Frustrated

[amberfocus]

I lost chapter eight of HM!  I am so mad.  Now I'm going to have to recreate it based on what I remember.  Well mostly.  I had sent the first 1000 words off to JeopardyFriendly to beta, so technically I only have to recreate about 1200 words, but argh!  I hit the wrong stupid key and it deleted the thing.  I did get 800 words done on the next angsty piece of Nine/Rose fic last night that I didn't lose.  I've turned that into another series now, as if I needed another series.  Ah, well.  It's called Moments in Darkness, because most of it takes place in the dark in bed or in the dark inside their heads, and the moments are between episodes.  Thought it went well. 

The other choice was Moments Betwixt, which sounds stupid, or Moments Between, which sounds too much like lostwolfchats Journey's in Between.  Not that there is any journeying going on in mine anyway, unless you count the emotional journey they're on.  Anyway, if I'm very, very lucky I'll manage to get that one done today and the other one well on it's way to being recreated.  Plus, promised wiggimomsi that I'd try to find some smut somewhere to write.  Well, that's likely on hold.  Sorry.  Might be able to do a hot drabble.  I've been thinking about those a lot since I was introduced to the artform but haven't tried one yet.

I made me a banner for Post Pomp last night.  Didn't do more than add a title to a screen capture really, but for my first attempt, I like it.  Ridiculous how cheery it makes me, considering how depressed poor Rose looks on it.  But since she is depressed through the first half of the story, that's a good thing.  And angelfireeast is making me a banner for chapter nine on when everything changes (and does everyone else have to complete that with an "and you've got to be ready" everytime they hear that phrase?).  Yay! for angelfireeast.

And if that weren't enough I had to reschedule the fabric guard and paint guard being done on my new car for next week because there's a live electrical wire down blocking  access to the highway.  Now there is another route I could take out of the mountains but it would add about an hour to an hour and a half of driving time and I wouldn't get there until at least eleven or eleven thirty.  So irritating.  At least the school is right before the highway entrance.  A lot of buses coming from that direction are stalled, but they were walking the kids the 1/8th of a mile through the far end of the school fence along the creek and around the back side of the school to avoid the wire.

On the positive side the old car is done being repaired.  Another $500 and a new fuel pump later, and I knew it was the fuel pump to begin with, I said it was the fuel pump, but no, I'm just a girl, what did I know compared to the mechanic gods at the dealership?, it's running right.  So now we have a working back up car again, that has has had $1300 worth of work done in the past five weeks.  It's only worth about $1000, so I'm not best pleased, but life goes on.  Now I just have to hijack my mother to go to the dealership and pick it up today.  And then it gets to sit in her driveway for 3 weeks until DH comes home and I can get two cars home at the same time.

Despite all this stuff getting in the way of my life today, I'm in a good mood.  Weird.  Just woke up with a good, nothing's going to shake me mood.  I'm totally over the flu now.  And after two days of barfing kids who were well enough to go back to school finally today, the good mood is a nice thing.  As long as I don't get the stomach virus they had, I don't see my mood changing too much.

Comments

[amyo67.livejournal.com]

Gee, sounds like a lot of stuff going on for you. Glad to hear your mood is good though. I look forward to chapter 8. So sorry about the delete. I think I would have been having a melt down. We had a power outage last night. Fortunately, it didn't last long and we were back in business.
I hope things get better. I had to keep my youngest home today. He's having increased seizures and the last few days has been more congested than normal, so I decided to keep him home and keep an eye on him.
GOod luck with all that work. I love reading your stuff and look forward to more. Thanks so much

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I did have a melt down. I yelled at my computer. I know it was my fault, but I still yelled at my computer. Made me feel better.

I'm sorry things are so tough at the moment with your son. I don't know how you manage the way you do. I hope the retreat helped you to recharge your batteries.

[nattieb.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you are one busy lady. Sorry that you lost some of the story that is frustrating! And yay for the new series!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes these things just take me over. You know, WM was like that, it refused to not be written (I've got a few posts about how hard it was fighting that little demon) and now this one is going much the same way. I'm just going with it. *smiles*

[lillibetm3.livejournal.com]

I know how you must be feeling about the stuff you lost. I'm in the middle of writing a story for a ficathon, and for some reason whenever I hit 'save' my computer would 'delete' - but only for that story. I had to re-write what I could remember THREE times. I still have no clue as to why it was doing that. But all seems to be working fine now. *touch wood*

Anyway, what with cars, kids, flu and wires on highways... I'm stunned that you have time to write anything. Oh, but I'm quietly squeeeeing over 'Moments in Darkness' -- oh yes I am. If you listen very carefully you might just hear me. ;)

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Three times? Oh, that's just horrid. I'd seriously be freaking out. I don't have much choice in whether I write or not. It just drives me until it comes out and if I try not to write, well, that's not pretty. Course I don't really watch TV so that frees up scads of time for writing.

So, that's what the sound is. Glad you like the idea of Moments in Darkness. *smiles* Lovely icon, by the way.

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

Computers. Lovely in some ways. Frustrating in so many others. (I once lost a 12-page paper on a Flemish lute book. Can you imagine the tedium of reconstructing something that bored you stupid the first time?) But my sincere sympathies. That sucks, on top of everything else.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I don't think I'd want to be reconstructing something like that! Thanks for the sympathies.

[bluevolvic.livejournal.com]

:( Sorry to hear you lost part of the chapter,you must have been devastated.Good to hear that Uour in a good mood though, and that the kids are well again.I hate it when the kids are ill, it can be so draining at times :(. Good luck with the chapter, I've still to catch up , I'm a bit behind :D

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

The chapter was giving me enough grief to begin with, too without me losing it! Ah, well, I think it's actually better this time around, I'm happier with the way it's coming out.

[wiggiemomsi.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh ... I'm so sorry to hear of your story loss. My computer eats things too, but never that major!

I did really like your Post Pomp banner. Such a good story ... although yours *always* ARE, after all!

*Hugs*

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thank you and thank you. Can't wait to show you the one angelfireeast made! But that'll be on chapter nine.

[yenly-gozal.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that you lost the chapter 8 of HM. Sometimes, the computer can be really frustrating. Anyway, I'm looking forward for the new series :D

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And chapter 8 is coming along again.

[fishface44.livejournal.com]

Your week sounds stressful, and I am especially feeling sorry for you about the barfing kids! Although...*a moment of silence for the missing chapter*..there is slight feeling of Coleridge losing most of Kubla Khan about this...without some of his habits & problems, of course.

Also:the car probably is worth fixing. The amount it would sell for is not the actual value of the car to you-that would be the amount it would cost to replace it. :)

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, barfing kids are never fun but at least I've managed to avoid it so far myself. The lost chapter seems to be working itself back to me.

[katecarter.livejournal.com]

Ooo...I can sympathize with losing a part of something. A story I was working on, "Finding You," had the first three chapters done before I had to let it sit to work on other things. I finally got back to them the other day only to discover that my computer (I swear, it was my computer, because I hadn't touched them in a couple months and they were complete when I did) had deleted about half the first chapter, everything but about two paragraphs of the second, and half the third. Talk about being P.O.ed...
But that's okay, I get to be home half the summer, and when I am I'm going to be taking over my sister's babysitting job, and all that lovely, lovely money is going towards a new laptop that doesn't piss me off with a million little problems.
(and maybe a new wireless mouse to, because I was just trying to use it and apparently it's messed up too!)

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

That would infuriate me, too. It's been years since I've lost so much of something, I'm usually so careful with my writing.

Well, good luck on saving up for the new laptop. They certainly can make a world of difference.