Joyfully and Easily Invite Prosperity On All Levels Into My Life Daily (43)

My husband wanted me to get a keyboard to help me relax, as that was one of the things I relaxed with when I was able to play my piano, which is in storage. Today at Goodwill, we found an electronic keyboard that has 61 keys and a bunch of functions (that I probably won’t use). It did not have the power adapter to it, so we went to Radio Shack to get that. Love Radio Shack, which we paid more for that than the keyboard & stand itself, which was $14.99 (the keyboard & stand).

The keyboard is 13 years old and was listed in Australia for $200. Anyway, it’s nice and we are happy.

We also picked up a Sony DVD/CD player for $4.99 for our son’s room. Our daughter got his DVD player and he got this one.

I was also twice this week able to find blue shorts for our son for school, which today I found 3 pairs for $1.99 each. Even when they are donated and we buy from our son’s school donation program, the shorts are $5 each, so, it’s a deal that we got these 3 pairs for $5.97 total. The ones I bought a couple days ago were $3.19 each, still a deal, just not as good as today.

All 5 pairs I bought look practically brand new.

Now I will need to look for sales for shoes, and I have some time yet.

He should still be able to fit his tops at least through the fall. Our daughter can still fit her skirts and tops, all she really needs are shoes. So, overall, this will be less expensive for clothing wise than last year.

I already bought all our son’s paperback consumables through half.com, so I’m ready there and I already have some of their school supplies leftover from last year. They have really nice backpacks, and they will continue to reuse those, their water bottles and lunch boxes.

This year, since I’m now making money, we will be able to pay for a part of their tuition. When I’m doing really well financially or when G can legally work outside the home, we will be able to afford all the tuition for each child.

My husband loves when he finds stuff that looks good on him at Goodwill that have the brand new tags on them, especially on 50% off Saturdays or $1 Thursdays.

We love good deals, but we are also willing to go through a lot of things and wait until we find what we want.

Take care of what you have.

The kids usually take cold showers and that’s good. Uses less hot water, but I did not say they have to do this. I just asked they not take long hot showers as it heats up our room. We want to make sure the kids (and us) are wise with our utility usage – turn off lights and fans when not in the room, and computers if we’re going to be gone long.

We are learning to adjust. My husband is good at noticing the details and we are working through things on being better stewards and managers of our things, our dad’s home, the car, etc.

I got a call today learning that I won a $30 Kohls card. If you get reviewed for your work and score 100%, you get entered for a drawing to win some gift cards. My name was drawn, at least one of the names for this month, and I got a $30 Kohls card. Yay!

Thank you, God! I hope there are many more 100% and that I get drawn each month for all sorts of gift cards. Woohoo!

The person that is doing our birth certificate translation doesn’t have a printer, so I asked her if she wanted our old HP printer that we were going to donate. We donated the other HP printer and fax machine a couple Saturdays ago, but were just hanging onto the one I have been using for years for a backup.

But, the Brother printer we have that faxes, scans, copies, and prints works beautifully. I haven’t done scanning yet, but I figure that is fine, too.

Anyway, she said that she would love the printer, so we will rid our place of one more thing, and we know that this family will be able to put this printer to good use. Yay!

Donated a bunch of my clothes and our daughter’s clothes. There’s still more clothes to go through, but at least we unloaded about a half a truck full of clothes and some toys. Yay!

I will be able to make more of what I need to make. The first 2 pay periods were just ramping up. I was supposed to get my first check today, which I haven’t. I need to check the mailbox for this tomorrow.

So far, in these 5 weeks, I’ve earned more than I did all last year, so it feels good I am working on getting out of the non-making money slump I’ve had for quite some time.

Thank you so much, God, for the work!

I’m now able, for this pay period, ask for more work Mon thru Fri, which allows me to charge more for my work, and also as I take on extra work over the weekends, that work is charged 23% more than during the week.

Hence, the past 3 weekends, I’ve been working both Sat & Sun. However, my husband would like me to space this out and not burn out. At the end of the month, I will take a day off and we will go out of town to relax, and hopefully get to some cooler weather.

I am getting faster at what I’m doing, but still not fast enough. But, little by little.

I pray as I take on this work and do it with gratitude, that God will open my time some, bring in more money, bless my trading a lot more, and bring work that is a lot more lucrative.

I’ve had to modify my work station by putting towels to help pad my chair so my arms will feel better. I found my gel pad that goes over my natural keyboard to help my aching wrists.

It feels good to be making money and what I was making a month ago was a lot less than right now. So, I’m hoping that July’s paychecks will be at least double June’s. And then, August’s paychecks will be even more than July’s, though, doubling would be a challenge, but I hope by then, my trading will be even more profitable.

Thank you, God, for work and beginning again to make money. You are so very good.

Yesterday when leaving WalMart, I spotted two shiny quarters and since my hands were full, and my husband’s . . . we asked our daughter to get them. Then, we shouted, “We’re money magnets!”

I felt the Lord was saying to me that instead of the pennies which we think are worthless that we usually find, He was going to give us many times more than that, that there would be a newness to things, and He will doubly bless all our efforts.

God is very good.

When I was making 6-figures, I griped and complained about this and that. Now I make WAY less and in fact, probably what I make in a day or 2 is about what I made per hour before in engineering. And, compared to what I did in engineering, I work way harder now.

There are some frustrating things about what I’m doing, but I do feel grateful that I can do this from home, no commute, and be with my husband and children (soon, as school gets out in 2 days) for the summer.

However, though it’s not physically demanding, sitting here at the computer and needing to be 100% focused, at least while I’m working, is taxing. I didn’t appreciate that I normally didn’t have to be 100% focused for my work before (except for the writing job).

I haven’t even had the time I thought to do all the trading I’ve wanted to do. However, I really am grateful that I will be getting a paycheck on the 5th next month, albeit a small check.

I’ve gotta start somewhere and there are many good parts to this job. I get to work with some really great and wonderful people, so that is a huge plus. They are here to support me in making me successful.

So, I must overcome some of the challenges I have now, and learn to relax. So far, my performance is at a 93% average, which is good. I’ve had scores from 86% to 100%, so hopefully as I get better, I can get up to 95% average, and be able to produce more.

Thank you, God, for this job. But, doing this makes me realize I do need multiple streams of income.

I think I’d better work on some EFT stuff to help me deal with the stresses I’m facing here. But, it does feel good to be earning money.

Our printer finally came a couple days ago. We were expecting it sometime next week, so we got it earlier than the later they said. My wonderful husband setup the printer, and it did take some time. It wasn’t as easy as my old HP printers, as there are a lot more features with this one.

It was on sale at Costco for $90 +tax. It turned out good and had good reviews by most people. What is important is durability and that the ink cartridges don’t cost an arm and a leg. Most of the reviews that talked about ink said the cartridges were very inexpensive.

This Brother does fax, copy, scans, and prints duplex! I really love the duplex printing as that saves paper. My HP did do duplex printing, sort of, if you flip the paper over and sent your pages in the manner that it could do it (basically, if I had more than 1 page duplexed, I didn’t do it because I could never get the numbering of which went when correctly and ended up wasting paper each time . . . more than if I had done 1 sided.).

I am keeping one of the HP printers for just in case, but donating the other printer and fax machine. So, this one machine replaces 2. My kids are excited that it can copy. It also prints color.

This is my first new printer ever. Both printers I had and the fax machine were used when I got them.

It’s not really a super speedy printer, so we’ll have to see when I need a lot of pages printed, if I don’t like that. It’s a nice, sleek black machine and is sitting where the fax machine was, so it is out of the way of where my husband’s desk area is and mine. It’s in a neutral area so the kids can get to it without bothering us, but we can still see what they are printing, so they cannot get out of control with printing.

Thank you, God!

I’m also glad for reviews people write on Costco.com and on Amazon. I poured through LOTS of reviews of about a half dozen printers between Brother and HP. Though I hate HP computers and laptops, I do like HP printers. I feel they make great printers.

Originally I was planning on paying around $150 +tax for a printer, so I’m ecstatic I paid about $95, total, which is probably a $65 savings. I also love Costco as I know if anything goes wrong, they will make good on it without any questions asked.