Along with losing my excess poundage, I also have the following resolution:
WRITE MORE SMUT!
Yes, I enjoy writing and used to have a fledgling career as a romance writer. Unfortunately, I've been over-scheduling lately and by the time Thing1 and Thing2 are in bed and I've finished chores and doing all my "volunteer" jobs-- I'm just plumb tuckered out. No energy to ACT romantic, let alone THINK romantically (or grammatically)!
THUS... my third New Year's Resolution was born. NO MORE VOLUNTEERING.
Other than the things I am already committed to doing in the upcoming five months, I am NOT going to volunteer to do more things. I've paid my dues for a while.
I find myself hard-pressed to tell people "NO" when they ask me for help on a project or with a school or USMC event. It's easy to say no to strangers who want you to do unreasonable reference research, but it's hard to tell the smiling neighbor "f-off" when she needs help organizing a spring block party. (Plus, I might find my mailbox demolished one day-- her husband is a tanker.)
How to balance my life and time? Practice? Isolationism? Large quantities of alcoholic intake (which violates resolution #1)? HELP?!!
I'm really trying to get back to writing... starting next week after I finish organizing a school pizza fundraiser...
Must not sleep...must stay awake...
2 comments:
You just need to let it GO and do what is most important to YOU and will make your life rewarding to you.
That's what I did with DAR. It was hard to say NO to them, and leave them like I did, but it was just taking too much of my time and not making me happy--you know that story, Info.
You can still do a few things--school pizza fundraisers, and whatnot--just not every single thing.
I have a vested interest in giving you this advice--I want more smut!! It will make you happy to write smut! It will even make some cash for you, right?? Start writing!!
I suggest making a list of what you will continue. Then when asked wheel out the list and then when you say no, it sticks better.
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