The No News is No News Purgatory Thread, Volume 9

*wave*

Not dead yet!

Back to working on MMwD on my lunch breaks. Waiting to hear from the cover artist on Second Olympus. (I found the most amazing clock that I'm hoping she can use on the cover. Hope hope hope!)

Got all my pinup pictures picked out, so once they're all airbrushed and prettified, I'll show you guys some of them.

Waiting for my performance review at work so I can find out how much my bonus & raise will be. They're all supposed to be done by the 27th, but of course, my boss hasn't bothered to schedule any meetings with me (or my partner) at all. The funds are supposed to be on our 3/5 paycheck, and if his screwing around delays mine, I'm going to be SOOOOO pissed.

I think that's about my life right now. Just waiting on everything.

*hugs* Tas. Fingers crossed for awesome cover art and getting bonuses/raises worked out.

I...collected the mother of all paperwork today and had to pay $30 just to download two old W2s from WM. Not very pleased about that. Now waiting on more emails and things to sign etc.

And as predicted, the payment of our bonuses has been pushed back to 3/12 and our raises won't show up til 3/19, which pretty much screws my entire life in a nutshell.

UGH, sorry to hear that, Tas! &#%@'d paperwork/red tape stuff.

So the venue fell through for our wedding. On to looking for another one.

Yeah, This was just very very very inexpensive. Right now found a bunch of venues that are double our wedding budget... One that's in our budget just 3 hours out which I'm fine with she's currently not. So I'll keep looking

Just popping in to say hello to the gang. We're really snowed in, with no mobility. Couldn't even get the doors open because of 12 to 14 inches of snow. Put my full body weight into the side door and managed a crack to get out. Brother-in-law drove up the 45 degree incline to the main road to go to work, but slid right back down and almost landed in the creek!

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Evening, all!

Maryn, yay for lack of bloodbaths.

Caleb, good luck with the venue! Hope you'll find something that both of you will like soon. Speaking of, we need to book our venue (park pavilion) on Monday, which is the first day we can book.

Oh, yeah, and we put the earnest money down for our condo today...

Evenin' folk!

Spent the first part of the day at kiddo's chess tournament. This is the all-girls tourney they do, and she came in 8th out of 40 girls in her age division. They cut the event short at 4 rounds (normally, there's 5) due to weather, and I'm vaguely disappointed that she didn't get to play that last round. She was on fire today. Won one game in 4 moves, and in another, took every single piece the other player had, except her king.

Got my pinup pics ordered (finally wound up with 14 choices instead of the 8 that came with the package. ) Can't wait to show some of them to you, when they get back from being all prettified.

Finally had my review on Friday (which was stellar) but still don't know about my raise or bonus because "that's not finalized yet". Should know Monday or Tuesday. Normally, I don't get this nuts about money, but we REALLY need it, right now.

Anyway. Life.

Yay for Tas' kiddo!

Good bonus mojo for you, too!

We did our taxes yesterday, which turned out great, so someone is going to order wedding rings, soon.

Also, we're planning some serious window-shopping at IKEA next weekend or so. Condo inspection scheduled for Thursday and we're excited to go through it all in great detail.

Calla Lily said:

Shit is indeed getting real, dys.

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No kidding!

I just had this realization that it's March! Which means we're getting married in like two months! The awesome thing is that we're really not stressed about it.

We'll finally be able to book the pavilion tomorrow and then we just need to craft a little more and have a cheesecake baking party with a friend who is an awesome baker. We'll be making 10 cheesecakes, including nutella cheesecake, oreo cheesecake, and raspberry cheesecake. Omnomnom.

Once again, we're sad that IKEA won't let anyone register with them officially, but we're trolling for IKEA giftcards instead, because hey, buying a place means we'll need all the things.

Anyway, going to actually get some writing done.

Maryn, can't you take the wine with you? Of course, then again, more wine!

I bought a delicious local mead for a birthday present yesterday and got us a bottle of peach wine from the same winery. Yum.

T doesn't drink much and she likes the fruity side of boozy things. Which is fine iwth me. We usually have at least some "girly drinks" on hand, including what our friends and us like to call "bitch beer". It's all good.

Also, I'm not sure what it says about me that one of the things I'm most excited about when getting our own kitchen is to put one of those IKEA vertical wine racks in it!