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Posted in brain games, spot the odd, Thoughts, Trying to build a business

Spot The Odd Cute And Colorful Animals and Thoughts about Being the Stubborn Frog

Posted on by katherinebrianneparilli

I am doing my best to consistently post videos so that I can build my You Tube audience, get monetized, and hopefully get some cross over sales in my Etsy shop. But my iron has been doing its best to make that impossible. In one month, my ferritin dropped nearly a hundred points taking my energy with it. Suddenly a task that took me 20 minutes, required 5 hours and a hundred rest breaks. Thanks to low iron levels, creating the shortest of videos feels like a 500-mile marathon.

Thanks to my ongoing battle with iron, I have found myself staring through fatigue and pain glazed eyes, asking myself why I insist on trying to accomplish anything. Questioning why this stubborn frog determinedly hits its head against the wall when it would be far more pleasant to sink into a comfy corner and let the world pass by.

But for some reason, even though that would be the easiest choice, it is not one I want to make. Even if my shop never takes off, even if no one ever watches my videos, I cannot imagine spending my life melted into the sofa with nothing but a flickering TV screen to show for my life. Sure, there are days, weeks, and even at times, months when the pain gets so strong that I have no choice but to limp along like a half-drowned snail. Unfortunately, there are days and weeks where the weakness and pain become so intense that the only thing I can do is open my computer and stare at the sales page for a few minutes wishing for a sale or watching the subscriber count hoping that the needle will move even one space higher, before closing the lid and comforting myself with the hopes that tomorrow will be a better day.

I am not sure why, when budget and health issues have seemingly conspired so perfectly that for every step forward it seems like I fall 10 steps backward, something inside of me refuses to give up. There are times, when I see how a You tube channel that was started only a few days before or even a couple of months after mine have thousands of subscribers and over a million views, or I watch a video talking about an Etsy shop that is only a couple of months old and already making hundreds of sales that I become so disappointed that a few times I have come close to throwing in the towel. But a day or two later, thanks to an unexpected like on one of listings or a new subscriber, and I am right back in the ring trying to fight that invisible Spector of chronic illness.

Even though it makes no sense, there is something inside those refuses to give up. Something inside that hopes that someday, somehow, something will change. And to my complete surprise, at last my determined effort to be as consistent as my never-ending battle with the giant anemia, the monsters pain and fatigue, will at last become a distant memory as I finally grasp my humble reward of earning my own bread.

Posted in brain games, Find the Difference, Fun Puzzles, life, spot the odd, Thoughts

Spot The Odd Bird Challenge Your Brain🦢🐔🐦 Find the Difference Quiz: Can You Find Them?

Posted on by katherinebrianneparilli

It has been well over a year since I have actively posted something to this blog, because of the uncertainty created by having to sell our home thanks to the sky rocketing cost of living. I figured that it would be a while before I would have a chance to post again, so I set up about six months of articles that would automatically post. Hoping that by that time we would have found a stable place to live. Was I ever wrong.

In less than a year we moved 7 different times, going from one AirBNB to another. Until thankfully, my Uncle recognized that we were in danger of ending up on the street and invited us into his home. And true to the saying, no act of kindness goes unpunished, one health disaster after another has resulted in my mother and I being unable to drive for the last 8 months. Instead of enjoying leisurely days, he has had to ferry us from one doctor appointment to another, take us to pick up meds, and even drive us to the grocery store.

It is sad but true that stress is the word of the day and has been for the past few years. And it certainly has not been reduced by looking at the price of housing. Ouch! It is hard to believe that a moldy, hole ridden, major fixer upper, now cost as much as a two story, 5-6 bedroom, 4 bath home, with pool did only a few months after we moved into the house we had to sell in 2008, never mind what it would have been able to get when I was a kid.

Needless to say, I needed something to get my mind off of the intense stress of wondering if we would ever be able to have our own home again, and what will happen next if my health keeps slipping. 24 iron infusions in a year triggering major fibromyalgia flare ups hardly establishes confidences in one’s future. We are definitely giving our trust muscles a major workout as we do our best to cast our burdens on Jesus.

I knew that I needed some type of down time as we try to regroup and figure out what is going on and what we should do next. Yet I also wanted a way to advertise my books on Amazon and activity packs on Etsy. Thankfully the Lord opened a door to an inexpensive course about creating quiz videos for You Tube. I was already making Bible games, but it had never occurred to me to try and make quiz videos using some of the games in my activity packs.

I do not know if my little quiz channel will take off. Nothing I do seems to work. I certainly give it my hundred percent, but sometimes I think that my hundred percent is equal to -1000. It really is frustrating, but as long as I have reason to believe this is the path I am supposed to be walking in right now, by the grace of God I will plug along like a determined turtle trusting that one day He will help me to win the race.

It might never take off and grant me the hundreds of sales that I need or even reach the mark for getting monetized (although I wish it would and that is my goal), but at least it has been fun to make. And maybe if I am lucky, it will at least bring me an extra sell or two. I hope that you enjoy this video. It was the very first one that I released for my new quiz channel.