Finally! I made some pancakes I could eat! :-)
When I went shopping I decided to buy some boxed mix... a healthier brand, but still a boxed mix. So, I remembered to make pancakes this morning and I am happy. The mix worked, the pan worked, and I have three breakfasts in the freezer and one for tomorrow. I am happy. :-)
Letters from over the weekend were mailed this morning... and I FINISHED my September letter list today... now I can start on my October letters. I received part of my michaels.com order today. I hope the rest will arrive soon.
It seems the new way of shipping is to send out items individually... I suppose they are drop-shipping, but it is a pain. I had a terrible time with Michael's Customer Service Chat Line when my confirmation email was messed up... I think it was over 90 minutes on chat, with three different people, and I won't go into the details but it wasn't fun. I like Michael's, but I can't seem to get to the stores these days. Online was something I was trying out. I haven't decided if I want to try it again.
All I think, when I have these types of experiences, is how vulnerable a business is to the actions and attitudes of its employees.
Enough on that.
I was up late last night again, discovering some business sites and people and articles and audios. I still have to read them in full. I found some great graphics, and PDFs, and ideas. I had to rest this afternoon because of it. I feel so old when I have to nap. :-) I am old, but don't like feeling like I am old. haha.
Doing all that exploring is something I need to limit to, maybe, ONE day a week or month! I wish. With the internet, you have to grab the link when you find it. Printing is how I capture all these moments for later. I wish more sites would make easily downloadable PDFs of their articles... webpages are in flux, it seems... some of them print well, other not at all.
I love to discover new great things online... or better than the rest kind of things. I found an artist in Uganda on the elephant group I belong to on Facebook... Nice, huge paintings of African life. I would buy some of them in a minute, if I had the money. So, now I am following him and waiting to see what else he does in the future.
https://www.facebook.com/1446730652250397/posts/2123641221226000/
https://www.facebook.com/1446730652250397/posts/2081237058799750/
Jose the African Art Painter
I was checking on some Christian links last night, too. I discovered a digital publishing site and was trying to find out more about it. calameo.com I am not fond of this kind of publishing, but I can see it is going to be part of the future, so I was trying to figure out how it works. I have to say, I was in LOVE with the download as a PDF option on some of the publications. The big problem I found was that there is little information about the site and how it works as a publishing vehicle... so you have to sign up to find out. They have a free option, but still little details about what it will do for you... at least for those who are not technical and/or don't have any experience with the process. I am trying to decide if I want to sign up and explore it further. I probably will, but not sure when.
I like print. Others like digital. So.....I am trying to make purchase options for different types of customers. I don't know if you have to upload a finished magazine or page, or if you create within the site. I also don't understand their limitations on the free account yet.
It all takes so much T I M E to work through.
Well, I have decided to do some "art therapy" tonight. :-) I want to try art journaling with some little art paper books I have. Tonight is the moment for that... let's see where this leads! :-)
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
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May GOD be with us as we strive toward the future. Amen.
09 October, 2018
08 October, 2018
Columbus Day, Monday, 8 October 2018
No mail today.
I'm not sure Columbus Day matters that much anymore...
It seems so long ago that Columbus ventured out beyond the "end of the world" and discovered the earth was round, or... that it didn't drop off into nothingness as they thought at the time. That's all I can remember about Columbus today. :-) Sad. [NOTE:: I heard some info about Columbus, and maybe I remember the wrong explorer for that claim... I guess Columbus discovered America, which is what I thought, but I also thought the falling off the earth part was him. It may be that one of the other explorers was the brave one. :-) My US History is so bad... like math, it dies with disuse. ]
History was never something big in my life... or geography. It is growing more important, but I am at the end of my life now... so what does that mean?
I think labor contracts will change the observance of Columbus Day one of these days, in favor of some other historical event. Washington and Lincoln lost favor awhile back, becoming a generic celebration called Presidents Day... which, I assume, means ALL the presidents.
So many jobs are being lost to computer technology, it may not matter much in the future...
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I think I did my monthly shopping yesterday... it took about five hours and three stores. The rest of the month will be small refill trips for fresh produce and anything else I forgot yesterday.
I overdid it again... It took many hours to put everything away and try to make a space to sleep again. :-) I am still trying to recover. I think it takes several days for me to get back to a reasonable physical condition. Aging is so much fun. I keep wondering about the day when I can't do anything I can do today.
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I am still updating my budget and records for the month. I need to figure out what has been spent, and what is still needed, and what I can go for the rest of the month... 23 days, plus the days to get to next month's budget. This is always fun.
I do have more to get done this month, so that is fine with me. My main problem, right now, is getting winter clothes... jeans, mostly.
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Today I have been prepping my food, cleaning up from the weekend (vacuum, laundry, etc.), and my recordkeeping.
I have decided to do some art journaling. I am hoping it will help "jump-start" my crafting goals. I bought some small art tablets a long time ago and have been trying to use them for practice. This will be a great time to do that. They are small, spiral bound, and I have enough of them not to worry about messing up pages.
In the past, I was never able to buy many supplies. It was low on the priority scale. Time was a problem, too. I guess the fact that I lost everything to storage issues or accident issues was also a part of that process. Now I have been able to gather supplies, in pieces, for some of the areas I want to work in, so this will help me get started. Dedicated work spaces have been an issue. Creativity is messy... art may help in that issue... I am moving forward, it is just a slow pace for my budget.
This may be a good month... if I can find a solution to the shipping issues I have right now. :-) I can't sell until I can ship stuff... dependably. In the meantime, I am experimenting and looking for the products that I can do in my current situation.
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It is so wonderful to have food again... I hope I don't have to "stretch" my month again... even if it is a good exercise for wallet and soul, and a "wake-up moment" about the blessings we take for granted.
If I can stretch everything out, reducing my eating habits and portions to make it all last longer, and help my "diet" goals :-) … that would also be a good deal for the end of the month battles.
I have read that the old breakfast in the morning, lunch at noon, and dinner in the evening, is a good pattern for the body... something about digestion issues. Our bodies seem to need a "rest" between meals but we tend to snack/eat all the time. I am thinking it is a good idea for my food budget and diet goals, too. BUT, I have to work into a schedule that might work for me.
The other issue is that older people sometimes need to eat every few hours, but smaller amounts... to get everything into their body that needs to be in there... kind of like spreading the same calories out into snacks instead of big meals.
MY goal is to find a happy medium. :-) I'm working on it. I am consciously trying to eat smaller portions (maybe "again"). In my quest to reduce my animal foods, I have been doing great at eating smaller portions of the things I still cannot live without... like cream cheese, regular cheese, meats, herring, and other things. This has been a motivation in those directions for the meal size issue I am talking about now.
These are the problems we all face... food, money, health, life... family. I guess they are human issues… all about survival.
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What can I say about a Monday... it is like a "catch-up" day for me.
In my quest for business financing, I have decided to spend $5 on lottery tickets (because I have a $5 bill, the only usable cash right now)… two of the national lotteries are very high amounts, which I only discovered on Saturday. The final $1 will go to the State lotter game because it is still only $1. I don't know if GOD will bless WT's need for start-up financing this way, but I try to get one ticket every now and then, when it gets so high. WT needs millions and millions of dollars, and I don't qualify for that kind of financing, nor do I know anyone who would give me the money, so... I figure ONE ticket is not offensive to GOD... I hope so, anyway.
May GOD be kind to me and WT... Amen. :-)
I guess that is the biggest controversy in my life... praying for a big win to finance WT. I figure GOD has a plan, I just don't know what it is... This is my man-made effort to solve my money problem. :-)
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
I'm not sure Columbus Day matters that much anymore...
It seems so long ago that Columbus ventured out beyond the "end of the world" and discovered the earth was round, or... that it didn't drop off into nothingness as they thought at the time. That's all I can remember about Columbus today. :-) Sad. [NOTE:: I heard some info about Columbus, and maybe I remember the wrong explorer for that claim... I guess Columbus discovered America, which is what I thought, but I also thought the falling off the earth part was him. It may be that one of the other explorers was the brave one. :-) My US History is so bad... like math, it dies with disuse. ]
History was never something big in my life... or geography. It is growing more important, but I am at the end of my life now... so what does that mean?
I think labor contracts will change the observance of Columbus Day one of these days, in favor of some other historical event. Washington and Lincoln lost favor awhile back, becoming a generic celebration called Presidents Day... which, I assume, means ALL the presidents.
So many jobs are being lost to computer technology, it may not matter much in the future...
*
I think I did my monthly shopping yesterday... it took about five hours and three stores. The rest of the month will be small refill trips for fresh produce and anything else I forgot yesterday.
I overdid it again... It took many hours to put everything away and try to make a space to sleep again. :-) I am still trying to recover. I think it takes several days for me to get back to a reasonable physical condition. Aging is so much fun. I keep wondering about the day when I can't do anything I can do today.
*
I am still updating my budget and records for the month. I need to figure out what has been spent, and what is still needed, and what I can go for the rest of the month... 23 days, plus the days to get to next month's budget. This is always fun.
I do have more to get done this month, so that is fine with me. My main problem, right now, is getting winter clothes... jeans, mostly.
*
Today I have been prepping my food, cleaning up from the weekend (vacuum, laundry, etc.), and my recordkeeping.
I have decided to do some art journaling. I am hoping it will help "jump-start" my crafting goals. I bought some small art tablets a long time ago and have been trying to use them for practice. This will be a great time to do that. They are small, spiral bound, and I have enough of them not to worry about messing up pages.
In the past, I was never able to buy many supplies. It was low on the priority scale. Time was a problem, too. I guess the fact that I lost everything to storage issues or accident issues was also a part of that process. Now I have been able to gather supplies, in pieces, for some of the areas I want to work in, so this will help me get started. Dedicated work spaces have been an issue. Creativity is messy... art may help in that issue... I am moving forward, it is just a slow pace for my budget.
This may be a good month... if I can find a solution to the shipping issues I have right now. :-) I can't sell until I can ship stuff... dependably. In the meantime, I am experimenting and looking for the products that I can do in my current situation.
*
It is so wonderful to have food again... I hope I don't have to "stretch" my month again... even if it is a good exercise for wallet and soul, and a "wake-up moment" about the blessings we take for granted.
If I can stretch everything out, reducing my eating habits and portions to make it all last longer, and help my "diet" goals :-) … that would also be a good deal for the end of the month battles.
I have read that the old breakfast in the morning, lunch at noon, and dinner in the evening, is a good pattern for the body... something about digestion issues. Our bodies seem to need a "rest" between meals but we tend to snack/eat all the time. I am thinking it is a good idea for my food budget and diet goals, too. BUT, I have to work into a schedule that might work for me.
The other issue is that older people sometimes need to eat every few hours, but smaller amounts... to get everything into their body that needs to be in there... kind of like spreading the same calories out into snacks instead of big meals.
MY goal is to find a happy medium. :-) I'm working on it. I am consciously trying to eat smaller portions (maybe "again"). In my quest to reduce my animal foods, I have been doing great at eating smaller portions of the things I still cannot live without... like cream cheese, regular cheese, meats, herring, and other things. This has been a motivation in those directions for the meal size issue I am talking about now.
These are the problems we all face... food, money, health, life... family. I guess they are human issues… all about survival.
*
What can I say about a Monday... it is like a "catch-up" day for me.
In my quest for business financing, I have decided to spend $5 on lottery tickets (because I have a $5 bill, the only usable cash right now)… two of the national lotteries are very high amounts, which I only discovered on Saturday. The final $1 will go to the State lotter game because it is still only $1. I don't know if GOD will bless WT's need for start-up financing this way, but I try to get one ticket every now and then, when it gets so high. WT needs millions and millions of dollars, and I don't qualify for that kind of financing, nor do I know anyone who would give me the money, so... I figure ONE ticket is not offensive to GOD... I hope so, anyway.
May GOD be kind to me and WT... Amen. :-)
I guess that is the biggest controversy in my life... praying for a big win to finance WT. I figure GOD has a plan, I just don't know what it is... This is my man-made effort to solve my money problem. :-)
Until next time,
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times
06 October, 2018
Found a prayer to share
I have been going though more of my "piles" and decided to share a copy of this writing I discovered in an advertisement awhile back...
I said a prayer for you today
And know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart
although He spoke no word.
I didn't ask for wealth or fame
(I knew you wouldn't mind).
I asked Him to send treasures
of a far more lasting kind!
I asked that He'd be near you
at the start of each new day;
to grant you health and blessings
and friends to share your way!
I asked for happiness for you
in all things great and small.
But it was for His loving care
I prayed for most of all!
I posted to FB, but want to add my comment here.
I want to let you know you can pray wealth for me,
but fame is not that important to me. :-)
I said a prayer for you today
And know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart
although He spoke no word.
I didn't ask for wealth or fame
(I knew you wouldn't mind).
I asked Him to send treasures
of a far more lasting kind!
I asked that He'd be near you
at the start of each new day;
to grant you health and blessings
and friends to share your way!
I asked for happiness for you
in all things great and small.
But it was for His loving care
I prayed for most of all!
I posted to FB, but want to add my comment here.
I want to let you know you can pray wealth for me,
but fame is not that important to me. :-)
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