Time slips by!

So taking a moment to gather my thoughts... I have a blog that I was working on like a week and a half ago. I had, possibly still have those things to write about, but didn't work out so well. Found I spent quite a bit of time gaming so I'm taking a bit of a break at this point. It's funny last week I put on my board " This week I get my life and space in order!" As the previous Sunday I got most of the junk in my room and pile of papers filed or thrown out. Yet as I did so and had great resolve to complete this lovely task, I found that several distractions came up this week that I chose over getting my life in order. Although this would not be the first time I've experienced this behavior, it's one of the habits that I'd like to break, which is being easily distracted... or looking for distractions when I have greater life work stuff to do. I get the feeling this week I will be more on top of things.

OOOOooo in other news! I made my first Ebay sale! Made about $3 and received positive feed back. Super cool (Hey it's a start!) :). This week I want to get several things listed and I've decided that it would be in my best interest to sell my old PDA. I really don't see myself going back to use it, plus I've learned that the lithium Ion batteries decay over time even when they are not in use. See article here. So I get the feeling selling it to someone who can use it would really be in everyone's best interest.

Okay other news then I'm off to bed. I have all of the other projects going on and I want to get some of them up on my blog with pictures. Now since I may want to comment on them periodically I've pondered how I can do that with out creating a different blog for each, I'm thinking I'll see if I can post additional comments on the blog that I start a project on... it'll be like a thread!

Hmmm not taking the time to proof read, may have to edit blog tomorrow. :)

Getting organized

How funny I started this post a few days ago but have managed to find about a million things to keep busy with. Sooooo with this lovely note I'll get started :)

Wow! So over the last week I feel like I've had a lot going on, but my thought turn to getting organized, primarily due to I feel like there are several projects I've got going right now. I've decided to see about doing my blog in the morning, I was doing it in the evening before I signed into Fiesta, but found that I was do a fair amount of writing and then of course proof reading after I'm done, which ends up taking a fair amount of time.... so I'm thinking of completing my blog in the morning instead as I am finding that I don't like to even have Fiesta on during the day due to it becomes a distraction. One thing I'm noticing though is I'm a bit more groggy in the morning so we'll see how it goes.

Okay so first things first. I find that I'm writing a lot in my Fiesta blog (merconious.blogspot.com), of course the goal of that was to write about my Fiesta experience but I find that my blogs there were getting fairly lengthy, and had a lot of content that really ought to be on this blog, so I'll start writing here first, I'll get all of the personal self development stuff done and out & then I can focus on making the Fiesta blog more about... Fiesta :).

Over the last few days I've really been getting in tune with getting organized. I don't think I have ever really been organized my whole life. While there are times where I have done better than others and I notice that I have interest in organizing stuff, I don't know if I ever learned to actually be organized in my youth. It's been something I've been picking up as I go along and I am getting better at it! So what's inspiring these new thoughts? I thinks it's my desire to get great things going, or a desire to be successful in all the projects I have going on right now and actually I have known for years that it would serve me to get my life in order.

Recently some of my bigger organizational projects have been to put together an excel spread sheet that I could organize my Fiesta finances and production of materials. While yes, this project was based around Fiesta, I found that the exercise of making the excel file was really good for me. I have always been a bit apprehensive about digging to excel, or open office which is what I use, but when I finally did it, it was much easier than I expected and I'm using the sheets and I'm finding they are doing what I made them for! After that I decided I'd take on posting that first Ebay item. So yesterday I got Jasmine situated next to me on the laptop playing her reading game, and I dug in. About an hour... or so later I got my item listed. I found that with the Fiesta stuff I have been working on I've created a folder on my desktop where I organized all my Fiesta notes. This exercise proved very useful for putting an Ebay folder together to organize my work. I find if I want to be a successful Ebayer, it serves to have all of my information, notes and sales stuff in one place and organized. Plus with the spread sheet, I can now create receipts and budgets. It's all quite exciting if you ask me. :)

I've been thinking lately about getting into a writing class as well lately. Especially as I'm starting to get into (finally) my blog. I find sometimes that my writing are all over the place which makes it difficult to read and follow. I really noticed a difference when I was reading a friend's blog who I knew from high school, Perry Eidelbus, and find that the way that he writes is fairly easy follow and I really like the way he presents his ideas. I'm sure that his education comes into play and that was one of the first times I've thought to myself, "Wow! I've got some work to do with my own writings/sentence structure/grammar...etc...." While yes the most important thing is that I'm writing I found that just doing something over and over again doesn't necessarily make a person better at something... especially if they are practicing techniques that are "less effective". There are times where it serves to take a step back and ask, "How am I doing?" and then some study to see what could be improved.
Oh on a side note, if any of you get moment I'd check out Perry's blog, while I don't necessarily agree with everything he has there, I find he makes a lot of really strong points and has a fair amount of stuff I do agree with some of which I didn't realize until after I had read his blog:). What I really enjoy about reading his works is that I remember Perry being so passionate about life in high school which was one of the things that I liked about him, turns out he's not lost it. Go Perry! :)

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Days later! hmmm I read though this and think that I really should have just proof read it and posted it. I thought there was more I wanted to add, but am finding it's really fine fine as is. There have been cool things that have happened as of late and I'm eager to write them. I think I'll get this posted tonight and work on my other thoughts tomorrow.

Writing again!!!

Sweet! I'm writing again and I must say that it feels great! In my previous blogs I just didn't seem to have anything to write about. Plus I was beginning to feel all shelled up, hiding behind walls again. But since I have been having this Fiesta game experience ( which you! yes you! can read about on my secondary blog @ merconious.blogspot.com) I have found that although there are some time balancing issues I have had to work with, I find I'm becoming much more expressive again and happier. I find that I'm reaching out to others, making my voice heard again... and it seems like it has been a long time. I have pondered this over the last few weeks what has changed, I go over some of those thoughts on my other blog, but in a nutshell I feel like I have just receive lots and lots of negativity towards and about me for quite a while and it began to have an effect upon me. When I began to get away from that and move to a place where people seemed to value me I noticed that there were pieces of me that began to awaken again. Parts of me that had been closed off, or moved into storage to be let out in "safer" times. Well they seem to be opening or coming out of storage. I must say life has felt great lately.

So while my other blog is primarily about my Fiesta experience, I'm finding that this blog I want to be more about my life experience. I find that there are many topics that I'd like to keep here. Granted I may make references between my blogs.

So friends and family please leave me comments! Would love to take a more active part in your lives again. Plus I'm finding the desire to write welling up within me again :) Yay!

Another post after forever

Okay so here's an interesting story. I have a myspace account myspace.com/marks_thought
which has a blogging post there & I have pondered where I should keep my blog, should I have my blog only in one place or should I maintain both. Yet as I have pondered this the same thoughts come to mind... "how seriously do people take blogs on Myspace?" There's a lot of things I like about Myspace, such as being able to see what's happening in my friends lives fairly easily, but I have the thought that I don't think most search engines search Myspace for blog. I could be wrong about this, if any one has any feed back concerning this do let me know.

Course as I'm writing this the thought pops up that "how seriously are blogs taken anyway?" Though I get that there is something to be noticed and depending on the subject, one person if they have ideas that move people, can make a difference. Even if people use this to keep friends and family update that still can be a great tool.

In any case I wanted to just jot down a few notes this evening just for the mere sake of having a presence again online.

Time for a new play.

Ok so I openned a brokerage account a few months ago & it's been awhile since my last play. The stocks I was working w/ aren't forming any patterns that I recognize & so I find that I've been taking a bit of a break, but I'm getting the feeling that I get to make a play again in the near future. Plus I find that it would also serve to get to my studing again. I find that time & time again it's challenging for me to stay committed to my studies. This is not the first time that I have dealt w/ this in my life, I suppose the magic will come as I apply myself.
In other news... I like legal paper. I feel like I have enough room to truely express myself & I'm finding it is fun. Plus I have this goal to be creative in some way on these papers daily. I'm finding that in doing this I'm also accessing some places of inspiration that I haven't seen for a while. It's nice. Hmmm I've also begun getting into my writings again. I have been blessed, I am grateful. Ackpt! I wish I didn't feel so pressed for time. The more I write the more my ideas are coming to the surface. How about this I'll just focus on writing my blog & focus on filling in details as I get more organized, Yes that's what I will do. Any way more another time.

New Day

Right on so it's a new day & I'm about to go to bed. How exciting. I would really like to get this blog going & I just set up a my space account & my only blog listed there refers people to this site so sheesh I better get on it. Any how, I'm writing today about nothing in particular, only to get something written... alas this is the end for the evening!

Ok the times grows late & it's about time for bed. I've now got a my space account up as well, but it seems to lack something that I see here. I'll have to make more time to spend here.

Hmmm as I sit here with the house so quite, I have an odd feeling perhaps a feeling that's familiar enought that it could be said "that" odd feeling, any way that feeling that there are other feelings ( a colony???) bubbling up & itching to be expressed & used creatively. But the later it grows I have other feelings ( perhaps a neighboring rival community) drawing me to go to bed and sleep.

The good news it that I've started my "weekend", now it seems that this weekend time could be used quite productively, yet I find that even though I desire to be productive, specifically get my trading started, sell SOMETHING on eBay, or get in tune with deep spiritual truths that are inside, or for goodness sakes get my car cleaned out (hmmmm odd I'm noticing that family didn't make it into my in the moment list. I may want to take a look at that.)

Very very odd, once more the more I right the more ideas are coming to me... this is one of the reasons that I have always enjoyed writing... but all of this the same, even with all of these things I say I'd like to do I notice that I always find something to distract myself. I've noticed this for serveral years now. In fact it's something that comes up frequently in my writings. In fact the more I write about these things, it brings me to an idea, I've wanted to start another work(book) where I specifically look at some of the ideas I write about in my books, but I'm finding that this blog space would be a great place to do this. I'll have to chew on this idea for a bit, perhaps work a few of the details out & explore this option a bit. Alas the neighboring tribe of feelings that is pushing for sleep is winning & it's time to head to bed.
Pending thoughts