Dusting off the old keyboard to pop in and say hello.
It’s been a long time since I’ve made a blog post. There are many reasons for that but the main one is I just don’t have a lot to say. I haven’t been moved to write for some time now.
It’s crazy to look back on my life two years ago. I feel like I had everything together. My shirt business was booming, I was blogging regularly, I loved where I was at in my career, I was home for a full 12 weeks with my newborn, I had just started working on social media management, I had something different to look forward to every day.
It’s not that my life isn’t great right now, it is and I have so much to be thankful for. But things have just changed. The shine has worn off. The mundane day to day has set in.
After a not so great launch earlier this Summer my shirt business is collecting dust in my upstairs hallway. My (then) newborn is a full grown toddler now and I’m working full time nights. I’m prioritizing family right now instead of my career. My newborn days are behind me and I’m settling in to the baby raising years.
Technology in general has me jaded, I lost my entire 4 years of blogging and I’ve had to start completely over on a new site. I’ve lost all of my adobe illustrator files which means all of my original shirt designs, stationery designs, sticker designs, fonts, have disappeared. But at least the adobe team has a sweet little message for me:
What’s the point of building and creating something, pouring my soul into a project for it to just vanish? Technology seems to be telling me to move on. Maybe I should.
I do have a podcast that gets me out of the house every week and I really enjoy chatting with Hannah and Sarah. You can follow us on instagram at Thirty, Crying, and Trying.
In general, aside from the podcast, I’m not inspired to do much more at the moment. Part of me questions if I should get serious about blogging again. Maybe I should go back to school. Maybe I should start teaching again. Maybe I should pursue a job in a larger hospital. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
I visit with old friends and I have very little to share on the “what’s new with you” side of the conversation. I go to work, I raise the boys, I make supper, I clean house, I run supper out to the combine. Rinse and repeat.
I need some inspiration, some mojo, a spark.
And that’s where I’m at at the moment. I’m hesitating to post this because I don’t want to sound whiny but just a little jaded at the moment, being real with you all.
I’ve built so much around The Pink Shoelaces. At one point I was earning a decent income from the blog, my Facebook page, and my shirt shop. I’d hate to throw all of that away but it also just doesn’t interest me anymore like it used to. I used to thrive on having all my irons in the fire, now the fire is out.
Anyway, that’s me in a nut shell. Just hanging in here, waiting for something interesting to come my way. In the mean time, I’ll keep counting my blessings and being thankful for a mundane and drama free life at the moment.
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