Just Me

  May has been an interesting month for me. I turned 48, landed two writing assignments with the same client (up until now, it had been one assignment per month), I discovered a new route when I went on my birthday walk with my kids (and two of our animals!) and I got to attend my youngest's track meet. It was pretty awesome! I have also written another ebook (the May KU book), submitted some writings to other markets and entered a poetry book contest. Along the way, I also stuck to the reading, though not as often as usual. Some days I got so busy, I only had time to read ebooks or just a couple of the 6 print books I am currently reading. Even so, I did manage to finish reading some books this month. Not as many as previous months, but I'm still happy with this. It's five books for the fifth month. Here are books I either read or finished reading in May: 36. 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love by Rachel Aaron 37. Area 51: An Uncen

  Today’s celebrations were pretty awesome and definitely blogworthy because some of them came with a bonus! How nice.   I was not on my schedule today because my youngest had an appointment this morning and I had to do some other things. Unfortunately, they had to close the clinic and canceled all the appointments for the day. We found out less than an hour before we had to leave! I am just grateful we were notified before we headed out.   Aside from that, I got a lot of things done today. A lot of things kept me busy. No headaches today, thankfully, but right now, I am dealing with some dizziness. I was so close to going a day without either of those things! Maybe tomorrow.   Anyway, here are the 10 things I have to celebrate from my day.   1.   Got to watch the sunrise this morning. Yay! It was a cloudy sky before sunrise, and I wasn’t sure if I would be able to see it, but thankfully, the clouds parted and the sunrise made its glorious appearance. It was a nice su

  One of my favorite quotes is “Don’t let waiting become a habit.” I love this quote because it says a lot about just how much people value your time.   I have always been tapped into things that I need to do RIGHT NOW. Even when I was in school, if I felt I needed to do a particular thing in this point in time, then I did it. I didn’t think, “Gee, maybe I should wait until I am older.” I just did it! There was one time I applied for a correspondence writing course. They turned me down because I was too young (I was 16 at the time). They encouraged me to go out into the world and get some life experience first, then come back to reapply. (Which I did and … didn’t.)   It’s just that if I feel compelled to do something RIGHT NOW, then I do it!   Sometimes, though, there have been people in my life who I NEEDED to do things with, but they weren’t all that decisive about whether they wanted to go through with it – either with me, personally, or at that particular point in the