Friday Link Love - Fighting the Funk Edition
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I’ve been suffering from a major writing funk this month. Hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance right at the beginning of the month seems to have burned me out on writing for some reason. It took me more than 12 hours over two days to complete it and was up until 3 am on that Monday morning finishing it. Since then, I just haven’t felt the same.
Don’t get me wrong, I want to write - I just can’t seem to bring myself to do it. While I have suffered a drought of ideas, it goes beyond a normal writer’s block. I believe a major contributer to the problem is the fact that I have so many new things going on with the start of the new church season. My original obligation of writing a 5-minute spoken essay each week for our evening service has been replaced with helping teach music to K-2 and 3-5 graders for 3 hours on Sunday night and week-long reading in preparation for my 3 hour Disciple meeting on Monday nights. That doesn’t take into my exiting obligation to choir and its expansion into drama. My love of working in the church seems to be taking so much time, I’m loath to write in what little time I have for myself and my family.
Things seem to be looking up lately. Now that work is beginning on finishing our basement, I’ll finally have someplace to go and hide to write and enjoy some “me” time. The mere thought of having a true office of my own at home soon is starting to bring me out of my physical, mental, and emotional funk.
Well, enough of my whining… It’s been a long time since I’ve done a Link Love post, so I’m loading up with more links than ever this week to make up for the lost Love. Here’s some of the interesting articles I found this week - please visit and let these wonderful authors entertain and inform you.
- How to sell your home fast in a buyer’s market
- Edible Landscaping Part 2: Landscaping the Frugal Way
- Why Many “Alternative Income” Ideas Aren’t Worth Your Time - And What You Might Do With It Instead
- I Was Wrong: Scrapping the Child Chore Chart for a New Allowance System
- 40 Money Tips for College Students
- Early Retirement Case Study - My Dollar Plan Retires At 29
- When Your Budget Can’t Change, Keeping The Spending In Check
- A Little Something Learned About Apartment Living
- The Trillion-dollar bailout and why it will be profitable for taxpayers
- Watch out for this grocery pricing trick
- Economist Paul Krugman - “This Could Be 1931 - The Collapse Of EVERYTHING.”
- It Looks Like Market Turmoil Is Scaring Off Young Investors
- Embracing the Beauty of Being Average
- What Is Short Selling?
Have a great weekend. I look forward to getting a lot of writing done next week while I’m on vacation!
September 26th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Hope everything works out as you want it to, and thanks for the link. Look forward to seeing you write more!
September 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Hope you get out of that funk soon! Thanks for including my article.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Nothing worse than a funk and glad to hear your office is coming along! Thanks for including me and can’t wait for you to get back to writing.
Your article on emotional house purchases was great!
September 26th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Thanks for the linkage! Enjoy your weekend.
September 27th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Thanks for the link love man!
September 28th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Thanks for the mention :).