Sniffles

Well actually I have more than the sniffles. I have been laid low with the common cold. My bew best friend is Robitessun and I have been downing tea with honey at an alarming rate. Right now my one wish is to make it through this evening (I have to work) and then tomorrow I will have the whole day off so I can rest. My thinking is that I have only a couple of days to get better since NaNoWriMo starts on the 1st! 

Halloween is tomorrow...I have no plans and since we live in a condo I doubt that I'll have many or even any kids ringing ringing the doorbell. Nick is working and it seems that everyone else has parties to go to. I have decided to go to a get together for people who are participating in NaNoWriMo in Burlington. It ought to be a lot of fun and I'll get to meet some new people! Well I am off to shower and get dressed for work since I need to stop by CVS for tissues and purell. Hope everyone has a very Happy Halloween!

Say

"Say"

By John Mayer

Take all of your wasted honor

Every little past frustration

Take all of your so-called problems,

Better put 'em in quotations

Say what you need to say [x8]

Walking like a one man army

Fighting with the shadows in your head

Living out the same old moment

Knowing you'd be better off instead,

If you could only . . .

Say what you need to say [x8]

Have no fear for giving in

Have no fear for giving over

You'd better know that in the end

Its better to say too much

Then never say what you need to say again

Even if your hands are shaking

And your faith is broken

Even as the eyes are closing

Do it with a heart wide open

Say what you need to say [x24]

So my question to everyone is this: how different would you life be today if throughout your life you had said what you really neded to say?

New Blog

So I've started a new blog. Why? Because I can. It's accessible through my profile page and has to do with my adventures in Literary Land...aka my attempt at finishing one of my stories to become a book. Only two posts so far but it's a work in progress I even have a nifty little meter thing at the bottom of my entries to track my progress. 

Anyhow...I passed my MTEL (the Mass. teacher's test) which is fabulous considering that I don't know of anyone that passed both tests on the first try. I usually suck at tests so I'm pretty damn pround. I've tried to look for positions (English for High School) but since the school year is well under way I don't think that I will be able to find anything to apply for until the spring. My current license lasts for five years at which point have to prove the completetion of a certified teacher's program. For the meantime I'm putting that on the back burner since I have to deal with something a little more immediate. 

Monday morning I was let go from my current job. It was a combination of things...lack of incoming work (I was a concierge) and no part-time position openings at the office where I worked. I would have had to do an hour and a half commute paying $168 for a monthly commuter rail pass when my check would be half of what I make now. On top of which I would lose my medical insurance. Definately not worth it. Overall I think it's best for me I've ben happier since then and have been really concentrating on my job search for something better and on my writing (hence the other blog).

In reference to my previous blog I'm still on the fence. My friend Christa once told me a long time ago that if you pick something apart too thouroughly you may kill it. Those weren't her exact words but the general gist of the thing and I'm wondering if maybe that's what I've done here. 

Tangent: Have you ever had a conversation that you had a while ago, even years ago, sometime just pop back into your head? It's like they're connected to trigger words or something. This spouts from my comment that Christa made above. 

Maybe not thinking about it will fix it but then would that make me a hopeless romantic?