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National Rice Pudding Day 2023
YAHOO!!! It’s finally National Rice Pudding Day and I’m totally here for it! I like it! I love it! I want a ton of it!
🌞Summer🔥
We boil at different degrees. ~Clint Eastwood
| If you’ve ever been to this blog before, you’re well aware that I dislike summer and am waiting with gleeful anticipation for the arrival of my very favorite season.
Despite the fact that it has been a mild summer for me, it’s been a real cooker for my beloved, beautiful wife. Naturally, I look forward to an end to her suffering at the hands of sunburn and bugs season. |
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This year’s crop of ants has been rather annoying. I won’t be sad to see them become both dormant and scarce. I don’t begrudge them their existence. They play a part in the food chain.
Outside.
They have no business in my kitchen and I’ll be quite glad to see them engage in their long term napping.
Besides, there’s nothing hygge about summertime. I like cool days and chilly nights. I like toasty clothes and using the oven as a dual-purpose appliance. I like colorful trees, short days and long nights.
I like 🍂Autumn🍂 much better than summer and I can’t wait for it to start. I ordered two, count ’em two, bottles of sugar-free Pumpkin 🎃 Spice coffee syrup to get ready for the upcoming season of spectacular splendidness.
🌾 Rice Pudding! 🍚
Diabetic friendly Rice Puddingr
A delicacy that knows no season. Your summer fruits and winter baked goods are fine in their own venues, but rice pudding is eternal.
There are many variations of rice pudding. There’s the runny kind, the sticky kind, the kind with cinnamon, the kind with raisins. It’s phenomenal.
I love rice pudding and I don’t care who knows it! Okay, now that I’ve got that off my chest, let’s talk some more about 🍂Autumn🍂.
There’s something to recommend my favorite season beyond the cessation of insect activity. With a favorable change in the weather, it increases the chance that Kelly and I can actually sit out back and enjoy our fire pit for once.
I want to cozy up with my wife and watch the flames. I’ve had a pretty intense year so far and it would be awesome to just take a few evenings each week to just sit with her and enjoy being still under the stars.
I’m looking forward to not working 25 hour days and sharing company with my beautiful wife again.
📚 Bookstores! 🏬
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. ~Jerry Seinfeld
Something else that Kelly and I enjoy is a good bookstore. Whether it’s a glitzy, modern Barnes & Noble, a cozy, homey used book store or even a full-on library stock clearance extravaganza, we’re very much in our element. We’ve both got tote bags to spare and muscles for toting books out to the car.
Even more so, I intend to find my works there eventually. That’s part of the reason I went the direction of forming an LLC. There are plenty of people who make a career on KDP, Kindle Unlimited and even selling their books in PDF format on their personal websites.
As a bookstore enthusiast, the feel of a book in hand is an experience I want to share with people. Sure, I could go through the standard traditional publishing angle. There are good points to TradPub vs self-publishing.
For me, it boils down to maintaining control of my IP. I take the risk. I put in the work. Calling the shots has a certain appeal. The downside to owning the whole deal is that it’s entirely on me, but I’m busy as all heck.
My writing game has been off this year. I’ve got my No Monday Policy booked so I can work on my Holiday Season Serial Romance, but I’ve also gotten my monthlies for September and October up and scheduled already. Once I knock out August’s post on Christmas All The Time, I’ll be in a position to get an early start on Christmas With Carol.
So, where does that leave The Sentinels? Well, it’s a work in progress that’s not currently enjoying any progress. I’m anticipating some more leeway for writing in September.
That sounds like a cop-out, but it is what it is. I am extraordinarily busy at work right now. A winning lottery ticket would be more than welcome, but without such a reprieve I’ve got to be judicious with my time and mental bandwidth. I simply don’t have the brain power to do what I do for a living and be creative on the side. It’s irritating, but that’s where I’m at.
That’s all for this not-yet-hygge Hump Day. I need to get some rest so I can burn up the 🌞summer🔥 in preparation for the best season of all.