Letting Go

Lightening up, letting go, giving up, quitting, these are not such popular cliches in my world. Not big on the quitting of anything. However, the neck spoke louder than my usual discipline and I have officially fallen off the National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) bandwagon. Too much time on less-than-ergonomically perfect laptops and busted chairs made for interesting spasms down the right arm and perpetually buggered neck. So.

Now I'm just doing the VanMag job and some freelance stuff and it's feeling better. I did no computer stuff except for a few emails on the weekend, which is the first weekend that I really let myself not write something intensely.

I have to say, I could get used to giving things up. It's quite a load off. Went to see the movie Happy Go Lucky last night at Tinseltown. Poppy was a tad annoying with her endless optimism but I really liked the movie and can relate. Make your own happiness. It's hard work choosing to be happy. Anyone can rant and rave and me perpetually pissed off. That's the easy default position. It takes work to focus on what's good.  I liked that message. Two thumbs up on that one. 

Today I'm meeting Wendy Weir with her new LibreTea drinking glass. I will upload a photo later but the prototype I saw earlier was really cool. She's starting with selling it at Murchies in Vancouver & Victoria. I'm hoping we'll position it in the Jan/Feb 09 issue.