Egocentricity

 

Today being National Selfish Day, today’s blog is all about ME and what makes ME happy.

          I’m happy the roses I planted last year have taken off like gangbusters. Okay, something is eating their leaves, but hopefully my garden spray will take care of that.

     

     I’m happy my gardens are reasonably tidy after I finally got out to weed. The bed by the
porch is thick with green. Now if I only knew what all that green means. Sure, the hostas are dependable workhorses, laughingly easy to identify. But I can never remember which tall green things are the black-eyed Susans and which are the daisies. This makes weeding here a bit problematic.  The good news is that something out there is on the verge of blooming so that should help a little. And are the coneflowers going to come back? Oh, and why has the mint decided to move to the middle of the patch?

     

     I’m happy a woman from the book club is coming by today to buy two more of my books after the group read the first one of my mystery series. I’m going to throw in my stand-alone novel since it feels weird to be collecting money from a neighbor.

          And I’m happy the book club was not only kind enough to read something I’ve written, but they were truly kind and interested during the group discussion on Wednesday.

          Which makes me even happier that they triggered my writing itch and so for the past several I’ve had a parallel life going on in my head, rife with my characters and possible scenes for them.

 

          And continuing today’s theme, we have a trivia question:

 

          Which President is costing the American people one million dollars today for each number of his first term's title?