TGIF! Let’s jump right into sharing 5 random things about our week.

1. I’m reading Ilona Andrews book titled Burn For Me and enjoying it.
2. I’m listening to another book that’s not a romance and annoyed. The story is constant telling rather than telling and worse, the author is repeating scenes from different character point of views. And to top it off, the author occasionally moves onto a new scene, then backtracks to retell an old scene from another point of view. I’m only sticking it out from stubbornness now. But I often switch to listening to podcasts, so I may end up DNFing this book.
3. This was Maggie’s face when I told her I didn’t have time to take her for a second walk yesterday.
4. I love my new coffeemaker. It makes me happy every morning
5. I’m not really doing Christmas baking this year and I miss it.

That’s my five, now I’d love to hear 5 random things about your week. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Wizard made me smile yesterday. He went to Costco and bought four things.  The first three are boring items: Restocking water in case of earthquake, some low calorie ice creams bars we like to keep in the house, and vitamins for me. See boring and routine.

But the fourth item is what got to me. Wizard bought Maggie’s special treat bones, and he was really happy that he found them so we have a backup in case there are more shortages. In spite of my county having 10,949 new cases of Covid-19, the state sending out a text alert to stay at home if at all possible, this was something that made me smile. Wizard didn’t want a dog, and protested getting one for decades.

But he clearly loves our Maggie and takes care of her even during a pandemic

What do you have to smile about today? I’d really love to hear it.

It was a weekend. Things happened, stuff got done, other stuff didn’t. Here in California, things are bad Covid 19-wise, and chunks of the state are on lockdown. It’s hard not to be depressed. I’m very worried about people getting through this nightmare health wise, financially and emotionally.

But I also believe in choosing positive actions over becoming angry and reactive. So to that end, I’ve done two things:

For myself personally, I spent Sunday hanging out with my grandson. Wizard didn’t feel 100%, probably from allergies, but he stayed home as a precaution. Here’s a picture of Turbo playing in the dirt while weaving pretty amazing stories for a two year old about building a house (the dump truck and tractors knock on the door…not sure how that happens if the house isn’t built yet, but it’s Turbo’s world )  Spending time with Turbo (and his parents!) really helped improve my outlook on life.

And in an effort to spread some love to the romance community, I’m having an eBook sale of The Savaged Illusions Trilogy. The first book, Savaged Dreams is only 99¢ on the eBook version for a limited time. The eBook versions of books two and three,  Savaged Vows and Savaged Devotion, prices have been slashed to $2.99.

Now my goal is to write PRIMAL MAGIC and FALLEN MAGIC in 2021 to spread more love and magic. That’s a huge challenge for me, but I’m going for it!

So that was my weekend, how was yours?

TGIF! Time to share 5 random things about our week.

1. I’ve hit a wall, and had a couple days of getting nothing done no matter how hard I tried.
2. One of the biggest lies I tell myself–writing the next book will be easy. It’s never easy. It’s a messy, dirty, frustrating job of digging and digging, searching for the one nugget of story gold. Right now, I just have a pile of coal. I hate the struggle, and yet I love writing with a passion that drives me.
3. Many of you have probably seen this, but I put together a PDF of some of my favorite holiday baking recipes to give to my newsletter subscribers. I plan to send that newsletter out next Tuesday with the link to download the PDF, and hopefully there won’t be any glitches with that. I’m using Bookfunnel to do it. If anyone is interested in signing up before the newsletter goes out, click here for the link  I had fun doing this project and hope to do more things as time allows.
4. I bought myself a fancy new coffeemaker. This is a milestone for me. I always buy cheap ones, but realized if I’m going to work this hard, try this hard at my goals, the least I can do is buy myself a decent coffeemaker with the flexibility to make a full pot or a single serving. Seriously, why is it so hard to be nice to ourselves? 
5. Yesterday I made a few dark chocolate covered almonds with sea salt. I might just eat them all before this blog posts due to frustration (That’s Wizard in the background screaming, NO! You have to save me some!)

That’s my five now I’d love to hear yours! I hope everyone has a safe, fun weekend and stays healthy!

I may change the theme of Wednesday posts next year…. I mean I have ideas and plans, but it’s the execution that seems to be a problem. As CPA Boy put it, “Mom you’re only one person.” Umm…thanks? Did you have to go to all those years of college and take the CPA exam to figure that out?

By the way, I repeated what CPA Boy said to Wizard, who laughed and said “CPA Boy is trying to do it all in his world just like you are in yours.”

Wait, was that a complement? Or something else? Hmm. Anyhow, this year my Wednesday posts haven’t actually had a theme…so where was I going with this? Oh well, let’s just look at this hunk trying hard to follow my train of thought:

What do you think, did I confuse him too?