so, this was what i spent all last weekend staring at. this is what was on my laptop for 45 hours straight. my blog book was all done and ready … i just had to upload the book onto the blurb site … and from there you place your order.
you see that lovely phrase "your book is in the works"? it was in the works for 45 hours straight … before i finally pulled the plug on it and cancelled it out. it was a hard decision to hit that cancel button … i felt like so much time had been invested that i hated to quit and have to start over. but then i came across someone that had the same 7×7 blog book printed through blurb … the same amount of pages … and she said it only took her about 3 hours to upload the book. so i knew something wasn’t right.
i decided to just wait a few days … i was kind of sick of the book to be honest. but today i wanted to try it again. in the end i realized that i have just about zilch amount of memory on my computer … which is probably one of the reasons everything i do is sooooooooooo slow. i took my laptop to my parents house. and i kid you not, it took me about 10 minutes just to open up the program on my computer just to get to the book. i finally got the book exported to an external harddrive, had my dad download the program on his computer, and imported the book onto his computer … then i was ready to upload.
the book was totally uploaded in just over 1 hour!!!
this is the cover of the book. i did this last … and by then i had no idea what to put on the cover … which is really a book jacket with the flaps on the inside with a headshot photo and text. and i actually did a different font on the cover … but when i switched it to my dad’s computer, he didn’t have that font … so it changed. and then in the switch, a few pages came up with errors … some text was going off the page or something. but you know what … i didn’t care at that point. lol! i told the thing to ignore the "errors" … and to just send it the way it was!
i’m so glad to be done with this! and i’d hate for anyone to think badly of blurb after what i’ve been telling you on mine. lol! it actually is a great idea … and a great program. when my dad downloaded the program, he pulled up some of his blog posts to see how it worked. and i was amazed at how quickly everything was working for him. really fast. nothing compared to how slowly my book was going … every step i took was slow. so i really do think it’s just my computer. all my programs do it … they’re just slow.
so, my book is ordered and in the process of being printed … and should be here in about a week or so. i can’t wait to see it. and i definately plan on doing my other years of blogging … i think it’s cool that i’ll have them in print after all the time i spend blogging. but i most definately WILL NOT start any more books … until i have MORE memory!!!
Laura Vegas 
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