Hey, just checking in.

I want to thank everyone who has given me their opinion on the whole re-posting TIOGR to FP subject. I had pretty much already decided not to re-post even before I started reading your messages anyway, but you all helped me make the decision anyway.

Sorry for not being very responsive. I've been so, so busy the last few weeks, between unexpected family gatherings, working overtime, attending doctors appointments, dentist appointments, car appointments - all of which have cost me so much money that all I want to do is curl up into a fetal position and cry - I haven't had a whole lot of time to reply to the very kind people who have bothered to send me messages. I feel like a stuck-up bitch. But I have been SO INCREDIBLY STRESSED OUT from work this past week that I want to scream at the top of my lungs. And by the time I get home, I have no desire to write or social network (is the latter even a verb? Probably not. Bear with me. I'm drinking a Mike's Hard Lemonade on an empty stomach as I write this). I don't even have the desire to write this right now, but I'm doing it because I feel I need to.

For anyone here who has entered my "Make Me a Cover" contest (I think there's only one of you), please know that I am still working on getting it all together. It's just, when I planned out the deadline a couple of months ago, I had no idea how busy/stressed out I would be at this time. That's one reason why the deadline was changed (and now there is currently NO deadline). I feel really bad about that, but the voting WILL start some time! I PROMISE! Hm...maybe I could always ask my site members if any of them would be interested in becoming a moderator, and then helping me out with it. That is, if moderators can even do stuff like that on FreeWebs. I really have no idea what it means, I just noticed that in my site settings that I can turn any member I want into a moderator. Who knows? I'd probably get no volunteers, anyway.

Buuuuut...I think I might be starting to feel a little buzz off the Mike's. I tend to giggle a little, and then get very sleepy when I drink one. But that's usually when I'm eating something with it. But I haven't eaten in over 4 hours, so it might end up hitting me a little harder. I sure hope so. I HAD A REALLY CRAPPY DAY AT WORK TODAY!

It's 1:19 in the morning. I should go to bed or something.

Love and adore  you all!

I have this habit of signing up for websites, and then never really using them. First MySpace. Then Twitter. Now LiveJournal. Watch out Facebook - you may be the next website I sign up with, and then neglect!

So I am currently in the process of re-uploading all the chapters of TIOGR back to FictionPress. Does that make me stupid? Cuz here's the thing: it was plagiarized once, which means it could be plagiarized again. And by me putting it back on FP, that heightens the odds of that happening. But a lot of really great FP authors who were also plagiarized have removed their stories completely and...well...that just seems like the cool thing to do. And I want to be cool like everyone else! I don't want to be the one dork who is pretty much asking people to steal her stories by leaving them up on an unsecure website.

So I want to know, what is your honest opinion? Should I completely restore TIOGR to FP, along with the future rewrite of Once Bitten? Or should I continue to play it safe?

The reason I am asking is because I have yet to find another writing community that I can stand to be a part of. I miss FictionPress. I miss everyone there. I want to go back! And not just to post meaningless stories.

 Let me know what you think, please! I value each and every one of my readers' opinions!

Hey, so...I just signed up with Live Journal. Um...I don't know much about Live Journal, because I've never had one before, and I haven't been to too many others, so...bear with me while I figure everything out. Maybe I'm just getting old (I turn 29 in less than 3 hours!), but the LJ user interface doesn't seem as easy or friendly as, say, MySpace. That's probably why I've never bothered signing up here before.

But anyway. I'd like to maybe try posting my stories up here, but I can't even figure out how to make that stuff private, so that only friends can read it.

Not that it matters. I don't have any friends yet! *weeps*

Edit: Silly me. Just as I said that I didn't know how to make these things private, I just scrolled down a bit, and there it was. Duh!