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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

So Close and Yet So Far!

I have Into the West: A New Home and the Limited Edition Into the West: A New Home with Into the West: The Orphan Train included loaded onto CreateSpace but I want to do one more review of each. The annoying thing is, if I do one more review then I doubt I will get them published by the end of the month. Now, that is not such a big deal but then I would need to change the publication date in the book, that means I have to upload a new copy, then the site takes another 24 hours to review the

Success and Stress!

Why does it always seem like every success is followed by some stress, or is it just me? I was feeling wonderful. P.R. came home from Chile and I was feeling wonderful. I hate it when P.R. has to leave town and always look forward to the day P.R. returns.  I took a day off to just relax the day P.R. got home. We went to the grocery store together, because honestly there was not much in the house, I had lived on rice and veggie wraps the whole two weeks P.R. was gone. Then we went to bed early. 

Sooooooo tired ......

This will be short and hopefully sweet. I have been working on the formatting for Into the West: A New Home and I think I have it ready to go. I am loading it into CreateSpace now and with luck it should be live in a few days.  I have been going non-stop between class work and working on my books and I have yet to get a full eight hours of sleep in a single night for ... I have no idea how long it has been. I have a test in the morning for which I have not yet been able to study and it's a

Into the West: The Orphan Train Paperback Available Again!

I was able to release Into the West: The Orphan Train for sale in paperback again today. This is actually a 2nd edition as it has been reedited. I even made a few minor changes since I was doing it all again anyway.  Now, I'm working on getting Into the West: A New Home reedited and back up for sale. I am about halfway through and hope to have the formatting done tomorrow. This will mean it will most likely be able to go live by this coming weekend.  The cover art has been changes slightly too

A Learning Experience!

When I decided to try to write books for myself and stop ghostwriting I had no idea what I was getting into. Writing is actually the easy part. Doing all of the self-publishing work is where the real challenge is, at least for me.  I had originally only planned on doing ebooks but then when I learned you can easily do paperbacks and audiobooks with CreateSpace, I wanted to get into all of it. I am learning the process as I go and I have plenty to learn. When you publish a paperback in

Of Dog Bones and Junk Food and Other Things ...

I'm always torn when P.R. has to go on a trip. I like having time to myself once in a while, I was single for 46 years so I'm very comfortable being on my own, but I truly love time with P.R. too. I never would have imagined it would be so easy to be married to someone.  While P.R. is gone, I still have to take care of Shaggy. The little fur-ball is so cute, which is a very good thing for when he is being a little wiener. I think he gets upset when P.R. leaves because he always seems to revert