And So It Continues...
So Luke's story is coming along really well, he and Mikki are striking sparks off each other in both the irritated-at-each-other way and the carnal way. Because carnal is so much fun, too, right?
As usual, I've been burning the midnight oil with this book. Madly writing before and after work and before bed, trying to hit my personal deadline. I have the release month in mind, have it on the calendar, and am going hell for leather to reach it.
Hell for leather? Ooer, that sounded a little kinky, didn't it? Ha!
Anyway, in between work and writing, we've been having fun (I say this sardonically) with house repairs. Let me the list the ways we are fast growing broke in the last week and a half.
1. Bill no. 1. The water in town slowed to a trickle, and Mum and I realised it when we had our hot showers and the water almost dried up. Then the gas tank started clanging and I realised - holy heck, we'd probably run it out of water and the burner was still on! So I frantically turned off the pilot light but then the instructions said to turn the doovey-lackey thingamabob off at the tap and I couldn't find which tap so called the plumber. He came, the water pressure perked up and he re-lit the gas hot water system for us.
2. Bill no. 2 A crack appeared in our old stainless steel laundry sink (I know, right? Even the plumber said he'd never seen that happen before). So the plumber had to install a new sink. Unfortunately, this meant cutting through some of the tiles above the sink. New sink in, tiles buggered.
3. Bill no.3 So now we have to get a tiler in to replace the tiles. The cats freak because not only did they have to put up with the plumber being in the house, but days later also the tiler.
4. Bill no. 4 The tiler informs us that he can smell gas near our gas meter and advises us not to light any matches near it. Not ready to to go Heaven just yet, we call back the plumber. The plumber checks, no leaks, but apparently the gas meter/box/watchamacallit 'vents' and some gas apparently escapes. Or vents or some @!&*. So no gas leak.
This has all transpired since Sun 15th. I think May is jinxed.
However, instead of whining like I usually do (and I do it impressively, if I do say so myself), I'm trying to be upbeat, positive, looking on the bright side, the glass is half full. At least we have jobs so we can pay the bills. Right?
Sheesh, I'd rather spend it on books and horror movies...
No! No, I am being positive. Today is my day off (even if it was half wasted because I can never concentrate with workers here and the cats freaking out) and so now they've gone, I'm going to go back to Luke and Mikki. Yay!
See? Being positive... *sigh*
As usual, I've been burning the midnight oil with this book. Madly writing before and after work and before bed, trying to hit my personal deadline. I have the release month in mind, have it on the calendar, and am going hell for leather to reach it.
Hell for leather? Ooer, that sounded a little kinky, didn't it? Ha!
Anyway, in between work and writing, we've been having fun (I say this sardonically) with house repairs. Let me the list the ways we are fast growing broke in the last week and a half.
1. Bill no. 1. The water in town slowed to a trickle, and Mum and I realised it when we had our hot showers and the water almost dried up. Then the gas tank started clanging and I realised - holy heck, we'd probably run it out of water and the burner was still on! So I frantically turned off the pilot light but then the instructions said to turn the doovey-lackey thingamabob off at the tap and I couldn't find which tap so called the plumber. He came, the water pressure perked up and he re-lit the gas hot water system for us.
2. Bill no. 2 A crack appeared in our old stainless steel laundry sink (I know, right? Even the plumber said he'd never seen that happen before). So the plumber had to install a new sink. Unfortunately, this meant cutting through some of the tiles above the sink. New sink in, tiles buggered.
3. Bill no.3 So now we have to get a tiler in to replace the tiles. The cats freak because not only did they have to put up with the plumber being in the house, but days later also the tiler.
4. Bill no. 4 The tiler informs us that he can smell gas near our gas meter and advises us not to light any matches near it. Not ready to to go Heaven just yet, we call back the plumber. The plumber checks, no leaks, but apparently the gas meter/box/watchamacallit 'vents' and some gas apparently escapes. Or vents or some @!&*. So no gas leak.
This has all transpired since Sun 15th. I think May is jinxed.
However, instead of whining like I usually do (and I do it impressively, if I do say so myself), I'm trying to be upbeat, positive, looking on the bright side, the glass is half full. At least we have jobs so we can pay the bills. Right?
Sheesh, I'd rather spend it on books and horror movies...
No! No, I am being positive. Today is my day off (even if it was half wasted because I can never concentrate with workers here and the cats freaking out) and so now they've gone, I'm going to go back to Luke and Mikki. Yay!
See? Being positive... *sigh*
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May 24, 2016 10:48AM
So? Release month? Gimme, gimme ;-) Best of luck for your writing!
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Silke wrote: "So? Release month? Gimme, gimme ;-) Best of luck for your writing!"Ooohh - release month! I let that slip, huh? Uhhhh...don't want to say just yet until I'm sure I can get that month! But hopefully will be able to give you a date in a couple of weeks. Have 3 days off now, so writing (here it comes again) Hell for Leather! Only taking a couple of hours off Saturday evening for pizza, chips, and a movie with my two best friends (Deadpool, anyone? Ryan Reynolds, anyone?!) Apart from that, it's write write write!!! I can say that I am halfway through the book, so that's awesome!
May was awful! I agree. Someone told me it was because Mercury was in retrograde. I rolled my eyes and thought, "yeah, okay, crazy lady, whatever." Then i proceeded to have a bizarre month filled with set-backs and expenses and general irritations. So glad whatever this is is over.Sorry about your crazy month. <3
Shannon Gorilla McGee Winston wrote: "May was awful! I agree. Someone told me it was because Mercury was in retrograde. I rolled my eyes and thought, "yeah, okay, crazy lady, whatever." Then i proceeded to have a bizarre month filled w..."Oh, no worries, we got through it. Somehow. LOL! Now Australia is getting this NBN rolling through - what a nightmare! I know a lot of people who have had so much trouble with it, yet we have to get it because in 18 months they're removing all the original phone and internet lines, so the only way we can have phone and internet is through this wretched NBN. Yeah, it's free to the house...but it's still costing people as some don't have the necessary compatible phones, etc, for when it's connected in the house. We just had the electrician in putting in another power point in my little writing room - I only have one power point, and the NBN box has to be plugged in permanently...ergo, where do I plug my computer in?! So new power point. We're jet hoping our phone is compatible or we'll need to buy a new one.
Luckily, though it's coming to our street, it's not yet ready to connect. I told Mum I was going to make sure this book is finished and the final version uploaded before we do the change-over, just in case we have issues, too, in the beginning!!! Sometimes progress sucks limns big time!!! I always say - if it's not broken, why fix it?!
Ooohh - forgot to add - hope your problems are sorted out! Let's hope this is the last of it for us both!
That sounds frustrating and like a huge pain in the butt for loads of people. Yikes!We're closing on our new home tomorrow morning so hopefully we will be over the hump.
