I intended to use this blog to report on the things I am trying to change about my life, but it has mostly been me answering daily prompts. That’s okay, it was going to be a personal blog either way.
I have money sitting on Amazon in gift card balance, so I used a bit of it today to buy the latest edition of Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez for my kid who has most recently become an adult. Once upon a time, back at the end of the 1900s, that book was transformative for me. I somehow doubt it will be read, much less put into practice, but it is my wish that my child never has to struggle the way I am struggling right now.
I need to just keep moving forward from day to day. I just have to keep moving in the right direction, even when I end up three steps back by bedtime. I wish I could depend on other people to help, to pull along beside me, but the people closest to me keep proving themselves spectacularly unreliable.
I have been doing a little online gig work, so that is something. I have multiple projects I want to put out into the world, but my lack of confidence is holding me back. I just need to actually finish one thing that I start.
To that end, I am going to start scripting my first ever real YouTube video tomorrow, my entry into the Cursed Conlang Circus. The language is still under construction, but I know where it is going, so I can at least do some preliminary work on the video. I plan to release a paperback version of the language documentation via Amazon KDP on September 15 (2024) as well, but that’s already well underway. That needs to be finished by September 9, so that deadline is helping me keep moving on that part of the project. I may repurpose the audio from my entry into a podcast episode.
I am learning both audio and video on the fly, so this is a chance to improve my skills, learn a little more, and put myself out into the world.
Right now, I need to move in the direction of bed. Tomorrow I will get up and tackle the building of my media empire again.
The Mia Experiment 