Thrihyrne

I woke up at 3:52 a.m. and at 4:20 gave up and got out of bed. I'd found myself thinking about my potential self-employment project and became newly excited/inspired/motivated and so I got out of bed to do some sketches and other things. Being awake and all, I figured I'd post about my thoughts on it. I had a radical one, which was rather than spending a lot of time job hunting for something 'conventional,' I could continue on that conventional path for the remainder of this month and then give myself two or three months to focus on this enterprise. If I could support myself working from home with this, it would be money well invested. Aside from rent, I don't have many expenses any more: rent, of course (though quite reasonable and includes utilities and internet), a monthly phone bill, hair color every 5 weeks or so, and purchases toward this project. Well, and some clothes from Goodwill. But I'm on food stamps so food is taken care of; I don't have a car (though I do have transportation costs); and I get my books and movies from the library. I'm frugal by nature, which helps, and neither evannichols nor I are innately inclined to go out a lot. So while cashing out my last and largest (still not that much) retirement fund isn't great, it could grant me over a year's time to focus on this, should I wish to. And I suppose if it all failed after four or five months, or I could establish it was never going to be enough to support us both (as I want to give evannichols the ability to spend time at home writing rather than doing what he does now; perhaps a pipe dream, but it's my goal), I could go back to job hunting and something would eventually come along.

It's all pretty exciting, though I would rather have had more than five hours' sleep. :P

I've been noticing that people have new and varied little people heads. What are they called? Whence do they come? I'm intrigued… And after two consecutive nights of absolutely no sleep, there's simply not enough coffee in the world for me right now. Also, I need a book recommendation or two to tide me over until the other books by Arnaldur Indriðason come in via interlibrary loan.

I'm a cat person. Thoroughly. And yet, this English redtick hound Taffy is a creature I look forward to walking, and to seeing her wag her tail like crazy when I come home. Today I had my first joyful experience of buying her a new squeaky toy when at Best Buy. And repairing it within 12 minutes of her chewing on it. And seeing the stuffing scattered all over the dining room floor, the squeaker mangled and in pieces within 90 minutes of having brought it home. :P

But she loved it! Definitely worth the $3, but next time I'll get a rope toy that might survive longer.

I'm also in a strange state of being surrounded by four massive computer manuals checked out of the JMU library for two very different projects; one to improve my Photoshop skills, and three to see if I can create a kick ass database in Access— a program I've never used. I've built databases in Excel and figure if I can do that, I can certainly do so in Access, but being a Mac woman, that program is not something I'd seek out. I'm glad I'm multi-platform, and this could be a few-months project for me, with funding, that could actually then be sold. I could write the manual as well and make a percentage on sales of that, too! And go and teach people! I did get a little carried away in my head, but it was a great meeting despite being at 8:15 a.m. and me having gotten all of two hours of sleep. Not even that.

And in final news, I now have two balls of yarn rather than skeins, am about to embark on new knitting project #1, and decided as of tonight I'm going to draft an outline for an original fic m/m story for one of the e-book companies where I know people. By gosh, I'm going to try my hand at putting something out there for those of us who love m/m stories and are looking beyond fanfic. Since 2007 I've said I was going to do that. I'm not putting it off any longer.

So, a good day. :)