Friday, July 10, 2009

Summer, friends, future directions...

Well, it's a summertime Friday and I can't keep my mind on my work for more than about 22 seconds. I have a tenacious headache, too, which isn't helping. I took an ibu-tab from the school medicine cabinet, but the pain has not abated as yet...boo. Anyway, I've been neglecting this blog, but no one has been clamoring for updates, so I suppose it doesn't matter much. I've been spending time doing fun summer things like going to the beach and performing pool maintenance and looking at real estate, so I haven't just been shirking my writing initiatives for no purpose...so if you have been waiting patiently for updates, know that I've actually been quite busy. :-) I've also been assisting with the ongoing grandparents' estate disposal/dispersal, which includes a lot of supportive conversations with my mother that somehow require a good deal of time.

In other news, some good friends from Minnesota have been visiting, and it's been great to spend time with them...too bad I have to work because I really hate cutting evening picnic table conversations short at midnight. Haha. I think my lack of sleep related to the sudden addition of friends is actually what's causing this pesky headache, but I'm not unhappy to suffer for a social life.

*many hours later*...so I got distracted doing actual work, but I wanted to say one thing before I close this entry related to the "future directions" portion of my post title. I'm thinking that in an effort to write more often, I am going to dedicate the future of this blog to talking about writing, posting writing samples, and recording inspirational stuff that might be used in my writing (and I'm not referring to pansy-ass "inspirational" quotes). I mean, I may have already been doing these things here in a less focused way, but I think I'm going to be more serious about it. To add some urgency to that sentiment, I truly believe that writing is the only thing I can do to save myself from a life of secretarial work. So what do you think?