Hey there, friends and fans! Welcome to February! (Okay, I'm not really that perky this morning, but you know what they say... fake it 'til you make it.)
This week, no writing. Editing was sporadic, but I am up to 28% of the book has edit notes now. Marketing happened and because of marketing I ended January with nearly $16 in sales and moved like 13 copies of paid-for books. Woot. Hey, ya gotta get your excitement where you can. I did only move 26 free copies of NC :sad trombone:, though. This coming week, Blink of an I will be free.
I'm about 75% done with The Night Manager. I had hoped to finish it before the end of January, but that didn't happen. Oh, well.
In baking news, I made a loaf of Raisin Pecan Quick Bread and a pizza. Then yesterday, I got a wild hair and made a loaf of Oatmeal Bread (a yeasted bread) - plain, no raisins or cinnamon or swirling. It turned out really yummy and we had slices of it with our pot pies for dinner. The baking has really helped keep the house warm, too.
On the activity front, it's been COLD, so not a lot of activity going on here. Hubs and I shoveled the driveway. I did grocery shopping. Other than that, nada. We did go across the street to help when she got her SUV stuck, but the guy who lives there got it out before we made it up the hill, so that really was only a short uphill walk for me. I did step on the scale - clothed because it was COLD. Then I stripped anyway because I'm all about the data, and learned my clothes weighed 3.2lbs. My weight: 177.6
Because of the cold, I spent a lot of the week huddled inside in front of the tube. We watched some really good movies (and vetoed some duds). Unfortunately, since I'm not doing a weekly movie post, I didn't write their names down and I'm at a loss to remember most of them. We caught a good one yesterday called Evidence of Blood (from 1998) that starred that guy who played Tom Cruise's brother in The Firm (David Strathairn). Really good stuff there. We also watched The Courier (2020) yesterday. That was Benedict Cumberbatch as an everyday guy back in 1962 who gets recruited to carry documents from the USSR to the UK. It was based on a true story, and the story is pretty amazing. We've also started watching a goofy British crime-comedy called Vexed. What a hoot.
Yeah, my life is pretty boring. But that's life in the woods, eh? How have things been where you are?
