june recap

I think I've been putting off writing this blog entry mainly because June was a blur to me. But really, I don't have much to say. I spent most of the month helping my cousin with a large etsy order, so basically I was making friendship bracelets all month. I took some days off, or rather, did fewer bracelets on some days, just because my brain was starting to leak out of my ears. But we should have the order finished by tomorrow, so at least I'll soon have my time to myself again.

In the free time I'm about to have, I've decided to work on my own etsy shop. Watching my cousin running her business really made me want to actually get mine off the ground. I've had an etsy shop for a few years now, but I've never listed anything in it for more than a few days, and nothing was ever bought. I've decided to change that and really work on making my main product sale-able. So that, and writing, will probably be my focus for the next few weeks.

Business will have to battle with a few other things though. 50/90 started yesterday, and I've already written four songs just in the hope that if I have a bad week I won't fall too far behind. I'll also be getting my new camera in a few days, so I'll have that to play with. But if I manage my time properly, and actually treat my writing and etsy work like a real job, then I should have time for everything I want to do.

And hopefully if that happens, I'll have something more interesting to blog about!


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Listening to: Simple Together by Alanis Morissette. This song really affects me now in ways it never did before.

weird pain

This is random. Anyway, I'm a hopeless romantic, and nothing is better for me than angst: star-crossed lovers and hopeless relationships that somehow manage to make it (or don't). I eat that up like candy. However, sometimes when I'm reading or watching TV or a movie, and there's a big momentous scene--like a couple that's been denying that they love each other and finally come out with it, or someone is injured--I'll get this sharp shooting pain in my neck and chest. It's almost like when you say your heart leaps out of your chest, like the emotion becomes too much for my heart to hold in.

new goals

As I said in a previous blog post, I'm taking a bit of a break from writing this month. So instead of a story a day or even a poem a day, I have new goals. Hey, I have to fill my days with something! (Even if lately that's mostly been crocheting while watching Babylon 5 on Netflix. :D)

tour of my garden: first of june

I thought a nice way to start this month would be to give a tour of my garden. I've put in about five hours in the past two days working on it, and plan to do more all week. This is my garden after that hard work. I'll go around and point out the things that are new. (as in, that watering can. Yay! I've always wanted a watering can!)

end of may

Well, I finished Story a Day, and met my revised goal of 22 stories! One twitter fiction, several that I would consider flash fiction, and two songs, but also several in the 2000 to 4000 word range. And definitely a bunch I want to go back and revise and send through my critique group, and maybe try to sell after that. I'd love it if my first sale came from one of these stories.

Anyway, I'm planning on a longer post tomorrow about my garden, and then comes June, which I have dubbed the month of cleaning. Maybe I'll post updates on that, but I'm giving writing a break for a while, so unless I'm really struck by something in June, there probably won't be much in that area for a month. July 4 is the beginning of 50/90, so I'll definitely make up for it then. And I haven't yet decided if I'll try to write a novel in three days in June as practice for the real deal. I'll have to see what I have as far as time (and sanity) goes.

Right now? I just feel like sleeping.

Tomato in a Tire would a pretty great band name.

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Listening to: Better by Plumb. I'm really liking this album. Some very catchy and interesting songs.