June Goals

 May just zoomed by! Alex Palou won the Indy 500, and it took me 2 days to watch it, plus one more day to watch the Victory Banquet.

-Lose 5 lbs (241)

-Do well at Creative Market Sold 3:)

-Enjoy anniversary Check!  Dinner at Yamoto

-Enjoy Tropicon Branson Check!  Surprised friend Ava and had a GREAT time!

-Finalize Playing With Time and set release date Still waiting....

-Pay Editor, Cover Art (funds in savings) and Seymore Check! event

-Start getting Sara's room cleaned up Took out the bed, so it's a start!

-Buy new soap dish for MBa Nope

-Finish trim, lights, medicine cabinet, and shower guard in MBa Nope

-Make appt with foot dr about my right leg Nope

-Finish Ch 11 of Heart Song Not yet

-Pay editor ($150) Pd $100

-Add words to new fairy story Check!  Finished it!!!

-Buy BP machine Not yet..

-Pay for Geek Con ($40) Scheduled for 6/13

-Pay down CC and start pecking away at med bills Sort of....

-Read 6 books Check!

-Finish current e-book Check!

Books Read:  9

            Print:  6

        E-book:  3

             DNF:  1

2025 Events:

June 6th: Seymore Comic Con, Seymore, IN Sold 1....

June 13-15th:  Superman Celebration, Metropolis, Il ($100) CANCELED

June 20th:  Summer On Main Sold 3:)

June 21st: Pride (donation) Sold 10:)

July 20-22nd:  Imaginarium, Louisville, Ky (Pd 9/12)

July 25th:  KCARC Craft Show ($25)

Aug:  Geek Con, Evansville Museum, Evansville, In ($40)

Sept 19-20th:  Cil-Con, Effingham, Il (Pd 12/29)

Sept 27th:  Book Nook Book Fair, Peoria, Il ($75 Pd 12/27)

Oct 11th:  Lafayette Comic Con, Tippi County Fairgrounds ($50-Pd 6/13)

Nov 12-16th:  ICGAHS ($700-making payments)

2026 Events:

April 11th:  Dreaming Dirty In Michigan (Pd $60; still owe $120)

Aug 8th:  Indy Author Event ($250) Pd $50 5/16

June Goals:

-Lose 5 lbs (241)

-Do well at First Friday Art Walk Rained out again

-Do well at Seymore event Sold 1, but met several new authors!

-Do well at Summer On Main Sold 3:)

-Do well at Pride Sold 10:)

-Finalize Playing With Time and set release date

-Pay Editor ($50), Cover Art (funds in savings), Geek Con event,(Check!) and Lafayette Comic Con event (Check!)

-Start getting Sara's room cleaned up Carpet removed; walls sanded and painted; carpet pad removed; Alex's bed moved in

-Buy new soap dish for MBa 

-Finish trim, lights, medicine cabinet, and shower guard in MBa 

-Make appt with foot dr about my right leg 

-Finish Ch 11 of Heart Song

-Buy BP machine 

-Pay down CC and start pecking away at med bills

-Read 6 books 

-Finish current e-book 

April Reading Schedule:  

The Chosen:  Come and See-Jerry B. Jenkins DRR!  Now I REALLY want to watch the series!  Had to laugh; I figured out he was preparing for the Sermon on the Mount waaaaay earlier than a note from mom when J starts reciting the Beattitudes, and her note reads 'Sermon on Mount'.

Inked-Rachel Rener Loved the humor! Interesting story:)

The Love Scribe-Amy Meyerson Good story!  Ending surprised me:)

Leota's Garden-Francine Rivers

The Matzah Ball-Jean Meltzer

Once Upon A Platypus 2-Ron Braun

The Shrieking Gun Cafe-YW Lumaris

The Bears of Blue River-Charles Major

Home To Holly Springs-Jan Karon

Cleaning Homes in Scottsdale, AZ-Rick Smith

Secret Stories of Disney World-Jim Korkis

The Scarlet Thread-Francine Rivers

And The Shofar Blew-Francine Rivers

Redeeming Love-Francine Rivers

Finding Home-Sutton Bishop

Becoming His-KI Lynn

Tangled In Lavandar-Sandra Sookoo

This Is Us-April Decton

The Lady's Mine-Francine Rivers

Texas Bombshell-Cynthia D'Alba

Innocence Taken-Victoria M. Patton

Fish Tank-Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra

The Trouble With Angels-Maggie Adams

Just One Summer-Lynn Stevens

She Who Frees The Selkie-K. Malady

Double D Ranch-Rochelle Bradley

The Restless Few-James Watjen

The Choice-Anne Greene (misplaced??)

Louise Penney book

A Quiet Strength-Janette Oke

Valley of the Shaman-Arlen Andrews

Joyful Poems For Children-James Whitcomb Riley

I Heard God Laugh-Matthew Kelly

Life Is Messy-Matthew Kelly

Franklin and Eleanor

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E-book:

Fooling Around With Cinderella-Stacy Juba DRR!  Good story!

A Game Of Gossip-Sandra Sookoo

Two-Bit Wizard-Keith Thompson

This Is Not The Story You Think It Is-Laura Munson

The Stanhope Challenge-Cerise Deland 

Dark Side of Disney-Leonard Kinsey

A Divided Heart-Alessandra Torra

Moonshot-Alessandra Torra

Trophy Wife-Alessandra Torra

Promised To The Worst Duke In England-Sandra Sookoo

Abigail's Journey-Jean Joachim

TBB (on wish list-was tired of not finding them!)

The Marriage Bargain-Jennifer Probst (2013-$10)

The Marriage Trap-Jennifer Probst (2013-$15)

The Marriage Mistake-Jennifer Probst (2013-$10)

The Marriage Merger-Jennifer Probst (2013-$10)

Into Thin Air-Jon Krakauer (2013-$15)

The Cookbook Collection-Allegra Goodman (2013-$11)

The Girfriend-Abigail Barnett

The Summer Without Her (Men???)-Siri Hustvedt

Searching For Someday-Jennifer Probst (2014-$8)

Hard As You Can-Laura Kay (2014-$9)

The Year of Living Biblically-A.J. Jacobs (2014-$15)

Retaliation-Yasmin Shiraz (2014-$10)

Accused-Yasmin Shiraz (2014-$10) 

Romulus-Marilyn Campbell ($5)

Gaslight Chronicles-Cindy Spencer Pape ($8)

So Far Away-Dakota Madison, et al

Defending Devon-Shannon West

Love Realized-Melanie Codina

Love Resisted-Melanie Codina

Assumptions-Melanie Codina

One The Run-Jade C. Jamison

Decker-AD Ellis

Sawyer-AD Ellis

Twins-RG Miller

Saving Sarah-Nan Reinhart

Monster Among The Rose-Linda Kage

A Life Before-Julien Ayotta

Flower of Heaven-Julien Ayotta

Dangerous Bloodlines-Julien Ayotta

Dare To Love-Sandy Sullivan

If I Fall-Lydia Michaels ($5)

If You Want Me-Tara Mills

Tomorrow-Samantha Kane

Backdoor Billionaire's Bride-Roz Lee (2019-$5)

The Play-Tawdra Kandle

Party Planning Can Be Murder-Kerry Schafer

Hopeful In Yellow-Sandra Sookoo

Magic In Mayflowers-Sandra Sookoo

Zero Chance-Linda Kage (want entire series in print)