September is my favorite month, except not this year. Big achievement this week: Microsoft Word has been acting so weird I couldn’t use it to write, but this week, I FIXED IT. I am very proud. Fingers crossed the rest of this cursed month is good.
What did you work on this month?
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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I’ve mostly worked on the cross-country move, which is not yet complete – our big truck is due today or tomorrow, according to the dispatcher – but at least we are physically in North Carolina and I’m up and running for Day Job.
Edits for my next release (a short story follow-on to last month’s ETERNAL SUMMER) were done before moving deadlines unleashed hell. I have a new set to do this weekend for the Advent calendar novelette.
New writing? HA!
What with the move, etc, I’ve spent nearly $20K in the past six weeks, so I am also working on accepting that a) I had the money squirreled away for reasons, of which a big move was one, because there was always going to be a big move, and b) once everything shakes out our cost of living will in fact be quite a lot lower, so I should be able to squirrel away a new stash fairly quickly.
Must now go spend some more money. I have walls to paint.
Welcome to NC! Hope you like it here!
I hope eventually you get to spend money on frivolous things. (Paint can be fun, but it is not frivolous.)
Congrats on being moved, mostly. Hope the conclusion is successful.
Congrats on making this happen! Your planning has been an inspiration.
I sent Book 3 in my Ice Planet Octogenarians series over to my dev editor and plotted out Book 4.
I love this point in writing–where my head is full of ideas and it feels like the book will write itself, before I put the first word on the page and destroy that illusion. 🙃
I’m sort of at the same phase with my WIP — not quite done brainstorming — and struggling a bit to really immerse myself in the world (too many distractions). I really love this phase though, with a vague outline, lots to discover, and ideas brimming over for the first act. Things slow down after that, but the first 50 pages or so (in rough draft; it gets longer during later drafts) are so much fun. I always fight the urge to just write the whole act before doing the outline, but for me, that’s always a mistake, and I get stuck and end up scrapping a lot of the beginning, which, while fun, was a mess. Not everyone needs an outline, but I do, and mine are vague enough that they allow for lots of fun surprises as I go along.
Congratulations, Jenny, on fixing Word.
Congratulations, chachal, on your move.
Congratulations, Jeanne, on sending Book 3 to your developmental editor.
The last few weeks have felt like I’ve been spending way more time on important things that aren’t finishing my manuscript. However, I did manage to take my opening chapters up a few notches in quality. I’ll get feedback from one of my critique groups on Monday evening. Hoping they love the revisions! 🤞🤞🤞
Having a difficult conversation with my stepdaughter today. We are incenting her monetarily to show up to class and be on time – she gets two strikes per month. Yesterday she stayed home sick, and just realized that I’m counting it as a strike. She thinks that’s unfair. I told her that she gets two emergencies per month and that’s one. She’s still got another one before the end of the month which is close. Now I need to tell her that if she goes away with her mom for vacation or a conference that also counts…I am girding my loins.
That sounds like a tough conversation. Hope it is full of love and empathy. I have to make amends for a snide comment I made yesterday which was not.
My daughter has been tardy and missed so many days of high school the last three years we’ve been warned every year she’s in trouble. Plus she doesn’t turn in with she misses. Nothing has worked yet. Very frustrating and I sympathize!
Not the most enjoyable conversation. Sending strength, patience and pocket-hugs!
I am very impressed you fixed Word Jenny!
I am always fighting with Word when I use it. Word usually wins.
I am working on being a better grandparent and mother in law. Baby is still so tiny and fragile.
It has sounded like an awful month for you, Jenny!
Mines been day job and reading. Not much writing work. Even my planned writing time has been formatting or reading someone else’s book to give feedback.
And it looks like my daughter’s sweetie might be coming to stay for a week or so due to stress at home, so that will be stress here.
My Word is glitchy and apparently not fixable, so I just deal with it. Sigh. It’s still the format I prefer to write in, so you have all my sympathy. (Not that you wouldn’t anyway.)
I spent yesterday doing annoying adulting calls: Spectrum, to get a replacement for my nearly new phone, which apparently has a defective battery (because I have no cell service at my house without WiFi, replacing anything is a royal PITA, and I need to get it done before I fly out to CA next week, so hopefully I have a dependable phone). My health insurance, to make sure that the genetic testing my mother’s cancer surgeon recommended was covered…which it is, but the doctor should have applied for pre-approval and didn’t, so now that’s in motion. It’s amazing how much of my time and energy that ate up.
Making sauce out of my tomatoes, and cooking down last year’s too-thin puree (think watery soup) in my new Instant Pot so it will take up less room in the freezer. It FINALLY rained yesterday, and may rain on and off all the rest of the week, which is great, but I really need to get out into the garden.
Like everyone else, it seems like I am swamped dealing with a long list of “everything but writing” things that need to get done, and am only making small progress on the thing I want to be doing the most. Gah.
Ooh, good idea on reducing the puree. I play freezer tetris constantly these days, although, on the plus side, I can virtuously tell myself that I’m only eating up the popsicles (Outshine fruit thingies) to make room, now that hot weather is almost gone and I need space for cold-weather stuff.
Major kudos for besting Word! On vacation this week so not working on anything. Yippee – reading and resting and letting the brain more or less lie fallow all the better to burst forth with new creativity upon my return. Up North in Michigan, our peaceful place. Nothing like it for rejuvenation.
Are you actually in the U. P.?
She was at the tip of the Lelanau peninsula, north of Northport. I was in charge of her cats etc. October 4th I leave to go to a different house in the same area while she and BIL do my cats. Close relatives are wonderful and handy 😃
Jenny, Congratulations on taming Word. These things are always a struggle.
For unclear reasons (fighting off some asymptomatic virus?), I went through a particularly low-energy patch. When that got better, I discovered late Sunday afternoon that my car wouldn’t start. I thought the battery had probably run down from little use, but worried that it might be something worse, timed to a week when I had two medical appointments, and I did not have a restful night. The next day the AAA guy got it started with no problem and said the battery tested okay. I drove it around for a while to recharge, and the next day it worked fine for my first appointment, so all good so far. Except that the stress has been very tiring again. Today is another light-duty day and then tomorrow holds another appointment and, if my energy is up to it, some grocery shopping on the way back.
The Tuesday appointment was a follow-up on my glaucoma procedure. So far (six months in) all looks good.
Otherwise, it’s been mostly chores and paperwork on the must-do front, and reading on the want-to-do one. I should have at least a couple of books written up for GBTh.
Good news, Jenny: October is just one week away! Change is a’coming. Hang in there!
I have no idea how I managed to sort of function through stressy video-recording and event between the 11th and 18th. Now trying to recharge. This means very little doing of anything, really. MIL got me out on a short walk on Friday, and yesterday I went to another physiotherapy appointment. Physio decided to refer me on to hand-therapy-guy after all, because I’m still struggling with hand-pains and we haven’t seen any improvement at all over the past month. He also noted that there’s so much tension in my body just… going on in there. For instance, him just lifting my one arm made my whole back- and shoulder-region go into full action, where nothing should have happened really since I wasn’t even doing the motion, he did. It’s both disconcerting and revelatory: No wonder I am always exhausted and have lots of pain when the entire system is, because of a whole bunch of factors, in constant overdrive and has been for… far, far too long. Argh. Sigh.
On the upside: I ordered new tea and same day as that came in, a gift-package from mum with even more tea arrived from Sweden. I also just got an email-notification that a package of crafting-materials should arrive tomorrow or day after. I managed to crawl onto Ravelry yesterday to say hi, and 3 people told me right off the bat that they’d missed me. it made me tear up a little. Oh, and I finally took the big step and changed my socials (except bluesky) from shassmusic and shasscrafts to ShassDoesStuff. I felt limited by the other names specifying what I am doing when what I am doing is just… a lot of different things. Now I can post whatever I want without feeling like I’m breaking any rules. So, technically, I could now for instance go ahead and post the video from last week.
To everyone who is struggling right now, have some big, big hugs! Your pockets have been re-stocked and strength sent your way!
I love your new name. It seems appropriate even when you aren’t doing stuff at the moment.
Thank you! I’m happy that people have been so positive about it so far. I’ve been thinking about it since October last year. I think now was the right time. As Jenny often says: Change is good. I have more freedom now to do or not do, create or not create whatever and however I want, and it’s a relief. Less pressure. Like you said: Even when it’s not related to crafts or music or anything creative whatsoever, I still do stuff, so it works no matter what.
Shass: I live in a village that has massage therapists up the wazoo, so they’re everyone’s go to in times of trouble. Is that something you might consider? Would it be covered by your healthcare? I tend to build up my tension in my back and neck (hence migraines) and a good massage on a regular basis does wonders. It’s lovely to feel spoiled.
Shass, I am not a medical professional of any sort and it’s absolutely none of my business. And I’m sure you’ve already thought of this and/or done this. But have you ever tried muscle relaxant meds or something of that nature and if so, did they have any effect? Because what happened at your PT seems like a big clue?
I’m sorry this month has been such a slog!
We’re leaving for our trip tomorrow. I thought I might do some writing this week, but I’m just not in the headspace for it. I’ll prep a version of the manuscript to look at on my phone in case inspiration strikes while we’re traveling, but I highly doubt it will! I’ve been baking cereal flakes and crackers to take with me, finalizing the packing, getting things ready at home for Kid 2, and trying not to be too anxious about the flights. Doing pretty well at that, actually. I’m going to take myself for a long walk this morning. My SIL is currently in the air on her flight from Paris to Reykjavik, so it feels a bit like the trip has already started for us, too. Can’t wait to see her on Friday! I spent a couple hours yesterday downloading books for the trip, and a library hold just came in the morning, so I have tons of reading lined up. I’ll try to finish the library book before we leave tomorrow, which should keep my anxious brain out of trouble a bit…
That book I said I was never going to write, the one about the national guard executing the Trump regime? I had a better idea not to write. It seems there is this alien race monitoring Oith (that’s how they say it) and they’ve been frustrated that they can’t intervene without revealing themselves. Then they monitored a bunch of broadcasts about “the rupture” or something like that. So tonight, several million Maga supporters are going to be teleported right out of their clothes and dropped into various active volcanoes.
I’m not writing this one either.
I am spending October reading romances with HEA. I need to detox from the violence. I mean, I reread THE HONEY POT PLOT just to get to the scene with Serena and Herc, because it was so satisfying. So I’m doing romance with no murders. My soul needs a cleansing, or something.
I have to stop watching the news, too.
If you have Netflix, before September ends, I highly recommend watching “The Thursday Murder Club” and “The Residence.” Both cozy murder mysteries.
I would so read both of those. Thanks for the last image, especially. I couldn’t stop giggling, because I kept thinking of the aliens as the Three Stooges. Oith indeed. 😀
The second book has profound plot holes. Imagine what the effect would be on Xtian churches should it even be suggested that the rapture was a real deal… and billions were “left behind.” No. I will never write that book. (I’d read it, though.)
Gary, not a big plot hole. Most of the world’s Christians don’t hold with the Rapture. It’s most an American evangelical Protestant idea from the 19th century. So there’d be a mysterious disappearance to contend with, but aliens would look like a viable explanation to all except some evangelicals, and aliens would work as an explanation even for many evangelicals; not all are MAGAns. But I may be getting in deeper than I want to be this late. And if the cover story didn’t work, the aliens might be in trouble with their superiors, at minimum an interesting plot development.
Gary I love this! Myself I just have imaginary meetings in elevators where I convince the head one that everyone hates him & he goes away.
I’m with you, Jenny, on banishing September. I’ve been working on getting an emergency button to wear, practicing walking with, and without, a walker, and scheduling various appointments so that they will fit with my son’s availability to drive me to them. I’m thinking about what’s gonna happen to my house when Home Health comes and says “move that! Move that! Get rid of that!”
I’m very excited to be going home on Friday, where I hope my cats will still recognize me. I could use some Kitty love. I am very grateful to be alive, and somewhat functioning. I have an eye appointment that will eventually get me to a specialist on strokes, as I am still seeing double. May we all feel better, and do better, in October! This week was autumn equinox, something I look forward to every year.
Oh Jan! I must completely have missed that you’ve had difficult times, too. Stroke, was it? What awful news. Hope it didn’t mess things up too much for you. Sending LOTS of hugs!
Thanks, Shass. The stroke came on the heels of a cardiac catheterization and installation of two stents. So I had a very eventful month. I’m still absorbing the consequences. I thought I was doing everything right, and something like this could never happen to me. I thought I had plenty of time to do the things I was planning to do. There’s a lesson there!
Like Shass I missed that you had a stroke! I’m so sorry and hope you are getting better steadily. Sending many many pocket hugs
Oh, no, Jan! Sending more good wishes your way.
Jan, I had vaguely understood that all was not well, but not that you’d had a stroke. I hope that the damage turns out not to be too bad and that recovery is rapid.
Thanks, Patrick. Not being able to see well, or properly, is very frustrating. But there is hope on the horizon. Maybe by November I will get a referral to a stroke specialist ophthalmologist.
Like others, I didn’t realize you’d experience so serious of health issues! I am happy you’re doing so well that you’re able to go home this week! I’m confident the kitty lovin’ will speed up your recovery. May you continue to heal and fully recover quickly!
I’ve been working on a counted cross stitch kit of a Reykjavik city scene that my son gave me. He said he saw it the day we landed in Iceland and took that as a I sign. I haven’t done as much cross stitching lately since my eye sight isn’t the best but with the help of a bright Ott light and occasional use of a magnifier, it’s coming along.
Currently away from home on a business trip, and the days prior to the trip were not conducive to productive creativity. So, I have no pictures to share. I brought a fresh skein of yarn with me and am working on my standard baby blanket. The yarn is bright and colorful, so it makes me happy to work on it. Looking forward to being home and snuggling with the kitties.
Nancy H: do you make baby blankets to sell or only for family/friends? Your work is so inspiring.
I make them for friends and family. Its handy to have a couple already made on hand for those surprise announcements. Thanks for the thought.
Congratulations on all the month’s achievements, from wrangling recalcitrant computer programs to wrestling with recovery issues and insurance companies! May October be kinder to us all.
My big achievement this week was a) prepping for Capclave, my local SFF con; b) getting through Capclave (thank goodness for con friends!), and c) recovering from Capclave. Here’s to a week of actually writing!
Deeply impressed that you fixed your MS Word problems, Jenny!
I didn’t fix anything nor did I manage to do anything usefull apart from the day job. Where things are crazier than ever. The next accreditation site visit is coming up, posters to design/order, reports to write and on top a national QM networking meeting to attend tonorrow. In another city, which means less time to get stuff done thag needs doing. The train ride will not be long enough to get much done.
But the first production stills for the Cravd Heated Rivalry series have dropped snd look GOOD. Not long until November!! I don’t know yet how to watch it, but I will find a way!!
See https://tinyurl.com/mrxd96d5
Dodo I had no idea that was being made into a series- thank you for enlightening me! It’s my favourite Rachel Reid. Although I also have no idea how I would watch it down here.
Georgia, Rachel wrote a very nice blogpost lately see https://www.rachelreidwrites.com/news/2025/9/14 about the whole process.
Everything one hears/reads is very promising – the show runner is a fan himself, the two actors for Hollanov seem a great fit and are very into their roles – I follow the whoe shebang on instagram.
I was very sceptical but I’m kind of optimistic. Now I only have to find a way to get Crave 😉 My kiddo’s Canadian host dad is very tech savy and might have an idea. Though my kiddo is JEALOUS that her host dad and I bonded over smutty hockey books and film adaptations. She told me in no unclear words that SHE lived with them and was their host daughter. But I got to spend some time with her host parents too and we bonded too 🙂
Tell your daughter that good friends are to be cherished however we meet them and that what you share with her host family in no way detracts from what she shares with them. After all, I’m sure the first thing you bonded over was your shared appreciation of your daughter.
My brother became very close with a Danish exchange student when they were both 18 and since then they have both become interwoven in each other’s families. Both my parents and I stayed with Nils’ parents when we came through Copenhagen. My brother translated and edited all of Danish Daughter #1’s essays and applications when she applied for an exchange program to study in the States (he is her godfather.) When my brother comes to Denmark at Christmastime, all of Birthe’s sisters knit sweaters for him. He always arrives a few weeks early so that he and Birthe can cook and bake together for when both families come to spend the holidays together.
And now, 60 years later, we still remember that the reason we all know each other is that 2 high school boys had the time and opportunity and interest to get to know each other, but that was just the start of all the love, laughter and support that our families have shared over the years. What your daughter fears now as competition may lead to a much stronger bond over the years. I hope she will be as lucky as my brother was.
Aunt Snack, that is such a lovely experience and friendship your brother has built!! That is soooo great!
I would love to keep in close touch with my kid’s host family, we noticed that we have so much in common and they are such incredibly lovely people!
My kid will come around I’m sure, but it’ll take time. We bith have experienced that we often, too often come second in a friendship when other, more extroverted friends crash into a bff situation. In this case she might see me as this crashing person.
But two moms bonding over fruit wine tasting, tea drinking and Indian fabric shopping is very different to a girl and her host mom bonding over a shared love for tv series and spotting Vancouver as filming location.
Also, kiddo is more of an introvert and I’m not, provided I like the company so much that I can shed my introvert’s skin. Abd her host family made this easy while also being the opposite of shallow.
They know they are welcome at our hope any time!
And yes, the furst bonding moment was over our kid – her Canadian family even named our whatsapp group “V’s Fanclub” ❤️🧡💛
I am still working on my leg. I’m making it through work but by the end of the day I hurt a lot. I hurt at random times throughout. My PT people say they have done about all they can for me, and given me all the exercises they can think of, and I’m doing them all (not all every day! There are a lot!) and I don’t see my orthopedist again until November, so I will just keep on keeping on.
PT is… a pain, often literally. Sending strength and hugs! Hope the leg will feel better soon.
Thanks, my PT is hardly ever painful. The therapists keep manipulating things and asking if it hurts and I say it feels fine and they try something else and comment on how flexible I am. (More than 40 years of yoga will do that.) I need to build up strength in the leg so it will stop hurting when doing more than its share.
Shass, your PT guy hopefully leads you to breathe away the pain?
I hate painful PT. I do remember being a dummy once for a massage demonstration on how to loosen the glued fasces in my back.
Worst.Experience.Ever!
Hubby followed up this exercise, but far more intuitive, actually able to loosen the muscles instead of making me into a brick of pain…
Mary Anne, it’s not an exact parallel, but years ago I went through a prolonged period of PT for a shoulder muscle. The PT took so long that I had to get authorization from my then health plan extended a couple of times, but the muscle did eventually heal with normal motion pretty much restored and has not acted up since. So sticking with the exercises may pay off eventually.
It is paying off, but very very slowly. The leg problem is a side effect of arthritic scoliosis in my lumbar spine (where I have no pain at all!) and the painful leg needs to build muscle to succeed in doing more than its fair share of supporting me. We are all of us finding this frustrating.
You fixed Word. I’m very impressed as the software usually wins.
Currently travelling home to BC. We have been away for two weeks with lots of family time. So many good times. Currently driving to Revelstoke. Next stop Canmore, close to Banff. I have missed the mountains. I never know which direction I am facing in Edmonton. Home is mountains to the north, Pacific Ocean to the west, America to the south and the rest of the Canada to the east.
Feel the weight of things to be done starting tomorrow.
I’m feeling grounded with every mile home to the coast.
My current “work” is recovering from the case of Covid I got during a recent business trip. Fortunately it is a relatively mild case, but if the current Regime hadn’t been doing all they could to make this year’s vaccine inaccessible, I would have been vaccinated before my trip and safe from whomever infected me.
Not that I’m bitter. Much.
I just asked at my pharmacy today, and they don’t have any vaccine and don’t know when they might get some. Since I’m over sixty-five I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops when they do get some, at least.
I still write in WordPerfect. Yeah, I’m old and stubborn. But it was the standard in the legal profession, and once I got to be a power user (sort of), switching to MS Word was annoying, because it would always default to stuff I didn’t want, and it didn’t have the non-mouse shortcuts I did want. And I can’t live without Reveal Codes. (Yes, MS Word has SOME code revealing, but not the full range that WP has.)
I got a legal (not pirated!) but bare-bones version of MS Word in … musta’ been 2014, when I sold my first mystery, and the publisher expected me to be able to do my edits in Track Changes, which WP doesn’t have (or isn’t compatible, forget which). I begrudgingly used it for my edits, so two to three times a year, and moved the software (legally again) with no problem (it’s a lifetime license) from PC to PC until my current PC that’s maybe three years old now. I had the license and the password and all that jazz, but MS Word would not accept them, and working with MS support was a nightmare, and I was NOT going to pay a subscription so I can use it twice a year for a total of maybe ten hours. And then I found out that Google Docs has a Track Changes option that is saved when downloading to .DOC format when done, so I don’t need MS Word for anything now. Woohoo! It’s mildly annoying doing it with this workaround — the “editing mode” terminology in Google Docs is a bit weird, but for something I only need for about ten hours a year, I can cope.
As to work, I’m currently fighting what I know is the right thing to do — namely, stop all manual (literally) work for a week or two, so a really bad carpal tunnel flare settles down — because I’ve been shockingly productive lately and don’t want to stop. I’m down to three quilts that I haven’t started quilting yet, and five that are quilted and just need binding. I really, really, really want them all done before it gets too cold to work in my unheated studio, which means I’ve got until the end of October, more or less, and I’m looking at probably thirty (?) hours in my studio to finish them all.
What a odd coincidence. I was just complaining to a coworker yesterday about Word not having Reveal Codes.
I watched too many Lightroom tutorials – I won’t do the LR Virtual Summit again, though there were some useful bits. Once the rain stopped, I began clearing the allotment – I’ve re-dug and mulched the big potato bed and cleared, planted & sown hardy annuals in another. There’s a lot still to do, but I need to sort out my piece for the next group show. I’m also still prioritizing walking for an hour a day, and keeping an eye on side effects from the pills I’m on – so far they haven’t cured my tremor.
Had an unexpected outing to my friend’s wood yesterday, so did a bit of photography: https://www.instagram.com/p/DO_mzqSDDt9/?img_index=1
Wiggly is the perfect word for those oaks.
beautiful photographs Jane!
Thank you!
I think I have my lines down. I’m working on a second layer of skirt for one costume and working on a corset for another costume. I’m nearing finishing a work project and got told I could finally start some more, yay.
Where I’m having an issue is that my TypePad blogs are being killed at the end of the month, I am forced to deal with WordPress, and I cannot figure out how I am “supposed” to set it up, because I’m told everything I did was wrong, and I have multiple blogs and apparently it doesn’t deal with that well. I can’t even cope with the photo albums 🙁 All my Internet presence is going to be nuked next week because I am not smart enough to solve this shit.
That would be hard to deal with, for sure!
I battled a common cold. I wanted a bowl of soup, but I wanted more than just Chicken with rice. A can of Healthy Choice Chicken with rice formed the base. I added a can of roast chicken breast, a harvest of green onions from the hydroponic gardens, a bag of baby carrots, garlic powder, onion powder, a serving of mirepoix, a stack of water crackers on the side, and all the other seasonings on a shelf. The Soup was delicious.
If I hadn’t just eaten End of Pot Roast vegetable soup for supper I would be jealous.
If you saw brown lumps floating in the photo, those were the Jimmy Dean Sausage Links, diced. Extra flavor and protein. 🙂
I have finished my two weeks of training new starters at work and am now on holiday for a week, visiting my family up north. It’s going well so far because I’ve been wriggling around political conversations like an eel.
I need that skill. I am seeing two sets of friends at an event this weekend, both have family in Israel, and they have more or less opposite views on what’s happening in Gaza. Sigh.
It helps that the footy finals are this weekend so everyone is more distractable than usual. Good luck with the event- hopefully the atmosphere won’t be too tense to enjoy yourself.
I’m working on sitting long enough to get day job work done and walking with a walking stick because I did something to my hip and can’t see an orthopedist until Friday.
Some day job work got pushed off for a very bad reason — the guy doing the work I need to review is getting surgery for a brain tumor tomorrow. We need to find another data guru.
I am also working on keeping mom away from dangerous homeless woman who has resurfaced. Sigh.
I meant to say—like everyone else I’m ready for September to be over. Also looking forward to baseball post season with Max Scherzer.
Oh no, she’s back? I’m so sorry you have to go through that all again.
Nothing much is going on with me which I guess is good.
Watching HGTV and not the news for obvious reasons. I do have to call my reps to ask the files be released.
Actually getting to bed at a slightly earlier time and sleeping well. Hope I can keep that pattern up.
WTG on Word, Jenny!
Focusing on the fun stuff–the art project I’m working on with our son is inching toward completion and makes me smile.
Otherwise, based on our household status and the number of sick people I’ve zoomed with lately, I think it’s time to buy stock in Kleenex.
I’ve been working on the flower farm and getting ready for virtual card making event thus coming weekend weather had been surprisingly summer-like this week but rain expected tomorrow. Our region is in a drought so I’m not complaining about any amount of rain.
I’m thinking of not buying a house in Lexington but just moving to an apartment there, instead. I can’t even get my house up for sale because things keep happening. I got the step fixed & I ordered the blind & now the toilet is not flushing! Argh
I hate trying to get things fixed!
Some good news – Only Murder In the Building is back on & so good so far!
Also, Jenny – I think you need a new moon mantra to get you through to October 6 full moon. Healthy, happiness for Jenny Crusie waxes with the moon!
I’m impressed by fixing Word! I hope you are also feeling/doing better and healing well!
It seems like last week was a lot for everyone, so sending hugs and well wishes across the board.
It’s been a while since I posted. So I’m including a lot of projects that I’ve done over the past few weeks. https://www.instagram.com/p/DPExizaEcS0/ Since I’m late in posting, I doubt many of you will see them, which is fine. The big project we’re trying to redo is our deck. It’s going slowly as it’s been raining. I’ve also had a meltdown or two over the last 2 weeks and am trying to focus on doing as it helps with the depression.