I don't have a good title, so here's a demotivational quote: "Pessimism: Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lighting kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it."

The good news is, we finally found a house to rent AND signed the lease, so we'll be moving in the next couple of weeks *sigh*. It's a decent house, from what I could see on the outside. Mom refuses to let me see the inside until the current tennents move out because, apparently, they put my slob ability to shame and she thinks I will back out and move away. Mess doesn't scare me. What scares me is that the house is only the second house down from a MAJOR street and the noise is phenomenal. That and the fact I'm worried about my kitties getting hurt or killed makes me really uneasy about the house. But there's nothing I can do about that, I guess.

Also slightly disappointing is that the house is only two streets down from Quincy St. That would have been freaking hilarious.

The nerd in me would have loved that. "Yeah I live on ____ Quincy St... *snicker*"

So close... D:


In the BETTER news of the week, Karissa of Karissa's Reading Review has agreed to review The Five Trials for me before I send it out to publishers. Having the review before the (hopeful) publication will prevent me from making the "Would have been a great book except for ____" mistake. I am very thankful for her help and will post the review as soon as she lets me know sometime in the coming months.

I also won one of her Spring Book Giveaway prizes, which makes me very happy since I never win anything. XD

In other news, my tablet pen gave out on me. I have been painting like crazy to calm myself down, and it has really helped. Unfortunately, I paint so much that the pen nib wore down to a tiny stub and I had to replace it with a fresh one. Apparently, I can't follow simple directions because now my pen doesn't work correctly. It either doesn't work at all or works in leaps and bounds and won't follow the movement on the tablet. All this right as I was about to finish detailing out the character in a painting I'm working on. I'd show it to you, but I don't want to ruin it for when I finally finish it.

Anyway, after calling Adesso multiple times and only getting the busy signal, I finally gave up on ever getting the help line to tell me what to do. So I started looking for a replacement pen. WHY is it impossible to find a new pen? Apparently, this particular pen only comes equipped with the tablet.

I wish I had the money to just give up and buy a Wacom tablet. No one ever complains about problems with them. Sadly, they run in the multiple hundreds of dollars... If I got a few commissions, I would buy one with the earnings and look at it as a business investment, but without THIS particular painting, I don't really stand a chance.

Enough ranting for now. I have to get some more work done.

PS if anyone is bored and can help me find a pen solution, I would be very grateful.