*Yawn* I'm Awake! Yes!

On the off-chance that THIS time the pool guy really does show up (and even if he doesn't, the pool supplies delivery is supposed to happen at some unspecified time of day) I got up when I woke, instead of trying to go back to sleep.

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I'm going to buy some ebooks from http://drolleriepress.com. Now through the 17th the books are $1.99 (or less in some cases). The books range from urban romantic fantasy to modern horror with varied supernatural aspects. I prefer gentle fantasy, and have found 8 that look quite nice. The site offers excerpts of most of the books- some quite lengthy- so you can get a good idea whether you'll like it before you buy it. I read at least some of all the excerpts and they were all uniformly very well written, even the ones that didn't match my preferences.

I intend to buy Angela Kamma'ti's 'Faerie Blood', Sarah Avery's 'Atlantis Cranks Need Not Apply' and 'Closing Arguments', Meredith Holmes' 'Unseelie', Heather Parker's 'Middlewitch', Cindy Lynn Spear's 'The Chocolatier's Wife' and 'Every Word I speak' as well as Rachel de Vienne's 'Pixie Warrior'. While I have chosen works by female authors only, there are male writers as well (they seem to tend towards the horror line, which isn't my thing.)

( BBC wants me, etc. )

ARGGGH. I don't know what went wrong with the book order.

I ordered a bunch of books from Drollerie press (and discovered there are other imprints for other types of books- Drollerie is just fantasy). After I made an account they sent me an email with a code for 10% more off, so I took my time looking & added another book to pay for, and 5 (I think) free short stories, too. It was a bit slow shopping, as 'return to shopping' button didn't take me back to the full list, but to the last book I purchased. The discount code worked, and it offered to let me use PayPal. I remembered I had about $100 in my PayPal account & decided I might as well use $15 of it. It told me the order was successful, BUT it gave me NO order number, and emailed me Nothing, and gave me no way to download the books! It said I could check my order in my account-- well, NO I couldn't. There was no order information, just my account name. So I tried back-buttoning to my order (berating myself for being so trusting as not to copy the page when I was on it.) It wouldn't allow me to go back, to even view it. My cart is now empty.

RATS! I spent 2 hours doing this!!! I emailed the customer service. We'll see if/when they get back to me. If they can't give me the books, they can return the money to my PayPal.

Am fading fast...

Getting nowhere with the Drollerie books- the email for support hasn't been answered, the 800 number rings constantly busy, the chat is an empty, echoing vault...

( zzzzzzz )

Rectangular Servalan

I tried setting the mosaic for plain rectangular pieces instead of jigsaw shapes. I think I like the jigsaws better- they blend more organically.

But I wasn't going to throw out a Servalan!

Note: I did finally get the ebooks. Cust. service emailed them to me. But I was too tired to read them. (Ankles puffed again- *sigh*- I need to get this pool business overwith so I can sleep properly.) If I ever order from Drollerie again, I'll definitely copy the order page info before finalizing it. And I will NEVER use PayPal on the Drollerie site again. (Even tho I doubt it was PayPal's fault.)

Also, I went to Yuletide (obscure and small fandom fic challenge) & nominated: Drake's Venture, Blake's 7, Forever Knight, Ladyhawke, Dark Shadows and RPF 16-17th Century. I really don't think I'll get my act together enough to write, but I didn't want to let down the DV side.

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