Hello! It’s September already, which means it’s time to go over what I did in August.
Books Read:
I only read eight books last month. To be fair though, I went camping for a week, and I didn’t get very much read over that time period.
- The Crow Rider – Kalyn Josephson
- The Damned – Renée Ahdieh
- A Spectacle of Souls – Jessica Julien
- The Bride Test – Helen Hoang
- Conquest – Celeste Harte
- Summer Days and Summer Nights – Various (reread)
- An Ember in the Ashes – Sabaa Tahir (reread)
- Listen to Your Heart – Kasie West
Writing:
Writing has been going okay. I should be ready to query The Brightness of Shadow soon. I’m getting ready for NaNoWriMo 2020, which is only 2 months away now.
Life:
Life is a mixed bag. My dh is still looking for work. He paid for a resumée service to hopefully help him have a better chance at getting work. So far, we’ve spent about $1500 in an attempt to find a job. Hopefully we’ll find something soon. Last time he was out of work he couldn’t find anything for 10 months, and that was during a good economy. So far, only about 2 people have called back in 4 1/2 months.
But… one advantage to not having a job is you can leave whenever. We went camping with my parents at Staircase campground in the Olympic National Park. We figured it might be the last time we can all go, since my daughter is 18 and who knows whether she’ll want to go with us again. We had a good time and did a lot of hiking. They closed the park last week, so we barely made it before they shut down.
I started to work more on Zazzle again. It’s been a while since I put a lot of effort into it, and it’s been bringing in a trickle of money even after years of not working on it. Here are some of the recent products I’ve made. If you have any requests for any of my designs on a Zazzle product it’s not on, or if you would like me to create any swag to promote one of your books (if you’re an indie author) let me know. Meanwhile, if you click on the below link and buy anything off the Zazzle site (doesn’t even have to be one of my designs) I’d get a commission.
Our air conditioning went out, right before our area had record-high temperatures. That was fun. I slept on the couch, would open all the windows when the temperature outside was lower than the temperature inside, and then closed all the windows once the temperature outside was higher than the temperature inside. Fortunately, we were able to have someone come look at it after a week, and it was only a blown capacitor. I’m glad we didn’t have to replace the entire thing, or that wouldn’t get done this year. Although the temperatures have started to cool down, so it wouldn’t matter as much now. We probably won’t be in the 90s again for the rest of the year.
I’m still going swimming at the gym a lot. I have a pre-paid membership for the next couple months; once that expires, I won’t be able to continue unless we have some income coming in.
So that was August. Did you have a good month?