Monday, June 25, 2018
10:30 p.m.

Oh, brother, what a day.

I decided to be the great researcher, but I needed a soundtrack. Hello, YouTube. I chose one song and then let it randomly choose the music, thinking I wouldn't have to think too hard about it.

Random selection today was so good, I didn't get as much research done as I hoped. I was singing along and sharing songs.

Ha ha. So, my novel's word count wasn't too high today, and I still haven't fleshed out the streets of Lawrence, Kansas in 1870, but I had fun listening to some good old tunes, so whatever!
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The end of my week is doctor appointments. Yuck. Does anyone else think it's just dumb that I have to do my woman's wellness check on a different day than my physical or my insurance won't cover it? Does anyone else think the woman's wellness check ought to be integrated into the physical?

But, no. Apparently boobs and vaginas require a whole separate day's worth of checks.

You realize, of course, that men can get breast cancer. Why don't they have boob-wellness checks separate from their physicals?

Am I making too much of this?

Dang it, I don't want to go to two separate appointments!!

Grrr!
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My son and I walked over to the nursery today, hoping for fresh farm market fare. Nada. How sad! Maybe later this week. But I wanted fresh fruit, even though I'm not supposed to eat it. I was planning a nice puree. Watermelon and peach.

Ah, summer!
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And now, the latest episodes of #WriteAwayJune.

#WriteAwayJune Day 24 - What does your character look for in a friend? 
Emma doesn't have a ton of friends, mostly because she learned at a relatively young age that trusting people without testing them is a bad idea. She is friendly and relatively outgoing, and has a lot of acquaintances that she speaks with regularly, including repeat clients who come to her for their photography needs. She tends to be a good listener, but she doesn't share much with anyone other than family and her best friends Sasha and Martin. To say she has trust issues would be an understatement. The people she does trust understand that they are among the elite. Her many acquaintances believe that they are actually her friends, because she never repeats anything they tell her in confidence. They don't seem to realize that she has never gone beyond sharing the twins' milestones, talking about a flat tire or other things that you might say to anyone without fear that it might come back to bite you in the butt.


#WriteAwayJune Day 25 - How does your character sleep? Emma is a poor sleeper since childhood. She LOVES to sleep, and relishes the times when she can get a whole night without interruptions from babies, ghosts or just random house-settling noises. Unfortunately, those times are rare. Emma sleeps on her stomach, head pillowed in her arms or on the flattest pillow she can find. big fluffy pillows look great on the bed, but she can't sleep on them. She needs to be flat. When she was a child, she had a dog who slept with her, and for some reason, that dog's presence beside her was a gateway to getting a good six hours of uninterrupted sleep. She is seriously considering getting a dog again.
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11:50 p.m.

One thing about these summer allergies--my eyes get so irritated, I go to bed earlier. I don't necessarily go to sleep, but I do close my eyes, and that's not a bad thing. I'm about to go do that now. I will close my eyes and pretend to sleep while listening to The X-files until I actually DO sleep. Hopefully.

Good night!!