Why do Mondays keep happening? I mean, like every week. I don’t remember signing up for this. And who is Monday named after anyway? Okay. Yes. I DID go down that rabbit hole. It’s Middle English, from the Old English mōnandæg; akin to Old High German mānatag Monday; akin to Old English mōna moon and to Old English dæg day. Thank you Merriam Webster.

Since it is Monday and I’m trying to get life pretty much back to normalcy aka life BS (Before Surgery), Jake and I are off to Wallyworld this morning for a normal (mostly) grocery run. I get irritated every time I stick my debit card in the cash register, especially since I saw the COLA “raise” I’m getting from SSN for next year. It’s a whopping 2.5%. That puts a whole $28.55 more into my check. Our grocery bills have doubled in the four years. And that “big” raise we got last year? Mine was less that $100 which wouldn’t even cover the increase in groceries for one week. Just sayin’…

Climbing down off my rant box, I got one set of edits/proofs back. Sadly, one of the characters is undergoing a name change operation. He’s not a happy camper but when he faced off against Devlin, he threw up his hands and said I could pick another name. After the grocery run, I’ll be doing a search and find to “erase” Declan and rename him Quinn. Seems there was some minor confusion between Declan and Devlin and nobody (excepte maybe Ronan) wants to argue with Devlin. So, our intrepid legal eagle is now Quinn Donahue. It has a nice ring. Getting this set back means we are one step closer to a release date! I need to nudge my cover artist to see how much longer she needs.

Speaking of covers, well….not exactly. More like graphic “ads.” I did a few of those this weekend. I think I’m happy with how they turned out. I still have one or two in mind, if I can find the right photographs. Also, I have the rough draft of the back-of-the-book blurb done. I hates the blurbs! Luckily, I have a genius blurb guru to help me out. It takes a village to get a book out, I’m tellin’ ya!

In sports news…*sigh* My Cowboys almost pulled it off Friday night against BYU. They were soooo close. As for OU, I have no words. Also, no Stormy soccer this weekend. I was thinking there was a game or two then remembered this was Fall Break with the schools. With two kids teaching now, you’d think I’d know these things. 🙄

I listened to Karen Marie Moning’s newest release, THE HOUSE AT WATCH HILL. It’s the first book in a trilogy and I’ll be waiting for the next two books to release before I listen to it again. I’m not a fan of cliffhangers. Other than that, the book was most interesting with out outstanding prose and intense worldbuilding. I’m currently doing a marathon of Darynda Jones’s Charley Davidson series. I last read them back in 2014–and maybe a few years after due to new releases. I do know that I stopped about NINTH GRAVE. Or TENTH. I don’t remember. Anyway, I enjoy Darynda’s writing and after I did the relisten of her Sunshine Vicram series, I thought to myself, “Self, why not Charley? It’s been awhile.” Yeah, no clue it had been 10 years. Anyway, Reyes is still on my Top Ten Book Boyfriend list.

Not much else going on in my world. After a week mostly off, I’ll be back at it once I’m home from WW and get the groceries put up. What are you putting up with today? 😉