Guys, sorry I haven't been about. Honestly, I don't know when I'll be back for good.

Real Life has been kicking my ass and I'm not dealing well with the whole thing. This is the first time I've been online in forever. And in all reality, I really want to go lay down and not stare at the shiny screen.

But I miss you all. I hope this funk ends soon.

I love you all...

~Blue

Sorry I've been missing.

Between kids, work, rehearsal, planning my much needed vacation, working on the contracts for my book that I've been writing for years, being sick and my cat finding her babies...it has been rather hellish.

My kids start school in three weeks, so that is always a cluster. My eldest starts middle school...the HORROR!!!

Work is work. It can be as multifaceted as the names of the Seven Dwarves. There is Stinky, Bitey, Barky, Pissy, Shitty, Growly, and Legs-Painted-On.

Rehearsal is going well. Can't say much more than that.

Disney is only seven weeks away. I've never been and I'll most likely never go like this again. My Faerie Godmother and her Amazing Husband are just like...woah! They've paid for everything and all I have to pay for is a couple meals and all the crap I can buy. We will also be there for Mickey's Not-So-Scary-Halloween party and I'm rather excited about that.

About my book. Well, that is still in the plotting and planning stage. I've written in it for years but have nixed most of it as I refine the universe. I swear this book will be burned by the BEST churches!

And finally, the kittens. As it turns out, there is a *ahem* questionable family that live two doors down. Their kids are animals and they are only outnumbered by the real animals. This past Friday, one week after the kittens had disappeared, Miss Molly, the momma cat, was seen walking around the neighbours yard. panicked_panda's husband spied her there, which was odd because she never leaves our yard.

Saturday morning, as we are about to leave for the theatre, we hear kitten cries. They were under the house. I saw my ginger one and she is FAT! Fatter than a five week kitten should be. Now, I know they were missing and not under the house all this week. Her belly showed no signs of being sucked on, but now it does. She must have spent all day Friday going back and forth grabbing her babies.

She hasn't left them all weekend. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to get them out from under the house. But they're home! I know that whoever took them was feeding them and taking care of them, but they weren't theirs to begin with. I've only seen two of them, I can only hope she got all five.

I should have a chapter for you all soon. I promise. I just took a mental health day, seeing as how my allergies were acting up and I haven't had a day to veg out in a long while.

Love you all, and if you haven't already, go sign up for harryslash. We will be having a writing challenge soon.

~Blue

Someone stole five, one month old kittens from my front yard. I live in the country, what the fuck!!!

This makes me utterly sick. We were keeping them all. The ginger one was mine. I'd named her Tonks.

I hate the world right now.

Webkinz!

Fucking, addicting, silly, Webkinz!

( I really need help. )

Well, as you all know, or possibly didn't, I got a paying gig to play an HP character this Friday night at the Hastings bookstore in Odessa, TX. I thought of who I could pull off and realized that Tonks would be the best bet.

So, without further ado...(ado, ado, ado) I give you the Tonks that everyone said I should go for. (The choices being PinkShortHairedBook!Tonks or PurpleLongHairedMovie!Tonks)

( Pink )

Again with the disappearing...I know. I suck AND blow. (But you didn't hear that from me.)

I won't make excuses, you all know that they are beginning to sound the same anyway, so here is the chapter

( Chapter Fifteen )

Just watched Utopia.

GAH! Nothing more to say!

~Blue

All right, so I haven't gotten around to unlocking my LJ. I will...eventually! To anyone who has asked to be friended and I have not, please kick me with another email. I think I may have forgotten someone.

This next chapter is given with much love. My beautifully, wonderful beta carpet_diemon went through the trouble of using true Chaucer-y words in the small bit of text that Severus reads. And about the book he is reading. That book, and title, have been apart of my writing for many years. If I remember correctly, one of my original D&D characters used to have one. Best damn book ever!

Okay, I'll shut up so you can read. Enjoy!

( Chapter Fourteen )

As you have all guessed by now, I'm rather mad.

I would have bet you all my first born that I had sent some work off to my beta. I waited, figuring my lovely carpet_diemon was just busy and couldn't get around to working on it. Alas, I am a fool.

I hadn't actually mailed ANYTHING off to her. GAH! So, until I hear back from her, I am chapter-less. But do not blame her, for it is me, El Stupido, that is to blame.

In the mean time, I can bore you with this bit if odd and useless information.

I have recently gone pseudo-vegetarian. My roommate and myself have decided that we need to shed some pounds. We still have the occasional montly slab of beef to satisfy the carnivore within, but we usually eat fish or chicken. (I did say pseudo-vegetarian. Hey, this is the best you get when you take away my pasta and breads!)

Mostly we eat vegetables. I just finished making a steaming pot of ratatouille. My kids are loving it as well. I think I have the only veggie loving four year old on the planet. You should have seen her drool over the eggplant!

On a totally silly and unrelated note, my four year old daughter invented a word. I love this word so much that we've actually gotten people to use it. I want to hear the world use it.

This lovely and interesting word is...Fraturday.

Fraturday begins around 5pm on Friday and encompasses most of Saturday (and part of Sunday for those really WILD weekends.) I love this word. Every Friday, after work, we cry, IT'S FRATURDAY! I think this is a wonderful way to explain the weekend.

Granted, the weekend has a name, it is weekend. But there is somethiing fun and wonderful about Fraturday.

I want you all to embrace this word, to use it at every opportunity. Try it in a sentence.

"Hey, can't wait for Fraturday to begin." "What are you doing this Fraturday?"

It is fun. This time next year, I fully expect for this word to be heard on the Colbert Report or Talk Soup.

~Blue (Off to write like a mad-woman. If you only knew the evil I had planned...)

ETA: I will most likely unlock my story very soon. I've just been so busy with work and the play to even think about it. I love you all!

I have no choice but to F-Lock my LJ until this madness that plagues our fandom disappears.

Mind you, I do not write anything that may show up on their radar, but to support my friends who do, I will go into hiding for a bit.

I will friend anyone who is a reader of In Darkness Let Me Dwell. Just drop me a line.

Again, I am sorry about this, but as usual, one idiot has to go and ruin it for the rest of us.

~Blue

Hey guys...cool news.

I was cast in a production of Alice in Wonderland. I'm a member of The Globe Theatre of the Great Southwest and Alice is one of the plays we are doing for the Shakespeare Festival, along with A Night at the Theatre and Hamlet. (I do not know why it is the Shakespeare Festival with only one Shakespeare.)

I'll be playing the Frog-Footman. (I had to go read the book again, just so I could remember him. I'm happy with the part.) On the plus side, I get paid for it. The Globe gets a grant for the Festival and the non-equity actors get paid a stipend.

With all that said, here is what you are really here to read, ( Chapter Twelve )

As I promised...

( Chapter Ten )

( Chapter Nine )

ETA: I have fixed the text twice. I do not know why it is italicizing EVERYTHING. And the last two paragraphs keep jumping from where they belong. I'll try to fix them tomorrow. I am very sorry.) (

ETA2: I think I fixed it.)

I promise, I will post at least once a week. Life is, as usual, complicated. But as I've said before, this story is complete. It is really just a matter of me getting off my sorry arse and typing it, editing content and sending it to carpet_diemon to beta.

So, if you can all bear with my slowness, I promise it will be worth it.

Enough of that...make with the chappy!

( Chapter Five )

Here is the next chapter, my dear lovely f-list.

~Blue

( Chapter Four )