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March 2026 Stats

In March, I wrote 6037 words. Of those words,

  • 416 were for this blog (2 short posts),
  • 2474 were for my journal,
  • 0 were for handouts, scripts, and slides for lessons
  • 2744 were on various social media accounts,
  • 168 were poetry (2 short poems),
  • and 651 were in short stories (4 pieces of flash fiction).

There were only 9 days that I didn’t write anything, but my word count was low due to several things. It was a whirlwind of a month. I participated in both my first Trivia Night and a BYOC Night (Bring Your Own Craft) with local friends. I have a new favorite Ice Cream/Coffee Shop. Our family had two car accidents, and while we are all unharmed from them, our poor cars were, and so we played musical cars for several weeks. We also had time with family and friends and soon-to-be family. One week we had a special brunch/lunch/dinner/activity out every single day of the week. I saw nearly all of my specialty doctors, got to watch The Nugget once (and saw her another day), took a bookbinding class, and got addicted to playing Pokopia. We also traveled some more, this time to San Antonio for our youngest son’s WGI competition. We made it my birthday trip (a month early) and splurged out on touring the San Antonio Zoo, the Botanical Gardens, and eating at a Food Network highly rated burger joint. It was all fun and delicious and I even managed to go to a marvelous bookshop that is now in my Top 5 of Bookstores Ever. Comment below if you want the name and location of any of those things. 🙂

As for reading, I read parts of:

Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger (audiobook; Fantasy)

…and I finished reading:

  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (audiobook; YA Fantasy)
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robyn Kimmerer Walls (audiobook; Non-Fiction)
  • Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger (audiobook; Fantasy)
  • Waistcoats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger (audiobook; Fantasy)
  • Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (audiobook; Fantasy)
  • The Curious Case of the Werewolf that Wasn’t by Gail Carriger (e-book; Fantasy)
  • Meat Cute by Gail Carriger (e-book; Fantasy)
  • Poison or Protect by Gail Carriger (audiobook; Fantasy)

As you can see, mostly audiobooks. I started having trouble with my eyes months and months ago, but they were getting worse, fast, and I was waiting out my next eye doctor appointment. Once there, I was pretty quickly diagnosed with Binocular Vision Dysfunction (I was sitting there minding my own business and the eye doctor said “OOoooh…do that thing with your eyes again.” Me: “What thing?” She paused and while she waited, my eyes did the thing again, so there was a bunch more testing than usual.) In any case, I have new glasses on order that have special prism lenses in them and hopefully these terrible migraines and eye strain feelings will go away soon. 🙂 (Also, can I say how excessively lovely the Gail Carriger books are in audiobook form? I love the voices and the music and of course, all the steampunky weirdness and adventures!)

So I have finished 22 books so far this year (and read parts of another 5, mostly for research, but also a couple of things I’ve had to mark DNF.). 

Okay, I think that’s it. It was a super fun month! 🙂