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It's Important to Know When to Give Up

For a few months I have been driving myself crazy trying to keep up with everything. I've lost sleep, missed deadlines I have set down for myself time and again, and stressing myself out over it all. Today, I finally decided to give up!Now, I'm not giving up writing! I just want to be clear about that. I am going to give up driving myself crazy and losing sleep. If I don't get my homework done for class, so be it. If I don't have time to make diner, there are so many places I can order delivery.

Into the West: A New Home in Paperback!

I feel so much better now that Into the West: A New Home is available again in paperback. If you go to the Books page on this site you will find links to CreateSpace and Amazon. Currently, the book is available on CreateSpace and should show up soon on Amazon. For some reason it takes a few days to show up on there even though they are both Amazon companies.I haven't been able to finish the last edit on the Into the West: A New Home - Limited Edition because of everything going on with my

Short and Sweet!

This is going to be very short tonight. I had a lot of homework to do and other school projects and then made a wonderful "chicken" noodle soup for dinner. (I will often use quotation marks around meat names to show it's not really meat. We use vegetarian "meat" products for everything.) I am so exhausted right now I am falling asleep on the computer but I wanted to let everyone know, Into the West: A New Home is available again on CreateSpace. The final edits for Into the West: A New Home -

Ugh . . . the Frustration!

I was struggling with the fact CreateSpace messaged me statingthe cover art forInto the West: A New Home was not high enough resolution and might, or might not, pixelatein printing. I had hoped to go live with the paperback today but wasn't sure if I should order a printed proof to check the cover art or just take a chance it would print okay and just go live.Then today the review was finished and there was a problem with the page numbering I had to fix. Once I uploaded the new formatting it

Success! Sort of . . .

The final edit for the paperback of Into the West: A New Home has been submitted. It has a 24 hour review period then it can go live. My only concern now is it said there was a element on the cover that might print pixelated or blurry but it's can't tell me what it is.So now I'm wondering if I should order a copy printed for me to review before opening it up for purchase.I would love to hear from people who are actually wanting to buy this book. What would you like for me to do? Do you want to

One Day I'll Stop Trying to Plan Ahead

It seems inevitable, whenever I say I have a set course plotted out and I'm going to stick to it, something happens to mess that up. I blame Murphy.I had planned to send yesterday finishing up my final edits on the books so they could go in for review and be available online by late today or early tomorrow. Then, I was going to spend today working on my school work. That didn't happen.Yesterday, we ended up having to take Shaggy to the vet. He's okay just scratching himself constantly and acting

Ready to Get Back to Work

Taking a brief break from work was a good idea. My stress level is better and I managed to pass my big test, in thecourse I'm currently taking, with one of the highest scores int he class. Not too shabby.Tonight I was working on class work but tomorrow I plan to finish the edit for the paperback of Into the West: A New Homeso I can get it up for sale again by the end of the weekend. Then I will get the Limited Edtion Into the West: A New Home done and up for sale. With any luck they will both be

Recharging

If you follow my blogs at all you will have noticed I took a break from everything recently. To be honest, it wasn't really by choice. If I could have I would still be running on 4 hours sleep and trying desperately to keep up with everything but my body said, nope! I've talked about it a little, that I have a crazy weird rare condition. Well, all of the exhaustion and stress finally caught up to me. Normally, I function pretty well with only the occasional bad headache or forgetting things but

Giving Myself a Break

I'm the first person to tell people not to be so hard on themselves, life is too short to stress yourself out. But then when it comes to me, I drive myself crazy setting impossible goals for myself.  Now, I believe you have to set impossible goals once in a while because if you don't try for them you will never achieve the impossible. The problem is if you drive yourself nuts trying to meet those goals when you can see it's never going to happen.  Well, today I decided to give myself a break on

Giving Myself a Break.

I'm the first person to tell people not to be so hard on themselves, life is too short to stress yourself out. But then when it comes to me, I drive myself crazy setting impossible goals for myself.  Now, I believe you have to set impossible goals once in a while because if you don't try for them you will never achieve the impossible. The problem is if you drive yourself nuts trying to meet those goals when you can see it's never going to happen.  Well, today I decided to give myself a break on