June is
also my birthday month (my grandfather nicknamed me Rosebud). Not that I’m happy about being a year older, but hey,
can’t stop that clock and still be around to notice, unless you’re immortal
like a vampire, or some kind of freaky automaton robot thing with a human soul
trapped inside. Heh.
So how’s
that story coming along, you ask?
Well, I’ll
tell ya. The last six months have been a whirlwind of productivity in getting
my life onto some sort of forward moving track. Thanks to those twin sisters of
success, Persistence and Patience, I now weigh a lot less and am in better
shape than I was ten years ago. My home business of creating photo art is about
ready to launch, and getting up at 5 am to put in a solid hour of writing a day
has resulted in paragraphs of crap being revised into paragraphs of
slightly-more-readable crap. Yep.
Progress has been made. Am I done the book yet? No. But every step
counts, every word counts, every second spent on making my dreams a priority
count.
Yolo: You
only live once. So just do it. Very sage words spoken by a very wise friend.
And
sometimes just doing it means taking a chance on yourself; stepping out of your
comfort zone and trying something new, so it’s with a mixture of excitement and
anxious nail biting, that I make my next announcement…drum roll please…I got a
new job. A promotion at work which I am very honoured to have been given as it
entails more responsibility and slightly more pay for the trade-off of slightly
less hours. Actually, a lot less hours. Which means, that’s right, more time
for me to put the things that matter the most in my life first, like caring for
my son, and running that small business properly and, oh joy, oh bliss…writing
stories. Scary for my bank account of course, but I’ll make up the difference
soon, won’t I? You know, when Tin Heart is snapped up and becomes a NYT best
seller, right? RIGHT?
*sigh*
Truth is
I’m not a special snowflake. I’m just like everyone else. I struggle, dream, and
paying bills each month will always be a circus juggling act. But sometimes
dreams are more important than money. Happiness most certainly is.
YOLO. Just do it. Let your inner rose bloom. You never know what will
happen if you try.
Happy June
everyone!
~Kate
