Good intentions

I always have the best of intentions to stay on top of my studies while still being able to work full-time and I've been doing pretty well but this week I am struggling so am falling behind already.  I've come down with some cold/flu type thing which seems to be going around the office so since Sunday I've been feeling really flat.  I've had today and yesterday off work which means whole days where I could be getting ahead in my readings or assignments but I just can't concentrate, so I'm moving between the PC, the recliner and the couch at the moment and accomplishing very little.

One of the subjects I'm doing this semester is Writing and Reading Short Fiction and I truly don't think I belong in that class.  The other people read their work and they're so creative, and my own writing seems so crap in comparison, truly.  Our first assignment is due this Friday and we had to rewrite a fairytale, for an adult audience but being careful not to make it a new fairytale in the process.  I've been sitting on around 450 words since last Thursday and I just don't know where to go with it.  I don't even know what to call it.  I actually think this introductory assignment is harder than coming up with our own story off the top of our head.  It's hard when you've wanted to be a writer your whole life and then feel like you're failing at it.

New beginnings

So, I thought it was time I left my old blog behind.  The dust had well and truly settled on it.  I don't want to delete it, because I'd put a lot of effort into it over the years, but it was time for something new since I'm now a different person to the one I was in my 20s.  Some might say much more boring, and they'd probably be right.  In a nutshell I'm now:

• a wife
• a mum to two very gorgeous fur babies
• a homeowner
• a public servant
• a student
• a procrastinator.

While I know all those things are a part of me, I'd also love to be:

• a published writer
• more financially stable
• a mum to much less furry but still gorgeous babies
• a better friend
• healthier
• a better wife
• a better daughter
• a better sister.

I'm going to try and get into the habit of writing something (anything) more regularly, so I'm hoping this blog will help with that.  Most of the time I'll probably just talk about what I'm up to, what I'm reading, all those mundane things, but I need to get into the habit of writing.  Hopefully along the way I can entertain in some way too :)