Elaine's Diary

Published two books, Abandonment to Divine Providence by de Caussade and On Christian Doctrine by Saint Augustine.

I made a quick animation on the Saint Augustine book below. I'm still working on my 3rd assignment.

I will start writing it next week probably on Monday or Tuesday, and will continue to work on it for about 5 days or so. It's due in 25th January 2018 but I want to start and finish it asap so I can have more free time before I start 1st Semester University in the end of February, or early March 2018.


Other than that not much happening, slept late last night working on Abandonment to Divine Providence, it's a very thick book about 325 pages thick and I put the cost at US$23.00 per book. I hope it's not too dear and people will still purchase it. I am a bit concerned because I cannot make it any much cheaper or I won't get any profit at all.

I sold 11 copies of Revelations of Divine Love and only got AUD$0.74. I increased it to US$16 and haven't gotten a sale yet. But it's still early days and it won't be in the Amazon for another couple of weeks. It takes, they say 6-8 weeks to go on live in the distribution channels, and I modified it and submitted it a couple of weeks ago. So have to wait till probably end of January to see any sales.

It's much cheaper to publish a book on CreateSpace but the only problem is that they do a validation check on each book and I have to provide the death year of both the authors and the translators as well as the location and year of its first publication. I usually have trouble locating the translator's death year. Sometimes all I have are their initials or that they were a monk or a religious person, no other details. So I decided to publish it through Lulu plus, I also prayed and decided Lulu will be the best way forward provided I stick to the publication copyright rules.

I found this awesome website called Placeit which puts images of anything you can download onto images of screens. You can also choose which screens you want to put images of too, e.g. mac or desktop. Small image downloads are free but higher and bigger images cost.

I created the Gif using Gifmaker which is a free online tool.

Currently proof reading The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ by St Alphonsus Liguori. I couldn't get anyone to proof read my books. LOL. I don't expect them too but it would have been nice.

Love.

Elaine

Well, last night, dad and I went and caught the ferry, then we walked for almost an hour looking for a place to eat. We finally found a place, Hungry Jacks!

We both ate the largest burger we ever saw, an Angus Ultimate Cheeseburger. Dad couldn't finish his burger. I also bought chips and a drink to share.

I said that I wouldn't probably eat the burger again, it had 2 massive beef patties, 2 thick slices of cheese, and pickles, not much else besides the sauces and the bun.

We caught the bus back and slept pretty much straightaway.

Woke up late today, Thinking of going to a nearby factory outlet, however, I might have to go home to do more studies. Need to gather more journals etc for the assignment which I will need to write next week. Very busy! University officially starts again on the 2nd of January 2018, which is next week Tuesday.

I think I even have an online meeting soon, our last one for University.

Looking forward to finish this subject. Mum said I should branch out to computers for work. Not sure about that, it'll be hard to break into the job market. I'll be competing with all the young ones, and at my age they might expect me to be more experienced. Plus it is a very male dominated area. At least with Libraries I can work part time and I have a lot more experience. I will like to take her suggestion seriously though and think about doing something computer wise with a Library stance to it.

Maybe might even do records and archives in the future. I'm more curious about records than archives. Thinking of doing it through Deakin University online. It's a Diploma in Records and Archives.

Well, my masters is nearly finished. One more subject to go after this one. I think my convocation will be in Sydney.

Today is a warm day.

Next year will be our school's 20 year anniversary since graduation. I don't know if I'll go. I haven't been up to much and I'm still pretty much the same except fatter. LOL. Very embarrassing actually.

God bless.

Elaine

It's the day after Boxing Day and there's still more studying to be done! Yesterday we had a party for my little nephew who is 1 year old. He was absolutely thrilled and enjoyed the attention.

However, I spent most of the time in my bedroom updating my website, as always. I'm a bit of a loner and do not like to socialise too much.

Today I decided to spend my time studying. There's so much to do. I haven't yet gone through all my resources which I need to get through to start my assignment. I need to write a Marketing Plan for a segment of my targetted customers of the Library I am familiar with. So I decided to choose the caseworkers of my Library, there's about 2000 of them out of the current 14,000 staff so that's a nice big chunk of workers I can target.

Next week I'm going to actually write down my assignment, over 5 days or so. It's meant to be 2500 words, so it'll be around 500 words per day or 2 pages 1.5 spaces, Times New Roman font size 12. Can't wait to finish this subject. I'm up to Module 6 now. I think when university gets back next week, they'll be up to Module 4. So I'm a little ahead but not by much.

I can't wait to finish so I can concentrate on publishing more books. I've published about 31 so far and just published Bread of Life by Saint Thomas Aquinas. You can see more at the store plus on my Lulu store. I made a new brand logo for Go to Mary. I think it looks okay for now. Blue because it's Our Lady's favourite colour, the border has roses which is Our Lady's favourite flower.

Today I didn't do much.

I tried to do some of my 3rd Assignment, where I have to write a Marketing Plan i.e. I read a bit of information on it.

My sibling came over with her family.

Mum made roasted pork with lovely crackling, some vegetables, roast pumpkin and potatoes slices with cheese and bacon. Love it!

I'm now waiting at my other sibling's place waiting to go to Church in the City. We will be going to the 8:00pm mass.

This year was a bit different, because Christmas Eve was on a Sunday, it meant we had to fulfil both Sunday obligation and Holy Day obligation, we did it by going to Sunday Vigil mass on Saturday evening and going to Christmas vigil mass on 8:00pm Sunday.

Phew!

Very hot day.

Reading through my books, I think I did quite well. Going to donate some to the Perpetual Adoration Chapel I volunteer in.

Waiting for around 6 books to come through post so I can check out the cover and the insides for any wording mistakes.

I read the Handbook on Faith Hope and Love by Saint Augustine, and I approved it. Now reading Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena.

Eating dinner now

Love

Elaine

Well, I've been thinking about my future goals, what I'll do once I finish studying which will be middle of 2018.

I've decided I want to do the following:

1. Publish 10 books for 2018. I've already published around 30. You can see them in Go to Mary's store or Go to Mary's Lulu bookstore.
2. Volunteer online for United Nations. If time permits this is a definite.
3. Draw more and add more artwork to my Rebubble store. Not a lot of artworks yet. And they are not that good. So need to improve.
4. Take up sewing.
5. Take up piano lessons. I like the piano and I think if I practice more this might be good for me.
6. Cook more. I don't cook enough. Will like to bake more cookies and cakes.
7. Update my current books. This is going to take a lot of work. Heaps of reading to make sure they are top quality. Will do this before publishing any more books.
8. Make more videos. Will prefer to make one video per day time permitting. Currently a bit last plus need some public domain pictures to do it. It's an incentive if I can find them!
9. Open a store. Sigh. This is a dream. Not sure if I can ever run a business though. But it'll be nice to either open an online or physical store. Would like to sell stationery, art, and books and statues and other catholic ephemera. Maybe I'm kinda doing something similar now with my online bookstore and Redbubble site.

Goals by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images

Stress by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images

Hi all,

The above is a screenshot of an online Library I'm working on for Go to Mary. I've so far posted over 70 or so items. Currently having problems with embedding items from the website in an iframe, so I've contacted my webhost provider support and hopefully they can help me deal with the problem soon.

So excited about going overseas. Unfortunately there has been a shooting in Las Vegas, exactly where we are going. Very scary. 2 people have died so far, many more injured.

The gunman has been caught fortunately. They said that no other gunen were involved. The shooting happened in a music festival.

I can't wait to have a driverless car. Apparently Volkswagon will have one out by 2025, that is 8 years time.

Didn't do much else today, just prepared myself with getting ready for the trip by preparing documents.

Also made Nutella cookies. Very easy, 1 jar of Nutella, add a cup of plain flour, add an egg, mix well and then bake in the oven at 180C for 10-12 minutes. Delicious. Bringing it to work tomorrow.

Elaine

Well it's official, I'm going back to study my Masters of Information Studies (Records and Archives Management) at Charles Sturt University.

It will take me about 2 years to complete even though I'm studying 3 subjects only as the 3rd subject is only held in second semester.

I'm going back to work on Monday and feel a bit tensed. Excited but tensed. I'm going to work harder and better.

Next week Saturday and Sunday I'm going to Homebush for Academic Writing workshop which I think will be beneficial as it has been some time, well half a year since I've written academically. Exciting times.

This will be my forth degree. I don't plan to stop as I'm worried about my brain not being utilised and therefore succumbing to some decay!

I've recently published 3 books within this month. I'll be making them available on Book Depository, the book I published by Saint Jerome is doing quite well. I've made so far roughly AUD$20 selling my books, but I sell them very cheaply so I don't get much.

My Kindle 2 is not downloading through 3g. I was thinking of buying another Kindle but I think I can just transfer files across using my Chromebook It is just as fast and I use my Chromebook all the time.

At new years eve my dad and I saw the 9pm fireworks in the city. We ate a huge dinner at Superbowl in China town but was locked out of Circular Quay and walked till we could see another place and saw the fireworks underneath some bridge.

I'm hereby consecrating my studies to Our Lord Jesus, Our Lady, and ask Saint Theresa of Calcutta and Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Saint Joseph to help me with my studies. I ask they help me be humble and studious while still being hardworking helping my parents far more in the housework and cooking and cleaning.

Lord Jesus, I give my life to You.

Amen.

Elaine