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Working Wednesday: Book Two to Understand Book One

So Bob’s working on Book One (Arresting Anna) and I’ve moved on to Book Two (Stealing Nadine) not because I’m done with One but because I’d been working on it for so long it wasn’t making sense any more.  Working on Book Two makes me figure out the new place Anna (the character) is in as Two begins which will give me something solid to write to in One.  I think.  Are those awful titles?  I can’t decide.  I think they might be too romance-y.  Or not.  And then there’s Book Three . . . ARGH.

What did you work on this week?

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  2. They are not awful titles. You’ve been looking at them for too long, that’s all.
    I am working on getting through the sleet and snow to my orthopedist appointment. I hope I don’t slide off the road and need her more than ever.

  3. If you’re feeling worried about how little you’ve achieved, remember that Bram Stoker didn’t write Dracula until he was 50 and Dracula didn’t kill anyone until he was dead. – the internet

    It’s shopping day. I need to shop. I went through the refrigerator and tossed anything with a best by date before Thanksgiving. There was a package of bacon wrapped chicken strips older than that which was swollen, inflated, definitely not safe to even open. A jar of minced garlic with a half-inch left and a date in 2024.

    All week I’ve been eating whatever meat I had. I’m out of ham. No beef except frozen hamburger patties. No pork. Some frozen chicken strips. No sausage except two Johnsonville Smoked Sausage with jalapeno.

    I have much canned tuna, mostly skipjack but some albacore. I like to mix those with mac&cheese, a sort of ‘poor man’s tuna casserole’.

    I am totally out of dark chocolate. I have some milk chocolate but I’ve earmarked that for the grandkinder.

    Happy Social Security day! (My latest check has been deposited.)

      1. Went shopping. Kroger. Prices seemed higher than usual. I didn’t find any dark chocolate that I wanted there. Placed a delivery order from Walmart with extra chocolate.

        Major winter storm approaching. Got milk and bread, so I can make milk sandwiches. Also soup and lunchmeat.

      3. I am looking for the best chocolate to keep on hand for chocolate lovers. What do you suggest?

        1. I love the Boston chocolatier L A Burdicks and the Belgian Leónidas. But their truffles only last a few weeks. Burdicks makes a grated chocolate for drinking that lasts.

          Both also sell chocolate bars that would last.

          Depending on where you live you probably have to order by mail. Cote D’Or is also quite good and easier to find.

          I believe Deborah Blake is also a chocolate connoisseur.

  4. Book one and two are classic titles. Ba dum dum.

    Honestly, we have had those titles for long enough that they are cannon for me now and I have no perspective on if they are good or bad. I will read anything of yours regardless. At this point l, I mostly read on recommendations so I don’t use titles to guide me much.

    I’m working on trying to make art. I don’t like what I have been making, but I have been building on those themes and motifs for years. Frankly, I am at a loss as to how to change. I have been scrolling the socials of artists and makers I follow, but everything has a certain sameness that I am starting to loath. I guess I am going to go back to the basics of art history and how to draw and paint and try to work my way forward, but it feels like walking around with a head full of porridge.

    Oh, and trying to buy a car and care for my insane father who’s new doctor told him he is fine. He hated that. More dying in the offing, I am sure. Argh.

    1. I am so sorry about your dad. My father in law quit his job at 62 and moved to Florida when he developed minor heart problems because he thought New Jersey weather would kill him although his doctors said no such thing—over the furious objections of his wife who didn’t want to leave her large family and said things like “I want to be buried in my back yard”. Shades of Moonstruck. So I have seen this and completely sympathize. I hope you can find some humor in it. I also hope you can find a way to reduce this behavior. (From something you said before I wonder if it is worse when his blood sugar is low and you need to make him eat every few hours?)

      1. Thanks. He is very difficult to feed. We are working on it, and maybe adding carnation instant breakfast shakes to his morning. The doctor said a nutritionist he worked with found them to be the same as ensure when mixed with milk and much cheaper.

    2. I am not a professional artist, but I learned to “play” little games to get new inspiration. Just play with anything. A ball, slinky, etc. it works from time to time. A suggestion!

    3. If you want company figuring out how to be making art I would love someone to talk to about things. Hit me up with an email (my website is connected to my avatar I think?) because sometimes just having someone else looking at my stuff helps, and might for you as well.

      I am spending January faffing about in my studio. I have accomplished all the deadlines for fairs and holidays, and I am working on cleaning and tidying and seeing what is interesting to me now. Which has been a series of rabbits? I did not see them coming! But my studio neighbor drew a voluptuous goddess shaped bunny doll figure, and I have been refining the sewing process for them and then handing them back to my neighbor for faces and decoration. It has been different and fun.

      In March a friend and I are teaching a class on how to develop and maintain creativity by working in a series of small studies. That is always fun because people come in (many quilters) saying “oh I’m not that creative” and go leave feeling confident with a process that lets them explore new ideas until they find the next one that excites them. Sometimes I feel I should try to teach this online, but I’m not sure where to start.

    4. How about going on some artist’s dates, Lupe? Something tangential that might be fun and might spark you? I know that stuck-in-a-rut feeling, though – it’s a bugger. I think Margaret’s on to something, though – play would be good.

    5. Lupe – below is a link for the work of a “land artist”. He has a website called sculpt the world. He sells calendars & stuff. His work is beautiful. He works by the ocean with ocean rocks a lot. His latest creation was a spiral made of pine needles in a setting where you could see the ocean in the picture he took. If I can find it, I will link it, too.

      Maybe you could find some inspiration looking at his stuff.
      https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sculpttheworld.smugmug.com/__;!!LJSmWAX7WQ!Td8JSY8eqzu-IyrG2_cXObAwh3yum6vJe8mK4Jyia4gwwPh5O0zUq0oMqil3IZ5dR5AHimWFzYE3pMtanbEtrJMRhw$

  5. I very much like the titles. I think they are intriguing. Like everyone else, I’d read a phone book if you were the author.

    1. This!

      And it’s not too romance-y. Doesn’t say Duke or Billionaire or secret baby or…or…or…

      2. Oh, so well put! The titles are clever and evocative—made me wonder what was going to happen. They say when taking a test always go with your first instinct to get the answer right. Definitely don’t add billionaire to the title. I’m sensing that the reading public might be starting to dislike that designation.

        1. Starting to? I spit every time I see it.

          We actually make fun of that in the first book. So cutting edge. Her best friend tells her:

          ““No, wait, you should go. Casinos have rich guys. Maybe you’ll meet a billionaire who’ll want to cherish you. Spend the night. I’ll dog sit.” She gathered Johnny in closer and kissed his furry little head.

          He looked patient about it.

          I scowled at her. “Have you ever met a billionaire? Those people do not cherish . . .”

          I just searched. There are 23 mentions of billionaire in the first book.

          Then in the second book, they’re roleplaying in a bar and there’s this:

          “Have we met?” I said, glaring at him. “Are you a billionaire?”

          “Oh, sorry,” he said, regrouping. “Yes. I’m a billionaire. Billions and billions. Name’s Charlie Megabucks. I give a lot of money to charity. Philanthropy, I believe it’s called by the snooty. But I’m a man of the people who just happens to have billions. That’s me. And the arts. I’m big on the arts.”

          We have the billionaire thing covered.

  6. Day job. Which announced that we will have not only almost 1/3 of every month as Black Out dates for taking PTO, but also Dec 15-Jan 8th. Because it’s not enough that we keep being told to work faster, we also can’t take time off when it’s not convenient for them and their arbitrary month-end guidelines.

    Proofreading a book I wrote a long time ago that I re-edited about 3 years ago to release in Kindle vella when that was going on. I want to release it as a novel, but it’s not my current voice and maybe rambles too much. And I’ve sold zero books this year. So I’m not very enthusiastic about writing right now, either!

  7. I like the titles, but everything you guys write is an autobuy for me, so you could call the books Thing One and Thing Two and I’d still be there.
    In fact, Welcome to Temptation featured this week in my weekly reading round up on the blog (http://www.thatreadingwritingthing.com/home/2026/1/18/week-3-reading-viewing-writing.html) because as reported here last week, I’d just finished reading Let’s Make a Scene by Laura Wood and she zoomed into my top ten, but not my top five romances.

    Working this week is full of challenges and shenanigans, I am really enjoying it, can see that we are moving the dial on school culture, but have a couple of senior colleagues who need a lot more Brene Brown in their approach…it’s tough but rewarding.

    1. Your linked article seems, as I understand it, to ascribe most of romance’s commercial success to the HEA. The HEA may be absolutely guaranteed in romance (and even there it can be bittersweet, from secondary characters dying or being killed off, or sympathetic rivals being disappointed in love). But a happy ending is common and expected in many other kinds of genre fiction—most fantasy, most traditional science fiction, most traditional mystery fiction, traditional Westerns, etc. Hence Tolkien’s “On Fairy-Stories.” So I think more must be going on.

  8. The titles sound fine to me. They are good for us Arghers, and the rest of the world probably doesn’t care. I can’t wait for them to be finished, so I’ll have something new to read.

    I’ve been working on getting over the flu and getting past the pain in my chest where I fell, and the corner of a big cardboard box caught me. I was dehydrated and I fainted. It just goes on and on.

    I’m not reading news articles, unless they are very unfavorable to the orange baby. That saves a lot of time. I got a dental cleaning and they gave me a good report. I see my PCP tomorrow.

    I was really glad to see your post this morning!!!

  9. I’ve recently started using a C-PAP machine in the last few weeks. I put in my night guard for my teeth, I wrap my jaw up to keep my mouth closed, then put on a head harness with a soft plastic cover over my nose, with a six-foot long tube. I’m sure I’m a sight, but I sleep alone and the cat doesn’t care. It seems to be working, I am feeling better.
    Very cold this week, so the long johns have come out, and today is sparkly from the sun. My dad is doing pretty well, and is being visited by different PT angels, and a speech therapist for some swallowing therapy.
    I finally admitted defeat, that I won’t find my computer glasses until I get another pair, and am getting my eyes checked to day. Since I use three pairs of glasses, this could turn into real money. Oh well.
    So some progress towards health is being made.

    1. I’m glad all those machinations are working for you, Betty. Cats are wonderful! Mine thinks the CPAP hose is a toy.

    2. Zenni optical for the glasses! It’s kind of weird figuring out how to enter the prescription, but they walk you through it. So much cheaper. Like hundreds of dollars

    3. Not a million frames, but cheap and good – I ordered online and was very happy with the result.

      1. How do you know where to put the reading lenses in multifocal lenses if you order online? I tried to figure it out from an online website, but I found it so confusing that I ended up ordering the frames online and buying the lenses locally.

    4. OT: When I watched the movie Quartet on Roku, I found myself wondering what your take on it was. I loved it but I am not a musician. I just like opera.

      1. I enjoyed it! I thought it was funny that actual opera singer, Gwyneth Jones, was so comparatively small beside the actresses, and she never looked small on stage. She was a Wagnerian of considerable power and beauty. Mostly with opera movies I have to put aside the body types, and lack of the power center we have in the middle of our bodies that activates when singing. Once I do that, I have a good time.

        1. That is so interesting
          . Do you have any other movies of opera or about opera you would recommend. I have seen Traviata with Plácido and Diva.

          1. The Ingmar Bergman Magic Flute is wonderful. The Carmen with Julia Migenes. There are lots of productions to be found on Youtube. enter something like “Verdi complete opera performances” and you ‘ll find a lot of recordings of stage productions. Look into the Metropolitan Opera archives of the Simulcast productions, although those probably have to be paid for.
            So glad you like it!

          2. Thank you. I did a year subscription to Met Opera on demand. The more recent productions are cinema quality. The pre-1990 have good sound but the picture can be off and the camera work boring. Royal Opera and Ballet Stream app is good but the camera work is not as sophisticated but for some reason the audio quality is better.

  10. Day job, plus some home improvement, plus I *finally* finished complete draft of the new novella. I say “finally” because I started writing this bitch in 2020!!

    Also, yesterday, worked on family solidarity; my 87-yr-old Dad married a pacemaker so we were all hanging out at the heart center all day. He was kept overnight for observation because the insertion wasn’t done until 4 hours later than scheduled because the surgeon’s first procedure of the day took that many hours longer than anticipated. Dad was awake & alert when we left and, if I read the monitors correctly, his heart rate had stabilized from an average of 38 bpm to a much better 60 bpm. DH and Mom have gone back to Asheville to collect him and I am about to sign on for another fun-filled day of juggling work emails.

    1. Chachal, I was kept overnight after a pacemaker implant, too. Those docs are kept busy. I was told I would feel lots better, and I did for a while, until other problems intervened. I hope your dad does well.

  11. Monday, the cherry showed up in my favorites for clicking on to get to my usual reads. It’s cute!

  12. I’m working on helping kiddo make sense of Max Schwler’s Philosophical Anthropology model for a presentation. I’m far from high brow, so to me, this 1928 stuff smells like the enperor’s new clothes philosophy. Old ehite men who seems to have written this treatise under the influence of some heavy stuff. The best thing reading this up was watching experiments with chimpanzees on Teneriffe (gow they approached problem solving was an inspiration for him). He didn’t have a high opinion of women (what a surprise), saw us somewhere on the same level as plants (no offence to plsnts!!).
    Brooding over his nonsense was a bonding experience.
    We still had to pause and lift our dark mood by watching the goalie fight between Shark Ned and Panther Bob. Since we’re both definitely NO panthers fans, we rejoiced in Ned winning.
    Well, today back to this crap… at least with Marzipan Cappucino as refreshment.

    1. And apology to all the not quite young white men in among Arghers! You know it’s not you I’m fed up about.

    2. Sympathies. I had, in college 50 years ago, to read only a few paragraphs from Philosophical Anthropology and you brought the brain-hurting memory back.

  13. Correction: the name is Scheler. My finger tips are too broad …
    And btw, I agree that the Anna and Nadind titles sound fine. I’d not be crazy if the books were called “The billioaire’s fake omega bride artist” and “Thd alpha CEO’S conniving forced proximity conwoman” but prnned from you and Bob I’d just try to ignore the titles and read the stories anyway.
    Yes, I saw too many of those horrible titles.

    1. You know, I kind of want to write one of those books, the ones that give you the plot in the title. (NOT The Ice Pirate Zombies Vs The Alien Overlords.)

      You know, The Billionaire’s Fake Baby Mama’s Honeymoon With His Best Friend.

      We should do a contest of Plot Titles.

      1. You’re so easy, Lupe! I think your tentacles and Bob’s zombies are equally ever present.

      2. It’s the ice pirates for me. I can do without zombies or aliens but I’ve always sort of wanted to be a sailor. Too bad for me I grew up 600km from the coast.

    2. My husband tells me Ice Pirates is already a movie, so you might have some copyright issues. Lol…

    3. Clearly the alien overlords would have to be the good guys. That has happened in fiction hitherto but it’s rare enough to remark upon.

  15. I’m trying all sorts of tricks to try and figure out what the hell is happening in the cozy I’m working on. Maybe I need to go to the end and figure out how the bad guy gets caught. Sigh. On the bright side, I am actually doing some writing, in fits and starts, but more than I’ve accomplished in months, so there’s that. I hope to get some done today in between…

    Waiting for the pest guy to show up around noon (I don’t know what he can do that I haven’t already tried, but the first visit is free and the damn mice refuse to go into the traps like they usually do, so I’m desperate). Then waiting for my electrician to show up “in the afternoon” to replace a faulty thermostat in the mini-split in the new porch. Which hasn’t worked right for a year.

    Working on my taxes, which are usually almost done by this time, but I’ve barely started, because life.

    Sweeping some floors so I can actually mop them. Maybe. Eventually. Hey, I bought a new mop, that counts for something, right?

    But somewhere in there, writing, dammit.

    1. I don’t have cats but… how can you have mice in a house full of cats? Do you have Jerry and his brothers? As in Tom and Jerry. ?!?

      1. From what she has said before, I believe the mice stay in the walls where the cats can’t reach them.

  16. I’ve been spending a lot of time on crafting the past several weeks. Of course, I haven’t taken a picture of the Crochet-along, but progress is being made. It is now a rectangle, rather than an octagon. Each row / round takes time, and there’s counting involved, so I try to work on it when DH is doing something else. When he talks to me, or asks me questions, I have to restart counting 119 stitches.

    I scheduled time on the rental longarm machine on Monday. I put the big red quilt on and spent a crazy amount of time quilting it. I did take pictures though
    https://www.instagram.com/p/DTxrpllDnDU/
    the black kitty fabric is the back of this quilt. I thought it was just adorable. A friend told me that when all is said and done, I should randomly color in some of the eyes, just to make it fun for my great niece. The next picture is the big quilt on the frame. Seriously, this is huge – 1`08″ square, so roughly king size. It took me over 5 hours to quilt it, which would be significantly less time than if I had tried to do it at home. Next up – I need to bind it.

    I have pictures of Teddy, intensely giving me the eye because it was time for his treats, and Charlie, helping me put together the bits from my mystery quilt, which you can see on the previous picture.

    I have a picture of the TV console I found at the thrift store. It was a perfect fit for the new TV that DH had gotten back in December, so we are now upscaled. (Lots of conversation and re-counted stitches during that process!)

    The last picture is the promo for our quilt show in March. If you’re in Raleigh that weekend, please stop in!

    This coming weekend we are apparently in for winter weather. DH and I will be spending the next several days getting prepped so we will be ready for extended power outages. I’m hoping that since we back up to a main road we will get power back more quickly than folks in more scenic areas of town!

    1. I would not be able to keep track of 119 stitches whether or not anyone was talking to me.

      I love the black kitty fabric! And the red quilt looks gorgeous.

      Your cats are very severe with you.

  17. The theater keeps having drama. The former treasurer stole money again and we had to fire the social media director for being creepy and listening in on people’s mics. I have Yet Another Meeting in which they want to hand out more workloads of hers and I’m all “noooooooooo” in my heart.

    Still knitting a rainbow sweater, which I am enjoying and it’s soothing. One sleeve done, another nearly done. I’m trying to plot out what I’m going to do for the Ravellenic Games at the moment.

    Keep having medical appointments re: my psych issues. Got my psychiatrist appointment finally and got permission to up my meds, because I need to and have SAD up the wazoo. Have booked a GP appointment to ask about ADHD evaluation, which I have low to no expectations about given how that went last time with different insurance. And I started working with a hypnotist last night to try to get over my gag reflex that prevents me from taking most meds. Which turned into a therapy session about my various traumas, which was fitting.

    And I ran out of money before the end of the month, so I’m going through my savings like toilet paper and I need to start looking into how to make side gig money of some kind 🙁 Life has been too expensive since this hell period of my life started in November.

  18. BTW, I’m looking for one or two beta readers for Rocky Road. You have to promise not to tell Jenny about the ending where Rose gets captured by the Ice Pirate Zombies, which will lead to the sequel: Rocky Ice Pirate Zombies. Email me at bob@bobmayer.com

    1. Admit it – they taught you torture techniques in the Green Berets, didn’t they?

  19. I’m working on having fun – and it is quite hard work! Went to the movies at the library again today. The Fifth Element, not as well attended, maybe 15 people. Folks were put of by the Sci-Fi but I really enjoyed it, Bruce Willis in a semmit (Scottish for undershirt), saving the world – what is not to like. Not going next week as it is a depressing film, but will go the week after.

    Thinking about books and art, I am not sure if any of you know about our Anonymous Book Sculptor? https://qcckaff.weebly.com/the-edinburgh-mystery-book-sculptures.html I’ve seen some of them but not all. An incredible artist and managed to stay totally anonymous – how cool is that.

    Also trying to get back into doing some art myself but keep finding excuses that prevent me from starting. I used to be really good at it but think I am afraid of failure. Still sometimes I bake instead and that is really good and edible so swings and roundabouts.

    1. We used to serve pizza at the library with the movies to boost attendance. And I quite enjoyed The Fifth Element, but it has been some years since I saw it.

    6. I love The Fifth Element! My local independent cinema is screening it on the original 35mm film in early Feb so I will be taking a friend who has never seen it before.

  20. I am at work despite the nasty condition of the roads on the way in. I am going to try to sell my out-of-town boss on the concept of an early departure.

    Getting caught up on end of year stuff, and between that and out-of-town boss, I am going to take Friday, next Tuesday and Thursday off from my real job. Sister will likely find tasks for me, but that mostly doesn’t count as work, so feeling somewhat optimistic about the near future.

  21. I’m too cranky, mostly due to the horrors being committed in our name by the current WH administration, to get any work done. Well, except I finished the final draft (not counting proofreading and then edits after the copy editor looks at it) of the fourth Garlic Farm mystery that will be go with the re-release of the first three books later this spring.

    1. Gin according to Jimmy Kimmel, everybody in the world hates the US, now. It makes sense.

  22. I like the titles! Like a few have mentioned as long as they don’t have “billionaire, baby, etc I’m ok with whatever you two decide. I feel like it’s time to stop putting so much pressure on ourselves! We must have time to rest, play with our pets and do what makes you happy.
    I did work on emptying my luggage from or trip which looked at me every day I walked past it. Done.

  23. Love the titles!
    I’m pretty much working on nothing. My attention span at the moment would put a goldfish to shame, so I’m telling myself that I’m more or less still on a holiday, and the fact that I’m getting absolutely nothing done is completely appropriate.

  24. I am working on making sure day job doesn’t get in the way of my PT. I can walk 26 min outside with a cane which feels like a big deal 6 weeks post surgery. And I drove for the first time today.

    Also working on various family finances. This would be easier if Mom recognized her brother is a terrible investment advisor. Not that I am expert but I do at least understand what a mutual fund is.

    I can’t remember if I mentioned that this uncle at the age of 80 got caught by his third wife in a three year affair and is now getting divorced again so complaining about the impact on his health care costs (he was on her union insurance I think). Maybe he should not have fooled around… mom was quite startled that all her kids sympathized with wife and didn’t think that this woman being the “love of his life”somehow made it ok that he lied and cheated . It had provided some amusement.

    1. Families…the gift that keeps on giving. I, mostly affectionately, call my family’s ongoing mini-dramas White Trash Soap Opera.

  25. No billionaires please! Besides my regular activities (gym, volunteering and weekly knitting group), I’m trying to tackle a few household tasks each week. Not regular cleaning but things like cleaning walls and woodwork, polishing silver, wiping out drawers and cupboards, etc. I am not a fan of housework at the best of time but it feels good to clean discrete areas like the bathroom or a bookcase. I have a narrow brush that cleans crevices better than anything I’ve ever used. Currently snowing, so will go cross country skiing tomorrow.

    1. I am also recombobulating the house post the visit of the descendants now that I am more mobile. DH is a fabulous nurse and took good care of me but I have learned that he doesn’t see how cluttered the counters got or the build up in the dishwasher filter … although once I put a bunch of stuff away he did get into the spirit of it.

  27. This week’s been busy. I managed to ship my old camera gear to two dealers, despite having to wait in all day for a courier that never came, and I’m expecting payment soon. I had a couple of reunions with old schoolfriends, which were fun. Went to a couple of Parkinson’s groups, and may stick with the dance class. And after much reading of guidebooks, researching online, and feeling rather stressed, I’ve managed to book accommodation for a week in Ferrara and a week in Siena from mid April. Just got the last night, the flight, & insurance to sort.

  28. I’m currently keeping myself busy with puppying. Just before new year’s we started checking out rescues and found a 4-month-old male, Spider, we liked. It took a while for us to be able to meet him but we pretty much fell in love at first sight. He barked his head off at Paul but as soon as his foster mom picked him up so he was closer to Paul’s height, he was all kisses and cuddles.

    Just like with our Fred, we were the only people to look at him so it was meant to be. He’s a pretty plain little guy, black with a white blaze on his chest, probably a lab crossed with a boxer or a bully breed and goodness knows what else. The funny thing is that he looks exactly like the foster family’s 18-month-old dog. Exactly. They were both from the same rescue and may well have come from the same reserve so easily could be siblings.

    He rides in the car good and, blessedly, loves his crate and sleeps through most of the night. He’s doing well in his house training and learning that Fred does not want to be pestered. Of course, he can be a total monster and we are working on him not play biting the humans, but he seems to be catching on to that.

    Other than that, it’s been the usual of the day job and the usual chaos of that. Paul has pushed his retirement back 6 weeks. He hasn’t announced it to his work but there have been rumours flying that he’s leaving in April so he decided to leave in June.

  29. Since having an iron infusion a few weeks ago I’ve been feeling so much better that I’m starting to work on the house type things I had been neglecting. Yesterday I took the netting off my poor dead lemonade tree that didn’t survive last month’s heatwave and started cutting it down to a removable size. Today I’m recycling some jars that work people had given me for a fundraiser project but that didn’t end up getting used. Small things, but they feel like progress.

  30. I’ve been working on getting all my long awaited tests taken. Today I had an abdominal CT scan to help them try to figure out why I’ve had diarrhea for part of every day for the last 10 months. The test itself was fairly quick and easy (other than the fact that once again they gave me 2 conflicting sets of instructions) but they made me drink 3 bottles of the awful stuff you drink before a colonoscopy. However, the woman sitting across from me in the waiting room had to drink something far more disgusting, which put it back in perspective pretty fast.
    When I got home tonight they had posted the results from the blood tests I took and the one that had been 3 times the normal level the last time I took it is now once again in the normal range. I don’t know why, but I am grateful.

  31. The titles are fine. And the first is preordered.

    Started the week with Blankets and Broth for MLK Day, a combination food drive and fleece blanket-making event. The blankets go to several organizations serving the homeless. It was quite rejuvenating. Followed by a ‘higher-end fundraiser luncheon featuring our lt. gov.

    Pretty much the usual after that-a couple of meetings.

    I did reschedule an upcoming appointment because-SNOW. I expect to make a large pot of vegetable soup on Saturday to get me through the storm and the cold weather.

    Tomorrow it is supposed to be ‘warm’ so Pixie should get a decent walk. She insists on a walk but just wants to keep going.

  32. I have been working on not procrastinating as much this year and I checked 2 things off of tonight’s to-do list because I had tea while I ran the clock at K2’s hockey game and I’m working on learning how to run all the clocks and of course every rink has a different one so there are 4-5 different ones and they are stressful especially when there is more than one penalty at the same time and I am now comfortable on 2 clocks because YouTube can be awesome and did I mention that the tea was caffeinated and the game was a late game and I am very awake but my eyes are burning so I have to go to bed now.

    I love the titles, BTW.

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Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author and co-author of twenty-three novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, novellas, and short stories, and the editor of three essay anthologies. She lives in a cottage in Pennsylvania, where she often stares at the ceiling and counts her blessings.

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