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Congratulations!!

A hearty Congrats to fiareynne. A Cause Worth Dying For (the story that started championverse), is  a winner for The Day in the Life Award at the Rerun awards! Let us all give her a round of applause!

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Happy Birthday

To wide_rider. May it be Giles filled and fun.

Misc stuff and GIP

Because tx_cronopio asked her flist to post something, so here is my contribution.

Not much actually going on. Have been out today, walking around. Need to be exercising my bad knee more, it is starting to swell a little again. Fun. Of course the cooling weather is doing nothing to help. 

Haven't been doing much writing. Am convinced that anything I do write will be angsty drivel. Well that and I think my muse is hiding. Too much going on in RL to really concentrate. It will come when it comes. *sighs* But on the bright side I did do a little bit of an outline for “Healing”, that's the Xander/Buffy/Wesley crackfic. Just kinds of mapping out what I want to do, where I want it to go, the plot points I already had in my head that I want to reach. Maybe that will help stir the muse some.

GIP, because I realized that I had no Giles/Xander icons. Now I have two. So yay!

That is all. Have a good Thursday everyone.

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Oooh, shiny!

I'm nominated! 

Reflections and Revelations has been nominated for the fourth round of The White Knight Awards. I am very happy. I am really proud of this story, so this is really wonderful.

Also congrats to my braintwin and birthday sister, fiareynne who is also nominated.

There are still plenty of spaces that need to be filled, so if there is a Xander-centric story you've enjoyed, make another author's day by nominating it, here. Make sure you read all the rules for nominating. There is plenty of time, nominations don't close until November 26.

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Randomeness (for I am bored)

I celebrated earlier about having finished my story for maleslashminis, which is always yay. But that is a reincarnation of my first attempt. My second attmept was set aside for having something that the person requesting didn't want. But I still like the story, or the idea behind it. It's about halfway done, or maybe almost done, not sure yet. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in reading it when it was done. Comment and let me know.

I love having a husband who cooks. Now that's not to say I don't/can't cook. I do and can, he just does it better. And tonight he totally rocks. Why? Because he indulged my British heritage (my mom is a Brit) and made me toad in the hole and bubble and squeak. What are those you ask?

My cats are being uber cuddly of late. I think they know something is going on and are wanting extra love and attention. Not that I mind. Who doesn't love a warm, purring cat in their lap? 

That is all, here ends the randomness.

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Finished, yay!

So I finished my story for maleslashminis, yay! Sent to it to beta, antennapedia said it worked as is, yay! I always love it when I finish things early. Yes, I am one of *those* people. *grins*

Now if only my other writing was going as well. I'm not sure how much time I will have for it, with all the RL stuff that is going on, but I will try and squeeze a little in here and there. But hopefully once everything is settled, I can get back into the swing of things.

Well that's it really, for now. I hope everyone has a good Monday.

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In Memorium

Today would have been the 70th birthday of one of my childhood heroes, Jim Henson. (Hell I still admire him.) 

I grew up watching Sesame Street, the Fraggles, the Muppet Show. I adore the Dark Crystal, The Muppet Movie, etc. 

Jim's genius was unparralled. I remember hearing of his death and my heart breaking. And although his legacy lives on through his work and is continuing to blossom thanks to his son, it's just not the same. His creations featured prominently in my childhood and helped shape who I am today. The world is a better, brighter, happier place for his work. I hope that everyone will take a moment to mourn the loss of a incredibly wonderful man. I know I will before I put on one of the Muppet movies in a celebration of his life.

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Update of situation for yesterday

Well it looks like witihin the next two weeks we'll be moving in with my parents. 

There is just no way we'll be able to keep the house. I'm saddened by this turn of events, but I realize it's probably for the best. As much as I was growing to love this house, it has its faults and we're probably better off leaving it. And with any luck we won't ahve to stay with my parents for very long, a few months at the longest. It will be hard, but we'll survive. And I know my son will love be around my mom and baby sister (who still lives at home) every day. 

We've found the best deal on a storage unit, made a list of everything that will be going with us and everything that will be stored. We've started making arrangements for my son to transfer schools, even told him that we were moving. He was a little sad that he would miss his friends, will probably be more so once we actually move. But we told him he would make new friends and he asked if any of them would be pretty, *sighs* out of the mouths of babes. 

We're still looking for places for our cats to go. Barry can come with us, he's a single room kind of cat. He's been living in our bedroom for over a year and shown no signs of ever wanting to leave, so we think he'll be okay.  We may have found a place for our other two male cats, Fred and Garf, I'm crossing my fingers for that. We were really worried about them. A little less so about our two females, Olivia and Coke, we've been trying to find places for them for a long time now. So anyone want a cat? Or know someone who wants a cat?

I'm guarenteed internet acess through at least the 2nd, so I'll try and keep everyone updated. After that it will be sketchy for about a week as to how much acess I have. But I will try to stop by every now and then because you guys are my Scoobies. You keep me going through the darkest of days.  I wish there was a way to thank each and every one of you who have offered kind words, kind thoughts and virtual shoulders to lean and cry on.  So for the moment I offer virtual *hugs* and my eternal gratitude for having you in my life.

Katy

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Writing and pr0n!

I was doing well first thing yesterday, churning out my story for maleslashminis until rl interuppted. And even thought the rl stuff was a bad thing, it turned out to be a good thing for the writing. After getting calm, I went back and checked the prompts and realized that the story was barely hitting two of them and showing no signs of hitting the third. So, it's out as a possibility for the comm, but it's good enough to keep for something else later. Good thing there's plenty of time yet to get it written and that I have other ideas that will better include the prompts. 

I want to give a quick public thanks to everyone who offered sympathy and virtual shoulders. 

But the day got better as I indulged in this e-mail rpg with fiaryenne. We were bad influences on one another and I sayed up until almost 6 this morning. But when you're writing pr0n you really don't want to stop. That's a sure fire way to make anyone feel better. So yay pr0n!! And yay for sleeping in til noon!!

That's really about all for now. Hope everyone has a good Friday!

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Mood swings

Amazing how one phone call can change a mood instantly. Just got a call from our, well, he's not exaclty our landord, but that's the best description for him. Hubby told me to expect his call, but I was hoping it would come once hubby was back home, so I wouldn't have to take it. Landlord's been exccedly patient and understanding about everything that's been going on. However, we had been hoping that by this point I would be getting piad again and our house payments would be caught up. (we are on a land contract). But sadly, that isn't going to happening. Landlord is still understanding and sorry about our predicament, but he may have no choice to issue us a notice by the 30th if something doesn't happen. I don't know exactly what it means, but I'm imaging it means we could lose the house.  We've been in this situation before, but we got a payment from worker's comp in time to stop it. I don't see that happening this time. I just want to scream and cry. But I'm not sure what good that would do.

If push came to shove, we could move in with my parents. But we have so much stuff and no where to put it all. And I have no idea what would happen to our cats, I can't see them getting along with my parent's dog. It would kill hubby to lose them, especially our oldest cat, Barry. Me too, a little. Plus there is the school factor for my son. Where he is right now is the best program for him, I have no idea how we would get him back and forth, because my parents live in a completly diffterent county. (Granted the drive is only 30 minutes, but it's still a different county.) 

I didn't want to write this, say anything. It seems like everyone on my flist is having problems of their own. But I had to do something, had to get it off my chest. And I figured if I can't write about my problems to my friends, who can I turn to? I wish you all the best in your situations just as I know you are all here for me. *HUGS*

Now I'm going to see if I can back into writing and let that get my mind off of other things. 

Katy

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