Another great day, the sun is shining, it is feeling like Fall and I just finished paying all our bills for the month AND there’s still plenty of spending money left over, yeah!!! Just waiting on the UPS guy to deliver my new art supplies and I’ll spend the evening playing with my watercolors. All the orders for this week are done and ready to deliver and I’ll do that tomorrow, my last day off from my “real” job for awhile. Still have plenty of unpackin to do but it can wait until next week, right now I’m on a creative roll! I’m happy and self confident, life is good and it just keeps getting better!

Jesse just got a new job as manager for a local auto store, I’m so happy for him, and us – the pay is much better and for much less stress. We’re going out to celebrate now!

Finally found some great furniture for our new place, we’re going to go pick it up today. The new apartment may not have a yard outside but it is private, spacious and Jesse and I both agree that we love it here! We’re both off today, so after we pick up the furniture we’re going to get the few boxes that are left in storage and unpack them too. Miss Kitty loves her new home too, and is getting along with the new kitten better than I had thouht she would. Life is good and it keeps gettin better.

Getting ready for bed, back to my ‘real job’ tomorrow. Supervising has gotten much easier, now that I stand up for myself and more importantly I don’t take anything to heart. They try to push buttons but my buttons are unpushable. I’m free of all the drama and anxiety of worrying about what others think of me and what may go wrong. I am a string, confident, worker, artist and woman. I love myself and I am worth standing up for.

sitting here being thankful that I have a good job, a good side income from my art and a great relationship. Very thankful that I no longer have to struggle to pay the bills or make it until the next paycheck. I’m not rich, but I’m living the life I always dreamed of and I’m comfortable and happy. I also value myself now and stand up for myself and beliefs. This is the life I always dreamed of and I will forever be thankful that I had a chance to live it.

Spent the morning going around to the local craft shops and 2 of them are now displaying my greeting cards!! So excited and I’m planning on hitting all the craft shops in the next town Monday. Such a good feeling to know that I have finally started to make my dreams happen!