The writing isn't going as gangbusters as I would like, but it is going. I'm over 10K on Cinder Ugly now. I'm not sure I like where it's at right now, which isn't helping, but I told myself to get over it. Write through it. Get to a place where you do like what's going down on the page and you can always fix the crappy parts later.
I contacted my cover artist and she's removing the cat from Ugly and the Beast's cover. I'll miss it, but it was necessary. I should have a new cover that's pretty much the same as the old cover, sans cat, in the next couple weeks. Woohoo.
Yesterday, I set up sales into the first week of March. Starting Wednesday with a sale on the Dennis Haggarty Mystery novels and running pretty much through 3/7, there should be something on sale or free from my list. I'll let you know about the sales as they happen. I haven't set up any advertising yet. We'll see what the budget looks like farther down the road.
I also finally sat down with the spreadsheet that details income and outgo for this writing business. I hadn't updated 2019 since last January's numbers, so I did that and then made a sheet for 2020. I might talk more about that tomorrow. It's kind of depressing, which is why I hadn't updated it.
In reading news, it was a pretty good week. Three books read and a couple DNFs. I'm ahead on my goal, which is always good.
No baking this week. I should be making granola bars sometime this week, though.
On the activity front, I did something active 5 out of 7 days. It was all housework of some kind - washing windows, scrubbing the kitchen sink, cleaning the light fixtures, dusting the ceilings, etc. I've lost a pound since the beginning of the year. Unfortunately, when I stepped on the scale after the holidays, I had gained some weight, so I'm now at 181.6.
I've been an entire week without ice cream now and I ate the last of the potato chips this past week, so I won't be buying anymore of those. Instead of ice cream, I'm eating vanilla yogurt with canned fruit. It's an okay substitute. I'm also trying to eat smaller portions of everything else. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Today, I'll be making chili, finishing the light fixture cleaning project, and
The bucks are losing their antlers. We now have one we call Half-Rack and one called No-Rack. It's that time in the cycle. As always, we hope to find a dropped antler or two somewhere on the property. Haven't yet, but there's always hope.
Friday a storm blew through and dumped 3 inches of rain on us. It also dropped a couple tornadoes within like 90 minutes of here. Then Saturday, we got nano-hail. Tiny clear balls of ice dropped on us for a while. They were bouncing everywhere. Maybe a half inch of accumulation. What fun. I stayed inside for all of it. Actually, I haven't stepped outside since Wednesday, when I went to Wallyworld. =oO
Okay, I think that's everything. How did your second week of 2020 go?
It was a week. We had all four seasons in a 48-hour period. Only and Baseball Boy celebrated their anniversary. We kept Stormy. I'm slowly working through BETRAYAL. The operative word is "slowly." My reading has slowed down too. Trying to work more, listen to books less, plus, when I take Jake with me, I don't listen to a book, except in the car.
ReplyDeleteI'm tempted to take the rest of the day for me. LG is at a meeting. There's nothing I have to do--besides figure out new words but the brain doesn't want to brain so...
Tomorrow's Monday. A new work week. Time enough to do stuffs then. Later tater. Stay in and warm! And glad the twisters were distant.
Yay! My blog reader finally let me in. Double yay for new words! You won't hate them as much after they've had time to settle into place.
ReplyDeleteHooray for rain, yikes to tornadoes! I'm glad you're safe.
A week went by? I swear yesterday was Monday! I got a bit of work done, but not as much as I'd like. Time to get back at it. :-)