Saturday February 15, 2025
Continuation of the New Bed Saga
Welcome, I’m Mary Louisa Locke, the author of the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series and the Caelestis Science Fiction series. In this daily newsletter, I reflect on my life as an indie author trying to age gracefully. Occasionally, I will also publish some of my shorter fiction in this newsletter to read for free.
Daily Diary, Day 1627:
I wish I could say I got back to plotting yesterday, but after yoga first thing in the morning, two different sessions of cleaning (to deal with detritus from a couple of days of rain and moving things around) and going for a very short, 10-minute walk, the first walk in days, the morning was pretty much shot. And I spent an inordinate amount of time checking to see if ordered goods for the new bed saga were on track.
Then a scheduled phone call after lunch, doing some measuring and deciding to get a very inexpensive but much smaller night stand (to replace the one I had) that I hope will enable the new king mattress to leaving room for Leeza’s dog bed. The night stand also has two electric plugs in the top which will means I can be charging my phone and have a lamp plugged in without an extension cord, etc. If it is hideous, or too small, I can just shift it over the guest room!
Then I did laundry, read a few newsletter posts, and there went the rest of the afternoon.
Today, after a morning zoom call, I should be able to get some work done on taxes at least, and the sun is out and I also hope to get in at least one short walk.
But here are photos from yesterday’s walk of some bright orange blooms from some unknown plant in a neighbor’s yard that definitely liked the rain.
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I gave up on taxes and simply gather my forms together and throw them at an agent who I've worked with for a few years. She's my age and we have similar interests and senses of humor, so it actually makes the process as painless as possible. Plus some of my needed forms never come in much before early March (grrr) so no point in trying it now.
Tomorrow I will be having lunch with a dear friend and her son who married an Aussie so isn't here much. Looking forward to it.
My night stand is small with no plugs, but my dad built it for me decades ago so I'm holding onto that. He was a good woodworker for things that didn't need carving or curves and did a nice job on the staining. It survived unscathed for a long trip in a moving van and later some teen boys in a U-Haul, so I'm sure it'll get me by for the rest of my life.
Your life is certainly not boring! Good shot of orange flowers.