Boiling water and insanity

So it's been slow these past couple weeks. Hate to admit it. I don't like the feeling of work being slow...I'm unaccustomed to the feeling I guess I've been very lucky the past year I took off running right from the start.

I've been thinking a lot about what to do in periods like this. I gotta look at old patterns in my work, evaluate my marketing, find out how to drum up new business. I certainly have ideas on what is causing this...now the trick isn't just knowing the problem(s) but to actually do something about it so I can get the momentum going again. Nobody else is going to do it for me.

Certainly this is the bummer side of self employment. You gotta take the bad side as well as the good. Let this be a lesson for anyone looking at working for themselves.

And then I wonder if I'm just being a total workaholic and I should just enjoy some downtime which is natural in every business? Nooooo, that's too scary. When you work for yourself there isn't anybody else out there that can help you when the chips are all down. Luckily I got some emergency contingencies in the worst case scenario it's really dry for a couple months. Part of being obsessive compulsive like I am gives me the benefit of having thought of things a few months ahead.

God I need some hobbies for times like these..... I'm going insane.

Meanwhile I'm considering a new design for my own site. I'd really like to merge all my sites together somehow. The Gallery and this blog are really fun things for me to maintain and I want to really incorporate these better somehow with the main site. On the flip side, that Flash website is not functional to me. That's a reason why I don't advocate Flash websites too much. They are expensive to develop & a pain to maintain. I want any future website of mine to use as little Flash as possible yet still be cool in some way.

My fiancee visa application has been submitted and received from the immigration office. Now it's just a waiting game. From what I can tell, they're 6 months backlogged on applications. Which would put us to about March 2007 before our case is even on the table to be evaluated. That's already tight -- should something go wrong, we have only 3 months till our wedding time to resolve the situation. Yeah, we're keeping positive about it all, but it's certainly nerve wracking. They only issue reports every 2 or 3 weeks about their backlog times... it's a bit like watching water boil -- I check everyday, even though I know the information will be the same as the last.