Yahoo! Ate My Mail

Today I was in a little funk. Distracted. Didn't get enough pages done at Starbucks. Went to Target ... just ... because. Came home and got lost in internet nonsense for a while. Watched The Mentalist. Drooled over Simon Baker. But even his yummy blond goodness couldn't shake my funk.


Finally, after primetime, I grabbed my Alphasmart and dug in to write the rest of my quota for the day. It took less than two hours. Then I pulled out my laptop, ready to download my 13 pages, when I saw my email count. 71 NEW MESSAGES

Um, what? I had no new messages when I started writing two hours ago, no there's 71? How did that happen? I imagined all sorts of crazy things that might have occurred in the world at large to prompt this mass emailing.

Until I looked closer.

Some of the messages dated back to November 7. They included Facebook updates and notices of comments on the blog (I had seen the comments and wondered why I'd gotten no email). Some of them were even important messages about contests and other things. They were all messages from my Yahoo! account, which I have forwarded to my Gmail account. And they hadn't been delivered for almost five days!

There was even an email from my fabulous agent sent yesterday. Just this one email would have totally defunked my day. (In this context, defunking is a good thing. As opposed to a situation in which one loses their funkiness.)

So, I blame you, Yahoo!, for my restlessness today.

Also, it is pouring outside. I love a good storm.

Hugs,
TLC