As I listen to some head-banger music, and struggle with a sniffle or two, and have a cig or two, I’m listening as well to the driving rain outside and to the TV news reader who’s talking rather below the din of everything else in the house. It’s still rather dark outside but I’m looking forward to daylight. I always look forward to daylight. The night has shortened, thank God, and now I’m more up with what the day will bring.

I’m more optimistic today for several reasons: (1) I quit Mary Kay yesterday and feel more like I’m freed from obligations of selling and promoting Mary Kay products; (2) I think that the free time will permit me to do whatever I fucking want to do in the day; (3) there’s also the thing that I filed my taxes and I’m rather chuffed that I’m getting $13 from the Feds and $1 from the State. I will be spending that money in a trice when it comes in the mail, haha. What on? I don’t know. A pack of cigs, perhaps, and that’s about it.

I’ve written a few lines to my novel, The Bridge. Most of the time I was on my novel I was editing and changing the name of one of the characters. I’m still noodling over the plot as I seem to have gotten the main character into a rather sensitive part of her personality – her ability to sense ghosts. It’s rather out of the ordinary that. I mean, really, this seat of the pants writing can get you into a pickle if you don’t watch out. Haha. However, I’m not going to endanger the main characters and the projection I have for them. I’d like to write a bit more about the environment – Paris. After all, I’m setting the thing in Paris and it’s a lovely city and I want to have more Parisian scenes.

I’ve put together several pictures in my Pinterest account of Parisian scenes and so I might just make scenes out in the Parisian cityscape. I wish I could travel to Paris and soak in the ambience, and then find the right spots to put my characters in. Thus far, I’ve put them in a Japanese restaurant in the neighborhood but there’s also Madame So and So’s nearby restaurant where the heroine goes to eat soup and bread.

However, that’s what’s filling my mind this morning. I do bear good news and that is that I quit Mary Kay. It’s so liberating to have NOTHING to do for today on anything like business and related stuff – promoting, posting FB stuff, doing live videos on Mary Kay and trying to cudgel my brain to see what more about Mary Kay I could possibly prose on and on about. After giving a live video about Mary Kay Translucent loose powder, and powdering my fiz with the stuff, and looking rather like a ghost afterwards, what more could I possibly talk about?

So today is a tabula rasa for me. It’s rather a happy feeling to think that I could do ANYTHING I want to do today, but I’m rather stuck somewhat because I’m suffering from some sort of cold. I have the sniffles that I’m ignoring by puffing on cigs hoping the nicotine will dry up the sinuses and make me feel better, haha.

Nothing else to say so I’m signing off. I hope everyone has a lovely day.