Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my F-List! This has been a tough year for all of us, but we're still here, and I want to send you all virtual hugs. *squishes
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No trouble at all. Send them through to mfindlow27@gmail.com. I've been trying to get a backlog of old fics posted to start the year fresh, but I've also got my Fffc Bingo Card to finish - 100 prompts and I set them at 1000 words each, due by 31 Dec. Only 5 to go. I'd like to move more into larger projects next year, finishing off things I started years ago. There are some good things going on in those drafts so I'd like to be able to find some space to do them justice. Christmas was a pretty standard affair for us (lockdown or not it would have been exactly the same!) but my aunty did drop by on Christmas eve for a cuppa so it was nice to see her after about 7 months. One of my nice bosses even took our team out for lunch on the last day. I wasn't going to go into the office at all but he insisted he really wanted to thank us. After the anxiety of being in a restaurant with crowds the week before (I treated two of my own staff who were in the office same day as me, and that place was crowded - I couldn't get out of there fast enough) I really hadn't wanted a repeat, but we were out in the beer garden and people were pretty well spaced so it wasn't too bad. It just feels weird to go out and eat anywhere after so many months of lockdown. 56 days with no community transmission cases but I think mentally normal is going to take more readjustment.
Just sent them to you, thanks so much for helping out despite your own writing commitments!
Wow, that's a HUGE undertaking, good luck with finishing them. 100k is really going to bump up your word count for the year. I thought I was doing well, but you leave me in the dust *grins* Right from the start you've inspired me!
Glad your Christmas has been good, and that your area is pretty safe now, but yes, getting back to any kind of normality will be tough. A few months ago my area had one of the lowest new case rates in the country, but now it's one of the worst. Our government did too little too late and we're all paying the price, plus there are too many stupid people about.
I don't know what I was thinking when I picked up the Bingo card in July. I think I must have been worried I wouldn't meet my pledge. Then Spook_me came along and that turned into a 50k story, so I spent 7 weeks pulling that together and in November thought, how am I going to finish this card having not touched it for a two months? But I stuck to my 15 prompts per month (somehow??) and now I've only got 2 to go. I might need some beta assistance myself. I imagine Christmas was pretty quiet at yours? Have you seen you sister since lockdown?
Well, I'm pretty sure you must be past your goal by now! *grins*
I feel terrible that I have fics to beta for two people but between the lack of heat and trying to adjust to this new mini laptop and Windows 10 I haven't even started the first of the three fics. The two ladies are very understanding but I'd like to get at least one done and sent back before the end of the year. Everything's just piled up on me the last couple of months, and being without heat for over a month now is no fun at all.
Christmas was me, on my own, doing the same things I do every day while trying to keep warm. There was just a bit more TV involved. I've spoken to my sister on the phone, but she works in a hospital, so does my niece, and they're 50 miles away, sensibly not traveling out of the town she lives in. Haven't seen her in nearly 2 years. Not that I mind, we've never been all that close. Occasional phone calls are enough.
No trouble at all. Send them through to mfindlow27@gmail.com.
I've been trying to get a backlog of old fics posted to start the year fresh, but I've also got my Fffc Bingo Card to finish - 100 prompts and I set them at 1000 words each, due by 31 Dec. Only 5 to go. I'd like to move more into larger projects next year, finishing off things I started years ago. There are some good things going on in those drafts so I'd like to be able to find some space to do them justice.
Christmas was a pretty standard affair for us (lockdown or not it would have been exactly the same!) but my aunty did drop by on Christmas eve for a cuppa so it was nice to see her after about 7 months. One of my nice bosses even took our team out for lunch on the last day. I wasn't going to go into the office at all but he insisted he really wanted to thank us. After the anxiety of being in a restaurant with crowds the week before (I treated two of my own staff who were in the office same day as me, and that place was crowded - I couldn't get out of there fast enough) I really hadn't wanted a repeat, but we were out in the beer garden and people were pretty well spaced so it wasn't too bad. It just feels weird to go out and eat anywhere after so many months of lockdown. 56 days with no community transmission cases but I think mentally normal is going to take more readjustment.
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Wow, that's a HUGE undertaking, good luck with finishing them. 100k is really going to bump up your word count for the year. I thought I was doing well, but you leave me in the dust *grins* Right from the start you've inspired me!
Glad your Christmas has been good, and that your area is pretty safe now, but yes, getting back to any kind of normality will be tough. A few months ago my area had one of the lowest new case rates in the country, but now it's one of the worst. Our government did too little too late and we're all paying the price, plus there are too many stupid people about.
Thanks again. Stay safe and well!
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I don't know what I was thinking when I picked up the Bingo card in July. I think I must have been worried I wouldn't meet my pledge. Then Spook_me came along and that turned into a 50k story, so I spent 7 weeks pulling that together and in November thought, how am I going to finish this card having not touched it for a two months? But I stuck to my 15 prompts per month (somehow??) and now I've only got 2 to go. I might need some beta assistance myself.
I imagine Christmas was pretty quiet at yours? Have you seen you sister since lockdown?
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I feel terrible that I have fics to beta for two people but between the lack of heat and trying to adjust to this new mini laptop and Windows 10 I haven't even started the first of the three fics. The two ladies are very understanding but I'd like to get at least one done and sent back before the end of the year. Everything's just piled up on me the last couple of months, and being without heat for over a month now is no fun at all.
Christmas was me, on my own, doing the same things I do every day while trying to keep warm. There was just a bit more TV involved. I've spoken to my sister on the phone, but she works in a hospital, so does my niece, and they're 50 miles away, sensibly not traveling out of the town she lives in. Haven't seen her in nearly 2 years. Not that I mind, we've never been all that close. Occasional phone calls are enough.
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