Life

People in general. I’m glad I’m working out tonight. Now go do a hundred pushups.

… that I may actually be one of those people who only really falls hard for people who don’t like them. Some of this is hard conditioning from grade school, you know? I spent years… YEARS pining after people I knew were impossible crushes. You know, those kinds of guys who never looked twice at

When I finally made the decision to try and tackle my finances, after my roaring 20s of pure excess, the concept behind financial freedom sounded incredibly simplistic: Just don’t spend money. That’s it. I didn’t have to *do* anything. I didn’t have to go to the gym, or set up a writing schedule, or try

Went out to Steph and the Old Man’s for a BBQ (always diabetic friendly over there – they take good care of me!) and chatted with them about life, the universe, and everything, including the future. There are future things I don’t want to think about just yet, not until the CC debt is under

A holiday weekend in which one has no money. I have $450 to make it to my next paycheck (and that’s after just being paid *today*). After paying off 3 outstanding medical bills and stuffing $700 toward the credit card, I’m out of cash again, and I have groceries and a Verizon bill to pay

It occurred to me today that I’d told my sister many years ago that I’d get a second piercing in my upper ear to match the one I got for Clarion when I sold my first book. I still like this idea for commemorating my first book. I’m also thinking every writer needs a cool

My first book comes out next year. Somewhere in all the craziness of my life, I think that has been kind of lost in the crazy, you know? Or maybe it’s just been taken for granted all along. Something else that’s been lost during my three months of recovery and bliss in my new digs