made it into fics.  I have Riley, need to add Evan and the new ones into it.

One of them was Korbin, which came first.  And then came Noah.  Noah was special….

About 3 years ago my Grandfather died of Alzheimer’s.  That had started my year of bad luck, since Bear died, and then the following year is when my dad died as well as my mom being diagnosed with Breast Cancer.   It is what made me go to Tucson for a month and half to get away from everything.  And what led to AIW being written.

But my grandfather’s birthday would have been yesterday.  And Noah, after much pain for mom, came into the world in the last hour possible to make it a day we still celebrate, just with joy and slight sadness for the man who had the birthday first.  What a way to honor him…

I am meandering alot this day, sorry!  But being on vacation means that the slight control I had over the muse, is gone.  Which is good since I have alot I need to get done!

The review for this week from Non-canon Awards is the following:

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It truly is an awesome story, and if you follow her on her site, you get updates one day earlier!!!

There should be more stuff to tell you, but I am completely lost if there are!!! There should be an update of a story this week.  No Promises, since The betas have RL and they have to get back into gear like me!!!

Oh yeah!!!

Stormy!!! She is out and about the house.  The dogs watch her every step, but she loves it.  Here is a pic for you to aww over like I did when I took it.

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C-ya later!

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Happy Monday

Happy Monday

Vacation

I am officially not here.  Nope, this post is your imagination…

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My vacation is here, and as of Saturday, I was bored to death!  Seriously.  Alot of it has to do with sleep. Not much of that going on lately, between the heat and the kitten.  Since she likes to sleep on me, it doesn’t help…

There is the normal review for you guys:

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Then there is the reminder that the writing contest is ending in a week and a day.  I am soo looking forward to reading you guys work!  And making the banners for you guys. It will keep Stormy all entertained for however it takes.

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As for me?  I am going to do whatever I like.  I think today I am going to play computer games since it is too hot in the rest of the house.  We are waiting for the bonuses to get a new AC unit, that is desperately needed.  Since this room houses the computer not only for me, but my mom, I have worked to make it the coolest room in the house.  The AC blows in here first (not that that actually helps all that much but hey every little bit!) has the best ceiling fan, on my end there is a fan on the tower itself, and a fan on the credenza behind me.  There is a 5 degree difference from the rest of the house and there is a 5 degree difference from the actual temperature in the house and the hallway, which is where the temp is at.  It says it is 78 right now.. it aint….  You can feel the difference walking through the house…  The AC we have is for the front of the house, but when they added the rest of the house on, they forgot to upgrade the AC unit.

So yuck.  Even the dogs are like OFFICE IS OPEN!!! REPEAT.. the OFFICE is OPEN!!!!   It sounds like a stampede when I open the door.  They are now under my desk, be all happy and crap.

Also remember, there is a coming soon ribbon on the home page.  It has been updated.  I am missing one banner, and that is for All I Want’s sequel.  But all the rest of the coming soons are there…  It may be nothing more than a banner and a description, but it is more than what you had before!!!   There is a sequel in there that the name has been shown….

There are all sorts of goodies 4Padfoot is adding to the site.

And I do have to say THANK YOU for the ladies helping out on the database…  It truly is a weight off me to not worry on it.  I already did an export to give to 4Padfoot, for her new site she is making… She teases me with snapshots… I cannot wait to see it completed or out where I can play with it!

Congrats to the winners of the You Want Blood Awards New Blood!!!! I am thrilled for all of you!!

I am looking forward to seeing what the results of the Fanatic Fanfiction awards.   I am hoping that the people I voted for win!!!!  And yet again, thanks for getting me into the final round… It truly was an honor to be there!

I think that is everything. If I did forget something, I am sooo sorry.

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TS Bill Lived Up to His Name…

TS Bill Lived Up to His Name…

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A joke.  A huge big ass joke.  Unfortunately, it looks like the rest of the nation in its path is supposed to get flooding rains.  I hope that Bill is again his normal self, a media hype of a big fat nothing.

Seriously.  They had us thinking that this was to happen:

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Which don’t get me wrong, that really happened a couple of weeks ago.  But for us because of Bill?  Not so much.  The above pic explains it all. And that was more damage than I got!

But it was an enjoyable day to spend with MamaKitty as she worked from home that day.  We had her special blend of tea, and worked on stuff.  Or she worked.  I had alot of other things going on, including attack kitty.

Seriously.  Morgan nor any of my other cats were this bad.. I seriously look like I got into a fight with a weedwacker, and lost.  Before, I could have won… but not anymore.  I won’t show you the damage.  Stormy is earning it’s name.

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So innocent of a face isn’t it.  But I am glad I have it.  (No we STILL cannot tell what it is.  Could be a boy.. could be a girl.  But the name is Stormy, it answers to it now).  Stormy though can stand up for itself against the dogs.  Not enough for us not to be standing over the dogs to check on it, but Stormy thinks she defeats the dogs and hates being in the bedroom now.  Escape artist is that one!

Ok for the meat for today.  The contest!!!

As I have told you guys before.  I only give the places up to 4th depending on the entries.  With 3 entries there is only one place to give.  But the contest and the stories were awesome!!! There was only a few votes between the places!  Great job to all the contestants!

The first place goes to:

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Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!  I look forward to reading more of it!

Click on the banner above to see who wrote what, or wait for it to come through the carousel below:

I have been working.  And last night.. PS 2015 happened.  I will be going through it, (they have more options for my favorite feature, shadows!) and looking through Lynda.com.  I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn anything.  They have everything from Office, to WordPress, GIMP and Photoshop and so on.  It’s videos and its done by experts of their fields.  Anything you can imagine, if it is a program, they have it.  MamaKitty heard the new PS video explaining all the fun things you can do say there is more on that site, and she gave me her access to it.  She has it for CAD which is what she does, and she has recently been watching it for OneNote.

I found Access classes, (my specialty, yes I really have one!  I built many for my old workplace, that made mine and their lives easier..Until I was gone and they couldn’t get them to work if they broke them… ::insert evil laughter::) and WordPress.  I am going to see if they have my theme and so on.  I am also going to look at the classes for Lightroom and anything my heart thinks to play with.  I also was trained in CAD and loved to make 3D objects.

Hi, my name is Kittyinaz and I am a Nerd/Geek.  Whichever you want to use since they both apply to me.

I am waiting for stuff to get back to me.  Betas have real lives, shockingly.  And most of mine now write and beta for others on top of that. Nothing has been abandoned.  It’s stuck between me and them. 90% of the time it is me.  I hold things up, and work them over again and again.

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Don’t forget this month’s contest!  As well as anyone who is part of Better in Texas, they are hosting their own contest.  There is Bertie Bott, Mommy4Thomas, 4Padfoot, as well as Harleen up for the running.  It is only open to members, but if you are one, please get over there and look into it.

I am off to take GrandmaKitty to the Physical Therapy place.  And then she is treating M and I to dinner for all the running around we do for her.  I refuse to take the gas money.  This is her way of contributing.  For us, it is time to spend with her.  Which is more valuable than anything else.

Oh yeah!! Next week we are all off!!! If I get a chance to post I will.  And.. my tea came in.. So I will be here tomorrow with cuppa and working… Gotta love the tea.  Thanks for using my link for Amazon to pay for it.  And M for agreeing to add to the fund to make sure I can keep up the subscription.

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Wow.  Just holy freaking wow…

Wow. Just holy freaking wow…

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You guys freaking rock!!!  Seriously!  I really didn’t hold out any hope that I would make it through the first round of voting.  Let’s face it.  I was going against the best of our fandom, and my little stories?  Not a chance I thought.

And you guys voted for me.  OMG.  Tears!!!!!!!   Or as Royal Ember says to me often.. *Clenches Pearls*  Truly.  Thank you so much.  I am so overwhelmed it aint funny!!!!  My mind keeps going: ‘OMG Oh My Freaking GOD!!!!  They actually voted for me!!!!  OMG!!!!!’  And the same strain of thoughts…  You get the idea…

Ok.. I need to wrench my brain to what needs to be done today…

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So.. Yeah.  Today!!!!

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Today is the last day to get those votes in for the monthly Writing challenge.

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Voting for the second part of the Fanatic Fanfics is on right now.  Good luck to all the ladies!! Some of the ones I am aware of is 4Padfoot, Gyllene, Meridian, Bertie Bott, Mommy4Thomas, The Darkest Falling Star, Ellie Wolf, Sephrenia, Dr Harleen Frances Qunizel, hisviks, kjwrit, Cuinawen, Morggy, ElfChef, Better In Texas, California Kat, dream7me7to7sleep, Queen of Area 5 and I am sure I am forgetting people. The SVM/TB section is as follows:

All-Time Favorite True Blood Fanfic

Addicted To Love by BonTempsBaby
All I Want by Kittyinaz
Come Back to Me by California Kat
Eric Northman: After the Show by Meridian
Keep Me by dream7me7to7sleep
Lifting the veil by Queen of Area 5
Lover’s Amnesia by gyllene
The Moon by Meridian
The Un-iverse Trilogy: Uninvited by California Kat
Twisted and Turned by ElfChef

See I forgot BonTempsBaby.  Told you I would forget someone..

So please vote.  We have lots of ladies in other areas, let’s show how awesome our fandom is, and how we get behind our authors!  (And betas – some of the ladies are my betas, and they freaking rock!)

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There is today’s review over at the NonCanon Awards:

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It’s a one shot, but so very good!!!!

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Also, if you like reviews, please go over to Kelpie’s Corner.  She is the one who helped me out to start these. As the original and awesome reviewer, you should see who she recs!

Don’t forget the other contests out there.  The Better in Texas one is for members only awards. Click on the banner that interests you!!!!

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As for me, I didn’t get much done in writing, I did get one chapter done for HP, but I will try this weekend.  I am starting on Clocks, which will be interesting.  I also have demands of my betas and prereaders for more Sacred.  Seems I made a monster there!

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Also, a heads up.  Next week, everyone is off.  I have family coming in to visit.  So I am going to busy, and as always, if I am off, then all my betas are too.  If I get a chance, I will drop a line to let you guys know I am still alive.

They voted for ME!!!!!   So freaking awesome.  Unbelievable.  OMG!!!!!!

In addition, I live in the Houston area.  Specifically, between Houston and Galveston.  There is a Tropical whatever coming in.  It is to be named Bill.  Enough said?  But basically I am in for alot of rain.  Even if it hits where they think it will, lower on the coastline, we are on what is called the dirty side.  Lots and lots of rain.  Last night it was forcasted 10′  Now they are saying:

The current forecast calls for heavy rain from the disturbance to start moving in around 4 a.m. Tuesday into the afternoon. Wherever it makes landfall, we’ll see buckets of rainfall that will likely lead to severe street flooding in areas with 6-8 inches falling around Houston and up to 10-15 inches in areas to the west. South of Houston—near Dickinson, Santa Fe and League City—the ground is still saturated after heavy rains hit Saturday morning, dropping seven inches in parts

Let me tell you.. I am in one of those cities.  And you guys heard me when I posted last time we are flooding, we just got rid of most of the water yesterday.  I am so glad to be in a raised beam house, in the best drainage district in all of Galveston County.  The other side of the road was the dividing line, and they had water everywhere.

If I am late tomorrow with posting the results, you know why.  It will be interesting to say the least.  It is NOT a hurricane.  It is only a storm, but dropping alot of water on a city area already soaked.  For some reason, my wishing isn’t moving this crap to CA.  They need it.  We don’t.  Though.. If the rain wants to push all the State Birds called Mosquitoes away, I would be thrilled.

SQEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am off to run Grandma to appointments.

Enjoy!

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A post on Saturday?

A post on Saturday?

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Yep..

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I am just giving a heads up that there is voting going on for the YOu Want Blood New Blood awards.  Go over and vote for your favorite new author.

Right now, I am trying to wake up.  Bad, BAD storm this morning and it finally stopped raining.  When I was asked to get up and lock the doggie door, there was water in the yard standing enough to cover the paws and a ways up the dogs.  Connor was soaked.  The floor before the doggie door was standing puddles.  Our yard was flooded, which we don’t unless it is bad.  The neighbors across the street, well they are still under inches maybe a foot of water.

So glad I live in a raised beam house.  For those that don’t know, that means my house sits on what looks like cinder blocks a couple feet off the ground.  It is not a mobile home, but a house.  The front part of my house was built after the 1912 storm in Galveston.  It is also thought to keep the house cooler during the warm months with the air moving underneath.  Most of the times, it is a pain in the ass, but when it floods, it is a blessing.  And since it has survived many a hurricane, we are fine with it.

And then we have the fun of weather in Texas.  Yesterday, with AC running all day it was 80 in the house.  Today the AC is off right now, and I have turned off a fan in the office.  And people wonder why I want to go back to AZ.  Weather there is so much nicer!!!

So all this is to tell you, I have a try at a photoshop that someone requested, then I am going to work on Heavenly chapters.  Yes, you heard it, I wrote one last night.  Then I spent the rest of the time thinking of what else I need to hit up to finish this book.  There will be a total of 6 books in this one, and as time goes by, the original HP series will be departed from.  I already had a bunch of stuff I could cross off the list for CoS. I am hoping to get it finished or at least close to this weekend.  Then Monday I will be back to work on editing.

Right now, I am going to make my cups of tea, then I am getting to work.  I have laundry, then Stormy will be with me today while I work.

C-Ya!  And don’t forget to vote!

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