It really wasn't that bad

I’m not going to berate myself for this past week’s accomplishments. I worked until after seven Monday night and after six on both Tuesday and Thursday. I had a meeting at church Wednesday night, and I left home late morning on Friday for an educational seminar for the day job, returning home last night. I am totally okay with not getting much done on these goals in light of that schedule, and I wasn’t even going to repost those failures here. Then I looked at them, and it wasn’t really that bad.

The really bad thing that happened last week is that two of my book signings were cancelled. They were at two different Book World locations, and it was announced the first of the week that the chain is closing all of its stores by the first of the year. This is my kind of luck. On the upside, I sold seven books yesterday at the conference and also had a poem published in an online poetry journal. There is just no reason to get down about things; there is always something, something to be thankful for.

Here are my goals for the past week and as usual, green highlight is goal accomplished, yellow highlight is at least worked on and red print is a total failure.

1)    Promote the new book, “Where the Sky Meets the Sand” five times.

a.     Shared the flyer for my next book signing on my social media. And then had to retract it, as that signing was cancelled.

b.     Shared the information on the book signing which is still on for a week from Wednesday.

c.      Sold those seven books at the seminar yesterday.

2) Work on the study guide for “A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven”, which I had started in September. Nope.

3) Post three times to my other blog, The Dino Chronicles. I only posted twice to the Dino Chronicles, but I did write a mid-week post to this blog, so I think it is reasonable to count that.

4) Read four other blogs and comment on three of them. Read four and commented on three.

5) Non-writing things to do:

a. Scan a dozen of my mom’s old pictures into the computer. Scanned ten of them.

b. Get one box of stuff out of that spare bedroom. Man, oh, man, I have got to get that junk cleaned up! The box I had filled the week before made it to my car, but I never got around to dropping it off at the second-hand store, so it will probably be in my back seat for another week.

c. Do three things for the nonprofit, Tumaini Volunteers.

1] Audited the books for last fiscal year. 

2] Talked to two women about going on a medical outreach with me to Kenya next year

3] Posted on Facebook about our craft show on the 15^th.  

Gotta say, I’m surprised there was so much green and yellow. Now, for next week.  

1)    Promote the new book, “Where the Sky Meets the Sand” five times.

2) Work on the study guide for “A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven”, which I had started in September.

3) I’m thinking it’s time to update my website as well.

4) Post three times to my other blog, The Dino Chronicles.

5) Read four other blogs and comment on three of them.

6) Non-writing things to do:

a. Scan a dozen of my mom’s old pictures into the computer.

b. Get one box of junk out of that spare bedroom and taken to the second-hand store. 

c. Post things to sell on Craig’s List. 

d. Do three things for the nonprofit, Tumaini Volunteers.

I don’t think there is much on my schedule to slow me down. On Friday, we are getting a new oven, so I’m sure I’ll be doing some baking next weekend. It’s been, I think, four months since the oven has worked, so, yea, I need to bake something!

Have a great week. Have you started your holiday baking? 

One of the old pics I scanned last week.
"Cuttin' the rug" with a relative at a cousin's wedding in 1979. Man, I wish I was still that thin.