I probably don't need to remind y'all, but never buy anything with a broken seal, and if it doesn't have a seal, check to make sure it wasn't opened. (Hopefully, Blue Bell starts putting seals on their ice cream, but if not, you can tell it's been opened when the lid comes off easily.) First the stupid bitch who thought licking ice cream and then putting it back in the store cooler was a good idea, then the other stupid bitch who gargled with mouthwash, spit it back in the bottle and put it back on the shelf. I also heard from a fellow shopper that she once bought a pre-made frosting where the seal was broken and it appeared like two fingers had been dragged through the frosting. Add to that PSA a reminder to check the sell-by dates. I tell ya, grocery shopping isn't as easy as it used to be. And people suck.
Yesterday, it was just getting light out when I went to look out the bathroom window and there was a bat sitting on the outside sill. I jumped, he jumped. He flew away. They hang out under the sill in the summer. I've just never seen one sitting on the sill. (I leave them alone because they can't get into the house from there. It's just a nice, dark overhang.) This one was a little brown bat, but I've also seen big brown bats under there. Go forth and eat loads of mosquitoes, little dude.
If you missed it - you know, because practically no one carried it - One America News Network will be showing an encore of the Salute to America celebration on Saturday at 1pm Central Time. Not sure if your service carries OANN, but DirectTV does.
Speaking of DirectTV, apparently they're having contract problems with Nexstar and so some of the local channels are dead to me right now. For us, it was our Fox station, so no All Star Game for us Tuesday night. We also lost a channel we never watch, so I'm not really all that ticked about it. Our CBS station was also listed on the website, but it was fine last I checked. All I can say is it better stay fine because I'll be wanting to watch that channel this weekend for golf. Otherwise, meh.
I was weeding the cedar bed and felt something bite me inside my gardening glove. Well, actually, I thought I'd gotten a piece of stick in there and it was poking me. But when I looked, it was a bug. A tick actually. It got away. First tick bite of the year, so actually that's not too bad. Except it's right in the crease of my wrist, so every time I move my right hand, it itches like the dickens. (Yes, I scrubbed it thoroughly and then slapped antibiotic cream in it after it happened. Now I'm using Benedryl gel. And yes, I am keeping an eye on it.)
Okay, that's it for me. What's the this-n-that in your world?
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Sunday Update - Week 26
It's halfway through the year and I don't have much to show for it. And last week didn't help.
I thought it would be the week when I finally had a fire lit under my ass, but no. I did read a post by another author who's having a tough time of it this year, so yeah, it's a thing, but knowing I'm not alone doesn't help.
The SCIU sale ended with a whimper. No more sales, no residual page reads. So, yeah, 27.11 sales for that sale. I have to get something set up for July, but I have no clue what.
I did read a lot. And some of it was pretty good stuff.
Let's not talk about exercise and weight, eh? I only did 3 out of 7 days. Weight still holding at 179. I know I have to do something different and more of it (or less of it when it comes to eating) if I want to see a change on the scale. I just can't seem to motivate myself to do what needs to be done. On the upside, walking the loop seems to be getting a mite easier, so maybe I'll add some mileage to that this week. You know, something like walk the loop (1.1 miles) and then keep going past the house to start the loop again, then turn around. :shrug: Maybe I'll try starting my dancing thing up again.
Eating my elephants has obviously not been happening lately. I really need to get back in that mindset.
Ugh, the heat has hit SW MO. With popcorn storms. But Hubs did manage to get the yard sprayed for ticks. Yay. I wish the spray did more for flying biting things, but I'm content if it knocks down the ticks. Man, a big flying biting thing slipped into the house on Friday. Looked like a housefly on steroids. Big, loud, fast, ugly motherfucker. You should've seen us chasing this damn thing around the house with fly swatters. Managed to trap it in the office and then managed to get it out into the smoking porch where Hubs dispatched it most heartily. Turns out it was a black horsefly. Eww.
Not a lot of baking last week... cuz, heat... but I did get another batch of oatmeal cookies made. And I made a BBQ pork tenderloin in the crockpot. It turned out excellent. I might make pizza today. Depends on how hot I feel this afternoon.
The baby deer are eating solid food now, and supplementing with milk still. We've determined we have two sets of twins - one by a white-legged doe and one by a brown-legged doe - and two singles. So, right now, we're saying six for sure. Yay!
And I think that's it for me this week. How did things go in your week last week?
I thought it would be the week when I finally had a fire lit under my ass, but no. I did read a post by another author who's having a tough time of it this year, so yeah, it's a thing, but knowing I'm not alone doesn't help.
The SCIU sale ended with a whimper. No more sales, no residual page reads. So, yeah, 27.11 sales for that sale. I have to get something set up for July, but I have no clue what.
I did read a lot. And some of it was pretty good stuff.
Let's not talk about exercise and weight, eh? I only did 3 out of 7 days. Weight still holding at 179. I know I have to do something different and more of it (or less of it when it comes to eating) if I want to see a change on the scale. I just can't seem to motivate myself to do what needs to be done. On the upside, walking the loop seems to be getting a mite easier, so maybe I'll add some mileage to that this week. You know, something like walk the loop (1.1 miles) and then keep going past the house to start the loop again, then turn around. :shrug: Maybe I'll try starting my dancing thing up again.
Eating my elephants has obviously not been happening lately. I really need to get back in that mindset.
Ugh, the heat has hit SW MO. With popcorn storms. But Hubs did manage to get the yard sprayed for ticks. Yay. I wish the spray did more for flying biting things, but I'm content if it knocks down the ticks. Man, a big flying biting thing slipped into the house on Friday. Looked like a housefly on steroids. Big, loud, fast, ugly motherfucker. You should've seen us chasing this damn thing around the house with fly swatters. Managed to trap it in the office and then managed to get it out into the smoking porch where Hubs dispatched it most heartily. Turns out it was a black horsefly. Eww.
Not a lot of baking last week... cuz, heat... but I did get another batch of oatmeal cookies made. And I made a BBQ pork tenderloin in the crockpot. It turned out excellent. I might make pizza today. Depends on how hot I feel this afternoon.
The baby deer are eating solid food now, and supplementing with milk still. We've determined we have two sets of twins - one by a white-legged doe and one by a brown-legged doe - and two singles. So, right now, we're saying six for sure. Yay!
And I think that's it for me this week. How did things go in your week last week?
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Thursday This n That
I'm too old for dissenting opinions. I mean, people can certainly have them, but I'm tired of looking at / hearing them. Scrolling down the FB feed, I hide them and block them. I spent a lot of time in my younger years having debates and poking people with pointy sticks to try and make them see things my way or to try and see things their way. I'm so over it. Meh.
The other day I was talking with a younger friend of mine about dating and relationships. She told me that some numbnuts told her (an unsolicited opinion, btw) the reason she didn't have a boyfriend was that she was too lazy to look for one. :eyeroll: Fortunately, my friend's with me - it's better to be alone than be with the wrong person. I spent enough years with the wrong people to have learned that one the hard way, lemme tell ya. Lucky for me, I've been with the right one for almost 15 years now. My friend wants what we have and she's not settling for anything less. Go her.
Yesterday, the whole area filled up with smoke. Again. This time we didn't bother blaming the neighbors. (Tons of them regularly burn leaves and/or trash.) It was obviously not from around here. Sure enough, it was out-of-state smoke. Two controlled burns in AR. It's like an annual Spring thing. They burn down there, it gets smoky up here. I joked with Hubs we could probably hang strips of salmon on the porch and they'd be smoked by morning.
It's time to spray for ticks again. While the spray we use doesn't kill snakes, it does make them feel weird, so they avoid it. Win-win. Particularly good since we had what I believe was a smallish cottonmouth (as in not huge, but still probably over two-foot long) on the deck earlier in the week. He'd seen it the day before, poking its head out from a hole in the wood siding, and the next day it came out to sun itself on the deck. We weren't sure what kind of snake it was, not until it started to strike at us with its white mouth open. We kept it from going back in the hole and Hubs has since stuffed the hole with steel wool. Unfortunately, this means no more woods time for me until fall. =o(
I've started watching a couple game shows - America Says and Common Knowledge. They're a hoot. If you get the Game Show Network, they start at 4pm Central and run 'til 5. It's a nice break from the bullshit.
Speaking of hoots, I watched a video yesterday of a dad trying to get his toddler to try ketchup on her fries. When she solemnly shook her head no, like the thought of anything on her sacred fries was disgusting, I about fell apart. "Try it. It'll change your life," he says. ROFL. She finally tries it and she has such a look of utter contentment. Ketchup on fries... it's deep and it's real.
Sometimes the only thing keeping me from going all apeshit on the world is funny videos of puppies, kitties, and kids.
What say you this week?
The other day I was talking with a younger friend of mine about dating and relationships. She told me that some numbnuts told her (an unsolicited opinion, btw) the reason she didn't have a boyfriend was that she was too lazy to look for one. :eyeroll: Fortunately, my friend's with me - it's better to be alone than be with the wrong person. I spent enough years with the wrong people to have learned that one the hard way, lemme tell ya. Lucky for me, I've been with the right one for almost 15 years now. My friend wants what we have and she's not settling for anything less. Go her.
Yesterday, the whole area filled up with smoke. Again. This time we didn't bother blaming the neighbors. (Tons of them regularly burn leaves and/or trash.) It was obviously not from around here. Sure enough, it was out-of-state smoke. Two controlled burns in AR. It's like an annual Spring thing. They burn down there, it gets smoky up here. I joked with Hubs we could probably hang strips of salmon on the porch and they'd be smoked by morning.
It's time to spray for ticks again. While the spray we use doesn't kill snakes, it does make them feel weird, so they avoid it. Win-win. Particularly good since we had what I believe was a smallish cottonmouth (as in not huge, but still probably over two-foot long) on the deck earlier in the week. He'd seen it the day before, poking its head out from a hole in the wood siding, and the next day it came out to sun itself on the deck. We weren't sure what kind of snake it was, not until it started to strike at us with its white mouth open. We kept it from going back in the hole and Hubs has since stuffed the hole with steel wool. Unfortunately, this means no more woods time for me until fall. =o(
I've started watching a couple game shows - America Says and Common Knowledge. They're a hoot. If you get the Game Show Network, they start at 4pm Central and run 'til 5. It's a nice break from the bullshit.
Speaking of hoots, I watched a video yesterday of a dad trying to get his toddler to try ketchup on her fries. When she solemnly shook her head no, like the thought of anything on her sacred fries was disgusting, I about fell apart. "Try it. It'll change your life," he says. ROFL. She finally tries it and she has such a look of utter contentment. Ketchup on fries... it's deep and it's real.
Sometimes the only thing keeping me from going all apeshit on the world is funny videos of puppies, kitties, and kids.
What say you this week?
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Sunday Update - Week 12
Here we are at Week 12. Seems a little much considering. Twelve weeks into 2019 already? :shudder:
Anyway, here's how my week went.
I didn't do any writing or editing. I just can't seem to muster the will to work. The Kindle and the notebook and the red pen are sitting next to my recliner, but meh.
I've been doing some FB marketing because Project Hermes is on sale through Thursday night. I don't have any fundage right now for advertising, so I'm doing it all myself. With expected results. I have a sale on the SCIU books starting on the 3rd, and no advertising for that either yet. We'll see if I can't scare up something.
I didn't get a whole lot of reading done, but two books isn't too bad. And the book I'm reading now is a slow read. Enjoyable, but slow.
Only two days of activity this past week. Monday I went fishing in the morning and then did garden work in the afternoon. Which landed me with a squonky spot in my neck/shoulder and pretty much crapped out activity for a few days. Friday, it was better so we went for a walk around the loop. Ugh, I am so out of shape again that the loop was a killer. Need to get back to doing that walk 3-4 times a week. Oh, and my weight is hovering between 177 and 178. I started the year at 180, went up two pounds from there, and since then the overall trend has been downward, so I can't complain.
Oh, and while I was gardening, I found the first tick of the year. Which means my time in the woods is almost at an end. Guess I'll have to find something else to do until autumn.
One of the days last week, I made peanut butter cookies. Must've been Sunday because I couldn't have done it with my neck screwed up. Anyway, they taste good, but I must've done something wrong because they were too wet and sticky to accept the crosshatching. Only one looks right. I found a different recipe, so I'm going to try again later this week.
I did a thrift store run yesterday. I wanted to look for a spring jacket. A stroke of luck to find when I got there that all coats and jackets were 25% off. I found a really nice canvas jacket. And I picked up two books - a paperback and a hardcover. $3.75 out the door. I already had a copy of the paperback. I always buy Vince Flynn's novels when I see them, but more often then not, I find I already have it. Derp. I keep the better copy and donate the worse one. The hardcover was an old copy of My Friend Flicka. Can't wait to read it.
Okay, well, I think that about wraps it up for me today. How did the world revolve in your world last week?
Anyway, here's how my week went.
I didn't do any writing or editing. I just can't seem to muster the will to work. The Kindle and the notebook and the red pen are sitting next to my recliner, but meh.
I've been doing some FB marketing because Project Hermes is on sale through Thursday night. I don't have any fundage right now for advertising, so I'm doing it all myself. With expected results. I have a sale on the SCIU books starting on the 3rd, and no advertising for that either yet. We'll see if I can't scare up something.
I didn't get a whole lot of reading done, but two books isn't too bad. And the book I'm reading now is a slow read. Enjoyable, but slow.
Only two days of activity this past week. Monday I went fishing in the morning and then did garden work in the afternoon. Which landed me with a squonky spot in my neck/shoulder and pretty much crapped out activity for a few days. Friday, it was better so we went for a walk around the loop. Ugh, I am so out of shape again that the loop was a killer. Need to get back to doing that walk 3-4 times a week. Oh, and my weight is hovering between 177 and 178. I started the year at 180, went up two pounds from there, and since then the overall trend has been downward, so I can't complain.
Oh, and while I was gardening, I found the first tick of the year. Which means my time in the woods is almost at an end. Guess I'll have to find something else to do until autumn.
One of the days last week, I made peanut butter cookies. Must've been Sunday because I couldn't have done it with my neck screwed up. Anyway, they taste good, but I must've done something wrong because they were too wet and sticky to accept the crosshatching. Only one looks right. I found a different recipe, so I'm going to try again later this week.
I did a thrift store run yesterday. I wanted to look for a spring jacket. A stroke of luck to find when I got there that all coats and jackets were 25% off. I found a really nice canvas jacket. And I picked up two books - a paperback and a hardcover. $3.75 out the door. I already had a copy of the paperback. I always buy Vince Flynn's novels when I see them, but more often then not, I find I already have it. Derp. I keep the better copy and donate the worse one. The hardcover was an old copy of My Friend Flicka. Can't wait to read it.
Okay, well, I think that about wraps it up for me today. How did the world revolve in your world last week?
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Thursday This n That
You know, I realized something the other day. I am so over vampires. Pretty much over werewolves, too, except for a specific author. Still okay with other paranormals, though. It's just when I see 'vampires' in the detail for a book, I keep scrolling. Meh. I guess they're okay as a tertiary character - vampires make an appearance in Wish Hits the Fan, for instance, but they are only present because reasons. And none of them are core characters or even minor characters with a chance at their own story. I thought about doing a side story with the Rusalka, but never with the vamps.
You know how sometimes it seems like as soon as you buy something, you see it on sale somewhere? I think it's working in my favor right now. It seems like as soon as I have a a Kindle Countdown Deal set up for one of my books, someone buys a copy at full price. I feel bad for that person, whoever they are. The universe is cruel sometimes.
I can't believe it's Thursday already. Not sure where the rest of the week went.
I bought some votive candles the other day in a few nice scents - hazelnut, vanilla, and a blue one I can't figure out. They don't last very long, but they were cheap. A side-happy about them is the cupboard where I keep them smells lovely right now.
Tick season has arrived. I found one when I was cleaning leaves out of the gardens. Ticks love leaf litter, doncha know. Anyway, I saw it crawling along a dead leaf, so I got it and squashed it. It made me sad - seeing it, not killing it - because it means my time in the woods is drawing to a close until autumn. =o(
Which reminds me, I need to order more pesticide so Hubs can spray the yard. Tick-mageddon 2019. Yay.
Speaking of ticks, we had a possum in the yard the other day. Yay! Possums eat tons of ticks. So do turkeys, and we're seeing a bunch of those. Turkey lovin' is in the air once more. The main rafter of about 15 hens is back and the two dominant toms are following them everywhere - all puffed up and in the mood for romance. Too bad for them the girls aren't quite ready for romance yet.
Okay, that's enough out of me this morning. You got anything to share?
You know how sometimes it seems like as soon as you buy something, you see it on sale somewhere? I think it's working in my favor right now. It seems like as soon as I have a a Kindle Countdown Deal set up for one of my books, someone buys a copy at full price. I feel bad for that person, whoever they are. The universe is cruel sometimes.
I can't believe it's Thursday already. Not sure where the rest of the week went.
I bought some votive candles the other day in a few nice scents - hazelnut, vanilla, and a blue one I can't figure out. They don't last very long, but they were cheap. A side-happy about them is the cupboard where I keep them smells lovely right now.
Tick season has arrived. I found one when I was cleaning leaves out of the gardens. Ticks love leaf litter, doncha know. Anyway, I saw it crawling along a dead leaf, so I got it and squashed it. It made me sad - seeing it, not killing it - because it means my time in the woods is drawing to a close until autumn. =o(
Which reminds me, I need to order more pesticide so Hubs can spray the yard. Tick-mageddon 2019. Yay.
Speaking of ticks, we had a possum in the yard the other day. Yay! Possums eat tons of ticks. So do turkeys, and we're seeing a bunch of those. Turkey lovin' is in the air once more. The main rafter of about 15 hens is back and the two dominant toms are following them everywhere - all puffed up and in the mood for romance. Too bad for them the girls aren't quite ready for romance yet.
Okay, that's enough out of me this morning. You got anything to share?
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