Hello again. Let's dispense with the folderol and jump right in.
Last night, I finished the round of editing I've been working on since December 4th. Out of 47 days, I missed 11. That's about a 77% working percentage. Not bad. I wish I could do that all year. For the record, people who work M-F only work 71% of the days. On the other hand, I usually only work a couple hours a day. Can you imagine if I worked all those days at 8 hours a day. I'd rule the world. So, you're welcome. (Although, if I ruled the world, there'd be a lot less bullshit in it.)
All of my books are now uploaded to D2D. And all of them are now available at the big distributors - Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo. Also, they're available through library distributors like BorrowBox and OverDrive. (All of them are still waiting on Hoopla to accept them.) I sold a book last night through OverDrive, so I've got that going for me. Now to add some marketing to the mix and see if I can generate some sales.
As for other writerly news, I began working on the cover for Untitled Fantasy. I'm building a dragon out of used lizard parts. It's painstaking work. I'm blowing the sucker up to 1000% and trying to do a pixel by pixel thing. :shrug: It'll keep me out of trouble, that's for sure. And I'm liking the overall results. May have to change lizards, but I'm also learning what works and what doesn't as I go. It's all good, baby.
On the reading front, I start out the week pretty lame. Four DNFs in a row. After that, I managed to finish two books before my Saturday Wrap-up, and I finished another one yesterday afternoon. It's all good, baby.
In baking news, I made coffee cake. I used my regular yellow-cake recipe, but I dolloped applesauce all through the middle layer. So yummy. I also made a vat of spaghetti sauce, which netted me another 3 meals worth of leftover sauce. Yay.
Activity... well, it wasn't a good week. I spent one morning cleaning. Dusting and vacuuming everything but the office, so about 1300 square feet. I never did get around to the office. It's hard to clean in here when Hubs is working and when he's not working, I don't seem to be in a cleaning mood. :shrug: It was too cold for much else, but that's a lame excuse. I can use the damn bike. Sheesh.
Needless to say, my diet isn't going well. Being gungho about curbing the food intake is one thing, actually adhering to the plan is other. And, like always, every time I think about watching what I eat, I'm thinking about food and that makes me want food. But the results on the scale weren't as bad as I feared. Weight: 183.6 - so only up a pound and a half since 1/1. Still, that much in three weeks is not good. Perhaps I'm just fluffy for winter. Yeah, yeah, fluffy for winter. That's the ticket.
Because of the cold, we're seeing a lot of deer in the yard, gulping down corn in copious amounts. Most of them are hale and hearty. And super fluffy because they fluff their coats when it's cold to retain body heat. Unfortunately, one of our does broke something, probably the ankle, on her back right leg. Poor baby. There's nothing we can do, and research told me deer can often do well with a broken leg. It heals, they go on with their lives. Killing them isn't the answer. The best advice was leave them alone, because trying to help will only make things worse. Hubs saw the same doe a couple days later and her foot wasn't curled under like when we'd first seen it, so she was walking on the hoof and not her ankle. Ouchie.
Tax time approacheth. I'm waiting on the mail to deliver 1099s. I already got the notice that Amazon's 1099s are available for download, so if you haven't gotten yours yet, poke somebody. Or go into the tax area and see if they're there for you, too. Not that the news on the 1099 is good. About $145 for the year. :sadtrombone:
Since I'm taking today off of writing, I should be able to accomplish some other stuff today. We'll see. And it's supposed to warm up a little, so maybe I can get out in the woods again. Stupid snow. Anyway, I'm trying to be optimistic. Strange for me, I know, but you gotta start somewhere.
How was your week? Accomplish anything? Was it a week off for you? (Totally cool, because we need time off every know and again.)
Yay for finishing the first BIG edit! Yes. Set it aside and take a little time off to "clear the palate." Yay for the D2D news. I'll have my last two updated and loaded this week.
ReplyDeleteCold sucks. I'm sorry for the deer but Mother Nature (bitch though she might be) often looks after her creatures. Here's hoping you can get back into the woods this week.
I'm waiting on a few 1099 from my oil & gas stuff but I think all my writing 1099s are in. I don't think I owe anything this year. Ah well.
There's not much to report in my life. Oh, the final demise of my favorite zip-up hoody. *sad bear noises*.
I gave up on working Friday. That lasted through yesterday. Today? Who knows. I fell asleep around 9 last night. Woke up around 11 to take my meds and fell back asleep. I was awake again about 1:30 and then suddenly, it was almost 7 am. I NEVER sleep in that late these days.
The world is crazy. I just want to crawl back into bed and pull the covers over my head.
My weight has ping-ponged between 188 and 192 this month. Go figure.
Not much else going on in my world. Hopefully I'll knuckle down and get some new words written. We'll see. Late start to the day.
Here's to a good week for us all!
I'll run with fluffy. I'm getting fluffier, too.
ReplyDeletePoor little doe. I hope she heals up okay.
Um, taxes. Don't want to talk about that yet. But they shouldn't be that bad, since I got everything into Quicken. Mostly I need to doublecheck my numbers.
Yay for editing and cover design! It's a lot of work, but you'll get it exactly the way you want it. (Hmm. I need to fix Dragon's Child's cover. Nah, too much work!)
Speaking of work, I got a lot done this week. Hooray!