TERRY
It is 8:00 as I write and Terry is sleeping as I closed the door to almost shut. She has been sleeping later in the last couple of weeks. I think she slept well last night but it seems she needs more sleep now. I have big time concerns for her health. There really is nothing new there is just a sense in my being that is bothering me. I so so hope that I am wrong and it goes away.
I am going to post several pictures today and just so you know the pictures caused me great harm! For pretty much each one I scratched my head so much my bald spot is now larger!!! I said to myself: "Is the world getting crazier or am I getting older and out of touch. Now IF there is anyone who reads this of course the first thing you will say is, "No doubt, Carmen is older and somewhat out of touch". BUT wait with that thought until you read and then you can think anything you want!
FIRST
This is our South Bend Guy who is now a big person in Washington DC and as you can see he and his husband have become parents. What the heck, everything I thought I knew about becoming a parent is now thrown out the window!
Then I come to this! I scratched my head and thought where in the world did September, October and November go??? Then I looked at my phone and sure enough it showed August 19th! Go figure.
AND so I saw this double lot for sale near downtown Naples. I thought well it is not even on the water so maybe I could purchase it and construct a nice smallish house on it. Wow, then I saw that it is being sold for 18.5 million and the article said the owner is going to have a 20,000 square foot home built. Well I guess I missed on that one!
And this was the one that crushed me for the day. Not the 15 M bonus for the winner of the playoff but the guy who will get $101,000 for coming in last out of 120 players. Once again, I missed the boat and may be, at this time, in danger of drowning!
I now have decided that I need to make a change. I need to stop reading the paper or stop scratching my head (for fear of losing all my hair) or maybe just facing reality that life is what it is and others have a different way of living. AND I can be OK with that, I think!
I am here today to let people know that I DID get much of the paper mess taken care of yesterday. A bit more to do but success is in the wind.
I did get a surprise in the mail yesterday.
Yes, for sure, another HUGE royalty check came in the mail. I figured things out that IF I continue to get these every 3 months ( some could be larger and some smaller) my printing and publishing costs may be met by the time I have great great grandchildren. They could use the last check to put some nice flowers on my grave site! Now a serious tone. I would say maybe every other month or so I get an e-mail from a publisher that insists my book has sale value and they would like to have me go with them to sell more books. When I say go with them I mean to contract with them. This latest one seems pretty serious and it is tempting. Well of course there is a cost involved. In this case the lowest cost would be $400 and the top end goes up to $5000. I am tempted to try the lower one but then I do not know if it is a scam just to get my money. I did not write the book for money BUT if I could earn some off of it why not? If anyone has any suggestions let me know! It is fun to get these checks and I would say they go out every quarter but I probably get one three times a year. The book was published in 2015 so no doubt there will come a time when there are no more surprises. As for this check it will not go very far towards buying the lot near the water!!!
Today the 2022 calendar is Janet
Time to sign off. Terry is now awake and with the paper. Nothing planned for the day except a short bike ride and more paper work.
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