Let it Rain – Let it Pour

Today is a lucky day for the area around here! It’s pouring down rain! I love the rain and we are in such a great need of it. Our grass is brown and crunchy – not what grass should be.

So far today, not much has really gotten done around here other than the bed was made up, laundry was caught up, the dishes were loaded in the dishwasher, and a few emails were replied to and oh my Lord, I posted a ton on AW today. So yeah, I guess some did get done. I feel so tired today. It’s raining outside and I guess it’s just one of those days. You know, one of those “lazy” days.

Dieting Update:

My diet is going pretty well. I’ve lost 4 pounds. Of course it’s not just the dieting – I think it’s probably also the exercise. What type – I’ll never tell.

This post may not be as long as the others over this last week. I feel drained. So far I have quite a few questions ready to present during my interview with Freekibble and can’t wait to get started on it. I do however want to have a few more questions just to make sure that I can make at least a 600 word article. I have been contemplating on whether to pitch my artilce idea else where since I would be giving up all my rights to this article as well as it is very low paying. I’m not sure I want to give up all my rights and that is more important at the moment than the money is. I’ll have it all figured out in a day or two… I hope.

I have also had a great idea for another blog that I would love to make a bit of cash from. I’m not really sure how I could do that, but maybe I can figure that out as well in my free time. Well, enough writing for now. I’m going to go relax and maybe post another later.

All Rights Reserved! © 2008 December M. Raynes

Quitting Smoking

Dropping That Nasty Habit for Good Cold Turkey

Today I’m going to quit smoking. I quit smoking in January 2004 and unfortunatly started smoking again in April of 2006. Well, I’m putting my foot down and I’m not going to smoke anymore. I know what you’re thinking, “Yeah right, you’ll stop for a few days, then you’ll be back at that nasty habit once again.” You might be right, then again, I may just prove you WRONG!

My boyfriend smokes so this is going to be challenge. I have a system of accomplishing things in my life that I want to accomplish. Well, not really a system, but a little thing I call “Determination the UpSideDownGrl Way” – and so far this has worked wonders for me. It’s basically the drastic changing of things all at once and not looking back. I’ve done quite a bit of that in my life and this will just be another knotch on the pole. If it’s something that I want and I mean really want, then I will get it, no matter what!

I started my writing career by using my determination the UpSideDownGrl way. A friend of mine (we’re not friends anymore) told me that I could never make money writing web copy because I had no degree and had never written anything before except just in my journals, blogs, short stories, etc. Nothing was ever published but I had never tried to publish anything either. I was dead set on proving him wrong and after minimal research on the subject and a bit of winging it, I succeeded and landed my first online writing gig ghostwriting for an e-zine on “Christmas activities for Children”. It took just a few weeks and Voila! I was a web writer and making money. Once I landed that, I applied for more jobs and also landed those as well. I did lose a good friend out of all of this proving him wrong, but I guess he really wasn’t that good of friend if he doesn’t want to be friends with me just because I succeeded in something that he failed in so many times.

© 2008 UpSideDownGrl