Hello everyone, this is Refried. Today is Thursday, April 23.  It is 4:40 pm. I talked to my therapist and she thinks the review was good.  I mean I barely even used commas in the book.  And they were mostly nice about it.

So I think I can be thankful.  It is just a process like it was last time.  I will probably post the review on my facebook page and a link to my blog.

But not yet.  I might do an instacart order but I don't know.  It is almost 5 and I have a nice meeting at 6:30.  So I am doing okay.  It is time to count my blessings.  The mild covid is getting better and not worse, my review was okay and had positives, I didn't get swindled, people have helped me a lot as a writer, some work did reach a lot of people on facebook, I am alive and survived thirty years of mental illness, I talked to a friend unexpectedly today when I needed it, I have food and groceries, no problems like suffering kids I can't take care of, shelter that is mostly stable at least for now, and internet access, microsoft word, and I am not addicted to anything.  So that is good.  I mean I can feel the blessing and the message from God to be thankful for what I have. Like to the point where sometimes I don't know. 

Like that other kirkus review was higher praise than I realized.  And yet I can also say that is is kind of high for me to not have been happily published and be treated as a career writer instead of a wanna-be.

But that is going to be plenty clear to plenty of people.

So anyway, I am also thankful that my therapist made me feel better. She told me that I need to take my medicine.  She thinks I suspect things have to do with me when they do it to everyone.

I think she thinks that about Barnes and Noble and they are going to face a lot of responsibility for what they did to depressed people.  But the idea from the conspiracy is that they did a lot FOR depressed people, too, as long as you didn't work there.

And yet I did get to stay there and the assistant managers were nice.  So I mean I do not know.

Okay, that is a tangent.  I have a lot of disorganization. Kirkus liked my book.  They had to say it as they saw it.  The drop in ranking proves the brain damage and dementia and will be used as court evidence in the torture trial.