The BBC brings us news out of France that will stun you.

Well i'm away for the next week but i've uploaded a new Gaby chapter for you and for those that haunt my site there's an update there too.

So, you want to be a published author?

Yes please.

Fine. Let’s play twenty questions.

Okay.

Simple one first. Who are you?

Heyo! Your friendly neighborhood Jenn here with some random stuff to talk about. Job is going well at the new store, already feel like a valued member of the team. The manager who I respect and know outside of work as a friend, made an effort in the store meeting to convey to the staff that I was to be treated as a resource due to my long experience working for the company. He said he expected the others to go to me if any questions need answering, and a member of management is not available. He has asked me to take on new duties to bring the new store up to speed.

Does anyone know if Jenny Walker is working on anything new?

I've been working on what the weight loss place gave me for "homework", and in a week, I have already lost some weight. Hard to tell exactly how much on my home scale, but its a lot closer to 270 lbs than to 280 lbs, which is what I was a week ago.

I can do this, I can do this ....

Mom has had her surgery. They removed a tube or something, was hard to follow my Dad because he wasn't sure what all they had done either. She is doing okay, but they have more to do to her. So thank you for the prayers and hopefully the rest of her operations will go as smoothly.

I will try to get more Through the years out soon.

This day has had an enormous swing of emotions and since my only friends are on this site, I figured I would share them with you.

When I visit this site, there's a T in a blue box at the bottom right hand of my screen, like a google thing but it doesn't say google; plus I get little windows asking me to complete questionnaires. Is this official or have I picked up a bug?

Well, I had a very good night at work, and it helped beat back the negative self-talk I had been fighting with, and that's a good thing.

Totally off topic for BC, sorry Erin, but ...

AS a Wisconsinian, Wisconsinan, Wisconsiner, Wisconsinite(?) I must congrad UW-Madison going to the Rose Bowl.

As we drift towards 1900, I suppose it's apposite for me to enquire as to whether my readers want me to continue the saga, assuming Erin is happy to continue filling up her servers with my nonsense.

I was supposed to have a date today. I met a girl online and we have chatted and text for a few weeks. I was really looking forward to this date since I do not date much and she is a very attractive lady. I really liked her. Then Friday morning after I got home from work she sent me a text message saying that she could not go on the date, and that she had a boyfriend. Talk about a kick to the head. I text her back and told her that yes I was hurt by that and that I had been really looking forward to our date.

I'm no Cyclist, and the story I'm writing isnt likely to be as good as "Sweat and Tears", but .... well ... you'll guys see when its finished.

Sorry no YHIAW tonight, I'm really under the weather at the mo. Been in bed all day, only got up to take more painkillers and to write this short blog.

Hugs
Sammi

eBooks for my stories

Okay, so two more parts to go on Destiny.

The crystalhall forums seem to be down; all I'm getting is a blank page.

This is in my response to an earlier post to pick out the cover of my book.

The story is well underway again, as I've managed about 1500 words in the last 24 hours--remarkable considering that I write and edit as I go. My way of working helps--if one plot thread isn't going well, I need to do more research at a later time, I move on to another scenes. Yes, I view stories in movie terms--I have a large mental storyboard in which every plot point is mapped out.

eBooks for my stories

Well, a while back I uploaded eBooks for my stories 'Incompatible' and 'Transfigured' (both the original and revised version) here on the site.

There can be no doubt about it, I live with a vicious killer.

We all know homosexuality is a biological trait, right?

Not according to the people editing Charisma Magazine, who believe it's caused by something completely different.

Demon sex.

Here's a little bit of advice for everyone here in a serious relationship, man or woman, same sex or hetero.

More Gaby this week and the release of the first Nena photo book!

I have two new cover designs for God Bless the Child and wanted to get people's opinion on which one they like better. One is very similar to what is already up and one is completely new. If you don't like either that is a vote also, but you can't like both because that is unhelpful. I thank you .

Its my brother's birthday today, and we're going to his house to celebrate.

Its going to be the 2nd year in a row he gets a card from his sister, I wonder if he'll say anything?

Please wait for chapter 2 which explains chapter one a bit better. I know some of you feel I went overboard but I really didn't. I'm just setting the stage so to speak.

Sometimes you take the good with the bad: I think this limerick should be ok

I joined a place called B.C.
it is the kind of place for me
I tell a good tale
and some are for sale

The novel "Fifty Shades Of Grey" has seduced women - and baffled blokes.Now a spoof,

Fifty Sheds Of Grey, offers a treat for the men.

It may well be the magic of the Christmas season, or it may be that my depression has, for the moment, gone into remission. But the story I'm working on for the current contest promises to be not only the most ambitious and complex story I've ever done, but the most ambitious and complex story that stands a chance of being completed. (I even have a tentative title: The Christmas Ivy Bloomed--a title with a double meaning in this story).

Different 'Destiny' delay

I am trying to finish up the most recent chapter of Through the years, but life has decided to throw a few speed bumps my way. First of all, my mother is in a hospital in California and about to undergo open heart surgery. One of her heart valves is leaking. Problem is she's not in the best of shape. Osteoporosis and several falls has helped her get addicted to pain pills. So My Dad is worried that this may have been my mothers last Thanksgiving. He also has already given me the warning that he doesn't want me to come out there because of how tight money is.

I have mentioned the desire of doing this for quite awhile, but I finally had all my stories taken down from fictionmania. Normally I don't like to post what I do on one site on another, but I thought this was appropriate because I know of several authors who cross-post to both sites.

I wanted to explain my reasons and the final straw.

Well, a couple of days ago Kylie got a hold of me, which was good, since by then I was pretty much convinced I'd never hear from her again, and that she was going to go off herself.

I'm fairly sure that when reading almost anything we can all find something that we don't like. One of the things I find annoying is the misuse of the apostrophe. I have come across an interesting (at least to me) site that I think authors might find useful. Although a UK site, it does apply to American usage of our language.

http://www.eng-lang.co.uk/apostrophe_rules.htm

Ok folks this retail monkey needed a laugh today and got it. Read today's Skin Horse that last panel says it all. We are all hands on deck here at the store and smart phones are flying out the door. In most cases the devices are smarter than the purchasers. If any of you do Black Friday I hope you got some good deals to me this is just another day albeit a twelve hour one. Tired smiles, Jenn.

I have this great idea to put little postcards advertising my book in with my Christmas cards when I deliver the paper next week. My issue? I don't know how to format so the front and back side line up. Is anyone here proficient enough with Word/open office to format something like that for me. I want 9 per page so I can cut them out and put them in the paper (2.5x3.5). Thanks in advance.

****Sigh**** I wish I could have gone home to be with My Family for Thanksgiving,but they don't want anything to do with me.But at least I have all of U & Ur Stories on here.U all are like my family now,So Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Ellie and I have decided to merge our writings of Bikini Beach together and form what we will call, the "Canonical Writings" of Bikini Beach. It makes it easier for everyone to find our works in one place. As a helpful bonus, I have asked Sephrena to add a title page to the Bikini Beach series to point to all the fan fiction created for our universe and provide easy access to finding them as well.

So I guess now I need someone to turn my pile of ..., OUCH dottie quit that, well Bill's story into a book and then make a cover(i do have a picture in my head for it) and somehow post it to kindle or soemthing.

I am totally clueless in this requard so advise would be nice.

Thanks.

Cluck, cluck, cluck... Happy Thanksgiving.

I sent Crystal a copy of Birdman10's blog

This was Crystal's response to me.

Check out this Chinese grandfather and how he decided to help his granddaughter.

http://shine.yahoo.com/the-thread/grandfather-in-china-finds...

I've had a long held desire to see Gaby in Manga style and whilst i've yet to find a willing artist i thought a photographic travel guide might get the ball rolling!

Basically, the latest update to one of the background parts of Drupal broke the mini-editor or rather the mini-editor's integration into the editing box. The mini-editor is the string of little boxes above the editing window that lets you automate inserting structured HTML into your stories, blogs and forum posts.

The upcoming One Winter's Eve holiday contest is intriguing, so intriguing I want to use it to make my writing debut here. But as is typical for me, I'm stuck.

Yesterday, I had a total brain fart day. First, when I got to work, I realized I had forgotten to bring my shoes. This is a big deal, because we aren't supposed to be on the floor without steel toes.

Theoretically, they could have sent me home, but its Christmas rush, and they need every warm body they can get, so I was told to be extra careful, but to keep on going.

Then, at lunch, I discovered I had also forgotten to pack my pills, so that was a pain as well, and obviously a sign I had let all the stuff going on get me off focus.

I don't think anybody can understand what it's like to be accused of child abuse unless they have been accused or been very close to somebody who's been accused.

Well, I hit a new low, a good one. I am now down to 192 pounds, and holding. Now to get through Thanksgiving without putting any on, which is almost inevitable, but I have managed to keep the controlled loss going so far. I am planning stopping just short of anorexia, say under 170 pounds, then letting HRT put the fat back on where it will.