i remember being assigned projects when i was in elementary school… popsicle sticks, glue and leaves were the necessary materials.

middle school got a little more difficult. those frickin tri-fold boards were included, and a solar system was expected to be created out of styrofoam balls. (hahaha, i said “balls”).

and then high school was the real deal… no messin around. you couldn’t have your parents put together this project for ya. it was do or die.

i died.

i had to take apart a hair dryer (of all things… for the love of women who need to use this device! where’s the humanity?!)

then i had to lay out all of its insides, like a dissected pig fetus (yeah, you remember that, don’tcha!?) label with toothpicks, and i had to memorize and then explain to my teacher how exactly the hair dryer converted energy and moved the energy throughout the contraption that gave me the luscious locks i had as a smokin hot senior in high school.

i died. i didn’t fail, but i died.

i don’t do science. or math. numbers freak me out. i’m a words, colors, images, creative and expressive individual (which side of the brain that belongs to, i couldn’t even tell ya).

and now here i am. in my adult life. married for nearly 5 years (in a few weeks) with a child (coming up on a year and a half years old)… and i have projects consuming me.

as of now my non-mom-household projects include the following:

1) keeping up my own blog… the readership has grown. it’s encouraging. i love you all for reading. truly, i do. i write for me. but i also write for you. you keep me inspired. thank you.

2) working on “bottle of the week”… which technically i don’t understand, so i have help and then send my help beer in return for his awesomeness.

3) pursuing an agent… i’ve been told numerous times by numerous people over numerous months that i need a goddamn agent. ok fine… but who do i trust??? who is going to “get me,” ya know? like really, truly, “get me.” cuz if ya don’t “get me” you’re screwed even more so than i am.

4) i currently have 3 book proposals sitting in my laptop. 3 who the hell does that??? some have priorities over others, but nevertheless, there are three. GAHURHG!!!

when do i have time to write? i dunno… now… at 11:42 pm when i should be sleeping. “should” being the operative word (that i distain… oh how i loathe that word).

the current goal is to work towards being PUBLISHED and not agent shopping.

i help friends out with their projects. and that excites me. that revs my engine because it’s good karma, man. good juju can take you a long way.

i guess i just didn’t anticipate the freelance writing, project world to be this chaotic (?)

nevertheless… i will live what i love.

and i love to write.