Getting a new client today. Need it, since I am like stuck in the mud on the others, no content so no finish, so no money. Should be a good one, simple, yet charging a good rate for it. yah. Author. Some healing book for grief. I guess. I have no interest in the book. So… I just gotta make a pretty design, plop it into WP, add a forum, an event calendar, and get it out the door by end of month. No problemo. Ha! yup… I got a design in my head and from it I can produce 2 concepts. Should be able to do it easy. Getting check and should be happy by Friday. Good …

not much got done today. work wise. raining. no bike ride. but I did get to do some cleaning/clearing of the back bedroom, Lauren’s old room. Made good progress and just trying to determine how to use it, what furniture should go there. I know I want a chair and couch/bed back there. Desk, stereo and I may even think about running the cable back there. Make it a guest room. My bike will live there in the mean time. I will get it all cleared out and then when it dries up a bit, rent a carpet cleaner for it and the other carpet in the house. I am still planning on ripping out one carpe, but finances are tight so replacing with a nice area rug is going to be impossible. We’ll just have to play it by ear, but it is starting to shape up a bit. I’ve let everything go for too long now.

Parents have the new computer. Now to have them call up the cable company so that they can at least have some decent internet entertainment. They may not come down to dinner on thanksgiving and that means christmas also. Mom can only think about getting up the stairs, the fact that it is five minutes of a day, really is beyond me. I will put up a second railing to convince her, but if she does not want to, then I am going to have Billy do turkey for them. I don’t want to drive up there and cook, when I have my own family here. I just don’t want to travel. And not have any leftovers.

and work? ha! I avoided it all weekend. I promised something for tomorrow so I really need to get things hustling here, do it and then go to bed. yeah, by the time I get done, it should be bedtime. perfect ending to a weekend.

going to not be work productive today, unless I get out of bed now and start! have to go to parents and bring them the new computer. get them to order cable internet which requires them to call up cable company. oh joy. that should be fun. but hey! at least if i go thru this now, i can have internets when i go there, yeay!!!

i’m using omnifocus to try to be more focused on things that i need to get done, and to remember. just plain remember things that I think of. carrying the moleskine is helpful to write things down immediately, then transfer over to OF. It seems to be doing the job in a away, but then sitting in front of the computer and doing nothing all day defeats the whole purpose. so, now I have to get moving on mtivation. like a reward or something. yeah right

seems that the town or state has decided to repave part of rt. 2. and of course, they don’t bother doing iti at night, or during non-peak hours. they do it at “rush” hour, which is getting worse here anyway. spent alot of time sitting in it today, and not liking it.

so anyway. I am making slow progress on the caterer site, the diva wants the new design, so I have to bring in her old crap to it. Gotta get going on the hog site. this weekend a big push on that one. I have to do a proposal first thing in the AM for a writer. a rush job of course. and good ole realtor is finally maybe wanting me to get her a new design, slim hers down to be lean and mean. so it looks like I have some work on here. hope it continues to trickle on in. god only knows what is happening to this damned economy. maybe if we were not spending billions on a war, we’d find a way to get out of this and not burden our children with this ferocious deb that is going to happen. and what is sad is that it is not going to stem the recession tat has been going on for almost a year. it will be now at least another year, maybe more before we can breathe a tiny bit easier.

life however, goes on.

You know, when my good friend Cheryl gave me a gift certificate to Kiva for christmas, I used it and felt good about it. But I did not make a second loan for a number of months. Then I did one. And another one. I joined a “team” and I have made I think 4 more. 8 total now. It helps that Kiva decided to funnel money right back to loaners to be loaned out again. It’s like having a buck in your pocket when you were young. It burns a hole into it. I just did 2 loans a few minutes ago.

What is stranger though is the law of giving and getting. Since I have made a more conscious effort to give, I seem to have been getting. Jobs. higher ticket jobs. yeah, me asking for more money for them has a bit to do with it. but I really think that I am being paid back for taking what little I have and giving it to someone who’s life will be made better by the loan. maybe their children will have a better chance of making it.

I now know what I am giving to my kids for christmas presents.

tell me it is not right around the corner, please. PLEASE. So, to celebrate, I will do a 30days here. and try real hard to do it on the BS blog as well. And to push my creative juices into overdrive, I will do a pic of the day! wow. hmmmm ok…

I wonder if he ever stopped by?

I bought a small marketing audio/pdf training last week. Listening to it, I am starting to get some ideas. The traffic from the search engines has twiddled down to little. Not getting the leads from it that I need, so I need to market locally and get this business going to a level that I can do it without having these down times. I knew that working the outside job would diminish my business, but not to this point. I have to go back this coming week, but I am telling them that it is the last week. period. I cannot afford it any longer. If I need a part time job, I’ll go out and find one locally and sit in an office. But I want to do this business. More, to a point where I can charge an amount that I can live on. And not have to fucking hustle for money every week.

And to get out from under this debt, I may have to sell the house. Yes, the one I have busted my ass for, all these years. I cannot do it any longer. I want some rest.

yup, another one.

maybe this year it will be the year I become enlightened.

and thanks to

http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/

for the desktop wallpaper that I made into my banner for this month. It was just too cute to pass up.