Memories of What Never Was Chapters 21-23

I did a bit of revising in Chapters 21 and 22 and reposted them, and I also got Chapter 23 finished and posted and you can find them at the bottom of this page if you're so inclined to read them.

Work has been epically harsh these last few months.  I've been working 2-3 extra hours a day because my mail route has grown to be absolutely gigantic over the last year, combined with the added packages from amazon.  We also had a mail count about a month ago, where they count every single piece of mail, every single magazine, every single package, every single second that I spend doing anything all day long, measuring every step that I take, to evaluate how much my route is worth and how big it is, etc etc etc.  And during that time, I have to go through and recount everything to verify that it was recorded correctly, which adds another hour or two to every day.  So yeah, the last few months have been rough, and I have been coming home from work late and basically just dropping onto my couch for a couple hours not really wanting to do anything.  So yeah, haven't exactly been doing much writing lately because of it.

I wasn't really happy with chapters 21 and 22, so I went back and made a few changes to them, and I like them much more now.  Chapter 23 is a pretty long one, which basically puts Temari's character into context.

I'll try to kick myself into getting more of this done faster.  They should be cutting a big chunk off of my route in the next few weeks and hopefully I won't be so freaking exhausted when I get home after that.  It would be great if I didn't have to work and could sit at home and do nothing but my hobbies all day long, but alas, we live in reality, and in reality things suck.