Saturday Morning Prattling

Saturday 19 December 2009

So I've been working longer hours this week.  Trying to shore up as much cash to get me through the two-and-a-bit weeks' free prison break that are looming.  I find myself awoken this morning at 6am - sigh. I've seen a fair bit of 6am lately, I must say :)  And so now here I am getting ready to move myself into gear and get to work.  Double time after four hours. 

I miss writing here.  I have about 17 posts bubbling round in my head.  Three days between posts is a long time in Susieland :)

I am getting to know a little better my own creative field.  How sometimes it lies fallow and it's good to just leave it there for a few days or a week, because now I trust that there is something bubbling away that will present itself in a fashion that my conscious mind can grab and run with.  And so it happens again and I can't wait for the rest time of my weekend so I can go and slap some clay around, get onto that shapeshifting mandala, revise and edit a little bit more the 4000-word short story that's been hanging around baffling me with its shape.  Yummy.

How about you?  How you travelling in this week before Christmas?  I must say, it's been pretty low-key here this year (although perhaps that is a reflection of the media and shopping ban I tend to put on myself.  It's a nice thing to be able to get through a Christmas without being bombarded 17 ways to Sunday.  I'm looking forward to December 26 :)  And my Advent lead-in has been particularly dark.  I feel numb in some ways when it comes to my faith.  In others, God is as there as he has always been, still far too subtle for my liking. 

5 comments

  1. Good to see you didn't fall off the face of the planet or anything (you are towards the bottom of the earth, right?)

    Actually I knew you were working extra or I would have checked on you. Its nice to get some extra $$$$.

    Looking forward to your 17 great creative ideas you have percolating.

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  2. Thanks chicky :) No, still hanging onto the earth (by my fingernails at times it feels like at the moment)

    It's great to get some extra bucks, especially seeing I go on hols for 2 weeks at the end of the week. Hanging out for that!!!

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  3. 6 am?!?! What a hideous hour of the day! I try never to see that hour of the day - unless, of course, I am still up from the night before. I am a strange creature that does not care for morning hours, haha.

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  4. Sabre, I get to start work at 6am, this Monday morning, don't even get me started about what time my alarm will be going off....Hey happy holidays...but I get Christmas Eve off as well as Boxing Day so I get a nice 5 day weekend...Yeah. We'll be staying home this year the grandparents are getting to old and have health issues. We hope to have some friends over for dinner.

    Zinger (Jon)

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  5. Sabre - yeah, I'm more your stead, haha. I wish I wasn't but I am. How nice would it be starting the day with the rising sun?

    Jon - ewww, that's inhumane (the starting time, not having friends over for dinner :) Happy holidays to you too, Jon. I'm feeling strangely numb about the whole experience this year - very weird feeling :(

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