Health and Partnership...

My Roommate turns out to have high blood pressure. He was feeling poorly, described his symptoms, and I gave him my cuff to take his readings. They were very high. I passed on some HCTZ to see if that would help, and they did after about 3 days. I told him he needs to get seen and get a full workup and a steady source of meds, since I have my own and can't really share...

So, it looks like we are going on a reduction plan of some kind. I need to get active and lose a small person. He could probably stand to lose about the same. We are couch-potatoes... We love our TV shows! And not necessarily the same ones - so we read while the other is watching a favorite show... Not good for our health.

When we've got this set up as a team sport, I'll tell you the plan. For now, it's to watch the diet, and figure out our mis-steps. Upping activity is the other part. I think a 30-minute session before supper would be a good start.

We'll see. We have different schedules, so we have to sort it all out.

That's the news from the front...

Being a Receptionist....

So it ain't rocket science...

Just enough $$ and hours to give me a backup, and enough time to keep going on my SEO and cat stuff.

I'm in the middle of a presentation (powerpoint) right now, to explain and give some framework to the keyword research work I've been doing. This is only the first step, of course...

I'll have to go forward and do a "link program" presentation - there's a lot of work involved in that, and then I'll have to do a presentation on PPC (pay-per-click) advertising programs.

I had no idea that I knew so much! It's a struggle to explain it to other people.

That's my current task. It keeps me busy between the few phone calls and visitors at the office.

I'm grateful for the job, of course!

New Job and Back Pain...

Finally! I got a new job. I start on Tuesday. It's part time, but that's OK. I have so many irons in the fire, so many self-employment gigs going on, that a full-time job would just stress me out.

I had to walk a bit in the last couple of days and I had a "Hen Party" at my home, and had to vacuum. So, my back was about over it. Having had a double-spinal-fusion in 1999, I'm acutely aware of any pain in that part of my body. I was able to cope, and nothing bad happened, but last night, after it was all over, I could barely move. I took a Tylenol, not having any ibuprophen in the house, and that barely took care of it. I ended up taking a prescription pain pill, and going to bed. I slept about 10 hours. That's OK, but sleeping so long can just stiffen me up again.

I'll get some ibuprophen when I shop next time.

Car is in the Shop...

I put the car in the shop tonight. They will be replacing the wheel bearing tomorrow, and I'll pick it up tomorrow night. Not too expensive, but surely inconvenient!

I paid the car note today. That felt really good!

New Month, New Possibilities...

Well, it's now September. Another month that the world has not crashed around my ears, even though my nerves are shot, and the stress is near killer-level.

Faith, that's all it is. Faith. Not mine, I'll tell you...

I think it's God's faith in me that has kept things going...

I have another interview today. It's for a part-time job. Enough $$ to keep things going, and enough time off to attend to the entrepreneurial pots my fingers are in...

Someday, before I'm old and gray, I'd like to have enough coming in that I didn't have to worry about the bills. I will be able to pay them as they come in the mail. I won't have loans, or indebtedness beyond the month's income. I'll even have savings.

Well, the only way to make that happen is to make it happen now - with what I have. Live below my means, as they say.