Hi, it’s Christina –
First, Happy 22nd
Birthday to my son’s girlfriend Alex and to my Uncle Phil. Hope you have a
wonderful day.
Well, I survived another
party at my house. We had twenty-nine people total, and other than a logistical
parking nightmare, all went well. Thanks to my generous neighbors, Umang &
Kunal, we managed – they housed all the overflow cars. Without them, we would
have had a real issue.
At one point, my nephew
and his girlfriend pulled in the driveway, and I kicked them out, telling them
to go home and come with their mom. Normally parking at our house isn’t an
issue, folks just park all over the lawn, but with the recent snowfall, that
became out of the question. Now some of you would be horrified by this, but it’s
not like my lawn is sod. Heck, if it weren’t for the crabgrass, there’d be very
little green at all.
The Chinese food was a big
hit, and clean-up was a breeze, because there were virtually no leftovers. I
had a rip roaring time with my great niece, Isabelle. She kept calling me a
monster and running away screaming, then she’d attack me with Dani’s bouquet of
balloons. (In all fairness, I am “the tickle monster”.)
Four out of the eight
people in our family whose birthdays fall between February 2nd &
February 15th we in attendance, and we sang to all of them. From
Left to Right are Aunt Mary (my father’s sister) 2/2, Dani Rose 2/4, Uncle Phil
(my mother’s BiL) 2/10, & “Uncle” Lenny (Bec’s hubby) 2/2. The folks who
were missing were Charlotte (cousin) 2/7, Alex (PJ’s gf) 2/10, Lys 2/15 &
Christopher (nephew) 2/15. Up to a few years ago there was another birthday in
that laundry list as well. Happy 92nd birthday in Heaven Gram
(2/13). We really know how to clump them together, don’t we?
Yesterday I was not good
company to be around. I contacted Kobo to find out where I stood with the
formatting issues with my books, only to find out they still have not been able
to figure it out, and the made A Second Chance and Taking Chances LIVE on their
site. I pitched a royal fit because the books were not ready to go live and
some sweet person in Australia purchased one already.
I did a shout out on
Facebook and Twitter yesterday in hopes of finding the person and asking them
to contact me. When/If they contact me, I want to get their address so I can
mail them a signed hard copy of the book. It makes me physically ill to think
they purchased something which was sub-par, with my name on it.
I’m NOT a happy camper. So
basically, instead of getting a $2 royalty payment from Kobo for selling my
book, it is going to cost me roughly $20 to make this right (the cost of the
book itself plus the cost of postage to Australia). I am MORE than willing to
do this for my reader, it just fries my cookies that Kobo screwed up so badly.
I have NO idea what is going on over there, and until they can assure me they
have fixed the issue, I have put all my books on the “de-list” list. Argh!
Annie, my publisher, said
something to me last night which made me wonder. She has zero, and I mean ZERO,
problems loading books onto Kobo. Annie is working off of an older computer. I
have Windows8 plus whatever they recently did with the last round of upgrades.
I’m wondering if this is a compatibility issue and Kobo’s system can’t handle
the newest software. If so, then I may have inadvertently unearthed a whole can
of worms. I just hope they get it fixed and soon.
I have another dilemma. I’ve
told you that, for reasons unknown, I have been waking up at 3:38 every morning
for over two weeks now. On Friday night, I took a little blue pill – NO, NOT
THAT LITTLE BLUE PILL – and it knocked me out until seven Saturday morning. For
the first time in forever, I got a solid eight hours of sleep. However, when I
woke up, I couldn’t move. I guess I slept the entire eight hours in one
position, and when I woke, my back was in such spasms I couldn’t even take a full
breath.
So here are my choices –
get sleep, wake up in agonizing pain, and take a few hours to be even able to
function, OR walk around in a sleepy dopey fog from lack of sleep every day.
Experts say you really can’t “catch-up” on sleep, so taking the pill once a
week won’t solve anything. Maybe my hubby was right, and I should just play 338
in the Pick 3, and then I’ll stop waking up at that time every day. For a buck,
it may just be worth a try.
Okay, I have to boogie. I
hope you have a great day, and happy writing!
Your
Next Challenge is:
Use
the following: Big, Orange, Platypus (you can blame Dani for this one)
You have ten minutes (be
honest). There is no right or wrong, just write. Spelling and punctuation don’t
count, and NO ONE is allowed to criticize what someone else has written. Go.
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