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St. Patrick’s Day – And Some Backstory

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Hey guys, welcome back! Today is St. Patrick’s Day and I have to say, it is a favorite holiday of mine. While I can’t celebrate like I used to, I still continue some traditions of my own and love to look back at past celebrations as well.

My past is a strange one. For example, if one was to look at my resume, it would read more like a ‘what’s what’ than anything else. However, I’ve had some amazing experiences in my life and one was working for a professional theater. Why do I mention this? Patience grasshoppers.

Working at that theater had been a dream job for me. When I was 11 years old, I saw a production of Annie there and I vowed to myself that I would one day work in that space. Many years later, not only did I get the opportunity, but I actually got to meet/work with/take over for the girl who played Annie in the production I had seen! She was my age and it was so surreal when not only did I get the chance to get to know her, but when she left her backstage position for an acting role in another state, I got to take over for her. It still amazes me that I had been able to do this.

I was a theater major in school and learned a great deal working both on and backstage. So to be able to take what I knew and not only put it to use, but to do it in the theater I had wanted to work at? Priceless.

Our place performed not only Broadway caliber shows, but on ‘dark nights’ (night where the main stage shows weren’t used) we’d have specials: Comedians, music groups, etc. We also did a lot of seasonal shows as well and I’d try to work as many as I could, not just for the experience to learn more, but to also meet some great acts. (I actually got to work with the comedian I had seen years before on my prom night in NYC…talk about surreal.)

For St. Patrick’s Day, they always booked Irish acts and I was more than ecstatic when the Clancy Brothers were to appear. I am part Irish and grew up knowing more about my Irish heritage than anything else really. My great grandmother was from Dublin and even passed away on St. Patrick’s Day. I knew the Clancy’s music well and remember the days that my aunt would have them playing in her house. So when they needed someone to do multiple roles for their evening(s), I jumped at the chance!

I was more than fortunate enough to work several of their gigs. I got to know them, got to help load their stuff in, worked the spotlight and made sure they were comfortable backstage among other duties. When the shows were over though, that’s when the fun really began!

We’d hang out for hours afterwards. They’d tell story after story while the drinks were flowing and the laughs were never ending. I was very young back then, barely in my 20’s and being that I’m under 5ft tall, they kind of adopted me. I was all for it. The late and wonderful Liam called me his ‘Little Leprechaun’ and whenever I’d work a show for him, he was always the first to greet me with a monster hug.

Myself and Liam at the end of a good night. (I was so young.)

Years after I had not only left the theater, but also the state, I went to see them perform there again. This time, it was nice to be in the audience. Hoisting a beer with the crowd during Wild Rover, singing along to Jug of Punch and tearing up to Will Ye’ Go Lassie Go and The Parting Glass (Go Lassie Go was also sung at Liam’s gravesite during his burial).

My friend who was hosting that night gave us house seats and I took a chance and sent a note backstage. I didn’t know if they’d remember me at all, but I figured, let me try. Sure enough, I get a message back saying that I’d better get backstage after the show to have a drink with them. The friend I had brought with me, very Irish himself, was in shock and the time we had with them after the show was one I have always treasured. I didn’t have to work, I didn’t have to clean up the stage or anything. I got to just relax and enjoy and be one of them for the night. They even teased the hell out of me because when I did work their shows and was working the spotlight, the light always shook as I laughed during their nephew Robbie’s song, Sr. Josephine. Truly, a damned funny song and I’ll link it under this post.

It was a special time for me and as the years went by, I mourned every one of their passings. As he was the one I was the closest with, I watched the footage of Liam’s funeral and both laughed and cried horribly. Thanks to the internet, I got to see interviews he did, talking about his friendship with Bob Dylan. Then watched a Dylan interview with his side of things. They all lived incredible lives and I was more than honored to have worked and played with them. Even if it was only four or five nights out of my lifetime, they are nights I will never forget.

These men will live forever in my heart.

Speaking of never forgetting…while the Clancy’s were fun and more lighthearted, another Irish band I worked with and who’s name I’ll keep hidden for now, were more political and let’s just say, ‘spirited.’ I had a great time with them as well.

The first time I met them, they were having a fist fight amongst themselves near our dressing rooms. Apparently the argument they were having in the car spilled over and they decided to fight it out more physically when they arrived. I don’t know what I was thinking, but I got between them and thankfully they stopped the punches. I guess having a rather small female suddenly jump between three burly guys was enough to stop it. We laughed and then we had to stop some bleeding before they went onstage. Throughout the show, all you could hear in our headsets was stuff like, “um, we need more napkins for their heads” or “do we have any bandages around? The blood is still dripping.”

After the show, you’d never know anything had happened and they invited me out drinking with them at a local pub. I spent a good portion of that night hearing stories and shooting darts with them and of course the best question of the night, “what the f**k were you thinking jumping between us like that?” To this day, I don’t know how I did it, just that I did it. (After many many shots, the rest of that night is a blur.) It is still a hilarious memory that comes around this time of year, every year and I have to say, fighting or not, they put on a hell of a show. It was a fun and crazy night and I still thank them for the invite afterwards.

As I got older and found the group of friends I’ve had for the last twenty years (holy crap twenty!) we would have our ‘second Christmas’ on our city’s parade day. Parade Day here in town is a sacred one for many of us. We’d start early, pregaming before the parade even began with pints and yards of green beer and shots of Jameson flowing morning til close. Most days we’d stay at one spot but there were the occasional PD’s where we’d hop back and forth to our favorite spots on the street to make sure we saw everyone. From our local Hibernian’s club to three pubs that we frequented, we were never having a bad time.

We’d be treated to music all day from the bagpiper’s from local firehouses going from bar to bar to play inside for those in attendance to the music from whoever was performing on stage. I always call Parade Days ‘homecoming’ because some friends who had moved away would come back to town for the day’s events. Basically, they were awesome times spent with awesome people.

They still go on of course, unfortunately I had to miss this year’s because of health reasons. However thanks to social media, I was able to live vicariously through pics and stories. I miss the old days though. So much crazy fun and laughter that would make your stomach hurt for days afterwards. I miss those times. But that’s why we have memories, right?

Being at home these days, I still celebrate a bit. I do an annual Father Ted marathon…and if you don’t know what that is, Father Ted is a classic and totally irreverent Irish comedy show that ran in the 90’s and never gets old. (It’s on the free Tubi app btw.) I wear green, either my Irish shirt or one of my St. Patrick’s Yankees shirts, I listen to the Clancy’s and have a drink or two to celebrate the day. While it may not sound as exciting as the past days have been, (and it’s not), I still honor the day with great love and lots of laughs thinking of past celebrations. There were a whole lot of good times revolving around this day in my life and I am grateful for every damned one of them.

And that is where I will leave you for today. I know this wasn’t a ‘normal’ post for me, but that’s good! I need to get away from my usual stuff now and then. I just hope you enjoyed this post. I’ll put some links below to a few things I mentioned in this post for you to enjoy. 🙂

Until next time folks…Sláinte!

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These Clancy links are from around the time I knew the boys. 

To hear Sister Josephine, click: HERE

To hear Wild Rover (intro by Liam) click: HERE

For this concert in its entirety, click: HERE

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For the first episode of Father Ted, click: HERE

(Please note, if you get offended easily, this show is not for you. It’s a comedy about priests who do not act like priests and it just gets shamelessly silly. You have been warned.)

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Stuck – Stuck – Oh Yeah, Stuck!

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Hey guys, welcome back and welcome to March! We’ve made it through the dredges of the Winter months and Spring is on the horizon. Of course there is still lots of unpredictable weather ahead and I’m fine with it. I love a good stretch of dark, rainy weather. But then, I’m a vampire and am not too fond of sunlight.

Anywhooooo….been trudging along with stuff and trying to find the humor in the everyday nonsense that is life. After all, if we do not do this, we would spontaneously combust and really, who has the time for that?

The one area where my humor is currently lacking is my book. No not in the content, after all, I have it pegged as a romcom (albeit with some serious undertones), but with the execution. I mentioned in previous posts that I’ve found a solution to my word cutting issue. Well, that has since gone out the window.

My solution so far this week has been to try and clear my head a bit. Watch more meditation and ASMR videos (yes, I love ASMR, so relaxing) and recently I’ve found someone on YouTube who deals with art therapy. Using different art techniques to focus on the task at hand to clear your mind up for other things. I love this idea as I used to create things to do just that. Refocus my energy to open myself up to new ideas.

I do this a lot while I’m making dinner or in the shower or even reading. Suddenly an idea comes to me and it’s the eureka moment I crave. I’ve thought of many plot lines while doing other things. In fact, over the weekend I came up with another story idea and had to get it out of my head. I ended up writing two chapters of it which actually felt great as I’ve greatly missed the writing part of writing. However, it didn’t help me with the task at hand.

Anyway, when I got into this rut of just reading my manuscript over and over and not coming up with something that would help me, having this artist woman say exactly what I used to say to myself? It was like a mini eureka moment. I mean, how have I not been doing this? It’s my pattern after all! When I used to make jewelry, I’d come up with so many ideas for other things. When I design a new card or sticker or bookmark for my creative business, I become clear headed about life stuff. However, sometimes it takes an outsider to give you that virtual slap against your head to jiggle your brain into action. Now I just need to find that trigger that lets me know how to get from point A to point B in my book.

In the meantime, I’ve been revisiting some other small business owners’ socials that I’ve followed for a while to learn how to create new products and how to integrate certain things into the shops that I have now. I’m thinking that this incredible bout of editor’s block may end up helping me in other ways. I just really, REALLY want to finish this book.

If you’ve been following me, you know of my passion for this work of mine. I love it. I really do. And I think the fact that my mind won’t get off the endgame of it…having it published and in the readers’ hands…is now more of a distraction than motivation. As someone who has trouble with focus, I need to get back to the motivation of it.

So here I am, hoping that by writing this post and getting my worries out into the universe, my mind will clear up even more and I will suddenly get the revelation that I so greatly need. Because I know it’s there. I can see it off in the distance waiting for me. Now I just need to figure out the best way to find it.

And that is where I will leave you for today. I know that most posts, I try to leave you with a bit of motivation. I really strive for that and do hope you got something from this post as a whole. However, every now and then, a ramble such as this just needs to be let out and I thank you for being here to read these ramblings.

Until next time…cheers!

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Blizzard – Edits – Learning on TikTok

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Hey guys, welcome back! So since the last time I was here with you all, we got a ‘little’ snow. I’m sure you’ve heard by now that we in the Northeast US were inundated with a bit of flakeage. I gotta say, it was really something to watch.

I’m a snow person. I really am. My inner kid still looks to see if there will be school the next day and a huge part of me wishes I could go out and play in it. Instead, I made a big cup of cocoa and watched overnight as the winds picked up and the snow got to white out conditions…and I enjoyed every damned minute of it. Part of it was that the Olympics were over and I had nothing to watch anymore, so I dove deep into the intensity of the storm. Nature is incredible and should be respected and watching this storm? Reminded me of just that.

As fierce as the winds of that storm were, when we received even more snow yesterday, it was a much different type. Heavy but quiet. The kind that highlights every tree branch making the outdoors look like an Ansel Adam’s black and white photograph, creating light and shadows where there were none before.

One of my favorite things about snow is the quiet it creates. Nature’s own insulation from the noise of life. The only sound you hear are the flakes landing onto each other creating a blanket of silence. It is peaceful. It is somehow warm despite the cold. It is a time to stop and reflect and look at the new vision it has created…a wonderland of white that reminds us that nature…is…beautiful.

Having said all of that, while kids had the days off because of the weather, I was here toiling away at my manuscript. I approached it a bit differently this time after learning a few things from an editor I follow on TikTok.

Let me just say this, I love TikTok. I know many think it’s just a place for silly dance challenges, crazy people doing crazy things for attention and of course, there is a part of it that is like that. However, there are SO many other ways to use the platform.

As a former social media specialist, I would have killed to have this platform available when I was working. I didn’t like doing videos back then. As someone who doesn’t like to be on camera herself, I felt limited. However, it is such a different atmosphere now, that you don’t need to be visible and the creativity of TikTok alone is endless.

I started using it with my small businesses as a free way to promote my products, send out updates and better yet, meet other small business owners. I learned so much from these folks, I really did. When I decided to start a creative business (stickers, cards, bookmarks, clothing, etc) I looked to these folks both on TikTok and YouTube to find the best ways to start out with little money. To find out where to get some things made and find discounts share and swap tips and we even buy from each other.

When I began getting deeply serious about my writing, I decided to start a #booktok. For those of you who don’t know, booktok is a subdivision of sorts of the main platform dedicated to readers and writers alike.

From the reader standpoint, I’ve discovered new authors to read, popular books I might be interested in (as I’m always looking out to add to my TBR) and then came the best discovery of all…author profiles.

I’ve connected with other authors, both beginning and established, as well as publishers and editors. One of the best things about finding other authors from around the world? Finding out that many of the struggles we face? Universal. We are not alone in doing the crazy things we do, including having astronomical word counts.

Recently after posting a video of my own with my current read, my feed brought up an editor I honestly forgot I was following. She shares quick tips that are so damned helpful, it’s like taking a master class for free. When this particular tip played, I watched it several times to let it sink in. I then went to my own book and started from the beginning again.

That one fast tip helped me cut almost 5000 more words from the first 20 chapters alone! Something so simple yet I wasn’t seeing it. Sometimes, that’s what we need whether we realize it or not. Another perspective to push you in the right direction.

I’ve read my own manuscript upwards of a dozen times. I get lost in the story instead of the cuts I’m supposed to be making so often, I’m convinced this is one of the reasons it is taking me so much longer to figure out how to get this done. This one editing tip out of hundreds I’ve watched both by her and others, woke me up. Opened my eyes to something I was doing over and over again and never even realized it.

Once I paid attention to how I was saying something in dialogue or description, it clicked. I was yelling at the screen about how often I do this. How there is no need for over describing a scene, or explaining laughter when the reader should experience it for themselves. As someone with an editing background herself, I should be more than aware of this. Again, perspective.

After the first few cuts, it got so much easier. I was a madwoman on a mission. I was going through the chapters much faster cutting this, cutting that and soon the word counts were getting lower. Make no mistake, I still have hundreds of thousands to get rid of, or move to the sequel, but to see the progress move along this much faster than it has been in a while? The relief is real.

Now I’m not saying the book will be ready to submit next week. TONS of work still left to go. But at least I have a new starting point of how to do my edits. And because of this, I’ve also been rewriting scenes that are making the book take shape in a new way. Adding more depth to the characters that should have been acknowledged long ago while also decreasing the word count.

So I say, if you think that TikTok is just a doom scrolling time waster? Sure. It can be that. I’ve certainly spent hours escaping life watching cute animals and other stuff as well. It can be a fun app. But there is so much more to it and learning from others and supporting one another? These are the added bonuses of social media in any form. I am personally grateful to those I have learned from and look forward to more lessons that will help me get out of my own head and make the progress I know I can make.

And that is where I will leave you for today. Thanks for being here and I hope some of this resonated with you! Until next time…cheers!

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Winter – Olympics – Reading for a Cause

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Hey guys, welcome back! Yes, I know I’ve been MIA again. This time, I’m putting the full blame on the Olympics. (Ok so not all of the blame can be put on the games, but it sounded good.)

I love the Winter games. Always have. Even as a kid, I’d be glued to the tv to watch as athletes glide on the ice, soar down a mountain and risk their lives on a tiny sled going at insane speeds. I got to see the torch (both Winter and Summer) a couple of  times during their runs to the big show. And now that the Winter Olympics are here? I am getting nothing done. Add in the Super Bowl and days of long sleep hours due to illness and basically, I’m a lost cause.

Speaking of causes, (nice segue, eh?)…I’m once again doing the Read Every Day Challenge for the American Cancer Society. This is my fifth time doing it and I’m hoping to break my previous record of doubling the monthly goal. It’s a very personal cause for me, having had cancer surgery a few years ago. I followed my mother who also had it a few years before me and unfortunately, the illness has been all over my family in various ways. Friends, family…this monster touches all of our lives in some way and while I cannot do a whole lot to donate or do more physical fundraisers myself, I can turn my love of reading into donations during these designated times. I’ll post the link to my fundraiser page below this post if you’d like to donate or share it to help me spread the word.

Back to Winter. I don’t know about where you are but it’s been damned cold here! Now, let me just say this, I love Fall and Winter. Love them. Even with my pure and utter hatred for January, I’d still take the cold over Summer’s oppressive heat and humidity any day. Having said this, this particular Winter with it’s below zero windchill factors have been pretty impressive. If there was ever a time to stay inside with a book and hot cup of tea, coffee or cocoa, it’s definitely now. Like I need an excuse. 🙂

I’ve been reading a book series that has had me absolutely laughing every night and keeping me in a much better state of mind. I’m sorry that I’m now on the last book. These four books have really had me not only loving the characters, but letting me ‘live’ vicariously in a fictional small town with a Christmas tree farm destination spot for year round fun. While the series may be ending after this final book, (although hoping she adds to it in the future) I’m happy that I discovered this author and am looking to read more of B.K. Borison’s work. She writes in a very similar style to myself and it’s nice to read the work as someone else who gets it. Plus, I love that I have a new romcom author to follow!

As for my own writing, trying to focus as best I can with my editing/rewrites while still dealing with my medical crap as well as my attention issues. For you see, I’m up in the overnight hours and that is when a good deal of the Olympics are live. So here I am, even while I’m writing this post, watching the slopestyle and slalom finals and this has taken me three times as long to write this because I keep watching the races in front of me.

And for the record, yes, I did watch the Super Bowl. That was pure entertainment and didn’t take away from my writing at all. Hell of a game!

Back to my writing, I am happy to say that in the last two weeks I’ve cut another couple of thousand words and think I have a way to cut a huge chunk out while still keeping the story intact. Trying to keep much of the back and forth between the main characters has been the truest challenge for me. There is so much that is vital to the story but sadly, also really adds to the word count. It has become my biggest struggle while I reread my work every night. A lot of internal conversations that have me both cursing myself at times as well as yelling at my screen, “why did I even write that?” Then hitting delete over and over again. I’m truthfully finding this round of edits to be more cathartic than past runs. There is something quite freeing about clearing away the clutter and narrowing a scene down to its very foundation. Life lesson there? an obvious one but sure, I’ll take it.

The one thing that is worrying me this time around is that I’m starting to get ideas for a new story. This cannot happen. I know how my mind works. Once a new idea pops into my head, it will start to override what is already right in front of me. It is actually how I ended up here in the first place! I already have a book done. Unlike the current romcom I’m working on, it is a mystery. It needs a ton of work to edit, however, while I was working on it, I got the idea for this current book. I dropped the other one and wrote this one. At first I was so happy that this new book took only months to write. My first manuscript took over three years to complete. When the editing started though and I realized how much work would have to be done on it, I knew it was too good to be true. And now, my mind has been alternating between this current work to my previous one to a new idea and I just can’t lose focus. Not when I’ve worked pretty much every night for almost a year on this one. I’m married to these characters. I live and breathe them every single day and night. I will not let them down and I cannot let another story take up residence in my brain right now. I will, WILL finish this book and get it submitted and then I will go back and work on my previous piece and edit the hell out of that one as well. I will finish what I started and hopefully, there are a few bestseller lists waiting for me in my future! (Why settle for just one, right? Go for gold!)

Is my mind all over the place? Sure. But what else is new? Hoping you all are staying safe, warm and happy. That 2026 is treating you kindly so far and that you are also cheering for yourself to make it a great one. Because the way you cheer for yourself, can make all the difference in the world.

And that my dear friends, is where I will leave you for today. Thank you as always for being here and until next time…cheers!

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Slackin’ – Distractions – Snow Days

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Hey guys, welcome back! So sorry that I missed last week, but I gotta tell you, it’s been a time. However, it’s good to be here and hope you haven’t given up on me! (I know, I’ve been saying that a lot lately. Oops.) I also hope that this year has been treating you well so far! 

Anywhoo, with all the life stuff of both dr appointments and medical tests, I’ve just been kind of…here. Whatever this illness is that I have (that still has not been diagnosed as of yet), it’s just making me tired all the time. I have no energy, I just want to sleep nonstop and yet I have trouble actually going to sleep. My hours, which were never ‘normal’ to begin with, have gotten way off the charts. However, life goes on and so do I!

I have, of course, been working on my book. I am on yet another re-read and I have so many ideas now of how to condense the original story into something that get me  within the word count I need to submit it somewhere. The problem unfortunately then goes back to the previous paragraph. The more I think about what I want to do with the book, the lack of energy I have at the moment is holding the actual new writing back. Every night I sit and read through a few chapters, edit more and then mentally drift off somewhere else. In other words, I get so lost in the reading of the story, that when it comes time to change things around, I just kind of sit there.

To say it has been discouraging is an understatement. The last read through I did, I made so much progress. I had rewritten chapters and cut thousands more words and felt like I was really making a lot of progress. Now here I am, at chapter thirty-something again and I think last night, all I did was change some grammar and an apostrophe. Woo-hoo.

I’m trying not to get down about it. I just don’t want to lose the momentum and excitement I’ve had. I lost a few days of not working on it at all a couple of weeks ago and I promised myself I wouldn’t do that again. I’ve been working so hard on this since last April. Now here we are, with January almost over in this new year and while I’m not physically working on the book in front of me, I’ve been dreaming about where I want the story to go, how I want it to read and came up with new paths for the characters to go. 

Of course, getting all of this from my thoughts to the page is something completely different. Keeping me focused instead of flaking out is a challenge and it takes nothing to get me distracted these days.

Speaking of distractions…how about this snow huh? Ok so maybe it hasn’t snowed where you are. But here in the Northeast, the snow/frigid winter we’ve been having has been reminding us that Mother Nature is indeed in charge of things. Personally, I love snow. Even though my hatred of the month of January is well known, I still love snow. It makes everything magical and even though I am nowhere near school age anymore, I still look for the school closings like a kid. I don’t think that will ever leave me either. I used to love snow days as a kid. Meeting my friends at the park to go sledding or have massive snowball fights. Of course the walk back home was always rough. All the enthusiasm of the day was replaced by cold, wet clothes and having to walk uphill to my house with a sled was brutal. But there was always hot cocoa waiting for me and layers of blankets to snuggle under.

During this past storm, I sat with both the book I was reading and my keyboard to work on my own book, a hot cup of tea and watched as the snow poured down on us. I was up in the early morning hours as I always am and it was so peaceful and quiet, that for a bit, I forgot I was doing anything and just watched it come down. There was no noise. No sounds of the nearby highway that I’ve become so used to. No sounds of people starting their cars to go to work. No kids trudging early to school. Nothing. Just complete and blissful silence that let me hear the occasional snowflake hit my window.

Snow muffles life. Not just the sounds, but it literally halts our daily routine. I may not go outside a whole lot anymore, but it still brought me to a standstill watching it. It made me take a break. Made me sit back and reflect and for a little bit, also make me just let my mind go blank as I watched the flakes come down. I love trying to focus on one particular snowflake as it descends from the sky. Trying to see if I can follow it all the way down to its landing place. Not just because I find it hypnotizing, but also because for a brief shining moment, I don’t have to think about anything. I can just be.

Snow quieting our world is a great metaphor for what we all need to do now and then. While everything else in life is happening, we all need to take a step back now and then and just quiet ourselves. Many can do it when they are going to sleep. I am not one of those people. I am the kind that replays everything that has ever happened in her life just before it’s time to close her eyes. So to sit and watch the snow fall, it was like erasing my mind for a bit.

No amount of meditations or ASMR videos on YouTube could do what a half hour of watching the snow the other morning did for me. A complete clearing of the mind. A reset if you will. Now I just need it to snow every day…or have Fall leaves falling from the trees. I’ll take either. (Although I’ll always like Fall best.)

And that is where I will leave you for today. Thanks for putting up with me as always and I apologize again for skipping more than a week of posting. I’m still here and still trying to entertain, well, I hope I’m entertaining! Hate to think I’ve lost my touch!! 🙂

Until next time…cheers!!!

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For lots of fun stuff all designed by me: linktr.ee/stuffwemade

You can also shop the links I have posted all around the site here, including the sidebar with some Amazon links.

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If you’ve made it this far, I thank you and will see you soon!! ☺️