Cyber Monday Moons!

Dunno about you, but I did my Cyber Shopping yesterday. Perfect day for it--rainy, chilly, and not at all the sort of day you'd want to venture out to the mall. Got free shipping on a few things and a decent discount at Kohl's, too. There must also be a few ebook buyers out there. I've sold 5 copies of Purple Bikini over the weekend! Whoo hoo! I wonder if any of them were purchased as gifts. Did you know you could do that? On Amazon, you click the "Give as a gift" button and put in the email address of the person you want to send it to, or you can put in your own email and forward it. Pretty cool, huh? I hope I sell lots of copies for Christmas because my work schedule cuts back to one day a week on December 5th.

It's a very strange feeling. I went to part-time after Mike was born, and then didn't work at all for ten months after Sam was born, but since then, I have always worked full-time. Early on, I earned more money than my DH did, (he currently makes more than I do) but I've always had a pretty good take-home salary. Dunno what my paycheck will look like now. It's kinda scary knowing that I need to sell a lot more books to even come close to what I earned as a nurse and it makes me feel like I shouldn't buy stuff for myself anymore. Everyone tells me that's crap, but having always been an equal contributor to the family finances, I feel like my share is dropping to the point that spending money on things like writer's conferences isn't justified. I may still attend a few, but I expect I'll feel a bit guilty about it. Fortunately, they are tax-deductible.

While Mikey was home from Purdue, we looked at vacation options and decided against an Alaskan cruise in favor of a trip to Ireland, instead of our yearly visit to Myrtle Beach. There's enough money in savings to pay for it now, but it seems crazy to spend so much more on a vacation since I'm not going to be working as much. Still, this may be the last big vacation we take as a family since Mikey should be graduating (and hopefully getting a job) next winter. If he gets a job in California, we may be taking trips to visit him from now on.

Anyway, with that in mind, I'm working on three projects at once--finishing Wildcat, rewriting one of my earlier manuscripts to self-publish, and working on a new Sextet story with a Legends theme--a menage with Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot. Had to make this one MFM. Can't quite see Arthur and Lancelot going at it, can you?

However, I can see someone aiming a paintball gun at these cyber moons!

Ready,

Aim,

Fire!