Remembering a year ago this week

Remembering a year ago this week

Last year at this time, I was working on my book to get it published. My editor had just given me the final second read and I was off to the presses. Except, things didn’t go as easily as I expected. The formatting wasn’t right, pages were in the middle of the screen. Oh man, it took me all night, literally, to fix things. But I finally became an author. My first Kindle version is a little skewed but my second version is better. I had a hard time getting the acknowledgement’s page in it’s own page. That was the difficulty. Once I finally fixed that error, things went smoothly, though there are blank pages here and there, mostly toward the end of the book.

I never got my review from the AAS like I had hoped. I have no idea who to contact about getting it done or if it is in the process or what not. I suppose a general email might be warranted as it has been months since I sent it in. For all I know, it’s in the trash bin.

I just came home from seeing my father. His girlfriend was over so I finally met the woman after talking with her for the last year or so. She live north of Boston in her own place. I doubt my father would ever move in with her or she give up her place to live with him. She seems too independent. But she is a nice lady that cares about my father. I filled his pills and then high tailed out of there. My father was in his “pick on me” moods. I wasn’t hanging around for that. I rather stand in the rain than be picked on by him. He was doing it just to show off with his girlfriend. Pisses me off.

I wanted to write this morning after I had my coffee but nothing came of it. I was too distracted with Twitter and playing poker. I still am very sad that I lost 400 followers on this blog. I don’t know how or when it happened. I just was reading my blog like I usually do and saw that I had 833 followers instead of 1200+. Oh well. I know my writing hasn’t been filled with suicidality lately and my numbers have been down, but to have 400 people leave me just hurts. Least they could have commented on why they were leaving. Maybe I could have written more to their liking. I don’t know. I hope to gain new followers one day. I lose followers on Twitter all the time but never in the hundreds!

Luckily, there has been no fall out to me going out last night. I am not in horrible pain like I was expecting. I wish I could snooze in tomorrow but I have to see my pdoc. I can’t wait till Saturday when I can truly have nothing to do. Tomorrow I will have my coffee and maybe write a little before I have to catch the train. After my appointment, I think I will head to another Square to get an estimate on how much my glasses will be. I just hope my ankle is up for walking around. If not, I will make it another day. There is some walking involved to get to the eyeglass place. I will see how I feel.

I am glad I got the new sneakers. I feel like I am walking better now that my feet have better support and comfort. I always get the same kind of sneaker, 608 from New Balance. My ankle has been hurting less since wearing them. Which is good! Though it still doesn’t mean my foot won’t flare up tonight. I never know when a flare is going to happen. I know when I do a lot of stairs it will act up, but other than that I have no clue.