Schedule June 30-July 4

Hello, hello. Happy Saturday (probably I'm typing this solidly on Saturday- it's about 2:30pm where I am- but my schedule is gonna be a hot mess this week, so figuring that out might mean you don't get this until Sunday 😳).

So Dan and I have decided to drive down to South Carolina to see our friends for 4th of July. We're leaving on Thursday morning and coming back on Monday night. This was a fairly last minute decision so I haven't had a lot of time to prep. (Plus I have a doctor's appointment Wednesday before we leave. I've been dealing with some health stuff lately, so fingers crossed it's nothing but the fact that I'm overweight and unhealthy). So that's a lot of days to pre-film without much prep time (totally my fault, but I didn't know we were going to do this) and I'm honestly not sure how much is going to get done. We've gone away in the past, but we've known well in advance so I could make sure everything came out as planned. We just made this decision, like, three days ago. I'm fairly certain I can't make that work. Sigh.

I try, really hard to be as consistent as possible with the schedule. I think you guys would agree with me. So, maybe, just this once (hopefully), you won't be super mad at me when some of the stuff around the end of next week and beginning of the following week comes out late. If I thought I could get it all done in time, I would, but I just don't think it's possible. Like, at all. Plus, poor Dan works a full time job and has been doing an additional, like 25 hours a week of Uber. So, when he's home, I don't want to react since a) I never see him and b) I'm loud and obnoxious when I react so I want him to be able to relax. I'm putting the priority on sponsored shows; Virgin River, The Americans, and The Mentalist. And The Fosters will come out as usual, but only because I accidentally binged a bunch of it. Oops. (Or, yay, I guess).

All this to say, next week's schedule (and Monday the 7th as well) is going to be ugly and I hope you'll forgive me.

Moving on. Another piece of bad news. 🙄 I tried to do the drunk re-watch of Love, Simon last night. I haven't been drinking a lot lately (see above health issues) and apparently, it didn't take much to get me drunk. I have no recollection of anything I did (other than being annoyed I had to pay $4 to rent this movie on Amazon). I woke up this morning with my room in disarray (seriously, my Don't Be a Prick embroidery was off the wall behind the bookcase), with no clothes on, there were paper towels all over the bedroom (as far as I can tell, I didn't spill anything), things that have a very specific place were tossed everywhere. And the worst of it all, I didn't bother to record myself and I've only got 45 minutes of a screen recording. What the hell did I do? So, we're going to try it again tonight (after Dan leaves for his Ubering) but this will be a drinking rewatch as opposed to a drunk rewatch (I don't trust myself to be drunk right now. Lol.) Hopefully, you're cool with that.

I finished Better Than the Movies this week. It was okay. I really thought I'd love it more than I did. I ended up giving it four starts, but solely for the last chapter and the epilogue. It would have been three if not for those. Eh, can't win 'em all. However, it didn't stop me from putting a hold on the sequel. Here's the thing, I never really read romance until I was in my 40s (excluding fanfic) and now I just love, love. I want to read about people being happy. I don't want it to take 90% of the book for people to get together. Give me an established romance any day. Feel free to give me recommendations on that, if you've got them.

Do you guys follow Haley Pham? She just disclosed today that the book she was working on for the past year is going to be published. I'm so happy for her, but also, jealous. I've written 3 books. None of them are any good, but I'd like to write a book that could be published. I think I'm going to make a goal of getting 50,000 words done on a new novel (that might actually be good) by the end of this year. You know, cause I have tons of time to spare.

What else? That actually might be it. I think I'm going to go brainstorm for this book. I'm feeling motivated.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, loves!