Well, maybe not quite. I had a few tweaks for Xia, like thinking up a new name for a secondary character who will, I’m pretty sure, be a heroine eventually, if there is an eventually, and an issue with cleaning up a ruby ring that isn’t what I originally thought it was. Both of which I did. Then I added in the glossary and I’m done for the night! I’m waiting to see if there’s any feedback in re stuff that sucks or something. Then it’s out the e-door.

What will I do with myself?

Read.

Get a LONG massage.

Fix some website stuff

Send out ARCs and bookmarks.

Entertain the Darling Child who may have decided My book is due May 1st!! is the only thing his mother can say. In a tense voice.

Trying to get through the holidays here at Jewel HQ. It’s not always easy. Sigh.

The good news is that I’ve started implementing my redesigned website. I have the bulk of the new pages up, but not all of them, and I’ve not tested much. The blog will be dead last. But I got a lot more done today than I thought I would.

You-all may know that I don’t watch TV. Therefore, I don’t care much about the hardware. But I have my complete set of Buffy The Vampire Slayer DVD’s which, for various reasons having to do with the Wii, the Tivo, the DVD and a viper’s nest of color-coded cables I am unable to match color for color, I’ve had to watch on the iMac. Wow. The iMac display is just effin awesome. Tonight I re-watched the 1st two episodes with my son. We made popcorn, turned the lights off in my room and lay back on my bed to watch. It was fun. I think it’s great, too, for him to see a woman kicking some vampire ass and making friends with nice people. I’m looking forward to seeing the entire series.

Lastly, I think I’m going to be OK with Word Perfect in Parallels. I figured out my keyboarding issues and I believe all will be well. I had one issue with my new ftp client for the mac, and the first set of files I uploaded went up with the wrong permissions. My webserver is on a linux machine so I had to manually change permissions. The hosting software didn’t seem to allow batch changes, and I have no idea what my ssh shell login and pw is anymore so I had to do it one at a time. Pain! Besides, I know about 5 ‘nix commands and it’s scary when you have to Google first, though I’ve done it in the past. So it’s just as well. Then I found the place in the ftp client that sets the default permissions and since I know what those should be I had no further trouble. Oh, that was too long. Sorry. Today was a geeky day.

No more shopping for me. I was weak today and spent non-xmas-wad funds on presents. It was fun regardless. Tomorrow, wrapping! Ilooove wrapping presents.

I’ll be starting in full blast on Xia on 12/26.

Merry Christmas Eve Eve everyone!

Here I am vacating and I feel like I’m getting behind. Is that even possible? I finished Brockmann’s All Through The Night and started E. George’s book but I think it’s too dark and depressing for me right now. I’ll probably pick it up again later. So now I’m going to go through the TBR and start looking for what I do feel like.

I started notebooking Xia’s story today. Got some cool ideas. I need to go to bed now because I was up too late last night.

Today I went out with my xmas money and got all my shopping done. I despise shopping, but I did OK. I bought a cookie press and made cool cookies tonight. They came out great!

In other news I think I’ve decided not to marry Vishous. Instead, I’m going to marry James Blunt. Wonder if he likes older women? In other silly news, I’m going to buy a lottery ticket tomorrow.

I’m reading Brockmann’s All Through the Night. Enjoyable. Next up, What Happened After He Shot her.

Now I’m going to go work on the website.

Xia continues to percolate. I don’t know how long I can relax with him knocking about in my head.