Making March Mine

Things in life work in strange ways. You might have a plan in your head but then that plan just goes backwards and you are left with less than what you started with. You might get hit with so many problems that your plan becomes completely impossible or you might be looking at your plan in a way that the universe rejects... either way it becomes a problem of trying really hard and getting nowhere.

I found a quote a while back and I think it fits here nicely so I want to share it with you.

In case you can't see the picture, it reads, "An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, just imagine that it's going to launch you into something great."

I had been feeling like I was being pulled backward since December and Graduation. I still haven't felt that feeling of accomplishment that is supposed to come with completing college and I felt like I was the train car who fell off the tracks. I wasn't getting anywhere and the hole that I was creating in the fights with my parents over my job search wasn't helping.

Farwell may be a great place for lots of people but I don't think that I ever fit the mold of people who love living there. I got so frustrated by so many things in that town even though I still loved the trees and being with family. Don't get me wrong, I had and still have great friends who like it there or whatever but I don't think that I was ever content with settling down there. My adventures were always nagging in the back of my head, telling me that there was bigger and better somewhere else.

So to get to my point of all this, my new adventure has found me!

I haven't said anything about it because I wanted this to be my own decision and figure things out on my own. I needed to get my big girl pants on firmly and not let anyone hang off the pant-legs trying to get me to go one direction or the other.

I am currently in Lima, Ohio living with my boyfriend and starting a very grown up life. We're looking at a few options for housing together, splitting rent of course and we may soon make a move on one depending on how things work themselves out.

I'm waiting on a phone call from one of two places with which I've interviewed and feel good about getting a job at whichever offers me a position. No, they are not career places but I have not stopped looking for that either.  I'm still working with the recruiter in Columbus, Ohio and I'm doing a lot of online job applications. I'm still optimistic about things working themselves out when they are meant to.

What else?

Happy first day of Spring! I hope that wherever you are it is sunny at the very least. I know that I would enjoy some more heat right now but I can't complain because there isn't any snow on the ground to make me sad. I'll just have to keep my toes under a blankie for now and enjoy the sunshine that I do have.

My novels are still available on Amazon for those of you who still haven't seen them. Sales are non-existant at this point so all I can do is keep trying to market them... unless someone wants to lend me $500 to pay the big name publisher who wants to publish and market my novels. A branch of Random House publishing has been in contact with me about publishing just one at that price but the optimism in me says that if they got one they will like the other.

I'm thinking about giving that fund raising website a try but I probably won't. It just seems too impersonal to me.

Well, I know that this is just a quick update but my computer's battery is going to die in a minute so I'm going to post this before that happens. I'm sure that I'll have more to say later. I usually do.

Bright Blessings!