Kid 1 and her boyfriend went down to South Padre for a short getaway. Once the school ends, prices at South Padre beach fall dramatically, and they were very excited about their 4 days getaway. They are supposed to be back Tuesday. Except there is a tropical storm and the area they are in is registering 85 mph winds and floods. They would have to drive through it the entire way up. So they are stuck and we ended up booking the room for a couple more days.
Kid 2’s dishwasher broke and died a sad death due to its very advanced age. New dishwasher was bought.
Someone opened a bank account in my name. We are on top of it. We have signed up for fraud alert, but even if we hadn’t, we caught it within minutes anyway because Wells Fargo helpfully sent out a notification. Given their prior history, I am mildly suspicious as to how this new account originated, but it is now frozen pending investigation.
We saw the cover of Ruby Fever. We sent it back. The less is said about it, the better.
Still waiting on Fated Blades preorder link, but it is good news. The delay is due to the publisher deciding to do a print edition, so yay! This “novella” is long enough to do a print.
My hair keeps falling out. Is it stress? Is it age? Who knows.
I am going to finish my cup of Harney & Sons Vanilla Black Tea and cook lunch, and then it’s back to Ruby Fever. How is your Monday?
Getting ready to leave for Florida – spent last winter there and loved it. Nice long drive from Washington state, but so nice to get out of the rainy winter.
The tea sounds delicious!
Yay! New novella! Wishing peace and success with the edits for Ruby Fever
Yay to print edition! How exciting 🙂
We are preparing for a 3day visit with our son ,daughter in law, and grandson. The whole family, 7 more people , will be here for 3 days all day . I keep saying it’s a blessing.
And you’ll continue saying that until they’ve been gone A couple of days, right?
Yes, it will be a blessing! Take lots of pictures! May your family time be filled with love, fun and lots of hugs!
My Monday has been pretty quite so far. Dishwashers have been the problem appliance in our marriage. In our almost 28 years of marriage I think we have replaced about 7 and only one was because we remodeled. They just don’t like us I guess ????????♀️.
Hopefully the rest of your day goes smoothly
My Monday’s looking pretty good right now, 1 less day until I retire Sept 30th. Can’t wait until I can laze around in my jammies, drink iced tea and reread my favorite books (including many many IAs) all day long ;-).
You could flip a coin on the hair loss as either stress or aging will do it. As my older sister said once, “Thank god I had enough hair for 3 people to begin with!”
The retirement fairy visited me three years earlier than planned. It is awesome! I feel like my prison sentence has been commuted. You’re going to love it.
Congratulations on you freedom ????
Find time to set on the terrace with Funyuns and Mellow Yellow and think of us.
PS You’re right about losing your hair.
Congrats!
I’ve just quit my job to spend time with family, etc. Not a full retirement, as I’ll have to go back to work – the plan is 2 years off – but still…
Oct 1 for me. Amazing how less stressed I am, even with me vaccillating between excitement and terror.
The baby made Monday morning a marathon, but I also finished watching the Broadway version of Come From Away on a streaming service. I saw the Aussie cast version in Melbourne back in 2019 (remember theatres?) and it’s just such a nice story to see again. Warning: will probably bring back your own memories from 9/11, but should leave you uplifted and smiling at the end anyway. 🙂
Going to Seattle for a long weekend with my Kid 1. Yippee!
My hair started the great fall out after historecomy. I take B vitamins, collagen and biotin daily. Some, not all, grew back and it stopped the fall out. But I get stressed and it starts falling out again. Plus, 4 to 6 pills a day. And last but not least main steam health care says a version of “Gosh you are right, your hair is falling out, good luck with that”.
But my weekend is going to be great!
My monday is almost done, it began 05.15 -the early hour is because it was biking day, 32 km to work om my e-bike, Sun rising over the sea as i crossed the old bridge over Little Belt (dk) and later in the trip the pasture with the icelandic horses had a couple of them running together in the morning sun.
My work day spent doing surgery, one of my regulars was really happy with the light anæstesia i have convinced her to try, and i worked with one of my favourite nurses all day.
Biking home ? No, train for most of the trip, just 10 km home.
And then coffee in the garden with daughter 2 enjoying the early scandinavian fall (and mentaly preparing for the dark wet stormy cold season)
And now after dinner (salad and aubergine risotto) i am going to read the last book of the bobiverse ????. Thank you BDH great read.
May your life contain many happy mondays and great books
I’ve been getting full on screamed at trying to get my early elementary age daughter to brush her hair (which is a gorgeous honey blond with gentle curls and sparkling highlights). we have hit everything from i hate my hair color to why do I have to brush it to washing it is stupid to I hate you mom. It’s a thing.
This weekend, I got her to try my grown up fancy conditioner and it didn’t get in her eyes. She brushed her own hair this morning without a breath of protest! I don’t think my week will be able to get any better.
Okay. I’m sorry you’ve had a stressful and expensive week.
But YAY print edition!!!
Literally yesterday I was wondering if…any chance… Fated Blades would be bundled into a new paperback with Silent Blade and Silver Shark.
I have the audio, but it’s always great to have print too.
Thanks for the great news.
Hang in there.
Outside freezer door did not shut all the way. It was discovered this morning. Salvaging what we can and the rest is going in the garbage. We refuse to calculate the loss because our heads would explode. ????
That was two weeks ago for me…we were lucky in catching it when all meat was all the way thawed, but all still very cold. So, we canned or froze 40 lbs of meat into sauces, butter chicken, experimental butter pork, and various crock pot meals. it was an exhausting weekend, but I guess a lot of meal prep is done for the year…? Anyway, so sorry, and good luck salvaging.
Thank you! I am cooking what I can.
Thank you for your terrific books. While your hair falling out could be stress or age it could also be a low grade infection. My mother went through that. After 3 weeks of losing hair and trying all kinds of things her ear started hurting. Doctor put her on antibiotics. It cured her ear infection and her hair stopped falling out.
It is late in the year, but we try to renovate one more window! So been removing old paint in multiple layers till bare wood, and as we work with linolje based paint I managed to put the first layer of raw oil on it. So tired now..
Damn, girl. My Monday consists of hoping your Monday improves.
+1
Good! Keep up your excellent work.❤️
Book, Kindle, Audio — I do not care. I want all of them. My first taste was your short stories in various anthologies, then I went looking for more and found the Edge Books, then Kate Daniels, then Innkeeper, then Hidden Legacies and lastly Kinsmen. Gross though it was, I even found the short story Alphas interesting. You make it difficult to immerse myself into other books. They seem to start dull. You have what I like to call “we grab you” books from the first page.
Michael Chatfield’s more adult Free Fleet and Ten Realms books are good plus since he is self published some of his books are very long which is an advantage for the sewing/quilter/crafter/miniaturist inside me. I never have to glance away from my hands with audio and my mind still sees everything vividly. But you remain my favorite author duo. 5 ⭐️
My Monday is wonderful.
The new treasurer of the non-profit I work with lost the check books, no where to be found, can’t remember getting them.
The class coordinator couldn’t, didn’t, put together the class schedule, which starts next week.
Constant Contact decided to launch a multi-factor-authentication and lock us all out of our account, cause it needs a damn code to log in, and the editor is on holiday in some mountain in Vermont.
To be Covid safe, we are having a picnic outside in lieu of our normal party in a gym, the lady in charge is trying to hang a paper banner that is 10ft tall, and says she can’t figure out how to do so without walls.
Bluehost web hosting expiring, and the renew price is 3 times that of the “sign up” price. It automatically renews with your credit card, if you didn’t catch it in time, surprise, you will now start paying several hundreds more for the hosting.
On the plus side, I have beaten it all back. I find that if you do everything yourself, you can fix it. I really wish someone would tell me what is going to happen after I step down from my illustrious position of President after next year. I think I should go on a year long cruise, just make sure I’m disconnected enough not to be reachable to fix anything.
Yummm. Harney vanilla black.
Just made my last pot from the big black tin. Now I’ve gotta order more.
After the first 7 days back at school both of my kids are sick. I have spent the day taking temperatures, administering calpol, wiping noses, doing covid tests and being a snack and juice provider. It’s not all bad, I’ve had lots of cuddles so that’s nice ???? Just hoping this is a cold that passes quickly!
Very excited for print edition of Fated Blades too!! Yay!
Hope Kid 1 and BF are OK. South Padre looks pretty much like a sand bar. Hope Nicholas doesn’t spring any surprises.
My Monday, back at work after vacation. Cat to vet this afternoon (annual, shots). Good piano lesson Saturday – one piece I’m working on is ready to polish and record, so evenings will mean playing this many times to get the fingerings thorough entrenched.
Hope the old dishwasher enjoys its retirement.
Getting more nervous as test day is approaching on Saturday. Kinda worried my swab test will come out positive and prevent me to travel to the test’s location, which is quite far (several provinces away) from my hometown. My mother will accompany me too, so it’s also like a travel in disguise lol
Thinking of buying some Krispy Kreme stock for my retirement portfolio. They say you should invest in things you know and I *know* Krispy Kremes…yummmm.
Ha! Fresh Krispy Kreme is the best!
Definitely a Monday for you, sorry. I do really enjoy your “Just Life” posts, though. Hearing about the kids, the pets, and your life in general is really interesting. And I’m glad to see that Quincy and Camille apparently get along very well. As for your hair falling out, stress can definitely cause that. Also dieting. I changed my diet significantly when I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, and a few months later my hair started falling out. But it grew back, so there is hope. Thanks for sharing your family news.
I drove 8 hours to meet my brother so my mom could come stay with me for 2 weeks and then drove 8 hours back on Sunday. She woke up at 6:30 am on Sunday morning to take a shower before we headed back, however, the clock in the room was not right, so we actually got up at 4:30 am. Arrived back home to a husband with a severely sprained ankle and a bad attitude. Its going to be a wonderful week.
Not a Monday, but….
Showed up to church on Sunday to find out the roofers tripped the circuit breaker that our food pantry’s freezers run on….so now after refreezing the rotten meat donated to us, my Wednesday will be scrubbing and scrubbing freezers after dumping double bagged meat into dumpster for Thursday pick up….
Yeah for the print edition and yeah for being on top of banking situation….
PRINT EDITION!!!!!!!!!
How exciting.
Love and light from Oxfordshire
This week is our county fair (largest junior agricultural fair in the lovely state of Ohio). People from other states attend our fair. After 15 years in horse and rabbit barns 12-15 hours per day for a week of showing their animals when my kids were in 4-H, prompting the saying “There is no life during the fair”, I’m able to pare back my hours some to volunteering on committees for the fair. Good times still.
I should have started an intership today. But the Department head is stuck in Puerto Rico until Tuesday night. So I was sent home to work remotely, putting together 2 power points on Health Information Management regualtions and HIPAA regualtions specific to North Carolina.
I had done most of it this weekend since I have to present Thursday. Once done I dealt with my disappointment by cleaning up my seven year olds library and venturing under his bed.
Note to other parents, legos on the hand and elbows hurt as much as stepping on them.
I am hoping tomorrow someone can at least give me a tour and and ID badge.
Our builders inspected the wall that leaks in to the house over one window, but only in 45 degrees to horizontal easterly rain storms, and couldn’t find any reason for it to happen. Then they told me that in order to have the new toilet finished the way I want we’ll have to mess with the new floor. Oh well.
I lost hair, and because I was losing so much about four inches of length – I haven’t cut my hair in decades – when I went hypothyroxic in my forties. It’s quite common for women to start having thyroid problems then, easily diagnosed, and easily fixed with tiny pills. Once on the correct dose of pills my hair went back to the normal rate of falling out and grew the lost inches again. The other time my hair went odd was when one patch, maybe about two inches across, went frizzy while the rest stayed it’s normal wavy, I’m not sure why that happened, possibly to do with the start of my chronic pain problem, but I don’t know. It went back to normal after about a year, which was a relief, fortunately the frizzy patch was at the back near the bottom of my head so I could hide it with the rest of my hair, as it did look odd having two completely different kinds of hair!
Huh. Thank you so much for posting this. My family has a history of hypothyroidism, and they check my thyroid annually, but it stays just within boundaries at those times. BUT since my mid-forties I’ve had a lot of hair falling out, periodically. Then it gets better. This week I had a different doctor tell me that based on other symptoms she thought I should have my primary check my thyroid repeatedly over a six month period, because she suspects I am having episodic thyroid issues. Thanks to your post, I’ll know to also mention periodic hair loss to the primary when I talk to her.
So thanks. This may end up making a big difference in my life.
Not bad for a Monday. Trying not to freak out over the coming storm. Also trying to get my dog to go outside before the rain returns and doesn’t let up. She’s suspicious. Wet grass doesn’t sit well with her. Otherwise, cruising along.
Hold music waiting for a webinar to start. It’s starting to make me nuts and I will forget what I’m supposed to say. ????????????
Yay, congrats on the print addition! Camille is getting so big! The drip from the bathtub faucet is progressing to a light stream. Yikes.
There was a dead bear on the highway on the way to work. the parking lot to the office was blocked off due to painting the new asphalt. When I told my boss where the labels he was looking for were and he said i was being snarky… Usually i’m aware when i’m being snarky, so i do not like it when someone says i am when i’m not intentionally being that way. just had lunch, hopefully things will improve.
> We saw the cover of Ruby Fever. We sent it back. The less is said about it, the better.
hahaha was it the “needing hello kitty shirt” variety? xD
My hair actually was falling out a bunch this past year and apparently its thyroid issues. I just thought it was low vit d or something. Funny enough though, low vit d can cause thyroid issues so maybe it was all interconnected anyway. Take care of yourself!
Also had a cup of Harney & Sons Paris along with a blueberry muffin this morning… work might have had meetings for the past 4 hours but at least my day started off right 🙂
Or pasties–remeber the tassels?
MD here- for hair loss hypothyroidism and iron deficiency ( even without anemia) are treatable causes. Most common causes are stress, aging , autoimmune and testosterone- but not nearly as straightforward to treat 🙁
On a completely different note- so excited about books!!!!!!
And sorry about the weather- I hope it settles down!
That’s a bummer: beach vacation and no beach access due to the storm!
Glad Kid 1’s BF is hopefully feeling a-ok!
Kid 2 getting new dishwasher is nice, hopefully without death throes with water damage (totally a pro in appliance death throes collateral). Hopefully it uses less water and power for a bit of eco savings. I have broken tines in my dishwasher but it still works, so I guess it stays a bit longer since rack replacement would cost 50-70% of a the cost of a decent new dishwasher.
On the hair loss front, mine might be related to stress. I know you used to get in some exercise which helped with various injuries and stress. Are you still able to do that at home or outdoors? I’ve thought about buying some fitness games or Apple Fitness to help me move and stretch a bit more. I’ve been stretching out my shoulder/shoulder blades as that’s where I tend to hold stress.
Well, that was exciting in more ways than one. Thank you for keeping us posted. Minou Camille and Mr. Quincy are adorable. Ruby Fever seems to be chugging along. Hang in there. It will be over and the BDH will devour it in no time. Yay for Fated Blades! This is the only series that I have not read, so I am catching up!
We’ve only used our dishwasher 2x since my mother doesn’t believe in it. Both times, it flooded the house. ????We didn’t want to test our luck for a third time.
We could probably get it fixed or replaced, but it seems such a hassle for something we never use.
We have a new dishwasher coming tomorrow. Old DW was perfectly fine until the line to the house got chewed up by some digging work at the pole. The phase outage fried the control panel. I have been washing dishes by hand for two weeks. First World problem!
My Monday: I had to get a routine fasting blood sample this morning. Allowed half an hour for that. It took every bit of an hour. The lab supposedly opens at 7am, but they were just starting to see patients at 7:30. This made me half an hour late for barn chores. Luckily our horses are out overnight, so they could keep grazing until I got home. Some horses will colic if you feed them half an hour late on an empty stomach.
Then back to my primary care physician for the annual physical. Flu shot on the right, tetanus/diptheria/pertussis on the left. I might not be typing much tomorrow. Apparently I’m in decent shape for 60+ though.
We kissed Wells Fargo goodbye a couple of years ago, and we’re not going back. We love our credit union.
My Monday has been spent getting ready for that same tropical storm. This morning my husband and I played the game of “do we keep our kid home from school or hope that he drives well in the rain?” (keeping him home won, to his delight). Now I’m going to sit and watch the storm roll in. Prayers said and fingers crossed that your kid, my kid, and everyone else makes it safely through.
Yesterday where i live we had something like “mid term” elections, so…. Kind of stressful. And today i found out the fence of the house i rented (because im moving) its broken and its a danger because my dog can escape.
Also having a tea (just earl grey).
Hope things get better for you!!and me too????
Do excited for Fated Blades!
Have you thought of doing an herbal tea review?
For what it is worth, I’ve noticed that I lose way less hair now that I’ve switched to a multivitamin with methylated B vitamins. Ritual is a popular brand but I prefer Smarty Pants chewables. Maybe it’s a coincidence?
Worked today, but got sent home early, since the parking lot floods. Now I can sit and knit. ????
Trying to recover from a nasty sinus thing (luckily not covid) that has had me in bed for a few days, and except for the lack of fever I would swear was the flu. Not great, but slowly getting better.
My Mondays are always fantastic! I work for the post office and have a very weird schedule. Mondays and Tuesdays are my days off.
I love the animal pictures. My huskies sleep the same way as Quincy.
I drove nearly an hour 1 way for an hour and a half HR orientation for me new job. I have to be back the next two days for training, which will be longer at least. Also need to drop the husband at the airport tomorrow morning for a 5 day Navy training. I have to remember how to navigate leaving the house for work and getting the kid to school without him around!
I did 2 loads of laundry, processed 1/2 a bushel of peaches and a bushel of tomatoes and bagged up and froze the rest of the chili from last night.
Now I need to change the laundry around and am thinking I need a nap. I have a suicide prevention talk to go to tonight sponsored by a group I belong too… Altho I’m going to the one tomorrow night for First Responders. And a lunch tomorrow too. No no, I’m going. I’m not giving into the TOO MANY PEOPLE syndrome I’ve had.since covid started.
I’m fighting with insurance companies to pay me for providing medical services to their beneficiaries. The one that is paying decided to pay me in prepaid visa gift cards. I’m not even exaggerating a little bit. A prepaid visa gifts card. No idea how I’m supposed to pay my staff or my bills with that. Had to call to cancel to now get paper checks because they charge 2% of the deposit to do it direct deposit. Additionally, this same insurance company has randomly decided that I’m going to give them 10% off our agree upon rates. The second insurance company is just not paying. No clue why. They just keep denying my claims and when I call, then say they have to investigate and will “get back to me” which is code for I’m hanging up now and forgetting all about you. Insurance companies are really and truly horrible.
Yup. They do not care about providers or patients. They are, however, extremely devoted to their shareholders and investors.
This is a rotten way to treat patients and medical service providers.
Truth.
Oh God. Today is a day to test how much Life I can take. Remaining calm(ish) and carrying on.
Meanwhile, yay for Fated Blades and Ruby Fever!
My school district decided that not only are masks optional, contact tracing & exposure quarantine is stupid. So. High School. Optional masks. Zero social distancing. Zero contact tracing. Trusting parents to monitor, test, and keep kids home. All decided via zoom meeting during school when employees/public couldn’t speak. I’m door dashing dinner. My brain is done.
Got my senior-dose flu vaccine. Was glad to hear that wanting to nap is Not considered an adverse side effect.
My hair has been falling out, too! I just had my annual GY appointment and they tested my estrogen. The results were basically I’m just about in menopause and he said that’s super common. Advice was vitamins, gee thanks????BTW I’m 53
Good Monday ???? beautiful day!
Went to a wedding this past weekend and saw some family.
It was great to get out !
Hope Kid 1 gets home safely…
My hair started falling out , had ridges in fingernails , and felt foggy / tired all the time .
Thyroid issues…if they haven’t tested for that …please do… very simple blood test.
Medication makes a lot of difference!
Hope you all have a wonderful week !
I’ve been limping the fridge along for weeks, waiting to get a serviceperson out, then waiting for the corrct part to arrive by lame miniature goat, I think…well, it died died last night. Part won’t be in til Thursday, installation Friday. Has thrown the whole kitchen into discombobulation! Luckily we have some fresh hen’s eggs from friends that can be kept at room temp. But lack of refrigeration during summer is a pain in the posterior! I am waiting on one.piece.of.paper. for my refinance…still. Closing date has been set back 3 times. Small irritating things, but it is making it a true Monday. On the up side…just started spinning some new fiber last night and have an entire raw alpaca fleece to start on as soon as I figure out how to wash it. Then drum carding, which I have, and then…spinning!
Print edition is great new. How kid 1 and boyfriend have a safe trip home. The not-yours bank account is scary. Thank you for the wonderful reads.
I made my coffee, reached blindly into the fridge, grabbed a carton, opened said carton, and started adding it to my mug. It was cranberry juice and not milk… So that was Monday in a nutshell.
(It’s my own fault for putting the juice in the milk spot and not noticing the totally different cap. Also, I added the actual milk and drank it anyway, because coffee is the sweet nectar of life and I obviously needed it. Don’t recommend.)
????You know, a few years ago it was all the rage to pour an espresso shot in your morning orange juice, it was called a Sunshine Express or something like it. It was quite delicious, ends up tasting like a grapefruit nectar (to me). I still do it sometimes. So you may just have been on your way to invent a new trend :D. Sans the milk, obvi hehe.
So sorry about the extra expenses, that always is a bummer. Glad the kids are safe though. My Monday started off badly but my sister picked me up for lunch and helped recenter my mindset. Big sisters are a treasure. Now pleasantly full and back to work!
Nature’s Bounty Advanced Hair Skin & Nails strawberry flavored gummies (purple cover). I take 3 a day. More hair was falling out in a day than in a week. I had to wear a head wrap because the combover couldn’t cover my scalp. It stopped the fall out almost immediately. It’s been 5 months I don’t have to do a combover and the length is getting there.
Yup, hair skin and nails brand does help and taste wonderful!
It’s wonderful to get a vacation away from everything. Sometimes it feels like we are in Covid prison.
I’m grateful for your work and forthcoming books.
Tea hits the spot most times.
Ilona, re the hair loss issue – please have your blood sugar checked if you haven’t already.
Still limping from a fall that sprained both feet, but that is getting better. Dentist got the crown that came off back on, so that went better than expected. Will be glad when feet work again, there is work to do.
Reading everyone’s posts, I can hear my sweet MIL saying “If it’s not one thing, it’s twenty-one.”
May no more complications ensue.
Back to the same old same old
This is my Monday:
I enjoy going to Padre Island and I have visited much of it. I have sister who has lived in Corpus Christi for over forty years and retired there. Her home is located five miles inland from the nearest shoreline. She has never experienced a devastating hurricane where she lives, tree limbs being ripped from trees have been the worst. Other parts of the City and County have been torn up badly.
My monday started with a phone call from an angry construction manager kicking off site one of our contractors who violated safety protocols. Then my controls engineer told my boss about a major problem we had this weekend – that no one told me about (I’m the plant manager) so I got to get blindsided in front of the boss. This was all before 9am.
#GoodTimes
I too went and got another cup of tea.
Pets are hilarious, and that tea sounds good! Hope everyone stays safe in the storm!
I’ve spent half the day sobbing as I watch the last season of Fruits Basket, am currently hoping the cookie dough will soften faster so I can bake the dang things, and have sorted through approximately umpty-billion sweater patterns so I can make the monumental mistake of offering to knit my father something in colorwork (he wants traditional Scandinavian patterns, colorwork is not my forte, and he is TALL).
Yikes, hair falling out? How about your eyebrows? Tired all the time? I thought it was stress. Turned out it was my thyroid. Easy test, easy fix.
I got a cold call from someone wanting to sell me car insurance and right before I started to tell them to put me on their “do not call” list they hung up on me. I stewed about it for a bit then have spent that last 15 minutes calling “Alison” telling her to take my phone number of their call list.
My Monday. Today I had a Zoom meeting with my lawyer and my builders (we are building a coach house because my 22yo needs a house, and my stepmom needs my 22yo’s room).
I had been puzzled over the length of time it was taking to get this contract sorted. Turns out, my lawyer was trying to take advantage of the naivete of my idealistic, startup, ecofriendly builders.
I ended up yelling at everyone. I am not a yeller, I am Catalina. But we WILL have a fair contract, not one where we are harming good people. We WILL get the contract signed for the initial agreed upon price, or I will walk. We WILL have a contract signed by the end of this week.
I miss the old me, the one who was responsible for only a small child and a few cats and a girl scout troop, and whose biggest stress in life was paying the taxes once a year. The one who didn’t have to yell at people and be mean in order to take care of the people I love.
Good for you for yelling!
Aw, the photos of the couch potatoes is adorable!
I’m currently lining up to vote in the advance polls for Canada’s federal election. It’s a glorious fall day, so it’s not a hardship to wait.
I apparently had 2 scheduled meetings and a dentist appointment I had completely forgot about. Luckily I had enough notification that I was able to make each one on time without any delays. I must have stepped in a pile of leprechaun poop.
It sounds like quite the week. I’m enjoying my Harney and Son’s decaf Hot Cinnamon Sunset now and hope that it gets better!
If you had a trauma or a big traumatic event 2-3 months ago, the hair loss could be Telogen Effluvium.
When you have a trauma, your scalp can stop its normal daily shedding. Then 2-3 months after the trauma, you start losing all those hairs that would normally have been shed.
I know this because it happened to me 2 months after I got E. Coli.
Well my flight home through Houston was cancelled due to the storm, but thankfully we were able to rebook and skip the path of the storm.
The hair could be the fur babies if they are grooming your hair for you. Kitty tongues can be aggressive.
I learned my fur baby has the intelligence of a sea sponge today. She sat on the back porch railing yeowling to be let in for about twenty minutes this morning.
The back door was standing wide open to take advantage of the cool temps.
No, I do not have a screen door.
????♀️
This Monday was a little different. I used to cut my grass on Saturdays, but I had to change my watering schedule a couple of weeks ago to have the watering begin early in the morning on Saturday. So, grass cutting was scheduled for Sunday. Now that the NFL has Sunday filled up, I cut the grass on Monday.
The grass cutting is the easy part, it’s the blowing the leaves and dried blossoms out of the rocks that is the hard part. I have six Crape Myrtles and a couple of Red Birds of Paradise plants, which are beautiful, but put a lot of dead flowers on my small lot.
I contracted e-Coli a year ago and that caused other internal problems. I don’t eat at a particular hamburger joint anymore. I finally recovered from that. I just have to live through my arthritis with exercise, ALEVE and a carpal tunnel wrist-brace on painful days.
At my age, middle of my 9th decade, I am so glad that I have the ability to do that for my self. So all-in-all its been a good Monday.
I’m sorry for the situations triggering so much stress. I hope things settle so you can feel better.
Women typically lose hair due to one or more of the following: illness, hormone imbalance, nutritional deficiencies, or stress. Many women who have had Covid-19 have reported experiencing hair loss.
I just had a baby and a ton of my hip length hair fell out postpartum. It was extremely devastating-I mean it, I can’t overstate how upsetting it was. I just keep reminding myself that it will be as thick as ever in a year or two.
Have you had your thyroid levels checked, Ilona? That is a big cause of hair loss.
My Moms hair started falling out and that’s how she got diagnosed with Hypothyroidism.
As for the Tropical Storm, I’m in The Woodlands, TX, and we’re getting big rain at the moment.
In case it’s of interest — hair falling out is a sign of intense stress 6 months earlier. It doesn’t have to be something like a bad car accident or anything. It happened to my 30-something boss 6 months after she hosted a conference that stressed her out (I used to be a health reporter — and she was impressed when her doctor told her the exact thing I did 🙂 ).
If that is indeed the cause (maybe Ruby Fever was really really upsetting you….), it will stop soon and won’t keep going. But maybe pay attention to your stress levels :-}
Sounds like the week can only get better for a lot of you! Ruby seems to be the “gift” that keeps on “giving.” It’s been a long hard slog for you, I’m expecting a rousing hallelujah chorus when it’s off to the editor and celebration fireworks when the final edit is finished. Set up a time and the BDH will raise a glass to your accomplishment!
Today two of my friends and I finished up the North Texas Yarn Crawl. We had fun and we tried to stay within a spending limit, although maybe we shouldn’t talk about that!
My Monday is wonderful so far. My husband and the disabled daughter who lives with us took my brother (who had been staying with us after surgery) back down to Thousand Oaks. So I have the house to MYSELF! All alone! Lalalalalala…
I went to the dollar store to get some more garlands, to finish up a decoration around the ceiling in our entry room. I read a book for about an hour while eating ice cream. I might even take a bubble bath. Sigh.
One of my sons is in Kingwood. He was raised in CA and LOVES storms. He is having a blast.
Adorable pets ❤️
Yay for the novella earning printing rights!
My hair is also falling out lately, and I’m 100% positive it’s due to the stress of writing my thesis and the approaching day of its discussion. I just hope my hair and also yours will grow back!
Have you tried a VR headset yet? I bought an Oculus 2 last February for my husband’s birthday, but then ended up using it a LOT more than he did. Beat Saber was fun, but I’ve recently discovered Supernatural, which I a fitness app. Loads of fun, great cardio, a wonderful community on FB, and a great way to relieve stress.
No, no, no! You are doing this all wrong! You use your oculus 2 headset to throw fireballs! And then more and more and more fireballs! It takes your stress level right down!
(Game is Waltz of the Wizards and while it isn’t much of a game in some respects, you can throw fireballs for hours. And make spells)
Will “Fated Blades” also be released as an audiobook?
Yes, it will ????
Wonderful!
Volunteered at the food bank. Close to 5 tons moved mostly by hand. I can barely move.
Lots of hungry people fed so yay!
My Dad has had the same dishwasher since the early 80s. He is single, 86 and does not cook big meals so he doesn’t use it much. I am going up to see him in Oct and it will probably be the first time it will get used since my last visit in Dec 2019 (due to COVID restrictions).
My cat has IBD. She had the second-worst blowout I’ve ever seen from her today–it was on her back, even. I found out when she came upstairs to say hello, very enthusiastically and affectionately. I then chased her up a further flight of stairs before I could grab her for a thorough butt bath. After that I had to carefully inspect two flights of stairs and all floorspace in between, gagging all the way, to clean up. It looks like I got off lucky and she had made a more or less straight line to me after her ill-fated trip to the litterbox. I still had about four walls to clean on top of the floors and carpeting, and I had to change clothes as well.
She looked scandalized. What even.
I am in constant to and fro with the health insurance company. My son turned 18 and now he needs a one „for adults“. Of course much more expensive! Additionally I wanted mine updated. We discussed it with the insurance guy what we wanted but the wrong papers kept coming… we need to get them right till the end of September for the changes for next year! Its ongoing for more than 5 weeks now and its draining!
Here in Switzerland the Corona numbers are rising again so the government pressed the vaccined/tested rules for the businesses. So people will be even more upset about it at work (Casino)!
It seems that everytime that I think „now will be a nice quiet time“ something happens.
Well, what is, is…
At least there is no tropical storm in Switzerland! Yay!
Tomorrow my son will have his drivers license test! Keeping my fingers crossed! Here the first time failure rate is almost 50%! Money robbery, I call it!
Reading is my getaway, as always! Last night it was Breaking Badger, and it got me snickering through the day!
Greets from Switzeeland
Inga
First Monday back at work after a brief vacation…SO MUCH TO DO! Hope all is well in the Texas area and the storm doesn’t have much impact on you (or the kiddos).
Awesome! Started the day with Harney & Sons “Paris” and taught 8 class periods of 8th graders (in person).
H & S is a great way to start and end the day, at least for me.
Thank you for posting updates and making me feel connected to the “outside world of adults”.
Nine hours of editing. 2 hours of eating, exercising, and system detoxing footpath. Then 3 hours of homework. I’m looking forward to bed!
regarding hair loss…if you have not had a check up recently …it may be time. Thyroid disease frequently causes hair loss….and is a very common. (Unlike you guys!) Best wishes!
I was super stressed and had like half my hair fall out. I bought some root stimulate cream (with nettle) off Amazon for like $12 and I do it weekly and it’s growing back in. I hate having no hair. Good luck to all of you trying the things!
Yikes, yikes, yikes. My Monday is boring and the tea I’m drinking isn’t very good (Numi Rooibos Chai). It tastes like warm water that’s been breathed on by spices. I need better work snacks and tea. I’ve been rereading the Kate Daniels series and am on book 10 in audio, so I have that to look forward to on the drive home so thank you for that!
It’s my day off. Was looking forward to sleeping in. That is before Flirt my 14 yr old calico decided it would be great fun to jump on my head from the top of my curtains. No claws were involved but I woke to the sound of my head mimicing a melon being thumped.
I hope they find whoever opened the bank account – they’ve no doubt done the same to other people.
I’m sorry you got a bad cover for Ruby Fever. I’m still looking forward to reading it when it’s out. Planning to pre-order every bit as fast as I do whenever I hear another of yours is being released.
My Monday was dealing with my renter’s insurance and getting my grandson to and from school.
I apologize if I am not supposed to put a live link in a message.
Thought you might get a bit of comic relief from it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdSpFUkoYOA
I am in a Level 4 lockdown to beat the Delta strain of Covid 19here in Auckland, New Zealand. The rest of the country is in Level 2.
Slowly going crazy, but I am really enjoying listening to your audio books.
Loved your choice of narrator for Iron and Magic.
I’ve been running around all day. Barely had enough time to grab a protein bar and got dehydrated and seriously head-achy.
Son’s b-day is tomorrow and I still have to do some shopping because several of the mail ordered presents haven’t come in yet. Daughter gets off work at 7:30 so she’s meeting me for night shopping, which should be a nice pick-me-up after a too-hectic day.
I will sleep well tonight. (I hope!)
As a school bus driver, you hope people have common decency. Alas, 3 drivers ran thru my stop sign 3 different times as kids were getting on the bus.
I managed to get two license plates & a partial. They each get $250 ticket, 5 points on their license & 60 day suspension. more if not first offense.
Personally, I want a machine gun mounted on my bus that shoots paintballs. Sooooooo many cars would be covered in paint.
Please ALWAYS stop for the school bus with lights flashing. Kids lives depend on it. The driver will wave you on if you don’t need to stop.
And my kid won her Miracle League baseball game. Life is good!
As a former preschool bus aide, I thank you for this post!! And congrats on the “trifecta” on the fools who went through your stop sign!!
My bus driver co-worker and I had a good laugh the day an impatient person couldn’t wait for us to pick up two kids and drove around us, only to have a police squad that was headed the other direction pull a U-turn and stop the driver, who then got a ticket and a hefty fine.
(Don’t tempt Fate. It always costs more than one thinks it will!!)
Sitting in my office at Texas Children’s Hospital, waiting for Nicholas to arrive. I am here on the ride out squad, so will be working tonight and tomorrow, assuming that there is actually enough rain to interrupt hospital services. I have left my son home with the cats, and the electronics unplugged and elevated. The forecast is looking better for central Houston, so I hope it was all unnecessary!
Both of my kids were healthy enough for school and cats aside I had some peace and quiet! It’s a good Monday for me. Yay for print!!
I love H & son’s Paris tea. But there’s none here in New Zealand.
I was sure it was Tuesday until I clocked out of work.
Hope things calm down. hope kid 1 gets home safely. I feel your paid regarding hair. I used to have enough hair for two people, but it’s getting thinner all the time. Stress, age, medicine, genetics.. or all of the above. sigh…….
Just recently realized because the landlords changed, we can get a pet! There is still a lot of stuff that needs to happen prior to getting one, but I’m so excited to be able to have a pet as an adult!
Sorry about your aggravations and worries. Hopefully everything comes out okay with the storm and karma rebalances the scales w/ good things.
I spent three hours looking for a spreadsheet someone kindly misplaced or deleted to no avail but then was given a nice gift card from my coworkers at the end of the day so that made things better.
I saw this suggestion on a British nutrition show about thinning hair and it has worked for me.
Every day I eat a handful of raw pumpkin seeds for my hair and nails.
After years of doing this I still marvel when I get to trim my nails, and my hair grew back thick enough for a pony tail.
My hair thinned when I had to start estrogen blockers after the lumpectomy and radiation. (I really had the least dangerous breast cancer ever. I felt like an imposter at the doctors for my treatments. The other ladies were had such a worse time of it.)
Doesn’t matter – you take the same medications afterward, for the asme 5 years. That means I can stop about next April.
My hair is both thinner in texture and sparser. Since I keep it short, I can’t tell whether the hair on my clothes is mine or the white cat’s – he’s an “almost long-hair”. The long-haired Maine Coon is a tortoise shell tabby, and partially dilute, so she sheds every color from cream to bright orange to inky black. The mix is just plain grey, however. If I could just get her to shed where the Halloween decorations go, I’d never need fake spider webs…
Sorry about the crummy cover. I guess it’s par for the course given how much pain you guys are dealing with otherwise on the book front.
I am “looking forward” to the storm hitting Houston. I decided I would not need to buy any extras. I already had bread, milk, and toilet paper. There’s enough non-refrigerated stuff in the house that I can eat for days and so can the felines.
I hope your kids ride / rode out the storm in good shape. Luckily the storm surge is not predicted to be big.
Hey, my thyroid died, my hair stayed put. I have to take vitamin D every day, my hair stayed put. Chemo took most of my hair last summer, left me with something like 14 strands hanging around, which I forced my husband to cut off me. I put out what fell out for birds to use in nests last spring. Good time. Hair grew back, it curls like Shirley Temple’s did, but the ends are fuzzy like baby hair. Looks awful. Pandemic on top of chemo continuing means I have zero energy to go get the ends cut off, but all mirrors show me looking like Art Garfunkel. It’s not a good look.
You know what? I don’t really care much.
Get your thyroid tested. My mother never had eyebrows until she got her thyroid tested when she was really old because her doctors when she got old were not the same one who gave her the original replacement pills and they had too low a dose for her. It’s just a blood test and any doctor can run it, but few do. See an endocrinologist for real information. A wonky thyroid causes a lot of real issues you’d never imagine. Trust me on that one.
The storm will blow, the rain will fall, and your child is intelligent enough to stay put until it’s over and done and safe enough to leave. You raised her right.
The Ruby Fever book cover will be done better, I’m sure, and the book will be finished because that’s how you do things. The new Fated Blades going into print should have been predicted, because everything you two write is too good to say it shouldn’t be printed on paper.
The real beauty is the new dishwasher. I was so happy to get my new one that I danced after I got it installed. It runs so quietly that you have to look to see the lights on it to know it’s even running. I hope they enjoy it.
And now Monday is ending and we all can hope for a better Tuesday.
Oh my word, Ruby Fever is just being so difficult for you! I think you need to have a very good bottle of wine when it is all done.
I had surgery today. I planned it specifically so that it wasn’t during a busy time at work, and my little kids would be at school. Well, school just got cancelled due to the tropical storm. I know it’s selfish, and other people are dealing with much bigger issues, but I just can’t believe that after multitasking with kids and a job during a pandemic, that I now have to multitasking with surgery recuperation (abdomen) AND children during a storm.
Both kids were healthy and back in school at the same time for the first time in 2 weeks so I got a full day of work during normal work hours. Today is rated A++
I’m sorry that happened to you! If I were you I would bail out of Wells Fargo, they’re going to go down. They’ve ended their personal loan program. They keep getting in more trouble.
I know you won’t show us, but I really want to see the cover that you rejected ????
Is it me or are the dog and cat hogging the entire couch? LOL. The most comfy couch in the house likely too.
My Monday started by canceling my chiro appointment. Went back to office after being away on a staycation last week. I had received an email Sunday night from the big boss about staying home if possible flooding/school zones closed. No such luck on school closures Monday morning so went to the office to check my inbox and print whatever I could so I can work from home Tuesday. Came back home (30 minute drive), ate lunch and continued work. Now I am praying Houston/we/other areas don’t get any massive flooding. ????
Wow what a Monday! So sorry for all the hassles. It does look like kid1 and s.o. might get a decent break tomorrow and Wed. Just checked the forecast there. Hopefully they can get beach time tho probably not water time.
Good news on the novella! Hang in there and thanks for pet pic! Darn cute.
My Monday was great. About an hour ago I got back from an Eric Clapton concert. He was in Fort Worth at Dickies Arena which is about 5 minutes away from my place. The concert was awesome. ????
I’m taking Tuesday off from work to recover.
Mondays? Pfui. Although with no drama or real problems. I haven’t tried Harney & Sons Vanilla Black, though I’ve enjoyed their Queen Catherine tea. I once tried a Creamy Earl Grey, which was with vanilla. Not to my taste, but I dumped it on, er, donated it to a group and the one comment I heard was of real pleasure.
For later in the day I do like Celestial Seasonings Honey Vanilla Chamomile.
Recovering from a covid jab, staring at a screen with nothing but cotton wool in my head. Context: I despise the touch of cotton wool, in any part of my body. Productive I am not.
I think we are roughly the same age. My hair goes thru cycles where it will fall out quite a bit for a couple of months then go back to normal. Collagen peptides helped when I was worried about it. Life goes on…
Yesterday, Monday, my father and I visited his mother’s apartment for the last time to collect some things before it was sold. It was sad to let another part of her go.
That is a very Monday, Monday. Hugs to you all. Safe travels to Kid 1 and happy new dishwasher day to Kid 2. The cooler weather is so nice up here in Georgetown that I hope you are able to enjoy it down where you are, despite allergies.
Regarding hair loss.
I had covid February 2020. I wasn’t tested because it wasn’t a thing yet, and it takes a lot more than a 104 fever, body aches, and a lossed sense of taste to send me to a doctor. Anyhow, I lost 2/3 of my hair over about a month and a half period starting April 2020. After loosing more hair than seemed normal for a couple weeks I called a bunch of family members on the other side of the country that had experienced the same crazy flu as me a weeks earlier and they were also loosing a lot of hair.
At that time we had lockdowns, but far less information was out about covid aftermath and I was informed by people that it was unrelated, however my own research indicates that very high fevers turn off the growth switch in our hair follicles and it’s not uncommon to experience hair loss 1-3 months after being sick with a high fever. By the end of summer 2020 there were articles to be found about hair loss as a result of covid fevers.
On the plus side, I lost the hair evenly so while it’s much thinner, people don’t notice. Also it did eventually stop falling out for both myself and my relatives. Yay!
I tell people that I lost brain cells when I lost my hair; the hair is growing back, but the brain cells, not so much!
My Monday/Tuesday is fine. I live on the edge of my seat when I hear another of your books is coming out. So, have a nice rest of your week and of coarse write, write, write. ????
My Monday is great. No damage to my house from Hurricane Nicholas. I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome. Sorry to say not everyone on my block was so lucky, but at least it was not severe damage.
For the cover of the awful book maybe you could change it up, instead of the lead couple make it something funny like Shadow and a used birthday club. (This will impact sales negatively please don’t do it)
Some shampoos contain an ingredient that contributes to hair loss. Unfortunately I do not remember its initials. Definitely initials not a name.
Heard about the storm. Not good coming so soon after the last one ????
When my hair started falling out, I thought stress, vitamin deficiency, etc., and bought a Theradome. That thing is marvelous! My hair is back as thick as ever. Last August, I learned the hair loss was caused by lupus. Apparently, I’ve had it for several years, but my old rheumatologist hadn’t checked for it after the initial blood tests. New rheumatologist found it immediately.
Hair falling out… get your thyroid checked. That one is a classic symptom.
Generators are lifesavers especially if you could be hit by hurricanes in your area as well. I really like the ones that auto test themselves and that power on when the house looses power. They are a great investment.
Solar power is a whole other dramatic production. Yes you generate solar power and the power is put into a battery bank. Then the house uses it whenever you want it and if the battery bank gets too full the excess goes back into the grid.
Texas is a good area for solar, but winter will always give you less output because the angle of the sun changes and a lot of UV power doesn’t permeate the atmosphere. Still Texas has a lot less issue with that than Washington.
I’m over here job hunting and trying to write this as cat 1 is on my legs and cat 2 is on my chest and I’m not allowed to move…
Monday
Recovering from hosting and painting in a 2 say art class for advanced acrylics
Exhausted but horses to medicate
Ace the boarder in needing eye treatments so there’s that , my Andalusian is still recovering from his month at WSU hospital, I got on and walked him a few….
Weather nice low 70f
We love our generator system it comes on automatically if power stops, propane…
Oh I was just a victim of fraud too! I went out west in mid-August to visit Yellowstone, the Tetons, and Glacier and it looks like at some point during that visit my card info was stolen. I used it pretty frequently and who knows where they swiped it. When I got back from vacation, I noticed three charges for a AAA membership (I don’t own a car) and some weird Google charge I knew I had not made. My bank is also Wells Fargo so they cancelled the card, reimbursed me the credit, and issued me a new debit card since I called right away as soon as I noticed the charges. The friend I traveled with was not a victim of fraud but she used mostly cash while we were traveling. The most inconvenient part was being without a debit card for about a week.
Moral of the story: check your bank statements frequently.
Yes, they do make a solar generator and it does have a battery storage. Love your books!
Monday was awesome. Had out patient surgery that went extremely well. My hair started falling out at the start of menopause. I have thinning hair but am not bald and I’m 75 years young. Stress probably adds to everything, even hair loss. (I wonder if it makes dark hair gray early)Hope your kid stays safe and gets home soon.
PS: I love and live on Harney and Sons Black Currant tea. Would that be considered an antioxidant? If not, still good.
Change shampoos.
No, seriously… My hair was coming out in gobs. I was complaining to a co-worker and she asked what shampoo I was using. As a former hairdresser, her first response was, “why do you hate your hair?” Apparently L’Oréal is not the hair care brand anyone should use. She recommended “Strong Sexy Hair”. I’ve never even picked a bottle of that up to look at…but her response sent me straight to the store. My hair stopped coming out in gobs. I am happy. My hair is happy because apparently I no longer hate it. I still use my L’Oréal makeup, and so far nothing has fallen off my face????
Love my Harney and Sons vanilla black tea! Their Paris blend is my favorite!
Yay for print novella!!
I do like reading your snapshots of your days. It just shows me that there are others out there in the great universe who have odd days/ weeks & get through them as painlessly as possible. Here’s hoping that the precautions you’re taking now for winter prove more than adequate.
Today, after my partner had finished his shower & Id helped him get dressed & shaved him, I sorted myself out & then got on with a few jobs before taking him to visit his cousin who is now completely blind due to cataracts. While there I removed the penicillin growing on her butter before returning it to the fridge????????????. At home we waited in vain for the chap who was supposed to come & measure the conservatory floor for new flooring????.
On an up note Im in the middle of a Chinese historical drama on YouTube that Im looking forward to later this evening. And the heating is back on☺️☺️
“We saw the cover of Ruby Fever. We sent it back. The less is said about it, the better.” Wow, that must have been disappointing.
I bought some H&S flavors that are new to me:
1. Venetian Tiramisu – Yum! White tea with a lovely custard flavor. Will buy more.
2. Chocolate Chai- one of the spices made me nauseated smelling it. Why, I don’t know. I drink chai from other brands all the time. I’ll try it one more time in case it was a fluke.
3. Black Cask Bourbon – Tasted lovely, smokey with a hint of bourbon, but gave me heartburn. Gave it to my mom.
4. New England Breakfast- it’s ok I guess. Not much maple flavor, but it’s drinkable.
5. Viennese Earl Grey – tastes like plain tea. No bergamot to be found.
I also bought a herbal pumpkin spice from them, but haven’t wanted to try it yet. It’s 86 today, doesn’t feel like pumpkin spice season.
Did you know you can get an inflamed sternum? Well, you can. It hurts if I move. I hope it’s gone by this weekend, I have plans and I’m not going to let my aging body stop me.
Ah, Ilona Andrews, thanks for the post. I ROFLOL.
Good news about print copy as I prefer that.
Yes I saw tropical Storm Nicolas was working it’s way along Texas coast. At least kid 1 and SO are in an hopefully safe place.
Regarding dishwasher, mine lasted 15 years then was recalled by manufacturer —due to fire hazard. Mother freaked out and used a sledge hammer on it. Sigh. I hate the new one with all the buttons as Mother likes to randomly push while running. Sigh
Well at least we will hear about the lawn mowing orphans mafia again this year as grass might get enough rain to grow. Or there may be mud pits. ????. Time for a cup of tea here.
Is there any chance that the first 2 Kinsmen books will have another round of print? I would love to have them all in print!
Hair loss could be thyroid playing up
You could install a solar power system, our home is powered by a combination of solar and hydro-generated power, they feed into our inverter and battery bank, which stores the power and supplies the house. We also have a petrol-powered generator which hooks into this as a back-up for droughts, extended low-sun periods, and major storms. If you’re only using this as a back-up, you’d need a way to bleed off excess power as it is generated, some electricians hook it into a hot water “supplier” tank, (which then feeds into your existing hot water, or swimming pool filter system), to prevent wasting it.
Solar panels need to be kept clean to be effective, and there’s a decision to make on how many you need depending on what rating you want your system to be (5kw? 15kw?) and choosing what type of storage battery system to have (lead acid ones are like a giant car battery and need maintenance, or Tesla have a more high-tech option).
Of course, you have to check the legislation and requirements for your area, we’re in New Zealand so ours will differ, but there must be specialist electricians local to you who could advise further. Hope this helps!
My Monday was wonderful – a water heater was finally installed, 10 days after my old one died: of course it died Saturday evening of Labor Day weekend, of course it did ! Nothing like a hot shower (and being able to wash the dishes properly). The simple pleasures.
Speaking of electric generators, you aren’t that far off. I work for a Blue Bird school buses dealer. The electric school buses have v2g (Vehicle to Grid) technology that gives you the ability to reverse the charged batteries from the vehicle back into the power infrastructure. A huge electric vehicle benefit of this technology is it makes the vehicle become a giant electric storage system for emergency use. Image what a fleet of bus-sized power sources can do in power-down conditions or emergency conditions.
Were you sufficiently sure that notification was actually FROM THAT BANK? If your notification came in by phone, email or text and you did not go straight to the bank using a communication method other than the one provided you may have fallen victim to Pfishing. I feel certain that they required a lot of personal identification before discussing this with you. Please check if you’re not certain.
I love harney teas .
Sorry about the numerous fires that need putting out.
Kids. ????????♀️ I have 4 grown kids. Always something. Gah!
Hair. Could be stress. Could be age. Have thyroid checked. Have it checked properly by an endocrinologist because pops miss a lot. Personal experience. Thyroids are important.
????????Hope it all falls into place soon
Let’s see.
I’m hacking down our sunflower forest as it has mostly died out and most of the seeds seem to have been eaten. We know the seeds are mostly gone as the clouds of goldfinches which only deign to be in our yard from first to last sunflower seed have been decreasing rapidly. I’m laying the branches along our property line for another couple weeks in the vain home that the remaining seeds will produce a self-sowing sunflower fence line next year. The hope is vain because it is a very dry, very hot location in the wild part of our large lot and sunflowers need at least a drop or 2 of water.
I went to a meeting to try and convince the city to stop their plans to convert our Master Gardener volunteer-run garden from veggies to flowers. Currently all produce is donated to a food pantry.
Then I hurried home to join my book club because we were lucky enough to have the chief archeologist from the “Lost City of the Monkey God” speak to us. It is a great, true book reading more like an Indiana Jones movie than nonfiction. This makes given the history of archeology and the fact the author is a NYTimes journalist who also co-writes thrillers.
Tomorrow I’m back to the sunflowers and am going to try a new white lasagna recipe made with spinach, artichokes and prosciutto crudo.
And now, it is time for a new application of aloe Vera because of course the day I worked outside for 8 hrs is the day I forgot sunscreen.
My Monday was spent feeling the West Tower of Texas Children’s Hospital sway as a loud, high-pitched swoosh was heard outside. At first, I thought I was more tired than I had previously thought. I looked up at the windows of my patient’s room on the 12th floor and all three weighted shades had rocked towards the interior of the room, at a 30 degree angle, simultaneously. I had to look again, because, you know, I was tired, it was dark, and the patient and family were sleeping. The shades were slowly settling back to a stationary position, rocking back and forth. We didn’t find out that the eye of Hurricane Nicholas had passed through Houston until we were checking in to our hospital hotel rooms during shift change.
Then, I slept at the hospital in an exam room, which thankfully had a sink so I could take a Marine bath and rinse the sweat from my hair. After an uncomfortable days sleep due to lack of A/C, I woke up at 1640, and packed up my Disaster Bag. I put everything in the car, drove the 1.7 miles home to take a shower and lie naked on the bed under the ceiling fan for approximately 15 minutes. Alexa kindly woke me from a much needed, yet too short, mental nap. I put clean scrubs on, drove 1.7 miles back to the hospital, and I walked on to the unit at 1810. Then my Monday began.
There are other factors that could cause hair loss… stress and thyroid were brought up along with a few other things… if I repeat something already mentioned, I may have missed it, but want to make sure they are mentioned. I had a diabetic friend who lost hair when she was not watching what she ate and when she did, it would grow back… she called it rug hair, because it was short and stubbly coming back in. My daughter has a medical condition called PCOS where she has a hormonal imbalance which is causing thinning of hair in areas, and my hair was falling out due to a medication I was on, then taken off because of the hair loss… thankfully it came back! A need for certain vitamins or nutrients/diet could help, but the best thing would probably be seeing a doctor to rule out or find out if there is a medical or physical condition causing the hair loss. Hopefully it is something easily solved and the hair comes back!
Yay print edition!!!!!!
Subterranean some day??? ????
I just recently found your books! And I am fascinated by the series! I have read all of Kate’s books twice! I’m on my 3rd time around. Currently on Magic Slays…
Anyways, I was trying to find more information on Curran’s background what does it mean from the First line. And I came across Curran’s biography on wikia. I wanted to know, does it have merit? I couldn’t find anything on your website that references this information. Unless, I missed it some how…
Curran was born a year before the first Magic Wave to a military family. His father was a Marine and his mother was in the Army. During the first Magic Wave his parents transformed in to lions, realizing they would become Guinea pigs for the military if anyone found out they resigned.
Using some connections they had, they tried joining a pack not too far from the base, but it didn’t work. People saw his father as a leader and the Alpha saw him as a threat. When the alpha tried to claim his mom as part of his harem his dad killed him.
Afterwards Curran’s father became the Pack’s leader. He didn’t want to do it, but he had agreed because he felt responsible for killing the Alpha. When it became clear that he wouldn’t be taking on any new mates, one of the tougher females tried to kill his mom who was pregnant. His parents left after that.
Using the money they’d saved up they bought a large log cabin in Appalachians for its seclusion. They live alone until Curran was five when his sister Alice was born. Though jealous at first Curran grew very close to his sister showing her where the pick the best berries, where to catch the fattest fish and the best places to hide when she wanted to get out of chores or classes.
Curran was homeschooled, his parents were well educated and taught him and his sister to read and write. Literature and history were always easy for him but Math was harder. Using an old laptop he played scholastic games that taught him further using fun cartoon characters. His mother also taught him a little French.
When his father thought he was old enough, he started taking Curran out hunting and fishing with him.
For money his family mostly traded meat, some vegetables, corn, potatoes and Ginseng that they found in the woods. Sometimes when they got low on money or supplies, his father would disappear for a while and come back with presents and cash. Then we’d get to go to Gatlinburg for supplies. His family went to an amusement park run by a famous country singer.
Hey Gracie,
You can find this information in Curran’s POV, which in Small Magics together with a lot of other Kate Daniels short stories and other goodies https://ilona-andrews.com/katie-daniels-books/#small .
For a full list of all the books with connected material to a series as well as free fiction on the website, please see the List of Books here https://ilona-andrews.com/release-schedule/
I hope this helps ????
Brought my dog to the vet for lameness on Monday. After x-rays and a Lyme test they concluded it’s soft-tissue damage in his shoulder and perscribed 2 weeks of pain meds and crate rest, They also found he had a low-grade ear infection, so he has 2 weeks of meds for that, too. So now I have to tell my very cat-like Windsprite that no, he can’t jump up on the couch, or the bed, or the windowsill for 2 weeks, nor can he zoom (which is basically the end of the world for a zoom-zoom dog). At least it was the 7.5 year old and not the 1.5 year old x.x
I am having a difficult time with my pregnancy today and these blog posts are so soothing to my stretched nerves. Can’t wait for the novella and Ruby Fever!
Did anybody else stare at the dog’s legs and wonder why she posted an abstract photo of ostrich heads? LOL
My hair started falling out pretty bad when my thyroid went out. If you haven’t had it checked lately then you might want to do that.