Raising the Herd My Life, My Family, My Journal

Unmotivated

I am very unmotivated this week. I don't have the energy to do my work outs so I don't do them. This is going to be a bad week for it and next week isn't going to be any better either. This week is pre-preschool week and I'm attempting to set schedule with the girls, tho for Kitten 7am rolls around too early for her and she's not hungry so I'm not sure what I can do about that. The only good thing is she'll have a snack in preschool, but I fear she'll be hungry most of the morning. I have a new cereal which we will try tomorrow at 7am. We'll see how it goes.

I am a 7am alarm and an 11am alarm set now, I hope I remember to set them on Monday after I turn them off for the weekend lol. I don't think I'll forget but it's one of those lovely fears I have about this.

Next week will be a big adjustment with Sammi and that isn't going to go well, she doesn't do well with out her sister around - she's very clingy. So I doubt I'll get much done until she adjust fully.

I need to redo my portfolio for my freelancing but I can't find something that I've created that reflects my work and me at the same time. The creativity for personal projects isn't there right now. But I need a look I'm happy with so I can finish my brochure as I've got the last of the testimonials I was waiting on so I can finish that up.

I didn't lose any weight this week. Lack of exercise I'm sure is the key to that. This week hasn't started any better either.

My brother and his fiancee are getting married this weekend so that also causes some unmotivated as I'd rather be there but we can't. We knew we weren't going but it still kinda disappointing we couldn't go even if we had planned on it.

On an up-note, Shea's son is home from Iraq. He to the last of my knowledge was on his way down here with his mother. Hopefully we'll get to see him while he's down here. I won't have his son with him, he hasn't even seen him yet *frowns* but at least we'll get to see him and he'll get to see how big the girlies have gotten. Hopefully they won't send him out again.

Banned lol

Shea just told me I was banned from redesigning my websites until I finish my project.

This said project Shea believes could make some money. What I've been calling Cooks Cart. I still have a lot of work to do. I guess I'll have to push myself harder on it. Probably after I get back from vacation. 9 days till we leave, yay!

Resolution #2

Resolution #2 revolves around my freelancing - the basics of it is to increase my cash flow from my freelancing.

This is rather generic resolution I know but again I want to do it in small steps.

#1- do at least one project and one update a week for HIT Web Design a week. This will gradually increase over time I hope but this is my starter goal. I can't handle more than one project at a time, but updates I'm sure I can handle up to three with out a project so we'll see how that goes.

#2 - make a new wordpress theme every month to give away or sell for money. This is a two fold increase in revenue. The first being actually selling wordpress themes to those who want it for a minimal fee. But even the free ones could lead to revenue by increasing traffic to my site and pulling in potential customers.

#3 - design something everyday. This is a smashing magazine challenge and I intend to try this once I get my PC up. I think my first stab at this task is going to the common icons I use in a blog for wordpress and then common category icons/headers to use for categories, starting first with my own blogs. This doesn't bring money in and of itself, but by designing something everyday provides me with practice so that I can make more money with the graphical and/or design aspects of the freelancing. Posting it on my site can also pull in additional clientele which is a money maker.

#4 - learn asp.net C# version. This is something that I've already started and I'm working on chapter 3 of my book, and I'll be writing the code here soon. This doesn't increase cash flow persay but it opens up options not present otherwise.

With each of these there are minor little things I need to do to accomplish the larger task. But all in all this is as miniute as I want to get with my resolutions. And I don't think of these as a new start or trying to do something I didn't next year, these are more like guidelines into the new year. I seriously doubt I will follow through with everything but they are the goals I'm setting short term.

I have one more resolution for the family, but that is going to take a bit more thinking on my part as to what I want to include in this particular resolution. It's the most important and yet the hardest to think of actions to take this year.