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eBay Sales: paper dolls x2, DVD, book, GS badge,

#MilWordy Update: 106,968 words (3,8933 words/day to complete)

It was a pretty quiet weekend. Ended up playing the Sims rather than doing anything really exciting. Nose down and back to work tomorrow.

• Goal: Finish 2 books & 12 short stories — NOT TODAY
• Goal: Keep a journal, even if it’s only one line per day — Missed yesterday
• Goal: Take a photo every day and make myself a book at the end of the year. — YES
• Goal: Complete MilWordy. — Progress, but I’ve not hit goal for the day
• Goal: Blog every day. — haha. Nope! But we’re getting back on track right?

eBay Sales: blown glass ornaments, mini food processor

#MilWordy Update: 106,592 words (3,738 words/day to complete)

Shout out to my niece who received her Girl Scout Silver Award! Great going!

Finding it hard to come up with interesting topics to talk about or even things to whine about today. I’m feeling rather uninspired on all fronts. That means, of course, that I just have to sit down and write something, even if it’s not the best thing I’ve ever written. I *did* get a lot done for my day job today, so that might be part of it.

Maybe I can just finish up some editing bits and call that good. Or finish reading a book.

Casual puzzle game recommendation: Water Sort Puzzle from IEC Global Pty Ltd. (Not sponsored). It is worth the like, three dollars, to get rid of the ads. Basically, you need to sort out the different colors. The conceit is that you’re pouring layered fluids until they’re all in the correct test tube. I’m in the late 200s of levels and I have no idea how many layers they have or if they’re randomly generated. Still, I enjoy it greatly. If you like actual logic puzzles, I think you’ll like this one. It’s on Apple ios, but I’m sure it’s probably on other platforms, given the relative simplicity of it.

I’m reading The Refrigerator Monologues by Cat Valente. Is it good? Yes. Definitely. Especially if you’re a comics person. Is it hard? Yes. I will offer trigger warnings for sexual violence, death, and plain old violence. And well, if you’ve got any idea of the derivation of characters being “fridged,” then you will understand when I say that these are first person stories about female characters who were “fridged”. They are analogs not the actual characters because copyright is an issue. But if you’re in the fandom? You know who these women are. Really, you do. Trust me. There’s only one where I’m not actually sure who she’s an analog for, but I can guess what fandom she’s from. It’s good. And hard. And I will be glad to have read it, but I don’t know that I’ll ever re-read it. I still will recommend it. The same what I recommend Handmaid’s Tale.

• Goal: Finish 2 books & 12 short stories — NOT TODAY
• Goal: Keep a journal, even if it’s only one line per day — YES
• Goal: Take a photo every day and make myself a book at the end of the year. — YES
• Goal: Complete MilWordy. — Progress, but I’ve not hit goal for the day
• Goal: Blog every day. — YES

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#MilWordy Update: 106,242 words (3,740 words/day to complete)

An open note to the female-presenting personage who shills for about a bajillion of the games that regularly have ads in the middle of my casual gaming games: Not only am I “sick of hearing you talk about XXX”, your voice absolutely grates on my nerves to the point of hatred. I am not only sick of your voice, I am sick of the fact that your ads do not abide by the silent mode of my phone. In summary: I will never click on one of the ads that pokes through my silent bubble and makes my teeth grind. Your voice is more annoying than the “tiny classified ads” people.

Got some of my meds today. Oy. I forgot how expensive they are. I believe it counts towards my deductible, but I’ll have to call and talk to the insurance company to figure that out more clearly. It could just be that they don’t have a deal on that brand. It’s odd, but there’s two main meds from two different companies. Some insurance likes company A, some insurance likes company B. And if we had single-payer insurance or a national health-care system then I wouldn’t have to play “which one of these meds do you want me to take, you fuckers?” every time my insurance changed. *deep breath — which I can actually take because I have meds* *release* Wow, breathing. What a concept. Now, I just need to hold out until Wednesday for the rest of them. Meh.

I don’t really have much to relate, but I am going to start tracking my goals more closely, I think. Mostly just sort of a check-box thing. Did I take a step closer to this goal today?

• Goal: Finish 2 books & 12 short stories — NOT TODAY
• Goal: Keep a journal, even if it’s only one line per day — YES
• Goal: Take a photo every day and make myself a book at the end of the year. — YES
• Goal: Complete MilWordy. — Progress, but I’ve not hit goal for the day
• Goal: Blog every day. — YES

eBay sales: salesman samples

#MilWordy Update: 105,676 words (3,726 words/day to complete on time)

Spent most of the day finding things to donate. It’s like a mini-marathon of decluttering and minimalism videos right in my own home. My Dad took a load over to Goodwill this morning and it’s already full up again. LOL. We even found some things which are just recycling or trash as we were pawing through random drawers in the basement. I discarded a lot of little things from the gardening area which were expired. And then I donated a bunch of starter stuff that we’re never going to use here. I really should put on some shoes and venture into the Garage for more things like that. Easy decisions.

The kitchen and pantry are done. The videos are sorted. Though, I have a feeling that after I watch a few of the DVDs they’ll be either sent off to a new home at the thrift shop or I’ll sell them. There are movies that I “must” see or movies that I want to watch so I’ll actually understand the references. We all have those. I have seen a good number of the movies on the IMDB top rated movies. Many of the “top lists” give me points because there was a time in my life where I steadily worked my way through all of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies. That stands you in good stead when you’re looking at lists with older movies. My tiny squish on Cary Grant served me well too.

Did a load of inventory for the press today. I’ve got the annual report to sort out and you can bet your bottom dollar that I will be counting those words towards my MilWordy numbers. I’m tempted to count the words from my work documents too, since I’m drafting them all from scratch. And if I didn’t have a day job, then I would be counting words of that nature during the day. Any thoughts on that folks?

I hope to start doing at least one flash fiction per week. That’s not a goal I’ve set in stone though. I want to get through at least a month of blogging every day and writing a sentence or two in my journal before I add in any new goals.

I did set up my Goodreads goal for the year: I want to read 60 books this year. Or, I suppose, finish reading 60 books this year. I’ve got a few which will count towards this year which I started reading last year. But at least I’ll have finished them. That will let me drop the little plot hooks which remain in my brain. (I read many books at the same time. I am a biblio-slut. I generally have no issues putting them down and picking them up either. That means there’s a bunch of processing somewhere in my hemispheres which is devoted strictly to keeping track of where I am in certain books.)

On the other hand, now I have to resist adding books to my TBR. Do we really think I can do that?

No. We don’t. If you answered differently, you obviously haven’t been around me long. Books are one of my greatest pleasures. They are my addiction.

There are worse addictions.

Anyway, I think I’ll tie this up so that it actually goes out on time.

Love, luck, and lollipops, my lovelies.