So I finally got a kitty. She’s about 2 and a half years old and is a tuxedo cat. She’s been with us for about a week and a half. She’s a sweetie pie but still kind of skittish. She loves M, but me she sort of thinks I’m going to murder her LOL. Anyway it will get better.
I am not 100% sure I’ll have a fic up this week on here as I worked on Do You Love Me for AO3. I’ll try but no promises.
Just to keep everyone up to date.
If you follow my stories on AO3, I have temporarily put Beauty and the Beast on hiatus. Likely won’t get back to it until after the new year. I’m not sure what I am doing next with it and rather than stress myself out forcing a chapter I’m not prepared to write, I put it aside for now. It’s not abandoned.
I updated The Wrong Captain. I am going a slightly different direction in that story than I think I wanted to originally but it’s just evolved this way and I’m going with it. I am actually liking it more than I had been for a while so I think it’s the right choice.
I’m madly working on one of my advent stories I claimed and I think it’s going very well. I had claimed one related to the Great Bakeoff show in Britain because I love that show but I don’t actually think I have time for it and I’m already signed up to do two other stories by the same requestor so I think I’m good to drop it.
Don’t have another update on the ChessMaster and TooSexy yet but probably early next week.
As I think I mentioned I have a Halloween flash scheduled for here on Halloween and it’s exclusive to the blog. And I mean that.
Once I get the three stories I am still claiming for Advent (and it’s not anonymous so you could see the ones I claimed) finished, I’ll get cracking on my own holiday story.
I am enjoying my break from flashes!
I am working on the next chapter for Welcome to the Enterprise but I don’t want to rush it or force it so I likely won’t have it up until the earlish part of next week. Then the only other WIP I need to update for January is You Say, which will come after WTE.
Update on Kitchen Situation: Got an estimate way way less than the first one (using very cheap material of course) and it is likely that is the one the insurance will approve and pay for, but the HOA insurance is coming to do their assessment today to see if there is anything they will pay for. So hopefully we will get to the point they actually START putting our kitchen in. It’s now more than 2 months. We are beyond tired of it, obviously.
Just a few teensy updates
I am working on the next chapter of Welcome to the Enterprise so I hope to have it done early to mid-week for posting.
I’ll have another h/c up wednesday. I think it might be TOS OMS but we shall see. Bombay updates Friday.
After this week, I’ll have two h/c flashes up for the last week of March.
Not sure what’s in store for April yet.
So I managed to not get Covid from my trip a while back to Pechanga so that’s a plus. But this weekend is my great niece’s 4th birthday party. My niece and her husband just moved back to So Cal from Nor Cal and they bought a very nice house in a place called Rancho Cucamonga. Anyway, it’s only family being invited but that thing is everywhere isn’t it?
M’s sister lives in ND and her husband just got diagnosed with it (not to be confused with M’s half sister who also lives in ND whose husband died of Covid in November). He’s miserable but mostly okay with his biggest complaint being his back pain from it. She has tested negative so far.
This is their cat, Mr. Kitty
Don’t be fooled by that cute face. He’s a serial killer of mice and rabbits.
Speaking of cats, here is ours, in her pampered pink blanket she loves
Tomorrow is the last flash for January (I know Monday is January but I explain that in tomorrow’s flash post).
Otherwise, we keep plugging along here. I don’t remember if I mentioned M being laid off last February (got a new job in June) but the old job asked M back you can believe it. It’s more money than the current job, but I have concerns and hope that taking that old job again is the right decision. But M wanted to.
I’m still working from home indefinitely which is the way I like it these days. Have an overnight trip planned in mid-Feb, and then a longer one in March and then relatives come for a visit in April over Easter. So much is going on!
In other exciting news, I may be going to the Star Trek convention this year in Vegas in August. It’s a long way off and anything can change including a certain Spock actor COULD cancel, but right now Quinto is scheduled to be there for the first time ever. Trying not to be too excited because as I said a lot can change in the many months until then.
My updates of current WIPS are going swimmingly and I know you’ve been enjoying them so I appreciate the support.
Until tomorrow!
I said I would finish up Cosmic Love on AO3 and I swear I will soon. But right now I am concentrating very heavily on getting the Christmas in July stuff written, so it’s not going to happen as soon as I originally planned. I did finish up flashes for June and as of last night started the first Christmas in July Flash but I have many more to write so for right now that is where my thoughts and muse are!
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
Finally got my posting date for the T’hy’la Bang story. It’s June 22nd. Yaoichan12’s is June 23rd. So we aren’t first but we aren’t last either. I did manage to write a bit more and I have to have it pretty much done by the end of this month. It will be. I don’t have that much to go.
As you know I finished Cadet Ashayam and my next plan is to finish Nine Lives too. I’m already very much itching to begin fleshing out Vanik’s story, aptly named, The Matchmaker. It will be part of my Starfleet Academy series.
I plan to continue a few threads of flashes for the June flashes, so stay tuned for that.
I must admit there are some really fantastic stories on AO3 right now and it’s a little intimidating. I love it as a reader but as a writer, yeah, I’m a little envious. Ah, well. Such is life I suppose. There is always someone better than each of us at something or other I guess!
I bought myself a desk. Don’t recall if I mentioned this. But I had been at my dining room table for six weeks working from home. I have two monitors. So every single weekend I had to take my equipment down off the dining room table just so we could have a dining room table. My stuff took up a huge amount of it. Six weeks of this.
So I broke down and got a desk for about $220. It’s you know cheap Ikea type furniture, but it works. I’m off the dining room table and by the cat box, ha ha, but it is what it is. I figure I will be here at least another six weeks maybe more, so…desk it was.
We also bought a little bistro set for our patio so we can sit out there this summer and enjoy since we can’t really go anywhere. Things are starting to open up slowly but we figured sprucing up our patio was rather overdue anyway.
This weekend is Memorial Day weekend already. So it’s three days off for me and I’ll stop work at 1 on Friday like I would have if I’d been at the office but now I won’t have to walk home. I have a special flash for that Monday too.
And that’s the news that’s fit to print!
Well not really. But 75% done. And I submitted it for claims. I estimated 18,000 words, so if I go slightly higher I’m good, or slightly lower, I’d still be over the 15,000 minimum, but I doubt I will go under.
I guess what’s next, is they review all the stories submitted to ensure they meet what is required, and then the summaries are sent to the artists the week of April 27th. The weekend of May 2-3, the artists pick which story they’d like to illustrate for and authors find out who they are matched with May 4th. My story needs to be finished by May 30th. Piece of cake at this point. So that’s where I’m at.
Posting begins in mid-June. We shall see where everyone is at with this Covid-19 thing by then!
Anyway, so… that means getting some flashes done to post for the future, and a very short Pinto de Mayo story. Not much plot, and quite simple, but I will have something (Nope haven’t even started it). There will likely be only two of us posting a story that day.
And that’s the happenings right now!
Here I am again!
Got the update done for The Fling. Yay.
I am now diligently working on April flashes which I should have done in the next few days so that all flashes are done until May.
Leap story will be done this week and ready to go on February 29th. Then…the T’hy’la Bang story will be in very full swing.
Thanks!
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 