Update

There's a reason I'm not around as much right now. I'm not just slacking, I'm just super busy.

I don't know if I mentioned it or not, but Kevin and I work out every morning now. It's a mixture of hardcore strength training, hiking and yoga (which still kicks our butt). We get up and do it first thing every morning. And we are already seeing a difference! My clothes are looser again (I gained about 10 pounds in the last few months) and the workouts aren't as brutal as they were the first few weeks. We have stamina. And we are noticing it in other parts of life too ;)

So after that, we shower, run errands as needed, get stuff done (which for me means applying for jobs, looking into apartments, editing, formatting, marketing... Tons of stuff and I never seem to get enough done).

Today, we looked at a couple apartments and I'm looking into more. It's hard to find apartments that allow big dogs that are also really cheap ("really cheap" around here means less than $1500 a month btw). We have a few in mind though and that'll help a lot with money.

I called and had my car insurance switched to storage rates. I owe a little more than $5 a month now, saving $50 a month. Which considering after bills were paid last month I had $9 leftover, $50 seems like a lot.

I'll be formatting some Ebooks. It's fairly easy for me to do this (and that means linked TOC and all the fancy stuff too). After I get a few up successfully, I think I might advertise my services since apparently it's something many authors pay to have done. Maybe I'll earn some extra cash that way.

I had an interview with a newspaper regarding my company and need to get a good author photo for that since mine is a selfie taken from my phone.

I applied for a few really awesome part-time jobs yesterday. The EDD will pay whatever I don't make at the job to match my unemployment benefits. And they're actually jobs I'd enjoy and build up experience, so why not? One is with a humane society and I'd make just about what I make on unemployment while working 20 hours a week. And I'd be working with animals. Which would make me happy. I'd also have time to write and run my business too. If I could get off unemployment, I could take classes and actually improve my situation rather than to keep applying to jobs I know I'd hate.

I actually have a potential job interview for a writing gig tomorrow. It's part-time and is be writing blogs and web content on law and healthcare.

Another one I applied for sounded awesome too. I could do some design work, blogging, marketing, etc for a very small company that makes iPhone and iPod cases. It's writing + design + marketing. All things I love to do. And I could work from home. It could be full time, I don't know yet.

Anyway, as you can see, I'm busy as can be. I have a hard deadline on my book now. It's entered into a giveaway through a new writer friend's page. It needs to be done by August 1st. Which I can do, I just need to finish editing.

Oh did I mention I had won a free cover? She also created a free banner and other marketing materials for me and it looks fantastic. I have a title too. I'll have a big cover reveal soon. If you have a blog or website and would want to be part of that (LJs count too), I can send you the materials and it would bring in some more readers to your blog. I just need to work out the details. May have a giveaway attached too, not sure yet :)

Well I need to get back to work. Almost done formatting two Ebooks and those need to be done ASAP. Today if possible. Anyways, I'm alive and well and can be found on FB and Twiiter if you wanna add me there too!

I'm at FB at www.facebook.com/kristenduvallwriter (author page) and just look for kristenrericha@gmail.com for my regular page. Send me a message telling me who you are if you send a friend request!

And I'm @kristen_duvall on Twitter. Still a Twitter noob though :)