Where did you go?

It's a startling thing to wake up on a Monday morning and find a freelancing landscape drier than the Sahara. Usually, the work droughts come in around December and last until the middle of January. When it comes to freelance work, I don't want to have a Christmas in July special. No thanks. Bring the work back.

Hoping that this only lasts a couple of days, but whether its a couple of days or more, I do have the novel and its marketing to work on. At least I'm not sitting around with idle hands. I'm just not getting the instant gratification of payment. And of course, I'm still spending way more time than I need to playing around on my new phone. But, that can come in handy when I'm ready to launch some more of my advertising and other good stuff for the novel. 

Upgrading

Upgrading my phone to a Galaxy today was a bit of a nightmare (considering the process started yesterday), but now that it's over, I have a great new handheld distraction. While I'm still learning all the fun features, a few tasks have been pushed back to later this evening.

However, I didn't manage to sign up for Camp Nanwrimo so I can try and finish the novel next month. I set my word goal as 25,000 since I've already written three sections (don't know if they will officially become chapters until revision). I think if all goes well, I will surpass that goal and finish the first draft on time to still meet a late December release date.

I did start a Facebook page as well, though since I have absolutely no pictures, posts or another else of interest, I'll let all my readers know when they will actually want to like the page. Until then folks... keep writing on.

Checking Out Phone Plans

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boost Mobile. All opinions are 100% mine.

Recently I decided that it was time to replace my phone. I'm also looking into other phone plans rather than my old contract. I thought about switching carriers completely. Boost Mobile seems like it has a great number of options that cannot get with my current cell phone carrier. What I like most about Boost Mobile is their Re-Boost method of adding funds to your account. Pre-paying seems like a better system than one set fee. I know that I have been paying for things I never use for years. With Boost, customers can choose from many options to pay for their service, including paying in person, online, or by phone. You can even set up automatic payments from a debit or credit card so you will never have to worry about missing a payment again. My carrier still has me paying a paper bill every month.

When I get my new phone, I was thinking about getting a Blackberry, so that will work great with all of Boost Mobile's service features. I could update my Facebook or Twitter status with my phone, which I can't do now. Of course, that may annoy some of my followers—I would be updating all the time and from anywhere! And with Boost's single monthly price for unlimited connectivity to Facebook, there's no worries.

I think I'm going to have fun once I get a new phone—and a new phone plan.

The Fun Stuff

I got started on packing today. Granted, 90% of my possessions are still in a box from my last move, but there were things still at my parents house of mine that they just can't wait to get rid of. Now they'll have a whole second walk in closet to fill up if they want to. And I have two bedroom closets and two halls closets to fill up in my apartment.

And I'm really excited about my new art project for decoration. I'm going to frame a bunch of old postcards that I got when we cleaned out my grandma's house and put those on the wall so no one has to look at my posters from high school and college any longer. I can't wait to get that started... all I need to do now is go and buy the frame... but I should probably wait to see how many more costs I incur when I call all of the utility companies tomorrow to get that stuff set up. Yikes... too much to do!

Work and Life

So, this weekend I'm getting a new phone and a new apartment... or at least I am going to look at some. Should be exciting. And I've had a lot of work lately, so this is really promising. Only thing is, one company is still holding out on some back payments. It's really annoying me! I'm also trying to work on boosting my Google page rank to get more blog posting jobs, and that's frustrating too. But, I'm ina good mood and ready to spend the rest of the evening surfing for credits.