Eye rolls

Before I get into it let me say happy birthday to sholio! I hope it's a great day.

As for me it was an annoying day. I need to recertify my income based repayment program with the loans. It's all new. FIrst you can't even find how to do it online. I had to email and ask. I gave it the info it wanted but that only allowed me to unlock the form i had to fill out. They don't want you to mail it unless you have to. They want you do it on line but then you have to sign up with the federal loan site. I did that but thenyou can't use it for days while they verify everything. Ugh.

Then I registered my new tires and the website they give you to it also has no way of getting to where you need to be. Had to get that via a chat.

So all around annoying day.

I did get in some shopping yesterday and picked up Hello Kitty OPI nail polish, pink sparkly, so unlike me.

Tomorrow is casino therapy.

If I had quit 10 minutes earlier

It would have been better. Ah well. I played for an hour on house money at the casino and only lost 20 by the end of nearly 3 hours. That's pretty damn amazing to be honest. I hit a few little jackpots that kept me going. And I had a slice of roasted cauliflower garlic/bacon pizza that was very yummy.

I got my edits on Corpse Powder but they got here so late I didn't do more than download them because if they're bad I'll be depressed right before bed. However, the editor who is a fan of mine (or at least is super encouraging in emails) said it was a nice story. I'll tackle it tomorrow.

I am vaguely annoyed by a couple of people on Jana's fb, mostly because they strike me as unprofessional. They tell you not to be negative on your social media as an author and that makes sense. Lately there are a couple who keep whining about quitting the business. One was really whining today and it amused me slightly that two or three people chimed in with yeah we got our royalty quarterly statement today too and left it at that (as if to make it clear they knew why there was this public angst exhibition and weren't playing along).

Yes, i whine occasionally (or more than occasionally) to you all but this is separate from my author persona and there is what about a dozen of you now? I don't do it on Jana's pages at all and I could. My royalties will barely buy me dinner (and wouldn't at red lobster). Am I disappointed? Sure. But I think in many ways I'm looking at this differently and trying to look at it even more differently, like a hobby I get paid for. I write what I like and hope at least a few people will like it too.

( TMI )