Hello. I'm up obscenely early for a Sunday, but that's on the cats. They didn't like last night's food, so they're being turds.
I thought about writing and editing this week. That may be a sign that I'm jones'n for it. Shhh, don't frighten the gumption away. Marketing went crickets on me. I only moved 15 copies of UNEQUAL. :shrug: Tomorrow starts a 'series bonanza' - something different I'm trying - wherein all the books in the A Model Curse series will be free for 5 days. I've already set up tomorrow's post on that.
I started reading a book. Woot. I'm about a quarter of the way through Leadership by Rudy Giuliani.
No baking. I did make a really tasty sweet & sour chicken dish, even if the breading on the chicken did go pear-shaped* on me.
On the activity front, I was a little active this week. It was mostly garden work - removing detritus from the outside beds and working on the potted plants on the deck. We did walk once, though. Go us. I haven't weighed myself. Weight: Fat
The potted plants seem to be doing okay. I'm not sure if I mentioned that 3 out of my 4 pots worth of tiny carrot plants died, but the 4th pot is doing good. I will be thinning that this week and replanting the other pots with new carrot seeds. I have 1 tiny potato plant coming up, which thrills me no end. The repotted green peppers are all doing well. All six of my redbud trees have leaves. The redbud I thought was dead is trying, so yay. Both of my remaining dogwood trees have tiny leaves. The three mystery trees are all doing really well. I'm no longer sure that one is a black cherry, but I'm getting more sure that one is a buckthorn. We'll see.
I did try to do some carving this week. I was really getting into it when the gouge slipped and I perforated my thumb knuckle. That'll teach me. Of course, I wasn't wearing the safety gloves. I hate gloves when I have to actually do anything with my hands. Of course, I'll be wearing them the next time I carve, because while I am sometimes foolhardy, I'm not stupid. Live and learn. Thankfully, it wasn't a large perforation and I'm a good clotter. I'm just waiting to be 100% sure it won't open back up before I go back to strenuous hand activities.
Other than that? :shrug: I hope you had a good week last week and that this coming week is amazing for you.
*a British phrase that I appreciate, so I'm gonna use. What's English if not an opportunistic language that rummages through the pockets of other languages looking for spare phrases and shiny euphemisms?
You had a busy week. Yay for all the plants, sans carrots. New seeds, new start there.
ReplyDeleteI've had a headache all week. The technology gods decided to gang up on me. Everything I tried to do turned into hours long frustrations. I got one glitch out of many mostly fixed.
Toby has gotten so big I've had to order him another collar--this one an extra large that goes up to 32" inches. I haven't gotten him to the vet to be weighed but he's gotta be at least 150, if not more. Isigh* 😮💨
MLB and AT&T U-verse hate me. MLB has cut deals with all the teams for a streaming service that's $99 a year. Those teams that had contracts with what was Fox Regional Sports (then Bally now FanDuel) were to have games available via cable companies except the channel the Cards say they are on for U-verse doesn't exist. 🤦🏼♀️Also under this new deal, getting out of market games is almost impossible without paying. NFL is doing the same thing and it's just pissin' the fans right the hell off. Anyway.
No writing, not even the short snippet for Thursday Threads. I judged last week so no writing, and it's a great prompt. I hope to have some words based on it for my Wednesday blog. It depends. RL has decreed a hellava lot of adulting this week. Ugh.
Not much else going on that's not covered in my blog for tomorrw. In the meantime, I need two aspirin and a margarita! Later, tater.