Apollymi ::||:: Dark Passion Play

So... I'm back online after the big move. I'm still waiting for the reality of finally being in a new place to sink in. Maybe it will when I pay the first month's rent on it. Spending money always has a way of driving such things home.

I still haven't been paid for my Seven Seas work. I now call the trip to the mailbox "my daily disappointment". If it isn't here by Friday, there will have to be the nasty "I'm going to get a lawyer" email.

Also... ¬_¬ My iBook gave up the ghost. Even my computer techie guy is telling me to get a new one at this point. So I started doing some pricing. The best I can get the next level up laptop is $2000. I have... $95.

Basically, I'm begging for donations. Every penny sent in will go towards a new MacBook (not Air or Pro, just a MacBook). Donations can be sent by Paypal to kbell@katherinbell.net or clicking the button below:

And that's it for me.

It's possible there isn't enough caffeine in the world to wake me up today. For the second night in a row, I was up past 2:30 a.m. and got up at 6:30 a.m. However, I managed a good 2800 words last night. That leaves me with 1700 words to write to get to 50,000 -- and 3,000 words to go to get to 90,000. It's looking more and more doable. I might actually finish this damned thing today.

I finally got to watch the Comic Con clip of the first 5 minutes of Supernatural Season 4. Well, I say watch... That's about all you can do. Hearing it really isn't an option: there are too many fangirls in each and every version of the video to hear a damned thing. Between the stupidly loud vapid squeals at Dean raising his shirt and "Oh my god, I have to icon that" and all the other myriad fangasms, it's almost not worth bothering trying to watch. Almost.

We finished what we could with the pantry yesterday. We didn't pack up a lot of the food because I didn't know what all we're going to eat between then and Saturday. (Probably more rice or couscous or pasta, but we'll have to see.) I do know that I can't afford to pay for any more food out for both of us until Friday. I have $22 left until Friday (payday) and/or my check from Seven Seas gets here.

What we have left to do is: the kitchen drawers, the kitchen counter, the breakables in the living room, the rest of my desk (which will never be as clean as katsuko's because I have to have my printer, the modem, and the router on my desk), and the bedrooms. We have at least tonight and tomorrow night left to get this done. Friday, that day could be hit or miss. We're going to do a 1 hour bug bomb sometime that morning, so that's an hour and a half (airing out time) cut off our day.

I guess I should cut it off now and try to bust out some words.

It's about 6 days till we move (Saturday) -- and I think we're already running behind. We ran out of tape yesterday and couldn't find any to fit our two tape dispensers. However, we did go blow some of my money: $56 for medicine, $18 for lunch, and another $38 for lunches for the week, as well as cold medicine and yogurt. And I still need to float a loan to katsuko so she doesn't overdraft on her doctor's visit tomorrow.

$25,300 a year doesn't cover all this...

Okay, enough whinging about money. I'm not sticking up a PayPal donation link here like I did on my LJ. That would be bad...

I would feel better, though, if Seven Seas Manga ever paid me for my last translation job for them -- back in fucking FEBRUARY. I'm getting "do another translation for us" emails -- and yet I still haven't been paid for the last one.

There's also 5 days left in JulNoWriMo. Yes, in the midst of all this packing -- and the first round of editing on Amaranth, I've also written about 43,000 words on Verdant. I'd say I'm about 6500 words from done. If I have another couple of nights like I did last night and the night before (2200 and 2500 respectively), I just might make it -- and maybe even have a night in there where I can get a normal amount of sleep before the move. I tell you: if I get my 50,000 words by the 30th, then I'll crash at about 8:00 on the 31st.

The plan is for Mum to come down on the 1st and help us with any last minute packing and, once we get the new key, maybe start moving some of the boxes over there. I'm probably gonna catch a wee bit of flak over how messy the place is. We've been letting clean slide while we got stuff packed. Speaking of cleaning, after the movers come (sometime between 10-6 on Saturday), we're going to do our cleaning of the old place on Sunday, 03 August, so that we can hand in our keys on Monday, 04 August.

Hopefully somewhere between 04 August and Wednesday, 06 August, my father and grandmother will arrive with the washer & dryer. Having to buy a new set is not on my fun time list of things I've always wanted to do. I'm also going to give them these two blue lamps to take back. I found some I like a lot better, though these were good for yard sale cheapies.

I guess what I'm saying is that I'm tired of being mismatched all over the place. I want a place that looks nice. For this I'm going to buy new slipcovers for the loveseat and the recliner and new throw pillows for the loveseat. I'm getting lamps that match everything else, color-wise. And stuff like that.

And now for back to work.