Year: 2013

Happy 100th birthday!

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I’m not that old! This is not my birthday, but the blog’s. Yes, I’ve managed to keep at it for 100th posts… and I’m still here, somehow. Sure, I haven’t been posting in a while, but I’m still here and kicking! So, as soon as I realised this was my 100th post, the question arose: what do you write about to celebrate this figure? It seems, the norm dictates that you write a sort of post about how much you and the blog have evolved since this journey was started, and that it’s something to be expected. Even one fan friend reader requested this! To be honest with all of you, that had been my initial idea… A beautiful post, not only about the recent Christmas, but also about how much I’ve evolved as a writer, blogger and person since I started publishing my thoughts. And to be even more honest with you, I started writing that post, and I got bored half way through. I mean, pretty much all my posts are about how …

Eternal Struggle

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Today I have made a discovery… I feel that I’m quite tired lately, mainly to having strange dreams and waking up many times at night. Mornings feel like a bit of torture, also not helped by the fact that I’m never in bed before 12am. This morning, when I opened my eyes, I felt the cold outside. I was warm in my bed, under my duvet, but I could feel the air outside my flat was crisp. I quickly, if drowsily, made a mental scan of my wardrobe and drawers, trying to find the warmest clothes to wear and regretted not having thermal and down layers to wear. Suddenly, the image of my snowboarding trousers, tucked away in storage under the bed, seemed like a longed-for comfort. It’s not officially winter, yet it feels as such. The fact that when my first alarm goes off (the one that tries to get me out of bed and up for a workout and maybe even a breakfast) it’s still dark outside, doesn’t help. I whisper the eternal …

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Don’t look at me that way… I told you I was going to be busy these couple of months! Today is 23rd and guess what, not a single word has been written on my novel. I guess that settles it then: NaNoWriMo has beaten me this year. Ah well. To be honest with all of you, I haven’t really sat at my computer lately. I’ve been out and about, and have had many things on my mind (currently, my bathroom pretty much falling apart is key and foremost!) It’s OK. I’ve realised I wasn’t probably in the right place. So, I think someone is trying to jinx me. However, as my friend Sergio and my brother would say, most of it is coming up Milhouse! My phone’s battery is bonkers, it seems, and when I rang my provider, they had run out of batteries (as in, literally, they didn’t have any in stock), so they decided the best was to put credit on my account so I could order one off Amazon. That worked really …

Little Mean Voice

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You’re late, said the mean voice in my head. You’re never going to finish on time, as usual. It was getting way too normal, much like a habit. The voice kept on making snarky remarks on my life and my choices, all the time. I failed to set it aside, it just wouldn’t keep quiet. Do you know what date it is? It kept reminding me. I was straining myself to not bite the bait and begin a conversation. It could keep its monologue for as long as it wanted, I would not respond. Still, the words burnt on my tongue while I gritted my teeth. You said you would finish your jumper in October… Well, did you? I opened my mouth to reply, but stopped. I. Would. Not. It’s now November, and you haven’t finished it yet. Shall we speak about NaNoWriMo? Ouch. That hurt. The mean voice knew exactly where to hit me. Day 6. That’s almost 10,000 words behind… Does that feel like failure yet? You can’t even say you’ve been busy …