06 Jan, 2009
Clearing my brain, and a bit about New Year’s resolutions or lack thereof
Posted by andrea tomkins in: Misc. life
1) The first cup of coffee is so good that no other cup of coffee can beat it. Ever.
2) I am incredibly sore. I went to the gym yesterday, for the first time in three weeks. It hurts to raise my arms… but I can live with that for now. I don’t see myself needing to do raise my arms very often today. Ha ha.
3) I have two writing assignments and one web design-related project to work on today. But first, coffee and some verbiage to help clear my brain.
4) There has been a lot being written around the blogosphere about New Year’s resolutions. Should you make them? Skip them? How specific or general should they be? Why do we lose steam? Why bother etc etc. There’s already been all kinds of pontification and I don’t really want to add to the noise (yet here I am, ha!) but there was one post which made me stop and think, and that was Ginger’s (who, in turn borrowed from another blog). The idea is this: instead of making a resolution, choose one word to live by and adopt it as your own for the entire year. Ginger chose “grow.”
I like this idea. And I’ve been chewing on the idea for awhile and haven’t yet come up with a good, all encompassing word which will motivate me to reach a higher level of conscious living. But I will!
5) Here and there I’ve made little lists of things I want to accomplish in my lifetime. Over the years I’ve been able to strike them off one by one. I have had my photos published, I’ve had plenty of satisfying bylines, I have a little newspaper column (small but sweet!), I am my own boss, and work from home, and I have had many many opportunities to participate in some great projects. I have a degree, am married to the best guy, have two lovely children … but you know what’s missing from the list? (I feel silly even admitting this.) A book deal. Yes. A book deal. I feel like I’m jinxing something by writing about it, but I wanted to officially put it out there to The Universe. Because if you don’t ask The Universe you will never receive, right?
There was another story in the news the other day about a blogger and a book deal. (I can’t even remember the details, but how cool would it be to receive that email?) Those kinds of stories give me hope that it can happen to me, but then again I wonder if it’s too bold a wish for me to make. And I wonder whether I have enough material to write about anything. Or whether I have it in me to sit down and write ALL THOSE finely crafted WORDS.
What would you write about if you got your book deal? (Ha. I’m not looking for ideas. Just curious.) Or let me backtrack, because I’m probably not alone in this. Do you think a book deal is the goal for most bloggers out there?
