I have had my X-Pen graphic drawing tablet for a while now and this is where I am. 😬 My handwriting is still a mess and I need to practice more. I'm currently using Canva Pro and for me, it is good enough alternative to Photoshop which now has a monthly subscription. The standalone one-time purchase is no longer possible.😢

Many years ago, A dear friend of mine taught me the basics of computer programming. I have zero knowledge, but I was determined to learn a new skill. Coding requires a lot, and I mean tons of patience. The ability to stare at a computer screen for hours, creating instructions for a computer to perform specific tasks. It's time-consuming, with never-ending challenges and frustration in between, but the biggest moment is being able to semi-successfully solve a very complex problem, just like today.

I was just adding a new code for a future recipe entry, but somehow, I deleted something, and the code no longer works as intended.😕 I tried retrieving it, checking my notes for that specific code, but yeah, I couldn't make it work, and the problem worsened. Tried another method, and the picture below 👇 happened. 

p.s. 

excuse my red eyes as I have eye allergies due to dust. No matter how much I vacuum during this time of the year (It's Summer now here in the Philippines) we still accumulate tons of dust. 😞

Organizing my books in categories is no longer enough ever since I discovered Wholesale Books Ph. They have a really good selection of books and the reader in me can't stop from buying. My number one worry is I might duplicate my copies. I am just a reader and I'm not really planning to sell books right now. 

Good thing, I discovered Bookshelf app that can track my physical books without me digitally digging into it like what I've done before with GoodReads. Wholesale Books Ph do live selling and deciding whether you want a book or not is very crucial. I don't have a lot of time to check GoodReads which sometimes loads forever on my phone. By the time, I read the synopsis, someone already got the book. 

This app is a game-changer for me. I can easily check what titles I have by author's Name. Such an awesome tracker. The best part of it is, that the books can be organized the way I like them (book covers only show when you do a search.) Easy for me to spot what I already have. 

Originally,  my supplies are organized in my drive F by categories. This setup works for me for a while. 

But eventually, I accumulated a lot again. It drives me nuts to think that I am back to where I started. I need to do something about it. And so I did. I deleted 80% of my supplies and transferred them to the cloud. The deleting part is the hardest as I wonder if I might use it in the future. But my inner self talks me out of that scenario and put me back to the present reality that I am not using based on my past projects this year. It's just there on my drive waiting for me. They needed to be deleted. 

After a few days, here is my cloud drive. It feels so good to see those numbers in my folders. Reminding me to focus more on creating more projects with minimal supplies. 

Last year, the same month this year, I almost lost my mind trying to figure out why my printer wouldn't print properly. After searching the web and asking around, I stumbled upon this article about fixing my printer after the windows update. It did fix it. Then a few weeks ago, windows did another update and yes, it broke my printer again. This time around, the color becomes muted like I am adding a filter to the pictures. It is okay in a few photos, but not in all. I tried different solutions only to be disappointed in the end. I give up and just let it be. Then this evening, I decided to search again for solutions and found this and this. I restore the default device profile and color/intensity. I printed my wallpaper and cross my fingers. It did print the photo correctly. :) 

Hello There! How you've been? I hope you are all fine. I am Okay and my absence in this space of mine was due to a lot of things. I'm happy to be back here.

The first thing I did, was to code my sidebar. It's been an hour already and I'm still stuck on my "currently reading" as the images won't move to the center. I'm a bit frustrated because I already tried several codes and still not working. I am getting tired and restless. I want to ask my dear friend M (who is good at coding) but I decided not to. I know I can do this. I will figure this out eventually. 

One of my favorite communication tools is email (specifically Gmail) and we have a love-hate relationship until yesterday. I got tired of crossing out the Daily Inbox Clean in my to-do list. So tired of it. My labels have also been all over the place since last year. I want to be more productive this year. I need to face the dreaded truth: 58, 515, or 5.41GB of emails in my inbox and I need to clean that or I will go insane just thinking about it.

So sorry there is no before screenshot of my inbox, but here are my labels.

• Freebies-this is self-explanatory
• Home Management-anything that has to do with home like recipes, money; budget, home design (tiny house), etc.
• Online Member-newsletter or updates from a website I subscribe to like Facebook, Instagram, etc.
• Online Work-I have several things I do that I offer online but nothing is set in stone. I constantly evolve as an artist and I offer products or services based on client needs.
• Shopping-this is also self-explanatory.
• Subscriptions-wholesale suppliers of my physical products and website that I need to subscribe to because of work.
• To Read-this is where the fun stuff is. any email under this category is read after all the emails above.

Of course, I didn't stop with the labels. I'm also tired of manually transferring the emails to their designated category. Wasted so much time doing this for years and need to do something about it. So, I asked hubby if an email could go automatically to their labels. He said "You need to create rules" and I was "What?" He demonstrates how he creates rules so emails will automatically organize themselves. I am blown away with that simple trick. It was amazing discovering things for the first time. I need to try that immediately. The moment I added the filter for incoming and old emails I was literally over the moon. So happy to be finally free from this tedious task.

I also started deleting emails from the archive. Instead of keeping them there and ending up eating up my storage space, I let go of them and felt better after. :)

I woke up today, feeling better knowing that when I open my inbox, emails will be ready for me to read.

After talking to my two friends about what type of domain and hosting to buy I finally decided yesterday.

Package #1
Domain: for $6.99/ a year
Hosting: FREE (blogger.com)

Package #2
Domain: $10.20/ a year
Hosting: $3.36/Quarterly

I chose Package #2 but then again I changed my mind and picked package #1. I went to the package # 1 site and applied for it. At the end of the transaction, it was indicated that I have to wait for 24 hours for my code. So I decided to browse for blogger themes and create a new blog. After 4 hours of browsing, the only thing I got is a headache from installing themes and then trying to figure out what went wrong with the code. That's the reason why I don't like bloggers. It always makes me mad every time I tried to change my themes. And then when I decided to stop, I got curious and opened my email. There, the email that I've been waiting for. :) I called hubby so we could read the email together. After reading the email, we were dumbfounded.  We need to send proof of identification (I.D. or Passport) either by fax or email in order for them to authenticate our identity. According to the email, they need that because of the rampant scamming online. Come on, Were the ones shielding money here not them? So why do they need to know us? Hubby got mad and decided to cancel it. It looks like a scam to us. What do you think? They are inquiring about PII and we believe it is a scam to ask for that information.

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