complaints

Grumbling

You know, every now and then the whole try-to-get-published thing can be a downer. Today, for example, I’ve been put in a bit of a bad mood because I read on another person’s blog that they’ve heard back already from an editor I’m waiting to hear back from. How silly is that? Why in the world should my current mood be affected by hearing about other people’s success? The thing is, I know that even if I did get published, I’d still have other things to worry about. Will my book sell in stores? Will I be able to make […]

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Rain

You know, it’s true that you don’t have to shovel rain, but I think I’d still rather have snow. Rain just makes things ugly, especially when it’s combined with fog. Snow makes things light and fluffy. And you can ski in it. You can ski in rain, too, but they call that hydro-planing, which isn’t nearly as much fun, and usually involves automobile accidents.

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Frustration

For every good day, there’s a bad. That just seems to be the way things are for me right now. Today was a bad day. It wasn’t bad in a horrific way or anything. Just in a everything-I-thought-I-had-fixed-broke way. The hot water works in the house. Everywhere but for the laundry machine. So no clean clothes until the plumber comes Wednesday. My computer was working fine. Then I tried to beta test Mythos, and it totally freaked out. Three hours later, I’m still working on fixing it. The car we bought? Working fine. But Maine has this thing they call

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No Fun Allowed

Yesterday was Not a Fun Day. I had three different car troubles pop up–this after already spending over $300 last month to get the car in supposed working order. So now it’s looking like the time has come. I need a new car. Thankfully, it sounds like the current troubles can be fixed for under $100 total. (This is shocking, since the troubles seemed unusually bad–smoke coming from engine, horrendous screeching sound, coolant leaking all over the place, etc.) So I’ll be able to use the current car until I can find what I deem a good deal on a

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