The trouble with writing...

I love pens. Pens with color, pens just black, pens that sparkle...i think the only pens i don't like are blue pens. For some reason, they are dreadfully uninteresting. The best pens write very fluidly, and i can write small if i want to. The worst pens are scritchy-scratchy, and they dry out in my pen holder until i clean it out and throw them away. ANYWAY, all that to say...i was looking through a notebook i have of stuff i wrote in high school. It's fun looking at how i wrote and how i write now, and there are lots of similarities. I was obsessed with limericks at one point, and i thought i'd share this one. ^_^

I once had an old squeaky pen -
Oh, what a pen i had then!
Whenever i'd scribble,
The ink would just dribble
All over my paper and pen.

Then finally this wearisome pen
Squeaked ink in gallons of ten;
So i threw it away
At the end of the day
And went and bought a new pen.

Fun, innit? ^_^ lots of things i would change and make better, but i still like the poem...after like 10 years.

Day #4 - something about my routine that i enjoy...

...this one is easy:

On MWF, my first class isn't until 9am, which means i can putter. Puttering depends on the time of day. Late at night, i'll be blogging, researching something interesting, or kicking around on Pinterest or something useless like that. In the morning though, i have two hours because i get up at 7am, and that's my "get ready for the day" time. I have started an exercise routine, like lunges and stomach crunch things and leg lifts and chair pushups, and i do that until i'm done...takes maybe 20 minutes. Then i'm awake enough to have a meaningful conversation with God. So I make tea and we sit down and talk for a while. Sometimes it's an hour, especially if there's breakfast there too. That's my favorite part of the routine. After all that, i get dressed and get ready for the day...fix homework, do some last-minute things, tidy up, etc. Then it's off to class! ^_^

Day #3 - Something I'm struggling with...

...I've been procrastinating on this for a while, which is why i haven't posted anything on it. The reason is because I'm struggling with a lot of things. Some of them weigh me down periodically, others are more peevish than serious. Either way, I don't want to blog them for all the world to see...and I think I'll leave it at that.

So much for Day #3...

Day #2 - Something i regret not having done last year

Regrets from last year? I don't have any because I don't like going through life regretting things or wishing I could have done something differently. I think it's a waste of time. Yah, it's good to look back and see what you could have done better and learn from that; but there's nothing you can do about it now.

30-Day Challenge, Day #1

...just randomly, does anyone care that i don't capitalize "I" when referring to myself? Word has made me lazy, always correcting it for me; and in formal settings, i correct it myself and i'm more careful. But i tend to just rattle along and let my fingers do their thing, letting my thoughts flow unchecked, and sometimes i go back and edit and sometimes i don't....

Anyway, i found a 30-Day Writing challenge thing, and hopefully it will help me get started again. Day #1 says to write about something i'm looking forward to this year. It's March, early in the year still...there are a LOT of things i'm looking forward to. For one, i'm giving a piano recital in less than 2 weeks. My parents and aunt are coming, close friends are coming, classmates are coming...so exciting seeing everything finally fall into place. It seems like it's been such a long time since i started on this whole college trip nearly 6 years ago, and yet it's weird thinking that undergrad is almost done. After that, further up and further in!

Another thing i'm looking forward to is starting my grad degree.

And finally, a third thing is Christmas. I love Christmas. As of today there are 9 months and 16 days, and between now and then is the whole year...months and weeks of seasons, fun, tears, surprises, lessons, trials, and the joy of living life. Plus the coming of fall after summer and the anticipation of the holidays...making food, cold weather, singing with friends, enjoying the birth of Christ all afresh. It's wonderful.

Can i just say it? I'm looking forward to life. Period. ^_^

Resolution

I'm going to write more...in this I am resolved. Writing is an art that grows rusty with disuse, and I need to keep it in good repair. That's what this blog is for. Sometimes I'll ramble, especially at first; but hopefully I'll start being able to channel my thoughts on paper again.