Posted in Everyday, tagged cocoa, hot chocolate, muffin, retirement on November 27, 2012| 2 Comments »
The air is a crisp twenty degrees and the dawn is dark. The moon in the roving clouds looks like a painting. This is the perfect morning for lingering with a cup of hot chocolate and a warm muffin.
But here I am in the sterile and stark office of my day job.
In one thousand eighty-four days I will be lingering with a cup of hot chocolate and a warm muffin on a cold morning like today.
For now I’m just dreaming of the day I can retire.
Posted in Everyday, tagged Auntie B's Wax, Etsy, NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, writing on November 12, 2012| 6 Comments »
It’s nearly mid-November. You know what that means? We’re halfway through NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo. Don’t know what those are? NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel(la) in the thirty days of November. NaBloPoMo is National Blog Posting Month, a challenge to post one blog entry every day of November. Guess what? I’ve done neither.
I’ve had a problem with writing posts and also listing items in my Etsy shop. I’m completely blocked. Even with the two challenges of NaNoWriMo (something I’ve done in the past, but the story was pretty lame) and NaBloPoMo (never attempted) in front of me I’ve remained stuck. That either means I’m really stuck, or the fact that a challenge is right in front of my face is just another reason for me to rebel and say NO!
Writing a novel in thirty days seems much less daunting to me. One idea and run with it. Coming up with a blog post every single day for thirty days means coming up with thirty different ideas. Or else coming up with pretty pathetic posts. For me, that is. Lots of people do it successfully and keep the interest of their audience. Also, I’m not one of those people who have blog posts banked up in my draft folder in their entirety or even partially written. Plus, the acronym NaBloPoMo sounds kind of…dirty. For any of you who know who my father-in-law was you’ll know why. It’s embarrassing.
I’m going to try to do better by you, and most of all myself. In the meantime be assured that I am being productive in other areas of my life. Really. I have. You’ll have to trust me on this one.
Posted in Everyday, tagged Cat Stevens, Harold and Maude, video on November 8, 2012| 1 Comment »
I read a blog post the other day. The author is a young woman who wrote about how she wants to be in a remake of Harold and Maude, except with the genders switched (young woman, old man). She, of course, would play the young woman, and she thinks the old man should be played by…Woody Allen.
Just the idea of this is wrong and bad, and bordering on blasphemy. Don’t even think about messing with perfection.
Posted in Everyday, tagged Dean Koontz, Jack-o-Lantern, Odd Thomas, reading, writing on November 1, 2012| 6 Comments »
I’ve been reading a lot lately. I’ve been reading the blogs. I’ve also been reading Odd Thomas, by Dean Koontz. And reading magazines. Reading a lot, but not writing.
I can’t get into a writing groove these days. I can’t even summon up a comment on the blogs I read. Do you call that writer’s block? More likely a lack of motivation to come up with words.
My blog has suffered as has my Etsy shop. I don’t have the creativity to come up with writing descriptions for my new items.
Perhaps I’m in my preparation-for-winter lull. I kind of wither away like the leaves, getting kind of crispy and flurrying around aimlessly in anticipation of winter. Then my mood flourishes in the deadness of the cold and snow.
In my laying invisible and silent, I hope you all had a festive Halloween. We’ve got a little candy left over ~ that’s never a bad thing.
Posted in Everyday, tagged sleep, time on October 8, 2012| 4 Comments »
When I was a sophomore in high school I acted as the editor of the sophomore section of the high school year book. I learned a lot about layouts, copy, photos, etc., but the thing I remember most was the dreaded white space ~ those terrible blanks on the page when the photos and text aren’t laid out properly.
When I got my own apartment, and later when I moved into a house, I learned about dead space. Much like white space, dead space is a blank area in a room, devoid of any furniture or other decor. Dead space is also a term that can be used when trying to fill a box, suitcase, or cupboard. It’s the holes of emptiness that make for very inefficient storage.
I was thinking about white space and dead space as I was trying to fall asleep last night. I was so tired, yet I couldn’t quite reach the blissful state of slumber. I kept thinking of all the things I could do instead of just laying there trying to sleep, but I was too tired to get up and do anything. Those are the nights I call my white space or dead space nights. Holes and blanks in the continuum of time that I can’t seem to fill with productivity or sleep.
It drives me crazy as it seems like such a waste. How inefficient!
When laying out a yearbook or decorating a house filling in the white/dead spaces just takes some trial and error. Trying to fill in white/dead spaces in time is quite another thing. Time keeps moving. If you leave a hole in it that hole will be there forever, never coming back to give you a second chance to fill it.
How are you filling in your white space?
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