Well it has been a while… nearly a year since I last posted to this blog, but I am back! It has been a roller coaster of stress, anxiety, sadness, and happiness. After I arrived in London in May, I got married to the love of my life, was at risk of being kicked out of the country, only to be let back in six weeks later. But I have found that since then I haven’t found the time, or the will really, to write or be creative. I haven’t written anything or made any art. Searching for permanent work has taken up most of my life since coming home, but it has also done quite a number on my self esteem. So I have decided to start writing again and I am going to start by talking about why I write.
I’ve known for a while that writing is hard, especially when I look back at the writing I did when I was in middle school, high school, even last week if I am honest. Often I tell people that I’m an artist, and my two favourite mediums are paint and words. I remember the first serious piece of writing I did. It is gathered in a blue floral notebook, the pencil writing is nearly illegible. It was a story about a girl who moved to London for school and met her favourite band of all time. She fell in love and married one of the band members. There was drama, adventure, tragedy. Thirteen year old me had some really optimistic dreams about her future. Though I have now moved to London, and have married the Englishman of my dreams, I can’t help but think about that 200 page notebook that is lost in closet at my parents house in Indiana.
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| My adorable parents and sister |
But that was thirteen year old me, who thought life was simple. That I could write easy love stories and live off that forever. Now that I'm older I know that isn’t what’s gonna pay the bills at the moment. So I’m gonna write blog in hopes that it will encourage me to keep writing, to make time for this passion of mine. However, I find myself asking what kind of writer to do I want to be now? I have the necessary equipment to write-a pen, a notepad, a computer, and some creativity-but I seem to be lacking a course of action. Throughout school and college you are always given a prompt, an idea starter. But as I am no longer a student, I don’t have that crutch. I have to be my own writer from here on out, and I think I want to write about life and all the cheesy, corny things I do. I often found myself in school writing about that topic anyway, so why not try to do that in real life? I don’t have the most boring life on the planet, so this could be a good place for me to start. So I am going to outline what the general themes of my posts will be about and all the jazz.
Lifestyle blogging will be this blog’s overarching theme, but with sub-themes of what I call typical “Pinterest Mom Shit”. So that means I will be writing about; budgeting like an adult, crafting crap, recipes because I enjoy eating too much, but I will also be writing about video games, art, and living in London as a small town girl.
So you'll be hearing from me again soon with a new post about what it is actually like living in London
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