Dear Diary

A 3616-post collection

May Day!

It's the first of May and, for reasons currently unknown to me, it's a public holiday. I'm certain someone will inform me as to why it's important, but I'll probably forget inside of a month unless you tell it as an interesting story.

I only learned what a 'creel' was after the tenth iteration of MeMum yelling at Roger Ramjet. FYI, it's a basket or box used for fishing gear and/or fishing catch.

In other news - we found a shop that stocks Lqd+! Yes, the Coles in Burpengary actually had a few boxes of the Tropical flavour, but no other flavours. I grabbed two boxes [one dozen Lqd+ bottles] and now most of the family is happy because we have some awesome dang cordial.

I'm especially happy because Lqd+ disguises the Horrible Filter Flavour and allows me to imbibe more than hot beverages. An important issue when the weather is so changeable.

So on the extra day off, we are, of course, spending it at home and grinding rep so our toons can fly all over the scenery and do all the other quests all the quicker. Because we're nerds.

And speaking of random nerditry... At that very same Coles, the PA was playing a song I rather liked, and some random people nearby kept giving me weird looks for singing along. I almost stopped, but thought - who am I hurting, really? Nobody, that's who. So I kept singing.

One small step towards self-confidence. Many more to go.

Tomorrow, for sure, I will probably do something up about Tropes That Tick Me Off And Probably Need To Die. I'll start with "Women in the Fridge". First, because it really annoys me, and second because IT STILL HAPPENS. Which only serves to tick me off further.

Dude. If you can't write a loving, fulfilling relationship - FUCKING DON'T. Rrrgh. Rant tomorrow. Write today.

Getting Organised

Organisation comes as naturally to me as dancing on the ceiling. But, little by little, some sense of order is emerging slowly from the chaos. We have a fortnight, just about, to have everything in a row for our trip to Adelaide and the week in the Murray. Including a stop-over at MeMum's for a combo Mother's Day and Gift Exchange. Exact day and time to be determined.

I have a LOT of clothes to wash. Mount Laundry has been gathered from

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Indulgance Day

Today is my day to go ham on the Guylian while they still remain. I've left a few for my little darlings, but once they're gone, they're gone.

Alas, delicious chocolate, I enjoyed it well.

Of course I saved the last Original Praline for the final taste of Guylian for my immediate future.

Today, after I'm done with my Instant and Blasts scheduling, I shall probably be spending a majority of my time with Beloved on WoW. It's our together time and

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Why I keep on going

Once upon a time, my URL was a fan-site with fanfics and a board for like-minded fanbods and people who liked my hobby-work. When that board was running, I had frequent suggestions to start writing my own books.

It took me a while, but I learned how to write a novel. By that time, most of my fan base had moved on and only the dedicated few remained to find me anew.

It was disheartening to realise that the income from my

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Belief in Magical Accessories

There's nothing much going on in my life at the moment, beyond the usual routine and angsting about whatever I'm publishing or trying to translate at the moment, so I thought I'd talk about a little something that bothers me about humanity.

The belief in talent by osmosis via Stuff. Stuff, in this case, is either a particular piece of hardware, or software. Something that somebody famous uses to do the thing you love. Now, quite a lot of people believe that

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Broken week

Public holidays that are separated from weekends are a pain in the butt. You get the weekend vibe from the day itself, and the next day is molasses to begin.

Chaos assumed that she had another holiday, today. It took a few goes to get her moving, today. It took a while to get me moving, today.

Pros: We have a new water filter
Cons: I reckon the water coming out of it tastes like the malformed nightmare child of Menthol and

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National Holiday

It's ANZAC day, so Australia is taking the day off. Shops are still open, but many of us are not planning to use them and, in typical Aussie tradition, we will be celebrating at some part of the day by setting something on fire.

Gotta love a nation made out of tinder that celebrates things with outdoor cookery and flame.

For the most part, today will be a day at home with nothing much happening. BUT... I have some good news! Smashwords

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Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

Long-arse drive to Scenic Coominya and back, because Beloved still hasn't gone to the doctor about their shoulder. A nap for most of the day definitely helped my endurance.

My perma-sniffles are back, so I'm on a mission to get myself some codral with pseudo-ephedrin to knock it out of my life. We hope. After that, I shall consult with experts because I am bloody tired of going through a box of tissues every other day.

Bloody sniffles.

I started today at

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It's Alive!

Yes, I already know I did the exact same thing on Tumblr, late yesterday. I'm glad you noticed.

But yes! Finally and at last, Kung Fu Zombies is available in print. For those of you who were laying bets, it did take all day.

I couldn't flog it to any agents, so I went to Lulu. Lulu is definitely at home with me publishing on other sites, so that's one 'hooray'. Smashwords doesn't have any co-publishing policy that I can find, so

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Flash Writing for a Dollar a Day

Not that I'm complaining too hard, but writing on Steemit earns me roughly one USD per diem. That's $365.25 per year. That, on top of the $100-something I make off of Smashwords per year, that still puts my income inside of the poverty line.

At least it helps pay for food.

I am going to frelling make myself get stuff ready for publication. The cover for Kung Fu Zombies so I can prep it for Lulu, the actual Lulu copy, which

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Lurgi, Lurgi, go away

I've finished up all my blackberry pills, and I still have ur-lurgi symptoms. But I can breathe through my nose, and my brain seems to be functioning properly, so that's some improvement.

I'll see whether or not the Lurgi comes back. But the meanwhile will be spent with lots of ginger tea.

When I shake off the last of whatever-this-is, I will immediately take myself to the local quack and get my annual flu jabs. I don't want to be taking any

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Up to my eyes in it

So today is an interesting schedule. I have a plumber coming at an unspecified time. I have the cleaners coming. Both will want paying and I only have the cash for one of those people and I worry about that sort of thing.

Fortunately there are ATMs, and I definitely used the Suncorp account this morning. Huzzah. So after a short school run, I now have enough money for everyone including myself.

I also found out that the account I can access

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So much for plns

I had a nice, relaxing day mostly-at-home planned for myself, and like the best-laid plans of mice and man... they've gone agley.

The dude who mis-cut our window replacement now has the proper replacement ready. So I have to get all the heck way out there, measure it to check, and collect it. I also have to go get a parcel from North Lakes so that I can finally store all my rescue singles properly. Once they're cleaned and verified playable, of

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F-O-C-U-S

Lots to do.

I have a Chaos to take up north to see her shrink. I have to take the window replacement back to the dude who made it because he cut it too short. Which means that today is an enormous Leyland's Tour for me. Which means I should put dinner on now or I won't have the energy to do anything by tonight.

But I also have to take the dubiously reliable Elderberry capsules. I haven't been that fantastic at

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Aftermath

Okay, so sugar and lots of it does really terrible things to me. I have learned this now.

Following a breakfast of a Lindt dark choc bunny, a Guylian sampler1 and some sugar-free creaming soda... I had asthma, loose stools, and trouble staying upright.

At least until we headed off to Maccas for lunch for some grease-burgers and, in my case, the promisingly disgusting Cadbury Cream Egg McFlurry. It was actually more of a sundae with caramel sauce and definitely-not-cadbury-flakes on

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