Forced Blogging

I'm forcing myself to sit down and sit still and write. I should be blogging daily and since no one actually reads my blog, I shouldn't worry about the content. And yes, I do. As I've mentioned before, I use WW (used to be Weight Watchers) to watch my weight. I like to watch it go DOWN. Each plan gives so many daily points and so many weekly points. If you go over your dailies, you can borrow from your pool of weeklies. Well, I usually have roll-overs. That means that I don't always eat all of my points and they roll over to the next day. But only four. Last night I ended up not eating 11 points. But, only four will roll over.

I also watch my weight daily and have found that on the weekends where I've dug into my weeklies and even gone over (I'm talking a -97 weekly balance here!) I've still lost 1.3 pounds. Well, it's Thursday now and this past weekend I stuck to my daily points and borrowed maybe four weeklies. And guess what...my scale is showing no loss. My plan is to eat those weeklies and throw caution to the wind this upcoming weekend. My body seems to respond well to a couple meals that aren't WW SmartPoints friendly. 

I must also mention that I intermittent fast. I won't eat before noon or after 8 pm. This weekend, I'll probably log my points just to see if my theory works. If it does, from now on I'm counting points M-F and Saturday and Sunday I won't. With my intermittent fasting, I typically have one large meal a day anyway. Well, that's been a lot of rambling about my diet.

As for the writing, I'm finding it difficult to open my manuscript. When I wrote before, I had two friends who couldn't wait to read each chapter as I finished. Now, I don't have that luxury. I love the feedback and excitement of someone reading. It keeps me going. I like to have someone to write for. 

At this rate, Christmas Ginger will sit on my computer for another year or probably more. I'm not sure if or when Dead Butterflies will ever make it out. 

There, I blogged. It's done. I wrote something. Yay. 

Writing and Dave Ramsey

Well, it's happened. After a really good writing streak, I'm losing interest in my Christmas book. I don't actually have time to do this if I want it published by December. I admit that I've been preoccupied with Dave Ramsey's program and WW recipes and losing weight. I'm hoping and praying that I get my writing mojo back.

Juan came home yesterday with a Dogwood tree and hopefully, the thing likes our front yard and will grow up nice and strong. My grandmother had one in her front yard and would always send pictures of it when it bloomed. I'm talking about film pictures here. I'll post the little tree's progress as we go along.

But, back to Dave Ramsey...oh and homesteading. I can't forget that part. In 2017 we purchased a used single-wide mobile home with plans to make it over. This process has been slow going because the husband is a little difficult to get motivated. But finally, he has begun to trim out the windows. I hate the storm windows that come with mobile homes so the plan was to take them all off, throw them out and trim up the windows with wood. So far, half of the work is done on ONE window. Okay, two windows if you consider that they are in the living room side by side. But, still.

Our other plan is to add on to the home and create a spare bedroom/sewing room, mudroom, and new living room allowing the existing living room to become part of the kitchen. We (or I) want to gut both bathrooms and redo them as well. Oh, and the mudroom would sport a half-bath. We also need a half-bath out by the pool and the decking finished in the back yard.

Next spring we want to begin to plant vegetables and use a lot of our property for gardening. And also, we need a place to gather for all of our nine children and their families. And, we need Covid to go away. Please and thank you.

So we've been watching a lot of YouTube except for the break we took last night to watch the "new" Maleficent movie thanks to my husband's begging. That is behind us now. We can get back to Dave and homesteading. And I guess I need to figure out a way to make a new batch of soap this week as well. If Christmas Ginger makes it, it will be a miracle for sure.

Yet Another Hot Weekend

Another weekend looms before me. I don't know why I still get excited on Friday mornings. We really don't do very much. The husband and I love to spend time at the lake. I, however, have issues with sweating properly which causes me to react badly to heat. Because of this, I spend a lot of time in the air conditioning. I would rather be at home to do this than cooped up in our RV though it is quite spacious. If I'm at the campground, I want to be outside! So, I'm not sure what this weekend will look like. I'm definitely looking forward to the cooler fall weather that will happen for me sometime in mid-October.

Also, because today is Friday, that means that I had to climb on the scale at exactly 10:30 am for a weigh-in. Another pound down. I'm following WW on the blue plan and loving it. I could honestly do this for the rest of my life. It's that easy. I want to finally get to a healthy weight and stay there. I did Keto for about a year, gained my weight back, and then tried again. I just can't even handle the thought of almond flour ever again. No, please.

I feel that I'm being lazy today. I've been reading about odd deaths and haunting suicides. The people behind the stories fascinate me. And yet, I write Christian fiction. Go figure. I've also been talking to my daughter about WW and how it can be used for a lifetime. I really need to go start the dishwasher but I don't want to. But I have to. Our office/craft room is a building outside of our home. So I have to walk all the way inside to start the dishwasher and fold the laundry. Okay, no more procrastinating. I'm headed inside. BRB

Okay, so that took longer than expected though I'm sure you didn't notice. I must also confess that I took the day off from writing. Am I the only one that gets numerous ideas at night when I'm supposed to be sleeping? "Oh! I'll do that in the morning!" But then when the morning comes, I find myself doing anything but opening Word in order to work on one of my six already-started books. Yes, six...wait, there might be more.

Let me explain. Dead Butterflies is complete but in desperate need of a few people to read through it and then editing. I've also been working on a teen adventure called Five Strange Things. In addition to those, I'm also working on a stand-alone called For Molly. And then there's my new Garrett Family series that could be or should be at least ten books. The first is called Unbroken. And then there is Uncertain which is half complete. And I can't forget my Christmas story called Christmas Ginger.

So, as you can see, I have quite a bit I could be working on. I tend to write a chapter a day in addition to editing other chapters from various books. Each chapter is about 4,000 words. That is what I'm supposed to be doing. As I type, my husband is on the phone rambling about this and that. Another problem I have is if I'm distracted, all writing for the day goes out the window. I'm hoping to use this blog as an exercise to stay on track. I hope to have at least one of my books published by the end of this year. Dead Butterflies is my plan.

I'll also be self-publishing all of my books and my publishing "company" name will be Miracle Cove. If anyone is out there, prayers are gladly accepted!

Here's hoping to have a fun weekend. Grammarly is telling me that my blog sounds gloomy. I don't mean for it to be gloomy. Anyway, I hope that if anyone is reading this blog that you'll have a fantastic weekend! Stay safe!