Conversations I’ve had with the animals in this house in the last 24 hours.
To the cat: “I’m done with your tomfoolery!”
To male, neutered dog after I had an argument with Alex: “Don’t ever have kids.”
Do you talk to your pets?
Do you know what day it is?
Who knew it was possible to hit the finish line after missing half the race?
Seems like I took a shortcut.
More like I got lost. Because it wasn’t intentional.
However, I did follow the Just Jot it January rules: I’ve written 20,375 words on one project, and edited 91 pages on another. Plus I’ve beta-read two other people’s books and written ten pages of feedback for each. And I published a boxed set of Books 1-3 of my paranormal magician series. ( <– That’s a link to the stores that have uploaded it so far. 😀 Apple and B&N are coming.)
So what about this post is funny or facetious? Maybe the first line. Funny is hard when you feel guilty, as it turns out.
I still plan to post for the prompts I missed, belated as they’ll be.
In the meantime, thanks so much for hanging in there with me! I’ll be back tomorrow with a wrap up post and your participation badge.
See you then. 🙂
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No word of a lie, I’ve spent twelve hours today sitting at my computer, formatting the three books in The Great Dagmaru Series into a boxed set.
I just couldn’t let go until it was done.
But it’s done, and it’ll be on sale next week.
I just hope it looks good, because my eyeballs are really to fall out.
I mean, this only took about an hour
to create. Who’da thunk the 980 pages on the inside would have taken so long to figure out? I roomful of monkeys with typewriters coulda done it!
(In case you’re wondering, it’ll just be an ebook. Not a cool set of paperbacks in a box, because that would cost a fortune.)
Anywho, this was all prompted by the fact that the series (and the third book, The Magician’s Soul) is up for a Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewer’s Choice Award. The voting doesn’t start until Wednesday, so I’ll post about it again then with a link to vote. This will be the last chance to win for this series, so fingers crossed.
So my feet are going numb now.
I think that’s a sign to get up off my chair and move around a bit.
Time to let go of the keyboard.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you so much to everyone who wished me a happy birthday today.
It was a lovely birthday, all said and done, thanks to Alex and his teacher at school.
He had his cooking exam last week, so he cooked me a wonderful dinner in class on Friday of roasted chicken and potatoes and vegetables, which he served to me tonight.
The cake he baked in class on Thursday, and yes, there was extremely sweet icing on the cake.
I’d say he passed his exam with flying colours!
I’m going to miss having him go to school next year, now that he’s aged out.
And the t-shirt he gave me! “World’s Best Mom” in his own handwriting. It made me cry.
I think I might adopt his teacher.
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Apparently we’re supposed to get a ridiculous amount of snow overnight tonight and tomorrow.
And I’m fed up.
But it’s not what you think.
Last week (after not being at school since before Christmas), I was having a really tough time trying to convince Alex that Monday the 17th was the day to go back to school. He fought and fought, because he’s watching the news like everyone else, and he doesn’t feel like it’s safe to go back.
I might agree with him if three of his classmates weren’t likely going to be off school next week.
Because he’s in a class of four students—he’s going to be alone with his teacher and his EA.
So I talked to his teacher last week by email and told her he was nervous. She got on Zoom with him on Friday and did such a great job of convincing him that he should go back to school on Monday, that now he’s mad at me because I likely won’t be able to get the car out of the driveway in the morning because of the snow.
Just when you think everything’s going your way …
Ugh! I’m so fed up.
(Don’t feel bad. I’m actually laughing. Because what else can you do? Hehee!)
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A lot of people know of my struggles in life.
Single with two disabled adult kids.
Two full-time jobs (which I’m blessed to be able to do from home).
An only child whose mother is in a long term care home, who I don’t see nearly enough (her home has been in outbreak status since before Christmas, though none of the residents are sick—staff in the home tested positive).
But with all this and more (did I mention housework? It’s the bane of my existence I tell you!)…
My life is freckled with moments of joy.
It finds spots in my day through the laughter of my children,
the occasional sale of a book,
something online that makes me smile,
the coming together of this blogging community …
These things (and more) make everything worth getting up in the morning.
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I’ve set up a specific list of to-dos this year—an informal protocol, one might say, for keeping myself on track.
How am I doing with that so far?
Well, my writing and editing have been consistent.
I have walking written down too, but I’ve missed that a couple of days so far.
Blogging? Yeah, not so much.
But you know what trips me up the most?
Stuff I wasn’t expecting.
That stuff does not follow protocol.
No sirree.
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This tardy (sorry, John!) stream of consciousness post is brought to you by Just Jot it January and John Holton with the prompt, “protocol.” Check out John’s post here. Thank you so much for the prompt, John!
Yes, I’ve always loved traveling.
I love the experience of seeing how other people live. I love people-watching.
But I don’t think that makes me “cosmopolitan.”
I’m just really curious.
I actually had to look up cosmopolitan in the dictionary to make sure I knew what it meant.
Here’s what Merriam-Webster has to say.
1 : marked by interest in, familiarity with, or knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world : not provincial, local, limited, or restricted by the attitudes, interests, or loyalties of a single region, section, or sphere of activity : worldwide rather than regional, parochial, or narrow
2 : marked by sophistication and savoir faire arising from urban life and wide travel
Yeah, I’ve got the appreciation part down and the wide travel. But sophisticated? Me?
I live in my pajamas.
When I’m not traveling, of course.
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I need chocolate that tastes as good as real chocolate but that has no calories.
So not real.
Like a unicorn isn’t real.
Or is it?
Hmm…
I shall travel far and wide to find no-calorie chocolate!
Like hunting a unicorn, not to shoot it with an arrow, but to lick it.
Wait …
Do I really want to lick a unicorn?
Would it be tasty?
Maybe its poop would be made of no-calorie chocolate.
Like Moose Droppings.
(Only they have calories.)
(No, seriously. Click the link. They have calories.)
Or maybe I’ll just stay home and stick a horn on the dog and get fat on Turtles.
(Turtles are real. And they have calories.)
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In the attempt to do all the things today, I still missed the thing that is blogging.
Until now, but it’s officially Sunday, and no longer today.
Today meaning Saturday … it is no longer.
I almost forgot to schedule the prompt for tomorrow!
Which is technically today.
Because today is Sunday, and today will have a new prompt.
Which I almost forgot.
In the attempt to blog today (which is not today) it seems I have forgotten how words work.
For this is a very odd post indeed.
And forgetting how words work on a day that I am sure is not today but tomorrow, is par for the course.
Because as you know, I am the one who asks …
What day is it anyway?
Most days.
Okay, kids are calling me.
Good night!
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