The Daily Grind
There's a coffee store here that has the clever name of The Daily Grind. While it is a clever name for a coffee shop… it also describes my life at the moment. A grind … day by day by day… I watch as my life passes me by and I wonder what on earth I'm doing wrong that should make my life so unfulfilling.
So each night and weekend I work to change my daily reality. I'm building an online business and it better frickin make some progress soon.
The Weather in Northland Has No Idea…
The weekend that's just been was stunning. Beautiful sunny days, not too hot but just a nice spring temperature.
Today… the temperature has plummeted and it's raining and blowing a gale.
Glad it's the work week and not the weekend that it decides to get crummy.
A Visit To The Oil Refinery
Today the Marsden Point Oil Refinery had an open day… it's their 50 year celebration so they opened up the gates so that the public could come in and see what it's all about. They also made it a fun family day with loads of bouncy castles and all that jazz. We started out with a tour of the site and … well, should I be embarrassed at how interested I was in it all?
I've driven past that refinery for 38 of those 50 years and I've never once been in there. I've seen the smoke stacks as we've come over the crest of the Brynderwyn hills about 40kms away and often wondered what it's like there. Now I know.
I don't think my 16 year old cousin was quite so interested.
Home Office
Today was a very productive day. We finally got our home office set up with two awesome desks and super comfortable chairs to go with them. It's been a long time coming but we're so happy with the outcome. It's the place where we're going to get our business off the ground.
Google+
It's only been very recently that Google has opened up Google+ to the rest of the world and I've jumped straight on the bandwagon to learn all about it. I kinda feel like I missed the boat with twitter… I still can't quite figure out how it all works and what is the appeal of it. But with google+ I want to be at the front of whatever is happening in that space.
Here's my profile https://plus.google.com/112150461777915328101/posts?hl=en and we'll see how we go from here. 
Revved Up and Ready To Go!
I'm all revved up again.
This last few weeks have been a bit of a struggle to get motivated about making money online. Oh hand on… I'm plenty motivated about making money online… it's the WORK that is involved that I need to get motivated about! It can feel so very pointless to be doing sooo much work and seeing no reward for it all. It's hard to keep going when you don't actually know if what you're doing is the 'right' use of your time and energy, not knowing whether it will lead to profits for you. But I've seen some very good and encouraging signs over the last few days and I'm ready to get stuck into this thing! Free by Christmas!!!!!
Reaching Out
Today I am totally stoked! I made a comment on a fellow bloggers post and they responded and there's a chance we may might in the next few months. I've always wanted to stay relatively annonymous on the internet but the minute I 'come out' I've got the chance to meet someone I admire. Awesome!!
Sunny Sunday
Gosh it's been such a beautiful day today. It lulls me into this false sense that summer could possibly be on it's way already. Oh I wish!
As is our normal Sunday after ritual, Ben and I went and did our grocering shopping today. And I had that horrifying moment at the check out when the check out chick says my card was rejected. WHAT!?!?!?! And then I remembered… I had bought two things online and had forgotten to transfer the money over from my savings. So onto the credit card it went. I hate it when I do silly things like that. But oh so grateful that little mistakes like that are fixed easily enough.
Today
Today I had a look at a type of creatine that I hadn't looked at before. It's called Amplified Creatine 189 and it's by GNC. It seems to be one of the most popular types of creatine on the market and it's easily available on Amazon. People seem to trust Amazon more, maybe it's because they're so big and they sell such a huge range of products. I get that.
Manhattans
Ben is sitting right across from me going on and on about Manhattans. He's reading something from wikipedia I think about what they're made of, the history and what books and movies they feature a lot in!
Yep an interesting Saturday night in our household!