Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Ha, all Ed's fault :rotfl: I'd forgotten about his holibob :rotfl:

I slept *amazingly* well last night, utter bliss - two extra hours, plus another hour actually sleeping and not thinking "is it late enough to get up yet". Bliss.

I seem to have fixed my router problem - ahem, by turning it off and turning it on again :j so if this cold weather continues, I can evacuate the office and go back to my warm kitchen but I'm airing the musty stuff I want to keep on the kitchen table, so maybe not. Or I could swap everything around ... decisions!

No paid work today :j the cat blog is up, I'm a happy camper on that score, and nothing urgent is hammering at the door. So today will be a mix of:
- scanning-to-declutter
- maybe putting some stuff on Amazon
- starting to accumulate stuff I need for the wedding trip.
- gardening - huge frost this morning, but the cats have already reclaimed the decking as a sunbathing location, so its all good :beer:

From tomorrow - back to my writing routine, I refuse to be deprived of it any longer :cool:

misscousinitt

Glad you've managed to send the e-mail to your ex-partner - another thing ticked off the list to make you feel better.

MCI

Karmacat

Thanks MCI I was shattered by yesterday afternoon - it's all catching up with me, I suppose, one reason I want to do the ex-partner issues by email, as that's bad enough. Still, I had a very pleasant long break in the afternoon, took a cup of tea out and sat on the patio. A ginger cat was sunning himself at the other end of the garden, and in the middle was a sparrow yelling about how he owned the hazel tree :rotfl: he was very noisy I did saw a few branches later on to continue to free up the decking, but nothing spectacular.

- scanning to declutter (mostly for future genealogists!) is ongoing as I'm typing this.
- binmen have collected the bin, and there was a **lot** in there, from my travails over the last few weeks, I'm so happy its left the property :j
- 1.5 hours client work today.
- I checked my bank account - the HMRC refund has arrived, and I'll check next week to see they've allocated my payment somewhere.
- and ... ta-da ... Amazon Kindle have paid me for my kindle book :rotfl: all three countries where it sold :rotfl: the grand sum of £128.77 :j:j:j they all paid in sterling, so no deductions that I can see.

Thats a beginning - I can update it, I can promote it, I can help sales by writing other stuff too. And there shouldn't be any tax to pay, because I'm not earning enough this year, what with retiring and all

Goldiegirl

Well done on your Amazon earnings - it must be very satisfying to earn money from your writing


I have to say one of the pluses of retirement is the no-tax situation. I shouldn't have to pay tax again until 2026!

Karmacat

Thanks Goldie yes, I'm definitely a happy camper about that

And here we are, Friday afternoon has mostly gone, and week 18 of the retirement countdown is done and dusted. I'm getting very excited :j:j:j and I've just found a good writer's blog from a freebie kindle book - I often go to the author's website now.

I have to bear in mind the amount I've earned is ridiculously tiny - between the research and the writing, I doubt its £1 per hour, but I'm sure I can improve on that!

Catching up on here, tidying, possibly a bit of sweeping - its a bank holiday tho **yells loudly** hurray

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

I have to bear in mind the amount I've earned is ridiculously tiny - between the research and the writing, I doubt its £1 per hour, but I'm sure I can improve on that!

It's only that *now* - but it's not going to go down, only up.

Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

It's only that *now* - but it's not going to go down, only up.

:kisses3: :kisses3: :kisses3:

I just came on to do research in another part of the forum, saw this thank you Z, thats a great (and a realistic!) way of looking at it

beanielou

Great result :j :j

Cheery_Daff

Ooh KC, that's brilliant earnings from your book :j :j and as ZTD says, it's only going to go up! :j :j Excellent work, and week 18! Wow! Very impressed

Karmacat

Thanks folks! Yep, I'm still pleased. I'm also "auditing" the dawn bird chorus, which I'm *not* so pleased at but at least it isn't the sparrow yelling about the hazel tree.

Same old same old for today - scanning and gardening. I definitely want to get outside while its sunny. Tomorrow is a trip to my sister's.

Consumed since last posting by family emergency phone calls - dear me, it does take time. Weddings are a bit overshadowed now, and there's lots of behind the scenes backing and filling to be done. Gardening becomes even more important.