First I'll start off with a confession. I'm a lazy person. Yes, it's true. We could call it unmotivated, action-challenged, laid back, roll with the punches. However you want to name it, I'm lazy. If there's anything to reincarnation, I was once a well-fed royal feline bathing in the sun.
Now, this doesn't mean I don't do work, and a lot of it. But see, that's just the problem. I work and work and work and then I decide I'm too tired to do anything for myself except watch stories on my laptop and go to bed. Well, I'm always going to be a busy person. And I've decided it's what I do outside of my professional life that's going to define me. And this blog is part of an effort to get me out there doing stuff.
A little about me: I teach junior high. Yes, I am crazy; and yes, that is a tough age. But I like it. I teach English, creative writing, and theater. I put on a musical every year. I plan, grade papers, teach, direct, improvise, implement projects, connect, boost, yell, laugh, and exhaust myself on a regular basis. It's hard not to be entirely consumed by a profession like this one, as I'm sure it is with others.
Being a creative person, I have found that my life is not complete with putting everything I have into work, even if it's creative work I'm doing. I need to be creating for myself. I dabble in just about everything. I have so many projects I've started, I couldn't name them all. Projects I've finished I could count on fingers and toes.
So I'm reflexively throwing down the gauntlet. This blog will be a daily accounting of my personal creations. Every day I will create something and post a picture and blog a bit about it. It may not be pretty; it may not be mind-blowing, revolutionary, ahead of its time, or even original. But I have to start somewhere, right?
Things I may be dabbling in: beads, collage, jewelry, cooking, crochet, wire, heck, even song-writing. I would like to add other things like going to the gym, but I can't do everything at once, people! Gym will come later after all this producing a musical business, so just shut up about that. :)
So this is what I'm doing. Feel free to check in on me and make sure I'm doing what I said I'd do. Someone's got to take responsibility for this! Enjoy.
yeah Jewell! So happy that your thowing the gauntlet down at yourself. can't wait to see all the daily creations you come up with!
Thanks, Beth! I'm excited, too!