I have given into pressure and created a Facebook Fan Page again.
Here’s the linky badgy thing. I hope it works. *hides eyes behind hand and pushes the button*
Dina James, Chronicler of the Paranormal
Promote Your Page Too
*peeks* Did it work?
I have given into pressure and created a Facebook Fan Page again.
Here’s the linky badgy thing. I hope it works. *hides eyes behind hand and pushes the button*
Dina James, Chronicler of the Paranormal
Promote Your Page Too
*peeks* Did it work?
I’ll post something just so people don’t think I’m dead or anything. I’m not. Really. I’m just…well….
It’s a combination between “apathy” and “busy”. Meaning, I have stuff to do, but I really can’t be bothered to do it.
I think they call that “lazy”.
But I’m not that, because I’m being productive. I’ve been writing like a fiend (though I’ve taken the week off to get things around the house done). I have lots going on this month on the personal front, so I’m busy there too.
It’s not that I’m not around, or not doing anything. I just don’t have a whole lot going on that’s blog-worthy. No Things of Awesome to share with you all lately. I haven’t done a vlog in months. I do have notes for one. It’s just finding the time, etc. That and I’m vain, and need my hair done. I’ll call for an appointment tomorrow. My red has faded, I have several inches of grow-out and there are colors other than what I want showing, so something’s got to be done.
I’ll be buying my ticket for Dragon*Con later this week, so yay for that.
That’s about all I have for you all at the moment. If I’m anywhere at the moment, it’s on Twitter.
Cheers,
DJ
P.S. Thanks for the fan mail, those who’ve written and added the blog to their feeds! You’re awesome, really!
Alliteration, FTW!
Anyway, yes, it’s New Year’s Eve, and I will not bore you with another post on your f!list about all that this year has encompassed for me.
I do not have extravagant plans for the evening (I had made reservations at a local restaurant I like, but I canceled them yesterday as the weather is just horrific here on the Coast and I honestly just don’t feel like going out in it), nor do I have profound end-of-year reflections to share with you all.
There were Things That Happened, Things That Didn’t Happen, Stuff Went On and I Did Things and Went Places.
That about sums it up.
How exciting. Maybe I’ll write something next week about Stuff I Did In 2009 and Stuff I’m Looking Forward To For 2010 and Goals I Have For The Year That Aren’t Resolutions Because Those Get Broken And Goals Are Better.
As for tonight, I’m going to not change into nice clothes or go out. I’m going to sit around in my pajamas, work on my next scene of this latest revision of my WIP that’s being strangely uncooperative, finish setting up my refurbished laptop (still a few things to reinstall – like my printer), eat this phenomenal chicken pot pie I have baking in the oven (from Costco of all places – if your local Costco makes a chicken pot pie (in the deli section), go and get one and bake it for your eating pleasure. SO FREAKING GOOD!), and maybe watch a movie or take a nap.
Or maybe I’ll just eat and go to bed and when I wake up, it will be 2010. That sounds so futuristic! So…“The Year We Make Contact”.
Whatever I’m going to do, it will be to ignore the horrible storm going on outside.
Cheers,
DJ
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GUESS WHAT? YOU HAVEN’T!
/frustration
Anyway, yeah. My laptop is fried. It’s a long story, but the short of it is that it has to go in for repair, and that will take anywhere from two weeks to a month to get back. Hopefully – HOPEFULLY – it will be done and sent back in a week or so, but this being the holiday season, “7 business days after we receive it” may as well translate to “don’t expect it anytime soon”.
But there’s always hope, right?
Right?
I mean, the laptop is less than a year old and still under warranty, so I’m not going to have to take out another mortgage or anything to pay for it, or buy a new one (that I know of…yet). I don’t even have to pay shipping, so that’s good. This came at a seriously unfortunate time, but it’s not the end of the world, no matter what it feels like (and it does feel awful – everything is on that laptop, but the really important things are saved and available, namely my manuscripts! Weekly external hard drive backups FTW!).
So it’s not the end of the world. It’s just the (hopefully very temporary) end of the lifestyle to which I’d become accustomed. Yeah, I’m bummed bigtime – I has a BIG sad 🙁 – but I’ll bounce back soon enough.
I’m trying to look on the bright side of this crisis/fiasco/craptasticness (and believe me, I did NOT need this today on top of a few other…issues I’m dealing with that I won’t detail here.*sings* “Always look on the briiiiiiiiiiiiiight side of life!”) – lappy is under warranty, I don’t have to shell out big bucks, it will come back nice and shiny and fixed, it’s good that it’s in because there’s obviously a big problem that needs serious attention, I have the most important things backed up or otherwise available, I have access to other computers, etc. – but anyone who knows me knows I’m a pragmatist, and I adapt well and make the best out of a situation and make do with the tools I have.
If that means mustard ends up on the ceiling, well, that’s your fault for letting me in the kitchen, isn’t it? It’s not like you weren’t warned! It doesn’t mean I’m unaffected by the situation or that I won’t complain about how much it sucks before I get on with it.
Sometimes “getting on with it” isn’t ideal, but it’s what you’ve got, so stop whining already and go. I believe the phrase is “suck it up and move on”. I’ve had my frustration vents and moved through the stages of grief already. This note is just to let you all know, really, that I’ll be scarce the next however long, as I’ll be borrowing computers and connections to get what needs doing done.
So being a pragmatist helps. As do cupcakes and a borrowed laptop.
Cheers,
DJ
If you follow this blog on the semi-regular basis that I update it, you’ll know that Dina In The Kitchen is generally a bad idea. I’ve gotten mustard on the ceiling while making fried chicken.
Don’t ask. Just…don’t. Don’t even think about it. You’ll hurt your brain. Just take my word for it. This is a story that is often told by my mother whenever I go into the kitchen to do something as simple as put the kettle on for tea.
It’s just a bad idea.
Now, having said that, this post will contain recipes. (Recipes involving meat, for those who don’t want to read about such things – you’ve been warned.)