Going Up?

I sometimes feel like I'm climbing stairs like this. In life and in my head.

But I wanted to report that my eBook is still selling. I get nervous when I visit Author Central on Amazon and see the stats going down. Wow, that's scary! The book had a two week sag and I thought, well that's it then. But it went back up and it has these jumps in sales, goes down for a few days, then it will go back up. Right now it's at #87,712. Not great, but not bad either.

So I want to thank everyone out there who has bought Vampire Ascending, and have told other people about it, or have had me as a guest on your blog, or have made a comment about the book. Thank you!

Also another thing I want to let everyone know--and it might sound like a broken record--but I cannot see my FOLLOWERS on any of my blogs. I lost being able to see those who have joined Muse, and now I have one new follower--my first follower--on Lorelei's Writing Journal--and I don't even know who it is. So, if you know who you are, let me know. Silly that I have this problem, but it began about 2 months ago. I can't bring it up either in my dashboard. What a mess, but I'll live. But I want people to know about it because they might be a little miffed that I'm not returning the favor and following them. I can't if I don't know who you are and don't have your link--so leave that too, if you want me to know.

In other news. They put in the new window in the kitchen yesterday, and today they put the finish on the cabinets and drawers. We're having trouble with the vent/light over the stove. It goes off. We are insisting they get a "professional" in here (like an electrician who has the know how/tools, etc.) to discover the problem. We think its old wiring.

Oh, and I see that my follower number on Muse is nearly reaching my age--wow. Muse is middle aged now. LOL! A Baby Boomer! Woohoo! Well, not really. But you get the drift.

I hope to do a little writing in the next few days, so if I'm not around, you'll know why.

All for now, everyone have a great Friday!!

My Weekend & Updates on the Kitchen

We bought a new coffee maker. News splash, right? Well, when your coffee maker goes out that's pretty much a done deal. The morning it went out was a work day. My resourceful husband went upstairs and dug out the coffee maker we use when we go camping. Thank goodness we still had that. So, we had what we like to refer to as "Chester Good" coffee for about 3 mornings. (Unless you watched "Marshall Dillon", you wouldn't know the joke, so I won't go into it here.)

We had a flier from Kohls, and they had a Black & Decker 12 cup coffee maker on sale for $19.99. That's a good price. I also saw some sandals that I wanted, and talked my dear husband into going there. He had to activate our card (my suggestion because of the savings you can get through it). We needed to go to Walmart too, so we went there first and checked the price of the same damned coffee maker. Here is where you have to realize you don't save so much on things at Wally World. The same coffee maker at Walmart was nearly $25!

Okay, on to Kohl's we go. I had brought our flier, I'm not sure why, but I did. We were having a very easy day of finding everything we needed. Yes, even in Walmart! So, we found the coffee maker, they had plenty of them, at the sale price and my shoes--found the very ones I wanted in my size!!! We get up to the cash register and the woman asked what our discount was today when Dennis handed her his card. We said we didn't know. So she got out these scratch off cards to get our extra discount. I got 15% off the purchase. But wait. She explained that the flier would have had some sort of card you peel off, we said we had it and so I ran out in the cold wind and brought it back. There wasn't any peel off saving card on it. So, because she was nice (and probably a manager), she gave us 30% discount on everything. I basically got my shoes for free!

This morning we had coffee from our new coffee maker. It's black. A nice contrast against the white painted walls that are now finished. I measured the cupboards and cabinets and drawers. While at Walmart Sunday we bought a couple of things for the sink, a new wash basin, sink liners, and a new dish drainer--all in a sort of tan/gold color. Nice to have new stuff. We were looking at the liners they have for cabinets. There's a big improvement on these things, and I think I've picked out some, and will buy in next few weeks. Not now, because they are still working on this. The cabinets need to be finished with clear varnish, and some hardware yet, and the floorboards to be put in, and another cabinet with a vent/fan over the stove and a new ceiling fan/light. We might be able to move back in at the end of the month, we're guessing at the rate everything is going.