Busy, Busy, Busy!
- Teresa Keefer
- Oct 5
- 3 min read
Life happens, right? I feel like I am chasing my tail at every turn these days. So much to do and only 24 hours in a day to get it done. And I have to try to fit a few hours of sleep in there at some point, too!
Trying to get so many things done around the house on top of book work and the day job and outside autumn projects. The contractor--who is just awesome--got the front steps replaced on Friday and today he is working on replacing the bad spot of sub-floor and lay the new vinyl plant in my bedroom. The house is a disaster, and I cannot even begin to start doing any sort of fall cleaning until I can move everything back in my bedroom. Once that is done, it will be time to start in on the kitchen. New paint, new wallpaper border, and new flooring. Decluttering and organizing. Fabric for new curtains. Then it's outside to get things settled in for the winter. Plant the bulbs and scatter the wildflower and sunflower seeds so that they can cold stratify. Expert gardeners say that's the best way to get a good growth by the time spring and summer rolls around. We shall see.
I'm really looking forward to a nice wintery winter. Time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labor while working on books. And getting ready to open the bookstore. My lovely, wonderful partners have another meeting with the Small Business Administration mid-month while I am traveling for the day job. We are working really hard to put together our anthology for our crowd funding project and I hope to have my contribution for it written here in the next week. We are truly hoping and having faith that the anthology will raise enough of the start-up funds that we don't have to take out a loan. I cannot wait for this dream of ours to come to fruition.
Yesterday, I had a wonderful afternoon with my three daughters and one of my granddaughters. We made ghost pictures and had a charcuterie board and my favorite cupcakes--German chocolate with the gooey pecan icing. I couldn't ask for a better way to celebrate my birthday. Even though it isn't until Wednesday. Which I am taking the day off from the day job and getting a pedicure and a massage. Then I'm going to come home and start working on my kitchen. If I can get the cupboards organized and the doors removed so that I can paint them, I should be able to get those knocked out next Sunday or the following one.
I'm hoping to get some reading done as well. I am midway through Tricia O'Malley's Love's a Witch on the Kindle and listening to Sandra Brown's Fat Tuesday on the Audible when I drive. I still have a ton of things to read, and if I'm to be motivated to write, I need to read as well.
We just finished up watching Monster: The Ed Gein Story and it was engrossing. To see all the horrible acts he engaged in, then realizing how many of our psychological horror flicks were taken from the things he did. Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs...enough said...he was one sick you know what.
I just signed up for a subscription to Acorn TV and I'm really liking what I'm seeing. Started watching Irish Blood last week and today we are watching The Crow Girl. They seem to have quite a few really good series on there and we needed an alternative to Netflix which I am getting ready to cancel because of their inappropriate programming for children.
There are two more events for me this year as far as books go. I'll be at the Miami County Fairgrounds in Peru, IN for the Paraunity event on October 25th then at the Marion Public Library on November 15th. I'm also starting to plan for 2026 where I know I'll be at Wild Deadwood Reads, Authors Invade Scotland and Romantic Galena Reads. By the time summer rolls around for these events, I plan on having 4 new releases.
With that all said, I'm going to hop on into the kitchen and start a batch of my loaded potato soup for our dinner. Keep an eye out on an upcoming announcement later this month and don't forget to head over to my reader's group on Facebook! Happy Sunday!!
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