Dept. of Chagrin

[kaffy_r]

 A fandom_stocking  Apology

Folks, for the first time since 2011, when  I fell in love with fandom_stocking  - the only "-athon" I write for, and the one that has given me such joy - I am most probably not going to be able to fill anyone's stocking. 

When I signed up myself, I was full of plans; I'd just finished the last two promised 2015 stocking stuffers, and I'd thought that had primed my creative pump. And, as I always do each season, I thought perhaps this was the year that I could focus on drabbles, or at least shorter stories. Plus, I had my vacation coming up, and I'd be able to write something every day ....

Yeah. Didn't happen. I can't even figure out definitively why, although last night I told BB it might be that finishing up those 2015 stories had, instead of priming the pump, run the well dry. God knows, this has been a terrible writing year for me; it's the first time since 2007 that I haven't been able to get at least one chapter of Hearts & Moons completed. 

The events of November also have affected me, perhaps more deeply than even I thought. 

Yesterday, the day before my vacation ended, I suddenly wrote two paragraphs of something, and I thought, "Aha! Adrenaline junkie time! You can at least get two stories done before my vacation, and perhaps a third one before the stockings go live ....

And then this morning, I burned my left index finger, ironing a shirt. It's bandaged up now, and doesn't hurt too much, but the bandage makes typing incredibly frustrating. I'm down from 80-plus words a minute to, I don't know, 30-40, what with having to fix up mistakes. GAAAAAAaarrrhh!

tl;dr - after burbling about fandom_stocking , and looking forward to it, I don't think I can take part. I don't say it can't happen. Anything can happen, of course, and one never shuts the door, but - and there's an end to the sentence. 

Perhaps next year more of us can hang stockings, and I can fill all of them. 

*sighs, heads off to the grocery store*

Comments

[kaffy_r]

Kisses are always appreciated, especially today (Tuesday), which sucked big-time.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, lovie!! What happened??

*Applies extra kisses*

Ohhh, I got your card!! Gods, woman...you and BB are too kind!! What would I do without you two????? The card was adorable, btw!! All my other cards have come down..think I'll leave this one up a bit. :D Because baby animules in snow! Eeeee!

*Hugs you hard*

[kaffy_r]

Yesterday was a day in phone-call hell, about my health care prescription plan. I am not kidding when I say I spent four hours of the day on the phone to three separate entities trying to straighten out a problem. By the end of the day, all I'd learned was that many people in the company had run into the same problem on the same day, and they were working to fix it.

In the meantime, however, BB couldn't renew his pain medication prescriptions, because the pharmacy, like me and like all my unfortunate colleagues, couldn't reach the entity that handles prescriptions for our company.

Yeah, not a great day, so all the kisses and hugs are much obliged.

Glad you got the card! Apply as necessary, baby animules and all!

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Ye gods!! What a !@#$ing NIGHTMARE. As one who has had to jump through governmental hoops, well aquainted with nightmare. Corporate/insurance hoops are just as bad if not worse. Gods...

I hope the next day was better (and many apologies for the lateness...ack!)

Sending more hugs and kisses (even if your day was better, who doesn't need more of those????)

Awww...still rocking the baby animules over here. SO. ADORABLE!!

*HUGS*

[kaffy_r]

Things got about 75 percent better (we still have one technological problem to surmount) but it took a fair amount of pressure and phone calls to get things done. And today, I'm still adulting like crazy today, but I may also be able to relax a little and enjoy the rest of the weekend.