Tuesday, December 20, 2011

brain out of gear for the holidays

     I finished the gift projects for Christmas, which is reassuring.  I can sit back and try to enjoy all the festivities now.  I will be traveling a lot in the next few days.  J and I will be heading up to the temple to celebrate our anniversary, then doing Christmas with my family, then heading back and doing Christmas with his family.  I have a writing book called "The Right to Write" by Julia Cameron - one of my favorites - and in one chapter she mentions that things like holidays and long periods of unscheduled time tend to make it harder to write.  Routines are good.  I can attest that this is true.  I have resigned myself to the fact that I probably won't get much writing done until after the holiday celebrations are over.  I have gotten a lot of sewing and knitting done, so I have had some creative outlet options.  I feel fairly certain that when January rolls around, I will be very ready to get back into a regular writing routine.  I think one of my New Year's resolutions will be the one I started early - to write more regularly and prolifically, and to record that in this blog.
     As J and I have been discussing what to do to keep our financial heads above water, we have started discussing the possibility of me going back to school yet again - a two year vocational program this time.  We have started looking at what options are out there and what might work well for me.  I am at the point where I am not sure what I can and cannot do, and I am willing to try anything that might work.  I do have a good feeling about getting some more training.  I still have a lot to do to look into it further, and that will have to wait until after the holidays, when people are back to their regularly scheduled routines again.

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