Life Summary and Holiday Book Savings!
Hello Fellow Blog Readers!!!
I know its been awhile. Trust me. I know. I REALLY need to get back on here and start writing again. And I need to write more regularly. Life has been SO crazy busy. I dont even know where to begin. It would take forever to catch you up on everything that has gone on, and hopefully, most of you continue to follow me on Facebook, or at the Soaring Spirits blog WIDOWS VOICE where I still post each Friday, or somewhere else. But either way, I need to start writing in here more, and I will. I promise.
For now though, lets try and catch you up. Im 3 years and 4 months into my relationship with my guy, and we are doing well. We started renting an apartment together in March, JUST AS QUARANTINE BEGAN and life as we knew it ended, and the life of covid started instead. The universe was like: “Oh, you two wanna live together, do you? How about 24/7??? How about that?” I have to say that we have done pretty well. He gets annoyed and irritated much more easily at things than I do. When you have lived through the death of your husband and all that comes after that, someone not putting the dishes away just doesnt tend to matter. I honestly dont care about crap like that. It doesnt annoy me. So, for two people in the middle of a pandemic, we have done pretty well. We are happy.
I miss seeing humans. I miss normal life. I miss Camp Widow and travel and my widow community friends, and my NYC friends, my comedy and theatre freinds, all of it. I have a new therapist. He is virtual. Everything is virtual now. Life as we know it is on ZOOM. I like him. He is very different than my grief counselor I worked with for years after Don died, but I like him. We laugh a lot. He laughs at me and with me. Also, Nick and I see a couples counselor, also online. It is SO INCREDIBLY HELPFUL. We both have issues. Trauma. Grief. PTSD stuff. We basically need combined and individual therapy in order to put up with each other (Im joking, but only half.) Life is better when you can see things from another persons viewpoint.
I still miss Don. I will always miss Don. Our wedding anniversary and his birthday just passed last month. It was extra hard, or at least it felt that way. I think it will always be hard. He was such an incredible person. I wish he could be alive with me.
I got my Real Estate license just over a year ago now. Ive sold 7 houses, and 6 of them were during the pandemic. Not a terrible year, but hopefully I will do better next year. I still do Book Events and speaking engagements and comedy stuff, and Im looking into teaching comedy again at a local university here. Everything is so much harder with covid. For those who dont know, my parents had covid. BOTH of them. It was a nightmare. They are okay now, but it was a nightmare. For about a month or so. My mom was hospitalized for 6 days, and my dad for 2. The same week! The stress levels were severe. We all got through it, but WOW! 2020 sure has some shockers!
Thats all I can think of for now. Since I have no Book Events this year in person, Im going one online. Id love to sell some books, and Id also love to help Soaring Spirits International. Their Camp Widow weekend is coming up this week. I will be presenting a couple things. It will be virtual, of course. Go to www.campwidow.org if youd like to sign up. Ive missed you all. Feel free to leave some comments. Below I will post the info for the book sale Im doing …
“My Husband Is Not a Rainbow: the brutally awful, hilarious truth about life, love, grief, and loss” is a fantastic book for anyone living with a significant loss, especially the death of a spouse or partner. Its a story of love, triumph, and processing through all the life-altering change that grief brings. It would make a GREAT gift for that friend or family member who lost their partner/spouse to death, and you have no idea what to say or what to do for them. This book wont make things better, but it WILL make them feel way less alone, and way more understood by someone who gets it.
Amazon sells my book for $24.95 currently. Plus shipping. From today until December 15th, Id like to offer personalized, autographed copies of my book, for just $20. I will cover shipping, and until December 15th, $5 of every book sale I will donate to Soaring Spirits International (Ill send them a check for the total amount on December 15th and report it here.) If you’d like to buy a copy/copies, you can purchase using either my Paypal (kelleylynn926@yahoo. com), or Venmo (@kelleylynnme). It makes a great gift for the holidays to that friend or family member who lost their person, and you have no idea what to say to them!
Make sure to email me with the contact info for who I should send the book to, and if youd like it personalized in any specific way. Happy Holidays!!! kelleyiskelley@gmail.com