Cool beans.

Alright. Well. So. Um, I have been adding to the post-SS fics again and now we are up to freaking SEVENTY-FIVE, or, well, seventy-FOUR, I guess, right now, but we all know I work in multiples of 5 so I'm currently on the lookout for one more good monster to bring the total up to the seventy-five. :P

63) Controlled Descent (incomplete) (the angel Dima)
64) Midnight Spirits (incomplete) (midnight Spirit Mass)
65) Rememberance (incomplete) (malevolent spell)
66) Wind-Up (incomplete) (cursed object)
67) Cobweb (incomplete) (djieien)
68) Better Angels (incomplete) (angel hunter)
69) Bed Of Roses (incomplete) (poltergeist)
70) Murmur (incomplete) (humans, man/original "monster")
71) Paradoxical (incomplete) (Kaupe)
72) ?????

Yeah.

I posted Absolute Devotion yesterday and so far it's doing alright, at least by the standards of the rest of the series. I did get a review (that was really nice, positive and uplifting, I appreciated it a lot) but so far only 4 kudos and 119 hits all together. Sometimes it feels like... why bother? But I know there are a FEW people out there who are following along and I'm still enjoying writing for post-HH and post-SS, so as long as that keeps up I'll keep going.

Right now I'm working on Nightlight and so far it's 16 pages and 8,047 words, but it's coming along nicely. The post-HH one-shots typically have no real plot and are just written for the sake of smut and fluff. Nightlight is no different. When I get back into the post-SS fics, THEN I'll have plots to work with, just. With smut and fluff included as well. :| lol.

Anyway.

It took two weeks, but my leg is much better than it was, it almost doesn't hurt at all anymore, so I'm not LIMPING much anymore, so my ankle/knee/hip on my OTHER leg are starting to be not quite so sore. Everything is a freaking chain reaction, man, and it sucks. My back and ribs are buggered even more from me limping around the last couple weeks as well. Hopefully they'll start feeling better soon, too.

This morning, my printer ran out of color ink and when I put a new cartridge in it refused to recognize it and kept telling me my ink was empty. I tried taking it out and putting it back in a bunch of times but it was still a no-go. So, finally I dug out a DIFFERENT cartridge and put IT in and BINGO! it worked perfectly fine. I held onto the other one to try one more time when the current cartridge is empty, but I think it's just defective and I'm actually kind of pissed off. Each of those cartridges costs me like $20. =/

Aaaaand now I have to go downstairs because it's my day to cook dinner! Ciao!

It's the second of the month and I have $38 in my bank account. Today Mom was supposed to take me out to buy the rest of my monthly groceries and stuff, but obviously that's not happening. We did go back to Walmart this afternoon, though, to return a binder and a pair of pants that I bought on Saturday and turned out to be incorrect. I was able to exchange the binder for the correct one, but the pants were out of stock so I couldn't get a new pair in another size, so that added $30 to my account, but now I'm back to having no pants that fit. =/ Since I HAD that additional $30, though, we went to Canadian Tire so I could pick up the set of shelves that I needed, so at least that's done.

On the 10th I get a government payment (I can't remember which one) that's about $100, so I can go out and get worms for the 'lotls then. Until then they'll just have to put up with pellets. They actually don't seem to mind the pellets all that much, but I know worms are better for them. I really need to get their tank swapped over ASAP, too, but between my ribs and my legs I just... I feel so useless. I can't do anything right now.

Today I finished Solid Foundations, and it came in at 36 pages and 17,730 words, but it still needs to be edited, obviously, so the word count will definitely change a bit one way or the other. But I have time to edit Solid Foundations, it's not being posted for another week-and-a-bit. Tomorrow I'm going to be editing Absolute Devotion, though, because it's due to be posted this Thursday. Did I mention I really hate editing? I have? Well guess what, I still really hate editing. :P

I spent a while today making covers for some more of my fics and printing them out for future use in binders that I don't have for them yet. About half of my Valdemar fics are going to end up in 1" binders, I think, though three or four are going to go in 1.5" binders instead. Meanwhile I have a 3" binder and a 2" binder for Horror High et al AND THREE 3" binders and a 2" binder for Storm season et al. Honestly that series will be the death of me and I don't even care.

Before I can put my new shelves up I have to move two other sets of shelves that are already in the library, and they are, as you might imagine, full of books atm. I think tomorrow I'm going to try tackling that project because I can move the books just a few at a time and the shelves themselves aren't that heavy when they're empty. I think I can do it even with my fucked up ribs and legs, if I take it slow. Then I can assemble the new shelves and screw them into the wall the same as the last ones I put in.

Tomorrow I also have to go down to the front of the complex and raid the rhubarb plant that's growing there. Mom mentioned it to be today, but I had just spent an hour planting and watering my tomatoes and I was in SO much pain, so I opted to put it off to tomorrow. Hopefully no one else goes down to pick it in the meantime, it's not a very big plant. =/