Well, there's another week shot to hell gone by. What happened? :shrug: Drama llama.
Of course, there was no writing or editing. Marketing was done, but little movement of books was seen. I moved 28 free copies of WIOH and got one sale for that after the freebie was over. I'm still moving some SCIU books, though, so yay. I've actually sold nearly 15 books this month - regular sales and pages reads - so I can't gripe.
No reading.
No baking.
Very little carving.
I did some cleaning and some garden work, so 4 out of 7 days had some activity. I didn't weigh myself.
In garden news, I have tiny carrot seedlings in all four pots. I'll thin those when they get a little bigger. Nothing's happening in the potato pots, except for the ravages of a squirrel that decided it wanted to dig around. Little bastard. I've treated all those pots with chili powder and no more forays from Mr. Squirrel since. It also looks like a majority of my baby trees have signs of leave buds. Some of them even have leaves! Everything needs to go in the garage today, though, because we're getting a freeze starting today.
In other garden news, I've cleared the dead leaves out of 4 beds now. Only five more beds to go. The beds should be fine in the freeze.
Other than that, we've been in the clutches of family drama again. I can't give the details because they're not my details to give. Needless to say, though, it's been all-encompassing and there's been very little room in my brain for anything else.
A couple of days there, I did get out of the house and hit the thrift store for a little retail therapy. The first time, I didn't buy anything. The next day, I went back for a couple things I'd seen, since I'd had time to think about them. Item 1: I got a handmade wood cabinet with shelves and a door for $10. The door's hinges were wonky, though. I tried to fix it, but in the end just removed the door. Now it's a nice shelving unit. The other thing I got was a pair of stackable shelving units ($15 for both). They're not high enough to put books in, so I gave them to Hubs for the garage. Woot. I also picked up a cute painting of birds and birdhouses. The painting is on wood and it was only $1, so yay. I had intended to buy this neat kitchen island thing, but in the end, I didn't think it would fit in my car.
Once the shelving unit was cleaned and polished, I put it in the living room and shifted books onto it from the full office shelves. Then I shifted books around in the office. I have room on my shelves again! It was getting pretty close to me needing to thin my library out, so yay. (I hate thinning my library.)
On the upside, it seems like the family drama is finally actually over and all is well again, so we can get back to using our brains for something other than that. Woot. I actually have been feeling like I need to write, so maybe next week you'll get to see something about that. I'm not promising anything, though.
Anyway, that's it for me. Have a great day wherever you are. :hugs:
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ReplyDeleteUgh, followed by a whew! on the family drama stuff. Glad it's over.
Yay on growing things! Around here, we keep holding Mother Nature's beer and I don't think anything is going to leaf oun or bloom. Well, I did get a couple of daffodils late. No wisteria yet. No peopny plant. No buds on the honeysuckle.
PITA Pup ate my favorite purse and billfold. He's still breathing.
I did laundry. Yay me. 🙄
I did a minute amount of writing. I'm still so messed up by DST that my brain stares at the monitor and says, "Nope. Lets listen to books and stare out the window instead.
I have to go people tomorrow. I've put off my Wallyworld run for over a week now. I'll also--hopefully--people later in the week when my new glasses come in. I'm really hoping the new mid-range glasses will get me back to writing because I'll be more comfortable at my desk because I won't have to contort back, shoulders, and neck in order to actually read stuff on the monitor.
Okay. That's it for me. Later, gator.