8/30/2018

Good morning to everyone on this Thursday morning. We are down here outside of Jacksonville, Florida and it is four forty-five in the morning. We left Dalton at midnight yesterday for this seven to eight-hour drive and did have to stop a couple times to rest my eyes. I tried but could not sleep hours before our departure, so I did get a little tired while driving, but we made it here about ten o'clock yesterday morning.

Once we were here we both took a few hour naps before getting up and socializing with our hosts. We went out to dinner last night with them and then coming back to their house and my husband going back to bed. He was tired but I managed to stay up a little bit longer to hang out with my friend's mom. We are here to help them move and will be getting things going today.

We sat and got our game plan together on how we were going to do this house and it seems that it will work and will be on schedule as planned. Right now three of us are sitting here drinking coffee while my husband still sleeps. He is on his medication and will sleep a while longer while I didn't take mine last night because I had just taken my dinner medication and did not want to overdose on anything. So, I slept without them and slept quite a few hours.

I am not fully awake here at five o'clock in the morning, but will soon be motivated to get things done around here. My friend's mom is hurting really bad so I told her to just sit, relax, and dictate what goes where and what goes to the trash can. It will make it easier on them and give me some exercise too.

Well, I have some things to do this morning and need to get started. I wish everyone a wonderful day and everyone celebrating a birthday, "Happy Birthday" and may you have many more blessed ones. Take care.

8/28/2018

Good morning everyone. This is your friendly book author sitting up at three forty-three in the morning finishing up some book writing that I needed to catch up on. I woke up at about two o'clock after napping since about eight o'clock. It is nice and quiet around here except for the dogs who bark at shadows outside.

I am getting ready to go lay back down and try to nap for another two and a half hours getting up at six o'clock to get my day started. I have some things to do before taking a trip to Florida Wednesday morning. I will still be writing my daily journal with updates and mostly packing a house up for a move back here. Should everything go right, we will have the gas money needed for the trip.

This month has been a struggle financially and with any hope, it will get straightened out. A few of our bills have been returned due to our account being over-drafted this month due to other important expenses that couldn't be helped. I will be able to move things around to help catch it up and take care of things that are still overdue.

I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon to vent some more anguish and anxiety and like she said to take it one day at a time which I have been doing at first, but it gets harder every day. Well, I will stop here temporarily until I get up in a couple hours. So, sweet dreams everyone.

Well, good morning all you late bloomers, I never made it back to sleep this morning, so I showered, ate my breakfast of grits, eggs, and toast, along with a hot cup of coffee. I am ready to get my day started now. I took my medication and insulin and fed the dogs. They thought I was starving them this morning because I was awake but not giving them any food. They just haven't realized that I have them on a feeding schedule of six thirty in the morning.

My husband is up now drinking his coffee and watching the news of a train vs eighteen-wheeler last night here in town. I am sitting here still waking up but ready to get myself motivated to get some things done this morning. I will probably take a short nap later, but that is okay and it is off to bed early tonight so that we can be up and out of here at six in the morning.

To everyone with a birthday today, "Happy Birthday" and I wish an awesome day for everyone else. Take care.

8/27/2018

Morning to all, it is nine fifteen here in Dalton, Georgia and the sun is shining beautifully outside. Yesterday, my husband and I spent the day doing things around the house. We cleaned out the back room where I sit and write and organized things that went out to the shed out back. Then we organized what was left in the room.

Secondly, we raked up the backyard and bagged up some trash to take to the dump. It was a busy day. I still have some organizing left to do in this room and put cleans away, but it will get done here shortly. I can't deal with mess and chaos too long before it begins affecting me mentally. Everyone knows that I suffer from OCD and that it can become extreme.

My husband has adjusted to my OCD very well because about every three months I need to move furniture around and reorganize things. I can't help it, I just get bored with things that stay the same. I guess that goes into my everyday life as well. When things start to get boring, I change it up even if it is a routine, I do something different to make it seem like it is new and fresh.

Sorry, I just took a minute to clean the house up real quick and feed my dogs. I am now officially sweating and need to jump into a cool shower to rinse off and put new fresh clothing on. My husband is away helping his dad and friend while I sit in the house alone with nothing but my thoughts. I finished one of my manuscripts last night and should be finishing another today and maybe the third. I have to finish organizing my room first and if it stays quiet, I might actually get a podcast done. I will have to see what the day holds for me but I plan on getting quite a bit of stuff done today.

Well, time to get started, I just made my glass of diet soda and I am ready to get to work. I want to wish everyone a "Happy Monday" and to everyone celebrating a birthday today, "Happy Birthday". I look forward to posting tomorrow with my accomplishments from today and looking for any feedback. Take care.

8/26/2018

Good morning everyone. Welcome to the last day of the weekend. This is what I used to call the day of rest and recovery from a hard weekend of partying, but that was years ago when I stopped drinking. I have been clean and sober ten years this month. I am so proud of myself for a great accomplishment. Most people have a hard time walking away from drugs and alcohol but I am here to testify it can be done, even without support.

My newest addiction is writing books, lol. I have a hard time when I am not writing. I get irritated when I have to go somewhere or do something and it messes with my writing. It is what gives me space from reality and stress. It has become a coping mechanism for my mental health and it reduces my stress and high blood pressure.

I will be finishing up another manuscript today and possibly the second one too. Then I will have four books in the editing phase. I am hoping to have the fifth one done tomorrow. I will just be sitting on them until I have the money to pay for the editing. It is hard being on disability and trying to pay for something like this after the bills. I will manage it though.

Today is a great day and I wish everyone a blessed day. This will be a short post today because I have coupons sitting here that I need to get done before writing. I am always saving money with my coupons and I have a good stockpile of items to get started with. So, everyone have a wonderful Sunday. "Happy Birthday" to all of you having a birthday today and may you have many more. Take care and God Bless.

8/25/2018

Good morning everyone. How are you this Saturday morning? Everyone up watching Saturday morning cartoons? I got up on time today and ran to the store to get snacks before I got started writing this post. It is a cloudy rainy day here in Dalton, Georgia. How is the weather where you are? Today is going to be a positive day for me to get things done.

Yesterday got screwed up for my writing and schedule because I had to drive my roommate somewhere but it was okay because I got some writing done last night before going to bed. I am working on three manuscripts at one time and tomorrow I have two others that I have to begin editing.

I will be posting a short story today and I hope everyone enjoys reading it. I have three books for sale on Amazon and on this website if you want to purchase. The ones on the site will be autographed and personally sent from me. I have sold quite a few copies and people have enjoyed them. So, go check them out.

I am still going to meet my goal of finishing the first draft of all three manuscripts by the first of the month and then the editing of those begins. Well, I need to go to begin my schedule for the day and I hope everyone enjoys their Saturday.

I want to wish everyone with a birthday today, "Happy Birthday!" and may you have many more. Take care.

8/24/2018

Morning to all. I woke up late this morning because I was up all hours of the night. I took a nap yesterday from five o'clock until my husband woke me at eleven last night. This is happening too frequently for me. I get up a six-thirty in the morning and I am good until about five or six in the evening and then I'm out for the count.

When I take that nap, it screws my whole body clock up and then I am having a hard time sleeping during the night. I talked to my husband about it and think it might be better to adjust my schedule by a couple of hours so I am awake later in the evening and not getting up so early since I am good for about twelve hours lately.

Other than that, I finished my daily writing goals last night and got some more writing done on my books. I am happy about that and look to getting more done today. I have two manuscripts waiting for editing and I will be working on that over the weekend.

Right now, my husband is cleaning our room and making the bed. He is such a great husband. He takes care of things so that I can write. I should be posting a new short story today once I finish here, I will be finishing it up to get it published on the site.

So, allow me to get off here and post this so I can work on the short story and get it done. I wish for everyone today to have an awesome Friday and a very "Happy Birthday" to those celebrating a birthday today. May you have many more. Take care.

8/23/2018

Good morning everyone. It is five fifty-one in the morning here and I cannot sleep anymore. I had such an exhausting day yesterday with three doctor's appointments in one day. I came home and laid down and that was all she wrote for me. I slept until about ten o'clock with a few times of getting up for the bathroom and then went back to bed and now I can't sleep anymore. I am very surprised that my body doesn't hurt from laying in the bed all that time, but it doesn't.

I feel guilty because I didn't do any writing yesterday or spend time with my husband, but he understood how I didn't feel well and allowed me to sleep undisturbed. I appreciate all he does for me and how much he takes care of me. He supports me in my writing even when he is having mood swings. He does a lot for me and for everyone else around here.

My coffee tastes good this morning and is really eye-opening. Maybe I will get stuff done today and keep moving in a forward direction. The first thing I am doing after getting coffee is sitting here talking to you my readers. That is how important you are to me and I count most of you, my friends. I appreciate all of you and love talking to you, even if you don't respond back. You listen and that is what matters.

Today I will be working on writing chapters in three books I am working on. I have two that need editing and I will be editing them during the weekend and getting them ready for the editor at the end of the month, but I am working on three new ones. I hope to have them ready for the editor towards the end of September. I know that it seems that writing books should take a while, but all I have to do is sit and write during the day and the stories are right there in my mind and I just need to type them up.

I have my to-do list and daily goal sheet out ready for my day which starts at six- thirty in the morning every day and my whole day is planned out up until ten-thirty at night. It is the best way to hold myself accountable for my writing and daily tasks. This post shouldn't have been done until seven- thirty but I was up early so I figured I would get an early start. Some of you have to get up to go to work and I want to give you a chance to read this before you go.

Well, it is time for me to go work on breakfast and get an early start at everything today. It will give me more time to write and tell my stories. I hope everyone has a great day at work and a very "Happy Birthday" to those that will be celebrating a birthday today. May you have many more. Take care.