starting my weekend at 4:30 on a Sunday

This was a weekend of cleaning.

It isn't that I need my place to be spotless before I can settle down and write, but I really need it to be in a mostly cleaned and picked-up state before i can focus. And my place had gotten pretty cluttered and disheveled, with many tasks needing to be done, and some of the underlying cleaning really needing attention. So this weekend, I tackled those projects. I finally put away my winter clothes! I had them washed and half folded, but not boxed away, and that project was just looming over me because it involves finding room to put away those boxes, which the space they were in previously always seems to vanish.

So, now, I am tired but triumphant. And I probably won't do much more than noodle about with some stories, but the weight is lifted.

baking cookies

Baking some oatmeal raisin cookies tonight for a pot luck tomorrow. I go a little light on the cinnamon and heavier on the nutmeg. It's a nice excuse to indulge in some cookies, and I'm really glad that the temps outside aren't too awful. It's never fun to turn on the oven when it's warm! If it had been hot, I definitely would have chosen something like gelatin mold!

NineStar Press -- 40% off code

NineStar Press has a special for Pride Month! And I have a story there that is part of an anthology:
https://ninestarpress.com/p…/once-upon-a-rainbow-volume-two/

Once Upon a Rainbow, Vol. II

The True Love Curse by Tray Ellis – True Love would be wonderful, but the curse keeps getting in the way.

Definitely take advantage of this! (Even if it's not my story, there's so much good stuff there, you'll find something that floats your boat!)

new weekend, new energy

Last weekend I got skunked and ended up doing everything for everyone else and did not get any writing time at all. This weekend, there are still a substantial number of things on the To Do list but I have much better odds at finding time to do some writing. Now I have only to figure out which draft will spark the most energy for me.