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That is about as short a description as I can write. Last week was a treat in so many ways, but it meant being focused on my desktop screen for long hours every day.
Gabe, the hostess lives in the mid-west, USA, but this was going out across all the time zones of this north American continent. Those on the eastern seaboard had to be up and watching videos by 8 am. I had until 10:30 am so I could get my devotional time done (making it half-time), and have my breakfast. But the rest of my day was gobbled up with the general session, and some break-out sessions on Tue. and Thurs. so we could meet others like ourselves and get a bit acquainted.
After that we could go down the list of speakers and watch their videos in any order we chose, but there were mostly 7-9 of those to choose from. Of course, I wanted to watch ALL of them! So I watched all afternoon and evening, and just paused to get a quick lunch or supper from the kitchen and eat while I watched and listened and took notes. (Yes, 17 pages of fast scribbling to decipher now!)
I also went to the websites of most of these speakers and requested the freebie they offered, but of course I had to give them my email as that was how it was delivered.
Now that led to something unexpected. Those people had a good reason for asking for our email. Some of them started sending me 3 emails at a time! They wanted me to sign up for their particular skill or service, etc.
Whoa! I replied to the first 2 or 3 of them, and complained that I was in a state of serious OVERWHELM, and I was not going to make decisions to sign up for anything at all until I can study my notes, pray about what the LORD wants me to do, and make sure I don't take on more than I can chew!
Now I just let them sit in my inboxes (I gave out 2 different emails). They can wait until I know what God's agendas for me is going to include.
I did learn quite a bit about podcasts, but not enough to know how to produce them - tho' I gather they are free! I liked several other ideas, but must consider how much work is involved, and how can I fit them into my already full daily/weekly agendas?
One woman stressed that we should pick just one or two ideas and not to overload ourselves, or we'd collapse. Good idea!
But now I need to weigh which ideas are best for me, how much research do I need to do to learn them, and how can I rearrange my time blocks to fit in the best ones.
There is - hiring of virtual staff, but on my budget - I need to be making some money first so I can afford to hire help. However, the prospects sounded quite good!
Listening to some podcasts, and signing up for some email lists could be a great way to add to my learning curve for free. ...But again, that could eat up hours of time.
So- if your care to help me out, pray that I will discern the Lord's best ideas and plans for me. (I don't want to box Him in, but hopefully...this week yet?)
P.S. Incidentally, it was a great to discover that there are so many Christians doing online businesses! Praise the LORD! (I believe there were over 200 attendees!)
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How about you? Do you find yourself going outside for no better reason than to see how warm it is right now?
Do you notice how little snow is left to melt? I had trouble finding even a single clump of dark, dirty snow on Sunday driving to and from church. (I heard on the news this morning, however, that the southern parts of our province had snow falling this morning. Oh-my!)
Hopefully that will all be melted again before the day is done.
My garden is totally black dirt now, except for the area around the hollyhocks, where I set my bags of fall leaves to protect the plants so that they will come alive again from the roots.
If I have to sow hollyhock seeds again, because last year's roots died of frost, Then I'd have to wait until the second year to see any flowers. It has just seemed so much wiser to leave the bags of leaves around them until the snow is gone and the temperatures above 0 most of the time, and then the same plants will be up from the roots in no time and I'll enjoy plenty of their pink flowers along that fence.
I recently found some seeds for black satin hollyhocks that I had received from a friend in Scotland some years ago. So I want to find a place to grow those once more this year!
Ah, the delights of gardening. Others go to a gym or an exercise club to get their body in motion again. For me all the exercise I need comes free with the pleasure of making and tending my back 40 (acres?).
I should be starting some seedlings indoors this week, but because of the business projects I'm thinking/praying about, that will have to wait until next week.
P.S. if you needs seeds, you need to visit me and I'll give your bottles and packets of seeds of your choice. Or, you could write - then you have to wait for the mail to come through.
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I've had a dark red/purple sore on my lower right leg for quite a long time. But with no doctor I wasn't sure how serious it might be. I showed it to my Chiropractor two weeks ago, and she sent me for Ultrasound. (We were beginning to wonder about a blood clot.)
I still have no doctor, but on Sunday at church a woman who is a pharmacist was able to go online and show me that the report was that it was not a blood clot. Yaah!
But I'd seen online that certain fruits could bring down swelling; I'd bought some after the Good Friday service and already see the swelling has come down wonderfully!
Normally I think of most fruits as rather expensive, but now I'm committed to eating more of these;
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