For the first time I am trying this affiliate thing. I guess this is one of the ways writers make money inbetween books and such. I figured I should start learning about it and this course is pretty awesome so I can encourage/ advertise something I really believe is helpful for any writers out there. I'm taking the course right now and learning a lot. If you think you want to be a writer and are ready to take your dreams from fantasy to reality, this could be an excellent step in that process.  

Besides that, this is keeping me occupied as I wait just one more week until I finally leave to beging training for my new job. Hurrah! I'm ready to head on out and get back to having my own place. It's tiring living as a visitor. Soon , though, and I'm sure there is a reason for this extended time, I just don't know it yet.

Well, here it is August, my month of freedom and delight. Or procrastinating everything and being bored out of my mind. I have so much I want to do this month such as work on this website and yet this first week I only worked on cleaning out my stuff. Granted I probably got rid of 1/4 of everything I supposedly owned (my grandmother's been collecting things for me for years) and even found an apartment to live in.

Yet I spend the largest hunk of my days being bored and tired. I've started riding my bike which should mean an increase of energy... eventually. And I'm not sleeping until noon like I usually do for holidays. I'm trying ot be more active but I just look at the vast amount of time I have and that seems to reduce my drive to actually do anything. "I've got time" which I do, but the last week of August I'll be going mad. Sometimes it's frusterating that I work best under pressure.

I do have some pressure as I need to complete 2 months of homework for my last two grad classes... both quite interesting and continue through the two writing courses I'm in the middle of (one of with Holly Lisle and one Donald Maass' 'Breakout' workbook). Maybe I just need to find a routine and a comfertable place.

I do feel like a visitor in my own home anymore. The problem of really not living here for seven years I guess, but nothing feels like its mine. I don't have my own space or even my own time. I am living at the whim of my mother and grandmother. My grandmother doesn't have too much she asks of me, but  feel like I'm always waiting for her to want to do something.

I have a month here, though, so I'd better make use of the time I have and find a temporary "place" for me to work. Maybe some place I can escape tensions in the house, too. But that might be too much to ask.

Hopefully in the next couple weeks I start working on the China section and Writing tips section for this website so there's something more to see :)

Onward with my abundance of time...