I want to cry

Ugh. Tonight was crap. Work was super busy, so I was running around a lot. And then I had a giveaway itch, so I entered a crazy amount of giveaways and didn't get anything read. I'm supposed to review Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton on Saturday. ...I don't see that happening. And, AND!, I have WAY too many books to read. I honestly never thought I'd complain about that. But my TBR bookshelf is completely full (and starting to bend in the middle from the weight), and it's spilling onto my desk and inside my car. And then I go and enter all these giveaways? What's wrong with me?

I think I have a problem.

In better news, I might be going to a Sci-Fi convention with my mom on Saturday. William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorin, Christopher Lloyd, Brent Spiner, and Tom Felton will be there signing things! I really hope we can go and I can meet Tom Felton. I have a 'he's too young for me but I don't care because he has a British accent and is super cute' crush on him. My mom wants to get all the Star Trek cast members. So... there's that.

Oh! And I get my Kindle tomorrow! Yay!!!! I'm super excited about it! I'll be able to read galleys on it, which will be great since I get too distracted reading online. The interwebs are not a good place for a person who likes shiny things (see: blog's profile pic).

I started writing RG again, which was really nice. I've been too busy this week to do anything with it, but I have high hopes I'll finish the whole thing by the end of the year. What a relief that will be.

As of right now I'm reading: Angelfire (see above), The Passage by Justin Cronin, and Nevermore by Kelly Creagh.

Up next: Delirium by Lauren Oliver, Rage by Jackie Morse Kessler, and Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink, plus several manga volumes!

I won a book!

That's my big news of the week. I won a copy of Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Kowel from Cecelia Bedelia, who is now my best friend even though she doesn't know it yet. (Not in a stalkerish way, I swear.) I just genuinely love people who give me free books. I enter about ten giveaways a week, it seems, but I never expect to win one.

Also, I finally finished The Angel Experiment by James Patterson. It's the first of the Maximum Ride series. It was.. alright. Definitely intended for children, though. I'm not going to read the rest of the books since I have far too many others waiting on my bookshelf.

I've been working on something new. A short story from the Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance kind of inspired me to do something a little different. I don't know if it'll go anywhere, but when the mood strikes to write, I have to go with it. Otherwise I might lose it altogether and then the lynch mob of RG readers will find me. *grimace* (I'm working on it, I promise! ...don't hurt me.)

Until next time, stay classy blog readers.

April?? WTH?

When did April sneak up and kick me in the ass? Not cool, April. Our friendship is over. No more enjoying your showers or looking for Easter eggs for us. We're done. You're supposed to at least let your 'friends' know when you're coming, not just show up and crash the party. Did you lose my cell number or something?

Besides my anger at April, life is... eh. Work, boyfriend, reading, podcast, occasionally writing, trying to find a balance between all that and keeping up with my friends - the list can go, but I'll stop there.

I finished Chapter 16 of 'I've Been Looking For You'. Now I'm just waiting for vjgm to validate it so I can post it over on FFn. Also working on Chapter 12 of 'Resident Geek' and outlining my Twilight Gift Exchange story so I can start working on that in between my other stuff. (Dear lord, why do I agree to more?)

We recorded episode 12 for the podcast this past Saturday, and it should be out soon. I'm really excited about this week's subject cuz we're FINALLY talking about slash! (One of my favorite subjects. Hah!)

The boyfriend's camping, starting tonight. I'm going to have three blissful nights to myself! (You'd understand that excitement if you lived with someone and you value your personal space every once in a while.) I'm hoping those nights will be spent writing and catching up with everything I need to do.

Here's to hoping!

Thank God That's Over

I finally finished writing Chapter 11 for Resident Geek. It's being looked over right now by my DnD expert, Dollegirl, and my beta, Jen, so hopefully it'll get back to me sometime tonight or tomorrow and then I'll post it for public viewing.

Personally, I'm just glad it's written. I learned so much about DnD and now I have no outlet to use it. It's kind of frustrating. I want to play just so I can use my newfound knowledge, but I certainly don't need another thing to become addicted to.

Rock, hard place.

I'm going to be taking a break for the rest of the week after I post from writing. I need a break. Besides, I've got awesome Saturday plans with my parents and boyfriend, and then the podcast to record on Sunday. And I might be the one editing it together if Caitlin is too busy with school and the play she's working on. Eek.

Later.

RG Love

So... my big news is that Resident Geek was nominated for the 'Edward you wish was your boyfriend' Bellie of the new Twilight awards, the Eddies and Bellies.

You can check out my reaction to the news in the 8th episode of the Temptation podcast. I still grin uncontrollably every time I think about it.

Let's see. What else...

I'm slowly writing the next RG chapter. But I accidentally stumbled into a new series of books from Laurell K. Hamilton, which I already read one of her series, the Anita Blake one. I started the Meredith Gentry series and just finished book 7 this morning. This is the main reason why you haven't heard from me in a while. A book or so a day takes up a lot of time. ...not that this is news to me since I've read a lot since the day I figured out what the alphabet was.

That's about all I got.

Holy Headache, Batman

I'm getting sick.

Gah!

I can feel my nasal passageway closing by the second and the headache that won't die pounding away between my temples. And what really sucks about all of this? I have to pull a 10 hour work day tomorrow.

Anyone want to trade places?

On the RG front, I found and downloaded a copy of the Player's Handbook and I'm slowly making my way through it. I have to stop every five pages or so because my head starts hurting too much. (Partly from the headache and partly because D&D is too damn confusing when you first start out.) I just thank my lucky stars that I played WoW for as long as I did and can understand the basic jest of it right away. It's the little things that drive me up a wall. Like, the three basic principles from which all over rules stem from. One) Simple rules, many exceptions. Meaning, there may be a rule that says you can't learn advanced sword skills without first learning basic skills, BUT if you're a... whatever you may innantely know advanced sword skills. Two) Specific rules beat generic rules. Basically, if there's a rule that says you can't use a power when it's charging and you have a specific rule on your arcane blast that says you can. Then you can. Three) Always round down with fractions. (This one I'm actually fine with.)

It's freakin' principles one and two that make my head spin.

So... what they're trying to say is anything can go, as long as you keep track of it and know when you can break the rules.

Which is confusing as hell to me.

Rules are rules, people. You're not supposed to have so many damn exceptions to every rule. If you do, then they shouldn't be called RULES. They should be called guidelines.

...I may feel a little strongly about this, in case you couldn't tell.

Anyhoo, the chapter is inching along. I think I'm going to focus on IBL4Y whenever I get stuck on something for RG and have to wait for Dolle to get back to me.

Oh, and the seventh episode of the podcast is up. (The one where I get interviewed. Egads!) We got some awesome graphics up on the page now. Makes us seem more legit.

I'm going to kill my internet

I swear, I am. It keeps dipping in and out. About every five seconds, it looses connection. And then gets it back. And this just keeps happening, over and over and over... and over.

GRR.

VERY frustrating.

I even tried to overcome this crappy internet connection by going to Panera Bread to use their free internet for the podcast episode recording. But Panera Bread failed me. Apparently they kill their wireless around their 'busy time' (ie, lunch time) to make the freebie lurkers move on.

Double GRR.

And I'm not kidding or exaggerating. My internet connection died while I typed this up.

Yeah... not cool.

I've been writing a little of RG's next chapter. It's pretty slow going because every new paragraph brings five to ten questions with it that I have to ask Dollegirl (my D&D expert). And there's a certain scene that comes along later in the story which will not get out of my head, so I had to write it all down. Very unusual for me to write an entire scene like that outside of the story sequence.

The boyfriend's out of town today. I miss him. *sigh*

Anyhoo, that's all I've got.

RG Updated!

Yeah, I know. I was shocked too when I finally finished a chapter.

The response I got in the last 18 hours astounds me. I am literally astounded.

Right. Now.

I started working on the next chapter. It's kind of slow going since every two minutes I come upon yet something else I have no idea about and have to email Dollegirl with a buttload of questions. (And in case you were wondering, a buttload is more than a load, but less than a boatload.)

Eek

I forgot to post the last two days. My bad.

So, we recorded a new episode of the podcast. It's up and everything. We had a special guest on: withthevampsofcourse! She's rock awesome and I love her to death.

Also, I've been working on the next chapter of RG and I'm almost done with the pre-edited version. Just two more steps to go through and you'll get a new update!

Caitlin was interviewed for the Twilighters Anonymous Podcast and she briefly talks about our favorite fanfictions and plugs our podcast. Her interview is in the first part, near the end. Check it out.

That's all I got. Later.

Ugh

Worked a little on RG last night and stupidly agreed to work today.

GRR.

I don't know what I was thinking. I hate working on the weekends. It always makes me cranky.

But, I guess it's better to get overtime than to lay around and do nothing.

Umm... let me rephrase that, I wish I was laying around and doing nothing rather than getting overtime.

Laziness Is Next To Procrastination

Hold the phone, ladies and gentlemen.

I actually wrote some of RG last night.

I know, it's shocking. But I'm sure you guys will be able to handle it.

Really, that's all I got. I was boring yesterday and did pretty much... nothing but work. Bah.

Okay, laters.

Well, Hello There

I'm trying this fancy 'blogging' thing out. I had a blog for a couple of years in college, but gave it up after a while from... well, from lack of caring about posting.

But this one is going to be different.

This is my fanfic/RL blog, where you'll be able to find out what's going on with me and what I'm focusing on writing. This way it won't seem like I've forgotten y'all from the month to month updates I post.

...and maybe the number of PMs asking me if I've abandoned whichever story you follow will decrease as well.

So, here we go.

Right now, I'm working on the next chapter (#15) of 'I've Been Looking For You'. It's going to be titled 'Funeral', so its content should be pretty much self-explanatory.

Also, I'm randomly adding to the next (and final) chapter of 'Happy Birthday to Me' whenever the mood strikes me. It'll be a rather long chapter because I have a couple of things to address. And no, it's not all going to be smut.

And lastly, I'm writing 'Resident Geek' when I can't add anything useful to the ones above.

Between those three, I'm also working full-time, trying to maintain my relationship with the boyfriend, co-hosting a podcast, and finding the time to beta the stories I've agreed to take on. (Now, hopefully, you see why it might take me a while to post something new.)

That's all for now.

Later!