This year has been more depressing than most with some obvious highlights. I think my biggest letdown was a number of potential job changes that fizzled out in puffs of smoke leaving me smoldering and asking myself what I did wrong?
There were obvious great points… I finished and published the last two novels of my trilogy. I’ve started thinking about a mystery for book four of my Mysteries of the Past series and I did have a slightly more fruitful book sale in July. I was also invited to a retirement savings event where the financial planner handed out my books as thank you gifts!
Of course the trailer is in there except that it was the summer that wasn’t which hugely decreased beach time as I dressed in capris or leggings far more frequently than I want to admit.
Now, on the flip-side of that, we are, so far, having the winter that wasn’t so I can get on board with the summer that wasn’t.
I also got my new vehicle two weeks ago and that’s been exciting and fun plus we can’t forget about the Christmas party two weeks ago where we kicked our heels up… for one song only because the DJ guy, I don’t think, had a single slow song or Christmas song in his entire repertoire. Something has to be taught to these so-called hot-shots.
Otherwise, it’s been same old. Fall out of bed in the morning, drag my sorry, tired a** out the door. Run around like a chicken with my head cut off and come home so exhausted I don’t even feel like eating let alone writing!
I have been dreaming about my business idea that I’ve had for years and years and I’d love to try to put together a business plan for it but then I don’t know where I’d set it up! If I were to set it up here my summers are history unless there’s someone extremely reliable to run it so I can get away to the trailer. And it deters me from moving away from here. If I set it up where I want to go then it would not only be cheaper but I’d be where I want to go. BUT the audience would be smaller. And I have no way of really doing down and dirty market research on this particular idea and renting any kind of commercial space costs too much.
So I’m stuck in this holding pattern. The only other option is to try to open an online version of it with the promise to expand but it would be nowhere close to the same thing!
Well, it doesn’t matter. Here’s hoping that 2024 is significantly more uplifting than 2023 has been!
Cheers!