The great mystery of the missing rollerball insert.

Me: *after returning home from picking up a prescription and some sugar so I can bake cookies later**so now totally exhausted, of course*: I can’t find my rollerball pen insert. It was right here, right beside my notebooks. I brought it inside along with the pen because I was fairly certain the ink was running thin in the pen. I left it on the kitchen table, made a bunch of notes, ate lunch, ran out to the pharmacy/store, and now I’m sitting back down to research transmutation and thusly noticing that the pen is indeed running a little thin on ink. And I’ve looked for the insert. I swear I’ve looked everywhere. And now I’m getting a trifle concerned that the puppy might have eaten it. Like it rolled off the table at some point, and I didn’t notice because I was playing with my notebooks and building a lexicon, and Molly Millions gobbled it up. Oh God, should I mention it to Michael? No, keep looking. *Gets attacked multiple times by said puppy while crawling around on the floor under the table and while attempting to look under the couch.* Shake out the notebooks. Again. No insert. Okay. Pile the notebooks neatly just in case the insert is hiding – stop, that’s the fourth time you’ve done that Meghan! There is no pen insert anywhere on the table or the floor! It’s in the puppy’s belly! You’ve poisoned Molly! Okay, Okay. Just breathe. If Molly ate the insert, then what? Can she actually pass it? Or if punctured, and you know she punctures everything, is it enough ink to poison her? Should I call the vet? Okay, calm down. Don’t mention it to Michael. Yet. Google it. Okay, Google. Right. That’s easier done on my laptop.

*puts Molly on a leash. Heads outside to my office shed. Momentarily held up by puppy, who suddenly wants to play, then finally manages to hook her on her outdoor run leash thingy and make it into the office*

*Walks up to desk*

“Looks down*

Also me: Right. Okay. Cool, cool, cool. Apparently, I DIDN’T bring the insert inside with me.

Not as much of a mystery, or possible deadly poisoning as I thought. But, hey? Solved it.

😂

In other news, Recon Misson: Bee (Amplifier 5.5) is off to SFG (aka the editor) for story edit (along with the notes from the sensitivity reader, Natasha Lane), and auditions are slowly coming in for the audiobook. I ran a poll in the reader-run fan Facebook group and discovered that a few lovely readers would still like to purchase Adept Universe sticker sets, as well as six-packs (without foil) of the character cards I’m slowly designing with Memo’s sketches, so I’ll try to have some of each in my store by the end of the month. And it is possible I’ll do a foil card option as well, just because I want it. Ha.

Until the editor drops Instincts and Imposters (Amplifier 5) back in my inbox, I’ll probably work on my space opera side project, the Echo Saga, for the next couple of days. I already have the first two episodes (a novella and a novelette) written.