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For Me a New Month

1 Mashiyyat 164 B.E. - Thursday, September 27, 2007 about 10:34 AM PDT

For me a new month has begun. Mashiyyat (Will) began last night at sunset. The next nineteen days are full of writing projects and research. My research is focused on increasing readership on my off site blogs. Until this morning, I wondered if anyone every read either blog or not. However, in my yahoo mail box there was a comment from someone who read Poet 999 - A Butterfly Emerges from Her Cocoon - http://poet999.blogspot.com. I haven't found any responses to the other blogs yet. Of course, the only blogs I've written anything about wanting comments is Poet 999's Though about writing and Other Stuff - http://poet999writingthoughts.blogspot.com - and A Butterfly Emerges from her Cocoon.

Today is Thankful Thursday on the yahoo journal writing group I'm in and I haven't started the Gratitude Journal entry yet. I have to make a call to arrange to pick up kitchen stuff I ask for on freecycle, I'll do that as soon as I finish this entry. I, also, have to do some reviews on writing.com today. Since I'm going to be on and off line all day, I'll do the reviews either this afternoon or this evening.

In Mashiyyat I'm going to focus on finishing up some writing projects and submitting to contests. In fact, I think I have a piece finished for a contest that ends on September 30. Next week my Mother is going to have a Colonscope on Wednesday at 10:00 AM and since we have to be there 15 minutes before the procedure I'm not sure how much I'll get done at home.

I've divided my writing and housework time into morning, afternoon and evening for Mashiyyat. I want to find out when I write best and do the housework at other times, so I'm giving myself nineteen days to figure this out. I'm feeling optimistic this morning, of course, I always feel optimistic in the mornings so I guess I should wait until afternoon or evening to figure out how I really feel.