Pages

Friday, July 18, 2025

Feel Good Friday!

Holy cow we made it to Friday! 

What a long week! 

Here's my list:

1. Rain. That was nice. It can stay away for the weekend though. 

2. The temperatures predicted to be cooler. 

3. Sleep. 

4. Being caught up (for now) at the day job. 

5. Writing time and making progress not just with actual words, but with story content. I hope to make serious progress this weekend. 

It's not a long list. Obviously. 

That's all! 

Behave! 

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Mid Week...

It's raining! Yay! 

What a hot week so far! And busy! 

I've gotten writing done. And weeding. And laundry. And I'm making a cake for one of the guys at work. (Birthday tomorrow) Among a dozen other things. 

The day job has been hectic and there's no signs of that ending. 

That's about all I have for now. I'm tired and the air conditioning in our room is calling to me. 

Behave! 

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Weekend Wrap Up

Here we are at Sunday evening again... 

Waiting for the rain to come in. It would be nice if it cooled things down, but even if it does rain, it'll likely turn the air even more into swamp-like. Ugh. 

Saturday came too early. We headed down the road to procure K5's birthday gift. That went awesome and we got exactly what we wanted. A stop at the store...well, three of them... and then home. It was too hot and gross to work outside, so we did some inside stuff. And I wrote. 

Today was errands. Took a little longer than we wanted, but whatever. Got home and weeded two flower beds that were looking shabby. Well, let's be honest, everything looks shabby. Those weeds are taking over. Transplanted some lavender and other things. Hopefully avoided the poison ivy. Cleaned the dust off the front porch. Laundry, sheet washing, and an amazing dinner. 

Writing. And now it's now. Still waiting on the rain. And no nap today. Though I did sleep in a bit this morning. 

This week is a busy one. Well, the next three weeks are busy with both work stuff and home stuff. But hopefully we'll be able to take K5 out to dinner early this week to give her the present. 

That is all. 

Behave! 

Friday, July 11, 2025

Feel Good Friday

I don't really have much today... Yay, it's Friday.

I'll try though...

1. A little bit of sleeping past the usual alarms tomorrow. 

2. Making really good progress on Daisy last night. 

3. Excellent dinners - we managed to pull off two pretty darned good dinners this week. Just stuff we kind of made up and with lunch leftovers. 

4. Porch sitting.

That's all. 

Behave!

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Thursday Ramble...

It's hot and it looks like it's going to be hot for the next week. It's either too hot or raining... And it's hard to get anything done outside. My weeds are out of control and the outside jobs we thought we'd have done by now are not done. Ugh. 

But it's Thursday. 

This weekend is scoping out K5's birthday present. Our original plan came crashing down, so we had to start over. It's fine. We'll figure it out and she's well aware of everything so it's not like she thinks we forgot or anything. 

Then we will work on the Jeep. And potentially get some of those outside chores done. I will also be writing. 

I've spent this week re-reading Prelude to make sure I have all of the details correct with the main characters backstory. I'm glad I did. I'd forgotten lots and lots of things. The cool thing is that I have threads to run with. It's not a sequel by any means, just a loosely related story. 

That's all I have. 

Behave!


Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Weekend Wrap Up - On Tuesday

Well, that went fast! Ha! 

Okay, first off--it's stupid hot again and I hate it. 

Our holiday weekend was full of grandkids. We had an absolute blast with them! 

Also, I got zero writing/reading done, and still haven't. But I will. 

There was also no sleeping in. 

And there was rude neighbors, but that's nothing new or different. There doesn't have to be a holiday for them to set off fireworks or fight or harass everyone in the neighborhood. 

Anyway. That's all I have for now. Nothing exciting for sure. 

Behave! 

Thursday, July 03, 2025

Holiday Weekend!

We'll get out of the day job early Thursday and then no work Friday. Nice. I don't think there will be sleeping in. We're picking up K5 early Friday and get to spend all day with her before taking her home early Saturday. 

Her birthday was last Sunday. It's so hard to believe she's 15. Her gift from us is two part. She'll (hopefully) get one of them Friday, and the other is still in the planning stage. 

I have gotten words this week. Not too many, but enough to keep my finger on the pulse of the book. I need to reread the original haunted campground to ground myself in the characters since it's been so long. Oh yeah, the new book is a haunted campground with the second sister from the first one. Not a sequel at all, but lightly linked. 

Weekend plans are to read Prelude, write, figure out what to do with the dead plants, and who knows what else. 

Today is the funeral for our work friend. His wife was our human resources person for nearly two decades. He was here for maybe five years, and his brother has been here for five years. His wife retired when he retired from the military. Needless to say, they didn't get the retirement years they hoped for and it's unbelievably sad. He used to sit in my office and get stuff off his chest because he knew I don't gossip and we had a running joke about what he was doing with the credit card. 

That's all I have for now. 

Behave!

Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Tuesday Already...

This week is flying by! And it's July already! 

So yeah, I didn't get any more words on Retreat (I knew I wouldn't). I slept crappily again and got up earlier than expected. So I went home. Which was good because we had a lot of stuff to take care of. I did squeeze in a little rest time, which was good and much needed. 

Back to the day job yesterday for a busy and fast day. At least it's a short week. 

Thursday is the funeral for our friend who passed away on Friday. Very sad. A bunch of us from the day job are going. 

That's about it. 

Behave!