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Tuesday,
August 27th
On this date last year...

"Day 4..."

Technically speaking, I made the decision to leave Taiwan somewhere between Thursday and Friday while talking to Ginny during the daytime, and then knew for sure by Friday evening after dinner with Joann when I called home to break the news.

That makes today, Day 4.

Oddly enough, I'm no longer freaked out about it. It's cool.

At first, the idea of not having a steady income was a little hard to get used to, but once I accepted the fact that a) it's ONLY money, b) it's only temporary, and most importantly, c) the interest in ORIENTED is very real -- I resigned myself to just moving forward.

I'm a one-woman show, I have minimum overhead, and I certainly don't need an office, etc. A few advertisers a month will be enough to pay my bills and plus, I AM SUCH A LOW MAINTENANCE KINDA GAL.

Give me a can of Chef-Boyardee and I'm happy!

LOL.

Shopping is not on my list of favorite things to do, I don't drink alchohol so going out is not a significant expense for me, I don't eat much and what I do eat, I like to keep simple, I don't have any expensive pastimes (what golf? electronics?), I don't wear makeup except lipstick (though maybe I should), and I ain't the name-brand type or the type that needs to upgrade my cell phone or PDA every time new ones comes out, etc.

Plus, I have zero debt. Now how many people can say that, eh?

So...... aside from rent and going out to dinner with friends, which I suppose can add up, my largest personal expense item would be ummm... COFFEE!

BAD, BAD, GIRL!

Of course there is travel expense which may rack up depending, and I will spend the money on a nice gym, but other than that, I expect to live as a founder of a start-up company, i.e., FRUGALLY, at least until I start generating some money. What the heck, the room I'm living in now is so small that I am proud to say that I can live just about a-n-y-w-h-e-r-e.

I COULD try and raise a little more money to start paying myself salary, but... at this point, I don't believe I need to go down that road. I may have to struggle a bit for the first six months, but that ain't no big deal because in the end, things will work themselves out.

I have total faith in myself, and I have total faith in my product.

Although admittedly... I wasn't exactly feeling this way on this day last year.

SO FUNNY! LOL!

"Can't wait to eat Taco Supremes with extra sour cream!"

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