Imagine That

I've spent the last three Saturdays assisting my b/riend in teaching an adult education class at the local community college on how to e-format your document, create a cover, and publish your e-book.

It was mostly seniors who were afraid of computers and weren't quite sure what to do with a mouse--one lady I sat next to thought that if you put the cursor next to a line of text or a graphic that it was Highlighted. I don't know why I couldn't get her to understand that. Sweet lady.

But it was a lot of fun and I learned a lot--the e-publishing environment changes, if not weekly, then daily. It really is that fast-paced.

I spent a lot of time getting up and down to help people yesterday, and man, my ankle was throbbing by the time I got home. I iced it, but it's still a little sore today

But the day went quickly and I had a ball in addition to learning all kinds of neat stuff.

I also need to buy Office 2010. Ouch. I've been putting it off as long as I can, but I'm going to have to buy it, and soon.

At any rate, when I got home yesterday evening, after also going to Pic-N-Sav (Big Lot's) for birdseed (VERY cheap!!), and then Trader Joe's for a couple of items, (ankle ow), there was a check for me in the mail. Yay! For more than I expected for one gig. I'm still waiting on the July gig. Otherwise, everyone has paid.

And my boss was kind enough to tell everyone in the class that if they wanted to pay to have their books e-formatted and published, that I would be the person to do it and everyone asked for a card!!! She said that because I met these people outside of the employer I'm contracted through, that I can freelance these and actually get paid more by not going through XYZ publishing. WOW. See what I mean? These are really nice people, they're bookkeeping is just in the stone ages. It doesn't change anything as to what my plans are, but yes, I will keep one foot in the pool because I do enjoy the work.

I then came home, collapsed, ate an apple, thought about dinner A LOT but was too tired and sore to get up, watched the season premiere of FRINGE (eh), and fell asleep for several hours in the living room. I got up at 11pm, went to bed, read for an hour or two, and then slept all day. Guess I was a tired gal.

Yesterday was a good day.