Rough Couple of Weeks
Hey, y’all! Still alive here. Just hanging on by my fingernails.
As an occupational therapist, it’s always a challenge to schedule around holidays or vacations. There are rarely any opportunities for someone to cover my patients during time off. Typically, I have to cram more people into a shorter week, and that makes me crazy. Last week, of course, was Memorial Day. I did see a few patients, but it wasn’t a normal Monday (Is there such a thing?).
The next two weeks will be short thanks to Mi Esposo is FINALLY getting his knee reconstruction done. Friday is surgery day, so I’m not scheduling anyone for that day. Fortunately, Myrtle the Younger will be home to cater to his every whim, but I’m keeping next Monday light just in case he decides to get on her last nerve (as father’s typically do).
I’ve also resigned myself to being forced to watch old films ad nauseum for the next six weeks. It’ll be my luck that they schedule a Casablanca or a Maltese Falcon movie fest during this time (Ugh!). At least it’s not Christmas–It’s a Wonderful Life should only be seen once in a blue moon, not daily. If I try to schedule more patients than I can physically see in a day, you’ll understand why.
In addition to the surgery and a busy caseload, I am trying to write some. I’ve essentially finished the third book in the Corona Chronicles and have started on book four. The third installment of the Case Files of G. Power, P.I. is underway, and I have the beginnings books for a wolf shifter, a grim reaper, and a haunted mansion. No, I can’t combine them. We’ll see what happens.
If you are looking for reading material, please check out the two anthologies that have the first two installments of the Case Files of G. Powers, P.I. A Vague Threat is in Notorious in North Texas (Sisters in Crime North Dallas volume 3), and On the Rocks is in Detectives, Sleuths, and Nosy Neighbors (Inkd Publishing). I’m pretty proud of both stories. On the Rocks was listed in one review as being one of the reviewer’s favorites of the anthology (Yay!).
Sisters in Crime North Dallas is having a couple of book signing events this weekend. On Saturday, June 8, 2024, we will be at the Barnes & Noble at Stonebriar Mall at 1pm. I won’t be at this event since I’ll be bringing mi esposo home from his surgery. I am planning to be at the Wild Detectives in Dallas on Sunday, June 9, 2024, 6:30pm. This will be a Noir at the Bar event–in addition to signing books, we authorish-type people will be reading part of our stories. Come and see me!
What am I reading right now? Bones in the Blackout: A Romantic Wartime Cozy Mystery (Dr. Benjamin Bone’s Mysteries, book 1). I stumbled on this series and bought the book before finishing the sample reading. Set in England at the beginning of WWII, Dr. Bones is a young physician who has been relocated from London to serve a rural area instead of being conscripted into the Army. He and his wife are run over upon their arrival. She is killed, he is wounded. As he recovers, he realizes his wife’s death was more than an accident.
That is all.
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