Sunday

Listening to my "Cool" playlist on Spotify and working on the FUN items on my to-do list:

• Blog on Internal Externalized
• Blog on Mrs. Window Shopper
• Blog on One-a-Day
• Make signs for work

After which I might try the less-enjoyable items:

• Laundry
• Dishes
• Mop
• Clean

After which I might allow myself to do what I want to most of all but have already spent three hours doing that I could have spent accomplishing things on these lists:

•  Read Game of Thrones

Yeah, I finally cracked open the book I bought for my July flight to Detroit. And, as you'd expect from a girl who binged on 11,000 words of Robert Jordan (and is currently salivating in anticipation for January's concluding tome), I am enjoying it thoroughly. Mayhaps I'll jot down some thoughts on Literary Echoes (a blog in hibernation mode these days) when I complete Book One.

So I've got too many blogs and too much talent to let them go unused. I am going to toot that horn, even if you think I shouldn't. I've come to the realization (with loads of help with innately-empowered individuals) that I need to self-promote. Humility is good and well, but life is too short and this world is too unforgiving to lie down and get walked on all the time. (Though I'm not averse to doing that when the situation calls for my sacrifice for the greater good -- though I will help judge the situation as such.)

I don't know that I'll advertise this, my journal, as vigorously as the others. This bit of electronic space is my own place when I need it to be -- a place to bitch about stuff that's bothering me and a place to rave about things that get me going (though privacy settings may very well come into play on occasion). I want this blog to be less about form and theme and more about getting petty words out of my brain so they don't choke the more productive ones that take root there.

Sometimes there's gold buried under a pile of shit (particularly when your dog has snacked from your jewelry case). So -- like anything else, I suppose -- my words might be a waste of our time some days. But then again, maybe not.

A few quick pieces of news to be revisited and expanded upon in the next few days I'm sure:

• Jason (hubby) and I got a new puppy. She's half-American Bulldog, half-Sharpei and, at 15 weeks, already weighs 35 pounds. Her name is Kara, but she may earn her pilot wings with hard work (potty training?) and become Starbuck one day...
• I just received word that I'm to be promoted from Head Cashier/Service Desk (my job at Home Depot for 8 years) to Electrical Department Head! I don't officially start until the week of Halloween, but I am going to start cramming, like, yesterday...as there's a lot to learn.
• About to start the second month as a member of LA Fitness and am still working on developing a habit of going. I went five days the first week of October but only made it twice last week. Jumping back on that horse tomorrow to hit up a few classes.