I'm Trying




This meme made me laugh out loud when I first saw it and now it is my background. It actually reminds me to recenter when I am feeling too overwhelmed.

So here's a little bit about me.
Me: Trying to enter a new career, maintain my relationships, work, drink enough water, exercise, blog, tweet, write, stay sane, survive, and be happy. I've never been a very good juggler. I tend to set some of those things down in order to better handle the rest of them.

Trying to enter a new career - after graduating nearly 3 years ago with a Bachelor's of Science in Biology and being in my career I have had a change of heart and am going back to school for a second Bachelor's of Science and a Master's.

Maintain my relationships - my fiancé and friends are wonderful and understand my inability to handle everything at once. They are patient with me (to an extent) and remind me when it's time to surface and spend time with them. Without their (not so) gentle reminders I would drown in all the crap I'm trying to do.

Work - I am still working part-time in my previous career and I do still love the job. It just isn't sustainable for me.

Drink enough water and exercise - this one gets put on the back burner more than anything else. Water is replaced with caffeine of any kind to make it through my long days and exercise gets skipped in favor of homework, or time with friends or family.

blog, tweet, and write - I try and find time for a little bit of this everyday. Sometimes it gets skipped over if I am visiting family or friends or if my days just end up too full of everything else. When I am low on time I find that tweeting and getting a blog post out there actually takes precedence over writing. This is mostly because when I don't have a whole lot of time I would rather write something quick than delve into my novel and have to pull myself back out after only an hour. On day's off I spend most of my writing time on my novel.

I am trying my very best to get my writing out there while maintaing a life outside of laptop. It's difficult but knowing I have something I am working hard on is satisfying in itself and knowing one day people might actually WANT to read it is rewarding.

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