I admit it – I’m spoiled. I’m not used to not getting my way or having what I want. But we ride a financial roller coaster, and this year the train is on the way down of the biggest hill. Sometimes I scream just for the fun of it.
We’re trying to make huge cutbacks. We unloaded the upright freezer and unplugged it. We only heated three rooms of our house over the winter. I don’t run the dishwasher as often or do small loads of laundry. When our son made some noises that he was thinking about moving out, we immediately backed the truck up to the door and started loading his stuff. The water and food bill have been cut dramatically.
It’s hot today. 86 degrees. I wouldn’t normally care, but we’ve stopped using the central air unless the humidity makes it feel like it’s raining in here. I don’t mind most of the cutbacks, but the loss of the air conditioning puts the cranky pants on me. It didn’t help that I finally did some laundry today and then ironed in the heat. Does anybody still iron?
I spent a huge chunk of yesterday writing. I made a lot of progress – another 7100 words. I love where the next book is going, and I wanted to write again today but haven’t been able to get there yet. Maybe in a couple of hours when it’s not so hot.
But the reason to sit down and blog about my whiny day is because something really cool happened just before I ran out to the grocery store. (I only went to the store so I could ride around in the truck with the air on. Kind of defeats the purpose of cutting back.)
I received an email through my website. The person said they read all three of my books this weekend and wanted to know if there were any more. She said they were great books, and she had a hard time putting them down. Isn’t that awesome?!
Ok, it was my niece.
But still, I almost never see her, and when we were at my sister’s birthday dinner last week, I told her that she could Amazon one-click my books and read them on her tablet. Obviously she did. She’s busy with two young children, so I’m delighted that she not only took the time to read the first book, but blazed through the other two as well. If she wouldn’t have liked the first one, she surely wouldn’t have bought the other two – and then write to tell me that she liked them.
My cranky pants aren’t bothering me quite so much now.
Breezy Books 
I know all about cutting back. But I refuse to give up my A/C. Good thing it only gets hot for a short time here in Canada, but some of those weeks can be brutal. In the winter I keep the house a bit on the cool side, but I”m hot blooded so it usually doesn’t bother me. I swear girl, as soon as I can I am getting your other books! I really really enjoyed the first one. 🙂
Hi Jackie! I’m up messing around making a book trailer. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4iAhDGvoHU I’m sitting here laughing. I don’t know why some of this stuff gives me such a kick.
We are still only heating three rooms of the house this winter, and I am definitely acclimated to the cold. When the warm weather starts, I have a hard time with the heat. Our house stays fairly cool with the trees and fans running, but there are days when I just need to let the air run all day long. Phew! I’m an oven, too. 🙂
Not bad. You still messing with it or is this the finished product? Just wondering. I like the colors, the black and blue. 🙂
It’s done. The black and the blue is supposed to be for a water theme. Animoto is pretty limited in what they give you for free. I don’t think these little videos do much of anything in the way of promotion, but they’re fun to make.
Well it says everything you want it to. I says what the book is about and it’s nicely done. Yeah, I imagine the freebies are very limited. I liked it, especially the ‘watch out for the shark’ 😉
Did you see the Christmas one for Windy City? I was way better! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT6Un7B6gCw
It’s about the same length, but yeah I have to agree it’s better. I liked the music and all.
I only get 25 seconds on the free videos, and my number of words are limited. It’s still fun to mess around with them. Thanks for staying up chatting with me. I should probably head on up to bed.
yeah, I need to go to bed to. Talk to you later my friend!
🙂