Fri. Sept. 13, 2024: Let’s Make This Good!

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Friday, September 13, 2024

Waxing Moon

Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus Retrograde

Foggy and cool

I love Friday the 13th! Let’s enjoy it.

The social media platform Cohost is shutting down. I stopped using it maybe a year ago or more? Or maybe it was this past February? It’s all becoming one long year. For me, it’s not a huge loss, but there are some people who really loved it, and I hope they find another social media home.

It’s a reminder, though, that your website is your base camp. There are plenty of tools and tutorials that help you create something simple, if you can’t afford to hire someone. It’s worth making the time to learn the basics.

So frustrated on the Kickstarter project that’s over a year late and obviously, now, to those of us who backed it, a scam. And Kickstarter doesn’t care. They just shrug it off.

Lost way too much of the day to paperwork. Some of it was my fault; I thought I’d done it/sent it in and I had not. Got some other necessary paperwork done and mailed. Again, it shouldn’t have been necessary, but it was. And I need to remember to push the paperwork back later in the day AFTER I do some writing, or I just get frustrated.

Spent some time promoting the Nina Bell website across social media channels and working on the media kits. I will have one kit for each book as it comes out, and then one kit for the entire series that will be updated as each new book releases. I have to start thinking in terms of videos, too, but those don’t have be scheduled until late October, so I’m still okay.

Charlotte loved that the online meditation group was on ZOOM again, and people were around to tell her she’s pretty. It made her day.

There were only a few small coverages to turn around. I did them, but I’m basically trying to claw my way to an amount that’s nowhere near what I should have earned these past two weeks, and that is unsustainable. Let’s hope some of the pitches I’ve sent out over the past few weeks hit.

I didn’t get the review written and submitted yesterday, so I will do so today. I’m still well ahead of the deadline, but I hope to get another assignment over the weekend.

Tried to pull the photos from my phone onto my computer. Got some of them copied, but not into the folder I wanted. It’s going to be a long, painful process, and then I have to back them all up on the external hard drive.

No idea how today will shake out. I have admin to do, more around my mother’s medical bills. I have a grocery run and a library run. I’d like to get some writing done. I’m hoping some coverage work comes in.

I need to make a piece for my friend’s project next weekend. It’s designed; I just have to create it in clay, then fire it and paint it. That will happen on and off all weekend. I want it done this weekend, so I’m not scrambling at the last minute next weekend.

I hope to have a quiet weekend of writing, cleaning, and maybe some coverage work. The next few weeks will be busy – a good busy, but still busy.

Bea came out to explore this morning. She even hung out in the living room for a little bit, until Charlotte said something, and she dashed back into the sewing room. Hopefully, she will expand her range of exploration and feel comfortable in the entire house. She still wants as little to do with humans as possible, but that’s okay. She can take her time. I mean, who knows what misinformation Charlotte gives her, since Charlotte is usually the one in closest proximity?

Willa dropped her favorite white mouse into her water bowl overnight, so we are trying to get it dry. Sigh. Willa.

Have a good weekend!