The Neverending Reader

Happy New Year! (a little late)

Well, it's been over a year since I've written on this blog and probably about time I get back into the online scene. A lot has happened since my last post in 2015... though nothing extremely crazy. I still have not successfully completed a NaNoWriMo, finished the Stones' baby blanket, or the Noriega's Baby blanket... I have changed Districts but am doing the same job that I've been doing for the last year and a half or so. I'm also learning calligraphy, and currently participating in 30 days of drills with showmeyourdrills.com. It's been fun, all while trying to figure out how I am going to get promoted to Seattle within this next year. Wish me luck!

Anyway, I was able to complete my 2016 reading challenge through Goodreads.com, by reading 45 books by December 30th, 2016! This year I have upped my goal by 1 and am planning to read at least 46 books just so I can say I beat my last year number. So far, so good, as my challenge widget on the site is telling me that I am 3 books ahead of schedule. If I can keep this up for at least a few more months, I probably won't be depriving friends and family of my love and affection during those last months of the year when it is busy in retail and I still have a ton of books to finish in order to reach my goal.

This year, I want to accomplish something. Be the best that I can be. Excel in areas that I have previously let go by the waste-side. I know that 2017 will be a great year if I keep focused on the important things. Crafts, Goals, Family and Friends as well as work related accomplishments and continuing to hone in on my expertise.

I will do my best to start documenting more, take more pictures and be present!! Let's hope I can stay with it.

Every procrastinators last words...
However, maybe I mean it!

Maybe I should clarify what it is I am talking about. Today is November 1st and thus it is NaNoWriMo Day, 2015! Today is the day that a bunch of people are starting their 50,000 word novels written throughout the month of November. You can't start ahead and you have to finish by November 30th to win. What do you win? Nothing... Well, not nothing exactly. You get the satisfaction of completing a novel in one month's time. Most of those novels don't get published but a few have. Really, it is winning for yourself - that you have actually accomplished and completed something as big as writing a novel. If you start on the 1st, you only have to average less than 2,000 words per day. That's do-able. But, I work in retail. And I love to distract myself from completing things that are important to me. Take Bennett's baby blanket. He's already 5 months old and I haven't even reached a half way point. In order to finish his blanket by Christmas time I really need to be focused on knitting during my free time. So what have I been doing lately? Watching Gossip Girl on Netflix. A complete waste of time. And yet, right now I am contemplating going ahead and finishing the episode that I didn't finish at 1:30 this morning when I was still awake and watching tv on my iPad.
It looks like I'm fucked. I'm damned if I do, and damned if I don't! Whichever cliche you'd like to pick... On the one hand, I've never even gotten close to writing that novel. On the other hand, I really want to finish that blanket for the Stone's. Plus... I'm not sure I'm ready to write the novel that I want to write so I have no idea what I would write about! I like the idea of having something to do with myself other than work all the time... perhaps I can come up with something. Maybe tomorrow.

It has almost been a year since the last time I posted anything and so much has changed! We have moved back to Los Angeles and sold our Condo in Oxnard. I now work in a bigger store with more foot traffic than I have ever experienced in my life. And right now I am feeling unhappy.
There have been a few things that have happened to me in the last few weeks at work and honestly it's probably the last few months, since time passes quickly and yet not quickly enough. I am thinking that I want to try to find something different to do but I have no possible clue for what that could be. Part of me thinks I need a fresh start and a new challenge that could entail leaving the company that I have worked for, for over 8 years now. But when I even consider this it makes me nervous knowing that I have no other work experience. What the hell am I going to do?
Perhaps I should request a pep-talk from my manager or my store manager? I am not sure this would help. Do I want them to know that I am having issues... probably not. Every day that I go to work I feel like time is my enemy and I never have enough of it. I just don't see being where I am for very long. I need a sign.
I'd like to actually write my book that I have been thinking about for 5 years. I have all of the ideas but they aren't exactly free flowing on to a page right now. There is no time. When I get home from work I eat dinner and fall asleep. I'm not even watching any TV shows right now! I need to do something that makes me happy.
I know I have felt like this before but I can't remember how I got out of it. Did I just move on to another job? Did I just find happiness in what I was doing? I can't remember. I wish I could do something, anything, to not feel the way that I have been feeling. One day at a time, I guess.

So,l'm sitting in a waiting room waiting for my car to be done with it's oil change and I am super thankful for technology! I started out by just using the 3g on my phone, watching the battery depleat every minute and then realized'I bet they have public wifi.' I was right!
l decided to catch up on my news only to realize that Zite now thinks that I am most interested in Celebrity News because I was looking yesterday to see if the autopsy report concluded that Cory Monteith had died of an overdose. Stupid me,I'll probably be paying for that for awhile by having to sift through all things celebrity before actually learning about cool new stuff that I usually find out from Zite. Anyway, I went directly to the section for gadgets because I love gadgets only to see that Sony came out with a smart watch! When did that happen? The answer is long enough to be coming out with a second version in September. I had been so enticed by the Pebble that I never considered looking for a smart watch. Awhile back I funded a Kickstarter campaign for a watrproof bracelet that changes color when you recieve a new notification on your phone and I thought that was really cool. Since l generally care about Fashion over Function I still think this is a better option for me than a smart watch (not to mention my TINY wrists) but now I kind of feel like I've lost my know. Seems like a funny thing to feel loss about but it is what it is.
Nevertheless, I'm still sitting at the dealership waiting for my car and loving technology! Instead of watching the horrible sports that are on the tv, I'm sitting with my tablet and enjoying my freedom to write what I'm thinking on the internet. Jeez I'm such a nerd!

Time to find a new book.

Isn’t it amazing how a new hair cut can give you a different perspective on the world? Well, okay that might be a little over zealous. I’m still excited to have healthy, beautiful, and long (though about 5 inches shorter) hair. I liked this new hair stylist. I just got my hair cut not a color though I may adventure and have it colored there as well… she was quiet and sweet which was a lot better than having someone loud and obnoxious. Not that my last hairdresser was, she is just far away and I hate her receptionist. Anyway, I’d like to start writing again and so with a few inches shorter of hair maybe my brain will work better! Or maybe it was that fantastic head massage while she was washing my hair… the world may never know!