Apologies

I'm sorry,  I took an unplanned hiatus from...  pretty much everything online.

Here's the situation:  I've got two kids, one of which is very high maintenance.  My days are usually taken up by taking care of them or doing housewifey stuff.  When I have time and mental energy I'll sign on and RP or write.  Otherwise it's not going to happen.

I've got a couple of plots in mind for her, one of which will be ficced (tag: man in the long black coat), the other is basically that she has found a map to something called 'The Key Of Time' (tag: key of time), which she's curious about, and will go searching for it.  It's basic adventure and nothing heavy about it.  Of course, she's open to other stuff too.

But things will be slow, except on Monday and Wednesday mornings, naptime and nights.  I hope taking this new approach works, and that my friends stick with me through this :)  I'm not asking anyone to be a part of anything, though it's open, I'm simply letting everyone know what's going on, because my character would talk about them to her friends.

Chinchillas

The gentle sounds of jazz, and the click clacking of a keyboard were the only sounds that filled the small room late one afternoon.  Janie lay on a hammock, using an old laptop to play internet games and to go on internet search tangents.

With no motivation to do any work, she continued to type and click her mousepad, until her phone rang.

The hammock flipped when she reached for the ringing phone, and she and her laptop tumbled to he ground.  Janie glanced t the now ruined LCD screen then answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"mom?"  asked Lynn, in a tiny voice 

"Sweetie?  What's wrong?"

"My room is filled with chinchillas"  she said, quietly and evenly "They multiply when I try to get rid of them."

"...How?"

"Mom, help!"

"Have you tried giving them away?"

"No."

"Try that.  Why didn't you call your Dad?"

"Because you... won't ask questions."

"Call me if you have trouble...  I'm working."

"Mom?"

"Yes?"

"Do you want a chinchilla?"

"No"

Janie hung up, and hurried out, before Lynn could convince her.  Later that evening, she worked on a different laptop, with one of the pets in her lap.