“The RoseBouquet”

Oh yes! My prayer and planning retreats have enthused me. I’m looking forward to all the things I hope to get done this year. I think I went a bit overboard in the things I’d planned to do last year, so a lot of them are on this year’s agenda too, but taking into account the new skills I learned, and the better grasp I have of how to do these things, the more I feel like this will be a very productive year.

I haven’t got time or space to share everything, but will drop a few hints.

1. I’m expecting to really promote and sell my first novel, Ruthe’s Secret Roses, with new and effective sales pages.

2. I should finish the writing of the second novel this year. Not sure of the funds to publish yet.

3. If that Prof gets his grant, I’ll have a transcription job one night a week by May that will pay like a full-time job.

4. Renovations on all three of my sites should update them and make them far better quality, and more productive financially.

5. This may well be the year I put shopping carts on all my sites, and some that I look after for others.

6. Now that I can create PDF e-books so easily, I hope to produce about a dozen of them this year. Some as gifts, some for sale.

7. With all my heart, I do hope that this year I can save Saturday afternoons to practice and develop my sketching and art abilities. That’s gone on the back burner and been shoved right off the to-do table so many years. Last year my major learning curve went into switching to a Linux based operating system on the computer. May it be in ART this year!

I still have a stitch of pain in my ribs from the pleurisy, but the coughing has cleared up, and my energy is back, and I’m trusting God for grace and health to leap into this year with both feet and a confident cry of victory from my mouth!