Friday 10:30 p.m.
Last year:
1) Gave up having a jobbie!! The only reason I ever went to work (and I enjoyed some of my jobs as well) was because I had no money. Harold MacMillan once said there was nothing wrong with unemployment; most of his friends had never had a job in their lives.
2) Took up great granny sitting. This was a bit of a shock and I have not found it easy to do - I was hoping for a different kind of retirement! - but it has taught me a few things, like don't live for too long. Interesting at the beginning of my old age to be sitting across from the ghost of Christmas to come.
3) I haven't written hardly anything at all this year, which is something I'd been trying to give up. I missed it, but not much because ...
4) I eventually got ten of my books onto Kindle. TEN! I've written more books than that, but I was kind of amazed that I had written ten books, at least often enough to stick them onto Kindle. I mean, I wasn't even a writer. I had a bloody jobbie stopping me from writing, and a lot of other people interrupting me all the time, and trying to get me to do something else, something a lot stupider than trying to write. Also, one of two of the books are actually alright. I think I'm allowed to say that since I don't write anymore. The first one I got published has a great attitude, so it has. So has the second one I got published. Nobody would know that the same joe wrote both books. That's what's particularly satisfying about them. But I hated having to look at them again. I had to get them scanned and go through them with a fine tooth comb when I wanted to be doing something else. Well, I'd given up writing this year. Thank Christ all that malarkey is behind me now.
5) This is the year that I think I can honestly say that I'm getting hot. The lama told me almost a year before I gave up the jobbie that I couldn't do the juju if I had any kind of jobbie at all. Well, I haven't got one now. Neither I have!! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!!!!!
4 comments:
A year of big changes for sure.
Given up writing, eh? I never really started it, except in November.
Happy New Year, may 2012 bring you all you wish for.
Marie! You have a nice New Year too!! Hotboy
I say!
I expect that, in 2012, you'll come to the boil.
MM III
McMillan's more interesting than he seemed at the time.
Did you consider combining three of your interests and writing a pot-boiler?
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