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More Fall whether under the Texan sun
Beautiful day today. The weather is cooler and delicious. It's invigorating. How I wish I could spend all day outside. Shame TRF didn't start this weekend. Be perfect weather for it. But I had a great weekend nonetheless.

Can I remember it? Umm... I forget Friday, but Saturday, I hung out with my sister. That was too cool. It's not often I get the chance and usually we go to a movie. While I love movies, it doesn't give me enough time to really get to know her. There's a big age difference between us...what 15 years, so I like to do what I can.

We got to go down to the Pecan Street Fall Festival. Walked around, checked out some bands, then went back to my apartment to introduce her to her family...my kitties. :)

But before we got there, we stopped off for some Japanese Pearl Drinks. I love those! It's amazing. My sis spent only a few years in Hawaii as a wee one yet she remembers quite a bit about the experience, including the sushi and shave ice with Azuki beans.

Sounds wierd huh? Well, it's quite delicious. These red beans are very sugar-y and taste delicious. Momoko (I think that's the name) serves some sweets with these beans. First time I've found them outside of Hawaii.

Later that evening, I went to see Under the Tuscan Sun. I understand it deviates greatly from the book, but the movie was a fantastic tale of discovery and rebirth. And of course, it left me aching for Italy all the more.

I wish my mom would write a book on her experiences. She's been living in Italy for nearly twenty years and has a plethora of experiences and an ability to tell stories that no doubt would leave similiar stories on Europe in the dust. Ah well... Guess it might be up to me. Not sure if I'm up to that challenge though. The best I've done so far is my Christmas in Italy journal entries, but I don't believe that's quite the type of stuff the average reader would totally dig.

Well, I find myself newly dedicated to trying to get back to Italy in the very near future... well, that and just escaping in general. I love movies about places far away and times long ago, it's the romantic in me, I guess. But the problem is I find myself mentally escaping. I know, that doesn't sound quite like a problem. But it aroused some interesting thoughts in me.

I've noticed a stigma in me and the way I was raised where you have to have a certain profession in order to have a career. I'm working in computers. Why? Because I didn't really know what else to do. There's the jobs you find working for the state. Then there's independent businesses. None of these really fit my personality that requires flexibility. But I feel like I was raised where working minimum wage is not acceptable. I'm not saying it is, but you can't have a career working for $8 an hour or what not. (Course you can barely make a living but that's a different story)

What would I do if I totally broke apart from what I expect should be done? (aside from music) I don't know.

There's gonna come a time when I'll need to work part-time, and the Bards will make up the rest of my time. Well, that's just dandy, but what will I do?

Quite honestly, unless I want to work in a corporate environment, finding part-time work that pays more than $8 an hour is not too likely. Course I can also go independent with desktop publishing or whatnot, but that means getting out and working hard to find business.

Course in Italy, there doesn't seem to be that stigma. You can work any job and that's normal. Maybe it's just my own perceptions of a different culture, but when my time comes, I'm gonna do my best to think out of the box methinks.

Now if I can only get out of Austin. That's the other thing that's wearing me down. I want to move. Live anywhere but here. Maybe find some place with cheaper rent and cool weather year-round.

Course that'd suck cuz I couldn't visit with my sis as often, but I'm sure my mental health would flourish.

So anyways, Sunday I spent finally finishing up my taxes. Looks like I should do well. Dropped all the info off to my tax attorney and can't wait to see how well I done did.

Oh, I posted a new song in my forum. This one is a parody of "Black Velvet Band", about a black cat.

I also watched a LOT of movies and TV shows on my computer while I putzed around. T'was a pretty nice day. Then later I went for a Lavendar Pearl Drink.

Then later that night, I sent out new issues of The Bards Crier's Music Marketing and Music Promotion Tips Ezine and my Celtic Music Magazine. I haven't published The Bards Crier in over a year, so I was very happy to get that issue out. And it's concise.

As much as I sometimes enjoy long articles and whatnot, I've found what I love most are short articles and ezines that get straight to the point, and don't have a lot of junk. So I've been tightening up my ezines. Extra pleased with The Crier. Felt good to get it out. Now if I can only finish a couple o'those eBooks I was hoping to publish.

Well, we'll see what happens. Meantime, I'll stop roaming around writing about nothing. Happy days are here again! :)

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