Positives...

In an effort to shake off the negativity seemingly all around me, here is my positivity list for today...

1. Being done with taxes. (I do have to write some checks but the main work is done)

2. A warm house. 

3. My dog still hanging in there. Every day she continues to have her spark is precious right now. 

4. The booksigning coming up this weekend. I'm excited and nervous. 

5. The weather is a lot warmer today. 

6. Trying new recipes with That Man and laughing when they don't turn out as good as they looked. Ha! 

7. Spring is coming. 

8. Being excited to write again. 

9. My kids. They're awesome and make me laugh. 

10. That Man. I couldn't ask for better. 

11. Retreat coming up. 

That's good for now. There are many more positives, but my list is likely boring to you. Ha! 

Staying off social media has been a huge help as far as me trying to stay positive. I'm not missing it at all. 

That is all...

Behave! 

Weekend Wrap Up!

Here we are at Sunday evening again. And it's still cold out. 

Hopefully it starts to warm up soon. "They" say it's supposed to by next weekend. We'll see. I'm not holding my breath. Spring is coming, right? 

The people in my house are going stir crazy. Me included. 

Yesterday we ran around getting our errands done and yeah, we did have dinner out, which was nice. But it was so cold it was hard to enjoy the evening to its fullest. If that makes sense. 

Today we've been home all day. Thank goodness. I slept in and woke up to That Man and K4 making breakfast. Lots of coffee. Laundry. And I spent most of the day writing. I'm not saying what I'm working on yet except that it's an older project that needs a rewrite. 

And I've been sneezing all freaking day. 

This week is sort of on the "quiet" list. I hope. I still need to finish taxes and take care of some other admin duties. Ugh. 

Behave! 

Mother Nature is Nuts!

What is this weather hell we're living in? I know I complained about the cold the last time I posted, but Mother Nature has turned it up in a rude and horrid way. What is she thinking? I didn't know we lived in Antarctica! 

We were out earlier. It was horrible. 

So here's a brief Feel Good Friday on Saturday...

1. It was a rough week, but we made it through. We dealt with a lot this week -- sickness, cold, insanity at work, and you know...life in general. 

2. Sleeping in this morning and hopefully the same tomorrow. I did wake up at 5:30am and said hell no. It was too dark and cold. 

3. Maybe figuring out what I'm actually doing with my writing life. 

4. Our evening plans. 

5. Getting the errands done and not freezing to death when we did. 

The bad thing is that I had to give up the book signing in March. I just don't have enough inventory and whatever I have left after the greenhouse signing is (hopefully) spoken for. I did keep a copy of each book for myself. It's a really strange place to be in and I don't like it. 

That's all I have...

Behave! 

Living in the SubZero...

I'm tired of it. 

I know I'm not the only one. My heating bill is going to be so outrageous. But what are the options? Freeze? I think not. But seriously, Mother Nature, please check yourself. We're dying here! 

Yeah. I know. Everyone feels the same way. 

I jumped on social media the other day. I don't think I can do that anymore. Sometimes I hop on and scroll for a few seconds to see what's going on. I rarely post (though I know I should for the author stuff and I probably will post something about the greenhouse signing). My feed was filled with people complaining, being entitled, and talking down to each other in the comments. 

There's already too many negative things going on in the world. We don't need to treat each other like that. I'm not sure what happened to "scrolling by" something you don't like/agree with but it seems to be a thing of the past. So my exposure to it will be very limited or not at all for a while. Maybe forever. 

Also...our grandkids seem to think we have no idea on what is or isn't AI. Which cracks us up. I've taken to sending ridiculously obvious AI pictures to our group chat with an innocent..."this is real, right?" just to continue to stir the pot. They also believe we're woefully technologically impaired. We play along with that one too. At least for now. 

That's all I have...

Behave! 

Weekend Wrap Up

Well...here we are again. Sunday evening. Boo!

My back hurts. Not sure what I did to it. It started yesterday. I'm stretching it and using a heating pad but it's pissing me off. 

We've been home all weekend which is rare and good. It's been a while. Yesterday we cleaned out closets and drawers, dusted, and rehung the tapestry that fell down in our room. Getting rid of things and making space feels awesome. Today was deep cleaning the fridge and ice machine, washing sheets, and other odd chores. 

We talked a lot about my writing and how I have been feeling and I know what I'm doing now. I'm writing a story I started last summer. It's what feels right and it's been going well. I went through the pages I had yesterday and have added several thousand words so far today. So yeah... that's good. 

I'll be at the garden center on Valentine's Day for my favorite book signing. I have limited stock so if there's something you want, now's the time to get it. If I come away from this with books left, I'll be at a signing next month. But that's going to be it for a while since I'm an orphan with no publisher currently. 

And that's all I have.

Behave!

Feel Good Friday!

What an excessively long week! We made it to Friday though!

Let's hit the list:

1. The snow was beautiful and I loved having a "snow day" (even if it was Sunday) and the subsequent "working from home snow day". But now... now all the snow is a pain in the butt. Ha! We didn't shovel the whole way out because of the ice and plow piles. It's fine. It'll melt enough (eventually) to not matter. Well, maybe it won't melt since we're living in sub-zero world. I'm over the cold weather. So much. 

Tuesday showed up with a giant freaking cold for me. I stayed home from the day job and slept literally all day. It's slowly improving, though I'm not close to being 100% yet. My head kills and the draining is annoying. (this is not numbered because it's not anything even closely related to feel good)

2. Barring any emergencies, we have a nothing weekend for the first time in a long time. Every time we think we're going to have one, something happens. This just means that we'll tackle some of the things on the list that we haven't had time for, but that's fine. 

3. Sleeping in. I really hope it happens. 

4. Hoping to get some writing in. I still have no idea what I'm working on. It'll happen at some point. It's frustrating.

That's all I have!

Behave! 

Snowmaggedon! Working From Home!

It was nice to wake up about 10 minutes before I had to log in. That's the longest I slept in all weekend. Oy. 

That Man had some issues getting logged in, but we finally overcame. Now our dining room table is a work space. He has way more "physical" things spread out. I have a tiny pile, but our work is very different. 

The cats are a mess. Our female cat wants to be in the middle of the papers and is generally being a pest. The boys are watching the birds from the dining room window. And the dog is just happy we're home. She's curled up at our feet under the table. 

Now we have to shovel. Well, shovel and work. The two upstairs will be helping as soon as they get up and moving. We're not in a rush. They'll be the first ones to leave in the morning, so we technically have all day. Traffic is so quiet. 

That's about it...

Behave!