Slacker!!!

Welcome to the home of the slacker. Those of you who read this are pretty much narrowed down to my loyal fanfiction fans who, without a doubt, deserve an updated chapter on time once in a while, especially when I say I'm going to post an updated chapter for a story.

Those of you who are waiting for these chapters, feel free to stretch me out on the rack and apply the hot oil. I even give you permission to drag out the iron maiden, for I am a slacker, and because of my procrastinating ways, I deserve it!

But before you tie me to a stake and burn me alive, let me assure you that the reasons for not updating are nothing but excuses, but they are good ones.

Last week, I got fired from my new job at the local bistro because they decided they couldn't afford to hire me after all. This in turn, sparked a fatalist mood in me. I cannot keep a job. I have a great personality, am good with people, and I work hard. I am, however, prone to sloth on the worst of my days. (Of course, the woman that fired me did so after I asked her about the possibility of me making a short trip this past weekend to Washington for my husbands family reunion. She threw a fit about it, I debated for the better part of an entire day on whether I should just go or stay home and send the rest of my family on the way. Before I had the chance to call her and inform her that I would be coming to work on Sunday, she called me and told me she had no use for me. It's her loss, and no matter how badly you want it, when you run a small business that is just getting on it's feet, there is no such thing as a day off, whether you hire someone you can't afford to hire or not just to get it.) The best of it, was that I even offered to trade another girl that worked during the week! BEFORE I went! and I was brand new! I wasn't sure that I could keep up on a week day, but I was going to try my damndest to do it, new or not. I was determined! Then she verbally smacked me in the face saying there was no way in hell that I would cut it on the weekday, even if I managed to trade someone which was highly impossible, and that I had to do what I had to do.

I HATE THAT FUCKING LINE! Do what you have to do. Do what you fucking have to do. I didn't have to hop in the car and drive 300 something fucking miles to see people that I barely know or haven't met at all. I didn't have to do anything. I did it because I love my husband, my inlaws, and it was my husband's grandmother's birthday, and she was wanting to see her great grandkids. And being that she's been sick and in the hospital so much this past year, I thought it was most definately a damn good idea to travel up there and see her again, just in case it was the last time we could. I didn't have to do anything, but you'd think that a woman with a family would understand the importance of something like that. and it's not like I knew in advance, either. The day I found out about it, I went and talked to her about it to see if it was okay.

"Well, I'll just have to work that day. Do what you have to do." Well excuse me. Because of that snotty voice and that fucking stupid, overused line, I was prepared to make her happy instead of my family and stay home. I was going to make my husband take my children up those three hundred something miles by his self so that they wouldn't be disapointed and think that I was just keeping him away. Yes, I was trying to win browny points from my inlaws, because I have the distinct feeling that they just don't like me very much. I wanted to prove to them that I wasn't as antisocial as I proved to be at first. Screw that all to fucking hell, I have to make my new boss happy. And she fires me not a minute before I was getting ready to give her a call.

...bitter? me? no. Just venting. I'm sorry, you guys. Anyway, so I got fired, then I spent the weekend with inlaws and away from internet access, and now I'm sicker than snot with a head and chest cold.

Hopefully, when I'm better I'll be able to finish the next chapter to The Tracker for you guys. In the meantime, I'm sorry for making your eyes bug out. This is a journal and I intend to use it for the occasional rant and rave. >.<

I'll hopefully have something up for you very soon.

Take care all!

Firesblood

Weekly Update #5

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  Cracks in the Ice: SS/HG- Hermione and Severus form a bond and are thrust into events where nothing is as it seems, even themselves.

Status: Complete revision in progress; Working on Chapter 5.
Publish Date expected: January, 2009

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  Prisoner of Time: GW/TR- Ginny goes to 1943 to retrieve a medicinal plant that will cure Hogwarts of a sickness, and meets a young Tom Riddle.

Status: Complete revision in progress; Working on Chapter 3.
Publish Date Expected: February, 2009

• Kindness: DM/HG- Voldemort has won the war and Hermione Granger has come into his possession. Will Draco make good on the unspoken life favor between himself and Harry Potter, or will he decide that Hermione is better suited in other ways?

Status: Hiatus.
Next Update Expected: November/December 2008

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  Evolution: SS/HG- After accepting a position as the Charms Professer, Hermione Granger returns to Hogwarts, but not before she reads a scathing article about her by Rita Skeeter and decides to make some rather cliche changes to her appearence.

Status: Hiatus.
Next Update Expected: Unknown

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  Just Like Me: Riddick/Jack(Kyra)- Riddick goes to Crematoria to get Jack, and discovers that he might have done more damage in leaving than he would have in staying. Together, Riddick and Kyra must find a way to stop the Necromongers and accept the past in all it's forms, along with the monster it has turned them into.

Status: Chapter 12 in Progress.
Next Update expected: January, 2009. Again, I'm sorry for the update push-back. This story is really kicking my ass. Just bear with me for a little while longer and I'll have something for you.

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  The Tracker: Unknown Pairing at this time- Nix Grant, tracker and 'Domino' Bounty Hunter is hired by Weyland-Yutani to help find and capture one of the Yautja, and one of the Xenemorphs. However, after coming face to face with a Yautja, Nix discovers the complexity of such a species and yearns to learn more. But first, she must prove herself worthy.

Status: Chapter 11 in progress.
Next Update Expected: October 26, 2008, Sorry it's been spaced so far apart lately. Don't worry, I'm still rolling with this one, it's a matter of finding the ellusive thing called time, now.

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Hey all, I need a slap on the wrist. I told you that I would be updating this weekly, and I haven't updated in...gods know how many weeks.



Thus far, I have been adrift in the choppy waters of unemployment yet again, stuck in the limbo of indecision; do I get another job that makes me so miserable I could just puke, or do I go to college now instead of five or so years from now when my children are in school? Choices, choices.



As of now, I have an extremely part time job working Sundays at a local Bistro, and it's nice. It definately keeps me busy and I'm one of those weird people that actually like to feel like their working for their money. I hate desk jobs. I hate sitting on my ass all day taking calls or whatever else people do at desk jobs. I like jobs where I feel like I'm actually doing something, and I can see the proof of that right in front of me. Application, people! Must have application!



But anyway, I've been looking for jobs and taking care of sick children and a sick husband for the last little while, and time has been escaping me. On top of that, insomnia has kicked into my system yet again, and has been ruthless, so I haven't been getting the sleep that I need to function. The good news about that is I get some of my best ideas when I'm exausted (or when I'm around water for some reason). The bad news is, that being exausted pretty much makes it so that I have absolutely no ambition to do anything. Fear not, though, for I have recieved the gift of sleep from my mother, in the form of little blue pills that taste like alum that she got over the counter at walmart. So, hopefully, that little problem will be taken care of. I'm much more motivated when I have eight or more hours of sleep.



Those of you who are following The Tracker, prepare yourselves...It's about to get a little rocky in the upcoming chapters. I have the beginning of the chapter started, and I should have it finished by friday, I'm hoping, but we'll see.



Anyhow, if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask and I will answer them. This includes, but is not limited too, questions about stories, whether it be something you don't understand, something you can't pronounce, or even something you are wonder or hoping about.



Thank you all for your time and for reading this much overdue update!





Firesblood

P.S. For anyone that is interested, I'm looking for a BETA for 'The Tracker', so if you are interested, leave me a message in the comment box at the end of this entry. I could really use the input. Also, if anyone has any ideas or wants, post them there as well and I'll see what I can do to possibly fit them into the story.