I had a nice early birthday last Sunday with my mom, Isaiah, my bro and Marcella. They took me to one of my favorite restaurants, Rainforest Cafe, which alone was nice. They then told me they pitched in and payed my way to go to the Men's Retreat in March! That was definitely a nice gift, since I was hoping to go but felt I needed to take care of my debts first before I start spending money, so I was very thankful. :) Then I spent the rest of the afternoon with Isaiah and mom at the park for awhile.
Well... today was the usual Monday…always hard to get up and get going. I actually set my alarm to wake up at 5am this morning to get up before the sun did, because lately when I leave at 7:30 it seems like it should be like 10 am already according to the sun’s position. So I decided I wanted to wake up a lot earlier to beat that sunrise! Lol But like I said, Mondays are always the hardest and I just ended up getting up at the usual time of 6:30. Oh well. I still had time to stop at Starbucks and pick something up, so it wasn’t a total loss. And there was no traffic, which made it a nice drive. But I’m still determined to get up earlier and overcome that blasted habit of rising so late, and actually it’s coming along well. I even got into bed at 10:30 last night, which is unheard of in my case! I can’t even remember the last time I got to bed that early. So I figure if I just keep this up, eventually my body will adjust to it and give in around that time. IF I keep this up. Lol I suppose I’ll slip up here and there only because I’ve been doing this forever now, meaning staying up too late and trying to get up early in spite of that. But the last time I remember being encouraged to get up earlier and be a little more realistic about my situation was reading someone’s answer to a question on the Yahoo Answers site. Someone mentioned the fact that she’s online every night answering questions, thinking she’s going to get enough sleep the next day, only to be faced with the real consequences the next day of being incredibly tired because she stayed up too late, and she mentioned she did this pretty much every night. And all I could think was ‘I do the exact same thing!’ lol And it made me think and wisen up to the fact that I can’t pretend anymore that getting six hours of sleep every night is going to do it for me. It’s just not! So I’ve been changing that around and getting at least seven hrs of sleep every night, and believe me, it’s no easy feat! I admit…I still tend to cut it close and pretend I’m going to be okay, suffering the consequences every morning I do it. And that’s what motivates me to get to bed early is not wanting to face the consequences of being too tired to rise. It’s getting there…slowly but surely.
I’ve been working on two logo projects right now while I have the time, and it came at a perfect time, thank God, because it will help to clear a few past debts that I owe. I actually just paid for one of them. On my next paycheck I should be able to clear the other one, so my debt reduction plan is going well. It’s actually going a little slower than expected because I had a few other debts I needed to clear that I was trying to put on the backburner, but I new that they needed to be dealt with. I guess I was too anxious to start paying off my credit cards and be done with them! But the good news is that with these two projects, I should be able to use that money to get those past debts clear and start paying off large amounts starting next month, so I’m happy about that!
Sheesh I’m saying a lot. I need to break up my blogs a little more. I hate saying so much in one blog.
So, Onoma is still progressing, just a little slowly these days. I think what was slowing it down was not so much the money, but the idea of just waiting for the money to buy postcards to mail out to various Christian stores. I was going to go forward with that in March, but talking with a friend (Benny) made me change my mind about that. He encouraged me to make an appt. and speak to the owners about my clothing face to face and to take some samples with me, which I have. I’ve made appts before in the past but never really followed through. Plus, I didn’t really have any shirts to show, either. If there’s even one element missing in my plans, I won’t go forward with anything, which can be a hindrance in my life. I think some people are better at sales and know how to make the pitch, even without everything in their hands. Me…I have to have everything ready to lay out and show and present. I guess in a good way, I like to prepare for a good presentation and let it speak for itself. At the same time, I know it would be to my advantage to either become a better speaker/salesperson, or bring someone into my company who would be the salesperson, a sort of partner I suppose. Maybe that’s what I need…a partner. I don’t know why I’m going at this alone. I know that success is really dependent on me being dependent on the expertise of others and not just my own knowledge and ability. Hmmm…I’ll have to pray about this.
Other than that, my next class won’t be until around April, New Testament, mainly because I failed to complete the deficit units I signed up, and that was due to a little mixup and communication problem! Argg I’m not going to blame anyone here, because I suppose it was my fault for not just following through on something I knew I needed to take. But I was told something else by someone else, only to find out that that class was absolutely necessary to take in order to keep my F.A., and now, I pretty much lost it! Ugh! And believe me, I wanted to start pointing the finger and justify why I was wronged regarding this, but again, I should have just stuck with the original plan. And I did email Accting and explain my situation, but I think explanations are going to help here. I only hope that this incident may have given them a little insight into the problems that can arise when promises are made and not followed through on, as well as being misinformed and not having the correct information.
Anyhow, all is not lost here. I have enough to retake N.T., and I’ve decided to just take the rest of my G.E.’s at Mt. SAC where I can afford it. I did get one G.E. done at Biola, so that’s good, so I’m not totally bummed out.
Well, enough said for now. I don’t want to write a book here. lol More another day. =)
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