I’ve been meaning to do this for weeks, but for various reasons, never got around to it. Moving everything to another domain was supposed to only be a temporary solution, not as long term as it has been.

Well, I’m fixing that now. In a few moments/hours, all my links should be converted over to http://www.katherinebell.net/blog/, instead of Boheme Amies. The subdomain http://www.blog.katherinebell.net will send everyone to that site instead of here.

Trust me: there is method to this madness. There will also be the added upshot of everything being on the same domain again.

So the long and short of this post is, please check http://www.katherinebell.net/blog/ for updates from now on. Thank you.

It’s not every day that I update Bell, Book, and Candle before I update Thoughts of a Struggling Writer. To some extent, the reasons behind all this are very simple:

1) I only update BBaC when I have writing news to share. This is my more all around journal: still concerning writing, but also fanficcing, reading, the pleasures of working in a public university, and other such bits of trivial joy.
2) I was on BBaC deleting entirely too many spam messages for the number of comments (read: zero) received, so whilst I was there, I did a quickie update.

I have entertained notions of being rid of BBaC and linking this journal to my author website. I’ve even thought about copying all the posts over to it. Of course, the nice thing about being a domain owner is that I could do some interesting domain masking tricks and have this blog show up under the URL for BBaC and hide it away that way. I do update this more frequently after all.

And in other news, I felt so proud of myself for writing as much as I did on Verdant at the doctor’s yesterday. At least, I was proud till I realized I only wrote about 500 words. Till I get to feeling better, I can’t guarantee how much I’ll be able to get done writing-wise. My concentration is shot, I’m exhausted all the time, I’m palming Tums like they’re candy, I can’t seem to catch my breath, my shoulders are a constant ache, and my bottle of ibuprofen is disappearing fast. That was why I was writing at the doctor’s yesterday. My (non-primary) doc and I think it might be a bad reaction to some medicine I was taking. We’ve switched me to another one now. Here’s hoping it works better. And we’ll see what my primary doctor has to say when I go to see him later in the month.

I think it might be about time for a new layout here. This one is just so… pastel. I’m not a pastel person; Lizzy is, but not me. I much prefer darker, deeper colors. So next time someone comes to check this the colors may have changed… again. Too many options, not enough time to test them — and none of them exactly to my liking. (I know: it sounds like an entitled Yuppie thing to say, of which I like to think I am neither – especially not a Yuppie, seeing as how I grew up in a town with less than 100,000 people in it – but I’m the one that looks at this blog the most. I would like it to be pleasing to my eye.)

And that was a ramble and a half. Wow, whoops.

Anyway, I have an hour and a half left until it’s time for me to head out for the day. In that time, I plan to look at new layouts, try to write, and attempt to stay awake. Why, oh why isn’t it the weekend yet?

My browser is lagging like a sonuvabitch. Seriously, I type something and I see it about two or three minutes later. Very annoying, that.

I’m debating on moving my main journal either here or my InsaneJournal. The sheer amount of vitriol on the friends page of my main journal makes me want to either abandon it and start over or completely dump all the “friends” I have on there and start over. Of course, all the business changes there make me lean more towards the former than the latter.

I’ve gotten a little written here and there on Verdant. Not as much as I would like to have, but I think it might be wise to hold off on it till I hear something positive about Amaranth and any changes that might need to be done to it. I think, if nothing else, I’m going to try to finish it for April Novel Writing Month or July Novel Writing Month. JulNoWriMo is more likely. It gives more time to hear back from all those agents and publishers I sent off to.

At least my kitties love me. Today, especially Aya. She gets into these moods where all she wants to do is love, love, love. Today, that’s quite okay. Some days, that’s exactly what I need.

In the meanwhile, I’m going to start scribbling on some of the fanfiction novellas I started a few years ago. I also have an original idea that I might start on soon. I’m tentatively calling it “Arcana“, thought all I have is a blurb:

I don’t know which is weirder: getting turned into a creature that I thought was myth — or really bad Hollywood — till a week ago, or getting stuck in the middle of nowhere with a redneck wannabe Ghostbuster, or the fact that there may or may not be someone out to kill us…

Now to deal with great heaping tons of kitty affection and maybe make dinner.

Also, I am proud of my new layout.