Mercy Celeste's Blog

 October is finally here. My favorite month. Any day now it will start to feel like fall. Right now it feels hot, dry, and crispy. Not crisp. Crispy. It's too dry. Everything looks and smells dead. Usually, by now, we have the inside fall and Halloween decorations up. We really don't do outside stuff. I tried when the kids were little, but honestly, we don't really go out front that much so it's just not something we do. I would like to do something on the front porch this year. I just can't fin...

 I mean I had intended to post yesterday but I ran out of time, soo... you're welcome?

Sooo.... what's happening? Anything good? Because I sure as hell don't want to talk about the bad (gesturing vaguely to everything). 

September has Septembered is best I can say. It's hot. The trees are all turning yellow or dying way too early. Did I mention it's hot? I think yesterday was the first time it's rained since mid-August. It's hot, dry, and wrong, atmospherically speaking.

I don't know what else to s...

 It's been a bit since I blogged last. I don't have much to say. I think I maintain the FB feed and the occasional blog post now as a form of proof of life.

I mean, I don't write anymore. In bits and starts. I decide what I'm writing is shit and I stop. Because it is... shit. I don't read anymore... because I can't find anything that isn't shit. Yes, I know, I'm too critical. Yes, I know, I should get over it. 

Here's the thing... I can't. I spent too many years reading shit stories with five star...

 Just random shit today. Whenever I try to stick to a blog theme it all just kinda evolves into a squirrel brain free-for-all. I mean, that's how I think. It's a constant barrage of noise in my head. There has always been a constant barrage of noise in my head. Good, bad, comical, horror... music lyrics without the lyrics. Do not ask me what I mean by that. I couldn't tell you if I tried. My brain works fast. It doesn't stop. It doesn't matter what it is. It's like 1 2 3 4 skip topic 5 6 7 now t...

 Ah, mid August... it kinda slipped up on me. I had intended to write a week or so ago. I had intended to start writing again at least once a week. Stuff happened. Stuff always happens. Family stuff. Financial stuff. Weather stuff. Just stuff. And it all rolls into one big ball and days slip past and here we are in the middle of August and the youngest is getting ready to go back to school on Tuesday. And...

SIGHS! I'd wish for more hours in the day but I'd mismanage those too, so why bother.

So, ...

 First... I know you're thinking the cheese done slid right off Mercy's cracker with that title.

Second... that is entirely beside the point.

Thirdly... and it has nothing to do with the title... stay focused please.

But yeah. Youngest kiddo is getting ready for back to college in less than a month. We bought one text book to save them about a hundred bucks over on the campus bookstore. It came in today. They don't need anything else.

And I'm struggling with that.

I shouldn't be. This will be the sec...

 Not going to lie, July has been kind of rough. Health wise at least. The heat and humidity are not helping anything. And it has been hot. If it's not hot it's storming. The deep south in summer is, as I've always described it, Hell's Sauna. So that's about it as far as updates are concerned.

It's hot. It's miserable. I don't get around well in the heat. Rinse repeat for eight months of the year.

But other than that Mrs. Lincoln... 

Meh. It's been meh. 

I'm just waiting for fall and spooky season. A...

 And we're at the halfway mark of this year. How'd that happen? I'm pretty sure I've gone completely gray this year from the stress of... waves vaguely at everything.

Anyway, I just wanted to pop in to say that I've dropped the prices of nearly all of my books on every site they are available on to 2.99 or 3.99, US, and the equivalent outside the US. Except for the one series. You'll figure it out if you're looking. I have books on Amazon, Apple, Kobo, and Smashwords, click the covers >>>> for de...

 Hey, how is everyone this fine Monday night?

I would say I can't complain, but we all know that's what I do best, so let's just say, it's a Monday and be done with it.

So, what's been happening since I last posted?

Not much. Just living in a sub-tropical sauna and trying to stay cool. That's about it.

I could talk about so many things like birthdays and finances and health. I'm not going to. I just don't feel like sharing that anymore. I could talk about writing and books. But I don't write or read...

 Welp, I could have titled this post Never Say Never but eh, I'm a bigger Jimmy Buffett fan than James Bond. 

So, it's been about a week, SURPRISE! For the ten or so of you who still read this blog I thought I'd let you know that I'm in the middle of making a change to 12 to 14 titles. Like, uh, going back to KU... don't hit me!

SIGHS! Only 10 titles are going back to KU. I went through the last 4 months of book sales, if you can call those sales, and decided to go ahead and return 10 titles to KU...