It has been ages since I’ve sat down to write a blog post. I honestly can’t remember the last time I wrote a blog post. Can I blame Rona? Lol, everyone is blaming Covid for something. I really can’t blame that on anything other than getting a little bit of time off from work right around Thanksgiving. Long story that is not worth repeating.
I’ve actually stayed incredibly healthy this year, much to my surprise and delight. I was fighting a mini something the last couple weeks, but healthy vitamin dosing, fresh fruits and vegetables, clove and orange tea…. and plenty of water, I think have kept whatever it is at complete bay. Whew.
I’ve spent the fall writing emotional poems, things all my friends say I need to publish. I agree, and over the start of December I started looking at some places. Which now that I think about it, have January deadlines! Yikes! I will say one thing, I hate the submitting process. Not the actual sharing my work, but all the little intricate issues of submitting. A different format for each submission, a different guideline, or in my case, different poems go to different places. Not every poem is perfect for every publisher. Some of my “New Yorker” poems I wouldn’t dream of submitting to the little no name place. Or vice versa. I have some little poems that I just don’t think would catch “New Yorker” status. They are fun, they are even good, in my opinion, but they are not great.
I’m in a writing slump as of the last two weeks. Even my journal has been slightly empty. Ironically I received 6 new notebooks/journals for Christmas. Ha! Of course I would be in a writing slump.
Work has consumed me. In my sleep, in my life, and this is with reduced hours. Then to top it off, Mixologist Man has left our fine establishment for love. Damn love! He had to go get engaged and move back east to be with his guy. I don’t harbor any ill feelings to his fiance, but I do. You took my best guy away from all of us. How dare you….
I kid. I really do. While Mixologist Man will be sorely missed from my nightly work life, I wish him all the love. I joke at the ‘damn love’ because what have I spent my December watching? Every Hallmark Christmas movie I can get my hands on. To the point where I am now almost disgustingly sick of Hallmark Christmas movies. Not quite, but there are still two days left of December. I mean, I can watch a few more, right? I mean tonight I watched one of the best Christmas pen pals movies. Oh my gosh. I want a Christmas pen pals thing in my town. I NEED it to happen. (it was a lifetime movie, but close enough to Hallmark) It was brilliant.
Can you tell I am still in a love, Christmas, and all things ooey gooey? What can I say, the Mantovani Orchestra is playing Hark The Herald Angels right now and the Christmas tree is still glowing in all its glory, and will be for the next month. I am still floating holiday poems in my head and reading holiday books.
Life is weird, and glorious, and sad, and happy, and all so strange. But I am glad I have my family, and the holiday season, and everything else.
I hope all you lovely readers had a decent, joyous, or even excellent Christmas. I hope you get to enjoy your New Years…. I was suckered into working the late shift. My first time in the three years I have been with my job. Jersey Boy was way too good at slipping me up in a conversation on whether I like mornings or nights. There might have been some serious, albeit good humored, swearing involved.
Belated Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and lets home 2021 is a little more hopeful…
Kate
Kate's Bookshelf 
I totally get that writing slump, because recent months have been hard on me as well, but I still try to push through. Wishing you all the best for 2021!
Well thank you so much! I hope you get through your writing slump too. It’s been weird. I went through this all consuming two week period in November where I was writing an in depth poem a week, or two. Then Boom, I hit serious block. Not like I can’t write, but just, I don’t know where any of it is going. I probably need to just do random playing around with ideas for fun instead of actually accomplishing anything. It sometimes breaks the slump. Keep pushing through as well, and wishing you the best for 2021 as well!
Lol I’m doing exactly that, just writing random stuff just to play with words, instead of trying to reach a particular destination with it. I do enjoy the practice itself though. It’s just ‘moulding’ it into something that’s the hard part for me. Hopefully things are slightly better for you today?
I’m having good moments. Random bits here and there. I had a friend/author say I need to write my own little short story bio after hearing how I got into the cooking world. I have so many ideas right now. From a be forewarned greek style poem, to bits of winter fiction. It’s always funny what pops into my head to write. I ended up writing an existential life blog post. That’s always interesting. 😛