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Almost slipped off to bed without writing anything today. But I thought, at the last minute, that despite the headache I’m trying to kill, I really need to not break my streak. I can’t make it a habit if I let myself slack off.

I’ve come to realize that I am an all or nothing sort of girl. I have to either drink soda or not drink soda. I don’t do “sometimes” well. So, the same thing applies to blogging. I either have to do it every day, or just pretend that all I want to do is put out Sunday Night music posts and the occasional read books post. I don’t want to do that. I want to have an actual blog, where I can talk about actual things.

Not politics though. Because right now? Politics makes me want to thump a stuffed animal against the wall until it explodes. So, until I manage to not have rage issues when I think about politics, I will stay mum on the topic.

So, having actually written an entry, I’m off to journal away some creative blocks, if possible. Talk to you tomorrow. Hopefully. 🙂 It’s D&D day tomorrow and I cannot wait.

Writing today: 0 words

eBay sales: 2 Disney dwarf figures.

Spent half an hour on a circular phone tree. *sighs* Technology advances society right?

Actually ran through some course-work today from a business course. I’m hoping that it will actually work when I get through finishing everything.

I files some sales taxes. And I filed some paperwork. And despite the fact that I did not go to work, I managed to get a lot done.

Trying to build a new business and an actual course with videos and all that sort of thing. It’s exciting and freaky at the same time.

In terms of writing? Not a darn thing was done today on writing. LOL.

eBay update: sold a vintage box. Yup. You never know what will sell on eBay. 🙂

Almost turned the car around this morning to crawl back into bed. I forced my way through and managed to make it through. Wasn’t very productive, but that was due to technology issues rather than my mettle.

Traffic to and from work was awful. Commutes. Who needs ’em. Blech.

EBay: nothing to report.

Oops. I missed one.

It was a pretty bland day yesterday.

So, I normally hold all of my stress in my body. Right now my shoulders and neck are so tense that they are just aching and have been for so long that it feels as if that is their natural state. But I know that is not true. I know that it is possible to not have this sort of pain and I need to eliminate the stressors which are leading to this state. I can identify several of those. The largest of those is that my day to day job does not allow me to properly use my creativity or tell the stories that I feel the need to let out. I cannot talk about the things I love or that interest me because they are alien to the place where I am spending most of my day.

My next question to myself is obviously, how do I change that?

EBay update: 1 watch, 1 pattern, 1 kitchen piece, 1 magazine.

My friend is scattering her mother’s ashes today, so I am going to let the dogs out and make sure they get fed.

It’s making me think about not only my future, but also my family’s rituals around death. The memorial or the mass is not the important part to our family. At least not that I have seen. It’s the after-party. Yeah, I am not really sure what to cal it. It’s not a wake. A wake happens before the funeral. This is after the funeral.

We talk and eat and share stories about the deceased. I have learned more about my family at these events than practically any other way. They aren’t always new stories, but everyone tells them differently. And there were people I was related to that I only ever met in that space.

It’s also has made me reevaluate where I am and where I want to go. What do I want to do with my life for the next 40 years? Not what I am doing today as my day job, that is for sure.

EBay update: sold 7 dolls and a Kenner projector with slides.

Been a quiet day so far. Watching Antiques Roadshow and listing things on eBay.

Waiting for Sumo highlights on NHK.

I should be writing, but I am in purge mode right now.

Sold on eBay: lot of 58 tea strainers & a SW mini-drone.

It was a quiet day. I have started a new short story, so that’s good. And there’s been some response about vlogging. So we will have to see.

Today I learned that Waverley Sanatorium puts on a Christmas display. This is now on my bucket list.

EBay Update: sold a Pop and a Fraggle Rock Book.

I have been toying with the idea of vlogging. At the very least a once a week sort of round up of eBay or something. Or a bit of traveling videos or something.

I don’t know. Just a thought not a plan. I have been toying with the idea for awhile now, but it falls into the “ai don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.”

There’s a YT community based around writing and writing practice. That fascinates me because my brain would never have gone there. Vlogging about writing seems really counter intuitive. But who knows, maybe?

EBay sales: a movie promo pin and a penny doll. Not the best sales day. Or week. Yet. There’s still time and I still have a pile of things to list.

Listening to a podcast this morning talking about being your full and authentic self, even if that means being vulnerable or out of alignment of what is “normal”.

And that is probably one of the most terrifying ideas ever.

I am.

Weird.

But I guess that’s normal for someone who is creative.

I have also been told that I come off as scary or intimidating because of how my brain works.

Which of course means that I tend to hide parts of myself to make other people comfortable. Finding my fellow weirdos at my writing group has been a gods-send.

But being my full and authentic self outside of there? That is going to take work.

Still, being me -fully and unapologetically- sounds a lot more fun than trying to fit into the mold of the proper lady, businessperson, or anything else.

So, today was pretty normal. Meetings at work. Met a friend’s for dinner.

Just a day.

EBay sales: Dick and Jane Books, and a possibly German statue.